Skip to main content Smithsonian Institution

Additional Online Media

Catalog Data

Creator:
Eva Lee Gallery  Search this
Subject:
Hartley, Marsden  Search this
Simpson, Merton D. (Merton Daniel)  Search this
Loewe, Frederick  Search this
Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber)  Search this
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff  Search this
Valentin, Curt  Search this
Mommer, Paul  Search this
Feininger, Lyonel  Search this
Lipchitz, Jacques  Search this
Shahn, Ben  Search this
Odets, Clifford  Search this
Weber, Max  Search this
Vasarely, Victor  Search this
Indiana, Robert  Search this
Christo  Search this
Hopkins, John  Search this
Lee, Eva  Search this
Magritte, René  Search this
Lieberman, Harry  Search this
Corinth, Lovis  Search this
Cornell, Joseph  Search this
Dalí, Salvador  Search this
Nesbitt, Lowell  Search this
Grosz, George  Search this
Albers, Josef  Search this
Benn, Ben  Search this
Benton, Thomas Hart  Search this
Marin, John  Search this
Calder, Alexander  Search this
Korvettes  Search this
New Art Circle  Search this
Type:
Watercolor drawings
Photographs
Place of publication, production, or execution:
United States
Physical Description:
4 Linear feet
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 5 series: Series 1: General Artist Files, 1923-1972 (Boxes 1-2; 1.3 linear feet) Series 2: Notebooks of Artist Files, 1929-1973 (Boxes 2-3; 1.4 linear feet) Series 3: Financial Artist Files, 1921-1970 (Boxes 3-4; 0.6 linear feet) Series 4: Eva Lee Gallery Consignment and Sales Artist Files, 1960-1972 (Box 4; 0.7 linear feet) Series 5: Photocopy of Korvettes Art Galleries Auction Catalog, 1970 (Box 4; 1 folder)
Access Note / Rights:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Summary:
The scattered records of the New York contemporary American art Eva Lee Gallery measure 4.0 linear feet and date from 1921-1973. Artist files contain provenance notes, photographs of artwork, records of sales and consignments, exhibition catalogs from other galleries, and reference information on numerous contemporary artists, many represented by the gallery. There are also scattered letters and artwork from artists, scattered sales records of J.B. Neuman's New Art Circle Gallery, and a photocopy of an auction catalog for Korvettes Art Galleries in Douglastan, New York. A significant amount of information is found within the collection about Alexander Calder, Lovis Corinth, Salvadore Dali, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Robert Indiana, Harry Lieberman, Rene Magritte, John Marin, Lowell Nesbitt, Ben Shahn, Victor Vasarely, and Max Weber.
Citation:
Eva Lee Gallery records, 1921-1973. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
The bulk of the collection was digitized in 2015 and is available on the Archives of American Art's website. Materials which have not been scanned include blank pages, blank versos of photographs, and duplicates. In some cases, exhibition catalogs and other publications have had their covers, title pages, and relevant pages scanned.
Funding:
Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Use Note:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Biography Note:
Eva Lee was born circa 1924. She fled from Nazi Germany to the United States, becoming an art dealer and the owner of the Eva Lee Gallery, Inc. Located in Great Neck, New York, the Eva Lee Gallery specialized in modern art and handled the work of many prominent artists including Alexander Calder, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Marsden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, Ben Shahn, and Max Weber. The gallery was in operation through the first half of 1973.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
The Eva Lee Gallery records were donated in 1973 by Eva Lee through Eloise Spaeth, and in 1978 by Neal Richmond of the Paul Klapper Library, Queens College, Flushing, New York, who had been asked to disperse Lee's gallery records following her sudden death in 1973. A photocopy of the Korvettes Art Galleries Auction Catalog was donated by Eva Lee in 1970. Lee's records also contained financial files belonging to art dealer J. B. Neumann and his New Art Circle Gallery, whose estate she had worked on in 1966.
Digitization Note:
This site provides access to the records of the Eva Lee Gallery in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2015, and total 4,839 images.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Works of art  Search this
Theme:
Art Gallery Records  Search this
Art Market  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)8866
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211051
AAA_collcode_evalee
Theme:
Art Gallery Records
Art Market
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211051