Ledgers detailing the art purchases of John Quinn. Entries include the Association of American Painters and Sculptors listing purchases from the Armory Show, February to June 1913, of works by Cezanne, Renoir, Raymond Villon-Duchamp, Andre Derain, Jules Pascin, Odilon Redon, Walt Kuhn, Jacques Villon and others. Also entered are purchases from Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession Gallery for paintings by Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Severini and Stanton Macdonald-Wright. Purchases from art dealers include M. Knoedler & Co. (for works by Morton Schamberg), Montross Gallery (for works by Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Pendergast, Walt Kuhn, Charles Sheeler, Max Weber), William Macbeth Gallery, Durand Ruel & Sons, and Ambroise Vollard.
Other entries of note include those for Jacob Epstein, one for Tiffany Studios detailing extensive refurbishing and refinishing of numerous items of furniture, and one for the Penguin Club enumerating the cost incurred for the installation of the VORTICIST EXHIBITION.
Biographical / Historical:
Art patron and lawyer; New York, N.Y.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1986 by Thomas F. Conroy, Quinn's nephew by marriage. Mr. Conroy intends to donate these papers to the New York Public Library where the John Quinn Memorial Collection is housed.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
William H. Holston Gallery (New York, N.Y.) Search this
Extent:
100 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1915-1964
Scope and Contents:
Correspondence, notebooks, recollections, photographs, and clippings.
Biographical / Historical:
Holston was an art dealer who acted as the American representative for the Paris art firm Durand-Ruel. He was instrumental in the selling of Impressionist paintings to such collectors as Duncan Phillips and Albert C. Barnes. Later, he opened the Holston Gallery at 19 East 57th Street in New York City.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1964 by William Holston's widow.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Durand-Ruel Galleries (New York, N.Y.). Ten American painters: the first exhibition, catalogue of the pictures, 1898. Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Dewing family papers, 1876-1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Durand-Ruel Galleries (New York, N.Y.). Artists at the Trinational Exhibition in Paris 1925, 25 May 1925. Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records, 1859-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Durand-Ruel Galleries (New York, N.Y.). Artists at the Trinational Exhibition in Paris 1925, 25 May 1925. Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records, 1859-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Exhibition of important paintings by great French masters of the nineteenth century organized by Paul Rosenberg and Durand-Ruel ... February 12th to March 10th, 1934
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Durand-Ruel Galleries (New York, N.Y.) Search this
