Milch Gallery,

Milch Gallery records, 1911-1980

37.75 linear ft. (on 57 microfilm reels)
Addition: 0.6 linear ft.
Reel(s): N730 and 4410-4465

Alphabetical files, consisting mainly of correspondence, 1911-1962; sales records and stock inventories, 1911-1969; financial records, 1914-1969; printed matter; photographs; and miscellaneous items.

Alphabetical files contain correspondence with clients, galleries, museums, and artists concerning arrangements for exhibitions, sales and consignments, advice to collectors, and routine business matters; also itemized invoices, receipts, catalogs of private collections, estate inventories, printed matter, ms. checklists and other items enclosed with correspondence.

Sales records consist of order forms, receipts, and registers recording the date, name of buyer, and object or service purchased. Inventories are of paintings, prints, frames, and bronzes.

Financial records (not microfilmed), include general ledgers, petty cash books, tax returns, and bills and receipts for goods and services excluding works of art purchased by E. & A. Milch, Inc..

Printed matter includes a scrapbook, 1912-1923, of clippings, catalogs, and invitations relating to exhibitions held at Milch Gallery and artists represented by them; Milch Gallery exhibition catalogs and checklists, 1917-1967, and undated, many priced or otherwise annotated; a complete run of MILCH GALLERY NOTES, an occasional publication, 1918-1928/29; clippings, 1921-1956, and undated; "sculpture files" consisting of clippings, photographs, and printed reproductions arranged by sculptor; reproductions of works of art and publicity for Milch Gallery exhibitions, 1947-1964, and undated.

Miscellaneous printed matter (not produced by Milch Gallery) includes Catalogue of the Mary J. Morgan Collection, 1886, Catalogue of the Charles M. Kurtz Collection, 1910, and Artists Equity Association ball programs, 1950-1951; a scrapbook of clippings and photographs of the work of Walter Philipps; and a scrapbook containing biographical sketch and clippings about Thomas Moran, 1875-1937 (reel N730).

Photographs include works of art, the Dodsworth Collection, L. Ricci album of photographs of antique furniture; views of Milch Gallery interior and exterior; portraits of Edward and Albert Milch, artists, and other individuals; group portraits of Ten American Artists, Associated Dealers in American Paintings, and dinners at Salmagundi Club and National Academy of Design. Miscellaneous items include legal documents, 1917-1970, package receipts, 1916-1968, and shipping receipts, 1955-1963.

Among the artists represented in the alphabetical files are: Alice Acheson, Charles L. Adams, Wayman Adams, Charles A. Aiken, Grace Albee, Karl Anderson, Alexander Archipenko, Marianne Appel, John Taylor Arms, Mary Ascher, Faust Azzaretti, Peggy Bacon, Martin Baer, Hugo Ballin, Myron Barlow, Barmore, Charles Barr, Norman Barr, Lionel Barrymore, Gustave Baumann, Reynolds Beal, George Bellows, Frank Benson, George Biddle, Morris Blackburn, Ralph Blakelock, Arnold Blanch, Lucile Blanch, Oscar Bluemner, Ernest Blumenschein, Max Bohm, Aaron Bohrod, Louis Bosa, Hugh Breckenridge, Frederick Bridgman, George Elmer Browne, Edward Bruce, George deForest Brush, Claude Buck, Paul Burlin, George Burr, Howard Russell Butler, A. Stirling Calder, John Carroll, Samuel Chamberlain, Asa Cheffetz, Howard Chandler Christy, Alphaeus P. Cole, William G. Congdon, Bruce Crane, Charles C. Curran, Elliott Daingerfield, Randall Davey, Joseph De Camp, Adelaide De Groot, Adolph Dehn, Louis Paul Dessar, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, William Hunt Diederich, Phil Dike, Ruger Donoho, Guy Pene Du Bois, Charles Duncan, W. Herbert Dunton,

Susan Eakins, Stephen M. Etnier, Jerry Farnsworth, Nicholai Fechin, Beatrice Fenton, James Fitzgerald, J. Montgomery Flagg, David Fredenthal, Daniel Chester French, Emil Fuchs, Sears Gallagher, Emil Ganso, Leon Gaspard, Lillian Genth, Xavier Gonzalez, Marion Greenwood, John Gregory, Wayland Gregory, George Grosz, Samuel Halpert, George O. (Pop) Hart, Sadakichi Hartman, Ernest Haskell, Childe Hassam, Norbert Heerman, Charles L. Heinz, E. Martin Hennings, Robert Henri, Charles Hopkinson, Leroy Ireland, Alice Judson, Max Kalish, A. Raymond Katz, Ethel Katz, Dong Kingman, Leon Kroll, Louis Kronberg, Lawrence Kupferman, Sidney Laufman, Ernest Lawson, R. Hayley Lever, Jonas Lie, Ossip Linde, Will H. Low, Luigi Lucioni, Dan Lutz, Emma Fordyce MacRae, Paul Manship, Gari Melchers, Willard Metcalf (Estate), William Meyerowitz, Ross Moffett, F. Luis Mora, Thomas Moran, Herman Dudley Murphy, J. Francis Murphy, Jerome Myers, Edith Nagler, Karl Oberteuffer, Leonard Ochtman, DeWitt Parshall, Ralph Pearson, Van Dearing Perrine, Hobson Pittman, Ogden M. Pleissner, Joseph Pollet, Nathaniel Pousette- Dart, Mabel Pugh, Edward W. Redfield, William Ritschel, Umberto Romano, Carl Rungius, Chauncey F. Ryder, Margery Ryerson,

Paul Sample, Wells Sawyer, W. Elmer Schofield, Will Shuster, David Shapiro, Joseph Henry Sharp, Millard Sheets, Eugene Speicher, Francis Speight, Maurice Sterne, Albert Sterner, Henry O. Tanner, Abbott H. Thayer, Paul Trebilcock, Dwight Tryon, John H. Twachtman, Walter Ufer, Dorothy Varian, Robert Vonnoh, Heinz Warneke, Franklin C. Watkins, Frederick J. Waugh, J. Alden Weir, John F. Weir, Henry C. White, Harry Wickey, Carleton Wiggins, Irving R. Wiles, Robert Strong Woodward, Stanley Woodward, Andrew Wyeth, Jacques Zucker, and many others.

ADDITION (0.6 ft.): Business correspondence; photographs of the interior of Milch Galleries, June 1959; inventory of documents concerning the Armory Show, with related correspondence, found in the Bush-Holley House; and artists' files consisting of correspondence, clippings, photographs, sales records, and printed matter for: Ralph Blakelock, Aaron Bohrod, Mary Cassatt, Arthur B. Davies, Frank Duveneck, Walt Kuhn, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, John Sloan and John Twachtman.

Donated 1986 by the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, who acquired them from Elliott Galleries of New York City. Elliott Galleries purchased the records from the estate of Harold Milch. With the exception of the scrapbook on Thomas Moran (reel N730), the small amount of material which had previously been lent for microfilming by the Milch Galleries (reels D285 and NM1-2), was incorporated and remicrofilmed with the records in 1991 (reels 4410-4465). In 1995, an additional 0.6 ft. of records were donated via Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

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