Susan Cummins Gallery records, 1984-2002

Susan Cummins Gallery,

Collection size: 6.4 linear ft.

Collection Summary: Files on artists including correspondence, artists statements, resumes, press releases, photographs, slides, transparencies, price lists, magazine and newspaper articles, brochures, exhibition invitations, catalogs for artists represented at Susan Cummins Gallery between 1984 and 2002. Also included are correspondence and lecture notes concerning a panel discussion, "Carried by the Current - Narrative Imagery," March 3, 1993 held at the Susan Cummins Gallery; letters, printed material, notes, and artists statements concerning the exhibition "The Weight of Gold, Invitational Group Show," 1993, and an exhibition catalog "Beyond the Obvious, Rethinking Jewelry," San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1999, curated by Cummins.

Biographical/Historical Note: Art gallery; Mill Valley, Calif.; est. 1984; closed 2002.

Donated 2003 by Susan Cummins, gallery owner, as part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

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