André Emmerich Gallery Records and André Emmerich Papers, circa 1929-2009

Inventory cards track artwork entering and leaving the gallery. Each card lists a work's artist, title, date, media, and measurements. Most cards include a photograph of the artwork, and most cards further list the ultimate action taken regarding the work (sold, returned to artist or gallery, consigned, etc.), the list price or paid price, exhibition and catalog history, and the history of price quotes given for the work. The gallery used a number of abbreviations for the transactions on the inventory cards:

• NFS - Not For Sale
• RTA - Returned to Artist
• o/c - On Consignment (from)
• o/a - On Approval
• OOG - Out of Gallery
• O/L - On Loan (from)
• TGF - Top Gallant Farm

There are no inventory cards tracking pre-Columbian art and artifacts in the collection. The cards represent works from both the New York gallery and Zurich gallery.

The cards are arranged into ten overlapping groups established by the gallery representing transactions, such as sales and consignments, loans, returns, and other general art movement. Within each category, most of the cards are alphabetized by artist and thereafter by title, but occasionally an artist's work is divided into categories (for example by media) before being arranged alphabetically by title:

• Returned to Artist
• Sold (pre-1993)
• Sold
• Sold and/or Returned to Artist
• Returned to Artist
• Sold
• Old Top Gallant Farm Sculptures
• Emmerich Private Sold
• Last Active Inventory and Sales
• Additional Cards

See Appendix for a list of artists' names represented by the Artist Inventory Cards in Series 8.1.