Origins Gallery records, 1961-1982

Collection Information

Size: 1.5 Linear feet

Summary: The records of the Origin Gallery measure 1.5 linear feet and date from 1961 to 1982. The records primarily consist of sales records cards and either business cards or index cards for galleries and dealers, and for experts in specific subject matter such as woodworking, Egyptian jewelry, and Japanese masks. The sales records cards contain information including buyer contact information, invoice number, description of item purchased, price, and whether item was purchased in full or in installments.

Biographical/Historical Note

Origins Gallery was a commercial art gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, directed and owned by Edyth Shulman. Origins Gallery specialized in Indigenous and tribal art, especially Inuit art, much of it contemporary carving and printmaking fostered by the government beginning in the 1950s. It was located on Newbury St., ca. 1970-1972, and in Cambridge, ca. 1972-1978.

Provenance

Donated 1994 by Robert Vose, who received the records from the family of Edyth Shulman.

Language Note

English .

Funding Note

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.