Collection Information
Size: 5.5 Linear feet
Summary: The Sandra Berler Gallery records measure 5.5 linear feet and date from the 1970s to 2013. The collection sheds light on the gallery's operations through administrative records, artist files, exhibition files, and photographs.
Biographical/Historical Note
The Sandra Berler Gallery was founded in Chevy Chase, Maryland in 1975 by art dealer and photography critic Sandra Berler. The gallery specialized in twentieth-century photography, exhibiting contemporary and vintage U.S. photographers, including Bruce Davidson, Helen Levitt, Jerome Liebling, Margaretta Mitchell, and Nickolas Muray. The gallery also exhibited and sold international work by Mexican photographers Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Flor Garduno, Graciela Iturbide, Austrian photographer Inge Morath, and French photographer Jacques Henri-Lartigue.
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.