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A Finding Aid to the Stendahl Art Galleries records, 1907-1971: Contents and Arrangement

Stendahl Art Galleries records, 1907-1971

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Series 1: Administrative and Financial Files, 1923-1957
0.4 linear feet
Box 1

Files document advertising and publicity, consignments, inventory, purchases, sales, prices, lease agreements, and biographical information on Earl Stendahl.
DescriptionContainer
Advertising, 1927-1932
1
1-2
Auction, Private Collection of Stendahl, 1931
1
3
Biographical Material for Stendahl, 1928-1935
1
4
Consignments, 1935-1957
1
5-6
Inventory, 1923-1934
1
7
Lease Agreements, 1922-1937
1
8
Price Lists, 1936-1941
1
9
Project, American Miniature Museum of Art, 1932
1
10
Publicity, circa 1925-1935
1
11-13
Purchase of George Inness Painting, 1930
1
14
Sales, 1932-1945
1
15-16
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Series 2: Correspondence, 1923-1968
2 linear feet
Boxes 1-3

The majority of correspondence is between Earl Stendahl and various artists and organizations regarding loans of artwork, sales and purchases, and artists' accounts. Correspondents include Alexander Archipenko, Federico Beltran-Masses, Federico Cantú, Jean Charlot, Couvoisier Galleries, Demotte Inc., Jerome Eddy, Lillian Genthe, Arthur Hill Gilbert, George B. Guthrie, Rockwell Kent, Carlos Mérida, Isamu Noguchi, and Ladislas Szecsi. Also, an illustrated letter from Gisella Loeffler to Stendahl can be found. Some files may include financial and printed material.
DescriptionContainer
General, A-Z, 1927-1950
1
17-19
Ainslie Galleries, 1928-1934
1
20
Ara, Badger Dusonovich Kosich, circa 1931
1
21
Archipenko, Alexander, 1928-1937
1
22
Barr, William, 1930-1934
1
23
Beltran-Masses, Federico, 1930s
1
24
Birren, Joseph, 1923-1933
1
25
Bonetti, Pascal, 1930-1933
1
26
Botkin, Henry A., 1937-1939
1
27
Buchholz Gallery, 1943-1952
1
28
Calder, Alexander, 1964-1966
1
29
Cantu, Federico, 1939-1941
1
30
Charlot, Jean, 1934-1964
1
31
City of Paris Dry Goods Company, 1934-1938
1
32
Corbino, Jon, 1945
1
33
Courvoisier Galleries, 1931-1940
1
34
Coutts, Gordon, 1928-1935
1
35
Demotte, Inc., 1930-1936
1
36
Eddy, Jerome, circa 1934-1938
1
37
Engdahl, Paul, 1935-1936
1
38
English, Harold, circa 1935
1
39
Fulop, Karoly, 1930-1932
2
1
Gage, George E., 1930-1935
2
2
Gambee, Martin, circa 1945
2
3
Garber, Daniel, 1932-1935
2
4
Gardena High School, 1932-1936
2
5
Gaspard, Leon, circa 1932-1936
2
6
Genth, Lillian, 1928-1930
2
7
Gilbert, Arthur Hill, 1927-1932
2
8
Griffith, William A., 1929-1930
2
9
Groesbeck, Dan Sayre, 1926-1935
2
10
Groll, Albert L., 1927-1932
2
11
S & G Gump Company, 1932-1940
2
12
Guthrie, George B., 1933-1938
2
13
Handley, Hester Merwin, 1935
2
14
Hering, Georg, 1929-1934
2
15
Kaufmann, Arthur, 1938-1939
2
16
Kent, Rockwell, 1928-1942
2
17
Kronberg, Louis, 1929-1940
2
18
Lasky, Bessie, 1934-1935
2
19
Loeffler, Gisella, circa 1941
2
20
Merida, Carlos, 1934-1945
2
21
Modern Institute of Art, 1948-1949
2
22
Mora, Fluis, 1932
2
23
Museo Nazionale D'Arte Orientale, 1963-1968
2
24
Museum of Modern Art, 1936-1940
2
25
Noguchi, Isamu, circa 1935
2
26
Nash, Willard, 1933-1945
2
27
Nierendorf Gallery, 1940-1949
2
28
Owles, Alfred, 1938-1941
2
29
Paalen, Alice Rahon, 1944-1945
2
30
Pach, Walter, circa 1938
2
31
Parshall, Dewitt, 1935-1939
2
32
Poland, Reginald, 1933-1936
2
33
Re: Rembrandt, circa 1930-1933
2
34
Rombold, Hugo, 1931-1932
2
35
Russell, Charles, 1923-1938
2
36
Sample, Paul Starrett, 1931-1939
2
37
Scott, James Andrew Neptune, 1930-1945
2
38
Sekido, Yoshida, circa 1931
2
39
Skaling, Audrey, 1944-1945
2
40
Symons, Gardner, 1927-1930
2
41
Szecsi, Ladislas, 1936-1938
2
42
Taubes, Frederic, circa 1938
2
43
Ufer, Walter, 1929-1935
2
44
Van Ryder, Jack, 1929-1934
2
45
Vonnoh, Robert, 1926-1930
2
46
Wadler, Ruth C., 1926-1931
2
47
Walpole, Hugh, 1936
2
48
Warshawsky, Abel G., 1936
2
49
Wenger, John, 1927-1932
2
50
Werner, Fritz, 1932-1933
2
51
Wildenstein & Company, 1934-1960
3
1-2
Williams, Frederick Ballard, 1929-1930
3
3
Wood, Grant, 1935-1939
3
4
Woodward, Stanley, 1936-1939
3
5
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Series 3: Exhibition Files, circa 1921-1967
0.4 linear feet
Box 3

Files for exhibitions consist of correspondence, exhibition announcements and catalogs, price lists, artist statements, and exhibition schedules. Exhibitions include
Etching and Engravings by the Old Masters
(1921),
Airview Paintings
(1930),
American Lanscape Art
(1930),
National Museums of France Atelier Works
(1931),
Arts of New Guinea
(1964), and multiple exhibitions of French modern painters that included the works of Marc Chagall. Additionally, files for exhibitions of work by Emil Gelhaar, Wassily Kandinsky, Sydney Laurence, and Roberto Montenegro are in this series.
DescriptionContainer
Schedules, 1942-1944
3
6
Group Exhibitions, 1925-1944
3
7
Etchings and Engravings by the Old Masters
(1921), circa 1921
3
8
"French Modern Painters," Multiple Exhibitions (1930s), 1930s
3
9-10
Airview Paintings
(1930), 1930
3
11
American Landscape Art
(1930), circa 1930
3
12
A Farewell to Alaska
(1931), Sydney Laurence Exhibition, 1931
3
13
National Museums of France Atelier Works
(1931), 1931
3
14
Paintings by Emil Gelhaar
(1931), 1931
3
15
Wassily Kandinsky 1903-1933
(1936), 1936
3
16
Paintings by Roberto Montenegro
(1937), circa 1937
3
17
Arts of New Guinea
(1964), 1962-1967
3
18
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Series 4: Subject Files, 1907-1971
4.8 linear feet
Boxes 3-8, OV 9

Files on artists, topics, and organizations of interest to Stendahl are largely made up of printed materials, but some notes, writings, financial material, and additional correspondence can be found in this series. Included are files for James Bordrero, Nicolai Ivanovich Feshin, Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Armin Hansen, Joseph Kleitsch, Aston Knight, José Clemente Orozco, Ralph M. Pearson, Pablo Picasso, José Martinez Pinazo, William Ritschel, Diego Rivera, Ethel B. Rose, Guy Rose, Walter Elmer Schofield, David Alfaro Siquieros, Ladislas Szecsi, William Wendt, and Ignacio Zuloaga, and others. A scrapbook of clippings is included in files for Edgar Payne and painted designs are in files for Ralph M. Pearson.
DescriptionContainer
General, A-L, 1924-1949
3
19-29
General, L-Y, 1921-1950
4
1-8
African Sculpture, circa 1935
4
9
Albers, Josef, circa 1938
4
10
Bagdatopoulos, William Spencer, 1929-1934
4
11
Ballin, Hugo, 1934-1935
4
12
Band, Max, 1941
4
13
Barclay, McClelland, 1931-1933
4
14
Barnes, Carroll, circa 1941-1942
4
15
Barton, Loren, 1930-1933
4
16
Beetz, Carl, 1932
4
17
Bensco, Charles, 1936
4
18
Benson, Frank W., circa 1936
4
19
Bentley, John W., 1923
4
20
Bethel, Worden, 1929-1930
4
21
Biberman, Edward, 1935
4
22
Blazek, Anton, 1934-1935
4
23
Blumenschein, Ernest L., circa 1929
4
24
Bodrero, James, 1932
4
25
Borg, Carl Oscar, 1921-1926
4
26
Botke, Cornelis & Jessie Arms, 1923-1934
4
27-29
Braun, Maurice, 1924-1926
4
30
Brown, Benjamin Chambers, 1921-1930
4
31
Brunswig, Marguerite, circa 1933
4
32
Buff, Conrad, 1929-1934
4
33
Carrere, Fernando, 1943-1945
4
34
Carroll, Bill, circa 1930
4
35
Chaliapin, Boris, 1941
4
36
Christy, Howard Chandler, 1924-1925
4
37
Clark, Alson, 1921-1937
4
38
Cooper, Colin Campbell, 1925-1934
4
39
Cornwell, Dean, 1931-1932
5
1
Cugat, Francesc, 1925-1931
5
2
Curtis, Leland, circa 1928
5
3
Davidson, Jo, 1934
5
4
Davidson, John, 1934-1936
5
5
de Chirico, Giorgio, 1930-1952
5
6
Dike, Phil, 1931-1932
5
7
Dixon, Maynard, 1921-1938
5
8
Douglas, Haldane, 1927-1928
5
9
Edstrom, David, 1931-1932
5
10
Etching, Reference, circa 1930
5
11
Feitelson, Lorser, 1936-1944
5
12
Fechin, Nicolai, 1912-1946
5
13-16
Garnsey, Julian E., circa 1926
5
17
Gauguin, Paul, 1931-1939
5
18
Gleason, Duncan, 1925-1932
5
19
Gordon, Leon, 1928-1929
5
20
Greenman, Frances, 1934-1936
5
21
Haggin, Ben Ali, 1936
5
22
Hansen, Armin, 1926-1938
5
23-24
Hansen, H.W., 1928-1930
5
25
Harrison, Tom, 1932-1936
5
26
Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1932-1933
5
27
Heika, Earl, circa 1931
5
28
Herter, Adele and Albert, 1927-1929
5
29
Hubert-Robert, Marius, 1933-1934
5
30
Ilyin, Gleb, circa 1936
5
31
Imrey, Ferenc, circa 1923
5
32
Interior Design, 1932-1933
5
33
Jacobs, Michel, circa 1931
5
34
Janel, Emil, 1930-1931
5
35
Jensen, Helen Webster, 1930-1931
5
36
Johnson, Frank Tenney, 1928-1929
5
37
Junior League of Los Angeles, 1931-1932
5
38
Katchamakoff, Atanas, circa 1931-1934
5
39-40
Keith, William, 1927-1938
5
41
Klee, Paul, 1941-1951
5
42
Kleitsch, Joseph, circa 1922-1934
5
43-44
Kleitsch, Joseph, circa 1922-1934
6
1
Knight, Aston, 1907-1937
6
2-4
Kosa, Jr., Emil, 1932-1933
6
5
Krasnow, Peter, 1922-1931
6
6
Kutcher, Ben, 1925-1935
6
7
Labaudt, Lucien, circa 1945
6
8
Leger, Fernand, 1941
6
9
Leighton, Kathryn Woodman, 1925-1932
6
10
Llopis, C. Ruano, circa 1934
6
11
Los Angeles Museum, 1926-1932
6
12
Lovet-Lorski, Boris, circa 1935-1940
6
13
Lukits, Theodore Nikolai, 1930-1931
6
14
MacDonald-Wright, Stanton, 1932-1946
6
15
Messick, Ben, 1938-1949
6
16
Mac-Gurrin, Buckley, 1933-1935
6
17
Moore, Henry, circa 1943
6
18
Moore, Philip, 1931
6
19
Moran, Thomas, 1925-1937
6
20
Morgan, Theo J., 1927
6
21
Morgenstiern, Elias Feodorovich, 1927
6
22
Municipal Art Commission, 1930
6
23
Nesbitt, Phil, 1934
6
24
New York Public Library, 1912
6
25
Oakland Art Gallery, 1930
6
26
Obata, Chiura, circa 1931
6
27
O'Malley, Power, 1928-1938
6
28
Orozco, Jose Clemente, 1930
6
29
Osthaus, Edmund, circa 1924
6
30
Otis, George de Mont, 1928
6
31
Pages, Jules, 1923-1937
6
32
Paris, circa 1930
6
33
Payne, Edgar, 1921-1931
Oversized material housed in OV 9
6
34-35
Pearson, Ralph M., circa 1922
6
36-37
Pedretti, Humberto, 1924-1925
6
38
Pfister, Jean Jacques, 1930-1932
6
39
Pinazo, Jose Martinez, circa 1930
6
40
Picasso, Pablo, circa 1939
6
41
Plaza Art Center, circa 1930
6
42
Porray, Stan Pociecha, 1931
6
43
Proctor, A. Phimister, 1923-1931
6
44
Pushman, Hovsep, 1921-1935
6
45
Puthuff, Hanson, 1921-1929
7
1
Redmond, Granville, 1931-1932
7
2
Reindel, Edna, 1939-1940
7
3
Remington, Frederick, 1928-1931
7
4
Rider, Arthur, 1929-1935
7
5
Ritschel, William, 1929-1938
7
6-7
Rivera, Diego, 1923-1937
7
8
Rose, Ethel, 1926-1938
7
9-10
Rose, Guy, 1927-1937
7
11
Sachs, Joseph, 1948
7
12
Schmidt, Carl, circa 1933
7
13
Schofield, Walter Elmer, 1928-1941
7
14-15
Sexton, Fred, 1935
7
16
Sheets, Millard, 1930-1937
7
17
Shermund, Barbara, 1933
7
18
Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 1932
7
19
Smith, Frank Vining, 1933
7
20
Smith, Jack Wilkinson, 1926-1930
7
21
Soudeikine, Sergei, 1934
7
22
Stojana, Gjura, circa 1929
7
23
Swinnerton, James, 1928-1934
7
24
Taggart, Richard, circa 1935
7
25
Tauszky, David A., 1927-1930
7
26
Terechkovitch, Kostia, circa 1937
7
27
Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1946-1971
7
28-30
Vidar, Frede, circa 1941
7
31
Wagoner, Harry, 1927-1930
7
32
Waring, Brooke, circa 1935
7
33
Warshawsky, Alexander, 1925-1940
7
34
Wendt, Julia Bracken, 1928-1930
7
35
Wendt, William, circa 1926-1950
7
36-37
Wendt, William, circa 1926-1950
8
1-5
Wenzell, Arthur B., 1923
8
6
White, Orrin, 1921-1930
8
7
Ybarra, Alfred, circa 1939
8
8
Zuloaga, Ignacio, circa 1925
8
9
Oversized Payne, Edgar Material from Box 6, Folders 34-35, 1921-1928
OV 9

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