Stendahl Art Galleries records, 1907-1971

Files document advertising and publicity, consignments, inventory, purchases, sales, prices, lease agreements, and biographical information on Earl Stendahl.

The materials in this series are arranged in alphabetical order by folder title.

The bulk of the materials in this series have been digitized, except for duplicates.

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.

Correspondents with only a few letters are grouped together in the miscellaneous alphabetical files at the beginning of the series. The rest of the correspondents with individual folders are arranged in alphabetical order by name.

The bulk of the materials in this series have been digitized, except for duplicates.

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.

Two folders about exhibition schedules and group exhibitions are at the beginning of the series, the remainder of the series is arranged in chronological order by exhibition date.

The bulk of the materials in this series have been digitized, except for duplicates. In some cases, exhibition catalogues and other publications have had their covers, title pages, and relevant pages digitized.

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.

This series is arranged in alphabetical order. Subjects and artists with a limited amount of related materials have been grouped together in the miscellaneous alphabetical files at the beginning of the series. The rest of the series is arranged with a separate folder or sometimes several folders dedicated to each subject or artist and these are also organized alphabetically.

The bulk of the materials in this series have been digitized. Materials which have not been digitized include blank pages, blank versos of photographs, and duplicates. In some cases, exhibition catalogs and other publications have had their covers, title pages, and relevant pages digitized.