Galerie Schmela records - Calisphere
Galerie Schmela records - Calisphere
Galerie Schmela records - Calisphere
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Series I.Correspondence, 1951-2006, undated<br />
Series I.A.Artists, 1957-2006, undated<br />
INVENTORY OF THE GALERIE<br />
SCHMELA RECORDS, 1923-2006, bulk<br />
1957-1992 ...<br />
Series I.A. Artists, 1957-2006, undated<br />
Physical Description: 3.34 linear feet(9 boxes, 2 flatfile folders)<br />
Scope and Content Note<br />
This subseries comprises Alfred <strong>Schmela</strong>'s correspondence with artists represented by the gallery, as<br />
well as with other artists. The most extensive files are for Shusaku Arakawa, Joseph Beuys, Christo,<br />
Lucio Fontana, Michael Gitlin, Robert Indiana, Christian Löwenstein, Georges Mathieu, Robert Morris,<br />
Walter Pichler, Otto Piene, Raphael Jesús Soto, and Richard Tuttle. Occasionally included are<br />
correspondence with clients, lists of their names and addresses, insurance and shipment <strong>records</strong>,<br />
printed exhibition annoucements and press clippings, curriculum vitae, photographs of artwork,<br />
personal photographs, and original artwork, such as holiday or greeting cards made by the artists. The<br />
Louise Nevelson file consists of carbon copies of a circular sent to art museums in Germany regarding<br />
an exhibition of Nevelson's artwork at the gallery. Also filed with this series is <strong>Schmela</strong>'s<br />
correspondence with art museums in Europe, United States, and Japan regarding the sale of an<br />
artwork by Piet Mondrian. See also the Yves Klein files in Series II. for copies of letters.<br />
Arrangement<br />
Box 1, 29 Ackerman, Shmuel, 1985, undated<br />
Box 1, Folder 1 Correspondence, 1985<br />
Box 29, Folder 1 Color photographs, undated<br />
Box 1, Folder 2 Aeppli, Eva, 1983<br />
Box 1, Folder 3 Albers, Josef, 1962-1969, undated<br />
Box 1, Folder 4 Alex, Kosta, 1972<br />
Arranged alphabetically by artist's name, with unidentified materials at the end.<br />
Physical Description:<br />
Scope and Content Note<br />
Box 1, Folder 5 Allen, Richard, 1978<br />
Correspondence with Alfred <strong>Schmela</strong>, lists of artworks, notes, printed matter. With a frequent<br />
mention of Sidney Janis and <strong>Galerie</strong> Denise René.<br />
Box 1, Folder 6 Alvermann, Hans Peter, 1966, undated<br />
Physical Description:<br />
Box 1, Folder 7 Appel, Karel, 1958<br />
Box 1, Folder 8-17 Arakawa, Sh�saku, 1963-1980, undated<br />
Box 1, Folder 8 1963-1964<br />
Box 1, Folder 9-11 1965<br />
Box 1, Folder 12-14 1966<br />
Box 1, Folder 15 1967<br />
Box 1, Folder 16 1968-1980<br />
Box 1, Folder 17 undated<br />
Scope and Content Note<br />
Letters and a postcard, price list, notes, bank <strong>records</strong> of payments, a sketch, a New Year's card<br />
designed by Arakawa, and announcement for a 1966 group exhibition at the Dwan Gallery in Los<br />
Angeles with a pin attached (designed by Arakawa?).<br />
Box 1, Folder 18-19 Arman [Armand Pierre Fernandez], 1960-1966, undated<br />
Physical Description:<br />
Scope and Content Note<br />
Box 1, Folder 19A Armitage, Kenneth, 1959<br />
Letters to Alfred <strong>Schmela</strong>, notes, and draft of an essay by Pierre Restany. With mention of<br />
Arakawa, Yves Klein, and Günther Uecker, and exhibitions at the Iris Clert Gallery and <strong>Galerie</strong><br />
Lawrence in Paris, the Dwan Gallery in Los Angeles, also of Jean Larcade and Sidney Janis.<br />
Physical Description:<br />
2007.M.17 6