Finding aid for the Durlacher Bros. records, 1919-1973
Finding aid prepared by Lori Saavedra and Jocelyn Gibbs.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Durlacher Bros. records
Date (inclusive): 1919-1973
Number: 950003
Creator/Collector:
Durlacher Bros.
Physical Description:
16.0 linear feet
(42 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Records of the Durlacher Brothers, prominent art dealers in London and New York during the 19th and 20th centuries. The records
comprise administrative and financial records, correspondence, and photographs from the New York City branch, ca. 1920s-1960s,
the years during which R. Kirk Askew managed, and then owned the firm.
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Biographical/Historical Note
Henry Durlacher founded the Durlacher Brothers firm of art dealers in London in 1843, and was later joined by his brother
George. The firm dealt principally with porcelain and majolica, eventually adding furniture, tapestries, decorative objects,
and paintings to their stock. The brothers Durlacher built a clientele that included such significant collectors as Sir Richard
Wallace and J. Pierpont Morgan. R. Kirk Askew joined the firm in the 1920s to manage the newly established New York City branch,
which quickly became the more influential of the two branches. George Durlacher, the oldest surviving partner of the originally
constituted firm, retired in 1938. Askew became the owner of Durlacher Bros. in 1937 and ran the business from New York until
ca. 1969.
R. Kirk Askew (1903-1974) represented a new generation of scholarly dealers. He trained in art history at Harvard. While there
he was a student of Arthur McComb, who in 1929 organized the first exhibition of Italian baroque art in the United States.
Askew sold important Old Master drawings and paintings to American museums and collectors between the 1920s and 1960s. The
New York branch contributed to such significant collections as the Sachs collection, the Widener collection, the Frick, the
Fogg, and the Cleveland Museum, among others. After World War II, however, the gallery increasingly exhibited and handled
the work of modern and contemporary artists, including that of Peter Blume, Walter Stuempfig, Florine Stettheimer, and the
estate of Pavel Tchelitchew.
Askew and his wife Constance (neé Atwood and the former wife of Arthur McComb) formed part of the New York art scene; friends
and colleagues included Julien Levy, Lincoln Kirstein, Peter Blume, Pavel Tchelitchew and Charles Henri Ford, and other artists
and dealers. While Levy served in the U.S. Army during World War II, Askew also managed the Julien Levy gallery.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
Durlacher Bros. records, 1919-1973, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 950003.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa950003
Acquisition Information
After R. Kirk Askew died in 1974, the remaining records of his firm stayed in the hands of his widow until she died in the
1980s. The records then passed to her daughters (including the art historian Pamela Askew), from whom the Getty Research Library
acquired this archive in 1995.
Processing History
Lori Saavedra processed and arranged the collection during May-June 1999. A box of books and periodicals acquired with the
papers have been separated to the Getty Research Library.
Related Material
R. Kirk Askew donated some of the gallery's records to the Archives of American Art in 1969-1971.
Separated Material
Most publications found in the archive were separated to the Getty Research Library's general collection.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Durlacher Brothers Records (correspondence, stock books, ledgers and other financial papers, photographs, scrapbooks and
a card file in 15 linear feet) are the records of the New York branch - from the early 1920s, when R. Kirk Askew began managing
the branch under the supervision of the London office, until around 1969, when Askew closed the firm. One file of letters
from F. Mason Perkins dates from 1919; a few papers date as late as 1973.
So far as is known, the earlier records of the Durlacher Brothers London office do not survive. According to a note in the
files at the Metropolitan Museum, they were destroyed by George Durlacher when he sold the firm to Askew in 1937. When Askew
retired from the business, he donated some records of the New York branch to the Archives of American Art.
Included at the end of the archive are some personal papers of R. Kirk and Constance Askew (one linear foot). These consist
of financial records relating to their personal art collection, and correspondence, most of it from family members. Two files
of letters are addressed to Constance Askew from family and friends.
Arrangement note
The records are arranged in 8 series:
Series I. Correspondence and appointment books, 1919-1973;
Series II. Financial, 1921-1971;
Series III. Stock books, 1923-1969;
Series IV. Assorted office files, 1923-1964;
Series V. Photographs;
Series VI. Tchelitchew Estate, 1942-1973;
Series VII. Scrapbooks, 1934-1953;
Series VIII. Kirk and Constance Askew personal files, 1929-ca.1967
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957
Subjects - Topics
Art dealers
Art--Collectors and collecting
Genres and Forms of Material
Correspondence
Photographic prints
Scrapbooks
Stock books
Contributors
Abbott , Jere
Ames, Winslow
Askew, Constance
Askew, R. Kirk, (Ralph Kirk), 1903-1974
Austin, Arthur Everett, 1900-1957
Bloch, Vitale
Dix, George
Durlacher, George
Harris, Tomás, 1908-1964
Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984
Levy, Julien
Perkins, F. Mason
Stettheimer, Florine, 1871-1944
Series I.
Correspondence,
1919-1973
Physical Description:
3.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
Organized alphabetically, letters to and from other dealers, curators, collectors and art institutions concern offers, purchases,
sales and exhibits. Approximately 275 letters, 1920 -1938, between R. Kirk Askew and the London branch of Durlacher (most
with George Durlacher, Adam Paff) detail sales and the movement of stock. Lengthy correspondence also exists with Jere Abbott
(Smith College), Tomás Harris (Spanish Art Gallery), Philip Hofer (Harvard), and Edward James (14 personal letters). Other
correspondents include Winslow Ames, A. Everett "Chick" Austin, Vitale Bloch, Eugene Berman, Kurt Hirschland, Perry Rathbone.
A file of letters and documents surrounds the arrangement between the Wm. Rockhill Trust, later the Wm. Rockhill Nelson Museum
of Art, and Kirk Askew to assess and build a collection. One folder contains about 40 letters from F. M. Perkins, dated 1919-1923,
addressed to Bernard d'Hendecourt at Durlacher Brothers, London, regarding paintings and collections.
Thirty-four small appointment books, 1946, 1948-1973, contain very brief annotations and some names and addresses. A few years
encompass 2 books.
Box 1, Folder 1
A,
1930-1971
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 45 items. Most with Art Institute of Chicago, but also includes letters to and from Jere Abbott (see also
Smith College, box 2, f.18), George Agnew, Albright Art Gallery, Winslow Ames (see also Springfield Art Museum, box 2, f.18).
Box 1, Folder 2
B,
1925-1964
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 60 items. Includes letters with Lincoln Kirstein (see also Society of American Ballet, box 2, f. 18 for
another Kirstein letter) regarding decor and costumes commissioned for ballet; M. de Beer regarding purchase of art; also
Bernard Berenson, Eugene Berman.
Box 1, Folder 3
B,
1922-1963
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 60 items. Includes Eugene Berman, Vitale Bloch, G. Briganti, Brooklyn Museum, and list of works for Brunhoff
exhibition of Babar drawings.
Box 1, Folder 4
C,
1924-1967
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 65 items. Includes California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Tom Howe), Cincinnati Art Museum, City Museum
of St. Louis, Cleveland Museum of Art, P.& D.; Colnaghi.
Box 1, Folder 5
D,
1928-1961
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 40 items. Includes Detroit Institute of the Arts, A. S. Drey (dealer).
Box 1, Folder 6
D,
1920-1928
Scope and Content Note
Letters, cables, lists between Durlacher, London office and Kirk Askew in New York, ca. 50 items. Most to and from Adam Paff,
with photograph of Paff. Regarding sales, offers, movement of stock between London and New York branches.
Box 1, Folder 7
D,
1925-1928
Scope and Content Note
Letters, cables, lists between Durlacher, London and Kirk Askew, New York, ca. 45 items. Many Kirk Askew letters (carbon copies)
addressed, "Dear Firm." Regarding sales, etc.
Box 1, Folder 8
D,
1928-1935
Scope and Content Note
Letters, cables between Durlacher, London and Kirk Askew, New York, ca. 65 items. Also to Adam Paff. Regarding sales, etc.
Box 1, Folder 9
D,
1930-1938
Scope and Content Note
Letters, cables between Durlacher, London and Kirk Askew, New York, c. 50 items. Regarding sales, etc.
Box 1, Folder 10
D,
1932-1938
Scope and Content Note
Letters, cables, etc. between Durlacher, London and Kirk Askew in New York, ca. 65 items. Most with George Durlacher. Regarding
sales, etc.
Box 1, Folder 11
E,
1961-1965
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, 8 items. Including Rex Evans Gallery regarding work by Tchelitchew, Paul Cadmus, and other artists.
Box 1, Folder 12
F,
1923-1973
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 75 items. Includes Fine Arts Gallery (San Diego) ca. 30 items, the Fogg (Harvard), Henry Sales Francis
(Cleveland Museum of Art), Robert Frank, Helen C. Frick.
Box 1, Folder 13
G,
1943-1947
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 20 items. Includes Delius Giese, Mrs. Charles Goodspeed, Geoffrey Gorer, Guaranty Trust Co. of NY (regarding
trust account for Vitale Bloch; see also correspondence with Bloch in Box 1, f. 3).
Box 1, Folder 14
H,
1932-1971
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence ca. 30 items. Includes Charles B. Hall (Eaton & Hall, lawyers), Tomás Harris (dealer) ca. 25 items.
Box 1, Folder 15
Harris,
1939-1941
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Tomás Harris (Spanish Art Gallery), ca. 35 items.
Box 1, Folder 16
Harris,
1943-1945
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Tomás Harris (Spanish Art Gallery), ca. 30 items.
Box 2, Folder 1
Harris,
1945-1946
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Tomás Harris, ca. 30 items.
Box 2, Folder 2
Harris,
1946-1960
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Tomás Harris, ca. 35 items.
Box 2, Folder 3
H,
1947-1962
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 20 items. Includes Harvard Univ., B.F. Heastand Co., H.J. Heinz (American Friends of the Tate Gallery),
Julius Held (at Barnard College), Lillian Hellman (assigning percentage of profits from her play
Toys in the Attic to Kirk Askew).
Box 2, Folder 4
H,
1933-1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 40 items. Most with/ about Kurt Hirschland regarding a Tintoretto and other purchases (with photographs).
Also includes Bernard Heyl letters.
Box 2, Folder 5
H,
1937-1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 35 items. Most are Hirschland letters and documents (ca. 10 items). Also Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Philip
Hofer (Harvard).
Box 2, Folder 6
Hofer,
1944-1960
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Philip Hofer (Harvard), ca. 40 items.
Box 2, Folder 7
H,
1941-1946
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, 6 items. Letters with Honolulu Academy of Art, David Horner, Edward Hutton.
Box 2, Folder 8
J,
1944-1950
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, 14 letters. Most from / to Edward James, whose long detailed letters are filled with news and gossip; some
regard Tchelitchew drawings.
Box 2, Folder 9
K,
1945-1961
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, 7 letters. Includes Morris Kaplan, Edgar Kaufman, F. Kleinberger (dealer; also Henry Sperling), Koetser Gallery,
Edward O. Korany (restorer).
Box 2, Folder 10
L,
1936-1968
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, 12 letters. Includes H.M. Landon, Julien Levy (3 letters to K. Askew), Office du Livre Fribourg, Karl Loevenich,
José López-Rey.
Box 2, Folder 11
Mc,
1928, 1945-1968
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, 28 items. Includes Leander McCormick-Goodhart, Milton McGreevy, Henry McIlhenny, Charles McMahon.
Box 2, Folder 12
M,
1929-1967
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 30 items. Includes Stanley Marcus (Neiman-Marcus), Robert Maroni (regarding Albert Maroni collection),
Mr. Matthiesen, Mellon Foundation for British Art, Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY).
Box 2, Folder 13
M,
1920-1964
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 35 items. Includes Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minnesota Institute of Arts, Mme. de Montferrier, Munson-Williams-Proctor
Institute, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Museum of Modern Art (NY; Alfred Barr, James Soby).
Box 2, Folder 14
N,
1923-1957
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 30 items. Includes National Gallery of Canada, Wm. Rockhill Nelson Trust, Netherlands Embassy in NY, Benedict
Nicolson, Northwestern Univ.
Box 2, Folder 15
O,
1929-1947
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, 10 items. Includes Richard Offner, Georgia O'Keefe, Mark Oliver (see also Savile Gallery, box 2, f. 18).
Box 2, Folder 16
P,
1929-1964
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 30 items. Mostly Parke-Bernet Gallery; also Harold W. Parsons (Wms. Rockhill Nelson Museum of Art, Kansas
City; see also box 2, f. 14), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Guy D.R. Phillips, Mrs. Dan Fellows Platt, Plaza Art Galleries,
Princeton Univ.
Box 2, Folder 17
Letters from F. M. Perkins,
1919-1923
Scope and Content Note
All letters (handwritten) addressed to Bernard d'Hendecourt c/o Durlacher, regarding paintings and collections. Include 3
small faded photographs of paintings. Some letters indicate that Perkins is staying with Bernard Berenson, to whom he refers.
Ca. 40 letters.
Box 2, Folder 18
R,
1920-1963
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 25 items. Includes Perry Rathbone (see also City Art Museum of St. Louis, box 1, f. 4), Leclare Ratterree,
Rhode Island School of Design.
Box 2, Folder 19
S,
1924-1962
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 45 items. Most with Smith College Museum of Art (Jere Abbot; see also box 1, f. 1) ca. 30 items. Also
includes Arthur Sachs (Goldman Sachs), Savile Gallery (see also Mark Oliver, box 2, f. 15), Alfred Schart, Lincoln Kirsten
(School of American Ballet; see also Kirsten's Ballet Society letter in box 1, f. 2. ), Zachery Scott, Arnold Seligmann, John
Severance.
Box 2, Folder 20
S,
1926-1967
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 20 items. Includes James Thrall Soby, Sotheby's London, Springfield Art Museum (Winslow Ames; see also
box 1, f.1), C.C. Stillman, M & R Stora.
Box 2, Folder 21
T,
1929-1966
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 15 items. Includes
Times Literary Supplement, Toledo Museum of Art, Parker Tyler.
Box 2, Folder 22
V,
1945-1969
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 15 items. Includes Carl Van Vechten, Vassar College, Virginia Intermont College.
Box 2, Folder 23
W,
1928-1970
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, ca. 50 items. Includes Wadsworth Atheneum (A. Everett "Chick" Austin and others), Julius Weitzner, Otto Wertheimer,
G. Wescott (
Art News), Richard Wheatland, Ruth White Gallery, Whitney Museum, Wildenstein & Co., Worcester Art Museum.
Box 2, Folder 24
Y,
1947, 1967
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Yale Univ. Library, 5 items.
Box 2, Folder 25
Z,
1945
Scope and Content Note
Zatzenstein-Matthiesen, 1 letter, 1 cable.
Box 3
Appointment books,
1946, 1948-1973
Scope and Content Note
34 small appointment books (some years fill 2 books) contain brief notations of appointments, travel, with some names and
telephone numbers.
Series II.
Financial,
1921-1971
Physical Description:
12.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
Records include paid invoices (1923-1971), arranged alphabetically by vendor, expense/receipt accounts (1930-1941, 1943-1949),
federal, state and city income and sales tax records, assorted papers regarding insurance, and leases (1930-1940s). Included
in the insurance papers are lists of art works moving in and out of the gallery. Accounts with galleries and individuals date
from 1923-1937 and concern sales and consignments. One ledger records transactions for the years 1937-1966, and a checkbook
register relates to the years 1965-1970.
Box 4, Folder 1
A,
1929-1936
Scope and Content Note
12 invoices.
Box 4, Folder 2
B,
1925-1936
Scope and Content Note
13 invoices
Box 4, Folder 3
C,
1925-1937
Scope and Content Note
28 invoices
Box 4, Folder 4
D,
1928, 1934
Scope and Content Note
5 invoices
Box 4, Folder 5
E,
1926-1929
Scope and Content Note
7 invoices
Box 4, Folder 6
F,
1926-1934
Scope and Content Note
6 invoices
Box 4, Folder 7
G,
1923, 1937
Scope and Content Note
3 invoices
Box 4, Folder 8
H,
1926-1936
Scope and Content Note
7 invoices
Box 4, Folder 9
J,
1929-1930
Scope and Content Note
2 invoices
Box 4, Folder 10
K,
1936
Scope and Content Note
1 invoice
Box 4, Folder 11
L,
1928-1929
Scope and Content Note
3 invoices
Box 4, Folder 12
M,
1925-1936
Scope and Content Note
19 invoices
Box 4, Folder 13
N.
1926-1933
Scope and Content Note
7 invoices
Box 4, Folder 14
P,
1925, 1929
Scope and Content Note
2 invoices
Box 4, Folder 15
R,
1929-1937
Scope and Content Note
7 invoices
Box 4, Folder 16
S,
1925-1937
Scope and Content Note
30 invoices
Box 4, Folder 17
T,
1926-1936
Scope and Content Note
5 invoices
Box 4, Folder 18
V,
1935
Scope and Content Note
1 invoice
Box 4, Folder 19
W,
1927-1936
Scope and Content Note
29 invoices
Box 5
Paid invoices, : A-D
1938-1971
Box 5, Folder 1-3
A
Scope and Content Note
ca. 90 invoices
Box 5, Folder 4-7,
B
Scope and Content Note
ca. 120 invoices
Box 5, Folder 8-10
C
Scope and Content Note
ca. 85 invoices
Box 5, Folder 11-12
D
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 invoices
Box 6
Paid invoices, : D-J
1938-1971
Box 6, Folder 1
D
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 invoices
Box 6, Folder 2
E
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 invoices
Box 6, Folder 3-5
F
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 invoices
Box 6, Folder 6-7
G
Scope and Content Note
ca. 55 invoices
Box 6, Folder 8-12
H
Scope and Content Note
ca. 100 invoices
Box 6, Folder 13
I
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 invoices
Box 6, Folder 14
J
Scope and Content Note
ca. 25 invoices
Box 7
Paid invoices, : K-M
1938-1971
Box 7, Folder 1-4
K
Scope and Content Note
ca. 85 invoices
Box 7, Folder 5-7
L
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 invoices
Box 7, Folder 8-9
Mc
Scope and Content Note
ca. 45 invoices
Box 7, Folder 10-13
M
Scope and Content Note
ca. 120 invoices
Box 8
Paid invoices, : N-S0
1938-1971
Box 8, Folder 1-2
N
Scope and Content Note
ca. 40 invoices
Box 8, Folder 3
O
Scope and Content Note
ca. 12 invoices
Box 8, Folder 4-5
P
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 invoices
Box 8, Folder 6-8
R
Scope and Content Note
ca. 75 invoices
Box 8, Folder 9-10
SA - SD
Scope and Content Note
ca. 40 invoices
Box 8, Folder 11-13
SE - SO
Scope and Content Note
ca. 80 invoices
Box 9
Paid invoices, : SP-Z
1938-1971
Box 9, Folder 1-3
SP - SZ
Scope and Content Note
ca. 75 invoices
Box 9, Folder 4-5
T
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 invoices
Box 9, Folder 6
U
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 invoices
Box 9, Folder 7
V
Scope and Content Note
ca.15 invoices
Box 9, Folder 8-9
WA - WG
Scope and Content Note
ca. 55 invoices
Box 9, Folder 10-11
WH - WZ
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 invoices
Box 9, Folder 12
Y
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 invoices
Box 9, Folder 13
Z
Scope and Content Note
ca. 20 invoices
Box 10
Expense / Receipt Accounts, ,
1930-1941 1943-1949
Box 10, Folder 1
1930
Scope and Content Note
ca. 18 pp.
Box 10, Folder 2
1931
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 pp.
Box 10, Folder 3
1932
Scope and Content Note
ca. 19 pp.
Box 10, Folder 4
1933
Scope and Content Note
ca. 12 pp.
Box 10, Folder 5
1934
Scope and Content Note
ca. 12 pp.
Box 10, Folder 6
1935
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 pp.
Box 10, Folder 7
1936
Scope and Content Note
expenses for Tintoretto exhibit, ca. 14 pp
Box 10, Folder 8
1937
Scope and Content Note
ca. 12 pp.
Box 10, Folder 9
1938
Scope and Content Note
expenses for Tintoretto exhibit, ca. 15 pp
Box 10, Folder 10
1939
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 pp.
Box 10, Folder 11
1940
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 pp.
Box 10, Folder 12
1941
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 pp.
Box 10, Folder 13
1943
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 pp [n.b., no file for 1942]
Box 10, Folder 14
1944
Scope and Content Note
ca. 15 pp.
Box 10, Folder 15
1945
Scope and Content Note
ca. 20 pp.
Box 10, Folder 16
1946
Scope and Content Note
ca. 20 pp.
Box 10, Folder 17
1947
Scope and Content Note
ca. 20 pp.
Box 10, Folder 18
1948
Scope and Content Note
ca. 10 pp.
Box 10, Folder 19
1949
Scope and Content Note
ca. 30 pp.
Box 11
Income / Sales Taxes,
1921-1967
Box 11, Folder 1
Federal & State taxes,
1921-1925
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed tax forms for Alfred Durlacher, ca. 20 pp.
Box 11, Folder 2
Federal & State taxes,
1928-1932, 1934-1936
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed tax forms for Alfred Durlacher, ca. 25 pp.
Box 11, Folder 3
Federal & State taxes,
1921-1925
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed tax forms for George Durlacher, ca. 15 pp
Box 11, Folder 4
Federal & State taxes,
1928-1932, 1934-1937
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed tax forms for George Durlacher, ca. 20 pp.
Box 11, Folder 5
Federal & State taxes,
1921-1928
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed tax forms for Durlacher partnership, ca. 30 pp.
Box 11, Folder 6
Federal & State taxes,
1928-1936
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed tax forms for Durlacher partnership, ca. 30 pp.
Box 11, Folder 7
IRS forms,
1937
Scope and Content Note
Completed forms for Durlacher Bros., SSI, SS2, etc., 21 items.
Box 11, Folder 8
Return of Excise tax on Gross receipts,
1937-1939
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed IRS forms, 6 items.
Box 11, Folder 9
Correspondence with Social Security Board,
1940-1942
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Durlacher employee Edward T. Henry, 11 items.
Box 11, Folder 10
Gross receipts for calendar year
1947
Scope and Content Note
Copy of completed IRIS form, 1 item.
Box 11, Folder 11
NY City Sales Tax paid,
1941-1946
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed forms, ca. 25 items.
Box 11, Folder 12
NY City Sales Tax paid,
1960-1967
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed forms, ca. 35 items.
Box 12
Taxes, receipts, leases, insurance,
1930-1951
Box 12, Folder 1
New York City, Dept. of Finance,
1939-1951
Scope and Content Note
Occupancy tax returns, 18 items.
Box 12, Folder 2
IRS Forms, V-1, V2,
1943
Scope and Content Note
Completed forms for Victory Tax withheld, 6 items.
Box 12, Folder 3
Employee Withholding forms,
1943-1944
Scope and Content Note
Exemption certificates for Durlacher employees, 7 items.
Box 12, Folder 4
IRS Withholding Forms,
1945, 1947, 1950
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed W-2 forms, 11 items.
Box 12, Folder 5
IRS Employer's Tax Return,
1938-1949
Scope and Content Note
Copies of Durlacher Bros. completed forms, ca. 40 items.
Box 12, Folder 6
IRS Forms W1, W3,
1943-1950
Scope and Content Note
Return of Income Tax Withheld on Wages, copies of completed forms, ca. 15 items.
Box 12, Folder 7
Retail Dealer's Excise Tax,
1950-1951
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed forms, 6 items.
Box 12, Folder 8
IRS form 941,
1950-1951
Scope and Content Note
Quarterly Federal tax returns, duplicates. ca. 15 items.
Box 12, Folder 9
Real Estate taxes, assessments, permits,
1932-1940
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed forms, certificates. ca. 20 items.
Box 12, Folder 10
Return of Receipts for Sales and Services,
1935
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed NY City tax forms and correspondence. 5 items.
Box 12, Folder 11
Return of Receipts for Sales and Services,
1936
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed NY City tax forms and correspondence. 5 items.
Box 12, Folder 12
Return of Receipts for Sales and Services,
1937
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed NY City tax forms and correspondence. 4 items.
Box 12, Folder 13
Return of Receipts for Sales and Services,
1938
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed NY City tax forms and correspondence. 7 items.
Box 12, Folder 14
Return of Receipts for Sales and Services,
1939
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed NY City tax forms and correspondence. 10 items.
Box 12, Folder 15
Return of Receipts for Sales and Services,
1940
Scope and Content Note
Copies of completed NY City tax forms and correspondence, with 3 handwritten pages of taxable sales, listing works of art
sold. 11 items.
Box 12, Folder 16
Lease agreement,
1930-1936
Scope and Content Note
Durlacher office, 670 5th Ave.
Box 12, Folder 17
Lease agreements,
1936-1937, 1939-1941
Scope and Content Note
Four leases for Durlacher office, 11/13 E. 57th St.
Box 12, Folder 18
Property tax assessment,
1940
Scope and Content Note
Letters with NY City Tax Dept. regarding assessment for 166 E. 61st St. 2 letters.
Box 12, Folder 19
Durlacher - Stora,
1930, 1933, 1935-1936
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with real estate company and lawyers regarding joint lease arrangement of Durlacher and Stora for their separate
offices at 670 5th Ave. Durlacher and Stora attempt to end the lease due to demise of Stora business. Letters describe lease
problems and arrangement for Durlacher to take over Stora's stock of art works. Ca. 20 items.
Box 12, Folder 20
Insurance,
1937
Scope and Content Note
Durlacher Fire insurance policy and correspondence. 4 items.
Box 12, Folder 21
Fine Arts Insurance,
1938-1939
Scope and Content Note
Policy and correspondence, ca. 20 items.
Box 12, Folder 22
Paintings and drawings Insurance,
1939
Scope and Content Note
Typed lists of paintings and drawings in and out of premises, with values. Also correspondence with insurance company. Ca.
25 items.
Box 12, Folder 23
Paintings and drawings Insurance,
1938
Scope and Content Note
Lists of paintings and drawings and their values. 8 pp.
Box 12, Folder 24
Fire and Burglary policies and claims,
1939
Scope and Content Note
Policy and claims. 10 items.
Box 12, Folder 25
Fine Arts Insurance,
1939-1940
Scope and Content Note
Policies and correspondence. 15 pp.
Box 12, Folder 26
Fire and Burglary policies,
1940
Scope and Content Note
Policy and correspondence. 15 items.
Box 12, Folder 27
Paintings and drawings in/out,
1940
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and lists of paintings and drawings in and out of premises, with values.
Box 12, Folder 28
Fine Arts Insurance,
1940-1941
Scope and Content Note
Policy documents and lists of art works covered. Ca. 10 pp.
Box 12, Folder 29
Paintings and Drawings in/out,
1941
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and lists of art works and values. Ca. 20 pp.
Box 12, Folder 30
Policy document
1941-1942
Box 13
Accounts with individuals and galleries,
1923-1967
Box 13, Folder 1
Account with George Dix,
1963-1967
Scope and Content Note
Accounts of art works consigned to George Dix by Kirk Askew, sales and commissions. Ca. 15 pp.
Box 13, Folder 2
Photograph of George Dix
Scope and Content Note
Inscribed to Kirk and Constance.
Box 13, Folder 3
Account with Walter Stuempfig,
1943-1959
Scope and Content Note
Lists of expenses, sales, commissions. Ca. 20 items.
Box 13, Folder 4
Account with Walter Stuempfig,
ca. 1946-1960
Scope and Content Note
Two annotated catalogs (brochures) of Walter Stuempfig exhibits at Durlacher, 1956, 1959; brochure catalog of Stuempfig's
exhibit at the De Young Museum June [1946?], 4 copies; brochure catalog of his exhibit at New Gallery, Hayden Library at MIT,
1960 (3 copies). 1 ink drawing; lists of art works on account, 1952-1959. Ca. 220 pp.
Box 13, Folder 5
Account with Hyman Bloom,
1946-1960
Scope and Content Note
Typed lists of receipts from sales. Includes clients, brief title of works, advances, commissions, and expenses. Ca. 15 pp.
Box 13, Folder 6
Account with Mark Oliver,
1955, 1957
Scope and Content Note
Typed lists of credits, debits. 4pp.
Box 13, Folder 7
Account with Savile Gallery,
1957
Scope and Content Note
1 page lists credits to account.
Box 13, Folder 8
Commission Account with A.E. Merriman Paff,
1926-1928
Scope and Content Note
List of sales, commissions, handwritten on ledger sheets. Ca. 15 sheets.
Box 13, Folder 9
Commission Account with A.E. Merriman Paff,
1929-1931
Scope and Content Note
Lists of sales, commissions handwritten on ledger sheets. Ca. 20 sheets
Box 13, Folder 10-11
Letters of Agreement,
1923-1924
Scope and Content Note
Formal agreement, some drafts, between Durlacher Bros. (London) and B. d'Hendecourt and Adam Paff to do business together
in New York City. With some correspondence. (See box 2, folder 17 for letters to Bernard d'Hendecourt from F. M. Perkins,
1919-1923.) 14 items.
Box 13, Folder 12
Titina Maselli,
1954-1955
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and printed materials. Includes an annotated Durlacher catalog (brochure) for Titina Maselli exhibit in 1955,
letters between Maselli and George Dix. 10 items.
Box 13, Folder 13
Kansas City,
1927
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, lists, printed brochure relate to the establishment of a museum in Kansas City by the William Rockhill Nelson
Trust. Correspondence regards contracting with Durlacher Bros. to build the collection. Ca. 30 items.
Box 13, Folder 14
Documents on Old Masters and Expertises,
1937-1960
Scope and Content Note
File contains annotated photographs of art works, letters of expertise, research, printed material. Ca. 25 items.
Box 13, Folder 15
Stationary
Scope and Content Note
Durlacher Bros. letter paper, with names (R. Kirk Askew, Jr. and George Dix) and address (11 E. 57th St.) printed at top.
Box 14
Ledger,
1937-1966
Scope and Content Note
Records of transactions: sales, partial-shares and consignments. Provides stock no., artist,, subject, cost, expenses, date
sold, buyer, date paid, sales price and balance. Includes accounts of partial shares with Tomás Harris, A.S. Rey & Co., A.S.
Seligmann, V. Bloch, Julien Levy, among others, and consignment accounts.
Box 15
Checkbook and register,
1965-1970
Scope and Content Note
Record of checks drawn, deposits made, including description which mention art works, buyers and sellers and prices. With
inserted deposit slips, and blank unused checks.
Series III.
Stock books,
1923-1969, n.d.
Physical Description:
12.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
Three unbound stock books record descriptions of art works, provenance, sales, expert opinions, and the movement of stock
between the London and New York offices. A client book dates from 1923-1940. Three stock books record information (provenance,
sales, consignments) about paintings, 1937-1968, and six stock books record information about drawings for the years 1934-1969.
One notebook seems to be an inventory of photographs from various sources, n.d.
Box 16
Paintings,
1937-1966
Scope and Content Note
Entries include stock no., artist, title of work, physical detail, purchases and sales, prices, provenance and exhibition
information. Ca. 300 pp.
Box 17
Paintings,
1937-1967
Scope and Content Note
Purchases, sales, prices, provenance and extensive notations about art works co-owned with other dealers, individuals.
Box 18
Paintings,
1943-1968
Scope and Content Note
Organized by artist, includes provenance and exhibition information, and purchase information (no sales?).
Box 19
Drawings I,
1934-1964
Scope and Content Note
Organized by stock no. (D1-D247), includes provenance, record of sales and prices.
Box 20
Drawings II,
1945-1951
Scope and Content Note
Organized by stock no. (D248-D457), includes provenance, sales and prices.
Box 21
Drawings III,
1940-1967
Scope and Content Note
Organized by stock no. (D458-D866), then partial shares and consignments. Includes provenance, sales and prices. One letter
inserted.
Box 22
Drawings IV,
1939-1966
Scope and Content Note
Consignments and partial shares, includes provenance, sales and prices.
Box 23
Drawings V,
1926-1956
Scope and Content Note
Record of consignments from others; includes provenance, exhibition information, consignment and sale prices.
Box 24
Drawings VI,
1946-1969
Scope and Content Note
"Askew Drawings." Organized by artist name, includes some partial shares and consignments, provenance, exhibition information,
sales and prices.
Box 25
3 unbound stockbooks,
1923-1938
Scope and Content Note
All list descriptions of works, provenance, sales, quotes from expert opinions, movement to and from London office, thumbnail
photographs, exhibition information. Each ca. 100 pp.
#1, 1923-1928
#2, 1924-1936
#3, 1928-1938
Box 26
Client book,
1923-1940
Scope and Content Note
Entries alphabetical by client, include sales, prices, photographs of art works. Ca. 200 pp. Fragile.
Box 27
Photograph lists notebook,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typed pages: list of Frick photographs; list of Old Masters; list of Kurt Seligmann; list of Pavel Tchelitichew (no photographs).
Series IV.
Assorted office files,
ca. 1920-1964
Physical Description:
2.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
Files regard art collections (Sachs, Dreyfus, Edward James) and an exhibit of Florine Stettheimer paintings in 1947. A privately
printed history of the Durlacher firm describes only the London office, ca. 1823-1925. Eight files of letters and documents
hold letters of expertise and descriptions of art works. Assorted folders contain New York University syllabi, and loose clippings
about the gallery. (See also Series VII. for scrap books of clippings.)
Box 28
Office files,
ca. 1920-ca. 1964
Box 28, Folder 1
Sachs collection,
1920s?
Scope and Content Note
Lists, letters, cables and documents, most regarding Titian's "Adoration." Most are price comparisons, documents regarding
provenance. Ca. 25 pp.
Box 28, Folder 2
Sachs collection,
1922-1928
Scope and Content Note
Letters, some typed essays regarding Titian paintings (portrait, "Adoration"). Some regard Tintoretto "Baptism." Ca. 60 pp.
Box 28, Folder 3
Sachs collection,
1920s?
Scope and Content Note
Typed descriptions, essays and 9 photographs regarding paintings in Sachs collection, including Holbein, El Greco, Titian.
Ca. 35 items.
Box 28, Folder 4
Dreyfus collection
Scope and Content Note
Typed list of works, ca. 20 pp. with heading "Copied from the manuscript catalogue of the family."
Box 28, Folder 5
Stettheimer,
1947
Scope and Content Note
Papers regarding exhibit of Florine Stettheimer paintings by Durlacher at the Arts Club of Chicago 1947. Includes brochure
for exhibition, typed essay by Charles Demuth (2 pp), 1 letter regarding insurance and 4 photographs of her paintings. 8 items.
Box 28, Folder 6
Edward James,
1963-1964
Scope and Content Note
Four letters between Edward James and Kirk Askew, printed brochure "Paintings from the Edward James collection 1964," typed
and annotated list of Tchelitchew works belonging to James (5 pp).
Box 28, Folder 7
"Eighty-five years of art dealing: a short record of the House of Durlacher Brothers," [ ]
1823-1925
Scope and Content Note
Privately printed history of firm from 1823 up to about 1925. Includes images of art works.
Box 28, Folder 8
Durlacher Bros. priced catalogs, , ,
1923 1940 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
4 printed and 1 typescript catalog, with prices. 3 are undated.
Box 28, Folder 9
NYU Fine Arts 250
Scope and Content Note
Syllabus, 9 typed pages of bibliography and lists of artists. 2 copies.
Box 28, Folder 10
NYU Fine Arts 268
Scope and Content Note
Lecture notes for Friedlaender class, French Drawings XVI + XVII centuries. Ca. 50 pp.
Box 28, Folder 11
Duplicate clippings for scrapbook
Scope and Content Note
Newspaper clippings (dups); [some are photocopied on archival paper by repository] (see also Scrapbooks, Box 39)
Box 28, Folder 12
Clippings for scrapbook
Scope and Content Note
Clippings that were meant to be added to scrapbooks (Box 39).
Box 29
Letters of expertise and descriptions of art, ,
ca. 1919- ca. 1939 n.d.
Box 29, Folder 1
Various
Scope and Content Note
Letters, certificates, notes, and typed descriptions / history; photographs of a panel painting taped together to form panels.
Ca. 40 pp.
Box 29, Folder 2
Various
Scope and Content Note
Letters, notes, typed descriptions / history. With one issue of the journal
Man. Ca. 15 items.
Box 29, Folder 3
Various
Scope and Content Note
Letters, descriptions of various works, 3 photographs. Ca. 30 items.
Box 29, Folder 4
Various
Scope and Content Note
Letters, descriptions, 6 photographs. Ca. 30 items.
Box 29, Folder 5
Various
Scope and Content Note
Letters, descriptions, 1 photograph (Goya). Ca. 35 items.
Box 29, Folder 6
Reubens
Scope and Content Note
Letters, descriptions all regarding Reubens altarpiece. Ca. 30 items.
Box 29, Folder 7
Various
Scope and Content Note
Descriptions, clippings. Ca. 50 items.
Box 29, Folder 8
Sarto, Tintoretto, others
Scope and Content Note
Letters, descriptions, 1 photograph. Ca. 40 items.
Series V.
Photographs,
ca. 1919-ca. 1973, n.d.
Physical Description:
6.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
Photographs document sold drawings, and are arranged alphabetically by artist or national school. Another group of photographs
of sold works seems to be Frick photographs, also arranged by artist. Two folders hold photographs of the Winslow and Anne
Ames collection, and two albums contain photographs of sold paintings, sculpture and decorative objects, unidentified but
with names of buyers listed underneath most photographs.
Box 30, Folder 1
A
Scope and Content Note
Amman, Joost
Arellano, Juan
Ast, Balthasar Van Der
Box 30, Folder 2
B
Scope and Content Note
Bartolommeo, Fra
Barye, Antoine Louis
Baschenis, Evaristo
Bassano, Jacopo
Bassano, Leandro
Beccafumi, Domenico
Beer, Joost de
Berard, Christian
Berckhende, Gerritt
Berghem, N
Bibiena, Antonio
Bicci, Lorenzo di
Bonington, Richard Parkes
Bosch (School of)
Boselli, Felice
Boucher, Francois
Bourdon, Sebastien
Bouts, Albert
Bramantino
Breu, Jorg the Elder
Brize, Cornelis
Bronzino, Angelo
Burgkmair, Hans
Butinone, Bernadino
Box 30, Folder 3
C
Scope and Content Note
Cades, Giuseppe
Callot, Jacques
Campognola
Campi, Vincenzo
Camprobin, Pedro de
Canaletto
Caravaggio
Carracci, Annibale
Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto
Charpentier, Constance-Marie
Chasserian, Teodore
Clodion, Claude Michel
Constable, John
Cranach, Lucas the Elder
Crespi, Giuseppe Maria
Box 30, Folder 4
D
Scope and Content Note
Dadd, Richard
Daddi, Bernardo
Danby, Francis
David, Gerard
David, Jacques Louis
Delacroix, Eugene
Della Vecchia, Pietro
Desprez, Louis-Jean
Domenico, A
Box 30, Folder 5
E
Scope and Content Note
Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den
Elsheimer, Adam
Box 30, Folder 6
F
Scope and Content Note
Fiorentino, Rosso
Fuessly, Heinrich
Fuseli, Henry
Box 30, Folder 7
G
Scope and Content Note
Gainesborough
Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis
Goya, Francisco
Goyen, Jan Van
Gravelot, Hubert-Francois Bourguignon
Greuze, Jean Baptiste
Grimshaw, Atkinson
Gros, Baron
Guardi, Francesco
Guercino, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
Guys, Constaintin
Box 30, Folder 9
H
Scope and Content Note
Heyden, Jan van der
Huet, Jean Baptiste
Huys, Pieter
Huysum, Jan van
Box 30, Folder 10
I
Scope and Content Note
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique
Innocenza da Imola (Francucci)
Box 30, Folder 11
J
Scope and Content Note
Jolli, Antonio
Jouvenet, Jean
Juvarra, Filippo
Box 30, Folder 12
K
Scope and Content Note
Kniepp, Christoph Heinrich
Kobell, Jan II
Box 30, Folder 13
L
Scope and Content Note
La Tour, Georges
Lageman, hendrik
Lachtropius, Nicholas
Le Nain, Mathiew
Lear, Edward
Leighton, Lord
Leonid
Leyden, Lucas von
Lorrain, Claude
Lyon, Corneille de
Box 30, Folder 14
M
Scope and Content Note
MacIver, Loren
Magnasco, Alessandro
Manuel, Nicolaus
Martin, John
Matthias, von Hoist
Merian, Maria Sibylla
Millet, Jean Francois
Mola, Pier Francesco
Montebello Agostino da
Moucheron, Isaac
Murillo, Bartolome Esteban
Musical Instructions Installation at Yale, 1960 [installation view]
Box 30, Folder 15
O
Scope and Content Note
Ostade, Adriaen van
Box 30, Folder 16
P
Scope and Content Note
Pajou fils
Passerotti, Bartolommeo
Parentino, Bernardo
Parmigianino, Francesco Mazzola
Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista
Pillemont, Jean
Pinturicchio, Bernardino di Betto
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Pontormo, Jacopo da
Prud'hon, Pierre Paul
Box 30, Folder 17
R
Scope and Content Note
Reni, Guido
Renoir, Rierre Auguste
Reynolds, Joshua
Ricci, Marco
Robert, Hubert
Roghman
Romney, George
Rosa, Salvator
Rubens, Peter Paul
Box 30, Folder 18
S
Scope and Content Note
Schon, Erhard
Schrieck, Otto Marcelus van
Seligmann, Kurt
Silvestre, Israel
Soest, Konrad van
Soya, F.
Stubbs, George
Box 31, Folder 1
T
Scope and Content Note
Tacca, Pietro
Taunay, Nicholas-Antoine
Tchelitchew, Pavel
Terburg the Younger, Gerard
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico
Tintoretto, Domenico
Tintoretto, Jacopo Robusti
Titian (and School of)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Box 31, Folder 2
V
Scope and Content Note
Vernet, Joseph
Veronese, Paolo (and School of)
Vignon, Claude
Visentini, Antonio
Box 31, Folder 3
W
Scope and Content Note
West, Joseph
Weyden, Peter van der
Wille, Pierre Alexander
Witby
Witte, Emanual de
Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby)
Box 31, Folder 4
Z
Scope and Content Note
Zurbarán, Francisco (and School of)
Box 31, Folder 5
Photographs of sold drawings
Scope and Content Note
Identified by national school, or uncertain ID, ca. 30 items.
Box 31, Folder 6-9
Photographs of sold drawings, unidentified. Ca. 40 photographs.
Box 31, Folder 10
Sold drawings Frick Photos, A
Scope and Content Note
Alexander, William, 2 photographs
Box 31, Folder 11
Sold drawings Frick Photos, B
Scope and Content Note
Barocci, Federigo
Bega, C.P.
della Bella, Stefano
Berchem, C.P.
Bernini, G.S.
Bisschop, Jan de
Bol, Hans
Bonington, R.P.
Bramantino, B.S.
Bramer, Leonard
Brescia, Moretto da
Bril, Paul
Brueghel, Jan
Brueghel the Elder, Pieter
Box 31, Folder 12
Sold drawings Frick Photos, C
Scope and Content Note
Cambiaso, Luca
Carpi, Ugo da
Carraci, Annibale
Cassas, L.F.
Castiglione, G.B.
Chinnery, George
Chatelain, J.B.C.
Cock, Jan de
Correggio, A. (School of)
Box 31, Folder 13
Sold drawings Frick Photos, D
Scope and Content Note
Delacroix, Eugene
Box 31, Folder 14
Sold drawings Frick Photos, E
Scope and Content Note
Elsheimer, Adam
Box 31, Folder 15
Sold drawings Frick Photos, F
Scope and Content Note
Fortebasso, Francesco
Fossati, Domenico
Fuessly, Heinrich
Box 31, Folder 16
Sold drawings Frick Photos, G
Scope and Content Note
Gandolfi, Gaetano
Gericault, Theodore
Gravelot, Hubert F.
Grimaldi, G.F.
Guercino, G.F.B.
Box 31, Folder 17
Sold drawings Frick Photos, H
Scope and Content Note
Hoogstraten, Samuel van
Huysum, Jan van
Box 31, Folder 18
Sold drawings Frick Photos, I
Scope and Content Note
Ingres
Box 31, Folder 19
Sold drawings Frick Photos, L
Scope and Content Note
Lorrain, Claude
Box 31, Folder 20
Sold drawings Frick Photos, M
Scope and Content Note
Millet, Jean F.
Box 31, Folder 21
Sold drawings Frick Photos, P
Scope and Content Note
Palma il Giovane, Jacopo
Palmer, Samuel
Pannini, G.P.
Piombo, Sebastiano del
Pontormo, Jacopo
Box 31, Folder 22
Sold drawings Frick Photos, R
Scope and Content Note
Reni, Guido
Renoir
Ricci, Marco
Romney, George
Rosa, Salvator
Box 31, Folder 23
Sold drawings Frick Photos, S
Scope and Content Note
Spranger van den Schilde, Bartholomeus
Stimmer, Tobias
Box 31, Folder 24
Sold drawings Frick Photos, T
Scope and Content Note
Tiepolo, G.B.
Tiepolo, G.D.
Box 31, Folder 25
Sold drawings Frick Photos, V
Scope and Content Note
Vernet, C.J.
Velde the Younger, Willem II, van de
Box 31, Folder 26
Sold drawings Frick Photos, various
Scope and Content Note
Roman School, British School, Florentine School, unidentified.
Box 31, Folder 27
Sold drawings from Winslow & Anne Ames Collection
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by artist name, all annotated, some heavily. Ca. 20 photographs.
Box 31, Folder 28
Sold drawings from Ames Collection
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of drawings of uncertain attribution, all annotated. 9 photographs.
Box 32
Photographs, oversize
Scope and Content Note
Number of photographs noted.
Box 33
Oversize unidentified photographs
Physical Description:
11.0 items
Box 34
Negatives, transparency
Scope and Content Note
1 envelope of Tchelitchew negatives (12) from Box 36.
1 color slide (Veronese).
1 glass negative, color plate, of Foliot, Francois-Toussaint, Suite of Louis XVI furniture, with annotated envelope giving
provenance and sales information. [Negs to be printed and then filed in cold storage].
Box 35*
2 Photograph albums
Scope and Content Note
Sold paintings, sculpture and decorative objects: photographs unidentified, but have names of buyers listed underneath. Each
album ca. 60 pp.
Series VI.
Tchelitchew Estate,
1942-1973
Physical Description:
3.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
Papers include photographs of Tchelitchew's paintings, loan forms and letters regarding loaning Tchelitchew work to exhibits,
some letters to Tchelitchew from Askew, and a file of clippings and typed biographical information. Correspondence regarding
the Tchelitchew estate concerns sales of his work and includes many letters between Askew and Alexandra Zaoussailoff, Tchelitchew's
sister. A card file is an index to the art works in the estate. Publications and catalogs containing his work are duplicates
of copies in the Research Library.
Box 36
Tchelitchew photographs, ,
ca. 1942-ca. 1964 n.d.
Box 36, Folder 1
Photographs of art
Scope and Content Note
Most are labeled and annotated, 27 photographs.
Box 36, Folder 2
Photographs of art
Scope and Content Note
Most labeled and annotated, (see box 34 for negatives), 36 photographs.
Box 36, Folder 3-6
Photographs of art
Scope and Content Note
Most labeled and annotated; some color. Ca. 125 photographs.
Box 36, Folder 7
Photographs of art, and portraits
Scope and Content Note
Most labeled and annotated; includes 5 photographs of Tchelitchew, ca. 25 items.
Box 36, Folder 8-11
Photographs of art
Scope and Content Note
Most labeled and annotated, ca. 150 photographs.
Box 36, Folder 12
Papers regarding loans of Tchelitchew art works, ca.
1942-1964
Scope and Content Note
Loan forms from Gallery of Modern Art (Huntington Hartford, NYC) to borrow works owned by Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Askew, 1964, ca.
20 items. (See also catalog from this exhibit, box 37, f.10)
1 letter from Museum of Modern Art, NYC, regarding Tchelitchew work loaned by Kirk Askew, 1942.
Box 36, Folder 13
Tchelitchew biographical information,
ca. 1942-1960
Scope and Content Note
Press clippings, typed biographical information, scattered dates.
Box 37
Tchelitchew Estate,
ca. 1942-1973
Box 37, Folder 1
Correspondence, documents,
1957-1959
Scope and Content Note
Letters between Kirk Askew (and his wife Constance), the lawyer for Pavel Tchelitchew's estate Morris Fish, Charles Henri
Ford (addressed as Charlie), Tchelitchew's sister Alexandra Zaoussailoff ("Choura"), and her lawyer.
Copy of Tchelitchew's Last Will and Testament.
Typed essay (carbon copy) about Tchelitchew by Lincoln Kirstein.
Typed lists of Tchelitchew's art works, and printed gallery material. Ca. 200 pp.
Box 37, Folder 2
Correspondence and accounts, ,
1942 1943
Scope and Content Note
6 letters between Kirk Askew and Tchelitchew (one addressed to Charles Henri Ford, T's companion). Other letters with institutions
regarding loans from Askew of Tchelitchew works.
Chronological biographical information about Tchelitchew.
Typed (carbon copies) accounts of Tchelitchew with Julien Levy gallery, 1942. Ca. 25 items.
Box 37, Folder 3
Tchelitchew Accounts with Durlacher and others,
1943-1957
Scope and Content Note
Accounts (typed, carbons) with Julien Levy, Durlacher, and individuals through Durlacher. Ca. 150 pp.
Box 37, Folder 4
Tchelitchew estate: accounts of Durlacher with Alexandra Zaoussailoff, ,
1961-1965 1967
Scope and Content Note
Typed accounts to Zaoussailoff (T's sister) of Tchelitchew works sold; final account is dated 26 April 1967. 16 pp.
Box 37, Folder 5
Tchelitchew estate: correspondence,
1957-1959
Scope and Content Note
Letters between Kirk Askew, Alexandra Zaoussailoff (Choura), Charles Henri Ford, Morris Fish about settling Tchelitchew estate,
selling works, avoiding French taxes. Ca. 20 letters.
Box 37, Folder 6
Tchelitchew estate: correspondence,
1960-1962
Scope and Content Note
Most letters between Kirk Askew (carbon copies) and Choura (Alexandra Zaoussailoff); also from Charles Henri Ford, and Allen
Tanner who includes an English translation of a review in French newspaper of ballet "Ode," which used decor by Tchelitchew.
Ca. 50 letters.
Box 37, Folder 7
Tchelitchew estate: correspondence,
1963-1965
Scope and Content Note
Letters between Kirk Askew (carbon copies), Choura, Morris Fish. Ca. 75 letters.
Box 37, Folder 8
Tchelitchew estate: correspondence,
1966-1973
Scope and Content Note
Letters between Kirk Askew and Choura, ca. 50 letters.
Box 37, Folder 9
Tchelitchew catalogs
Scope and Content Note
Pavel Tchelitchew: recent drawings and gouaches, Worth Avenue Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 3-15 March 1952.
Paintings, Theatre and Ballet Designs by Pavel Tchelitchew and Leslie Hurry; an exhibition arranged by the National Gallery of Canada for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1956 (5 copies).
Collection of works by Pavel Tchelitchew: the property of Dame Edith Sitwell collection; London: Sothebys, date of sale, 13 Dec 1961.
Box 37, Folder 10
Tchelitchew publication
Scope and Content Note
Pavel Tchelitchew. Gallery of Modern Art, New York, 20 March - 19 April 1964.
Box 37, Folder 11
Tchelitchew publication
Scope and Content Note
Pavel Tchelitchew: a selection of paintings, gouaches and drawings, arranged by Richard Nathanson, 24 April -13 May 1972, the Alpine Club, London.
Box 37, Folder 12
Tchelitchew publication
Scope and Content Note
Pavel Tchelitchew drawings, ed. Lincoln Kirstein. New York: H. Bittner and Co., 1947.
Box 38
Tchelitchew card file,
1925-1956
Scope and Content Note
Index cards, organized by date, list art work by Tchelitchew and include title or description, collection, exhibition information
and other notes and annotations. Small beginning section of cards form a bibliography on Tchelitchew and his work.
Series VII.
Scrapbooks,
1934-1953
Physical Description:
2 scrapbooks with clippings
Scope and Content Note
Two scrapbooks hold clippings about the gallery. (See also loose clippings in Series IV.)
Box 39
2 scrapbooks with clippings
Scope and Content Note
Clippings about gallery business, exhibits, artists. Some are loose. (See also Box 28, folders 11-12 for more loose clippings.)
Series VIII.
Kirk and Constance Askew files,
1929-ca. 1967
Physical Description:
3.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
Three folders hold letters to Kirk and Constance Askew from family. Two folders contain letters written to Constance by family
and friends, 1958-1961. Other files hold assorted financial and insurance information, primarily about their personal art
collection, and several photographs of Kirk Askew.
Box 40
Kirk and Constance Askew personal papers
Box 40, Folder 1
Letters,
1959-1960
Scope and Content Note
Letters (all handwritten) addressed to Kirk and Constance Askew (many addressed "Ma and Pa") from daughter Phoebe and other
family. Ca. 20 letters.
Box 40, Folder 2
Letters to Kirk and Constance Askew,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
Letters from David Richardson and Woodi, Paul and Phoebe (sons-in-law and daughters), ca. 20 letters.
Box 40, Folder 3
Letters to Kirk and Constance Askew,
undated
Scope and Content Note
All family letters, including 2 letters from Kirk in Paris to his wife. 12 letters.
Box 40, Folder 4
Letters to Constance Askew,
1958-1959
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Elizabeth Bowen (English novelist) 1958; most from Mrs. Frank Dodge, Stonington, Connecticut (Anne, sister of
Constance). Other correspondents (Penny, Iris) unidentifed. Ca. 30 letters.
Box 40, Folder 5
Letters to Constance Askew,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
Letters from family and friends, including 2 from Kirk. Ca. 15 letters.
Box 40, Folder 6
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
5 photographs of Kirk Askew.
Box 40, Folder 7
Kirk Askew personal: insurance
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, documents, 1 photo and 1 small print. Ca. 40 items.
Box 40, Folder 8
Kirk Askew personal and business papers,
1937, 1960-ca. 1967
Scope and Content Note
Letters regard Askew conducting business in NYC as Durlacher Bros., ca. 1937; Letters and photographs regarding Askew donations
of art works to institutions, all dated 1960s.
Box 41
Kirk Askew personal Income Tax returns,
1929-1946
Box 41, Folder 1
Income tax returns, , 4 pp.
1929-1932
Box 41, Folder 2
Income tax return, , ca. 20 pp.
1937
Box 41, Folder 3
Income tax return, , ca. 15 pp.
1938
Box 41, Folder 4
Income tax return, , ca. 25 pp.
1939
Box 41, Folder 5
Income tax return, , ca. 30 pp.
1940
Box 41, Folder 6
Income tax return, , ca. 35 pp.
1941
Box 41, Folder 7
Income tax return, , ca. 35 pp.
1942
Box 41, Folder 8
Income tax return, , ca. 40 pp.
1943
Box 41, Folder 9
Income tax return, , ca. 40 pp.
1944
Box 41, Folder 10
Income tax return, , ca. 15 pp.
1945
Box 41, Folder 11
Income tax return, , 2 pp.
1946
Box 42
Publications relating to Durlacher, the Askews' collection and Durlacher artists
Box 42, Folder 1-6
Catalogs and journals
Scope and Content Note
Catalogs and journals received with the archive. Includes
Fortune magazine (Sep 1946) with article about New York City galleries, Durlacher among them;
Apollo magazine with article on Veronese painting with pencil annotation about painting in Askew's collection; Peter Blume catalogs;
sales and exhibit catalogs which reference Askew's collection and Durlacher stock; book about A. Everett "Chick" Austin. Other
publications received with the archive have been separated to the Reseach Library.