Archives of American Art
B.R. Kornblatt Gallery records
B. R. Kornblatt Gallery
AAA.brkornbl
Archival Resource Key
4.1 Linear feet
1971-1992
The records of the B. R. Kornblatt Gallery of Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. measure 4.1 linear feet and date from 1971 to 1992. The collection consists primarily of artists' files along with a few exhibition files and sales records.
The collection is in English.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged as 3 series.
Missing Title
- Series 1: Exhibition Files, 1981-1990 (0.5 linear feet; Box 1)
- Series 2: Artists' Files, 1971-1992 (3.0 linear feet; Box 1-4, OV 5)
- Series 3: Sales Records, 1988-1992 (0.5 linear feet; Box 4)
Conditions Governing Access
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Terms of Use
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The B.R. Kornblatt Gallery records were donated by Barbara R. Kornblatt in 1992.
Processing Information
The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Sarah Mundy in 2016 with funding from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care Pool Fund, using accelerated processing strategies implemented by the Archives to increase information about and access to more of our collections. For this collection, accelerated processing included arrangement to the series, subseries and folder levels, adhering to the creator's original arrangement as much as possible. Generally, folder contents were simply verified with the original folder titles, but items within folders were not arranged further. All materials were rehoused in archival folders and boxes for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed.
Preferred Citation
B. R. Kornblatt Gallery records, 1971-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Biographical / Historical
Barbara R. Kornblatt established the B. R. Kornblatt Gallery in 1975 on 326 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The gallery specialized in American painting, sculpture, and works on paper. In 1980, Kornblatt moved the gallery to 406 Seventh Street, N.W. in Washington, D. C. where it became the mainstay of downtown commercial art galleries. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the gallery began feeling the effects of the economic recession, and then suffered a fire in the building. Kornblatt closed the gallery in 1991.
Scope and Contents
The records of the B. R. Kornblatt Gallery of Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. measure 4.1 linear feet and date from 1971 to 1992. The collection consists primarily of artists' files along with a few exhibition files and sales records.
Exhibition files are found for the Chicago International Art Exposition (1983-1988), the International Sculpture '90 (1990) exhibition, and exhibitions of African art. Artists' files contain correspondence, photographs and slides, resumes, and financial and printed material for numerous artists associated with the gallery or of interest to the gallery, including Mel Chin, Jerry Clapsaddle, Gene Davis, John Ferguson, Wolf Kahn, Willem de Looper, Helen Frankenthaler, Ronnie Landfield, Manuel Neri, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Karl Rosenberg, Amalie Rothschild, Frank Stella, Michael Todd, John Van Alstine, and others. The collection also contains sales records.
Gallery records
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Photographs
Art, African -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Art galleries, Commercial -- Washington (D.C.)
Art galleries, Commercial -- Maryland
Rosenberg, Karl
Van Alstine, John, 1952-
Stella, Frank
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
Rothschild, Amalie, 1916-
Todd, Mike, 1935-
Motherwell, Robert
Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
Ferguson, John, 1939-
Neri, Manuel, 1930-
Kahn, Wolf, 1927-
Landfield, Ronnie, 1947-
Kornblatt, Barbara R. (Barbara Rodbell), 1931-
Chicago International Art Exposition
LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
Clapsaddle, Jerry, 1941-
Chin, Mel, 1951-
De Looper, Willem
Davis, Gene, 1920-1985
Exhibition Files
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
0.5 Linear feet
Box 1
1981-1990
Scope and Contents
Exhibition files are for the Chicago International Art Exposition (1983-1988), the International Sculpture '90 (1990) exhibition, and exhibitions of African art.
Chicago International Art Exposition (1983-1988)
Archival Resource Key
1981-1988
1
1-7
International Sculpture '90 (1990), Presented by The International Sculpture Center
Archival Resource Key
1990
1
8
Exhibitions of African Art
Archival Resource Key
1987-1991
1
9-10
Artists' Files
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
3.1 Linear feet
Boxes 1-4, OV 5
1971-1992
Scope and Contents
Files for artists represented by or of interest to the gallery contain correspondence with clients and artists, mockups for catalogs and announcements, photographs, resumes and artist statements, slides, price lists, sales and loan documents, and printed material. Among the artists represented are Mel Chin, Jerry Clapsaddle, Gene Davis, John Ferguson, Agnes Jacobs, Wolf Kahn, Willem de Looper, Helen Frankenthaler, Ronnie Landfield, Roger Laux Nelson, Manuel Neri, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, Karl Rosenberg, Amalie Rothschild, Frank Stella, Michael Todd, John Van Alstine, James Voshell, and others.
Acconci, Vito
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
1
11
Allen-Efstathiou, Judith
Archival Resource Key
1980-1991
1
12
Allen, Katherine
Archival Resource Key
1980-1987
1
13
Avedon, Richard
Archival Resource Key
1975-1978
1
14
Bochner, Mel
Archival Resource Key
1989
1
15
Brady, Carolyn
Archival Resource Key
1983-1984
1
16
Brassaï
Archival Resource Key
1976
1
17
Buren, Daniel
Archival Resource Key
1989-1990
1
18
Calaway, Loren
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
1
19
Chia, Sandro
Archival Resource Key
1982-1988
1
20
Chin, Mel
Archival Resource Key
1990-1991
1
21
Clapsaddle, Jerry
Archival Resource Key
1986-1990
1
22
Clemons, Susan
Archival Resource Key
1984-1988
1
23
Cooper, Ruffin
Archival Resource Key
1982
1
24
Crile, Susan
Archival Resource Key
1989-1990
1
25
Davis, Gene
Archival Resource Key
1988-1991
1
26-27
De Looper, Willem
Archival Resource Key
1979-1992
1
28-30
El-Hanani, Jacob
Archival Resource Key
1989
2
1
Ferguson, John
Archival Resource Key
1976-1991
2
2-4
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in OV 5
Ferrara, Jackie
Archival Resource Key
1986-1988
2
5
Frankenthaler, Helen
Archival Resource Key
1972-1986
2
6
Freund, Gisèle
Archival Resource Key
1975-1977
2
7
Gastini, Marco
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
2
8
Greenleaf, Ken
Archival Resource Key
1977-1984
2
9
Jacobs, Agnes
Archival Resource Key
1988-1991
2
10
Jacobs, Jim
Archival Resource Key
1984-1988
2
11
Jackson-Jarvis, Martha
Archival Resource Key
circa 1991
2
12
Kahn, Wolf
Archival Resource Key
1972-1992
2
13-15
Keerl, Bayat
Archival Resource Key
1987-1990
2
16
Kimler, Wesley
Archival Resource Key
1985-1987
2
17
Knipp, Chris
Archival Resource Key
1981-1990
2
18
Landfield, Ronnie
Archival Resource Key
1975-1990
2
19-21
LeFevre, Gregg
Archival Resource Key
1983-1986
2
22
Lerner, Fran
Archival Resource Key
1980-1984
2
23
Le Witt, Sol
Archival Resource Key
1975-1991
2
24-25
Lichtenstein, Roy
Archival Resource Key
1985-1987
3
1
Lyons, Mitch
Archival Resource Key
1984-1990
3
2
McLaughlin, John
Archival Resource Key
circa 1980
3
3
Mason, Emily
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
3
4
Massey, Allyn
Archival Resource Key
1991
3
5
Miller, Howard
Archival Resource Key
1979-1983
3
6
Milloff, Mark
Archival Resource Key
1978-1981
3
7
Moore, Henry
Archival Resource Key
circa 1989
3
8
Motherwell, Robert
Archival Resource Key
1975-1987
3
9
Myello, Linda
Archival Resource Key
1980-1982
3
10
Natkin, Robert
Archival Resource Key
1976-1980
3
11
Neill, Christine
Archival Resource Key
1987-1991
3
12
Nelson, Roger Laux
Archival Resource Key
1975-1989
3
13-14
Neri, Manuel
Archival Resource Key
1976-1991
3
15
Nevelson, Louise
Archival Resource Key
1977-1988
3
16
Noe, Jerry
Archival Resource Key
1981-1987
3
17
Photographers
Archival Resource Key
1979-1991
3
18
Post, Jerry
Archival Resource Key
1976-1979
3
19
Rabin, Kenneth
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
3
20
Rauschenberg, Robert
Archival Resource Key
1980-1991
3
21-23
Rauschenberg, Robert, Cardbirds Book
Archival Resource Key
1971
3
24
Raymond, Lilo
Archival Resource Key
1975-1976
3
25
Reginato, Peter
Archival Resource Key
1975-1981
3
26
Renteria, Philip
Archival Resource Key
1976-1979
3
27
Rivers, Larry
Archival Resource Key
1981-1990
3
28
Rosenberg, Karl
Archival Resource Key
1978-1989
3
29-30
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in OV 5
Rothschild, Amalie
Archival Resource Key
1975-1983
4
1
Royston, Curt
Archival Resource Key
1987-1988
4
2
Saba, Richard
Archival Resource Key
1986-1987
4
3
Silbert, Patricia Allott
Archival Resource Key
1989-1990
4
4
Stackhouse, Robert
Archival Resource Key
1980-1991
4
5-6
Stella, Frank
Archival Resource Key
1975-1988
4
7-8
Todd, Michael
Archival Resource Key
1982-1988
4
9-10
Van Alstine, John
Archival Resource Key
1983-1988
4
11
Voshell, James
Archival Resource Key
1975-1985
4
12-13
Westring, Dana
Archival Resource Key
1984-1985
4
14
Oversized material for Ferguson, John from Box 2, Folders 2-4
Archival Resource Key
1976-1991
OV 5
Oversized material for Rosenberg, Karl from Box 3, Folders 29-30
Archival Resource Key
1978-1989
OV 5
Sales Records
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
0.5 Linear feet
Box 4
1988-1992
Scope and Contents
Found here are annotated invoices for sales of artwork to individual clients and galleries.
Invoices, A-C
Archival Resource Key
1988-1992
4
15
Invoices, D-H
Archival Resource Key
1988-1992
4
16
Invoices, I-M
Archival Resource Key
1988-1992
4
17
Invoices, N-R
Archival Resource Key
1988-1992
4
18
Invoices, S-Z
Archival Resource Key
1988-1992
4
19