The collection is arranged as 4 series.
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The Waddell Gallery records were donated in 1977 by the Estate of Richard Waddell, through Richard's father, Chauncey L. Waddell and brother, Theodore Waddell and in 1986 by Louise Tolliver Deutschman, former director of the gallery.
Waddell Gallery records, 1961-1978. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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.
The Waddell Gallery was established in 1963 by Richard Hughes Waddell in New York City, New York. The gallery represented contemporary American and European artists, notably Will Barnet. The gallery operated on 15 East 57th Street and later on 50 West 57th Street until 1973, one year before Waddell's untimely death in 1974. The gallery focused on representing contemporary American and European artists such as Will Barnet, Francois Dallegret, Edward Giobbi, Sheldon Machlin, and Paul Van Hoeydonck. Additionally, Waddell held benefits to support civil rights and served as a trustee of the Tuskegee Institute.
The records of the Waddell Gallery, a contemporary art gallery that was located in New York City, date from 1961 to 1978 and measure 6.5 linear feet. The records include administrative files, correspondence, artists' files, and sales and stock records.
Administrative files consist of employment applications, event guest lists, leases and agreements, printed materials, publicity, schedules, typography samples, and scattered photographs of Richard Waddell with curator Dorothy Miller, artists Francois Baschet and Will Barnet, and art dealer Howard Wise.
Correspondence is with art collectors, art critics, art writers, organizations, colleges and museums, publications, and others. Correspondents include Harry Abrams, Art Dealers Association, John Canaday, Finch College Museum of Art, Frank Lucien, Emily Genauer, Roy Neuberger, Howard Wise, Whitney Museum, among many others.
Artists' files also include correspondence, in addition to printed materials, shipping and loan information, photographs, exhibition material, and resumes. Files are found for Will Barnet, Bernard Baschet, John Clague, Toni Costa, Francois Dallegret, Frederick Franck, Edward Giobbi, Guy Harloff, John Healey, Piet Hein, Alain Jacquet, Howard Kanovitz, Aleksandra Kasuba, Takeshi Kawashima, Bob Liikala, Sheldon Machlin, Ronald Mallory, Robert Michel and Ella Bergmann, George Mueller, Nicola, Charles Perry, Earl Reiback, Gerald Scarfe, Nicolas Schöffer, Vera Simons, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Boris Vansier, and Tomi Ungerer, among others.
Sales and stock records include appraisal documentation, inventories, price lists, shipping information and index cards and bound volumes of sales records, including a sales record of Andrew Wyeth's
Scattered administrative files contain employment applications; guest lists for events; rental leases and agreements with Huberth and Huberth, the gallery's building management company, and Manhattan Storage Company; press releases and exhibition announcements; publicity; opening and closing schedules for local galleries; and typography samples. Photographs are of Richard Waddell with curator Dorothy Miller, artists Francois Baschet and Will Barnet, art dealers Howard Wise and Herman Elkon, and of the Artists for CORE exhibition.
Correspondence is with Harry Abrams, Roloff Beny, Gibson A. Danes, Edward Ozern, Howard Wise, and others, as well as with clients, galleries and museums, magazines, and businesses regarding publicity for artists and exhibitions, purchases of artwork, loans to exhibitions, permission requests for artwork reproductions, and artwork trades with other galleries. The file for art collectors contains correspondence with Robert Mayer, Malcom Forbes, J. Patrick Lannan, Frank Stanton of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Roy R. Neuberger, and Richard Brown Baker. The files for art dealers contain correspondence with European dealers.
Abrams, Harry
Adler, Sebastian
Lawler, Danny
Torczyner, Harry
Artists' files contain correspondence, printed materials, shipping and loan information, photographic materials, exhibition material; and resumes for artists represented by or of interest to the gallery. Will Barnet, Bernard Baschet, John Clague, Toni Costa, Francois Dallegret, Frederick Franck, Edward Giobbi, Guy Harloff, John Healey, Piet Hein, Alain Jacquet, Howard Kanovitz, Aleksandra Kasuba, Takeshi Kawashima, Bob Liikala, Sheldon Machlin, Ronald Mallory, Robert Michel and Ella Bergmann, George Mueller, Nicola, Charles Perry, Earl Reiback, Gerald Scarfe, Nicolas Schöffer, Vera Simons, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Boris Vansier, and Tomi Ungerer are among the artists with files.
Costa, Toni
Oversized material housed in OV 8.
Simons, Vera
Van Hoeydonck, Paul
Van Hoeydonck, Paul, Correspondence
Van Hoeydonck, Paul, Correspondence
Van Hoeydonck, Paul, "Fallen Astronaut"
Van Hoeydonck, Paul, Printed Material
Records for the gallery's sales and stock include files for appraisals, consignments, inventory lists and index cards, loans, price lists, and shipping forms. Of note is a sales record for Andrew Wyeth's
Includes 2 sets of index cards.
Includes 1 set of index cards.
Includes 1 set of index cards.
Includes 1 set of index cards.
Includes 2 bound books of annotated invoices.
Includes 5 bound books of annotated invoices.
Includes 2 bound books of annotated invoices.
Includes 3 bound books of annotated invoices.