Eva Lee Gallery records, 1921-1973
Object Details
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- United States
- Physical Description
- 4 Linear feet
- Arrangement
- The collection is arranged as 5 series: Series 1: General Artist Files, 1923-1972 (Boxes 1-2; 1.3 linear feet) Series 2: Notebooks of Artist Files, 1929-1973 (Boxes 2-3; 1.4 linear feet) Series 3: Financial Artist Files, 1921-1970 (Boxes 3-4; 0.6 linear feet) Series 4: Eva Lee Gallery Consignment and Sales Artist Files, 1960-1972 (Box 4; 0.7 linear feet) Series 5: Photocopy of Korvettes Art Galleries Auction Catalog, 1970 (Box 4; 1 folder)
- Access Note / Rights
- Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
- Summary
- The scattered records of the New York contemporary American art Eva Lee Gallery measure 4.0 linear feet and date from 1921-1973. Artist files contain provenance notes, photographs of artwork, records of sales and consignments, exhibition catalogs from other galleries, and reference information on numerous contemporary artists, many represented by the gallery. There are also scattered letters and artwork from artists, scattered sales records of J.B. Neuman's New Art Circle Gallery, and a photocopy of an auction catalog for Korvettes Art Galleries in Douglastan, New York. A significant amount of information is found within the collection about Alexander Calder, Lovis Corinth, Salvadore Dali, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Robert Indiana, Harry Lieberman, Rene Magritte, John Marin, Lowell Nesbitt, Ben Shahn, Victor Vasarely, and Max Weber.
- Citation
- Eva Lee Gallery records, 1921-1973. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Additional Forms
- The bulk of the collection was digitized in 2015 and is available on the Archives of American Art's website. Materials which have not been scanned 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 scanned.
- Funding
- Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
- Use Note
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Biography Note
- Eva Lee was born circa 1924. She fled from Nazi Germany to the United States, becoming an art dealer and the owner of the Eva Lee Gallery, Inc. Located in Great Neck, New York, the Eva Lee Gallery specialized in modern art and handled the work of many prominent artists including Alexander Calder, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Marsden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, Ben Shahn, and Max Weber. The gallery was in operation through the first half of 1973.
- Eva Lee died suddenly on November 4, 1973 in Terre Haute, Indiana, while undergoing unspecified medical treatment.
- Language Note
- English .
- Provenance
- The Eva Lee Gallery records were donated in 1973 by Eva Lee through Eloise Spaeth, and in 1978 by Neal Richmond of the Paul Klapper Library, Queens College, Flushing, New York, who had been asked to disperse Lee's gallery records following her sudden death in 1973. A photocopy of the Korvettes Art Galleries Auction Catalog was donated by Eva Lee in 1970. Lee's records also contained financial files belonging to art dealer J. B. Neumann and his New Art Circle Gallery, whose estate she had worked on in 1966.
- Digitization Note
- This site provides access to the records of the Eva Lee Gallery in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2015, and total 4,839 images.
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
- Data Source
- Archives of American Art
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA_CollID)8866
- (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211051
- AAA_collcode_evalee
- Creator
- Eva Lee Gallery
- Subject
- Hartley, Marsden
- Simpson, Merton D. (Merton Daniel)
- Loewe, Frederick
- Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber)
- Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
- Valentin, Curt
- Mommer, Paul
- Feininger, Lyonel
- Lipchitz, Jacques
- Shahn, Ben
- Odets, Clifford
- Weber, Max
- Vasarely, Victor
- Indiana, Robert
- Christo
- Hopkins, John
- Lee, Eva
- Magritte, René
- Lieberman, Harry
- Corinth, Lovis
- Cornell, Joseph
- Dalí, Salvador
- Nesbitt, Lowell
- Grosz, George
- Albers, Josef
- Benn, Ben
- Benton, Thomas Hart
- Marin, John
- Calder, Alexander
- Korvettes
- New Art Circle
- Type
- Watercolor drawings
- Photographs
- Theme
- Art Gallery Records
- Art Market
- Topic
- Works of art
- Theme
- Art Gallery Records
- Art Market
- Record ID
- AAADCD_coll_211051
