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Stephen Wirtz Gallery records

Archives of American Art

Object Details

Creator
Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Names
Wirtz, Connie
Wirtz, Stephen
Provenance
Donated 2019 by the Stephen Wirtz Gallery via Stephen and Connie Wirtz, gallery owners.
Creator
Stephen Wirtz Gallery
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Stephen Wirtz Gallery records
Sponsor
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
Summary
The Stephen Wirtz Gallery records measure 29.0 linear feet and date from 1952 to 2016. The records tell the history of the San Franciso gallery through artist files, exhibition files, printed material consisting of exhibition annoucnements and catalogs, guestbooks from exhibitions between 2003 and 2008, and photographs of exhibition installations and snapshots of artists and visitors in the gallery.
Biographical / Historical
Stephen Wirtz Gallery was established by Stephen and Connie Wirtz in 1976. The gallery was located in San Francisco, California, and it initially exhibited Art Deco works before shifting more towards photography and landscape art. Some of the notable artists to exhibit at the gallery include: Larry Saunders, Deborah Oropallo, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Lucy Puls, and Kathryn Spence. The gallery closed in 2014.
Function
Art galleries, Commercial -- California
Extent
29 Linear feet
Date
1952-2016
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.stepgall
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Citation
Stephen Wirtz Gallery records, 1952-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into five series. Series 1: Artist Files, 1952-2016 (26.0 linear feet; Boxes 1-26) Series 2: Exhibition Files, 1987-2012 (1.2 linear feet; Boxes 27-28) Series 3: Printed Material, 1977-2016 (1.6 linear feet; Box 28-29) Series 4: Guestbooks, 2003-2008 (0.1 linear feet; Box 29) Series 5: Photographic Material, ca 1989-2003 (0.1 linear feet; Box 29)
Processing Information
The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Ricky Gomez in 2021.
Rights
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.
Scope and Contents
The Stephen Wirtz Gallery records measure 29.0 linear feet and date from 1952 to 2016. The records tell the history of the San Francisco gallery through artist files, exhibition files from 1987 to 2012, printed material consisting of exhibition annoucnements and catalogs, guestbooks from exhibitions between 2003 and 2008, and photographs of exhibition installations and snapshots of artists and visitors in the gallery. Artist files consist of correspondence between the artist and the gallery, artist resumes and statements, professional activities such as commissions and exhibitions at the gallery or organized by the gallery, and registrar materials such as inventories and loan forms. Also included are some financial material such as invoices and price lists, exhibition announcements and reviews, and photographs of artwork and exhibition installations. Some of the artists represented by the gallery include: Larry Saunders, Deborah Oropallo, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Rachel Weeks, Kathryn Spence, and Marc Katano. Exhibition files consist correspondence, loan forms, press releases, and exhibition announcements for exhibitions put on by the gallery betwween 1987 and 2012. Some of the more notable exhibitions include "Wax and Lead," "Framed," and "Paper Thin." Printed material consists primarily of binders of exhibition announcements and some exhibition catalogs. Guestbooks consist of four guestbooks for exhibitions at the gallery between 2003 and 2008. Photographic material consists of photographs of exhibition installations, and photographs of visitors and artists inside the gallery.
Restrictions
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1596324718949-1596324718951-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw926e65bc9-69c4-45a5-9c98-5ab20bd953e4

In the Collection

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  • "Reconsidered Materials" Exhibition

  • Xeroxes, Artwork

  • Correspondence

  • Gyorgy Kepes

  • Monique Knowlton Gallery

  • Reviews

  • Exhibition

  • Pomodoro Dinner Event

  • "Haiti"

  • Castaneda/ Reiman

  • Correspondence, Jerry Ganz

  • Vignelli Layout for Abrams Book

  • Los Angeles Bicentennial

  • Photographs, Columbus Museum Exhibition

  • "Contemporary American Painters" Exhibition

  • Exhibition Announcements

  • Institute of Contemporary Art

  • Jerry Ganz

  • "Immodest Gazes" Exhibition

  • Hammond House

  • University of Hawaii at Manoa

  • Resume

  • "00/01" Exhibition

  • Fausto Melotti

  • "Harold Paris: Kaddish for the Little Children" Exhibition

  • "Arnaldo Pomodoro's Pepsico Columns Public Sculpture" by Sam Hunter

  • "Bad Girls West" Exhibition

  • Invoices

  • "Icons in Contemporary Art" Exhibition

  • "The Familial Gaze" Exhibition

  • Photographs, "Cubo"

  • "Pacific Light" Exhibition

  • "Mind and Matter: New American Abstractions" Exhibition

  • Will

  • Mills College Lectures on Contemporary Art

  • "Desires of the Heart: Selected Contemporary Graphics" Exhibition

  • Recontre Internationales de la Photogaphie

  • Reviews

  • Gregory Amenoff

  • Promotional Letter

  • "Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties" Exhibition

  • "Catherine Wagner: Cross Sections" Exhibition

  • Correspondence

  • "Outside/Inside" Exhibition

  • Price Lists

  • Miscellaneous

  • Burnett Miller Gallery

  • Richard Green Gallery

  • "Big Shots/Little Shots" Exhibition

  • Transparencies, Oklahoma Column

  • Photographs, Artwork

  • Richmond Art Center

  • Lemmons Contemporary

  • Instituto Italiano di Cultura

  • Resume

  • Photographs, "Dischetto" Piece

  • Censorship

  • Exhibition Catalogs

  • Correspondence

  • "Photographs and Documents 1975-1985" Exhibition Catalog

  • Los Angeles Art Festival

  • Memorial Union Art Gallery

  • "90 Years: Nurturing the New" Exhibition

  • Photographs, Studio

  • Traveling Exhibition

  • "43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting" Exhibition

  • Experimental Workshop

  • Mail Art Interview

  • Chrysler Museum

  • Photographs, Metal Boxes

  • Lucy Puls

  • Miscellaneous

  • Babcock Galleries

  • "Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Consider the DeYoung" Exhibition

  • Evans Relief Project

  • "Alternativity, The Other Side of Christmas" Exhibition

  • "Group Exhibition: California Painters"

  • Photographs, "Disco" Piece

  • Zolla Lieberman Gallery

  • "Rich and Poor" Exhibition

  • "Drawings III" Exhibition

  • Correspondence

  • "Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle"

  • White Bird Gallery

  • Oakland Museum of California

  • Correspondence

  • Photographs, Artwork

  • G.R. N'Namdi Gallery

  • "Forte di Belvedere" Exhibition

  • Miscellaneous

  • "ExtraOrdinary: American Places in Recent Photography" Exhibition

  • Contact Sheets, Portraits

  • Crown Point Press

  • Exhibition Announcements

  • David Mamet Catalog Project

  • Clippings

  • Correspondence

  • Photographs, "Torso" Piece

  • "Larry Sultan: The Valley" Exhibition

  • "Pigeons" Piece

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