Guide to the Records of the Holdsworth Galleries, 1969-1996

Summary

Collection number:

MS 9153

Creator:

Holdsworth Galleries and Scheinberg, Gisella

Extent:

28.6 metres and (185 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 27 sound/av carriers)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Records of the Holdsworth Galleries, National Library of Australia, MS 9153, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Permission required for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The records cover the full 27-year history of the Galleries and document in detail its activities in dealing and promoting Australian art. There are some 7,000 files relating to the staging of exhibitions and the sale of art works. Separate files were created for each artist or exhibition. The files vary considerably in size, from one or two items to several files for an eminent artist. Each file can contain correspondence with the artist and with other galleries and clients, draft and published catalogues, invitations, guest lists, price lists (including marked-up catalogues of prices realised), sale documents, loan agreements, insurance arrangements, newspaper clippings and reviews, photographic prints and slides of artworks.

As well as the main run of titled files, there are miscellaneous files, numerous catalogues, invitations and press cuttings arranged mainly in dated files, and photographs

Arrangement:

The detailed inventory for Boxes 1-164 comprising files on artists, exhibitions, galleries and other clients is based on one provided by Mrs Scheinberg. Her two sequences - current and non-current files - have been merged into one roughly alphabetical one. The resulting arrangement in not in strict alphabetical order, partly because of the need to vary large and small files to fit the boxes, and partly because in the original order the occasional file was out of sequence or files on the same artist were separated (perhaps under a different version of the name). See references have been provided to help readers locate files in widely separate boxes.

Boxes 164-172 contain miscellaneous files variously dated 'to 1977', 'to 1984' and '1995+', and arranged alphabetically within these dates. All files have now been merged into one alphabetical one, followed by files with distinct titles.

Boxes 173-176 contain unsorted catalogues, invitations, press clippings.

Boxes 177-183 contain sorted catalogues, invitations, press clippings. These have been taken out of lever arch files and placed in archival folders in their original chronological order. Some of the files overlap two boxes. Further catalogues and invitations are in Box 25.

There is one folio package of oversized items.

Indexed terms

Names:

Scheinberg, Gisella

Conditions Governing Access:

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn460245).

Conditions Governing Use:

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Records of the Holdsworth Galleries, National Library of Australia, MS 9153, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

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