BOOTHBY—ORLEANS GALLERY COLLECTION

 

 

(Mss 167)

 

 

Inventory

 

 

Earl K. Long Library

University of New Orleans

 

April 1981

 

 

Contents

 

 

Summary

 

Container List

 

Index Terms

 

Procedures for Requesting Special Collections Materials

 

 

 

Summary

 

 

Size:                          1.5 linear feet

 

Geographic

locations:                 New Orleans, Louisiana

 

Inclusive dates:      1957-1973

 

Summary:                Records of the Orleans Gallery, consisting of administrative records including financial records, minutes, membership lists, artist files, correspondence, and miscellany.

 

Related

collections               Orleans Gallery Collection (Mss 46), Johnson-Orleans Gallery Collection (Mss 54)

 

Source:                     Gift, April 1981

 

Access:                     No restrictions

 

Copyright:                Physical rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

 

Citation:                    Boothby—Orleans Gallery Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans

 

 

 

Container List

 

 

167-1              Bylaws (amendments to bylaws. 1964; undated bylaws; 1971 revision to bylaws with board members' ballots)

 

                        Financial records

 

167-2                          Annual statements of receipts and disbursements, 1962-1963, 1965-1971

 

167-3                          Income tax returns, 1966, 1968-1969

 

167-4                          Bank statements, 1972; sales reports (rough drafts, 1969-1971; receipts, 1971-1972)

 

                        Membership records

 

167-5                          Board of Directors lists with address for same, 1968-1971; list of board members with term expiration dates, 1971?

 

167-6                          Committee lists; membership lists; unidentified list of addresses

 

                        Minutes; meeting notices

 

                                    Board of Directors

 

167-7                                      Bound notebook; May 14, 1957-January 19, 1966

 

167-8                                      Looseleaf notebook; February 8, 1966-July 9, 1969

 

167-9                                      March 5, 1970-November 22, 1971, and notices calling board meetings, 1969, 1971, 1973

 

167-10                        Artists meetings and artist selection committee (rough notes in spiral notebook; includes rough drafts of letters, minutes, and miscellany), 1968

 

                        Case Files. Material covers artists (exhibiting and prospective) and includes resumes, advance press releases, correspondence, announcements, reviews, slides, photographs, lists of works, exhibits and prices, and promotional material.

 

167-25                        Material on possible guest artists

 

                                    Individual Artist Files

 

167-11                                    Richard Banks

167-12                                    Thomas Bradford II

167-13                                    Jay Calder

167-14                                    G. B. Dunbar

167-15                                    George J. Febres

167-16                                    Maelee Foster

167-17                                    Howard Jones

167-18                                    Rodelle Karpman

167-19                                    Jim Kelley

167-20                                    Martin Labord

167-21                                    Herman Mhire

167-22                                    Stigge

167-23                                    Bernard F. Voichysonk

167-24                                    Hugh Williams

 

167-27                        Exhibits and prices (lists of works from various exhibits and their prices)

 

167-26                        Promotional material for exhibits

 

167-28                        Exhibiting artists (names and addresses)

 

                                    Calendars with miscellaneous notations, 1971-1973; tentative schedules, 1970-1971

 

167-29                                    1970-1971

167-30                                    1972-1973

 

                        Correspondence (incoming and outgoing; covering complaints, gallery operation, shows, artists, professional art associations, Louisiana Arts Council, and includes material on companies offering services, opening announcements by other galleries, and closing of New Orleans Gallery), arranged chronologically: undated; October 18, 1968-May 1973

 

167-31                        Undated; October 18, 1968-July 14, 1969

167-32                        March 23, 1970-December 1971

167-33                        February 1972-December 1972

167-34                        January 11, 1973-May 1973

 

167-35            Miscellany (assorted miscellany, including business cards, xerographic clippings, stationery, notes, etc.), undated; 1973

 

 

 

Index Terms

 

 

Art galleries—Louisiana—New Orleans

Artists—Louisiana—New Orleans

Banks, Richard

Bradford, Thomas II

Calder, Jay

Dunbar, G. B.

Febres, George J.

Foster, Maelee

Jones, Howard

Karpman, Rodelle

Kelley, Jim

Labord, Martin

Mhire, Herman

Orleans Gallery (New Orleans, La.)

Stigge

Voichysonk, Bernard F.

Williams, Hugh