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Pollock Gallery fonds
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Pollock Gallery fonds

  • LA.SC154
  • Fonds
  • 1916–1982, predominant 1962–1981

Fonds consists of administrative records of the Pollock Gallery in Toronto during the period 1967–1982; gallery correspondence; files on gallery artists and others; photographs of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle; records of gallery owner Jack Pollock; and material related to gallery artist Norval Morrisseau and to a book about him co-written by Jack Pollock.

Pollock Gallery (Toronto, Ont.)

Book sales

File contains a notebook recording purchasers of the book, with order forms and other material.

Publisher's statements

File contains a royalty statement and statements of account between Methuen Publications and the Pollock Gallery relating to the publication of the book.

Administrative records

Series comprises records of the management of the Pollock Gallery during various periods of its activity
between 1967 and 1982, including records of transactions with clients and other art galleries; financial
records; files on works of art consigned to the gallery for exhibition and sale by artists, or for resale by
collectors; records of consignment of works to rental services of art museums; accounting for art gallery
purchases from art dealers and artists; and related material.

Pollock Gallery (Toronto, Ont.)

Office records

File contains minutes of a meeting (1981) regarding gallery policy on contracts with artists; a notebook with names, telephone numbers and gallery events; notes on projects, and other material.

Bank records

Item is a deposit book for a business account of the gallery at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, showing transactions between August and December of 1979.

Accounts payable: artists

File contains photocopies of financial records showing balances owing to or from gallery artists, and similar records, from January, 1982 shortly after the closing of the Pollock Gallery.

Correspondence

Series comprises correspondence regarding the business affairs of the Pollock Gallery and other art-related matters between 1962 and 1982, including business (and some personal) correspondence to Jack Pollock; a file of letters notifying clients, artists and others of the impending closure of the gallery in 1981; and other correspondence.

Pollock Gallery (Toronto, Ont.)

Art evaluations

File contains carbon copies of letters from 1980-1982 providing evaluation of works of art for insurance purposes, and similar correspondence.

Artist files

Series comprises files of materials on artists whose works were exhibited by the Pollock Gallery in the 1960s and 1970s, together with artists who were applying to the Pollock Gallery for representation, and others. The files include photographs of paintings, prints and sculpture; artist biographies; chronologies of exhibitions; exhibition announcements; newspaper reviews, miscellaneous photocopied materials, and related items. Further records of artists associated with the Pollock Gallery will be found in series 4, 6 and 7.

Pollock Gallery (Toronto, Ont.)

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