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Sam and Ayala Zacks fonds
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Utrillo, Maurice (Also Valadon)

Invoice for oil painting described as a street scene [La Rue Norvins]; correspondence regarding an incorrect attribution of ownership in a monograph on the artist; correspondence relating to loans and reproductions.

Dealer files

Series contains correspondence, invoices, customs and shipping documents; shareholder reports (Here and Now Gallery), and a promissory note in the Carstairs Gallery file. Arrangement is alphabetical by dealer or gallery name

Abramov, Ayala Zacks

1951

Correspondence with Hadassah, the Bezalel National Museum, art dealers, the Victorian Order of Nurses, the New School for Social Research, Gabriel Barnett, MoMA, and others

1951-1953

Large file of personal correspondence with family regarding car and house problems in Israel and letters from friends, as well as the American Fund for Israel Institutions, Anna Ticho, Leo Schwartz, Raoul Dufy, John Rewald and other correspondence; loan receipts from MoMA

1953

Correspondence relating to the shipment of paper to Israel for the publication of a book by Edmond Fleg; signed offprint from David Katz; letters written to assist immigration of an Israeli family, record list from Sniderman's Music Hall; other personal correspondence.

Photographs

Series consists of photographs including slides and negatives, of past, present and potential works of art in the Zacks’ collection. They were stored in labeled envelopes containing numbers that corresponded to insurance lists. Archival envelopes have replaced the originals, with photocopies of the original inserted. The original numbering systems have been maintained and the files kept in the arrangement as they were found.

Abramov, Ayala Zacks

Personal records

Series consists of correspondence, drafts of speeches, press clippings, CVs, contents of a binder containing records of Mrs. Zacks’ personal art collection, membership certificates and material relating to her honourary doctorate and Order of Canada. Most files were specifically labeled as the property of Mrs. Zacks; the series also contains some files that fall outside the boundaries of the other series. These include a file of miscellaneous donations made by the Zacks Foundation, a file relating to the material in the Samuel J. Zacks fonds at the National Library and Archives of Canada and magazine articles about Mrs. Zacks. The files have been grouped together by subject, with one oversize box at the end

Abramov, Ayala Zacks

General correspondence

Series contains letters, invoices, shipping and customs forms, relating to the purchase of works of art, and social and personal correspondence. Four distinct sets of correspondence files have been grouped in this sub-series, following the original file labels: chronological art correspondence (Box 1), alphabetical art correspondence (Box 2), chronological [general] correspondence (Box 3), and alphabetical “Misc.”correspondence (Box 4).

Zacks, Sam

1948-1949

Correspondence with Hadassah, Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University, Women's International Zionist Organisation, and others, including a partial manuscript (pages 23-50) that appears to be a memoir of the Israeli army by S. Tischler; court document relating to a will.

Renoir

Correspondence relating to sepia drawing, "Mother and Child", including the Zacks' attempt to establish the provenance; customs and shipping documentation.

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