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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.)

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.)

Artists accounts

File contains a partial ledger of gallery accounts payable and receivable between 1967 and 1981, recording sales of works of art, charges for framing and other services provided or received. The records were kept alphabetically by artist, art gallery, or company providing service.

Consignment

File contain records of consignments of works of art by the gallery to rental services in art museums in Toronto, Hamilton, London (Ont.), Montreal, Oshawa, and elsewhere in Canada, and to (commercial) art galleries in Canada and the U.S. between 1976 and 1981. Records are sorted alphabetically by museum or gallery.

PADAC

File contains copies of minutes of meetings of the Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada, and related correspondence between 1977 and 1981, with the first issue of the association bulletin. Records are sorted chronologically.

Consignment from private collectors

File contains copies of receipts for works of art placed on consignment with the gallery between 1977 and 1981 for resale by private collectors; with photos of paintings by Jack Bush, and Norval Morrisseau; and related material. File includes 1 photographic print and 4 slides (photographs).

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.

Consignment forms

File contains undated consignment forms (largely incomplete) used to record titles, measurements and other details of works received from artists, probably in the 1960s and 1970s, together with photocopies of consignment forms, including some duplicates.

International graphics, multiples

File contains records of purchase and consignment of multiples (with some originals) by the gallery between 1970 and 1979, including a list of works purchased in 1971

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