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1925
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Jane Wade (b. 1925) Art dealer; New York. Employed by Curt Valentin Gallery and Fine Arts Associates, Inc.AAA: Papers, 1903–71, from Wade's work at the Curt Valentin Gallery and Fine Arts Associates, (English)
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Jane Wade (b. 1925) Art dealer; New York. Employed by Curt Valentin Gallery and Fine Arts Associates, Inc.AAA: Papers, 1903–71, from Wade's work at the Curt Valentin Gallery and Fine Arts Associates, Inc. Includes: Valentin's correspondence, with letters from Gerhard Marcks, Henry Kahnweiler, Lyonel Feininger, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, E. L. Kirchner, and others; letters to Wade from Alexander Calder, Marino Marini, David Smith, Will Grohmann, Henry Moore, Quappi Beckmann, and others; correspondence between David Smith and Otto Gerson of Fine Arts Associates; lists of Valentin's exhibitions and Picasso items sold; clippings about Valentin and photographs. (English)
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Curt Valentin (1902-1952) was a modern art dealer of New York, New York. Born in Germany, Valentin emigrated to the United States in 1937 where he opened the Buchholz Gallery on West Forty-sixth Street in New York city. After two years he moved the gallery to West Fifty-seventh Street and in 1951 it was renamed the Curt Valentin Gallery. Jane Wade was Valentin's assistant and continued to help run the Curt Valentin Gallery after Valentin's sudden death in 1952 until it closed in 1955. She then worked for Otto Gerson at Fine Arts Associates, where she helped to handle the works of some of the artists previously represented by Valentin (English)
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Jane Wade (b. 1925) Art dealer; New York. Employed by Curt Valentin Gallery and Fine Arts Associates, Inc.AAA: Papers, 1903–71, from Wade's work at the Curt Valentin Gallery and Fine Arts Associates, Inc. Includes: Valentin's correspondence, with letters from Gerhard Marcks, Henry Kahnweiler, Lyonel Feininger, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, E. L. Kirchner, and others; letters to Wade from Alexander Calder, Marino Marini, David Smith, Will Grohmann, Henry Moore, Quappi Beckmann, and others; correspondence between David Smith and Otto Gerson of Fine Arts Associates; lists of Valentin's exhibitions and Picasso items sold; clippings about Valentin and photographs. (English)
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Valentin died of a heart attact in Aug. 1954, while visiting Marino Marini in Italy. One year later the gallery was liquidated and some of the work from it was sold at a Parke-Bernet auction in Nov. 1955. Several of Valentin's artists, as well as his assistant, Jane Wade, joined the Otto Gerson Gallery, which, after Gerson's death in 1962, became the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. (English)
Jane Wade, Ltd. (American gallery, 20th century)Note: Several of Valentin's artists, as well as his assistant, Jane Wade, joined the Otto Gerson Gallery, which, after Gerson's death in 1962, became the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. (English)
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The Jane Wade papers regarding art dealer and New York gallery owner Curt Valentin, measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1903-1971. This small collection consists of papers donated by former Curt Valentin Gallery employee Jane Wade, which provide scattered documentation of Valentin's life and exhibitions at the Buchholz Gallery (renamed Curt Valentin Gallery in 1951) including biographical material, correspondence from artists Valentin represented, writings and notes, lists documenting clients, exhibitions held, and artwork by Picasso sold by the gallery, clippings of obituaries for Valentin, and a complete set of Buchholz Gallery exhibition catalogs from 1937-1948.Biographical/Historical NoteCurt Valentin (1902-1952) was a modern art dealer of New York, New York. Born in Germany, Valentin emigrated to the United States in 1937 where he opened the Buchholz Gallery on West Forty-sixth Street in New York city. After two years he moved the gallery to West Fifty-seventh Street and in 1951 it was renamed the Curt Valentin Gallery. Jane Wade was Valentin's assistant and continued to help run the Curt Valentin Gallery after Valentin's sudden death in 1952 until it closed in 1955. She then worked for Otto Gerson at Fine Arts Associates, where she helped to handle the works of some of the artists previously represented by Valentin. (English)
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While most artists tend to remain at Marlborough, there is a large turnover in the staff. “Lloyd is overbearing and despotic,” said Jane Wade, an exMarlborough employe. “He told me to wear black, white or beige so that my dress would harmonize with the visual concept of the gallery. But when he wants to be charming he's all Viennese with cream on top —on top of a Prussian general's spiked helmet.”Like several other dynamic Marlborough employes, David McKee left the gallery recently and opened his own, to handle young unkown artists.Most Marlborough alumni, however, including Miss Wade, have become successful in their own right. “We're like the Benny Goodman band that broke up in the 30's and formed their own combo,” says Stephen Weil, a lawyer who worked at Marlborough and is now at the Whitney Museum. (English)