Dealer Records:

Martin Birnbaum, Art dealer, New York

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Title
Martin Birnbaum, Art dealer

Record
Martin Birnbaum, papers 1862-1970
Partially microfilmed on nine microfilm reels: Reels N698, N698a, N698b, 108, and 1023-1027

Description
The papers include extensive correspondence, some relating to Birnbaum's position as partner in the art firm Scott & Fowles; also business and financial documents; legal documents; writings by Birnbaum; printed material; photographs of figures in the art world and of artworks; and three audio tapes dictated in 1952- two of the tapes refer to Birnbaum's manuscript book The Last Romantic.

The record is listed online in the Archives and Manuscripts section of the catalogue.

Location of Record 
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
Washington D.C. Research Center
Suite 2200
750 9th St. NW
Washington DC
Tel: +1 202 633 7940 (General queries)
or +1 202 633 7950 (Reference desk)
http://artarchives.si.edu/
Searchable catalogue: http://www.siris.si.edu/

Postal Address:
Reference Services/ILL
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Victor Building, Room 2200, MRC 937
Washington, DC 20013-7012

Opening Hours:
Microfilm Reference Room: 9-5, Monday-Friday; no appointment necessary, but researchers are advised to contact the archive in advance.
Oral History Tapes and Transcripts: 9-5, Monday-Friday; by appointment only.
Manuscript Reading Room - for use of original papers: 9:30-12 and 1-4:30, Monday-Friday; by appointment only.

Sources

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
<http://www.siris.si.edu/>, first accessed 17 October 2002.  Link updated 20 July 2007.

N.H. Yeide, K. Akinsha, A.L. Walsh (eds.), AAM Guide to Provenance Research, Washington 2001, p. 217.

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