The Archives of American Art is very pleased to announce the online availability of the fully digitized Jacques Seligmann & Co. gallery records – 203 linear feet of archival records represented by 330, 749 digital files, making it the largest collection digitized by AAA.   This project was made possible by the visionary support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. 

One of the Archives’ most significant, largest, and frequently requested collections, the Jacques Seligmann & Co. gallery records date from 1904 to 1978  and are a rich primary source for scholars, curators, registrars, and others researching the history of art dealing in Europe and the United States in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century.  Seligmann was an important source of European contemporary art, old masters, sculpture, antiquities, and tapestries for American collectors, and a significant tastemaker in the United States. Nearly every major museum and art collector in the country was a client during the period when American museums and collectors were forming their great collections.   

The availability of the entirety of the Jacques Seligmann & Co. gallery records presented online in an attractive and easy to navigate contextual interface testifies to the full success of this project.  This resource represents a truly transformative archival digitization project that greatly benefits art historians and scholars, as well as the professional archival community by serving as a national model of innovation and efficiency for large scale archival digitization.  

Barbara D. Aikens

Chief, Collections Processing

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

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