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Queen Square (Park Square) Gallery Leeds Archive

Archive Collection: MS 712 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Queen Square (Park Square) Gallery Leeds Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: MS 712

Date(s): 1964-1978

Language: English

Size and medium: 8206 items stored in 13 boxes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5792

Description

Mrs Sarah Gilchrist opened her commercial gallery in Queen Square, Leeds, in 1964; the enterprise flourished and she moved it to new premises in Park Square, Leeds, in 1968. She retired in 1978 though the gallery has continued under different aegis. In 1981 she was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Leeds and in the summer of 1984 through the timely intervention of Mr Stephen Chaplin of the University's Department of Fine Art, she most kindly agreed to give the accumulated archive of her galleries up to the date of her retirement to the Brotherton Library. The archive illustrates the relationship between artist and gallery, and between gallery and collector; it also illuminates taste and patronage in Yorkshire in the third quarter of the 20th century.


Part I: Collective exhibitions: correspondence, catalogues, notes, financial papers, photographs, price lists, and other material; Part II: One-man exhibitions: correspondence, catalogues, notes, price lists, curricula vitae, and other material; Part III: Picture loan scheme: deeds of agreement, correspondence, loan record sheets, and invoices; Part IV: Miscellaneous files: mainly correspondence, relating amoongst others to 'Art Monthly', Christie's Contemporary Art, Editions Alecto Ltd., Leeds College of Art, Leeds Fine Art Club, Leeds Musical Festival, 1972, and the closure and reconstitution of the Gallery, 1967.

Biography or history

The Queen Square Gallery was founded by Sarah Gilchrist in 1964. Gilchrist continued as the director of the gallery until her retirement in 1978, after which date the gallery continued under different management. The gallery moved to new premises in Park Square in 1968.

Provenance

Gift of Mrs Sarah Gilchrist through the good offices of Stephen Chaplin.

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