Milestone 2. The first fund: Witcomb

In mid-1993, the only surviving set of documentation from Witcomb, the country's first art gallery, was acquired. This archive was the basis and catalyst for the initiation of Fundación Espigas and its documentation center.

The Witcomb Gallery Fund consists of 72 bound volumes, 2 albums and 5 boxes containing various pamphlets documenting its institutional history. In 2009, thanks to an agreement with the Centro de Estudios Históricos e Información Parque de España, the archive was the first and only Espigas archive to be transferred to microfilm.

1. Microfilm rolls from the Witcomb collection. Photograph by Cecilia Gallardo (CIAP-CONICET/UNSAM).

2. Commemorative stamp of the Witcomb Gallery Centennial (1868-1968). Reproduces La alfarera by Ramón Gómez Cornet.

3. Anonymous, [ca. 1940]. Façade of the Witcomb Gallery. Witcomb Gallery Fund.

4. Invitation to Antonio Berni's exhibition at the Witcomb Gallery, Buenos Aires, 1961.