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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 01-092

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Deputy Director

Exhibition Records, 1985-2000

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Deputy Director
Title:Exhibition Records
Dates:1985-2000
Quantity:5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 01-092
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of materials that document the exhibition research, planning and execution activities of the Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). They also document the Deputy Director's interaction within and among the offices under her direction, as well as outside contacts and dealings. These records were created and maintained by Carolyn Kinder Carr, Deputy Director, 1991-. Among other duties, the Deputy Director serves as the Gallery's chief art historian and it is in this capacity that she curates exhibitions. Carr came from the Akron Art Institute to the National Portrait Gallery in 1984 as the Assistant Director for Collections. When the Assistant Director for History and Public Programs left the Gallery (c.1991), reorganization of the Gallery's upper administration took place. At that time, Carr was named Deputy Director and absorbed two programmatic responsibilities of the former Assistant Director for History and Public Programs. The service responsibilities (publications and the library) of the, now defunct, office were absorbed by the Assistant Director for Administration, later renamed the Associate Director for Administration (c. 1992). In her capacity as Deputy Director, Carr has direct responsibility for all the Curatorial Departments (Painting and Sculpture, Prints and Drawings, and Photographs); the Department of History; Office of the Registrar; the Center for Electronic Research and Outreach; the Conservation Department; and, the Department of Education. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, slides, photographs, reports, research reference files, obituaries, press packets, typescripts of catalogs, scripts, and related material. Four exhibition subjects mentioned in the files are noted as "canceled" and not listed in the official list of NPG exhibitions, they are: the Daguillard Collection, Oak Hill Cemetery, Uriah Levy, and Court Portraiture in the Reign of Phillip II. There is also a large group of files devoted to a proposed exhibition that was never produced, it was: "Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham."

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This accession consists of records that document the exhibition research, planning, and execution activities of the Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). Records also document the Deputy Director's interaction within and among the offices under her direction, as well as outside contacts and dealings. These records were created and maintained by Carolyn Kinder Carr, Deputy Director, 1991- . Among other duties, the Deputy Director serves as the Gallery's chief art historian. It is in this capacity that she curates exhibitions.

Carr came from the Akron Art Institute to the National Portrait Gallery in 1984 as the Assistant Director for Collections. When the Assistant Director for History and Public Programs left the Gallery (c. 1991), reorganization of the Gallery's upper administration took place. At that time, Carr was named Deputy Director and absorbed two programmatic responsibilities of the former Assistant Director for History and Public Programs. The service responsibilities (publications and the library) of the, now defunct, office were absorbed by the Assistant Director for Administration, later renamed the Associate Director for Administration (c. 1992).

In her capacity as Deputy Director, Carr has direct responsibility for all the Curatorial Departments (Painting and Sculpture, Prints and Drawings, and Photographs); the Department of History; Office of the Registrar; the Center for Electronic Research and Outreach; the Conservation Department; and the Department of Education.

Materials include correspondence, memoranda, slides, photographs, reports, research reference files, obituaries, press packets, typescripts of catalogs, scripts, and related material.

Four exhibition subjects mentioned in the files are noted as "canceled" and not listed in the official list of NPG exhibitions, they are: the Daguillard Collection, Oak Hill Cemetery, Uriah Levy, and Court Portraiture in the Reign of Phillip II. There is also a large group of files devoted to a proposed exhibition that was never produced, it was: Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-092, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of the Deputy Director, Exhibition Records

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Container List

Box 1

Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture, 11/22/1985-02/16/1986

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Gaston Lachaise Catalogue

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William Edward West Catalogue

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American Colonial Portraits, 1700-1776, 10/09/1987-10/10/1988

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Masterpieces from the Gripsholm Castle, 04/12/1988-07/10/1988

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Champions of TIME

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On the Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting, 10/7/1988-01/02/1989

Box 1 of 5

Portraits of the American Law, 10/13/1989-01/15/1990

Box 1 of 5

To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss, 10/27/1989-04/01/1990

Box 1 of 5

Irving Penn: Master Images, 03/30/1990-08/19/1990

Box 1 of 5

Irving Penn: Master Images Catalogue

Box 1 of 5

Photographic Treasures from NPG, 03/30/1990-08/19/1990

Box 1 of 5

Oliphant's Presidents: 25 Years of Caricature, 04/06/1990-11/25/1991

Box 1 of 5

Icons of Inventions: American Patent Models, 05/04/1990-06/03/1990

Box 1 of 5

The Five Hearts: A Washington Friendship, 06/09/1990-11/04/1990

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Working for TIME: The Covers of Robert Vickrey, 06/09/1990-?

Box 1 of 5

Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew Jackson, 11/9/1990-1/13/1991

Box 1 of 5

Camera Portraits, 1839-1989, 12/14/1990-2/18/1991

Box 1 of 5

Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture, 04/05/1991-08/11/1991

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Annie Leibovitz Photographs, 1970-1990, 04/19/1991-08/11/1991

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Group Portraits: The First American Avant-Garde, 05/10/1991-10/27/1991

Box 1 of 5

Lincoln's Contemporaries: Photographs by Mathew Brady, 02/01/1992-07/12/1992

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Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic, 11/01/1991-01/08/1992

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Time Covers the War: Personalities from World War II, 12/07/1991-05/17/1992

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Collecting Portrait Prints: The Washington Print Club Biennial, 12/17/1991-05/17/1992

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The Levy-Franks Family Colonial Portraits, 02/01/1992-05/31/1992

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Portrait Posters, 03/27/1992-08/16/1992

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Arnold Newman's Americans, 04/15/1992-8/16/1992

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Arnold Newman's Americans Catalogue

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Notable Heritage: Five Centuries of Portrait from the Hosokawa Family, 07/24/1992-11/29/1992

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Noble Heritage Catalogue

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The Spirit of Party: Hamilton and Jefferson at Odds, 9/11/1992-2/15/1993

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The Spirit of the Party Catalogue

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In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860, 11/06/1992-2/15/1993

Box 1 of 5

The Telling Image: Portrait Photographs from AAA, 1/22/1993-6/6/1993

Box 1 of 5

The Family 1976: Richard Avedon's Portraits for Rolling Stone, 1/22/1993-6/6/1993

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Contemporary Self-Portraits from the James Goode Collection, 7/30/1993-12/5/1993

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Brushes with the Literary: Marcella Comes Winslow, 8/13/1993-12/5/1993

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20th Century Self-Portraits from the NPG Collection, 10/22/1993-2/13/1994

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Vanderzee, Photographer (1886-1983), 10/22/1993-2/13/1994

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John Vanderzee Symposium

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John Vanderzee Photographer Catalogue

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To the President: Folk Portraits by the People, 12/10/1993-09/05/1994

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To the President: Folk Portraits by the People Catalogue

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Recent Acquisitions, 1/1994-5/1994

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From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II: Master Drawings from NPG London, 2/25/1994-4/24/1994

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Reporting the War: Journalistic Coverage of Wold War II, 4/22/1994-9/5/1994

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Recent Acquisitions, 5/1994-12/1994

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Art and the Camera, 1900-1940: Pictorialist Photographs from the NPG, 6/10/1994-12/11/1994

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Gertrude Kasebier: Photographer, 7/8/1994-10/2/1994

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Points of View Single Subject/Multiple Artists, 10/14/1994-2/20/1995

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Recent Acquisitions, 12/1994-6/1995

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Federal Portraits: Saint-Memin in America, 12/2/1994-5/29/1995

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Saint Memin in America, 1793-1814, Catalogue

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Majestic in his Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass, 2/2/1995-11/11/1995

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Majestic in his Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass Catalogue

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From Truman to Clinton: Presidents on Time, 2/24/1995-12/3/1995

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An Era that Formed the Modern Age Loan to Suntory Museum, 3/15/1995-5/7/1995

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In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler, 3/31/1995-8/13/1995

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Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten, 6/19/1995-9/04/1995

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The Daguillard Collection (Canceled )

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The Black Presence in the United States: Constitution to Emancipation (Canceled)

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Oak Hill Cemetery Exhibition (Canceled)

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Uriah Levy Exhibition (Canceled)

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Box 2

Court Portraiture in the Reign of Phillip II (Canceled)

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Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950's Symposium Film (Peter Kirby)

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Rebels Voices Speak Again! Symposium & Poetry Reading, 4/27/1996

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Rebels Voices Speak Again! Symposium Travel

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1983 World's Fair, SEF 1988

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, SEF 1989

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, SEF 1990

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, SEF 1991

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, SEF 1992

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, 4/16-8/15/1993

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, 4/16-8/15/1993

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair Brochure

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair Catalogue

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair Catalogue

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair Catalogue

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair Catalogue

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair Symposium

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair Symposium

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Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Slides/Proofs/Transparencies)

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Box 3

Department: Registrar General, FY 1990-FY 1994

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Department: Registrar Loan Study Fee

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Department: Registrar Procurement of Art Objects Audit, FY 1994

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Department: Registrar Storage, FY 1990-FY 1994

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Department: Safety 5-Year Accessibility Plan, FY 1990-FY 1994

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Department: Safety General, FY 1990-FY 1994

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Department: Security General, FY 1990-FY 1994

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Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture, 10/6/1995-1/28/1996

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Cecilia Beaux Catalogue

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1846: Portrait of the Nation, 4/12/1996-8/18/1996

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1846: Portrait of the Nation Catalogue

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Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy, 7/26/1996-10/27/1996

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Image of the Presidency: Photographs by George Tames, 1944-1974, 8/30/1996-9/1/1997

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Red, Hot, and Blue: A Salute to American Musicals, 10/25/1996-7/6/1997

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Red, Hot, and Blue: A Salute to American Musicals Catalogue

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Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection, 1/31/1997

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Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio, 1/31/1997-1/4/1998

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Recent Acquisitions, 7/11/1997-2/12/1998

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Mathew Brady's Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art, 9/26/1997-1/4/1998

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Mathew Brady and the Image of History Catalogue

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Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places, 9/27/1997-1/25/1998

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George C. Marshall: Soldier of Peace, 11/7/1998-7/12/1998

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George C. Marshall: Soldier of Peace Catalogue

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Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits, 3/20/1998-8/2/1998

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Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Magazine Catalogue

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Recent Acquisitions, 8/7/1998-5/3/1999

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Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen, 1/29/1999-4/18/1999

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George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years, 2/19/1999-8/8/1999

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George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years Catalogue

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Franklin and his Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in 18th Century America

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Edward Sorel: Unauthorized Portraits, 7/2/1999-1/2/2000

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Tete A Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 10/29/1999-1/9/2000

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham (Proposed Exhibition)

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Cris Alexander

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Edward Biberman

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Biographical Writings

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Miguel Covarrubias

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Imogen Cunningham

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Carlos Dyer

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Aline Fruhauf

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, General

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Philippe Halsman

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Alonzo Hauser

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Al Hirschfeld

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Milton Johnson

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Marion Kinsella

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Escobar Marisol

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Paul Meltsner

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Barbara Morgan

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Nickolas Muray

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Isamu Noguchi

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Cesare Stea

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Soichi Sunami

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Martha Swope

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Mark Tobey

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Charlotte Trowbridge

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Carl Van Vechten

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Abraham Walkowitz

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Four Muses of Movement: Martha Graham, Andy Warhol

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Box 4

Colleagues - External/Ann Feldman

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Colleagues - External/Thomas Fingar

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Colleagues - External/Glenda E. Gill

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Colleagues - External/Miscellaneous

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Colleagues - External/Percy North

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Colleagues - External/Claire Tieder

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Correspondence Miscellaneous, FY 1995-FY 1999

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Correspondence Miscellaneous, FY 1990-FY 1994

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Correspondence: Personal, FY 1990-FY 1994

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Carolyn K. Carr Lectures: Korea/Japan, 1997

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Carolyn K. Carr Lectures: Museum Careers Seminar, 1997

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Publications: A Friendship and a Photograph: Sophia Williams, Talcott Williams and Walt Whitman

Box 4 of 5

Publications: Catalogue Entries (Miscellaneous)

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Publications: Dictionary of Art

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Publications: Historical Encyclopedia of Chicago Women (Sara Tyson Hallowell)

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Publications: Mary Cassatt and Mary Fairchild Macmonnies: The Search for their 1893 Murals

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Publications: Prejudice and Pride: Presenting American Art at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

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References: Invitation Lists

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References: Obituaries

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Obituaries A through L

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Obituaries M through R

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Obituaries S through Z

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Box 5

Director's Office: Participation in 150th Scholars Abroad Program

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Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s, 02/26/1996-6/2/1996 (1)

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Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s, 02/26/1996-6/2/1996 (2) (Slides and photographs)

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Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s, Opening Reception, 4/26/1996

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