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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 01-108

Smithsonian American Art Museum. Office of Design and Production

Exhibition Records, 1970-2000

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:Smithsonian American Art Museum. Office of Design and Production
Title:Exhibition Records
Dates:1970-2000
Quantity:4.08 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 oversize folder)
Collection:Accession 01-108
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of materials that document the design, production, and installation of permanent and temporary exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Renwick Gallery. There are also records relating to the renovation of the Alice Pike Barney Studio House. Materials include drawings, sketches, floor plans, correspondence, memoranda, reports, budget records, production schedules, checklists, notes, scripts, proposals, photographs, and lender files. See the end of the finding aid for a listing of oversized materials.

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of records that document the design, production, and installation of permanent and temporary exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery. There are also records related to the renovation of the Alice Pike Barney Studio House. Materials include drawings, sketches, floor plans, correspondence, memoranda, reports, budget records, production schedules, checklists, notes, scripts, proposals, photographs, and lender files. See the end of the finding aid for a listing of oversize materials.

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Subject

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-108, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Office of Design and Production, Exhibition Records

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Container List

Box 1

American Craft/Renwick 20th Anniversary Art from the Collection, 9/1992

Box 1 of 4

California Arts & Crafts Movement/Craft furniture & objects, 9/1993

Box 1 of 4

Secrets of the Dark Chamber/19th Century Daguerreotypes, 6/30/1995

Box 1 of 4

Calico & Chintz/Patricia Smith Collection of Antique Quilts, 9/13/1996

Box 1 of 4

Conservation by Design/Wood pieces by various contemporary Craft artists, 9/13/1996

Box 1 of 4

Renwick at 25/Artwork from the Collection, 3/14/1997

Box 1 of 4

Five Women in Craft/Gray, Jacobson, Sherman, Underwood, Jackson; 3/31/2000

Box 1 of 4

The Art of John Cederquist: Reality of Illusion, 3/31/2000

Box 1 of 4

Box 2

Boston Arts & Crafts Movement/Renwick, 3/6/1998

Box 2 of 4

Eyeing America: Robert Cottingham Prints, 10/23/1998

Box 2 of 4

Stuart Davis, 5/22/1998

Box 2 of 4

Dominic Di Mare: A Retrospective, 3/19/1999

Box 2 of 4

USA Clay/Renwick collection Ceramics, 3/9/2001

Box 2 of 4

American Art Forum/Art from the private collections of Art Forum members, 4/26/1996

Box 2 of 4

Sports/Sports images from American Art collections, 11/21/1997

Box 2 of 4

Ansel Adams: Landscape Photos, 11/14/1997

Box 2 of 4

Colonial Art from Puerto Rico/Vidal Collection objects, 1/24/1997

Box 2 of 4

Paintings of Charles Burchfield/Watercolors, 9/26/1997

Box 2 of 4

Daniel Brush: Gold without Boundaries/precious objects, 9/11/1998

Box 2 of 4

Picturing Old New England/Imagery of New England, 1/20/1999

Box 2 of 4

The Stonewares of Charles Fergus Binns, 9/11/1998

Box 2 of 4

Box 3

Mariam Schapiro/A Woman's Way, 4/25/1997

Box 3 of 4

Early 20th Century Watercolors From the Collection, 5/16/1997

Box 3 of 4

Recent Acquisitions/Georgia O'Keefe, 3/8/1995

Box 3 of 4

Singular Impressions/The Monotype in America, 4/4/1997

Box 3 of 4

American Kaleidoscope, 10/4/1997

Box 3 of 4

Contemporary Printmaking in America, 5/10/1996

Box 3 of 4

Lia Cook/Material Illusions, 3/15/1996

Box 3 of 4

Mark Lindquist/Revolutions in Wood, 3/15/1996

Box 3 of 4

American Photographs/Isaacs Collection, 11/27/1996

Box 3 of 4

The Bard Brothers/Painting America Under Steam and Sail, 5/30/1997

Box 3 of 4

Exhibit installation and construction notes, plans, and dates from the exhibit shops. Those marked with an (*) have blueprint drawings.

*George E. Burr, 11/18/1985

Box 3 of 4

Drewes, 9/1984

Box 3 of 4

Idaho, 11/30/1983

Box 3 of 4

Russell Wright, 11/4/1984

Box 3 of 4

Capitol Image: 19th Century Washington, 9/1983

Box 3 of 4

Australian Ceramics, 12/15/1983

Box 3 of 4

Colonna, 4/27/1984

Box 3 of 4

*Renwick Permanent Collection, 1/20/1984

Box 3 of 4

Yak

Box 3 of 4

Frederic Remington Sculpture, 9/18/1991

Box 3 of 4

AVA Celebration Fence Posters, 4/1982

Box 3 of 4

Prints and Multiples, 5/13/1982

Box 3 of 4

Gershoy Sculpture, 6/15/1984

Box 3 of 4

Fan Fare, I and II

Box 3 of 4

Harvey Littleton Renwick

Box 3 of 4

Reinstallation of Renwick

Box 3 of 4

*Zoo to Art, 2/10/1985

Box 3 of 4

Newcomb Pottery

Box 3 of 4

Joseph Cornell, 11/1982

Box 3 of 4

*Color Core, 11/1984

Box 3 of 4

Life

Box 3 of 4

*Cotopaxi, 3/15/1985

Box 3 of 4

*Sharing Traditions, 1/15/1985

Box 3 of 4

Whistler, 5/3/1985

Box 3 of 4

*Alice Pike Barney, 12/2/1984

Box 3 of 4

Elizabeth Nourse, 1/14/1983

Box 3 of 4

New Classicism

Box 3 of 4

*Americans in Brittany & Normandy, 1983

Box 3 of 4

De Creeft, 1983

Box 3 of 4

*Scan, 1982

Box 3 of 4

Wall Clay

Box 3 of 4

Albers, 1985

Box 3 of 4

*Martha Jackson,1985

Box 3 of 4

*Photos from Permanent Collection, 8/27/1985

Box 3 of 4

*Amish Quilts, 12/4/1986

Box 3 of 4

*Miniature Cases, 5/15/1986

Box 3 of 4

*Dan Dailey Glass

Box 3 of 4

*Gene Davis, 1987

Box 3 of 4

*Permanent Collection Renwick, 1/15/1987

Box 3 of 4

*Treasures of American Art

Box 3 of 4

*Post Office Special Delivery, 1987

Box 3 of 4

*Man Ray Exhibit, 12/2/1988

Box 3 of 4

*Juley Collection, 1985

Box 3 of 4

*Patrick Ireland, 1986

Box 3 of 4

*Pueblo Watercolors, 3/28/1986

Box 3 of 4

Art in New Mexico, 1986

Box 3 of 4

*Wood Bowls, 1987

Box 3 of 4

*Ray Metzger, 1986

Box 3 of 4

*Sara Roby, 1987

Box 3 of 4

*John LaFarge, 7/10/1987-10/21/1987

Box 3 of 4

American Art Pottery, 1988

Box 3 of 4

Renwick Clay Revision, 1988

Box 3 of 4

*Clocks/Wendell Castle, 1985

Box 3 of 4

*Romaine Brooks, 1985

Box 3 of 4

Folk Art, 1989

Box 3 of 4

Box 4

Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral, 10/15/1994

Box 4 of 4

Brian Hunt, Stillscape II, Sculpture, 7/15/1986

Box 4 of 4

Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, 2/1/1993

Box 4 of 4

Learning Center, 6/1996

Box 4 of 4

Noguchi Sculpture, 1/1970

Box 4 of 4

George Rickey, 24 Lines, 7/1992

Box 4 of 4

DC Sports Arena, environmental impact, 5/4/1995

Box 4 of 4

Copley, Mrs. George Watson, 4/1/1992

Box 4 of 4

Beverly Pepper, Tirnana Wedge, 1991

Box 4 of 4

American Art Museum Contribution Box, installed 1994

Box 4 of 4

American Art Museum basement storage concepts, 1995

Box 4 of 4

Thomas Cole, Landscape into History, Video, 10/02/1993

Box 4 of 4

Hampton Throne, reinstallation of the sculpture, 10/25/1991

Box 4 of 4

Benton Mural Installation, 2/5/1985

Box 4 of 4

American Art Museum 2nd floor reinstallation, 1995

Box 4 of 4

American Art Museum 3rd floor reinstallation, 8/1995

Box 4 of 4

Singular Impressions, Monotype in America, 3/7/1997

Box 4 of 4

Boston Arts and Crafts, 3/6/1998

Box 4 of 4

A Century of American Posters, 3/27/1998

Box 4 of 4

White House Crafts, traveling exhibit, 4/28/1995

Box 4 of 4

Miniatures, 1986

Box 4 of 4

Historic Preservation Survey and Adaptive Reuse of Lincoln Gallery, 1996 completion

Box 4 of 4

Folk Art Installation, 1993

Box 4 of 4

American Crafts, 9/22/1992

Box 4 of 4

Elihu Vedder, Drawings for the Rubaiyat, 11/10/1995

Box 4 of 4

Gilded Age 19th Century Watercolors, 12/15/1995

Box 4 of 4

Construction Files

Glass Glorious Glass, Renwick Gallery, 9/24/1999

Box 4 of 4

Amish and African American Quilts, Renwick Gallery, 10/6/2000

Box 4 of 4

Liza Lou, Star Spangled Presidents, Portraits by Liza Lou, 11/18/2000

Box 4 of 4

Cederquist/5 Women in Craft, Renwick Gallery, 3/31/2000

Box 4 of 4

Edward Hopper, The Watercolors and Abbott H. Thayer, The Nature of Art, 1999

Box 4 of 4

Boston Arts and Crafts, 3/6/1998

Box 4 of 4

Daniel Brush, 9/11/1998

Box 4 of 4

Ansel Adams, 1997

Box 4 of 4

Sports, 1997

Box 4 of 4

Stuart Davis, 5/22/1998

Box 4 of 4

Robert Cottingham, 9/25/1998

Box 4 of 4

Posters American Style, 3/27/1998

Box 4 of 4

Puerto Rico Colonial Art, 10/3/1997

Box 4 of 4

Monotype in America, 4/4/1997

Box 4 of 4

Michael Lucero Sculpture, 9/12/1997

Box 4 of 4

Charles Burchfield, 1997

Box 4 of 4

Contemporary American Print, 5/10/1996

Box 4 of 4

Silver and Gold & Art of the Gold Rush, 10/30/1998

Box 4 of 4

The Art of Thomas Dewing, 7/19/1996

Box 4 of 4

American Kaleidoscope, 10/4/1996

Box 4 of 4

Calico and Chintz & Conservation by Design, 1996

Box 4 of 4

The Isaacs Collection American, 1996

Box 4 of 4

David Hockney, A Snail's Space Painting as Performance, 6/6/1997

Box 4 of 4

The Bard Brothers, 20th Century American Watercolors, 5/30/1997

Box 4 of 4
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Renwick at 25, 12/1996

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Conservation by Design, 5/6/1996

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Calico & Chintz, 5/8/1996

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Reinstallation of Permanent Collection Galleries 1-D,E,F,G and H, 8/1991

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Modification of Moran Alcove, 12/6/1991

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Barney Studio House Proposed Renovation, 3/20/1992

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