Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 01-174
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of the Director
Subject Files, 1981-2000
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of the Director |
| Title: | Subject Files |
| Dates: | 1981-2000 |
| Quantity: | 15.5 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
| Collection: | Accession 01-174 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | These records consist of materials created and maintained by Milo Cleveland Beach, Director, 1987-2001, documenting participation in professional associations; donations to endowment funds; events held for, or by, the Freer Gallery of Art; development; fellowships and grants; affiliated museums, universities, and institutions; strategic plans and mission statements; acquisitions; and various committees and boards on which the Director served. Materials include correspondence; memoranda; research materials; planning documents; brochures for the Freer and Sackler galleries, for other Smithsonian museums, and from non-Smithsonian museums; staff newsletters; Smithsonian publications; grant proposals and proposal evaluation forms; purchase agreements; exhibit texts; lecture texts; donor and prospective donor contact reports; Director's daily schedules; reports; meeting agendas and supporting materials; committee and board membership lists; clippings; survey results; event invitations and invitation lists; and accounting reports of inventories and floor plans for the gallery shops. There is also a significant amount of materials associated with the Council of Bureau Directors, including correspondence; member lists; working files; meeting schedules, agendas, and supporting documents; and files concerning the acquisition of the National Museum of the American Indian. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Milo Cleveland Beach, Director, 1987-2001, documenting participation in professional associations; donations to endowment funds; events held for, or by, the Freer Gallery of Art (FGA); development; fellowships and grants; affiliated museums, universities, and institutions; strategic plans and mission statements; acquisitions; and various committees and boards on which the Director served. Materials include correspondence; memoranda; research materials; planning documents; brochures for the Freer and Sackler galleries, for other Smithsonian museums, and from non-Smithsonian museums; staff newsletters; Smithsonian publications; grant proposals and proposal evaluation forms; purchase agreements; exhibit texts; lecture texts; donor and prospective donor contact reports; Director's daily schedules; reports; meeting agendas and supporting materials; committee and board membership lists; clippings; survey results; event invitations and invitation lists; and accounting reports of inventories and floor plans for the gallery shops. There is also a significant amount of materials associated with the Council of Bureau Directors (COBD), including correspondence; member lists; working files; meeting schedules, agendas, and supporting documents; and files concerning the acquisition of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Beach, Milo Cleveland
- Smithsonian Institution. Council of Bureau Directors
- National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- Smithsonian World (Television program : 1984-1991)
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-174, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of the Director, Subject Files
Container List
Box 1
ARCH (Art Restoration for Cultural Heritage) [1995-1997]
Freer 75th Anniversary [1995-1997]
Event - Dalai Lama Visit, September 11, 1995
Event - Roger Lam Dinner, January 17, 1996 [1995-1996]
Event - National Portrait Gallery (NPG) Bust of A.M.S. (Arthur M. Sackler), November 18, 1996
Event - Maharaja Jodhpur for King of the World, May 15-17, 1997
Fitzgerald and Graves (Chris Hest) [1995-1996]
Haupt Garden [1984-1995]
Lord Cultural Resources [1995-1996]
Rampur - Nawab Kazim Ali Khan [1995-1997]
Strategic Plan Process [1994-1995]
Association for Asian Studies [1991]
Bulletin of the Asia Institute [1990]
Smithsonian Institution (SI) Foreign Currency Program [1985-1990]
Show and Tell [1988-1991]
SI Information [1988-1991]
Pakistan [1984-1989]
Indonesia [1983-1991]
Sri Lanka [1988-1991]
India [1985-1991]
Japan [1988-1991] (2 folders)
O'Connor, Dennis (Provost) [1995-2000]
Tibet - Country File [1986-1991]
Uma Maheshvara [1996-2000]
Undroit [1995]
Agra [1994-1997]
Budget (Miscellaneous Information) [1998-2000]
Durga [1993-2000]
General Information (2 Reports): Report Assam 1998 by Dr. Eberhad Fischer [1998]; SI History Lecture Series August 28, 1996/John Ellerton Lodge [1996]
Korea Foundation [1992-1999]
Newman, Connie (Under Secretary) [1996-2000]
Education Films/Videos, 1988-1989
Education/Outreach, 1986-1989
Box 2
Education Programs/Concerts, etc. [1988-1989]
Education Miscellaneous Projects, 1988-1989
Education - Other, 1987-1989
Docent Program, 1986-1989
Docent Training, 1988-1989
Teaching Programs, 1987-1989
Collections Management, 1986-1989
Gallery Shops/Sackler, 1985-1989
Publications/Asian Art, 1984-1989
Asian Art Continued [1984-1989] (2 folders)
Publications/SI Press, 1984-1989
Publications/Calendar, 1989
Publications Other, 1984-1989
Public Affairs/Quadrangle, 1985-1989
Public Affairs/Sackler, 1985-1989 (2 folders)
Photo Lab, 1984-1989
Photo Lab/Photo Requests, 1985-1989
Library, 1987-1989
Library/Archives, 1984-1989
4.12 Building Director's Personnel [1986]
Box 3
20.11 Personnel - EEO [1988-1990]
Affirmative Action [1988-1989]
Confidential [1989]
Bond Campaign [1985-1989]
Personnel Plan [1985-1989]
Personnel Plans [1989-1991]
[Personnel] [1989-1990]
Personnel General
Budget Abstract [1987-1989]
[Procurement Procedures] [1989-1990]
14.2 Funding - Corporate Sponsors [1987-1989]
14.1 Development Programs [1985-1989]
Tech Lab [1988-1989]
Tech Lab [1987-1988]
Tech Lab [1979; 1982; 1985-1987]
27.3 Management Committee [1988-1989]
27.3 Management Committee [1988-1987]
27.3 Management Committee [1988-1984]
Visitors' Information and Associates' Reception Center (VIARC) Desk - Pavilion [1984-1989]
Box 4
Security Blotter [1988-1989]
Office of Design and Construction [1986-1989]
Quadrangle Security [1986-1989]
[Office of the Registrar] [1985-1987]
[Office of the Registrar] [1985-1986]
13. Foreign Currency Program [1983-1988]
24.2 Program Proposals [1985-1991]
24.13 Inaugural Exhibition [1986-1987]
11.2 Rockefeller [1984-1987]
11.2 (b) Rockefeller Fellow 1987 [1986-1987]
11.2 (c) Rockefeller Fellow 1988 [1988-1989]
11.8 Visiting Scholars [1987-1989]
4.7 Signage [1989-1986]
11.1 Regents [1984-1988]
OEMS - Office of Environmental Management and Safety [1989-1988]
11.4 SI [Fellowships and Grants] [1985-1989]
2.2 Miscellaneous Projects [1983-1985]
Fellowships and Grants [1985-1990]
8.8 Special Events [1989]
8.3 Miscellaneous [1985-1989]
8.6 Events: Vever Symposium [1988]
Box 5
Public Comment [1987-1989]
Concerts [1984-1987]
8.2 Concert Series [1985-1989]
15. International Center [1984-1989]
4.3(a) International Center Gallery [1989]
Arthur M. Sackler 80th Birthday Gallery Plans [1989]
8.4 Lectures (Freer): Proposed [1985-1989]
8.1 Lecture Series (Sackler) [1984-1989]
Quad Council [1985-1991]
Quadrangle Building Committee [1988-1991]
24.10 "Friends" Program [1986-1989]
Friends of Asian Art [1992-1994]
Friends of Asian Art [1992]
Friends of Asian Art [1989-1991]
Funding - Friends of Asian Art [1992-1993]
Funding - Corporate Sponsors [1993-1992]
[COBD Attendance Lists] [1988-1989]
COBD [1989] (2 folders)
COBD [1987-1989]
Box 6
COBD [1989-1992]
COBD [1988-1989]
COBD [1990-1991]
COBD [1988-1989]
COBD - Working Files 1989 Beach
COBD - Council of Information and Education Directors (CIED) [1986-1987]
COBD - Resolution Role of Advisory Boards, 1987
COBD - Correspondence, 1987
COBD - Meetings Schedule [1987]
List of COBD Members [1987]
Not Distributed to COBD [1987]
Material Circulated to COBD, 1987
COBD - Guest/Program Ideas [1988]
COBD - Menu Wine [1987-1989]
COBD Meetings, 1987
COBD Meeting Thursday, March 5, 1987
COBD Meeting Thursday, April 2, 1987
COBD Meeting Thursday, May 7, 1987
Dr. Robinson - COBD Meeting, June 4, 1987
COBD Meeting Thursday, June 4, 1987
July 2, 1987, Thursday, COBD
August 6, 1987, Thursday, COBD
September 3, 1987, Thursday, COBD [1987]
October 1, 1987, Thursday COBD [1987]
COBD November 2, 1987 [1987]
COBD December 3, 1987 [1987]
Council of Bureau Directors Program Suggestions [1984-1986]
COBD Turnover [1987-1988]
Holly [COBD] [1987]
Secretary's Staff Meeting 1988 COBD [1988-1989]
Future COBD Presentations (1988) [1987]
1988 COBD Chairman Election [1987]
Committee For a Wider Audience - COBD Report for 1988 [1987]
OFG Director Audit COBD Meetings
Information Needs COBD [1987]
Special COBD Lunch to Meet Professor James W. Head, III (Canceled) [1987]
Housing Needs for COBD [1987]
16.1 Center Sage [1986-1991]
4.16 Accessibility Committee [1987-1989]
Pope Memorial Lecture [1988-1989]
4.8 Quadrangle Building Committee [1985-1989]
Office of Facilities Services [1988-1989]
Domestic Indemnification [1989-1991]
27.18 (a) Association of Research Institutes in Art History [1988-1989]
27.24 SI Reports [1990-1991]
Box 7
27.6 Board of Regents [1985-1989]
Tom Freudenheim/ Robert Hoffmann and COBD - Brown Bag Lunch [1989-1990]
John Jameson's Program Advisory Committee (Sarah Newmeyer is our nominee) [1989]
Base Analysis Review [1989-1990]
Situational Analysis [1989]
Organization and Management Review [1989]
Shared Concerns [1989-1990]
Ad Hoc Committee on Budget, 1989
Ad Hoc Committee on Development, 1989
27.13 Secretary's Staff Meetings [1988-1990]
27.12 Council of Bureau Director (COBD) [1985-1988]
Council Affairs Meetings [1989]
27.12 (a) COBD - Ideas for Future Meetings [1989]
[Administrative Review for CIED and COBD] [1989]
27.4 Research Policy Committee [1984-1988]
27.5 Festival of India [1985]
Smithsonian Council Meeting [1989]
27.1 SI Council [1984-1990]
Film: Meyer [1993-1994]
Films/Videos 6.9 [1990-1994]
Hertzfeld Proposal 7A.2 [1989-1993]
Lecture: Meyer [1993-1994]
Meyer Auditorium - Programming [1993]
Pope Memorial Lecture 6.17 [1990-1994]
Letters of Recommendation - Near Eastern Curator A1.1 [1991-1992]
Persian Friend Committee [1989-1993]
Painting Studio [1986-1991]
PD's A1.4 [1987-1994]
28.7 C.V. (+PD) [1990-1993]
Box 8
Sackler 1991 - Present [1991-1993]
Sackler 1990 9.1 [1990]
General Administration 9.2 [1989-1993]
Posters 10.8 [1985-1988]
Freer Ukiyo-e Catalogue 10.15 [1988-1992]
Other 90.10 [1990-1992]
Freer 13.3 [1987-1994]
Sackler 13.4 [1990-1994]
Budget 1991 [1990-1991]
Budget 1992 [1991-1992]
Budget 1993 [1991-1993]
Group Tours [1986-1992]
10.5 Special Exhibition Fund [1984-1989]
10.3 Procedures [1985-1988]
Rockefeller [1986]
11.2 (a) Rockefeller Fellow 1986 [1985-1987]
14.4 Feasibility Study [1985-1987]
Membership and Development [1985-1986]
8.5 VIP Visits [1985-1990]
[American Visions] [1991]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art [1988-1989]
USAMI Report [1988]
24.6 Sackler: Miscellaneous [1984-1988]
Box 9
Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) 1988-1989
AAMD 1990-1991
AAMD 1991-1992 (2 folders)
American Committee for South Asian Art [1985-1991]
Robert McC. Adams Letters [1992-1994]
Robert McC. Adams Letters [1988-1992]
SI Public Affairs, Publicity, Publications Info [1989-1991]
SI Planned Giving [1989]
SI Personnel Costs and Salaries [1989-1991]
SI Planning Advisory Committee[1988-1990]
SI Scholarly Studies Program [1989-1991]
SI US - Pakistan Sub-Committee [1984 -1985]
Resident Associates Program (RAP) Splendors of Asian Art [1987-1988]
Box 10
Vever Collection - 1985-1986 - Acquisition
Vever Collection - 1987-1988 - Acquisition
Vever Collection - 1981-1985 - Preliminary Negotiations
Vever Collection - 1986-1987 - Preliminary Negotiations
Vever Collection - Photos (Signing)
Vever Collection - 1986 Catalogue
Vever Collection - 1987 Catalogue
Vever Collection - 1987-1988 Conservation
Vever Collection - 1985 Press Information
Vever Collection - 1986-1988 Press Information
Symposium [(Re)Writing the History of Islamic Illustrated Manuscripts] [1985-1986]
Vever Collection - Miscellaneous [1988-1992]
Vever Collection - Sonnenreich Correspondence [1988]
Vever Collection - General Memos [1988]
Vever Collection - Venues [1990]
Vever Collection - Audio/Visual [1987-1988]
Vever Collection - Budget [1987-1988]
Vever Collection - Publications/Catalogue [1988-1990]
Vever Collection - Construction/Design [1987-1991]
Vever Collection - Education/Lectures [1987-1989]
Vever Collection - Exhibit Schedule [1988]
Vever Collection - Funding [1988-1989]
Vever Collection - Gifts [1988-1992]
Vever Collection - Object List/Exhibit Text [1988-1990]
Vever Collection - Media Coverage [1988-1989]
Vever Collection - Public Affairs [1988]
Vever Collection - Registrar [1988-1990]
Vever Collection - Research [1990]
Vever Collection - Security [1988]
Vever Collection - Sale Shop [1988]
Vever Collection - Smithsonian World [1988 -1989]
Vever Collection - Special Events [1988-1989]
Japanese Architecture Workshop [1989]
Chinese Furniture Workshop [1989]
New Approaches to Persian Art and Culture [Symposium] [1988-1990]
Construction of the Ancient Near East [Workshop] [1990-1991]
Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East [Symposium] [1990]
Spring Symposium Chu Culture [1989-1991]
Indian Forklift [1981-1991]
Chinese Imperial Porcelain Symposium [1993]
Mughal Gardens Symposium [1991-1993]
Polsky Symposium [1993-1994]
Director Daily Schedules [1990-1993] (2 folders)
Box 11
SI Program Report Continued [1986-1991]
SI Personnel [1988-1991]
SI CIED [1987-1991]
SI Council - Neil Kotter [1987-1992]
SI American Indian and African American Presence at SI [1989-1990]
SI Advisory Boards, Commissions, etc. [1989]
SI "Torch" [1989]
SI Management Council [1990-1991]
SI Smithsonian Events [1989-1992]
14.1(a) SI Development Committee [1989]
2.1 Policy [1984]
2.3 Exhibit Design Contractor: Preliminary [1984-1986]
4.4 Relocation Planning [1984-1986]
2.5 Opening Ceremonies - Plans [1985-1987]
Sackler Correspondence 1984-1989 [1984-1988]
Near Eastern Curatorial [1987-1991] (2 folders)
Box 12
Chinese Art Curatorial [1988-1993]
Artibus Asiae [1984-1993] (2 folders)
13.2 Gift Catalogue [Sackler Shop] [1989]
Bronze Fu/ Martha Avery [1992]
Museums and Their Communities [1989-1990]
Gallery Guides: Other Institutions [1990]
University of Maryland [1993]
Museum Support Center [1983-1987]
Masterpieces Catalogues [1986-1988]
Loans From Sackler Collection to Sackler Gallery [1985-1989]
Permission to Publish [1985-1989]
FGA Administration (Miscellaneous) [1982-1988]
Freer Auditorium [1991-1993]
FGA Book [1993]
Flickinger, Mrs. Sarah Freer [1990-1993]
FGA Ernest Fenellosa Documentary [1991]
The Four Gospels [1989-1990]
Alice Freer Lunch [1992]
Jingdezhen Process Film [1992]
Orientations [1986-1994]
Peacock Room[1991-1993]
Freer Reinstallation List [1991]
FGA Sitework [1992]
University of Michigan [1986-1994]
The Asia Society TV Program: Asian Art 10.5 [1988-1990]
Concerts (Pre-Meyer Auditorium) [1988-1993]
SEAWASH [1991]
Conference on Gardens [1989-1990]
Ancient Sources of Metal [1987]
Foundation for Mesopotamia [1989]
Artibus Asiae 10.1 [1989-1992]
Box 13
Freer Renovation [1990-1993]
Freer Renovation [1990]
Freer Renovation [1989]
Freer Renovation [1988]
Freer Renovation [1984-1987]
Freer Reopening [1992-1993]
Freer Reopening [1991-1993]
Freer Reopening [1990-1992]
Freer Reopening [1989-1992]
Freer Reopening Symposium [1992-1993]
Freer Reopening Invite Lists [1993]
Freer Praise [1993]
May 2 - Invitations [1993]
May 5 - Invitations [1993]
May 5 - Responses [1993]
May 6 - Invitations [1993]
May 7 - Invitations [1993]
May 10 - Invitations [1993]
Asian Art Bulletin 10.3 [1990-1992]
Box 14
Audit and Review Committee [1988-1992]
Azarnoush, Massoud [1990]
Conservation 2.0 [1993-1994]
Correspondence from Laurel [1992-1994]
Dentsu-Amex Project [1989-1993]
Development Programs [1991-1993]
Development Related Visitors and Contacts [1991-1994]
Dupont/ Dimmick Collection [1986-1992]
Ellen Baryd Weedon Foundation [1989-1994]
Fannie Mae Foundation [1992]
Funding: Corporate Sponsors [1994]
Getty [1988-1992]
Getty Conservation Institute [1988-1989]
Henry Luce Foundation [1989-1994]
Japan Foundation [1992-1993]
Kohler Foundation [1992]
Kresge Foundation [1990-1992]
Mazda North America [1990-1992]
Kress Foundation [1990-1993]
Mellon Foundation [1986-1994]
Metal Analysis Project (Paul Jett/Jessica Rawson) [1989]
Meyer Foundation [1987-1994]
Nakamichi Foundation [1990-1991]
Peter Stern's - The Ralph E. Ogden Foundation [1987-1993]
James Smithsonian Society Grants [1987-1994]
Richard Louie Memorial Fund [1990-1994]
Rockefeller Fellow [1992-1993]
The Starr Foundation [1986-1993]
Tax Policies [1990-1993]
Tech Lab [1991-1995]
Visiting Scholars [1991-1994]
Workshop Funding Guidelines [1989]
Book Recommendations 13.1 [1988-1993]
Egypt/ Sackler/ Glen Lowry - Book Conservation Project 3.18 [1989-1990]
Facsimile Haft Aurang 10.14 [1986-1993]
Johns Hopkins University [1992]
New Technologies [1993-1995]
Object Handling Session [1991-1992]
Publications Committee 10.16 [1989-1994]
Publications Related to Exhibitions and Peripheral Projects [1995-1994]
Rabenou Oil Lamp Glenn Lowry 3.17 [1990]
Research Presentations [1988-1994]
Sabbatical Year 3.19 [1972; 1988]
Laura Schneider Japanese Garden Project 3.13 [1989-1991]
University of Glasgow [1992-1994]
EEO Affirmative Action [1990-1992]
Andrew Leung [1989-1990]
Box 15
A.A.S. - Association of Asian Studies [1994-1995]
Accessibility Committee [1990-1993]
All Staff Memos [1990-1994]
Asian-American Journalists [1992]
Can Yin & Song Xian Gang [1986-1993]
College of Art Association [1989-1994]
Fine Arts Commission [1990-1992]
Hein, Orrin [1991-1994]
Monthly Staff Meeting [1991-1994]
Opening Symposium 2.4 [1985-1987]
Public Comment [1990-1994]
"Purpose Statement" (For AMS/F.A.) [1988-1990]
Signage [1990-1994]
Visitor Survey [1990-1994]
Water Intrusion [1991-1992]
Archives of Asian Art [1994]
Artibus Asiae 10.1 [1991-1994]
Artibus Asiae - Financial Data 10.2 [1990]
Asian Art - 1993 [1988-1995]
Budget 1994 [1992-1994]
Budget 1995 [1992-1994]
House Hearings [1992-1995]
Japanese Conservation [1988-1993]
PAEC (Professional Accomplishment Evaluation Committee) [1982; 1993]
Permission to Publish [1988-1994]
Sacker Furniture 8.3 [1992-1993]
United States Information Agency (USIA) [1992-1993]
Visions of Asia Television Project [1992-1996]
Box 16
1981-1989 Library Correspondence
1990-1999 Library Correspondence
May-July 2000 Library Correspondence [1993-2000]
August 2000 Library Correspondence
Memorandum of Understanding - September 2000 SIL - FGA/AMSG
November 2000 Library Correspondence
Report - Carole Neves, June 2000
Materials Relating to Freer Bequest - Report of Law Committee of Board of Regents - February 26, 1993 - GC Memo re: Legal Issues - SIL (Smithsonian Institution Libraries) [1918-1920; 1927-1929; 1993]
Sackler Portrait Reception and Tenth Anniversary, 1996-1997 (Accession 09-132)
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