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Accession 97-121, National Museum of American Art, Office of the Deputy Director, Exhibition and Publication Records, 1961-1996
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | National Museum of American Art, Office of the Deputy Director |
Title: | Exhibition and Publication Records |
Dates: | 1961-1996 |
Quantity: | 5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 97-121 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records that primarily document the development and production of exhibitions at the National Museum of American Art and the Renwick Gallery from 1984 through 1996. They were maintained by Charles Robertson, who was Assistant Director, Resources, 1983-1984; Assistant Director, Museum Resources, 1985-1986; and Deputy Director, 1986- . Robertson was informed of all phases of exhibition work from prospectus and scheduling stages to funding and budgets, contracts for services, and publicity. The files contain memoranda and correspondence with Museum administration, exhibition curators, outside museum professionals, and interested parties. The materials also contain publication files for exhibition catalogues and other scholarly works sponsored by the Museum. The files include contracts with publishers and authors, schedules, and memoranda and correspondence concerning the content of the text. Many of the files document the posthumous publication of the book "Nineteenth Century Theories of Art," which was an ongoing project of Joshua C. Taylor begun before he became Museum Director in 1970, and left mostly completed at his death in 1981. The files on the book date from 1961 through 1984. The publication files also document the Museum's relationship with G.K. Hall & Company. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists primarily of records that document the development and production of exhibitions at the National Museum of American Art (NMAA) and the Renwick Gallery from 1984 through 1996. They were maintained by Charles J. Robertson, who was Assistant Director, Resources, 1983-1984; Assistant Director, Museum Resources, 1985-1986; and Deputy Director, 1986- . Robertson was informed of all phases of exhibition work from prospectus and scheduling stages to funding and budgets, contracts for services, and publicity. The files contain memoranda and correspondence with Museum administration, exhibition curators, outside museum professionals, and interested parties.
The records also contain publication files for exhibition catalogues and other scholarly works sponsored by the Museum. The files include contracts with publishers and authors, schedules, and memoranda and correspondence concerning the content of the text. Many of the files document the posthumous publication of the book Nineteenth Century Theories of Art, which was an ongoing project of Joshua C. Taylor (JCT) begun before he became Museum Director in 1970, and left mostly completed at his death in 1981. The files on the book date from 1961 through 1984. The publication files also document the Museum's relationship with the G. K. Hall Publishing Company.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 97-121, National Museum of American Art, Office of the Deputy Director, Exhibition and Publication Records
Container List
Box 1
American Impressions: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collection
Box 1 of 5
American Wicker (w/t)
Box 1 of 5
Bearden, Romare (w/t), August 1989-February 1993
Box 1 of 5
Beck, David
Box 1 of 5
Connor, Linda (w/t): Photographs
Box 1 of 5
DeCarava, Roy (w/t)
Box 1 of 5
Daley, William (w/t)
Box 1 of 5
Full Deck: Art Quilts
Box 1 of 5
Glassworks (w/t)
Box 1 of 5
Gottlieb Collection and Related Installation
Box 1 of 5
Johns, Jasper: Love and Death
Box 1 of 5
KPMG Peat Marwick Collection of American Crafts: A Gift to the Renwick Gallery
Box 1 of 5
Modernist Abstraction in American Prints
Box 1 of 5
Irving Penn: Master Images, December 1986-June 1990
Box 1 of 5
Irving Penn: Master Images, July 1990-February 1994
Box 1 of 5
Trevino, Jesse
Box 1 of 5
Walcott, Mary: Wild Flower Paintings
Box 1 of 5
World's Fair, September 1992-July 1994
Box 1 of 5
World's Fair, January 1991-August 1992
Box 1 of 5
World's Fair, November 1984-December 1990
Box 1 of 5
Box 2
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, March 1993-April 1993
Box 2 of 5
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, July 1990-February 1992
Box 2 of 5
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, September 1988-June 1990
Box 2 of 5
Drawings by Craft Artists and A. Paley (w/t)
Box 2 of 5
American Abstraction, 1930-1945: The Patricia and Philip Frost Collection in the National Museum of American Art, May 1990-January 1993
Box 2 of 5
American Abstraction, 1930-1945: The Patricia and Philip Frost Collection in the National Museum of American Art (w/t), November 1987-April 1990
Box 2 of 5
Levitt, Helen (w/t)
Box 2 of 5
McQueen, John
Box 2 of 5
Meatyard, Ralph (w/t)
Box 2 of 5
Thiebaud, Wayne (w/t)
Box 2 of 5
West as America, April 1991-October 1992
Box 2 of 5
West as America, July 1990-March 1991
Box 2 of 5
West as America, March 1988-June 1990
Box 2 of 5
Box 3
Powers, Hiram Sculpture
Box 3 of 5
Publications of NMAA, Non Exhibition
Box 3 of 5
Publications by SI Press
Box 3 of 5
Publications by Outside Publishers
Box 3 of 5
Publications by Outside Publishers, JCT Book, November-December 1984
Box 3 of 5
Research Support, Pre-1877 Exhibition Catalogue Index
Box 3 of 5
Publications, G. K. Hall, June-September 1983
Box 3 of 5
Publications, G. K. Hall, January-May 1983
Box 3 of 5
Publications, G. K. Hall, May-December 1982
Box 3 of 5
Publications, G. K. Hall, 1981-April 1982
Box 3 of 5
Publications by Outside Publishers, JCT Book, January-October 1984
Box 3 of 5
Publications by Outside Publishers, JCT Book, October 1982-December 1983
Box 3 of 5
Publications by Outside Publishers, JCT Book, May-September 1982
Box 3 of 5
Publications by Outside Publishers, JCT Book, 1969-April 1982
Box 3 of 5
Box 4
African-American Craft Art
Box 4 of 5
Between Home and Heaven, December 1992-March 1995
Box 4 of 5
Between Home and Heaven, July-November 1992
Box 4 of 5
Between Home and Heaven, January-June 1992
Box 4 of 5
Between Home and Heaven, February 1989-December 1991
Box 4 of 5
California Arts and Crafts (w/t)
Box 4 of 5
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History, February 1995-July 1996
Box 4 of 5
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History, June 1994-January 1995
Box 4 of 5
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History, February-May 1994
Box 4 of 5
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History, September 1993-January 1994
Box 4 of 5
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (w/t), March-August 1993
Box 4 of 5
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (w/t), July 1992-February 1993
Box 4 of 5
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (w/t), November 1989-June 1992
Box 4 of 5
Contemporary Printmaking in America
Box 4 of 5
Box 5
Cook, Lia (w/t)
Box 5 of 5
Nancy Crow: Improvisational Quilts
Box 5 of 5
Daguerreotypes (w/t)
Box 5 of 5
Dillingham, Rick: A Retrospective
Box 5 of 5
Free Within Ourselves (w/t), January 1994-April 1995
Box 5 of 5
Free Within Ourselves (w/t), August 1992-December 1993
Box 5 of 5
Free Within Ourselves (w/t), September 1991-July 1992
Box 5 of 5
Gross, Chaim
Box 5 of 5
Harlem: Photographs by Aaron Siskind (w/t)
Box 5 of 5
Jiminez, Luis (w/t)
Box 5 of 5
Kainen, Jacob, August 1993-March 1995
Box 5 of 5
Kainen, Jacob, October 1991-July 1993
Box 5 of 5
Klett's Washington Panorama
Box 5 of 5
Marriage in Form: Kay Sekimachi and Bob Stocksdale (w/t)
Box 5 of 5
Navajo Weaving, Contemporary Navajo Weaving (w/t)
Box 5 of 5
Nutt, Jim (w/t)
Box 5 of 5
Saxe Collection, Contemporary Collection
Box 5 of 5
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