Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 94-093
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Department of Design and Production
Exhibition Records, 1989-1992
Descriptive Entry
These records consist of files from the Department of Design and Production, National Portrait Gallery (NPG). Included are correspondence between the NPG curatorial staff and other Smithsonian bureaus and offices. There is also correspondence between the NPG staff and other external art museums, including individual artists and art experts regarding borrowing photographs and prints. A majority of the memoranda and notes concern inter-departmental efforts to plan, design and exhibit various shows in the museum.
Other records include exhibition prospectus forms, records pertaining to exhibitions and planned and projects and contracts; work and purchase orders; project submittal requests; expenditure lists; exhibition captions and checklists; transparencies; budget proposals; acquisition lists; exhibition production sketches and production; and requisitions for services. Interspersing the records are correspondence and memoranda between Chiefs of various divisions and the NPG Director, Alan Fern, between the public and the Director, and between the donors and Museum's Registrar, Suzanne C. Jenkins.
Also interfusing the records are memoranda and notes among the Department's Chief, Nello R. Marconi, the Production Manager Stephen di Girolamo, exhibitions curator, Beverly J. Cox and curator of prints, Wendy Wick Reaves. Included among the records are pamphlets, exhibition floor plans, drawings and sketches, samples of carpets and paper, prints and photographs.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006
- Penn, Irving
- Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
- Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
- West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
- Fern, Alan Maxwell, 1930-
- Jenkins, Suzanne C.
- Marconi, Nello R.
- di Girolamo, Stephen
- Cox, Beverly J.
- Reaves, Wendy Wick, 1950-
- Washington Print Club
- Annie Liebovitz Photographs 1970-1991 (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Arnold Newman's Americans (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, London 1839-1989 (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Five of Hearts: Henry Adams and His Washington Circle (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraiture from the Hosokawa Family (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Irving Penn Master Images (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Lincoln and His Contemporaries: Photographs by Mathew Brady from the NPG's F. H. Meserve Collection (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Oliphant's Presidents: Twenty-five Years of Caricature (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Icons of Invention: American Patent Models (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Portraits of the American Law (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Portrait Posters (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860 (Exhibition) (1992-1993: Washington, D.C.)
- The Family 1976: Richard Avedon's Photographs for Rolling Stone (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Spirit of the Party: Hamilton and Jefferson at Odds (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Working for Time: The Covers of Robert Vickrey (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Time Covers the War: Personalities from World War II (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Charles Willson Peale and His World (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
- Peace and Friendship: Indian Peace Medals in the United States (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Portraits by George Bellows (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C.)
- Benjamin West and His American Students (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
- Great Crash (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
- American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920 (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Return to Albion: Americans in England 1776-1940 (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 94-093, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Department of Design and Production, Exhibition Records