Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 97-050
National Museum of American Art. Office of Registration and Collections Management
Records, 1966-1990
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | National Museum of American Art. Office of Registration and Collections Management |
| Title: | Records |
| Dates: | 1966-1990 |
| Quantity: | 3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
| Collection: | Accession 97-050 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession consists of the exhibition files of the Exhibition Coordinator at the National Museum of American Art. The files correspond with previously accessioned exhibition files from the Registrar's Office (please see the folder list for cross references). Also included are Registrar correspondence, 1974, 1977-1978; files on the Explorer/Children's Gallery, 1971-1976; and correspondence of the coordinator for the lending program, 1976-1977. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the exhibition files of the Exhibition Coordinator at the National Museum of American Art (NMAA). The files correspond with previously accessioned exhibition files from the Registrar's Office (please see the folder list for cross references). Also includes Registrar correspondence, 1974, 1977-1978; files on the Explorer/Children's Gallery, 1971-1976; and correspondence of the coordinator for the lending program, 1976-1977.
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 97-050, National Museum of American Art. Office of Registration and Collections Management, Records
Container List
Series 1
DEPARTMENTAL RECORDS.Box 1
1977-1978: Registrar correspondence
1974: Registrar correspondence
1975-1977: Request for photography and/or publication
1971-1976: Related memos, correspondence, agreement, financial expenses for Explorer/Children's Gallery (15 folders)
1976-1977 Incoming and Outgoing correspondence from Donald McClelland (coordinator for the lending program) (2 folders)
Series 2
EXHIBITION RECORDS.Box 1
Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the U.S. State Department, 1946-1948 [6/1/1984-10/7/1984]
America as Art [4/30/1976-11/17/1976]
American Art Pottery, 1880-1930 from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Renwick [3/25/1988-8/6/1989]
Keeping American Crafts Alive, Renwick Workshop [4/19/1986]
American Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, [2/3/1989-2/11/1990]
Americans in Brittany and Normandy [6/10/1983-8/14/1983]
Architectural Viewpoints: Americans in Europe, 1880-1930 [2/17/1989-5/28/1989]
Architecture in Silver, Renwick [5/3/1985-8/28/1985]
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, Paths to Taos and Sante Fe [5/7/1986-6/15/1986]
Art of Appalachia - more than land or Sky [10/31/1981-1/3/1982]
Art from Idaho: Sawtooths and other Ranges of Imagination [1983-1984]
Australian Ceramics, Renwick [12/16/1983-2/26/1984]
Alice Pike Barney: Portraits from the Studio House [12/2/1984-6/30/1986]
Box 2
Barney Studio House (General file)
Barney, The Paris Years [10/1/1986-6/1988]
Missouri Portfolio: The Drawings of George Caleb Bingham [6/8/1990-8/19/1990]
The Boat Show: Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages, Renwick [4/7/1989-8/6/1989]
The Incisive Eye of Romaine Brooks [11/29/1985-3/19/1986]
Frederick Brown, Selected Works [9/13/1991-12/1/1991]
Bound to Vary: Billy Budd [4/4/1989-8/9/1989]
The Graphic Art of George Elbert Burr [12/3/1985-5/11/1986]
Chicago Furniture: Art, Craft, and Industry, Renwick [10/12/1984-4/7/1985]
Close Focus: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs [9/4/1987-2/7/1988]
Edward Colonna: American Art Nouveau Designer, Renwick [4/27/1984-8/19/1984]
The Prints of Howard Norton Cook [1/17/1984-5/13/1984]
Jose DeCreeft: Sculpture and Drawings [3/18/1983-5/8/1983]
Drawings from the Collection [2/16/1988-9/11/1988]
Washington Print Club Show (American Figure Prints) [5/15/1986-9/14/1986]
The Flexible Medium: Art Fabric from the Renwick Collection [1/20/1984-2/1985]
Daniel Chester French [2/11/1977-4/17/1977]
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection of American Abstract Art [9/8/1989-2/11/1990]
Graphics: New Acquisitions [10/7/1988-1/2/1989]
Charles Hawthorne: The Late Watercolors [12/9/1983-2/19/1984]
Woodworks: Constructions by Robert Indiana [5/1/1984-9/3/1984]
Images of Innocence: The Child in American Art [6/31/1987-Spring 1990]
Life: The Second Decade, 1946-1955 [2/15/1985-5/12/1985]
Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art, 1965-1985, Renwick [10/2/1987-3/6/1988]
Paul Manship Memorial Exhibition [8/10/1966-9/25/1966]
Paul Manship [2/17/1989-7/23/1989]
Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray [12/2/1988-2/20/1989]
Material Evidence: New Color Techniques in Handmade Furniture, Renwick
Ray Metzker: Unknown Territory [9/12/1986-11/23/1986]
Modernist Abstract Prints [4/17/1989]
NMAA Renwick Staff Art Show [1/15/1988-1/31/1988]
NMAA Commission Meeting, 12/1988
NMAA Commission Meeting, 5/1988
NMAA Commission Meeting, 5/1989
NMAA Reinstallation of Permanent Collection, 1987
NMAA Installation of Richard Hunt Sculptures, 6/22/1988
Nourse: Original Entries for Women and Children
Photographs from the Permanent Collection, 7/31/1985
Photography of Invention [4/28/1989-8/13/1989]
Presidential Scholars Art Show [6/19/1989-6/25/1989]
Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors [1985]
Prints, 1960-1970
Quilts (Indiana Amish) [4/29/1986]
Box 3
Remington Bronzes: Cast and Recast
Riggs Drawings (Installation), 7/1983
Rockefeller Folk Art [11/22/1989-2/19/1990]
James Renquist: Paintings, 1961-1985 [10/23/1986-1/11/1988]
Russian Exhibition Exchange
John Scott Installation, 1989 - National Portrait Gallery (NPG)/NMAA in connection with The Jazz Aesthetic [8/12/1989]
Sculpture and the Federal Triangle
Sharing Traditions [1/15/1985-4/7/1985]
Special Delivery: Murals for the New Deal Era [1/15/1988-9/11/1988]
Symbols and Ceremonies: Pueblo Indian Watercolors [3/28/1986-8/17/1986]
Tibet
Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany [9/29/1989-3/4/1990]
Treasures from the Smithsonian Institution (Edinburgh Festival)
Treasures from the Smithsonian Institution - NMAA [5/7/1987-7/19/1987] (2 folders)
The Still Lives of Henry Lee Mcfee [9/5/1986- 12/7/1986]
Zoo to Art [3/1/1985-10/14/1985]
The Martha Jackson Memorial Exhibition [6/21/1985-9/15/1985]
Patrick Ireland: Drawings 1965-1985 [4/4/1986-8/17/1986]
Elizabeth Nourse: A Salon Career [1/14/1983-4/17/1983]
Lafarge, John [7/10/1987-10/12/1987]
American Art Deco, Renwick [4/17/1987-8/26/1987]
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection [1/30/1987-8/16/1987]
Art, Design, and the Modern Corporation: The Collection of Container Corporation, a Gift to NMAA [10/18/1985-1/12/1986]
Wanderlust [4/8/1987-6/19/1987]
Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston [12/1/1987-1/31/1988]
James McNeill Whistler Lithographs [5/3/1985-8/18/1985]
The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800-1915 [10/19/1983-1/22/1984]
The World of Lucas Samaras [8/12/1988-10/30/1988]
Awards in the Visual Arts: NMAA Project and Exhibition
Exposed and Developed: Photography Sponsored by the NEA
Juley and Sons: Focusing on Art [11/22/1985-5/4/1986]
Homage to Franz Kline: Photographs by Aaron Siskind [12/7/1984-3/3/1985]
Erastus Salisbury Field [6/8/1984-9/4/1984]
Werner Drewes: Sixty-five Years of Printmaking [10/5/1984-12/23/1984]
Nature's Forms, Nature's Forces: The Art of Alexandre Hogue [8/16/1985- 1/3/1985]
Fantasy and Imagination: Sculpture by Eugenie Gershoy [7/27/1984-1/20/1985]
Stephen De Staebler: The Figure, Renwick [10/21/1988- 2/12/1989]
Harvey K. Littleton Retrospective Exhibition [3/30/1984-9/4/1984]
Cynthia Schira: New Work, Renwick [11/13/1987-2/14/1988]
Fanfare (CCE Folder), Renwick [7/27/1984-1/6/1985]
Box 4
Lost and Found Traditions, Renwick [10/2/1987-3/6/1988]
Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women, Renwick [11/2/1984-2/24/1985]
The Art of Turned Wood Bowls, Renwick [4/17/1986-9/28/1986]
Treasures from the Land: New Zealand Craftsmen and Their Native Materials, Renwick [11/15/1985-3/16/1986]
Dan Dailey: Glass, 1972-1987, Renwick [6/26/1987-10/25/1987]
Celebrations: Renwick Gallery (2 Shows) [3/17/1982-6/26/1982 (Part I); [8/26/1982-2/21/1983 (Part II)]
Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase, Renwick [4/22/1988-9/5/1988]
Gene Davis [2/17/1987-5/17/1987]
Bruce Davidson: City Life [3/4/1988-6/19/1988]
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Building: Creating a Corporate Cathedral, Renwick [4/26/1986-9/1/1986]
American Traditions in Watercolor (Worcester Watercolors) [9/17/1988-11/26/1988]
The Woven and Graphic Art of Anni Albers, Renwick [6/12/1985-1/5/1987]
Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church [3/29/1985-7/14/1985]
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