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Record Unit 453
National Museum of American Art, Office of the Registrar,
Records, 1963-1987

Historical Note

Descriptive Entry


HISTORICAL NOTE

The position of Registrar was first established in 1965. Prior to that time registrarial duties were performed by the United States National Museum registrar. Marjorie S. Zapruder served as Registrar from 1965 until 1967, when Elizabeth Strassmann was appointed. Strassmann held the position until 1973. She was succeeded by W. Robert Johnston, who served as Registrar, 1974- .


DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

This record unit documents the activities of the Office of the Registrar staff and consists of temporary loan files; temporary exhibition files, including shipping, insurance information and loan agreements; general correspondence files; administrative files; and the files of the Smithsonian Art Commission, 1963-1975.

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ADMINISTRATIVE

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Incoming Potential TL's that never arrived:

1970 - Potential TL's - Never Arrived

1978 TL's Closed

Exhibition Notebook Index 10/78 - 12/81

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Renwick - Exhibition Books (AAUP), 12/2/80-12/16/80

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Box I The Inedible Renwick Birthday Cakes 1/29/82 - 4/25/82 (1 folder)

#393 Egypt: Day and Night Watercolors by Keith Achepohl 2/12/82 - 5/9/82 (1 folder)

#394 Posters for a Picnic 3/13/82 - 9/19/82 (1 folder)

#395 Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual (Part I & II) I 3/17/82 - 7/10/83 II 8/26/82 - 2/21/83 (5 folders)

# 398 The First Annual Awards in the Visual Arts 5/7/82 - 8/8/82 (2 folders)

#399 Prints and Multiples: 79th Exhibition by Artists (Chicago and Vicinity) 5/26/82 - 8/22/82 (1 folder)

#400 Photographs of Berenice Abbott: The Twenties and Thirties 6/4/82 - 8/29/82 (1 folder)

#401 The Grand Renwick Gallery Souvenir Show 6/11/82 - 10/11/82 (1 folder)

#402 In Pursuit of...(The Washington Print Club 9th Biennial Members Exhibition) 9/3/82 -10/31/82 (2 folders)

#405 Familiar But Unique: The Mono prints of Joseph Goldyne 9/24/82-12/5/82 (3 folders)

#407 The Prints of Louis Lozowick 11/5/82 - 4/10/83 (1 folder)

#408 Joseph Cornell: An Exploration of Sources 11/19/82 - 2/27/83 (2 folders)

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#409 Threads: Seven American Artists and Their Miniature Textile Pictures 11/25/82 - 5/8/83 (1 folder)

#410 Elizabeth Nourse 1859-1938--A Salon Career 1/14/83 - 4/17/83 (7 folders)

#411 Speaking a New Classicism: American Architecture Now 1/28/83 - 3/27/83 (1 folder)

#412 Jose de Creeft: Sculpture and Drawings 3/18/83 - 5/8/83 (1 folder)

#413 Charles Hawthorne: The Late Watercolors 4/15/83 - 9/15/83 (3 folders)

#414 Americans in Brittany and Normandy 6/10/83 - 8/14/83 (1 folder)

#415 Scandinavian Modern: 1880-1890 7/8/83 - 10/10/83 (1 folder)

#417 Provincetown Printers: A Woodcut Tradition 9/9/83 - 1/8/84 (3 folders)

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#418 Clay for Walls 9/16/83 - 6/17/84 (2 folders)

#419 The Capital Image: Painters in Washington DC. 1800-1915 10/19/83 - 1/22/84 (14 folders)

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#420 Lafayette Square. 1963-1983: Architecture, Preservation, and the Presidency 10/21/83 - 1/15/84 (1 folder)

#421 Russell Wricht: American Designer 11/4/83 - 3/4/84 (1 folder)

#429 Edward Colonna 4/27/84 - 8/19/84 (1 folder)

#430 Woodworks: Constructions by Robert Indiana 5/1/84 - 9/3/84 (2 folders)

#431 Exposed and Developed: Photography Sponsored by the NEA 5/18/84 - 10/8/84 (4 folders)

#432 The Tibetan Yak in Art and Craft 6/8/84 - 11/4/84 (1 folder)

#434 Advancing American Art 6/1/84 - 10/8/84 (1 folder)

#435 Erastus Salisbury Field 1805-1900 6/10/84 - 9/4/84 (1 folder)

#436 Eugenie Gershoy: Fantasy and Imagination in Sculpture 7/27/84 - 1/20/85 (2 folders)

#438 Chicago Furniture 10/12/84 - 4/7/85 (2 folders)

#439 The Pottery and Crafts of Newton College 11/2/84 - 2/24/85 (1 folder)

#442 Homage to Kline: Photos by Siskind 12/7/84 - 2/24/85 (1 folder)

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#443 Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in 19th Century America 1/15/85 - 4/7/85 (1 folder)

#444 Life: The Second Decade 2/15/85 - 5/12/85 (1 folder)

#446 Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church 3/29/85 - 7/14/85 (2 folders)

#447 Material Evidence: New Color Tech in Handmade Furniture 4/26/85 - 9/22/85 (1 folder)

#448 Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler 5/3/85 - 8/18/85 (1 folder)

#449 Architecture in Silver 5/3/85 - 7/28/85 (1 folder)

#451 The Woven Graphic Art of Anni Albers 6/12/85 - 1/5/86 (10 folders)

#453 Nature's Forms/Nature's Forces: The Art of Alexander Hogue 8/16/85 - 11/3/85 (1 folder)

#455 Art, Design and the Modern Corporation 10/24/85 - 1/19/86 (3 folders)

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#456 Treasures from the Land: New Zealand Craftsman... 11/15/85 - 3/16/86 (1 folder)

#457 Focusing on Art - Peter A. Juley and Son 11/22/85 - 5/4/86 (1 folder)

#460 Masterpieces of Time: New Clocks by Wendell Castle 12/24/85 - 5/11/86 (2 folders)

#461 Art in New Mexico 1900-1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe 3/7/86 - 6/15/86 (12 folders)

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#463 Fauick Ireland Drawings: 1965 - 1985 4/4/86 - 8/17/86 (2 folders)

#464 The Art of Turned Wood Bowls 4/17/86 - 9/28/86 (1 folder)

#465 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Building: Creating a Corporate Cathedral 4/26/86 - 9/1/86 (1 folder)

#466 The Washington Print Club 11th Biennial Members Exhibition 5/16/86 - 9/14/86 (3 folders)

#468 The Still Lifes of Henry Lee McFee 9/5/86 - 12/7/86 (3 folders)

#469 Unknown Territory: Photos by Ray R. Metzker 9/12/86 - 11/23/86 (1 folder)

#470 James Rosenquist: Paintings 1961 - 1985 10/23/86 - 1/11/87 (2 folders)

#472 Russia: The Land, The People, 1840 - 1910 10/17/86 - 1/5/87 (1 folder )

#473 Modern American Realism: Selections from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection 1/30/87 - 8/14/87 (1 folder)

#474 Gene Davis Memorial Exhibition 1/22/87 - 5/27/87 (4 folders)

#475 Quilts from the Indiana Amish 3/6/87 - 6/7/87 (1 folder)

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Closed Temporary Loan Files

Closed Miscellaneous Files

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Closed TL Files


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