This accession is restricted for 15 years from the latest date of records (1996). Restrictions will be lifted at the beginning of calendar year 2012 (01/01/2012). Access to restricted collections requires explicit permission from the transferring office or donor. Contact the SIA Reference Staff for further information (call 202-633-5870, or email OSIAREF@osia.si.edu).

Records consists of exhibition proposals declined by the Museum and the Renwick Gallery. Materials include correspondence, notes, memoranda, proposals, brochures, and color slides.

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Organizing Institution / Exhibition Title / Date Declined / Cost

• Joseph Jacobs, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Newark Museum, Off Limits: Rutgers University and Avant-Garde Art 1957-1963, 12/96
• Sara Rosenfeld, Exhibitions Coordinator, The American Federation of Arts, Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Collection of American Art, 11/96
• Maria Hajoc, Curator of Art, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Carl Rungius, 12/96
• Phillip B. Gonzales, Director, The University of New Mexico, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, Spirit Ascendent: The Art and Life of Patrocino Barela, 11/96
• Tim Mosman, Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ An Excess of Fact: Lee Friedlander/The Sonoran Desert, 11/96
• Dan Cameron, Senior Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Faith Ringgold: The French Connection & the American Connection, 11/96
• Dan L. Monroe, Executive Director, Peabody Essex Museum, Gifts of the Spirit: Works of Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Native American Artists, 11/96
• Leonard Lewis, Rhino Horn exhibition, 11/96
• Karen Wilkin, Isaac Witkin: A Sculpture Retrospective, 11/96
• Nancy E. Green, Assistant Director for Collections and Programs, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, Susan Rothenberg: Drawings and Prints, 11/96
• Dr. Kenworth W. Moffett, Executive Director, Museum of Art, Duane Hanson Sculptures, 10/96
• Sara Rosenfeld, Exhibitions Coordinator; The American Federation of the Arts, Small Paintings by Arthur Dove, 1942-43, 11/96
• Scott F. Sibley, Works by Emmett Edwards and Eleanor McGavic Edwards (30s-70s), 11/96
• Kristan H. McKinsey, Director of Art Programs and Collections, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, James Butler: Views Along the Mississippi (landscape paintings), 11/96
• Jeff Fleming, Chief Curator Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Work of Maya Lin, 11/96
• Eleni Cocordas, Museum of Modern Art, Pictures of the Times: A Century of Photography from New York Times, 10/96
• Mark Miller,David Stone Martin (illustrator of the 30s), 10/96
• Thomas K. Seligman, Director, Stanford University Museum of Art, Pacific Arcadia: Images of California 1600-1915, 9/96
• Patricia Johnston, Publisher, Afton Historical Society Press, Seth Eastman's Watercolors, 10/96
• Patricia Templin, Executive Diriector, Hoosier Salon Patrons AssociationHoosier Salon Patron Association 7th Anniversary Exhibition, 10/96
• Karen Anderson, Assistant Director of Programs, Center for the Fine Arts, Triumph of Spirit: Carlos Alfonso A Survey 1976-1991 (paintings, drawings, sculpture), 10/96
• Eleni Cocordas, Associate Coordinator of Exhibitions, The Museum of Modern Art, Come Sunday: Photographs by Thomas Roma, 10/96
• Sara Rosenfeld, Exhibitions Coordinator, The American Federation of Arts, Julien Levy: Objects of Affection (paintings, photos, sculpture, drawings, films, ephemera), 10/96
• Peggy Doherty, Director, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Oscar Luis Martinez (paintings), 9/96
• Kathleen Monaghan, Director, The Hyde Collection, Cauldron of Excitement: The Paintings of George McNeil, 9/96
• Deborah J. Johnson, President And CEO, The Museums at Stony Brook, George Washington American Icon: An Image Transformed (paintings, prints, sculpture, dec. arts), 8/96
• Dr. David F. Setford, Chief Curator, Norton Museum of Art, Georg Bellows: Love of Winter, 8/96
• Shirley Wenger, Watercolors by Susie Riehl, 8/96
• Lucinda H. Gedeon, Ph.D., Director, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, June Wayne: A Retrospective, 8/96
• Nicholas Olsberg, Chief Curator, Canadian Centre for Architecture, The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks, 8/96
• Neil C. Trager, Director, College Art Gallery, State University of New York at New Platz, Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape (photographs), 7/96
• Melissa Webster, Assistant Curator, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, In Search of Frederic Remington (paintings, diaries, ledger books, photo albums, etc.), 7/96
• Mary Gardner Neill, Director, Seattle Art Museum, Native Visions: Northwest Coast Art 18th Century to the Present, 6/96
• Bette Petrides, Retrospective of Historical Marine Paintings by John Stobart (1924-), 6/96
• John E. Fleming, Ph.D., Director, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce Office, When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance (2 shows in tandem: History of African American Dance; Art by African Americans inspired by dance), 5/96
• Wendy Weitman, Department of Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, Sol LeWitt Prints 1970-1995, 6/96
• Dr. Sarah Burns, History of Art, Indiana University Fine Arts Building, 132 Bloomington, IN 47405-3501, 19th Century British and American Rural Genre Painting (OR American 9th Century Genre Painting), 6/96 and 1/98
• Stephen Fleischman, Director, Madison Art Center, Claes Oldenburg: Printed Stuff, 6/96
• Stephen Prokopoff, Director, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties, 6/96
• Marion Kocot, Coordinator Traveling Exhibitions, International Center of Photography, David Levinthal: A Retrospsective, 6/96
• Nina Gibans, Cleveland Artists Foundation, Yet Still We Rise: African American Art in Cleveland, 5/96
• Simon Dinnerstein, Large scale exhibition of Dinnerstein's work, 5/96
• Professor Michael Kammen, Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Retrospective of Robert Gwathmey (1903-1988) , 5/96
• Bob Duffy, Show of Duffy's work (paintings), 5/96
• Jacquelynn Baas, Director, University Art Museum Berkeley, University of California Berkeley, Transformation: The Art of Joan Brown (paintings, works on paper, 3-d pieces), 9/96
• John Carlin, Development Officer, Nstional Museum of the American Indian, Around Coltrane (photographs by Robert Freeman), 4/96
• Harold Bell, President, Cape Ann Historical Association, Stuart Davis in Gloucester, 4/96
• Lewis I. Sharp, Director, The Denver Art Museum, Wheat Fields (Jim Dine), 4/96
• Patricia D. Richards, Collective Memories (photographs by Richards and family), 4/96
• Valerie Dillon, Dillon Gallery, Sin and Redemption and other works by Patricia Nix, 3/96
• H. Glenn Williams, Charley Harper paintings, 3/96
• Jane Sweeney, Felrath Hines Retrospective (drawings, paintings, prints), 3/96
• Sachi Yanari, Assistant Curator of Collections, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Alma Thomas, 3/96
• Bob W. Morris, Album Cover Art, 3/96
• Jo Farb Hernandez, Misch Kohn, 3/96
• Lynn K. Rogerson, Director, Art Services International, Soaring Spirit: The Art of Rockwell Kent, 3/96
• Kathleen A. Foster, Curator, 19th and 20th Century Art J. Frank Currier Project, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, J. Frank Currier Retrospective (paintings, prints, pastels), 3/96
• Barbara J. Bloemink, Ph.D., Executive Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Two Decades of Paintings by Gary Stephan, 3/96
• Sara Rosenfeld, Exhibition Coordinator, The American Federation of Arts, A Passion for the Past: The Collection of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little at Cogswell's Grant (all media), 2/96
• Carey T. Caldwell, Senior Curator, The Oakland Museum of California Foundation, Memory and Imagination: The Art and Legacy of Frank Day (1902-1976) (paintings)
• Edana Elder, Marketing Coordinator, Exhibits USA, Betye Saar: Personal Icons, 2/96
• Deborah Martin Kao, Charles C. Cunningham, Senior Assistant Curators, Print Department, Photograph Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Art in the Service of Social Action: Ben Shahn's New York Photographs 1932-1936, 2/96
• Bonnie Yochelson c/o Marilyn Simon, Head of Exhibitions, Museum of the City of New York, Berenice Abbott at Work: The Making of Changing New York, 2/96
• Karen Hewitt (wife of deceased artist Francis Hewitt), The Anonima Group (1960-1971) or Work of Frank Hewitt (paintings), 2/96
• Audrrey Gardner-Wright, Ph.D., Art of Admiral Henry Walke (1809-1896) (paintings, drawings, lithographs), 2//96
• Jo Farb Hernandez, Retrospective of Misch Kohn (b. 1916) (prints), 2/96
• Inga Kolodney, Interstrategies Inc., Illustrations of the Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales by Robert Wang, 1/96
• Christopher B. Crosman, Director, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Shelving Shores: Jamie Wyeth and the Sea (paintings), 2/96
• Michael Conforti, Director, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Early Sargent Works Publicly Exhibited, 1/96
• National Sculpture Society, Ft. Worth, TX, The National Sculpture Society Presents: 2000 Before and Beyond: A Celebration of Mankind's Heritage in Sculpture, 11/95
• Margaret C. Conrads, Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Albert Bloch, 1/96
• Constance W. Glenn, Director, University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties, 1/96
• Christian A. Peterson, Associate Curator of Photographs, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, After the Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography 1910-1955, 1/96
• Robin R. Salmon, Senior Vice President and Curator of Collections, Brookgreen Gardens, American Masters: Sculptures from Brookgreen Gardens, 3/96
• Dr. Lois G. Marcus, Associated Art Consultants, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 11/95
• Deborah Johnson, President and CEO, The Museums at Stony Brook, Paintings from the Collection of Walter and Lucille Rubin, 11/95
• Cynthia Graves, Coordinator, TREXTraveling Exhibitions Program, Betty Hahn: Photography or Maybe Not, 10/95
• Dr. Barry R. Harwood, Associate Curator, Department of Decorative Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, Hunzinger furniture, 1/95
• Malcolm Rogers, Director, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Herb Ritts exhibition (photographs), 11/95
• Margaret C. Conrads, Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Albert Bloch (paintings), 9/95
• Susan Sachs Fleishman, A Journey for the Senses (Juliet Ehrlich Ceramic Murals), 8/95
• Suzannah J. Fabing, Director, Smith College Museum of Art, Retrospective of Sandy Skoglund (sculpture, photographs, installation), 4/95
• Mark A. Tullos, Junior Director, Alexandria Museum of Art, Will Henry Stevens: From the Mountains to the Sea (paintings), 7/95
• Kaye M. Wagner, Tour Director, American Academy of Equine Art, The Horse in Art: The Best of the American Academy of Equine Art, 6/95
• Bernard Barryte, Associate Director and Chief Curator, Stanford University Museum of Art, Pacific Arcadia (California Dream) (all media)
• Robert E. Seydel, Curator of Exhibitions, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Photographs by Dennis Hopper: 1961-1967, 6/95
• Mimi Roberts, Coordinator, Bea Mandelman Exhibition Tour, Bea Mandelman Retrospective, 6/95
• Thomas Moore, Curator of Photographs, The Mariners' Museum, 4 traveling photographic exhibitions (Chris-Craft Boats; William Francis Gibbs; Boat for all Reasons; Edwin Levick), 6/95
• Nicholas Olsbert, Chief Curator, Centre Canadien d'Architecture, The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing Disney's Theme Parks, 6/95
• Terry Fenton, Plain Truth: Photographers and Film Makers in Western Canada, 6/95
• Judith Hoos Fox, Curator, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, The Arts and Crafts in Boston 1897-1927 (w/t), 4/95
• Susan Anderson, Acting Director, Laguna Art Museum, Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 5/95
• Deborah J. Johnson, President and CEO, The Museums at Stony Brook, William Sidney Mount: American Genre Painter, 5/95
• Kathleen A. Foster, Curator, 19th and 20th Century Art, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, Images of the Heartland: The Midwestern Landscape, 4/95
• Gail Stavitsky, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, The Montclair Art Museum, Precisionism in America (1914-1941): Reordering Reality, 3/95
• John Wilson, Curator, Painting and Sculpture, Cincinnati Art Museum, Henry Mosler, 8/94
• Pierre Theberge, Director, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, George Segal Exhibition, 8/95
• Katy Kline, Director, Wiesner Bldg. E15-109, Cambridge, MA 02139, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, 3/95
• Smith Kramer, Fine Art Services, Traveling Exhibitions for Spring 1995, 3/95
• Trudy W. Stack, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Reconstruction: William Christenberry's Art, 3/95
• Nick Capasso, Associate Curator, DeCordova Museum And Sculpture Park, Harriet Casdin-Silver: The Art of Holography, 3/95
• Suzette Lane McAvoy, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Sacred Sites: Images of Japan Ireland and the American Southwest, 2/95
• Peter G. Henrici, Kunsthalle wien, The Construction of the Impossible. Technical Visions (w/t), 2/95
• Jennifer Keefer, Columbus Museum of Art, Traveling Exhibitions for 1994-95, 10/94
• Marion Kocot, Coordinator, Traveling Exhibitions, International Center of Photography, Fazal Sheikh: Photographs, 12/94
• Kathy Halbreich, Director, Walker Art Center, Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995, 12/94
• Connie Sullivan, Constance Sullivan Editions, 2 Landscapes of the Civil War, 12/94
• Eleanor Flomenhaft, Retrospective of Elizabeth Catlett's Sculpture, 11/94
• Barbara C. Gilbert, Curator, Hebrew Union College, Skirball Museum, Henry Mosler - A Retrospective, 10/94
• Samuel Sachs II, Director, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography, 10/94
• Janice T. Driesbach, Curator, Crocker Museum of Art, American Views: Oil Sketches by Thomas Hill (w/t) (paintings), 9/94
• Donald E. Knaub, Director, The Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Charles Grafly, 1862-1929 (sculpture), 8/94
• Richard Torchia, Curator, Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia, Moore College of Art and Design, Humbert Howard: A Retrospective (paintings), 8/94
• Lin Fridman, Galeria Fridman, Puerto Rico, Exhibition of Puerto Rican artists, 7/94
• Peter and Donna Thomas, A Collection of Paper Samples from Hand Papermills in the United States of America, 7/94
• David Lewis, FAIA AICP, Peter Contis (paintings), 7/94
• Hutton Wilkinson, Executive Director, The Anthony and Elizabeth Duquette Foundation for the Living Arts, Anthony Duquette (jewelry), 7/94
• Steven L. Brezzo, Director, San Diego Museum of Art, Continental Divide (painting), 7/94
• Graham W. J. Beal, Director, Joslyn Art Museum, Karen Kunc (prints), 7/94
• Robert A. Whyte, Curator, Museo Italo Americano, Fort Mason Center, Buiding C, Home on the Streets: Paintings and Drawings by Marco Sassone, 6/94
• David Witt, Curator, The Harwood Foundation, The Life and Art of Patrocino Barela, 6/94
• Larry David Perkins, Curator of Collections, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Howard Thomas (painting), 6/94
• International Sculpture Center, Narrative Jewelry, 6/94
• Anne Kohs, John Buck (prints), 6/94
• David Hanks, Peggy Bacon, 6/94
• Steven High, Director, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell: The Uncommon Wealth (painting), 6/94
• Anthony Hirschel, Director, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, John Douglas Woodward: Shaping the Landscape Image 1865-1910 (illustration), 6/94
• Dr. Robert Henning, Asstistant Director for Curatorial Services, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, House and Home, 3/94
• Russell Panczenko, Director, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, John Stewart Curry, 5/94
• Ina Schecter, President, Washington Watercolor Association, Centennial Exhibition, 3/94
• Stuart and Roberta Friedman, Corinne Michele Westerman (aka Michael West) (painting), 3/94
• Tanisha Jones, Traveling Exhibition Coordinator, California Academy of Sciences, Witness: Endangered Species of North America (photography), 3/94
• William Burt, Shadowbirds (photographs), 3/94
• Donna Gustafson, American Federation of Arts, An Art of Conscience: American Social Commentary 1930-1970 from the Collection of Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller, 2/94
• Dr. Patricia Trenton, Guest Curator, Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Women Painters of the American West: 1890-1945, 2/94
• Matthew Drutt, Guest Curator, Renwick Gallery, Rudy Staffel - Ceramics, 3/93
• Aaron D. Schindler, Photo Perspectives, Chris Rainier's Photographs - Keepers of the Spirit, 1/94