Reference Request

* required
Please succinctly provide us with any information pertinent to your inquiry. If you are writing to us about a research request, provide as much detail as possible about the collections in which you are interested (including collection numbers, box numbers, and folder titles).
(if known)

The Smithsonian Institution Archives is using Constant Contact, a third-party contact management software vendor, to manage contacts and send eNewsletters. Please be advised that Constant Contact's Privacy Statement and Terms and Conditions apply to your use of these services. The Smithsonian Institution Archives has access to your name and email address which is subject to our privacy statement.

Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 00-044

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions

Exhibition Records, 1972-1996

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions
Title:Exhibition Records
Dates:1972-1996
Quantity:7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 00-044
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of exhibition records pertaining to "In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler" (1995), "Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass" (1995), "Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814" (1994), "Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture" (1995), and "Lazzaroni: Science & Scientists in Mid-19th Century America" (1972). All were exhibitions held at the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include photographs, loan agreements, correspondence, memoranda, notes, scripts, labels, and reports.

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of exhibition records pertaining to In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler (1995); Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass (1995); Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814 (1994); Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture (1995); and Lazzaroni: Science & Scientists in Mid-19th Century America (1972). All were exhibitions held at the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include photographs, loan agreements, correspondence, memoranda, notes, scripts, labels, and reports.

Top of Page

Access Restriction

Boxex 1-7 contains materials restricted indefinitely; see finding aid. Transferring office; 3/3/1999 memorandum, Lee to Cox; Contact reference staff for details.

Top of Page

Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 00-044, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records

Top of Page

Container List

Box 1

In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler; 4/7/1995 - 8/13/1995

General Files

General

Box 1 of 7

Brochure

Box 1 of 7

Budget

Box 1 of 7

Catalogue

Box 1 of 7

Catalogue Manuscript

Box 1 of 7

Permissions-Catalogue

Box 1 of 7

Catalogue Photographs from Non-Lenders

Box 1 of 7

Checklists

Box 1 of 7

Database Printout

Box 1 of 7

De-Installation

Box 1 of 7

Education

Box 1 of 7

Exhibition Credits

Box 1 of 7

Labels

Box 1 of 7

Opening

Box 1 of 7

In-House Photo Orders

Box 1 of 7

Public Relations (PR)

Box 1 of 7

Whistler Research

Box 1 of 7

Script

Box 1 of 7

Special Exhibition Fund (SEF)

Box 1 of 7

Signage

Box 1 of 7

Symposium: National Gallery of Art (NGA) and Freer

Box 1 of 7

Travel

Box 1 of 7

Lender Sheets

Box 1 of 7

Lender Files

Art Institute of Chicago

Box 1 of 7

Birmingham City Council

Box 1 of 7

Boston Public Library

Box 1 of 7

British museum

Box 1 of 7

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Box 1 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 1 of 7

Cincinnati Art Museum

Box 1 of 7

Cleveland Museum of Art

Box 1 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 1 of 7

Fine Arts Society

Box 1 of 7

National Portrait Gallery, Office of Exhibitions

Box 1 of 7

Exhibition Records

Box 1 of 7

Freer Gallery

Box 1 of 7

Freer Gallery - Research Photos

Box 1 of 7

Glasgow University Library

Box 1 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 1 of 7

Harvard University Art Galleries

Box 1 of 7

Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (Dublin)

Box 1 of 7

Hunterian Gallery, University of Glasgow

Box 1 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 1 of 7

Library of Congress (facsimile only)

Box 1 of 7

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Box 1 of 7

Box 2

Michael Parkin Gallery

Box 2 of 7

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Box 2 of 7

National Gallery of Art

Box 2 of 7

National Museum of American Art

Box 2 of 7

National Portrait Gallery, London

Box 2 of 7

National Portrait Gallery, SI

Box 2 of 7

New York Public Library

Box 2 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 2 of 7

Parrish Art Museum

Box 2 of 7

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Box 2 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 2 of 7

Princeton University Libraries

Box 2 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 2 of 7

Tate Gallery

Box 2 of 7

Victoria and Albert Museum

Box 2 of 7

Lender Files - Items not in exhibition

Atlas Galleries, Inc. - Dropped

Box 2 of 7

Browse and Darby - Dropped (see F. Shar)

Box 2 of 7

Christies - Dropped

Box 2 of 7

Detroit Institute of art - Denied

Box 2 of 7

Kennedy Galleries, Inc. - Dropped

Box 2 of 7

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) - Withdrawn

Box 2 of 7

Rosenbach Museum and Library - Dropped

Box 2 of 7

Sotheby's - Dropped

Box 2 of 7

Whistler-Pickford Waller scrapbook

Box 2 of 7

Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass; 2/10/1995 - 11/19/1995

General Files

General

Box 2 of 7

Booklet

Box 2 of 7

Brochure

Box 2 of 7

Waldo Martin

Box 2 of 7

Conference

Box 2 of 7

Exhibition Contract - National Portrait Gallery (NPG) and National Park Service (NPS)

Box 2 of 7

SEF

Box 2 of 7

Centennial

Box 2 of 7

Opening

Box 2 of 7

Database Printout

Box 2 of 7

De-Installation

Box 2 of 7

Educational Poster

Box 2 of 7

Funding/Budget

Box 2 of 7

Monument

Box 2 of 7

West Chester University - Douglass Project

Box 2 of 7

Education

Box 2 of 7

In-House Photo Orders

Box 2 of 7

Poster

Box 2 of 7

Research

Box 2 of 7

Script

Box 2 of 7

WETA Film

Box 2 of 7

Typeset Labels

Box 2 of 7

Box 3

Lender Files

Anacostia Museum

Box 3 of 7

Boston Public Library

Box 3 of 7

Clements Library, University of Michigan

Box 3 of 7

Gelman Library, George Washington University

Box 3 of 7

Lender Files (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 3 of 7

Harvard University Art Museums

Box 3 of 7

Harvard University, Moorland-Springarn

Box 3 of 7

Library Company of Philadelphia

Box 3 of 7

Library of Congress

Box 3 of 7

Madison County Historical Society

Box 3 of 7

Massachusetts Historical Society (Photo Only)

Box 3 of 7

Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (Photo Only)

Box 3 of 7

National Museum of American History (NMAH)

Box 3 of 7

National Park Service

Box 3 of 7

National Park Service: Photos

Box 3 of 7

NPG

Box 3 of 7

New York Public Library

Box 3 of 7

Old Dartmouth Historical Society

Box 3 of 7

Providence Public Library

Box 3 of 7

Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester

Box 3 of 7

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Box 3 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 3 of 7

Smith College

Box 3 of 7

State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Box 3 of 7

Syracuse University

Box 3 of 7

Lender Files - Items not in exhibition

Carnegie Museum of Art - Denied

Box 3 of 7

Chicago Historical Society - Denied

Box 3 of 7

J. Paul Getty Museum - Denied

Box 3 of 7

Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture; 10/6/1995 - 1/28/1996

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Dropped

Box 3 of 7

Mead Art Museum - Denied

Box 3 of 7

White House - Denied

Box 3 of 7

General Files

General

Box 3 of 7

Permission Letters from Vendors to Tara

Box 3 of 7

Brochure

Box 3 of 7

Budget

Box 3 of 7

Conservation and Fees

Box 3 of 7

Database Printouts

Box 3 of 7

De-Installation

Box 3 of 7

Education

Box 3 of 7

Funding

Box 3 of 7

Labels

Box 3 of 7

Luncheon

Box 3 of 7

Box 4

Photo Orders

Box 4 of 7

In-House Photo Orders

Box 4 of 7

Possible Venues

Box 4 of 7

Publicity

Box 4 of 7

Padwe, Alice - Research

Box 4 of 7

Unknowns (owners)

Box 4 of 7

SEF

Box 4 of 7

Scripts

Box 4 of 7

Shimbun, Yomiuri

Box 4 of 7

Possible Substitutions

Box 4 of 7

Symposium

Box 4 of 7

Text Panels

Box 4 of 7

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Box 4 of 7

Ruthann Uithol's Beaux Thesis

Box 4 of 7

Traveling Exhibition

Box 4 of 7

Traveling Venue: West-Mooreland Museum of Art

Box 4 of 7

Lender Files

Allegheny College Library

Box 4 of 7

H. V. Allison galleries

Box 4 of 7

American Academy of Arts and Letters

Box 4 of 7

American red Cross

Box 4 of 7

Amon Carter

Box 4 of 7

Art Institute of Chicago

Box 4 of 7

Lender Files (3 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 4 of 7

Bank One, Springfield

Box 4 of 7

Bryn Mawr

Box 4 of 7

Lender File (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 4 of 7

Butler Institute of American Art

Box 4 of 7

Cape Ann Historical Association

Box 4 of 7

Lender File (5 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 4 of 7

Columbus Museum of Art

Box 4 of 7

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Box 4 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 4 of 7

Davis Museum/Wellesley

Box 4 of 7

Box 5

Lender Files (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 5 of 7

Historical Society of Old Newbury

Box 5 of 7

Lender File (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 5 of 7

Johns Hopkins Medical School

Box 5 of 7

Sally Stretch Keen Memorial Library

Box 5 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 5 of 7

Library of Congress

Box 5 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 5 of 7

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Box 5 of 7

National Academy of Design

Box 5 of 7

National Library of Medicine

Box 5 of 7

National Museum of American Art (NMAA)

Box 5 of 7

NPG

Box 5 of 7

PAFA

Box 5 of 7

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Box 5 of 7

Rhode Island School of Design

Box 5 of 7

Lender File (3 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 5 of 7

Smith College Museum of Art

Box 5 of 7

Society of the Cincinnati at Anderson House

Box 5 of 7

Lender File (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 5 of 7

U. S. House of Representatives - Fine Arts Board

Box 5 of 7

Alfred J. Walker Fine Art

Box 5 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 5 of 7

Wellesley College Library

Box 5 of 7

Richard York Gallery

Box 5 of 7

Lender Files - Items not in exhibition

Lender File (5 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 5 of 7

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Dropped)

Box 5 of 7

Lender File (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 5 of 7

Harvard University (not in exhibit)

Box 5 of 7

Indianapolis Museum of Art (not in exhibit)

Box 5 of 7

Lender File (3 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 5 of 7

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (not in exhibit)

Box 5 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 5 of 7

Musee d'Orsay (withdrawn)

Box 5 of 7

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (not in exhibit)

Box 5 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 5 of 7

New York Academy of Medicine (not in exhibit)

Box 5 of 7

Lender File (5 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 5 of 7

Sotheby's (not in exhibit)

Box 5 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 5 of 7

Suvek Gallery (not in exhibit)

Box 5 of 7

Toledo Museum of Art (denied)

Box 5 of 7

U.S. Naval Academy (not in exhibit)

Box 5 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 5 of 7

Yale University Art Gallery (not in exhibition - 1 denied, 1 dropped)

Box 5 of 7

Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814; 12/2/1994 - 5/29/1995

General Files

General

Box 5 of 7

Brochure

Box 5 of 7

Catalogue

Box 5 of 7

Education

Box 5 of 7

Exhibition Schedules/deadlines

Box 5 of 7

Labels

Box 5 of 7

Opening

Box 5 of 7

Publicity

Box 5 of 7

Scripts

Box 5 of 7

Lender Files

American Art/Portrait Gallery (AAPG) Library

Box 5 of 7

American Philosophical Society

Box 5 of 7

Baltimore City Life Museums - Peale

Box 5 of 7

Baltimore Museum of Art

Box 5 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 5 of 7

Colonial Williamsburg

Box 5 of 7

Box 6

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Box 6 of 7

Duke University of Art

Box 6 of 7

Gibbes Museum of Art

Box 6 of 7

Hayes, Virginia Wickham

Box 6 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 6 of 7

Maryland Historical Society

Box 6 of 7

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Box 6 of 7

Missouri Historical Society

Box 6 of 7

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Box 6 of 7

National Museum of American History

Box 6 of 7

National Portrait Gallery

Box 6 of 7

New York Historical Society

Box 6 of 7

New York Public Library

Box 6 of 7

Peabody Essex Museum

Box 6 of 7

Porter, Julia Wickham

Box 6 of 7

Princeton University Library

Box 6 of 7

Lender Files (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 6 of 7

Wilson Library, University of North Carolina

Box 6 of 7

Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED

Box 6 of 7

Washington Cathedral

Box 6 of 7

Lender Files - Items not in exhibition

Dibner Library, NMAH (dropped)

Box 6 of 7

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art (Withdrawn)

Box 6 of 7

Winterthur Museum (denied)

Box 6 of 7

Worcester Art Museum (denied)

Box 6 of 7

The Lazzaroni: Science & Scientists in Mid-19th Century America; 12/1/1972 - 5/30/1973

General Files

General

Box 6 of 7

Photographs

Box 6 of 7

Installation Shots

Box 6 of 7

Charles Darwin Letter

Box 6 of 7

Lectures

Box 6 of 7

Labels

Box 6 of 7

Complimentary Copies - Catalogue

Box 6 of 7

Script

Box 6 of 7

Subject Files

Agassiz, Louis

Box 6 of 7

Bache, Alexander Dallas

Box 6 of 7

Baird, Spender Fullerton

Box 6 of 7

Dana, James Dwight

Box 6 of 7

Draper, John W.

Box 6 of 7

Davis, Charles Henry

Box 6 of 7

Eliot, Charles William

Box 6 of 7

Felton, C. C.

Box 6 of 7

Frazier, John Fries

Box 6 of 7

Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott

Box 6 of 7

Gould, Benjamin A.

Box 6 of 7

Gray, Asa

Box 6 of 7

James Hall by Huntington

Box 6 of 7

Henry, Joseph

Box 6 of 7

Leidy, Joseph

Box 6 of 7

Maury, Matthew

Box 6 of 7

Pierce, Benjamin

Box 6 of 7

Rogers, William Baron

Box 6 of 7

Wilson, Henry

Box 6 of 7

Lender Files

Dedication of the Dudley Observatory

Box 6 of 7

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Box 6 of 7

American Philosophical Society

Box 6 of 7

National Portrait Gallery, Office of Exhibitions

Box 6 of 7

Harvard University Archives

Box 6 of 7

Gray Herbarium

Box 6 of 7

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Box 6 of 7

Massachusetts Historical Society

Box 6 of 7

Library of Congress

Box 6 of 7

Museum of Cooperative Zoology

Box 6 of 7

National Academy of Sciences

Box 6 of 7

National Archives

Box 6 of 7

National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), Division of Photography

Box 6 of 7

Box 7

Smithsonian Libraries

Box 7 of 7

Geology of North American/Unites States Geological Survey

Box 7 of 7

Omits

Box 7 of 7

Miscellaneous Files Relating to Previously Archived Shows

Box 7 of 7

Photographs of Catalogue Illustrations

On the Air: Catalogue Illustrations (See also: Accession 97-083)

Box 7 of 7

First Federal Congress: Catalogue Illustrations (See also: Accession 95-163)

Box 7 of 7

Portrait of the American Law: Catalogue Illustrations (See also: Accession 97-083)

Box 7 of 7

Lender Files

Lender Files (15 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]

Box 7 of 7