Record Unit 321 - National Museum of American Art, Office of Program Support, Records, 1947-1981

The historic mission and activities of the Office of Program Support date back to the mid-1940s, when the Department of State administered United States exhibition activities overseas. In 1954 this activity was transferred to the United States Information Agency (USIA). The USIA organized and circulated art exhibitions abroad and, in the years immediately preceding 1965, supported American participation in international art shows.

In November 1965, the Smithsonian Institution and the USIA agreed that the Smithsonian would assume the responsibility for an international exchange program of art exhibitions; support American entries in international art exhibitions, in particular, the Venice and Sao Paulo biennials; and service the United States Information Services' field requests, when possible. The USIA would continue to be responsible for national exhibitions presented in the Soviet Union and East European countries.

The International Art Program (IAP), the office responsible for the USIA activities in this area, was transferred to the control of the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA). Three program employees were detailed to NCFA. The USIA agreed to continue providing financial assistance for projects begun before the program transfer had been made.

In July 1966, IAP personnel, Lois A. Bingham, Chief, Margaret P. Cogswell, Deputy Chief, and William M. Dunn, Exhibits Officer, became permanent NCFA staff members.

Between 1965 and 1970, most of the exhibition budget for IAP was directed to the large international shows, most notably the biennials. After the threatened boycott of American artists at the Venice biennial in 1970, the Smithsonian began considering its role in the international art shows, not wanting to get involved in politics and the consequences of such activity in its relations with artists. At the same time, the USIA no longer felt that the international shows were the most useful means of reaching audiences abroad. As a result, both agreed that IAP would provide smaller exhibitions for USIA use - a minimum of six a year. NCFA, however, continued to assist American entries in the larger international shows by encouraging private institutions to provide support for them.

In 1973, IAP became the Office of Exhibitions Abroad (OEA), reflecting the changes in its mission. Lois Bingham continued as Chief of OEA.

By 1976-1977, OEA's funding and budgetary support for packaging shows for USIA was waning. In 1977, the Office title was changed to the Office of Program Support, with Bingham as Chief of the Office. The program of the new office became more restrictive, working with NCFA staff in assisting and developing NCFA projects. For other types of exhibitions, the Office was to seek outside financial support. In fiscal year 1980, Bingham became Coordinator of Program Support; and by the end of 1981 the Office ceased all operations.

These records provide detailed documentation on the administrative as well as exhibition activities carried out by USIA, IAP, and OEA from 1954 through 1981. Exhibition records include correspondence with embassies, working committees, organizers, artists; fund-raising letters; loan agreements; condition reports; exhibition reports and catalogs; press releases and newspaper clippings; photographs of artwork, installations, and publicity material (ambassadors, artists, and local committees), as well as biographies of artists involved with the shows. In addition, there are color slides, tape recordings, and film covering some of the exhibitions. Well documented are the Sao Paulo biennial and the Venice biennial dating from 1955 and 1964, respectively.

Administrative records include correspondence and memoranda, histories of the programs, USIA and Smithsonian agreements, and information on the office reorganizations. There is also information on program planning, budgetary material, travel policy, and trips taken by the staff. In addition, there are records on exhibitions sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and the USIA, resource files broken down by collections and collectors, and professional art organizations, staff meeting notes, and personal diaries.

DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

The large volume and irregular arrangement of the records of the Office is reflected in this finding aid. Series 1 through 14, the administrative records, are described on the folder level. Series 15 and 16, the exhibition files that form the bulk of the records, are described on the box level. Series 17 and 18, the oversize and audio-visual records, are described on the item level.

The Office arranged exhibitions by project number. The unnumbered, early exhibitions which appear in Series 15 are not well-documented, and project files contain only scraps of material, which do not paint a full portrait of the exhibition. Materials in these early files appear arbitrary; sometimes a catalog exists, sometimes some budget material, sometimes only correspondence.

In the mid-1960s, when the numbering system was more firmly established, the files increased in volume. The files of the numbered exhibitions which are contained in Series 16 document all aspects of the major exhibitions, though not in an easily recognized, regular order. Most exhibition files contain correspondence, but later files also include material regarding budget issues (both proposals and purchases); loans; shipping and packing; installation and instructions; publicity; and catalog creation (and finished catalogs as well). These files also often reflect the specific planning and equipment requirements of each exhibition.

The box-level format of the finding aid indicates the kinds of documentation that can be found in each box of records for particular exhibitions, since the files for single exhibitions often fill more than one box. Of course, folder titles are the most accurate guides to the contents of a box; however, the Office did not use standard folder titles for basic documentation that recurred for most exhibitions. Therefore, researchers consulting only the "Finances" folder would perhaps miss important records in folders entitled "Budget" or "Bills." Thus the box level description offers the researcher a general description of the material within, with more precise information found on the folder headings. Please note that only the English words for "biennial" and "triennial" have been used in the finding aid, and the documents themselves should be consulted for the proper foreign-language titles of these recurring exhibitions.

For this reason, researchers should search all boxes pertaining to a particular exhibition, rather than a few folders alone; similar material may arise in folders at both the beginning and the end of an exhibition. For a brief overview, researchers should request the folders called "exhibition notebooks" or "final report notebooks," which usually pull together much of the important material from all the folders. Useful material can also often be found in "Lois Bingham's file" for an exhibition.

Visual material exists throughout the Exhibition Series, yet again, the volume increases from the midpoint on. Some exhibition files contain only photographs of exhibited works, while others contain images of exhibited works, of installations, of opening receptions, of artists, of artists at work, of packing, and of various other scenes for panel exhibits. Later exhibitions often involved multimedia displays (slide, film, music shows; technological advances; lectures; panel exhibits) and the files reflect the planning and outcome of these more involved, more visual exhibitions.

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1.
Correspondence, 1952-1981

Box 1 of 287

General Correspondence and Memoranda

Folders	1-2	General domestic correspondence, 1964-1967. Public inquiries, routine administrative and operational issues.
Folder	3	Correspondence and memoranda, 1965-1977.
Folder	4	Correspondence, 1968-1981.
Folder	5	Correspondence, 1969
Folder	6	Correspondence, FY 1971-1972
Folder	7	Correspondence, FY 1973
Folder	8	Correspondence, FY 1974
Folder	9	Correspondence, FY 1975

Box 2 of 287

Folder 1 Correspondence, FY 1976

Folder 2 Correspondence, FY 1977-1980

Folder 3 Correspondence with Lucien Aigner, Photographer, 1972-1974

Folder 4 Correspondence with New York Dealers, 1961-1966

Communications with Government Agencies

Folders	5-7		Congressional and White House Correspondence, 1952-1970
Folder	8		Congressional Legislation on the Fine Arts, 1958, 1971-1973

Box 3 of 287

Folder 1 Interagency Craft Committee, 1972-1975

Folder 2 Library of Congress, 1957-1976

Folder 3 National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (National Endowment for the Arts), 1966-1977

Folder 4 State Department Communications, 1963-1975. Telegrams, memoranda, press clippings.

Folder 5 State Department American Specialist Program, 1969

Folder 6 State Department Art Advisory Committee, 1958-1966

Folder 7 White House, 1971-1975

Folder 8 White House Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1974

Communications with the Smithsonian Institution and the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA)

Folder	9	General Smithsonian Correspondence, 1969-1980
Folder	10	Smithsonian Secretarial Correspondence, 1969-1970
Folders	11-12	Office of the Director, NCFA, Correspondence and Memoranda, 1967-1978

Box 4 of 287

Folder 1 Harry Lowe, Assistant Director for Operations, NCFA, 1972-1977. Internal correspondence and memoranda.

Folder 2 Harry J. Jordan, Assistant Director for Administration, NCFA, 1973-1976. Internal correspondence and memoranda.

Internal Correspondence and Memoranda with NCFA Departments, 1967-1978

Folder	3	Renwick
Folder	4	Building Manager
Folder	5	Slides and Photography
Folder	6	Public Affairs
Folder	7	Library
Folder	8	Research and Professional Training
Folder	9	Administration
Folder	10	Exhibition and Design
Folder	11	Prints and Drawings
Folder	12	Twentieth Century
Folder	13	Education
Folder	14	Publications
Folder	15	Registrar
Folder	16	Conservation

Internal Correspondence and Memoranda with Smithsonian Offices, 1958-1977

Folder	17	Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1973-1974
Folder	18	Horticulture, 1977
Folder	19	Mail Service, 1973-1977
Folder	20	Museum Shops, 1969
Folder	21	Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services, 1974
Folder	22	SI Press, 1977
Folder	23	Traveling Exhibition Service, 1958-1968

SERIES 2.
Administrative Records, 1952-1981

Box 4 of 287

Folder 24 Office space, 1974-1978. Includes floor plans.

Folder 25 Move to Liberty Loan Building, 1970-1971. Plans for office space.

Folder 26 Move from Liberty Loan Building to NCFA (Mr. Doane's File), 1975

Folder 27 Move to Patent Office Building, 1967

Folder 28 Proposed move to Pension Building, 1968-1969

Box 5 of 287

Folder 1 Alexandria warehouse storage, 1970

Folder 2 Office space, 1111 North Capitol St., 1976-1978. Includes floor plans.

Folder 3 Supplies and equipment, 1966-1980

Folder 4 Office equipment, furniture, and inventory, 1968-1981. Includes floor plans.

Folders 5-7 Form development, 1967-1979. Facility and condition reports, labels (folders 1 to 3 of 5).

Box 6 of 287

Folders 1-2 Form development, 1967-1979. Facility and condition reports, labels (folders 4 to 5 of 5).

Folders 3-4 Administrative memoranda, 1969-1980

Folders 5-6 Policy and procedures, 1952-1970. Press clippings, memoranda, and correspondence between government agencies, arts organizations, and others; congressional speeches, other published speeches.

Box 7 of 287

Folder 1 Policy and procedures, 1967-1974

Folder 2 Operations, 1956. Early agreements and projects.

Folder 3 USIA ICS/ED/FA procedure for assembling and circulating art exhibitions, 1957-1960

Folder 4 "Survey of USIA Visual Materials" by Robert Sivard, December 1965

Folder 5 Briefing materials for David W. Scott, NCFA Director, for 12 May 1969 meeting with USIA

Folders 6-7 Relations with USIA, 1966-1980. Agreements, exhibition planning material, press clippings, reports.

Folders 8-9 Transfer proposal and agreements, 1965-1976

Box 8 of 287

Folder 1 History, 1965-1975. Reports and press clippings (see box 284 for four oversize group photographs of unidentified NCFA staff).

Folder 2 Notes on program history

Folder 3 NCFA meetings, 1972-1979

Folder 4 Program meetings, 1973-1979

Folder 5 Background material and research on organizing and sending exhibitions abroad, 1959-1967

Folder 6 Publicity, 1957-1958

Folder 7 Reorganization, 1975-1977

Box 9 of 287

Personnel

Folder	1	USIA trainees, 1967-1970
Folder	2	USIA security: personnel checks, 1956-1965
Folders	3-5	Position descriptions, 1966-1980
Folder	6	Upward Mobility Program proposal, 1974
Folder	7	Program projections and staffing, 1970
Folder	8	Meeting and staff notes by Peg Cogswell, 1969-1970
Folder	9	Personnel: general, 1965-1976
Folder	10	Personnel: program support, 1979-1980

Box 10 of 287

Personnel Files (retained or sampled)

Folder	1	Lois A. Bingham (sampled)
Folder	2	Margaret "Peg" Cogswell
Folder	3	William M. Dunn
Folder	4	Julia Haifley
Folder	5	Elizabeth Lyons - Bangkok
Folder	6	Nancy Newhall - photographs
Folder	7	Constance Perkins
Folder	8	Ed Stansbury
Folder	9	Douglass Williams
Folder	10	Internship program, 1966-1978
Folder	11	Internship program, 1978-1981

SERIES 3.
Program Files, 1951-1979

Box 10 of 287

Folder 12 Lois Bingham travel notes, photographs, and expenditures, 1967-1974

Folder 13 Lois Bingham visit to Germany, 1967

Folder 14 Museum trips: Europe, New Vein/Archipenko, July-August 1967

Folder 15 Museum trips: Latin America, New Vein, October 1967

Folder 16 Travel correspondence, 1968-1971

Box 11 of 287

Folder 1 International exchange of art exhibitions, 1961-1973

Folder 2 Foreign Correspondents Center, NY, 1961

Folder 3 USIA Advisory Committee on Cultural Information, 1957-1961

Folder 4 Possible curators, 1957-1961

Folder 5 Children's art exhibits, 1958-1963

Folder 6 Reports and correspondence on flood in Italy, 1966

Folder 7 Serigraphs (National Serigraph Society), 1955

Folder 8 Voice of America Forum Series on Visual Arts, 1960-1961

Folder 9 Suggestions for American specialists abroad

Folder 10 Shipping: the Seven Santini Brothers, 1966-1976.

Folder 11 Shipping: overseas, 1967-1973

Folder 12 Packing and preparation, Doug Williams, 1971-1972

Folder 13 Contract samples

Folder 14 Design, 1969-1977

Folder 15 Handling and care, 1961-1969

Folder 16 Matting and framing, 1963-1971

Box 12 of 287

Folder 1 Packing, 1967-1975. Includes plans for international shipping cases.

Folder 2 Artist support, 1966-1971. Suggestions for assistance to artists and galleries.

Folder 3 NCFA, Membership program, Lois Bingham proposal, 1969

Folder 4 NCFA, List Art Poster Program, 1968

Folder 5 NCFA, grand opening of building, May 1968

Folder 6 Office of International Activities, 1972

Folder 7 NCFA Exhibits Committee, 1966-1968

Folder 8 Publicity, 1959-1969. Press clippings.

Folder 9 Publicity, 1969-1975. Assembled press clippings, correspondence.

Folder 10 Carnegie Study of the Arts in the United States slide project, 1958-1960

Folder 11 Photographs of Newbery and Caldecott Award Winners, 1951-1952

Folder 12 USIA collection of original prints, 1965-1968

Box 13 of 287

Folder 1 USIA posters, 1963

Folder 2 USIA films, 1963-1964

Folder 3 Television: National Educational Television (N.E.T.), 1967-1970

Folder 4 Bicentennial proposal, 1969-1971

Folder 5 Art in USIS Libraries Project, 1966

Folder 6 The Art in the Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, 1964-1969

Folder 7 Logo, 1971

Folder 8 Advisory Committee, 1973

Folder 9 Slide library, 1975

Folder 10 Computer project, 1977

Folder 11 SITES frame inventory, 1971-1972

Folder 12 USIA press releases and lectures on overseas exhibitions of American art, 1961

Folder 13 USIA evaluations of current and prospective exhibitions, 1964-1967.

Folder 14 Project costs and budgets, 1956-1967

Folders 15-16 Program planning, 1965-1969. Field messages, memoranda, correspondence, USIS operations memoranda.

Box 14 of 287

Folder 1 Program planning, 1966-1972. Project costs, program budgets, requests for exhibitions (see oversize for floor plan of lobby area and exhibit hall, American Center, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1 January 1969).

Folders 2-3 Program planning, 1969-1973. Project costs, program budgets, requests for exhibitions, proposals for office programs and resources, meeting notes, preliminary project description forms.

Folder 4 Program planning, 1972-1974. Includes lists of current and planned projects with status and costs.

Folder 5 Program planning, 1973-1974

Box 15 of 287

Folder 1 Program planning, FY 1974. Program schedule lists and estimated costs, program proposals.

Folder 2 Program planning, FY 1975 and 1976

Folder 3 Program development, FY 1978 and FY 1979

Folder 4 Program planning, unfulfilled requests from USIS posts, 1968

Folder 5 Reports to NCFA, 1971-1972

Folder 6 USIS Exhibits Division monthly reports. 1959-1966. Incomplete series.

Folder 7 Smithsonian Year submissions, 1969, 1977

Folder 8 Notes for unfinished five-year projection, 1966-1970

Folder 9 1971 report, notes for five year projection, FY 1971-1976

Folder 10 Quarterly and semi-annual reports, 1966-1977 (folder 1 of 2)

Box 16 of 287

Folder 1 Quarterly and semi-annual reports, 1966-1977 (folder 2 of 2)

Folders 2-3 Project lists and schedules, 1958-1976

Folder 4 Project Itineraries - General, 1966-1975

Folder 5 Outgoing log: exhibition production, 1974-1975. Outgoing messages to USIA posts, with message logs.

SERIES 4.
Financial Records, 1959-1981

Box 16 of 287

Folder 6 Insurance claims, 1968-1972

Box 17 of 287

Folder 1 Insurance policies and claims, 1964-1971. Correspondence and memoranda.

Folder 2 Insurance policies and claims, 1972-1977. Correspondence and memoranda.

Folder 3 Budget: private project funding, 1968-1977

Folder 4 Budget: zero-based budgeting, 1977

Folder 5 Grants and contracts, 1959-1967

Folder 6 Grants and contracts, 1968-1973

Folder 7 Contracts, FY 1967

Folder 8 Contracts, FY 1968

Folder 9 Contracts, FY 1969

Box 18 of 287

Folder 1 Contracts, FY 1970

Folder 2 Fiscal (miscellaneous), 1971-1978

Folder 3 Budget, FY 1967-1968

Folder 4 Budget, FY 1969

Folder 5 Budget, FY 1970

Folder 6 Budget, FY 1971

Folder 7 Budget, FY 1972

Box 19 of 287

Folder 1 Budget, FY 1974

Folder 2 Budget, FY 1975

Folder 3 Budget, FY 1977

Folder 4 Budget, FY 1978

Folder 5 Budget, FY 1979

Folder 6 Budget, FY 1980

Folder 7 Budget, FY 1981

Folder 8 NCFA Budget/Funding/Donors, 1977

Folder 9 NCFA Exhibition Sharing Program, 1977

Folder 10 Shared exhibitions: general, 1978-1981

Folder 11 Funds 13514695 and 15852900, Exhibition Sharing Program, 1977-1980

Folder 12 New Stained Glass loan agreement, 1978

Box 20 of 287

Folder 1 Bank accounts - Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro, Venice, 1970-1977

Folder 2 Bank accounts - Credito Italiano, Banca D'Interesse Nazionale, Venice, c. 1968-1974

Folder 3 Overseas costs, 1967-1969

SERIES 5.
Communications with Department of State, United States

Box 20 of 287

Folders 4-6 Field messages and reports, 1947, 1956-69. Press clippings, opening reception photographs, catalogs.

Folder 7 Field messages and memoranda, 1958-64. Planning, staging, and reception of overseas art exhibitions.

Box 21 of 287

Folders 1-2 Field messages and memoranda, 1973-76

Folder 3 USIA internal memoranda, 1962-65

Folder 4 Correspondence for USIA director's signature, 1963-65. Correspondence of Leonard H. Marks, Carl T. Rowan, and Edward R. Murrow.

Folder 5 Correspondence and memoranda, 1966-70

Folder 6 Correspondence and memoranda, 1971-76

Folder 7 Correspondence and memoranda with Department of State and USIA posts overseas regarding exhibitions, 1964-1970. Field messages, operations memoranda, Department of State Airgrams.

Folder 8 Photographs of Paintings by Farah Ahmed Gabbani and Osman Mohammed Sid Ahmed, Khartoum, Sudan, June 17-22, 1968 (opening event); and USIS, Rome, exhibition of works by Americans resident in Italy, July 1968 (opening event, installation (see oversize for poster for Rome exhibition).

Folder 9 USIA internal memoranda, 1962-1965

Box 22 of 287

Folder 1 Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1970-1976

Folder 2 Near East, 1962-1966

Folders 3-4 Overseas exhibition facilities, mostly Near East, 1966-1970. Photographs of facilities and opening events; press clippings; facility plans.

Folders 5-6 Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in Europe, 1959-1966. Includes checklists for preferred exhibition subjects, field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, airgrams, photographs of opening events, museum guidebooks, and press clippings.

Box 23 of 287

Folder 1 Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in Near East and South Pacific, 1963-1969. Checklists for preferred exhibition subjects, field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, airgrams, photographs of opening events, museum guidebooks, and press clippings.

Folder 2 Facilities Reports, Far East, 1972-1975. Photographs of facilities and opening events, press clippings, and facility plans.

Folder 3 Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in Far East (mostly Japan), 1961-1967. Checklists for preferred exhibition subjects, field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, airgrams, photographs and plans of facilities, exhibition checklists and catalogs.

Folder 4 Facilities Reports, Middle East, 1973-1974. Photographs of facilities and opening events, press clippings, and facility plans.

Folder 5 USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (Africa), 1973-1975

Folders 6-7 Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in Africa, 1962-1975. Checklists for preferred exhibition subjects, field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, airgrams, photographs and plans of facilities, exhibition checklists and catalogs (see oversize for poster for Art Show '67, Freetown).

Box 24 of 287

Folder 1 Facilities Reports, Africa, 1972-1975. Photographs of facilities and opening events, press clippings, and facility plans.

Folder 2 Facilities Reports, Europe, 1972-1975. Photographs of facilities and opening events, press clippings, and facility plans.

Folder 3 Exhibition facilities, Europe, 1957-1973. Photographs of facilities, press clippings, and facility plans.

Folder 4 USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (Western Europe), 1973-1975

Folders 5-6 Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in Europe, 1963-1970. Checklists for preferred exhibition subjects, field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, airgrams, photographs and plans of facilities, exhibition checklists and catalogs.

Correspondence and Memoranda with USIA and USIS Field Posts in Europe Concerning Exhibitions and Proposed Exhibitions, Arranged by Country, 1966-1973

Folder	7	United Kingdom
Folder	8	Portugal
Folder	9	Spain
Folder	10	Sweden
Folder	11	Switzerland
Folder	12	France
Folder	13	Germany
Folder	14	Austria
Folder	15	Italy
Folder	16	Ireland
Folder	17	Norway

Box 25 of 287

Folder 1 USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (South Asia), 1972

Folder 2 Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in East Asia and Pacific, 1967-1971. Includes press clippings.

Folder 3 USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (East Asia and Pacific), 1975

Folders 4-8 Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in Latin America, 1961-1969. Field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, airgrams, photographs of facilities and opening events, exhibition checklists and catalogs, and press clippings (see oversize for two unidentified exhibition posters).

Folder 9 USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (Latin America), 1974-1976

Folder 10 Exhibition facilities, Latin America, 1966-1969. Checklists for preferred exhibition subjects, exhibition catalogs, photographs of facilities, press clippings, and facility plans.

Box 26 of 287

Folders 1-2 Facilities Reports, Latin America, 1972-1974. Photographs of facilities and opening events, press clippings, and facility plans.

Correspondence and Memoranda with USIA and USIS Field Posts in Latin America Concerning Exhibitions and Proposed Exhibitions, Arranged by Country, 1966-1972

Folder	3	Argentina
Folder	4	Brazil
Folder	5	Bolivia
Folder	6	El Salvador
Folder	7	Chile
Folder	8	Colombia
Folder	9	Guatemala
Folder	10	Mexico
Folder	11	Peru
Folder	12	Uruguay
Folder	13	Venezuela
Folder	14	Facilities Reports, U.S., 1977-1980

Official Communications with USIA and USIS Field Posts. Correspondence, monthly reports, field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, and airgrams. Arranged by country, 1957-1972.

Folder	15	Australia
Folder	16	Greece
Folder	17	India
Folder	18	Japan
Folder	19	Nepal
Folder	20	Pakistan
Folder	21	Yugoslavia

Box 27 of 287

Folder 1 USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (Near East and North Africa), 1973-1975

Facility Reports, 1972, Arranged by Country or City

Folder	2	Berlin
Folder	3	Capetown
Folder	4	Lagos
Folder	5	London
Folder	6	Madrid
Folder	7	Tegucigalpa
Folder	8	Tunis
Folder	9	Turkey
Folders	10-12	Exhibitions proposed, general, 1963-1973
Folder	13	Exhibitions requested, general, 1969-1974
Folder	14	Exhibitions requested by posts, general, 1969-1976
Folder	15	Exhibitions proposed by artists or galleries, 1967-1970. Inquiries about submitting works, and requests for assistance or information.

Box 28 of 287

Folder 1 Exhibitions requested, biennials, 1970

Exhibitions Requested, 1966-1970, Arranged by Region

Folder	2	Europe
Folder	3	Latin America
Folder	4	Near East and South Asia
Folder	5	Far East
Folder	6	Eastern Europe
Folder	7	Africa
Folder	8	Exhibitions sponsored by USIA, 1969-1974
Folder	9	Exhibition effectiveness reports, 1958-1970. Reports on selected exhibitions, for use in office general reports.
Folder	10	Exhibition effectiveness reports, 1969-72
Folder	11	Exhibition effectiveness reports. Working notes for semi-annual report, FY 1975.
Folder	12	USIA graphic arts program, 1969-1975
Folder	13	USIA general correspondence, memoranda, and press clippings, 1966-1968
Folder	14	USIA relations with American Federation of the Arts, 1955-1960

Box 29 of 287

Folder 1 Special foreign projects, 1973-1976

Folder 2 Special domestic projects, 1968-1976

Folder 3 Canceled projects, 1957-1965

Folder 4 Canceled project: modern American painting, Latin America, 1958-1959

Folder 5 Project transfer forms, 1957-1966. Transfer of completed projects from ICS/EP (Design and Production Branch) to ICS/EO (Projects Control Officer).

Folder 6 USIA reports classified for limited official use, 1972-1974

Folder 7 Evaluation of publications, 1961

USIA Special Projects

Folder	8	Diane Arbus photography exhibition, 1973
Folder	9	Casablanca Trade Fair, 1974
Folder	10	Homer Watercolors, 1973
Folder	11	Manchester Arts Festival
Folder	12	Musee d'Art Moderne, Belgrade, 1972
Folder	13	Reykjavik Arts Festival, 1974
Folder	14	Museum of the Americas, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1973
Folder	15	Rouen Museum, France, 1973
Folder	16	Valparaiso biennial, Chile, 1973

Exhibitions circulated by USIA and USIS. Official messages and reports, press clippings, brochures and catalogs, photographs of opening events and exhibited works.

Folder	17	Cartoons from the New Yorker, 1956
Folder	18	Op Art, Caracas, Venezuela, 1968
Folders	19-20	Colombian artists, Bogota, 1965-1968. Photographs of opening events.
Folders	21-22	American Graphics, Cyprus, 1968. Photographs of installation and opening events.
Folders	23-24	Philippine Prints, Manila, 1966. Photographs of opening events.

Box 30 of 287

Folders 1-2 Paintings of Lt. Col. William S. Tilton, Bamako, 1967. Photographs of installation and opening events (see oversize for exhibition poster).

Folder 3 Two Centuries of American Art, South America, 1967

SERIES 6.
Exhibitions Organized by Other Institutions, 1956-1971

Box 30 of 287

Folder 4 Business Buys American Art, 1960

Folder 5 Seventy-five American Painters, 1956-1957

Folders 6-7 Museum of Modern Art, general, 1956-1971. Correspondence, press releases and clippings, USIA reports and memoranda.

Folder 8 The International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, Current Exhibitions Listings, 1963-1967. Incomplete series.

Exhibitions organized by the Museum of Modern Art. Official USIS/USIA reports and memoranda, correspondence with USIA and MOMA, itineraries and checklists, press clippings, photographs of opening events, catalogs, brochures, and posters.

Folder	9		Josef Albers exhibition, 1964
Folders	10-11		Abstract Watercolors by 14 Americans, 1961-1967. Photographs of opening events (folders 1 and 2 of 4).

Box 31 of 287

Folders 1-2 Abstract Watercolors by 14 Americans, 1961-1967. Photographs of opening events (folders 3 and 4 of 4; see oversize for two copies of exhibition poster).

Folder 3 American Collages, 1966-1967

Folder 4 Twenty-five Contemporary American Artists as Printmakers, 1966-1967

Folder 5 Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers, 1967-1968

Folder 6 Art in Embassies project, 1960-1968

Folder 7 American Intaglio, c. 1963

Folder 8 Leonard Baskin, 1961

Folder 9 The Artist in his Studio, 1964

Folder 10 Art U.S.A., 1967

Folder 11 Drawings by Arshile Gorky, 1965

Folder 12 Family of Man, 1956-1963

Folder 13 Jacques Lipchitz, 1964-1965

Folder 14 Roads, 1963-1964

Folder 15 Ben Shahn, 1962-1963

Folder 16 David Smith, 1966-1967

Folder 17 Steichen the Photographer, 1963-1966

Folder 18 Two Decades of American Painting, 1966-1967. Photographs of opening events (folder 1 of 3).

Box 32 of 287

Folders 1-2 Two Decades of American Painting, 1966-1967. Photographs of opening events (folders 2 and 3 of 3; see oversize for exhibition poster).

Folders 3-4 Visionary Architecture, 1963-1966. Photographs of opening events (see oversize for two copies of exhibition poster).

SERIES 7.
Collections and Collectors

Correspondence, biographical material, press clippings, collection catalogs, business reports, addresses, and works of interest. Arranged alphabetically.

Box 32 of 287

Folder 5 Dr. and Mrs. Robert Aaron

Folder 6 The Harry N. Abrams Family Collection

Folder 7 Mrs. Milton Avery

Folder 8 Richard Brown Baker

Folder 9 Phillip I. Berman

Folder 10 Irving Blum

Folder 11 Mrs. David E. Bright

Folder 12 Mr. and Mrs. William A.M. Burden

Folder 13 Dr. Arthur Carr

Folder 14 Leo Castilli Gallery

Folder 15 Mr. And Mrs. Roger Davidson

Folder 16 Mr. and Mrs. John de Menil

Folder 17 Rene' de Montaigu

Folder 18 Andre Emmerich Gallery

Folder 19 Richard Feigen Gallery

Folder 20 Feingarten Galleries

Folder 21 Ferus Gallery

Folder 22 Fischbach Gallery

Folder 23 Lawrence A. Fleischman

Folder 24 Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY

Folder 25 Edgar and Bernice Garbisch Collection, NY

Folder 26 Graham Gallery

Folder 27 Mr. and Mrs. Clement Greenberg

Folder 28 The Guggenheim

Folder 29 Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller Collection

Folder 30 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hess

Folder 31 Hirshhorn Collection

Folder 32 Martha Jackson Gallery

Folder 33 Sidney Janis Gallery

Folder 34 Johnson Collection

Folder 35 Knoedler's Gallery

Folder 36 Leon Kraushar

Folder 37 Felix Landau Gallery

Folder 38 Mrs. Maximilian Le Witter

Folder 39 Roy Lichtenstein

Folder 40 Mr. and Mrs. Albert List

Folder 41 Mrs. Marcella Louis

Folder 42 Marlborough-Gerson Gallery

Box 33 of 287

Folder 1 John D. Murchison

Folder 2 Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Meadows

Folder 3 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Folder 4 Mr. and Mrs. Leon A. Mnuchin

Folder 5 Museum of Modern Art

Folder 6 The Neuberger Collection

Folder 7 Myron Orlovsky

Folder 8 Alfonso A. Ossorio and Edward F. Dragon

Folder 9 Robert U. Ossorio Collection

Folder 10 Count Giuseppe Panza Di Biumo (Italy)

Folder 11 Pace Gallery

Folder 12 Betty Parsons

Folder 13 Perls Gallery

Folder 14 Phillips Collection

Folder 15 Poindexter Gallery

Folder 16 Jackson Pollock Estate

Folder 17 Edward Power

Folder 18 John G. Powers

Folder 19 Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Reis Collection

Folder 20 Esther Robles Gallery

Folder 21 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III

Folder 22 Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller

Folder 23 Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller

Folder 24 Mark Rothko Collection

Folder 25 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rowan

Folder 26 Royal Marks Gallery

Folder 27 Prof. William Rubin

Folder 28 Mr. and Mrs. Schniewind

Folder 29 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull

Folder 30 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Slifka

Folder 31 Galerie Lleana Sonnabend, Paris

Folder 32 Stable Gallery

Folder 33 Staempfli Gallery

Folder 34 Mrs. Llewellyn E. Thompson

Folder 35 Tibor de Nagy Gallery

Folder 36 Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine Collection

Folder 37 Whitney Museum of American Art

Folder 38 Willard Gallery

Folder 39 Harry Lewis Winston Collection

Folder 40 Howard Wise Gallery

SERIES 8.
Program Resources, 1960-1978

Correspondence with individuals, organizations, and businesses that provided services or assistance to program; biographical information, photographs of artists and work, brochures, catalogs, and press clippings. Arranged alphabetically.

Box 33 of 287

Folder 41 Architecture, 1967-1970

Folder 42 Artist photographers, 1970

Folder 43 Black artists, 1966-1976

Folder 44 Conceptual art, 1969-1970

Folder 45 Curators, artists, teachers, 1968-1971

Folders 46-47 Crafts and craftsmen, 1961-1978

Folder 48 Designers, 1967-1974

Folder 49 Documentation: photography 1964-1977

Folder 50 Donors: general, 1964-1978

Box 34 of 287

Folder 1 Donors: Ford Foundation, 1960-1969

Folder 2 Donors: Ben and Abby Grey Foundation, 1965-1969

Folder 3 Donors: Dr. Ben and Dr. Jess Shenson, 1972-1975

Folder 4 Environments, 1970

Folder 5 Gemini G.E.L. printers, 1970-1973

Folder 6 Graphic designers, 1977

Folder 7 Highways, 1970

Folder 8 Indian arts and crafts, 1967-1974

Folder 9 Multi-media, 1970-1971

Folder 10 Music, 1969

Folder 11 Naive art, 1964-1970

Folder 12 Paper, 1971-1975

Folder 13 Plastics, 1970

Folder 14 Printers, 1976-1977

Folder 15 Printmaking, general

Folder 16 Printmaking, lithography, 1969-1973

Folder 17 Printmaking, silkscreen, 1970

Folder 18 Printmaking, domestic suppliers

Folder 19 Printmaking, foreign suppliers

Folder 20 Printmaking, workshops

Folder 21 Print workshop supplies, 1977

Folder 22 Prints

Box 35 of 287

Folder 1 Publishers: art books

Folder 2 Publishers: editions, multiples

Folder 3 Regional: Chicago, 1970. Museum of Contemporary Art news releases.

Folder 4 Regional: Washington, 1968. Corcoran Gallery of Art catalog for Structure exhibition.

Folder 5 Regional: West Coast, 1971. Correspondence and installation photographs for 24 Young Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Folders 6-7 Sculpture, 1967-1971. Negatives and photographs.

Folder 8 Services and Support, 1966-1971

Folder 9 Signs, 1976

Folder 10 Slides, 1970

Folder 11 Technical Research, 1969

Folders 12-13 Textile. Photographs

Folder 14 Technological Art, 1969-1970

SERIES 9.
Professional Art Organizations, 1955-1978

Correspondence, newsletters, catalogs, annual reports, press releases, and press clippings. Arranged alphabetically.

Box 35 of 287

Folder 15 Professional organizations: general, 1955-1967

Folder 16 Art museums and galleries: general, 1966-1972

Folder 17 Museum contacts, 1956

Folder 18 Foundations and fellowships: general, 1964-1967

Folder 19 Academy of the Arts, 1968

Folder 20 Alva Studios, Inc., 1959-1960

Folder 21 American Council of Learned Societies, 1954

Folder 22 American Craftsmen's Council, 1960-1969

Folder 23 The American Federation of Arts, 1958-1969

Box 36 of 287

Folder 1 Archives of American Art, 1961-1964

Folder 2 Art Information Center, 1970

Folder 3 Art Overseas, Inc., 1972

Folder 4 Art for World Friendship, 1966-1967

Folder 5 Arts and Antiques Publishing Co., 1966

Folder 6 Artworkers Coalition, 1970

Folder 7 Associated American Artists, 1964-1973

Folder 8 Associated Councils of Arts, 1969

Folder 9 Boulder Art Association, 1962-1963. Helen Gilbert, Twelve Women Artists of the West.

Folder 10 Brazilian-American Cultural Institute, 1966

Folder 11 Center for Inter-American Relations, 1969

Folder 12 Committee for the Visual Arts, Inc., 1974

Folder 13 Crafton Graphic Company, 1971

Folder 14 Crocker Art Gallery, 1956-1958

Folder 15 D.C. Commission for the Arts, 1968

Folder 16 Experiments in Art and Technology, 1970

Folder 17 Famous Artists Schools, Inc., 1969

Folder 18 Fendrick Gallery, 1963-1972

Folder 19 Fine Arts Commission, 1964

Folder 20 Forum for Modern Art, Innsbruck, Austria, 1976

Folder 21 George Eastman House, 1969

Folder 22 Gulbenkian Center, Portugal, 1969, 1977

Folder 23 The Hollander Workshop Gallery, 1966

Folder 24 Institute of American Indian Arts, 1968

Folder 25 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1967-1968

Folder 26 Interagency Crafts Committee, 1972-1975

Folder 27 International Association of Plastic Arts, 1963

Folder 28 International Club of Washington, 1967

Folder 29 International Exhibitions Committee, The American Federation of Arts, 1976-1977

Folder 30 List Art Poster Program (AFA), 1968

Box 37 of 287

Folder 1 Latin American Studies Association, 1968

Folder 2 Lincoln Center, 1964

Folder 3 Mead Packaging, 1963-1964

Folder 4 Maryland Arts Council, 1966-1967

Folder 5 The Maryland Institute, 1968

Folder 6 Museum of Primitive Art, 1958-1959

Folder 7 Museum Publishing Association Organizing Committee, 1970

Folder 8 National Arts Council, 1969

Folder 9 National Arts Club, 1955-1956

Folder 10 National Association of Women Artists, Inc., 1962-1966

Folder 11 National Council of the Arts, 1963-1964

Folder 12 National Educational Television, 1967-1968

Folder 13 National Gallery of Art, 1958-1964

Folder 14 The National Institute of Arts and Letters, c. 1965-1968

Folder 15 National Sculpture Society, 1962

Folder 16 Pratt Graphics Center, 1970-1971

Folder 17 Print Council of America, 1957-1970

Folder 18 Ruder and Finn, 1965

Folder 19 Saint Paul Art Center, 1965-1967

Folder 20 Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., 1963-1969

Box 38 of 287

Folders 1-2 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1963. Photographs.

Folder 3 Walker Art Center, 1959, 1967

Folder 4 Washington Corporative Arts, Inc., 1978

Folder 5 Washington International Art Letter, 1962-1964

Folder 6 Western Association of Art Museums, 1977

Folder 7 Weyhe Gallery, 1966-1967

SERIES 10.
Recurring International Exhibitions, 1951-1976

Correspondence and memoranda with government agencies, private arts organizations, and event organizers; USIA/USIS official communications, catalogs, posters, brochures, and photographs of opening events.

Box 38 of 287

Folder 8 General correspondence and memoranda, 1963-1973

Folder 9 Fiscal data - general, 1962-1963

Folder 10 Middelheim Biennial of Outdoor Sculpture, 1951-1971 (see oversize for one copy of exhibition poster of 8th Biennial, 1965, and three copies of posters for 9th Biennial, 1967).

Folder 11 Special Committee for American Business, Middelheim Biennial, check stubs, 1971

Folder 12 Paris Biennial, 1959-1971. Catalog, photographs.

Box 39 of 287

Folder 1 Sao Paulo Biennial, 1970-1971

Folder 2 Miscellaneous Requests, 1968-1972

Folder 3 International Triennial of Original Colored Graphic, 1963-1967

Folder 4 Bingham proposal to Sao Paulo, 1969

Folder 5 Biennials: regulations, 1963-1966

Venice Biennials

Folder	6	General correspondence and memoranda, 1960-1973
Folder	7	History of the biennial and American participation
Folder	8	Invitations and participation planning, 1960-1966. Communications with USIA/USIS and NCFA regarding regulations, invitations, and budget.
Folders	9-11	American pavilion in Venice, 1964. Constructed in 1954 for XXVII biennial. Photographs and negatives of XXXII biennial national pavilions, 1964 (see oversize for six architectural drawings of 1954 pavilion).
Folder	12	General correspondence and memoranda concerning 1974 and 1976 biennials

Box 40 of 287

Folder 1 Press clippings concerning 1974 and 1976 biennials

Folder 2 Catalog of the 1976 biennial

Folder 3 Photographs, 1966; and slides, 1972

SERIES 11.
Artwork Collected, Owned, or Managed by Program, 1960-1971

Box 40 of 287

Folder 4 Registrar: art purchases and gifts, 1967-1971

Folder 5 Registrar: art loans to program, 1967-1971

Folder 6 Loans for decoration of USIA/USIS offices, 1964-1970

Folder 7 USIA/ED loans of fine arts property, 1960-1961

Folder 8 Card index of prints in USIA/USIS offices

Folder 9 Proposal to NEA to develop collection of contemporary prints for exhibition, 1967

Folder 10 Inventory, 1971

SERIES 12.
Summary Project Information, c. 1947-1978

Box 40 of 287

Folder 11 Card file of projects, arranged by project number, c. 1947-1966

Folder 12 List of projects, from G-24 to 78-05, 1955-1978

Folder 13 Project summaries, from C-187 to 61-234, 1957-1964

Box 41 of 287

Folder 1 Project summaries, from C-187 to 61-234, 1957-1964. List of projects and project summaries, copy 2 with different notations (2 notebooks).

Folder 2 Carded catalog record, 1954-1975. Includes USIA projects and information on supplies held at 1111 North Capitol Street.

Folder 3 Card index of projects and artists (folder 1 of 2)

Box 42 of 287

Folder 1 Card index of projects and artists (folder 2 of 2)

SERIES 13.
Files of Program Staff, 1956-1978

Box 42 of 287

Files of Margaret "Peg" Cogswell

Folder	2		1976 Venice biennial
Folders	3-6		1976 Venice biennial, 1974-1976. Photographs and negatives of staff and installation.

Files of Margaret "Peg" Cogswell: Publications

Folder	7	General, 1966-1969
Folder	8	NCFA planning and proposals, 1966-1973
Folder	9	Ford Foundation proposal for catalogs, 1966-1969

Box 43 of 287

Folder 1 Foundations and legislation, 1964-1969

Folder 2 Monograph: Archipenko terra cottas, 1967

Folder 3 Catalog: March of America exhibition, NCFA, 1967

Folder 4 Exchange mailing, 1967

Folder 5 Ford Foundation proposal: catalog of miniatures, 1967-1968

Folder 6 Ford Foundation proposal: catalog of American paintings in NCFA, 1967-1968

Folder 7 Ford Foundation proposal: catalog of American pastels, watercolors, and drawings in Smithsonian, 1967

Folder 8 Catalog: Venice 33, 1966-1967

Folder 9 Venice catalog (Margaret Cogswell's file as head of publications department, AFA), 1966

Folder 10 Catalog: Cooper Union, 1967

Folder 11 Catalog: Stanton Macdonald-Wright exhibition, 1967

Folder 12 Catalog: Sheeler exhibition, 1967

Folder 13 Catalog: Zorach exhibition, 1967

Files of Douglass G. Williams, Special Assistant for Traveling Exhibitions, contracted for professional handling, preparation, and documentation of artworks lent to traveling exhibitions, c. 1972-1974

Folder	14		Douglass Williams contract work, 1973-1974
Folder	15		William H. Johnson (project 72-06), c. 1972 (folder 1 of 3)

Box 44 of 287

Folders 1-2 William H. Johnson (project 72-06), c. 1972 (folders 2 and 3 of 3)

Folders 3-4 Scholder-Cannon exhibition (project 72-08), 1972

Folder 5 Canada trip, 1972

Folder 6 Print workshop, 1972

Folder 7 Venice 35 prints, 1972

Folder 8 Middelheim biennial, 1971-1972

Folder 9 Production schedule forms

Folder 10 Crate color

Folder 11 Acetate/Triacetate

Folder 12 Space requirements, 1972

Folder 13 Packing estimates, 1972

Folder 14 Art Fleet

Folder 15 Graphic Arts

Folder 16 Room 180

Folder 17 Symbol stencils

Folder 18 Venice (project 72-09), 1972

Box 45 of 287

Folder 1 Fabric Vibrations (project 72-10), 1972

Folder 2 Mountain Craftsmen; The Southern Appalachians (project 72-02), 1972

Folder 3 J. Alden Weir: An American Print Maker, 1972

Folder 4 Supplies, 1972

Folder 5 Countersunk finishing washers, 1972

Folder 6 Ethafoam and ethafoam adhesive, 1972

Folder 7 Frames, 1972

Folder 8 Framing

Folder 9 "L" frame, 1972

Folder 10 Homasote, 1972

Folder 11 Paint, crate

Folder 12 Plexiglass, 1972

Folder 13 Cube-weight

Folder 14 Air specifications

Folder 15 Passe Partout (Plas-Par-Tout?), 1972

Folder 16 Facilities reports, 1972

Folder 17 Paper

Folder 18 Daily issues, 1971-1972

Folder 19 Master labels and instructions

Folder 20 Preparation Manual manuscript

Folder 21 Printmaking workshop, Madrid, 1972

Folder 22 Eleven American Photographers (project 73-01), 1972

Box 46 of 287

Folder 1 Program background information

Folder 2 Draft procedural guidelines, 1972

Folder 3 Williams program file, 1974

Files of Lois A. Bingham. Personal correspondence, notes, and working diaries.

Folders	4-7	Meeting notes, working diaries, 1957-1958, 1964-1978. Non-inclusive.
Folder	8	Travel notes, 1964-1970
Folder	9	Personal correspondence and press clippings, 1956, 1964-1971

SERIES 14.
Proposed or Canceled Exhibition Projects, 1954-1978

Files include memoranda between office staff and Smithsonian/NCFA administration; correspondence with museum professionals and exhibition developers; catalogs and brochures; press releases; photographs of installations and exhibited works; exhibition checklists; and press clippings. Arranged alphabetically by title or subject.

Box 47 of 287

Recurring Art Events

Folder	1	Biennial exhibition proposals, 1969-1971. Includes proposal read by Lois Bingham to biennial conference, Sao Paulo, 28 September 1969. See X Sao Paulo Biennial, project 68-05.
Folder	2	Medellin, Colombia: Second Biennial of Art Coltejer, 1969-1970. Catalog.
Folder	3	Montevideo, Uruguay: biennial of painting, 1970. Catalog.
Folder	4	New Delhi, India: Third Triennial of Contemporary World Art, 1973-1975
Folder	5	Nuremberg, Germany: Biennial 1969: Constructive Art: Elements and Principles, 1968-1969. Catalog.
Folder	6	Nuremberg, Germany: Biennial 1971: Theory and Work, 1969-1971
Folder	7	Paris, France: Paris Biennial, 1971
Folder	8	Paris, France: Paris Biennial, 1973
Folder	9	Santiago, Chile: sixth print biennial
Folder	10	Sao Paulo, Brazil: Sao Paulo Biennial, 1971 (project 70-06?)
Folder	11	Sao Paulo, Brazil: Sao Paulo Biennial, 1975

Other Exhibition Projects

Folder	12	American Carousel, 1972-1973
Folder	13	American Glass Now, 1973
Folder	14	American Indian Arts and Crafts, 1966-1969
Folder	15	American Painting: Emergence to Independence, 1936-1976, 1974
Folder	16	American paintings for Australia, 1960-1961
Folder	17	American paintings for Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1960
Folder	18	American painting since 1945 (Guggenheim Museum), 1972-1974 (project 73-03)

Box 48 of 287

Folder 1 American Photo Realists, 1970-1973

Folder 2 American Photography Since 1950, 1972

Folder 3 Amon Carter Gallery collection, 1967

Folder 4 Architecture of St. Louis, 1972

Folder 5 Art Across America, 1965

Folders 6-7 Artmobiles, South Texas and Virginia Museum, 1972. Installation photographs.

Folder 8 Baja environment (San Francisco Museum of Art), 1974-1975

Folder 9 The Barnett-Aden Collection (Anacostia Neighborhood Museum), 1974

Folder 10 The Barney Circle: Alice Pike Barney and Her Friends, 1977-1978

Folder 11 Romare Bearden, 1971

Folder 12 Bed rugs, 1972

Folder 13 Bicentennial of the U.S., 1969-1974

Folder 14 Margaret Bourke-White, 1972

Folder 15 Ceramics symposium and exhibition of American ceramic art, 1977

Folder 16 Chicago Imagist Art, 1972

Folder 17 Contemporary Prints from American Universities, 1973

Folders 18-19 Contemporary Stage Design: U.S.A.

Folder	1	Correspondence, FY 1976
Folder	2	Correspondence, FY 1977-1980
Folder	3	Correspondence with Lucien Aigner, Photographer, 1972-1974
Folder	4	Correspondence with New York Dealers, 1961-1966

Folder	1	Interagency Craft Committee, 1972-1975
Folder	2	Library of Congress, 1957-1976
Folder	3	National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (National Endowment for the Arts), 1966-1977
Folder	4	State Department Communications, 1963-1975. Telegrams, memoranda, press clippings.
Folder	5	State Department American Specialist Program, 1969
Folder	6	State Department Art Advisory Committee, 1958-1966
Folder	7	White House, 1971-1975
Folder	8	White House Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1974

Folder	1		Harry Lowe, Assistant Director for Operations, NCFA, 1972-1977. Internal correspondence and memoranda.
Folder	2		Harry J. Jordan, Assistant Director for Administration, NCFA, 1973-1976. Internal correspondence and memoranda.

Folder	24	Office space, 1974-1978. Includes floor plans.
Folder	25	Move to Liberty Loan Building, 1970-1971. Plans for office space.
Folder	26	Move from Liberty Loan Building to NCFA (Mr. Doane's File), 1975
Folder	27	Move to Patent Office Building, 1967
Folder	28	Proposed move to Pension Building, 1968-1969

Folder	1	Alexandria warehouse storage, 1970
Folder	2	Office space, 1111 North Capitol St., 1976-1978. Includes floor plans.
Folder	3	Supplies and equipment, 1966-1980
Folder	4	Office equipment, furniture, and inventory, 1968-1981. Includes floor plans.
Folders	5-7	Form development, 1967-1979. Facility and condition reports, labels (folders 1 to 3 of 5).

Folder	1	Policy and procedures, 1967-1974
Folder	2	Operations, 1956. Early agreements and projects.
Folder	3	USIA ICS/ED/FA procedure for assembling and circulating art exhibitions, 1957-1960
Folder	4	"Survey of USIA Visual Materials" by Robert Sivard, December 1965
Folder	5	Briefing materials for David W. Scott, NCFA Director, for 12 May 1969 meeting with USIA
Folders	6-7	Relations with USIA, 1966-1980. Agreements, exhibition planning material, press clippings, reports.
Folders	8-9	Transfer proposal and agreements, 1965-1976

Folder	1	History, 1965-1975. Reports and press clippings (see box 284 for four oversize group photographs of unidentified NCFA staff).
Folder	2	Notes on program history
Folder	3	NCFA meetings, 1972-1979
Folder	4	Program meetings, 1973-1979
Folder	5	Background material and research on organizing and sending exhibitions abroad, 1959-1967
Folder	6	Publicity, 1957-1958
Folder	7	Reorganization, 1975-1977

Folder	12	Lois Bingham travel notes, photographs, and expenditures, 1967-1974
Folder	13	Lois Bingham visit to Germany, 1967
Folder	14	Museum trips: Europe, New Vein/Archipenko, July-August 1967
Folder	15	Museum trips: Latin America, New Vein, October 1967
Folder	16	Travel correspondence, 1968-1971

Folder	1	International exchange of art exhibitions, 1961-1973
Folder	2	Foreign Correspondents Center, NY, 1961
Folder	3	USIA Advisory Committee on Cultural Information, 1957-1961
Folder	4	Possible curators, 1957-1961
Folder	5	Children's art exhibits, 1958-1963
Folder	6	Reports and correspondence on flood in Italy, 1966
Folder	7	Serigraphs (National Serigraph Society), 1955
Folder	8	Voice of America Forum Series on Visual Arts, 1960-1961
Folder	9	Suggestions for American specialists abroad
Folder	10	Shipping: the Seven Santini Brothers, 1966-1976.
Folder	11	Shipping: overseas, 1967-1973
Folder	12	Packing and preparation, Doug Williams, 1971-1972
Folder	13	Contract samples
Folder	14	Design, 1969-1977
Folder	15	Handling and care, 1961-1969
Folder	16	Matting and framing, 1963-1971

Folder	1	Packing, 1967-1975. Includes plans for international shipping cases.
Folder	2	Artist support, 1966-1971. Suggestions for assistance to artists and galleries.
Folder	3	NCFA, Membership program, Lois Bingham proposal, 1969
Folder	4	NCFA, List Art Poster Program, 1968
Folder	5	NCFA, grand opening of building, May 1968
Folder	6	Office of International Activities, 1972
Folder	7	NCFA Exhibits Committee, 1966-1968
Folder	8	Publicity, 1959-1969. Press clippings.
Folder	9	Publicity, 1969-1975. Assembled press clippings, correspondence.
Folder	10	Carnegie Study of the Arts in the United States slide project, 1958-1960
Folder	11	Photographs of Newbery and Caldecott Award Winners, 1951-1952
Folder	12	USIA collection of original prints, 1965-1968

Folder	1	USIA posters, 1963
Folder	2	USIA films, 1963-1964
Folder	3	Television: National Educational Television (N.E.T.), 1967-1970
Folder	4	Bicentennial proposal, 1969-1971
Folder	5	Art in USIS Libraries Project, 1966
Folder	6	The Art in the Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, 1964-1969
Folder	7	Logo, 1971
Folder	8	Advisory Committee, 1973
Folder	9	Slide library, 1975
Folder	10	Computer project, 1977
Folder	11	SITES frame inventory, 1971-1972
Folder	12	USIA press releases and lectures on overseas exhibitions of American art, 1961
Folder	13	USIA evaluations of current and prospective exhibitions, 1964-1967.
Folder	14	Project costs and budgets, 1956-1967
Folders	15-16	Program planning, 1965-1969. Field messages, memoranda, correspondence, USIS operations memoranda.

Folder	1	Program planning, 1966-1972. Project costs, program budgets, requests for exhibitions (see oversize for floor plan of lobby area and exhibit hall, American Center, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1 January 1969).
Folders	2-3	Program planning, 1969-1973. Project costs, program budgets, requests for exhibitions, proposals for office programs and resources, meeting notes, preliminary project description forms.
Folder	4	Program planning, 1972-1974. Includes lists of current and planned projects with status and costs.
Folder	5	Program planning, 1973-1974

Folder	1	Program planning, FY 1974. Program schedule lists and estimated costs, program proposals.
Folder	2	Program planning, FY 1975 and 1976
Folder	3	Program development, FY 1978 and FY 1979
Folder	4	Program planning, unfulfilled requests from USIS posts, 1968
Folder	5	Reports to NCFA, 1971-1972
Folder	6	USIS Exhibits Division monthly reports. 1959-1966. Incomplete series.
Folder	7	Smithsonian Year submissions, 1969, 1977
Folder	8	Notes for unfinished five-year projection, 1966-1970
Folder	9	1971 report, notes for five year projection, FY 1971-1976
Folder	10	Quarterly and semi-annual reports, 1966-1977 (folder 1 of 2)

Folder	1	Insurance policies and claims, 1964-1971. Correspondence and memoranda.
Folder	2	Insurance policies and claims, 1972-1977. Correspondence and memoranda.
Folder	3	Budget: private project funding, 1968-1977
Folder	4	Budget: zero-based budgeting, 1977
Folder	5	Grants and contracts, 1959-1967
Folder	6	Grants and contracts, 1968-1973
Folder	7	Contracts, FY 1967
Folder	8	Contracts, FY 1968
Folder	9	Contracts, FY 1969

Folder	1	Contracts, FY 1970
Folder	2	Fiscal (miscellaneous), 1971-1978
Folder	3	Budget, FY 1967-1968
Folder	4	Budget, FY 1969
Folder	5	Budget, FY 1970
Folder	6	Budget, FY 1971
Folder	7	Budget, FY 1972

Folder	1	Budget, FY 1974
Folder	2	Budget, FY 1975
Folder	3	Budget, FY 1977
Folder	4	Budget, FY 1978
Folder	5	Budget, FY 1979
Folder	6	Budget, FY 1980
Folder	7	Budget, FY 1981
Folder	8	NCFA Budget/Funding/Donors, 1977
Folder	9	NCFA Exhibition Sharing Program, 1977
Folder	10	Shared exhibitions: general, 1978-1981
Folder	11	Funds 13514695 and 15852900, Exhibition Sharing Program, 1977-1980
Folder	12	New Stained Glass loan agreement, 1978

Folder	1	Bank accounts - Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro, Venice, 1970-1977
Folder	2	Bank accounts - Credito Italiano, Banca D'Interesse Nazionale, Venice, c. 1968-1974
Folder	3	Overseas costs, 1967-1969

Folders	4-6		Field messages and reports, 1947, 1956-69. Press clippings, opening reception photographs, catalogs.
Folder	7		Field messages and memoranda, 1958-64. Planning, staging, and reception of overseas art exhibitions.

Folders	1-2	Field messages and memoranda, 1973-76
Folder	3	USIA internal memoranda, 1962-65
Folder	4	Correspondence for USIA director's signature, 1963-65. Correspondence of Leonard H. Marks, Carl T. Rowan, and Edward R. Murrow.
Folder	5	Correspondence and memoranda, 1966-70
Folder	6	Correspondence and memoranda, 1971-76
Folder	7	Correspondence and memoranda with Department of State and USIA posts overseas regarding exhibitions, 1964-1970. Field messages, operations memoranda, Department of State Airgrams.
Folder	8	Photographs of Paintings by Farah Ahmed Gabbani and Osman Mohammed Sid Ahmed, Khartoum, Sudan, June 17-22, 1968 (opening event); and USIS, Rome, exhibition of works by Americans resident in Italy, July 1968 (opening event, installation (see oversize for poster for Rome exhibition).
Folder	9	USIA internal memoranda, 1962-1965

Folder	1	Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1970-1976
Folder	2	Near East, 1962-1966
Folders	3-4	Overseas exhibition facilities, mostly Near East, 1966-1970. Photographs of facilities and opening events; press clippings; facility plans.
Folders	5-6	Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in Europe, 1959-1966. Includes checklists for preferred exhibition subjects, field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, airgrams, photographs of opening events, museum guidebooks, and press clippings.

Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution

Record Unit 321 National Museum of American Art, Office of Program Support, Records, 1947-1981

By Bruce R. Kirby and Suzanne Erera

Record Unit 321
National Museum of American Art,
Office of Program Support,
Records,
1947-1981

Folder	1	Facilities Reports, Africa, 1972-1975. Photographs of facilities and opening events, press clippings, and facility plans.
Folder	2	Facilities Reports, Europe, 1972-1975. Photographs of facilities and opening events, press clippings, and facility plans.
Folder	3	Exhibition facilities, Europe, 1957-1973. Photographs of facilities, press clippings, and facility plans.
Folder	4	USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (Western Europe), 1973-1975
Folders	5-6	Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in Europe, 1963-1970. Checklists for preferred exhibition subjects, field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, airgrams, photographs and plans of facilities, exhibition checklists and catalogs.

Folder	1	USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (South Asia), 1972
Folder	2	Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in East Asia and Pacific, 1967-1971. Includes press clippings.
Folder	3	USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (East Asia and Pacific), 1975
Folders	4-8	Official communications with USIA and USIS field posts in Latin America, 1961-1969. Field messages, operations memoranda, outgoing messages, airgrams, photographs of facilities and opening events, exhibition checklists and catalogs, and press clippings (see oversize for two unidentified exhibition posters).
Folder	9	USIA miscellaneous exhibitions (Latin America), 1974-1976
Folder	10	Exhibition facilities, Latin America, 1966-1969. Checklists for preferred exhibition subjects, exhibition catalogs, photographs of facilities, press clippings, and facility plans.

Folder	1	Special foreign projects, 1973-1976
Folder	2	Special domestic projects, 1968-1976
Folder	3	Canceled projects, 1957-1965
Folder	4	Canceled project: modern American painting, Latin America, 1958-1959
Folder	5	Project transfer forms, 1957-1966. Transfer of completed projects from ICS/EP (Design and Production Branch) to ICS/EO (Projects Control Officer).
Folder	6	USIA reports classified for limited official use, 1972-1974
Folder	7	Evaluation of publications, 1961

Folders	1-2		Paintings of Lt. Col. William S. Tilton, Bamako, 1967. Photographs of installation and opening events (see oversize for exhibition poster).
Folder	3		Two Centuries of American Art, South America, 1967

Folder	4	Business Buys American Art, 1960
Folder	5	Seventy-five American Painters, 1956-1957
Folders	6-7	Museum of Modern Art, general, 1956-1971. Correspondence, press releases and clippings, USIA reports and memoranda.
Folder	8	The International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, Current Exhibitions Listings, 1963-1967. Incomplete series.

Folders	1-2		Two Decades of American Painting, 1966-1967. Photographs of opening events (folders 2 and 3 of 3; see oversize for exhibition poster).
Folders	3-4		Visionary Architecture, 1963-1966. Photographs of opening events (see oversize for two copies of exhibition poster).

Folder	5	Dr. and Mrs. Robert Aaron
Folder	6	The Harry N. Abrams Family Collection
Folder	7	Mrs. Milton Avery
Folder	8	Richard Brown Baker
Folder	9	Phillip I. Berman
Folder	10	Irving Blum
Folder	11	Mrs. David E. Bright
Folder	12	Mr. and Mrs. William A.M. Burden
Folder	13	Dr. Arthur Carr
Folder	14	Leo Castilli Gallery
Folder	15	Mr. And Mrs. Roger Davidson
Folder	16	Mr. and Mrs. John de Menil
Folder	17	Rene' de Montaigu
Folder	18	Andre Emmerich Gallery
Folder	19	Richard Feigen Gallery
Folder	20	Feingarten Galleries
Folder	21	Ferus Gallery
Folder	22	Fischbach Gallery
Folder	23	Lawrence A. Fleischman
Folder	24	Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
Folder	25	Edgar and Bernice Garbisch Collection, NY
Folder	26	Graham Gallery
Folder	27	Mr. and Mrs. Clement Greenberg
Folder	28	The Guggenheim
Folder	29	Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller Collection
Folder	30	Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hess
Folder	31	Hirshhorn Collection
Folder	32	Martha Jackson Gallery
Folder	33	Sidney Janis Gallery
Folder	34	Johnson Collection
Folder	35	Knoedler's Gallery
Folder	36	Leon Kraushar
Folder	37	Felix Landau Gallery
Folder	38	Mrs. Maximilian Le Witter
Folder	39	Roy Lichtenstein
Folder	40	Mr. and Mrs. Albert List
Folder	41	Mrs. Marcella Louis
Folder	42	Marlborough-Gerson Gallery

Folder	1	John D. Murchison
Folder	2	Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Meadows
Folder	3	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Folder	4	Mr. and Mrs. Leon A. Mnuchin
Folder	5	Museum of Modern Art
Folder	6	The Neuberger Collection
Folder	7	Myron Orlovsky
Folder	8	Alfonso A. Ossorio and Edward F. Dragon
Folder	9	Robert U. Ossorio Collection
Folder	10	Count Giuseppe Panza Di Biumo (Italy)
Folder	11	Pace Gallery
Folder	12	Betty Parsons
Folder	13	Perls Gallery
Folder	14	Phillips Collection
Folder	15	Poindexter Gallery
Folder	16	Jackson Pollock Estate
Folder	17	Edward Power
Folder	18	John G. Powers
Folder	19	Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Reis Collection
Folder	20	Esther Robles Gallery
Folder	21	Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III
Folder	22	Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller
Folder	23	Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller
Folder	24	Mark Rothko Collection
Folder	25	Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rowan
Folder	26	Royal Marks Gallery
Folder	27	Prof. William Rubin
Folder	28	Mr. and Mrs. Schniewind
Folder	29	Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull
Folder	30	Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Slifka
Folder	31	Galerie Lleana Sonnabend, Paris
Folder	32	Stable Gallery
Folder	33	Staempfli Gallery
Folder	34	Mrs. Llewellyn E. Thompson
Folder	35	Tibor de Nagy Gallery
Folder	36	Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine Collection
Folder	37	Whitney Museum of American Art
Folder	38	Willard Gallery
Folder	39	Harry Lewis Winston Collection
Folder	40	Howard Wise Gallery

Folder	41	Architecture, 1967-1970
Folder	42	Artist photographers, 1970
Folder	43	Black artists, 1966-1976
Folder	44	Conceptual art, 1969-1970
Folder	45	Curators, artists, teachers, 1968-1971
Folders	46-47	Crafts and craftsmen, 1961-1978
Folder	48	Designers, 1967-1974
Folder	49	Documentation: photography 1964-1977
Folder	50	Donors: general, 1964-1978

Folder	1	Donors: Ford Foundation, 1960-1969
Folder	2	Donors: Ben and Abby Grey Foundation, 1965-1969
Folder	3	Donors: Dr. Ben and Dr. Jess Shenson, 1972-1975
Folder	4	Environments, 1970
Folder	5	Gemini G.E.L. printers, 1970-1973
Folder	6	Graphic designers, 1977
Folder	7	Highways, 1970
Folder	8	Indian arts and crafts, 1967-1974
Folder	9	Multi-media, 1970-1971
Folder	10	Music, 1969
Folder	11	Naive art, 1964-1970
Folder	12	Paper, 1971-1975
Folder	13	Plastics, 1970
Folder	14	Printers, 1976-1977
Folder	15	Printmaking, general
Folder	16	Printmaking, lithography, 1969-1973
Folder	17	Printmaking, silkscreen, 1970
Folder	18	Printmaking, domestic suppliers
Folder	19	Printmaking, foreign suppliers
Folder	20	Printmaking, workshops
Folder	21	Print workshop supplies, 1977
Folder	22	Prints