Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 438
National Museum of American Art. Office of the Director
Records, 1969-1991
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | National Museum of American Art. Office of the Director |
Title: | Records |
Dates: | 1969-1991 |
Quantity: | 13 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Record Unit 438 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records primarily document the tenure of Charles C. Eldredge as Director and the first few years of the tenure of Elizabeth Broun. A small amount of material relates to previous directors. These records consist primarily of administrative subject files maintained by the Office of the Director, documenting the Director's relationship with bureau and Smithsonian staff, and with outside people and organizations. Also included are files on the National Museum of American Art Commission, its meetings, and its commissioners. Some materials date to when the museum was known as the National Collection of Fine Arts. |
Historical Note
Upon the death of Director Joshua C. Taylor in April 1981, Harry Lowe was named Acting Director and served until July 1982. Charles C. Eldredge next held the position from 1982 until 1988. Elizabeth Broun served as Acting Director, 1988-1989, and then Director, 1989- .
These records primarily document the tenure of Charles C. Eldredge as Director and the first few years of the tenure of Elizabeth Broun. A small amount of material relates to previous directors.
During his six years in office, Eldredge directed the first refurbishment of the public galleries of the museum since its opening. A management study was initiated and the staff reorganized in 1984. The position of Chief Curator was created, and Elizabeth Broun was hired to fill it. The curatorial staff surveyed the entire permanent collection and a number of peripheral works were deaccessioned. A scholarly journal, Smithsonian Studies in American Art, was initiated; and the American Art Forum, an organization for patrons, was established.
Descriptive Entry
These records consist primarily of administrative subject files maintained by the Office of the Director, documenting his or her activities in the museum, in the Institution, and with outside people and organizations. Also included are files on the National Museum of American Art Commission, its meetings, and its commissioners. Some materials date to when the museum was known as the National Collection of Fine Arts.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Broun, Elizabeth
- Eldredge, Charles C.
- Lowe, Harry, 1922-
- National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.). Commission
- National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.). Office of the Director
- National Museum of American Art (U.S.). American Art Forum
- National Museum of American Art (U.S.). Commission
- Smithsonian Studies in American Art (Serial)
- Taylor, Joshua C. (Joshua Charles), 1917-1981
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 438, National Museum of American Art. Office of the Director, Records
Container List
Box 1
Recent Acquisition
Administration
Affirmative Action Plan
American Arts Alliance
AAM - Commission on Museum for a New Century
American Society of Association Executives
American Federation of Arts
Association of American Universities
Association of Art Museum Directors (6 folders)
American Federation of Arts
Attendance
Audio-Visual Services
Albert Bloch
Breeskin, Adelyn - Birthday Party
Breeskin, Adelyn - Receipts
Breeskin, Adelyn - Memorial
Brooks, Romaine
Browne, Byron
Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University
Bryn Mawr College
Building Management Department
Cafritz Foundation
Calder Stabile
Cambridge Associates
Cassatt, Mary
Catlin Paintings
Center for Creative Photography
Center for Cross-Cultural Communications
Chief Curator
Child's Gallery
Ralph T. Coe
College Art Association
Cone, Marvin
Congressional Legislation
Box 2
Congressional Bills
Conservation
Container Corporation of America
Convention Center
Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Joseph Cornell
Corporate Support
Correspondence - Secretary's
Andrew Cosentino
Council of Bureau Directors - Hughes Exercise
Council of Bureau Directors - Ballots
Council of Bureau Directors - SI Conference
Council of Bureau Directors - 1983-1984
Council of Bureau Directors - 1982
Courtyard
Allyn Cox
Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
Ralph E. Christofferson
University of Delaware
Josephine Del Deo
Office of Design & Construction (3 folders)
Design and Construction Space Planning - Various Museums
Dictionary of Artists in America (2 folders)
Discover Graphics
District of Columbia Public Library
Don't Tear It Down
Downtown Progress
Madeline Deschamps
Dunlap Society Advisory Board
George Eastman House
Edinburgh Festival
Francis William Edmond
Education Outreach Program
Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century Painting and Sculpture
Emergency Preparedness
Employment Available
Energy Conservation Task Force
Equal Employment
Executive Committee Review of NMAA
Jane Farmer
Federal Triangle
Fellowships and Grants, 1984
Fellowships and Grants, 1983
Fellowships and Grants, 1982
Academy Program Committee for History and Art
Fire Protection Plan
Folk life Advisory Council
Freer Gallery - NMAA
Gallery Place Brochure
Gallery Place - Catholic University
Gellatly Collection
General Counsel
Box 3
General Services Administration
General Staff Meetings
George Mason University
Gibbes Art Gallery
Gifts, 1984
Gifts, 1983
Gifts, 1982
Gifts, 1981
Golden Age of Flight
Alan Gowans
Graphic Arts
Gruber, Richard
G.K. Hall
Hallmark Foundation
Handicapped Program Accessibility
Martin Johnson Heade "Harbor View at Sunset"
William H. Johnson
Hirshhorn Museum
Historical Mural Foundation
Information Resources Management
Douglas Hyland
ICOM
Interior Department
Intern Program
Internships
Internal Control Steering Committee
Internal Exhibitions Foundation
International Year of Disabled Persons
Martha Jackson
Japanese Craft Show
Elizabeth Johns
Juley Archive
Morris Kantor Exhibition
King Holiday Project
Kansas, University of
Korean War Memorial
Kresge Foundation
Leon Kroll
Laguna Beach Museum of Art
Landscaping - NCFA
Latin American Art
Ernest Lawson Papers
Library - NMAA
Library - SI
Library of Congress
Harvey Littleton Sculpture Acquisition
Lowe, Harry
MacArthur Foundation
Still Lifes by Henry Lee McFee
Madison Art Center
Maryland Committee for the Humanities
George Mason University
Frank McClure
Mellon Foundation
Memos - Dean Anderson
Memos - John Reinhardt
Memos - Philip S. Hughes
Memos - S. Dillon Ripley
Memorial Art Gallery
Willard Metcalf
Metro - AA/PG Building
Metro - Art Advisory Committee
Montgomery County Arts Council
Bruce Moore
Thomas Moran
Alfred T. Morris
William Sidney Mount
Muhlert, Jan
National Academy of Sciences
National Air & Space Museum
National Endowment for the Arts
NMAA - Change of Name
National Gallery of Art
NMAA - Graphic Identity Program
Box 4
NMAA - Reinstallation of
National Press Club
Navy Memorial at Market Square
Non-expendable Property
Barbara Novak
Georgia O'Keeffe
Panza Collection
Peabody Museum (Harvard)
Ferdinand Perret Research Library
Property
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corp.
Photographic Collections
Photography
Portland Museum of Art
Post Office Agreement
Hiram Powers
Marla Prather
Professional Training Program
Project 1987 (Public Programs Task Force)
Property Passes
Public Affairs Office
Public Programs
Public Programs Committee
Ramapo Consortium
Abraham Rattner
Re-Development Land Agency
Regents Fellowships, 1983
Registrar's Office
Registrar's Office (Lending Program)
Renwick Gallery Facade
Renwick Gallery (Frank Lloyd Wright and Johnson Wax Buildings Exhibition)
Renwick Gallery (Trip Reports)
Renwick Gallery (Building Improvements, Fire & Security)
Renwick Gallery Committee
Reynolda House
S. Dillon Ripley
Roosevelt Centennial
Rotary Club (Rhode Island)
Susan Rothenberg
Sacks Gallery
Safety
St. Luke's (Rhode Island)
Search Committee (Director, NMAA)
Search Committee (Secretary, SI)
Security
David Sellin
Fern Shewmaker
James Smithson Society (1982-1984)
Smithsonian Lecture/Lunches
Smithsonian Organization Chart
Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Council Meeting, 1982
Smithsonian Property Inventory, 1984
Smithsonian Property Inventory, 1983
Smithsonian Press Editorial Advisory Board
Smithsonian Year, 1983
Smithsonian Year, 1982
Smithsonian Year, 1981
Smithsonian Symposia & Seminars
SITES (Management Committee Report, 1985-1986)
Box 5
SI Press Advisory Board
SI Publishing Council
SITES
Special Services Programs
Standards of Conduct
Streets for People
Taxi Drivers Reception
Telephone Listings, etc.
Tell It To The Director
Terra Museum of American Art, 10/16/1982
Arthur C. Townsend
National Associates Lecture, Lincoln, Nebraska, 4/16/1985
Truman Centennial
David Tunkl
Un-American Art
University Art Museum, University of California
Upward Mobility
Martin Sandier - WANG - TV Project Prop.
WANG
Washington Convention Center
George Washington University
Wilmoth Booksellers
YWCA
Wyeth Endowment for American Art
Commissioner Files
Gene Davis
Lloyd Goodrich
Nancy Graves
David Lloyd Kreeger
Paul Mellon
Commission Membership Committee (1970-1981)
Commission Meeting (General, 1969-1975 (including "Fundraising Projects Status Report" (1983))
NMAA Commission meeting, May 5, 1981
NMAA Commission meeting, December 3, 1981
NMAA Commission meeting, May 6, 1982
NMAA Commission meeting, December 2, 1982
Director's Office
Staff Reorganization (1982)
Budget Documents, 10/1/1981-9/30/1982
Management Studies (1982)
Martin Friedman
Abram Lerner
Henry P. McIlhenny
Margaret McKee
Philip Pearlstein
Ogden Pleissner
Edgar P. Richardson
S. Dillon Ripley
George Segal
George B. Tatum
Andrew Wyeth
Box 6
Commission Meeting, December 4, 1980
Commission Meeting, May 6, 1980
Director's Discretionary Fund, files for 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1972-1973 (9 folders)
Five-Year Prospectus, 1978; May 1968-May 1973
Five-Year Report, May 1968-May 1973
Future of the NCFA
NCFA Report, May 1973-December 1979
National Council for American Art (Development Committee, 1979)
National Council for American Art (Development Committee, 1980-1981)
Acquisitions Program
Acquisitions
Anthropology
Ariel Appleton
Architect of the Capitol
Archives of American Art
Barney House
Bassing, Allen
Benton, Thomas Hart
Bequests
Berry-Hill Galleries
Bowater, Miriam
Buck, Claude
Cole, Thomas
Collections Policy & Management Study Committee
Colville, Thomas
Computer Equipment
Commemorations
COBD, 1985
Box 7
COBD (CE Chrm), 1986
Cowan Collection
Credit Lines
Deaccessioning (2 folders)
Docents
Executive Committee - NMAA
Office of Fellowships & Grants
Fluid Research Fund
National Portrait Gallery
NMAA/NPG Signage
New Zealand/U.S. Arts Foundation, Inc.
Office of Accounting & Financial Services
Office of Grants & Risk Management
OPlantS
Outreach (Educational)
Outside Activities (NMAA)
Outside Activities
Maurice Prendergast
Publications NMAA
Purchases - NMAA
Quadrangle
Ranger Fund
Raydon Gallery
Recchia Request
Fred Reichman
Renwick
Renwick - Collectors Alliance
Renwick Personnel
Research Program
Research Support
Research & Fellowship
Research Opportunities Fund
Restaurant
Mark Rothko
Lockwood Rush
Anne Ryan
Schimmel, Julie
Secretary's Statement
Box 8
Senior Staff Meetings
SI - Property Inventory
SI Research Associates Lecture, September-October 1985 (includes audio cassette)
Scholarly Studies Program
Sidwell Friends
SITES
J. Paul Getty Trust
Gifts, 1986
Gifts, 1985
Lloyd Herman
Index of Pre-1877 No. American Art Exhibition Catalogues
International Congress of Art History, 1985-1986
Inventory of Decorative Arts
NMAA Journal
NMAA Journal
Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
Membership & Development
Memos - Robert McC. Adams
Memos - John Jameson
Memos - Staff
Memos - Management Analysis Office
Office of General Counsel
Memos - S.I.
Memos - Office of Audits
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Miniatures
Minneapolis Institute of Art
National Museum of African Art
Museum of Fine Arts - Boston
Office of Museum Programs
Office of Museum Programs - S.I.
Museum Shops
Museum Support Center
National Museum of American Art
National Gallery of Art (CASVA)
National Museum of American History
National Museum of Natural History
NMNH Anthropology Collection Transfer
NMNH National American Art at Smithsonian
Box 9
James Smithson Society
Smithsonian Council Membership
Smithsonian Council Meeting, 1985
Smithsonian Council Meeting, 10/27/1984
Smithsonian (history)
Smithsonian Associates - National
Smithsonian National Associates (Contrib. Membership)
Smithsonian Research Activities Audit
Smithsonian Associates - Resident
Smithsonian Institution Press
Smithsonian Institution Programs & Activities
Smithsonian World
Board of Regents
Smithsonian Year, 1985
Smithsonian Year, 1984
Sotheby's
Spanierman, Inc.
Spencer Museum of Art
Stetson, Charles
Storage MSC (Silver Hill)
Tax Reform Act of 1984
Taylor, Joshua
Taylor, Joshua Scholarship Fund over $500
Taylor, Joshua Scholarship Fund under $500
Joshua Taylor Scholarship Fund (working papers)
JCT- 19th Century Theories of Art
Techworld
Wider Audience
University of Wisconsin
Women Artists in NMAA
Women's Committee
Woolaroc Museum
WPA Projects
Wyeth Endowment for the Arts
Yale University Press
Telecommunications
Twentieth Century
USIA
Volunteers
Washington Art Dealers Association
Washington Historians of American Art
Washington, James W., Jr.
Whither History and Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
Eldredge Party - Invitation List
Personal Projects of Director (C. Eldredge)
Spanish-American Art
Box 10
Reynolda House (2 folders)
Pollin, Burton
New Zealand Art - An American Perspective
Association of Art Museum Directors, 1987-1988 (8 folders)
American Association of Museums, 1984-1988
American Federation of the Arts, 1984
Correspondence Files, A - L, 1989 (12 folders)
Box 11
Correspondence Files, M - Z, 1989 (14 folders)
Membership Committee, FY 1981-FY 1986
Accessions Committee
Collections Committee, FY 1971-FY 1989
Nominating Committee, FY 1971-FY 1989
Renwick Committee, FY 1971-1989
Commission, FY 1971-1989
Non-SI Libraries
Potential Minority Curators
Plagiarism Charges, 1989
Plagiarism Charges, 1990
Potential Minority Curators
Renwick Gallery
Research Support
SI Interns (Date Order)
Special Events, 1986-1988
Administrative Space Study (1986)
Affirmative Action Report (Semiannual) (1988)
Anschutz Foundation Collection (1979, 1981-1983, 1985, 1987, 1989)
Barney Studio House (1987) Volume 1
Barney Studio House (1988-1989) Volume 2
Blum-Helman Gallery (1986 and 1989)
Denver Art Museum (1989)
Foxley Collection (1985)
Getty, J. Paul Trust Grant Program (1986-1989)
Lane Collection (1986)
Library of American Art Series (Harry Abrams, Inc.) (1985-1989)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (1986 and 1988)
Museum of American Folk Art (1989)
Museum of Fine Arts Boston (1989)
National Endowment for the Arts (1987)
Neuhauser (artist) (1989)
Norman, Irving Collection (1987-1988)
O'Keeffe Estate (1988)
Regis Collection Exhibition (Mike Kunin) (1989)
Research Miscellaneous (1988-1989)
Sandzen Collection (1988)
SI Council of Bureau Directors (1988, 1989)
SI Management Analysis Office (Report on Admission Charges) (1986)
SI Office of Fellowships and Grants (1989)
SI Office of Inspector General (1990)
SI Treasurer (1986 & 1989)
Slide Library (1986)
Supertour (1989)
Tower, Lockwood & Betsy Collection (1987)
Whitney Museum of American Art (1985-1989)
Box 12
FY 1991 General Correspondence Files, A - Z (24 folders)
Box 13
SI Assistant Secretary for Museums
SI Fellows, 1986-1990
SI Five-Year Prospectus
SI General Counsel
SI Libraries
SI Museum of the American Indian
SI Office of Equal Opportunity
SI Office of Facilities Service
SI Office of Protection Services
SI Press
SI Studies in American Art (Journal)
Travel Logs, 1988-1990/1991
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