Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 448
National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of Exhibition and Design
Records, 1964-1978
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 Collection of Fine Arts. Office of Exhibition and Design |
Title: | Records |
Dates: | 1964-1978 |
Quantity: | 11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Record Unit 448 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records consist of correspondence, photographs and slides which document the design and installation of exhibitions at the National Collection of Fine Arts and the Renwick Gallery when Keeler served as Chief. Of special interest are records concerning the Patent Office Building opening, 1968, and the exhibition, America as Art, 1976. The records also document the tenure of Harry Lowe as Curator of Exhibits, 1964-1972. |
Descriptive Entry
These records consist of correspondence, photographs, and slides which document the design and installation of exhibitions at the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) and the Renwick Gallery. Of special interest are records concerning the Patent Office Building (POB) Opening, 1968 and the exhibition America as Art, 1976. The records also document the tenure of Harry Lowe as Curator of Exhibits, 1964-1972.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- America as Art (Exhibition) (1976: Washington, D.C.)
- Keeler, David B.
- Lowe, Harry, 1922-
- Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Renwick Gallery
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 448, National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of Exhibition and Design, Records
Container List
Series 1
Harry Lowe, Curator of Exhibits, 1964-1972Box 1
NCFA/National Portrait Gallery (NPG) Buildings, 1964-1969
Granite Gallery #140
Harriet Lane Johnston Lounge #257
Sales Area - C. Fox #167-166
Assembly Hall
Changing Galleries #153 & 155 & Corridor 154
Johnson Wax #346, 347 and 342
Underwood
Gallery 341 (2 folders)
Lowe - POB Opening - Exhibition Staff Meetings
Plan & Progress Meetings (Staff) & (Departmental)
Installation Schedule
General - Towards Opening
Prints & Drawings #261, 260 (Hallway), Corridors 266 and 270
Lincoln Hall #350
Lecture Hall
Hiram Powers #178
POB - History, Publicity, Salvaged objects, etc.
POB Move - Offices and Personnel from MNH
Galleries - Compilations, Technical Data
Contemporary Works for Opening, March 5, 1968
POB Material and Equipment, (including carpeting), 1968
Office Equipment
POB Planning (Miscellaneous notes)
Sculpture - Exterior, Interior
Offices and Office Hallway
Wurzberger Sculpture Garden
American Folk Art - Halpert (POB opening - Youth Gallery)
Lincoln Hall, 1969
NCFA Miniature Collection - Room #268
POB Design Installation General Planning
POB Construction and Equipment, 1966
POB Construction and Equipment, 1964-1965
POB Opening, 1968
POB Construction & Equipment, 1967
NCFA Art Hall
NCFA Exhibits Office - "Room 39"/Keller
NCFA Foyer Gallery
POB Selection of Designers
Trips, Committees, Speeches, 1965-1972
Agriculture Craft Show, 1969
Air Force Medical Wives, 1965
American Association of Museums, Chicago, 1966, Philadelphia, 1967
American Association of Museums, New Orleans, 1968
American Association of Museums, New York City, 1970
American Association of Museums, Denver, 1971
American Institute of Architects Convention, 1965
American Symphony Orchestra, 1965
Area Artists Show, 1968
Auburn Art Festival, 1969
Azuma Interview - Washington Print Club, 1967
Azuma - Skyes Panel, Cheekwood Tennessee, 1968
Centennial Club, 1965
College Art Association, 1966-1967
College Art Association, St. Louis, 1968
College Art Association, Boston, 1969
Box 2
College Art Section, Tallahassee, 1966
Council of the Southern Mountains, 1966
Docent Tour, New York City, 1970
Docent Tour, Richmond, 1971
Docent's New York trip, 1972
General, Fall, 1967
Greenville Festival, 1968
Hirshhorn - New York Trip, 1967
Humanities Festival, Latin America, 1969
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, 1966
International Club, Washington, Panel Discussion, 1967
International Council of Museums, 1965
Memphis Academy of Fine Arts, Commencement, cancelled, 1966
Memphis Academy/Art - Commencement address, 1968
Miami Art Center, Jurying, 1969
Mid-States Art Show, Judge, 1967
Mid-States Art Show, Jury Duty, 1968
Midwest Museum Conference, 1965-1966
Museum Education Meeting (Miss Bloom's), 1965
National Association of Industrial Artists, Judge, 1965
NCFA Docent Lecture, 1967
National Trust, 1966
National Trust, 21st Annual Meeting, St. Louis, 1967
Karl Nicker, "Local Artist" Show - Florida, 1969, (1967)
Pennsbury Manor American Forum, 1967
Smithsonian Annual Symposium, 1967
Smithsonian Associates - Tour, New York City, 1968
Smithsonian Associates - New York City Art Tour, 1969
Smithsonian Council Dinner, 1967
Society of Architectural Historians, 1966, 1967
Society of Technical Writers and Publishers, 1965
South Eastern Museum Conference, 1965-1967
State Arts Committee - Selection Committee - Tennessee Today, 1967
Summer Intern Lecture, 1966
Swan Ball, 1968
Swan Ball, 1969
Swan Ball, 1970
Swan Ball, Nashville, 1971
Swan Ball, June 1971
Symphony Royale, Nashville, 1969
Telfair Academy - Address to annual meeting, Savannah, Georgia, 1968
Tennessee Association of Museums, 1966, 1967
University of Tennessee, South Eastern Arts Festival, 1965
Washington - Tokyo Women's Club, 1967
White House Conference on National Beauty, 1965
White House Lectures, 1966
White House Lectures, 1967
White House Seminar, Lecture and Panel, 1968
William Penn Memoria1 Museum - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1971
Series 2
Exhibits, 1968-1978Box 2
E&D Prints & Drawings Exhibitions, Gallery 1B & Granite
Werner Drewes Woodcuts, August 15-October 5, 1969
American Print making The First 150 Years, January 1-March 1, 1970
Box 3
A Measure of Beauty, July 7-September 16, 1973
Boris Anisfeldt (American Theatre), September 12-November 7,1971
Artist-Naturalists: Observations in the Americas, July 14-September 10, 1972
Peggy Bacon, December 5, 1975-February 8, 1976
Johann Herman Carmiencke, January 19-March 19, 1973
The 8th Dulin Print & Drawing Competition, March 23-April 22, 1973
Dusseldorf Academy & The Americans, April 27-June 24, 1973
Thomas Eakins: His Photographic Works, November 19-January 2, 1972
Drawings by William Glackens, February 24-April 30, 1972
Graphics 73: Ralston Crawford, April 27-May 22, 1973
Chaim Gross, September 13-November 24, 1974
John Davis Hatch, May 21-June 29, 1971
High School Graphics III (installation slides), May 6, 1973-June 29, 1971
Jacob Kainen: Prints, A Retro, November 19, 1976-January 23, 1977
Louis Lozowick, September 12-November 23, 1975
George Miller and American Lithography, February 13-April 4, 1976
Modern American Woodcuts, November 30, 1973-February 10, 1974
5 Thomas Nast Cartoons, July 2-August 30, 1970
23rd National Exhibition of Prints, September 21-November 25, 1973
24th National Exhibition of Prints, May 23-September 7, 1975
25th National Exhibition of Prints, May 27-September 18, 1977
New Ways with Paper, December 2, 1977-February 20, 1978
Recent Accessions (Prints), November 17, 1972-January 14, 1973
Recent Acquisitions, February 14-May 18, 1975
Recent Acquisitions, May 5-September 10, 1978
Recent American Etchings, January 21-March 20, 1977
Karl Schrag Retrospective, January 7-February 21, 1972
Raphael Soyer, September 23-November 27, 1977
SI Prints, July 7-September 12, 1971
Steinberg at the Smithsonian, December 21, 1973-February 24, 1974
3 Contemporary Print makers: J. Kainen, Albert Christ-Janer, Tadeusz Lapinski, June 1-July 1, 1973
Two Decades of American Prints, June 21-September 8, 1974
Venice 35: SI Workshop Prints
Washington Print Club Collection, June 9-July 9, 1972
5th Members Exhibition - Washington Print Club, May 3-June 16, 1974
Washington Print Club: Members Show, September 24-November 14, 1976
Washington Print Club: 7th Members Show, September 15-November 19, 1978
The Way of Good & Evil (Religious Prints in America), September 15-November 12, 1972
Herman Webster, February 15-April 21, 1974
J. Alden Weir Prints, May 5-June 4, 1972
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) West Coast Graphics (Graphics '71) catalog only, April 8-May 16, 1971
E & D Exhibition Files (Gallery 3B)
The American Poster, April 24-June 15, 1969
Box 4
Alexander Archipenko (installation photographs), 1968
The Art of Tibet, July 2-September 1, 1969 (3 folders)
Institute of International Education: Artists Abroad, August 7-September 7, 1970
Alice Pike Barney (set of photos from exhibition), October 18, 1967-January 1, 1968
Leonard Baskin, June 12-July 26, 1970 (4 folders)
Venice Biennale XXXIV, December 20, 1968-February 2, 1969 (3 folders)
George Caleb Bingham (installation photographs), October 15, 1967-January 1, 1968
Romaine Brooks "Thief of Souls," February 24-April 4, 1971
Jasper F. Cropsey 1823-1900, November 23, 1970-January 3, 1971
Jasper F. Cropsey - Catalogue and correspondence (2 folders)
Jasper F. Cropsey - Cleveland Museum of Art - William S. Talbot
Explorations, April 4-May 10, 1970 (2 folders)
Box 5
E&D Exhibition Files (mostly Gallery 3B and miscellaneous)
College Art Association file, January 1970
College Art Association Conference, January 22-25, 1975
Contemporary Collection, February 11-March 5, 1972
Contemporary Collection, November 29, 1972-February 4, 1973
20th Century Permanent Collection, August 9-September 29, 1974
Furniture 1971: Living Systems (Granite Gallery), March 23-April 12, 1971
The Hand and The Spirit, September 29-November 5, 1972 (3 folders)
Hidden Aspects, June 27-October 3, 1971
William H. Johnson, November 5, 1971-January 2, 1972 (2 folders)
Kaleidoscope Day, May 22, 1976
Kaleidoscope Day, June 4, 1977
John Marin, April 23-June 6, 1971
National Parks and the American Landscape, June 23-August 27, 1972
Neuberger exhibition photos, August 14-October 13, 1968
Paintings by Catlin, OEA exhibition, October 1974-October 1975
H. Lyman Sayen, September 25-November 1, 1970
Lilly Martin Spencer, June 15-September 3, 1973
Styles of the 30s (installation photographs), September 20-December 1971
Henry O. Tanner, July 22-September 14, 1969 (2 folders)
European Painters Today, 3B, April 5-June 1, 1969
Box 6
Stanley William Hayter, October 24-December 7, 1979
The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer, 1B, January 9-February 23, 1969
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, May 9-June 29, 1969
Rico Lebrun, January 30-March 16, 1969
Levine's Contact (TV Sculpture) - Not an exhibition, one piece of sculpture on view in Granite Gallery, June 19-August 27, 1969
Romare Bearden, July 19-September 26, 1971
Jennie Cell Paintings, March 10-December 31, 1972
Solon H. Borglum, October 20-December 3, 1972
Spanish Connection, October 19-December 2, 1973
John Steuart Curry, December 2, 1971-February 21, 1972
GSA Design Awards Program, November 15-November 30, 1972
Lee Gatch, October 6-November 29, 1971
Edith Gregor Halpert Memorial Exhibition, April 7-June 25, 1972
The Art of John Held, Jr., December 18, 1971-January 31, 1972
The Monotype: An Edition of One, July 1-August 6, 1972
25 by Rhode Island School of Design, April 22-June 2, 1972
Jannis Spyropoulos, September 19-October 15, 1969
Milton Avery, December 12, 1969-January 25, 1970 (3 folders)
Milton Avery - Catalogue Production (2 folders)
Milton Avery - Catalogue manuscript and proof (2 folders)
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Exhibition catalog
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Installation photographs
Box 7
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Sheeler photography
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Edith Gregor Halpert
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Whitney/Lloyd Goodrich
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Costs
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - William Lane
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Charles Millard
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Catalogue master copy
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Philadelphia Museum
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Mrs. Sheeler
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Exhibit lists
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Catalogue production
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Bartlett Hayes
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Abigail Booth
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Harry Lowe
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Publicity
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - NCFA memoranda and SI memoranda, etc.
Charles Sheeler, October 10-November 24, 1968, Gallery 3B - Martin Friedman
Objects: USA, October 3-November 16, 1969 (2 folders)
Objects: USA, October 3-November 16, 1969 - Photographs
Objects: USA, October 3-November 16, 1969 - Photographs - #1-163
Objects: USA, October 3-November 16, 1969 - Photographs - #164-308
E&D Exhibition Files (Renwick Gallery)
American Pieced Quilts, October 14, 1972-January 7, 1973
Announcing the Avant Garde: French Playbills of the 1890s, August 12-October 23, 1972
Franz Barwig Sculpture, August 12-November 26, 1972
Box 8
Brazilian Baroque, December 22, 1972-February 25, 1973 (2 folders)
Jack Lenor Larsen Retrospective, March 22-May 21, 1972
The Swedish Touch, June 10-July 30, 1972
Woodenworks, January 28-March 11, 1972 (2 folders)
1973 Renwick Exhibitions
American Coverlets, May 11-September 13, 1973
The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1918, June 1-September 9, 1973
Boxes and Bowls, November 16-July 11, 1973
Contemporary Indian Paintings, March 16-April 15, 1973
The Design Necessity, April 5-May 20, 1973
Form and Fire: Natzler Ceramics 1939-1972, July 27-October 22, 1973
Objects for Preparing Food, February 9-April 29, 1973
Shaker: Furniture & Objects from Edward Deming Andrews Collections Commemorating the Bicentenary of the American Shakers, November 2, 1973-April 7, 1974 (2 folders)
Office of Exhibition and Design (Exhibition Files), 1972-1976
Two American Painters: F. Scholder & T. C. Cannon, April 7-May 29, 1972
From Within, February 2-March 25, 1973
Alfred H. Maurer, February 23-May 15, 1973
5 Sense Store: An Aesthetic Design for Education, April 10-June 17, 1973
Views of the Earth, May 4, 1973-June 17, 1973
Divergent Representations: Five Contemporary Artists, June 1-September 3, 1973
American Glass Now, October 13-December 2, 1973 (2 folders)
Box 9
Robert Loftin Newman (1827-1812), October 26, 1973-January 6, 1974
NCFA Open House, November 4, 1973
Marguerite Zorach: The Early Years, 1908-1920, December 7, 1973-February 3, 1974
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), December 23, 1973-June 2, 1974
Art of the Pacific Northwest: From 1930s to the Present, February 8-May 7, 1974
Late 19th Century American Art: Cosmopolitan Tastes and the Genteel Tradition (Delaware Symposium), April 19, 1974
Anne Ryan Collages, May 24-July 14, 1974
Tribute to Mark Tobey, June 7-September 8, 1974
Made in Chicago, October 31-December 29, 1974
A Future for Our Past: The Conservation of Art, June 28-November 21, 1974
Eight from California, November 29, 1974-February 9, 1975
Contemporary American Illustrators of Children's Books, December 13, 1974-February 2, 1975
Ilya Bolotowsky, December 20, 1974-February 17, 1975
American Art in the Barbizon Mood, January 23-April 20, 1975 (2 folders)
H. H. Richardson and His Office, March 21-June 22, 1975 (3 folders)
Horatio Shaw, August 16, 1974-March 16, 1975
William H. Johnson (filler show), March 4-March 31, 1975
Box 10
Art for Architecture: Washington, D.C., 1895-1925, April 4, 1975-February 29, 1976
High School Graphics IV, April 11-June 1, 1975
A Modern Consciousness: DePree & Knoll (furniture), April 11-November 9, 1975
Pennsylvania Academy Moderns, 1910-1940, May 9-July 6, 1975
Academy: The Academic Tradition in American Art, June 6-September 1, 1975 (2 folders)
Contemporary Stage Design: U.S.A., June 20-September 1, 1975
Craft Multiples, July 4, 1975-February 16, 1976
The Designs of Raymond Loewy, August 1-November 16, 1975 (2 folders)
Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, October 3-November 30, 1975
1975 Christmas Seal Paintings, November 14, 1975-January 4, 1976
Bob Thompson: 1937-1966, December 19, 1975-February 22, 1976
Abraham Rattner (studies for stained glass window), January 23-March 28, 1976
Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom is the Only King, January 16-March 14, 1976 (2 folders)
Signs of Life: Symbols in the American City, February 26-October 31, 1976 (2 folders)
BIAP Executed Before 1914, April 9-November 10, 1976
Behind the Scenes at NCFA, April 16-October 17, 1976
America As Art, April 30-November 7, 1976 (Folders 1-2 of 6)
Box 11
America As Art, April 30-November 7, 1976 (Folders 3-6 of 6)
1974 Renwick Exhibitions
Copenhagen Porcelain, 200 Years of Royal, April 12-June 30, 1974
Contemporary Textile Art from Austria, November 22, 1974-March 9, 1975
Figure and Fantasy, October 5, 1974-February 9, 1975
The Goldsmith, May 17-August 18, 1974
Index of American Design: Holloware Renderings, July 13-September 29, 1974
Man Made Mobile: The Western Saddle, July 19, 1974-June 27, 1976
Nigerian Art, Contemporary: Craftsmen from Oshogbo, July 26-October 28, 1974
Paintings from Pakistan, January 17-March 3, 1974
Santos: Popular Forms of Faith in Latin American, March 15-April 14, 1974
Pueblo Pottery: Zuni and Acoma Designs from the Smithsonian Collections, January 28, 1972-January 1, 1973
The Glass of Frederick Carder, January 18, 1972-January 6, 1974
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