Subject Files, 1958-2008

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Summary

Consists of records documenting activities of the office during the tenures of Directors Charles Nagel (1964-1969), Marvin S. Sadik (1969-1981), Alan Maxwell Fern (1982-2000), and Marc Pachter (2000-2007). Topics include: cultural affairs, exhibitions, legislation, special events, facilities, symposia, budget, donation, management, copyright, and grants. The records also document the museum's relations with the National Museum of American Art (formerly the National Collection of Fine Arts) and other Smithsonian bureaus. Information about the museum's interactions with professional art organizations, such as the American Association of Museums and the Association of Art Museum Directors, is also included. Materials include reports, correspondence, color photographs, color transparencies, color negatives, black-and-white photographs, black-and-white transparencies, black-and-white negatives, travel records, lists, meeting minutes, brochures, catalogs, proposals, policies, procedures, memoranda, notes, newsletters, read files, invitations, cards, clippings, compact discs, digital versatile discs, videotapes, audiotapes and schedules. Some records predate the existence of the office and some materials are in electronic format.

Subject

  • Sadik, Marvin S
  • Nagel, Charles 1899-1992
  • Fern, Alan Maxwell 1930-
  • Pachter, Marc
  • American Association of Museums
  • Association of Art Museum Directors
  • National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
  • National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)

Category

Series Level Description

Notes

  • To view records that comprise this series, see the detailed list of accessions and/or record units below.
  • For a history of the creating unit, refer to "Forms part of" above.

Organization

Alphabetic and unarranged

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1958
  • 1958-2008

Restrictions & Rights

Materials less than 15 years old Restricted. Contact reference staff for details

Topic

  • Art museums
  • Art, American
  • Museums
  • Portraits, American
  • Museums--Administration
  • Museum directors

Form/Genre

  • Manuscripts
  • Black-and-white photographs
  • Brochures
  • Newsletters
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Clippings
  • Color photographs
  • Color transparencies
  • Black-and-white transparencies
  • Videotapes
  • Compact discs
  • Digital versatile discs
  • Black-and-white negatives
  • Color negatives
  • Audiotapes
  • Electronic records
  • Floppy disks

Local number

SIA RS00580

Physical description

  • 29 cu. ft. processed holdings
  • 42.33 cu. ft. unprocessed holdings

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