Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 00-044
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions
Exhibition Records, 1972-1996
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions |
| Title: | Exhibition Records |
| Dates: | 1972-1996 |
| Quantity: | 7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes) |
| Collection: | Accession 00-044 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession consists of exhibition records pertaining to "In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler" (1995), "Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass" (1995), "Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814" (1994), "Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture" (1995), and "Lazzaroni: Science & Scientists in Mid-19th Century America" (1972). All were exhibitions held at the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include photographs, loan agreements, correspondence, memoranda, notes, scripts, labels, and reports. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of exhibition records pertaining to In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler (1995); Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass (1995); Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814 (1994); Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture (1995); and Lazzaroni: Science & Scientists in Mid-19th Century America (1972). All were exhibitions held at the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include photographs, loan agreements, correspondence, memoranda, notes, scripts, labels, and reports.
Restrictions
Access RestrictionBoxex 1-7 contains materials restricted indefinitely; see finding aid. Transferring office; 3/3/1999 memorandum, Lee to Cox; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814 (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Lazzaroni: Science and Scientists in Mid-19th Century America (Exhibition) (1972: Washington, D.C.)
- Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 00-044, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records
Container List
Box 1
In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler; 4/7/1995 - 8/13/1995
General Files
General
Brochure
Budget
Catalogue
Catalogue Manuscript
Permissions-Catalogue
Catalogue Photographs from Non-Lenders
Checklists
Database Printout
De-Installation
Education
Exhibition Credits
Labels
Opening
In-House Photo Orders
Public Relations (PR)
Whistler Research
Script
Special Exhibition Fund (SEF)
Signage
Symposium: National Gallery of Art (NGA) and Freer
Travel
Lender Sheets
Lender Files
Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham City Council
Boston Public Library
British museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Fine Arts Society
National Portrait Gallery, Office of Exhibitions
Exhibition Records
Freer Gallery
Freer Gallery - Research Photos
Glasgow University Library
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Harvard University Art Galleries
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (Dublin)
Hunterian Gallery, University of Glasgow
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Library of Congress (facsimile only)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Box 2
Michael Parkin Gallery
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of American Art
National Portrait Gallery, London
National Portrait Gallery, SI
New York Public Library
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Parrish Art Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Princeton University Libraries
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Tate Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum
Lender Files - Items not in exhibition
Atlas Galleries, Inc. - Dropped
Browse and Darby - Dropped (see F. Shar)
Christies - Dropped
Detroit Institute of art - Denied
Kennedy Galleries, Inc. - Dropped
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) - Withdrawn
Rosenbach Museum and Library - Dropped
Sotheby's - Dropped
Whistler-Pickford Waller scrapbook
Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass; 2/10/1995 - 11/19/1995
General Files
General
Booklet
Brochure
Waldo Martin
Conference
Exhibition Contract - National Portrait Gallery (NPG) and National Park Service (NPS)
SEF
Centennial
Opening
Database Printout
De-Installation
Educational Poster
Funding/Budget
Monument
West Chester University - Douglass Project
Education
In-House Photo Orders
Poster
Research
Script
WETA Film
Typeset Labels
Box 3
Lender Files
Anacostia Museum
Boston Public Library
Clements Library, University of Michigan
Gelman Library, George Washington University
Lender Files (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard University, Moorland-Springarn
Library Company of Philadelphia
Library of Congress
Madison County Historical Society
Massachusetts Historical Society (Photo Only)
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (Photo Only)
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
National Park Service
National Park Service: Photos
NPG
New York Public Library
Old Dartmouth Historical Society
Providence Public Library
Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Smith College
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Syracuse University
Lender Files - Items not in exhibition
Carnegie Museum of Art - Denied
Chicago Historical Society - Denied
J. Paul Getty Museum - Denied
Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture; 10/6/1995 - 1/28/1996
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Dropped
Mead Art Museum - Denied
White House - Denied
General Files
General
Permission Letters from Vendors to Tara
Brochure
Budget
Conservation and Fees
Database Printouts
De-Installation
Education
Funding
Labels
Luncheon
Box 4
Photo Orders
In-House Photo Orders
Possible Venues
Publicity
Padwe, Alice - Research
Unknowns (owners)
SEF
Scripts
Shimbun, Yomiuri
Possible Substitutions
Symposium
Text Panels
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Ruthann Uithol's Beaux Thesis
Traveling Exhibition
Traveling Venue: West-Mooreland Museum of Art
Lender Files
Allegheny College Library
H. V. Allison galleries
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American red Cross
Amon Carter
Art Institute of Chicago
Lender Files (3 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Bank One, Springfield
Bryn Mawr
Lender File (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Butler Institute of American Art
Cape Ann Historical Association
Lender File (5 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Columbus Museum of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Davis Museum/Wellesley
Box 5
Lender Files (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Historical Society of Old Newbury
Lender File (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Sally Stretch Keen Memorial Library
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Library of Congress
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Academy of Design
National Library of Medicine
National Museum of American Art (NMAA)
NPG
PAFA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design
Lender File (3 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Smith College Museum of Art
Society of the Cincinnati at Anderson House
Lender File (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
U. S. House of Representatives - Fine Arts Board
Alfred J. Walker Fine Art
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Wellesley College Library
Richard York Gallery
Lender Files - Items not in exhibition
Lender File (5 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Dropped)
Lender File (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Harvard University (not in exhibit)
Indianapolis Museum of Art (not in exhibit)
Lender File (3 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (not in exhibit)
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Musee d'Orsay (withdrawn)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (not in exhibit)
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
New York Academy of Medicine (not in exhibit)
Lender File (5 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Sotheby's (not in exhibit)
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Suvek Gallery (not in exhibit)
Toledo Museum of Art (denied)
U.S. Naval Academy (not in exhibit)
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Yale University Art Gallery (not in exhibition - 1 denied, 1 dropped)
Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814; 12/2/1994 - 5/29/1995
General Files
General
Brochure
Catalogue
Education
Exhibition Schedules/deadlines
Labels
Opening
Publicity
Scripts
Lender Files
American Art/Portrait Gallery (AAPG) Library
American Philosophical Society
Baltimore City Life Museums - Peale
Baltimore Museum of Art
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Colonial Williamsburg
Box 6
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Duke University of Art
Gibbes Museum of Art
Hayes, Virginia Wickham
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Maryland Historical Society
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Missouri Historical Society
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Museum of American History
National Portrait Gallery
New York Historical Society
New York Public Library
Peabody Essex Museum
Porter, Julia Wickham
Princeton University Library
Lender Files (2 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Wilson Library, University of North Carolina
Lender File - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED
Washington Cathedral
Lender Files - Items not in exhibition
Dibner Library, NMAH (dropped)
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art (Withdrawn)
Winterthur Museum (denied)
Worcester Art Museum (denied)
The Lazzaroni: Science & Scientists in Mid-19th Century America; 12/1/1972 - 5/30/1973
General Files
General
Photographs
Installation Shots
Charles Darwin Letter
Lectures
Labels
Complimentary Copies - Catalogue
Script
Subject Files
Agassiz, Louis
Bache, Alexander Dallas
Baird, Spender Fullerton
Dana, James Dwight
Draper, John W.
Davis, Charles Henry
Eliot, Charles William
Felton, C. C.
Frazier, John Fries
Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott
Gould, Benjamin A.
Gray, Asa
James Hall by Huntington
Henry, Joseph
Leidy, Joseph
Maury, Matthew
Pierce, Benjamin
Rogers, William Baron
Wilson, Henry
Lender Files
Dedication of the Dudley Observatory
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Philosophical Society
National Portrait Gallery, Office of Exhibitions
Harvard University Archives
Gray Herbarium
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Massachusetts Historical Society
Library of Congress
Museum of Cooperative Zoology
National Academy of Sciences
National Archives
National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), Division of Photography
Box 7
Smithsonian Libraries
Geology of North American/Unites States Geological Survey
Omits
Miscellaneous Files Relating to Previously Archived Shows
Photographs of Catalogue Illustrations
On the Air: Catalogue Illustrations (See also: Accession 97-083)
First Federal Congress: Catalogue Illustrations (See also: Accession 95-163)
Portrait of the American Law: Catalogue Illustrations (See also: Accession 97-083)
Lender Files
Lender Files (15 folders) [PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
- Finding Aid encoded on: 10-25-2021
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