Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 02-056
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Curatorial - American Art
Curatorial Records, 1984-2000
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Curatorial - American Art |
| Title: | Curatorial Records |
| Dates: | 1984-2000 |
| Quantity: | 6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) |
| Collection: | Accession 02-056 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | These records document the curatorial activities of Linda Merrill, Curator. Programmatic files include the development and execution of exhibitions, lectures, participation in professional activities, and the study and care of the American art collection, docent training, and publication activities. Materials include correspondence and memoranda, reference material, writings, slides, and video and audio tapes. |
Descriptive Entry
These records document the curatorial activities of Linda Merrill, Curator. Programmatic files include the development and execution of exhibitions, lectures, participation in professional activities, and the study and care of the American art collection, docent training, and publication activities.
Materials include correspondence and memoranda, reference material, writings, slides, and video and audio tapes.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
Subject
- Art museum curators
- Art museums
- Art, American
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Collection management
- Professional associations
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 02-056, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Curatorial - American Art, Curatorial Records
Container List
Box 1
Winged Figures April-September 1999
Whistler Paintings 1998
Whistler Prints July 3, 1998-Summer 2000
Peacock Room Lecture Series 1998
Guest Lectures
Whistler Symposia, 1995-96
Whistler
Frames
Conservation
Choice Spirits 24 September 1996-
Dewing Symposium, 28 Sept 1996 Aesthetic Value in the Gilded Age
Box 2
Dewing Symposium, 28 Sept 1996 Aesthetic Value in the Gilded Age
Dewing Piano
Winslow Homer Installation, October 1995
Art for Art's Sake August 1997-
Freer Reinstallation - Labels [1992]
Freer Reinstallation - The Building [1992-1993]
Freer Reinstallation - Freer Exhibit [1992]
Freer Reinstallation Floor Plan [1992-1993]
Freer Reinstallation - Galleries 1-4 Final Galleys 12-3-92 [1992]\
Freer Reinstallation - Corridors [1992-1q1993]
Freer Reinstallation - Labels [1992]
Freer Book [1993]
Freer Book [1989-1993]
Freer Reinstallation [1989-1991]
Freer Reinstallation
Freer Labels [1989-1991]
American Art Installations, 1981-1984
Acquired Taste: Selections from the American Collection, 1986-88
Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1985-88
Arrangement in Yellow and Gold, 1986-88
Freer Reinstallation, 1993-95
Proposed Freer Symposium
Smithson Society - March 1993
Docent Training 1986
Docent Training 1987
Docent Training 1988-89
Docent Training 1989
Docent Training 1992
Docent Training 1993
Docent Training 1995
Renovation Brochure
Professional Framers' Association 1988
Smithsonian Universe (1992)
Box 3
"Lines in Pleasant Places" Baltimore 1987
"Acquired Taste" Mary Washington College 1987
"Acquired Taste" Smith College 1987
"James McNeill Whistler" Sotheby's, 1988
"Distant Relations" Sackler, 1989
"Burne" - Jones and the Beguiling of History" Chicago, 1989
Freer & Whistler - Sackler 1989
Fine Arts Commissions - Remarks 1990
Freer & Sackler Visiting Committees, 1991
Sotheby's Works of Art Program
"Recollections of Tranquility" Sackler, 1991
"Cleaning Whistler's Peacock Room" RAP, 1991
"Restoring Harmony to the Peacock Room" New York 1991
"A Pot of Paint" RAP, 1992
"Art and Money" - Freer Gallery 1993
"The Gentle Art of Patronage" - Bowdoin College 1993
"Restoring Harmony to Whistler's Peacock Room" NMAA, 1992
"Truth and Consequences" Northwestern University, 1993
"America Meets Asia" Freer Gallery 1993
"Trial and Error" Phoenix 1993
"Whistler's Peacock Room Revisited," Antiques (June 1993)
"James McNeill Whistler," The 1890's (1993)
The Gentle Art of Patronage" Philips Collection, 1993
"Art and Money" RAP, 1993
"Whistler and the lange lijzen," Burlington Magazine (October 1994)
"Freer." American National Biography
"Trial and Error" Rochester, 1993
Whistler's Peacock Room: History and Conservation - Washington Conservation Guild, October 1993
"Art and Money" SNAP, April 1994
"Art and Money" - National Academy of Sciences, April 1994
"Burne-Jones and the Beguiling of History" tate (Oct. 1994)
"Patterns of Patronage: Leyland, Freer, and the Medici" Tate Gallery December 1994
"At Home with the Peacock Room" Mark Twain House, March 1995
"James McNeill Whistler and Japan," American Art Review, 1995
Southern Living, 1996
"Art and Money": Leisure World, May 1996
Encyclopedia of Interior Design
"The Freer Problem," Dialogue II - March 1997
"Whistler's Peacock Room: An Essay in Aestheticism." Harn Art Museum, 2.11.98
"The Dilettante Stalks Abroad: Whistler versus Wilde," Baltimore, 2.26.98
"Competing Connoisseurs." NYU conference, 5.9.98
"Charles Augustus Howell," Dictionary of National Biography, March 1996
"Trials and Tribulations: Whistler in 1878" Art Institute of Chicago, 5 June 1998
"Whistler v. Ruskin: Aesthetic on Trial" Whistler House, 14 October 1998
"The Dilettante Stalks Abroad: Whistler versus Wilde." FGA 11.3.97
"Peacocks with a Past" Freer Gallery 1998, GUL 1998
Box 4
Peacock Room, BGC, Nov.1998
Princess and the Peacock
Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock (1885) [Lecture]
A Pot of Paint
With Kindest Regards (1995)
Whistler's Scholar's Colloquium 1 June 1995
British Embassy Reception, 31 May 1995
Box 5
Omnibus: the Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Oct. 1994 BBC [Betacam Videotape, and duplicate viewing copy]
BBC Broadcast - 1997 [audio tape]
Rotation [1993]
Miscellaneous [1989-1992]
Arrangement in White and Yellow 2000 [Cancelled]
Whistler and Japan May - December 1995
[An Ideal Country - Correspondence/Permission to Publish 1986-1989]
Exhibition [1988]
Tryon Frames
Tryon: Conservation [1988-1989]
Tryon - quotations
Antiques [1990]
[Tryon - University Press of New England]
Tryon Books [Correspondence 1990-1991]
D.W. Tryon - Public Collections
[Tryon - Inquiries]
[Tryon - Inquiries] [1986-1990]
Box 6
Tryon Paintings: Location Unknown [slides]
Tryon Collection: Smith College
Smith College - Paintings
Smith College - Drawings
Smith College - Sketch Portfolios
Smith College Archives [1989]
Smith College - Deaccessioned
Smith College Museum - Correspondence [1986-1990]
Smith College Libraries [1986]
Tryon at Smith/Draft
Archives of American Art [1982]
Belden Relations
Cheney, Mary M. - Minneapolis Inst. [1986]
Connecticut Historical Society [1986]
Conservation/ Technique [1987]
Exhibition List
Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Rejects: Tryon
Frick Art Reference Library New York, NY [1987]
South Dartmouth, MA [1986]
Missouri Historical Society - St. Louis, MO [1986]
D.W. Tryon - Photographs
New Bedford
Northampton, MA
Obituaries, etc.
Oriental Influence
Pastels/Paper Colors
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Reading List
Reproductions
A. Schillings
F.F. Sherman
Delia Roberts Tryon
Tryon Relations
Tryon Estate (Alice B. Tryon)
Private Collections: Tryon Paintings [1986-1989]
Private Collections: Tryon Paintings [1986-1989]
Early Exhibitions
Exhibitions, misc. [1986]
Whistler Exhibition - 1984 Installation [Slides]
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