Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 01-102
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions
Exhibition Records, 1974-1999
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records of general exhibition (show) files documenting the planning and execution of exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include proposals, budgets, label copy, scripts, production schedules, drawings, floor plans, memoranda, correspondence, catalogs, publicity materials, bibliographies, financial records, checklists, research materials, permissions, installation information, lender files, pamphlets, and brochures. This collection also includes three oversize folders of exhibition posters (179 posters - two of each poster except where noted on list). See the end of the finding aid for a listing of oversized materials.
Restrictions
Access RestrictionBoxes 2-4, 6-8, 10, 12-15, 17, 19-23, 25, 27 and 30 contain 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
- 1846: Portrait of the Nation (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation 1776-1914 (Exhibition) (1976: Washington, D.C.)
- Adventurous Pursuits: Americans and the China Trade, 1784-1844 (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776 (Exhibition) (1987-1988: Washington, D.C.)
- American Icon: The Eighteenth Century Image of George Washington in Prints and Illustrations (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- American Portrait Drawings (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
- Annie Liebovitz Photographs 1970-1991 (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Arnold Genthe: The Celebrity Portraits (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Arnold Newman's Americans (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Artists and Models (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- Artists by Themselves (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Auguste Edouart Silhouettes (1840's Lounge Installation) (Exhibition) (1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Portrait Reliefs (Exhibition) (1969: Washington, D.C.)
- Benjamin West and His American Students (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
- Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution 1770-1800 (Exhibition) (1973: Washington, D.C.)
- Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
- Brushes with the Literary: Portraits by Washington Artist Marcella Comes Winslow (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Charles Willson Peale and His World (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 -- Exhibitions
- Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
- Edward Sorel: Unauthorized Portraits (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
- Federal Profiles: Saint-Memin in America, 1793-1814 (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Franklin & His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth Century America (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- George C. Marshall: Soldier of Peace (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
- George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Godlike Black Dan: Daniel Webster (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Great Crash (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
- Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1921-1941 (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- If Elected… Unsuccessful Candidates for the Presidency 1797-1968 (Exhibition) (1972: Washington, D.C.)
- Instant Likeness: Polaroid Portraits (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
- Jo Davidson Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
- John Muir (Exhibition) (1970: Washington, D.C.)
- Joseph Wright, American Artist, 1756-1793 (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Kasebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934
- Lazzaroni: Science and Scientists in the Mid-19th Century America (Exhibition) (1972: Washington, D.C.)
- Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Masterpieces from Gripsholm Castle: The Swedish National Portrait Collection (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Masterpieces from Versailles: Three Centuries of Portraiture (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Mathew Brady's Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
- Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Mr. Sully, Portrait Painter: The Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872) (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006
- Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraiture from the Hosokawa Family (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988
- Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew Jackson (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Passionate Observer: Photography by Carl Van Vechten (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Peace and Friendship: Indian Peace Medals in the United States (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
- Portraits from The Americans: The Democratic Experience (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- Portraits from the New Deal (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Private Lives of Public Figures: The Nineteenth-Century Family Portrait (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Rebels: Painters and Poets (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Recent Acquisitions (Exhibition series) (1992-1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Red, Hot, and Blue: A Salute to American Musicals (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
- Return to Albion: Americans in England 1776-1940 (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
- Robert Edge Pine: A British Portrait Painter in America (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
- Saint-Memin (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- Selections from the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Associates. James Smithson Society
- Spirit of the Fact: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, 1843-1862 (Exhibition) (1976: Washington, D.C.)
- Telling Image: Portrait Photographs from the Archives of American Art (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- The Dye is Now Cast: The Road to the American Revolution (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- The Elephant in Politcal Cartoons (Exhibition) (1972: Washington, D.C.)
- Time of Our Lives (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
- Time, Inc.
- Time: Art and Entertainment (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
- To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- To the President: Folk Portraits by the People (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- U.S. Grant: The Man and the Image (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983
- VanDerZee, Photographer (1886-1983) (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Variations: Musicians in Caricature, 1920-1960 (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- We Never Sleep: The First Fifty Years of the Pinkertons (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C.)
- Wedgewood Portraits of the American Revolution (Exhibition) (1976: Washington, D.C.)
- West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
- White House Families: Portraits from Life (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- William Edward West: Kentucky Painter (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Zelda and Scott: The Beautiful and the Damned (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Art museums
- Museum exhibits
- Museum loans
- Museums -- Collection management
- Museums -- Public relations
- Musicals
- Photography
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-102, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records