Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 01-123
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Director
Exhibition Records, 1978, 1986-1997
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting the Director's involvement in many aspects of exhibition development at the National Portrait Gallery during the tenure of Alan Maxwell Fern (1982-2000).
Materials include loan requests, correspondence, memoranda, agreements, scripts, catalog manuscripts, and newspaper clippings.
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.)
- American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Annie Liebovitz Photogrphs 1970-1990 (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Arnold Newman's Americans (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Art and the Camera, 1900-1940: Pictorialist Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Brushes with the Literary: Portraits by Washington Artist Marcella Comes Winslow (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, London 1839-1989 (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Contemporary Self-Portraits from the James Goode Collection (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 -- Exhibitions
- 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.)
- Fern, Alan Maxwell, 1930-
- From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II: Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, London (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- From Truman to Clinton: Presidents on Time (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Image of the President: Photographs by George Tames, 1944-1974 (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860 (Exhibition) (1992-1993: Washington, D.C.)
- In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Irving Penn Master Images (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Kasebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934
- 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.)
- Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraiture from the Hosokawa Family (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Passionate Observer: Photography by Carl Van Vechten (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
- Points of View: Single Subject/Multiple Artists (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Portrait Posters (Exhibition) (1992: 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.)
- Red, Hot, and Blue: A Salute to American Musicals (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Spirit of the Party: Hamilton and Jefferson at Odds (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Telling Image: Portrait Photographs from the Archives of American Art (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- The Family 1976: Richard Avedon's Photographs for Rolling Stone (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- The Levy-Franks Family Colonial Portraits (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Time, Inc.
- To the President: Folk Portraits by the People (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Twentieth Century Self-Protraits from the National Portrait Gallery Collection (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- VanDerZee, Photographer (1886-1983) (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Washington Print Club
- Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill.)
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-123, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of the Director, Exhibition Records