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
- Fern, Alan Maxwell, 1930-
- Kasebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934
- Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
- Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
- Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 -- Exhibitions
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Washington Print Club
- Time, Inc.
- Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraiture from the Hosokawa Family (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, London 1839-1989 (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Annie Liebovitz Photogrphs 1970-1990 (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Irving Penn Master Images (Exhibition) (1989: 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.)
- Points of View: Single Subject/Multiple Artists (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Art and the Camera, 1900-1940: Pictorialist Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II: Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, London (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- To the President: Folk Portraits by the People (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- VanDerZee, Photographer (1886-1983) (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Twentieth Century Self-Protraits from the National Portrait Gallery Collection (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Brushes with the Literary: Portraits by Washington Artist Marcella Comes Winslow (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Contemporary Self-Portraits from the James Goode Collection (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill.)
- The Family 1976: Richard Avedon's Photographs for Rolling Stone (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860 (Exhibition) (1992-1993: Washington, D.C.)
- The Levy-Franks Family Colonial Portraits (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Spirit of the Party: Hamilton and Jefferson at Odds (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Arnold Newman's Americans (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Portrait Posters (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Telling Image: Portrait Photographs from the Archives of American Art (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Red, Hot, and Blue: A Salute to American Musicals (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Image of the President: Photographs by George Tames, 1944-1974 (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- 1846: Portrait of the Nation (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Rebels: Painters and Poets (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Passionate Observer: Photography by Carl Van Vechten (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- From Truman to Clinton: Presidents on Time (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-123, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of the Director, Exhibition Records