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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

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Director
Title:Exhibition Records
Dates:1978, 1986-1997
Quantity:3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 01-123
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of records that document 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.

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.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-123, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of the Director, Exhibition Records

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Container List

Box 1

Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraits from the Hosokawa Family, 7/24/1995-11/29/1992 (2 folders)

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Collecting Portrait Prints: Washington Print Club Biennial, 12/17/1991-5/17/1992

Box 1 of 3

Camera Portraits: Photographs from the NPG, London, 1839-1939, 12/14/1990-2/18/1991

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Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic, 11/1/1991-1/8/1992

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Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde, 5/10/1991-10/27/1991

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Annie Leibovitz Photographs, 1970-1990, 4/19/1991-8/11/1991

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Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture, 4/5/1991-8/11/1991

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Irving Penn Master Images, 3/30/1989-8/19/1989

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Facing the Light, Catalog, 1978

Box 1 of 3

Box 2

Federal Profiles: Saint Memin in America, 1793-1814, 12/2/1994-5/29/1995

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Points of View: Single Subject/Multiple Artists, 10/14/1994-2/20/1995

Box 2 of 3

Gertrude Kasebier, Photographer, 7/8/1994-10/2/1994

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Art and the Camera, 1900-1940: Pictorialist Photographs from NPG, 6/10/1994-12/11/1994

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Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of WWII, 4/22/1994-9/5/1994

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From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II: Master Drawings from NPG, London, 2/25/1994-4/24/1994

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To the President: Folk Portraits by the People, 12/10/1993-9/5/1994

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VanDerZee, Photographer (1886-1983), 10/22/1993-2/13/1994

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Twentieth-Century Self-Portraits from the NPG Collection, 10/22/1993-2/13/1994

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Brushes with the Literary: Portraits by Washington Artist Marcella Comes Winslow, 8/13/1993-12/5/1993

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Contemporary Portraits from the James Goode Collection, 7/30/1993-12/5/1993

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American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, 4/16/1993-8/15/1993

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"The Family 1976": Richard Avedon's Portraits for Rolling Stone, 1/22/1993-6/6/1993

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In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 11/6/1992-1/24/1993

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The Levy-Franks Family Colonial Portraits, 2/1/1992-5/31/1992

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The Spirit of Party: Hamilton and Jefferson at Odds, 9/11/1992-2/7/1993

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Arnold Newman's Americans, 4/15/1992-8/16/1992

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Poster Portraits, 3/27/1992-8/16/1992

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Box 3

The Telling Image: Photographs from the Archives of American Art, Exhibition Proposal, January 1993

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Diplomatic History, Exhibition Proposal, 1992

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Presidential Scholars, Exhibition Proposal, 1991

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Shakespeare in America, Exhibition Proposal, 1991

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Soviet Exhibit Plan, Exhibition Proposal, 1989

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Bouche, Rene, Exhibition Proposal, FY 1986

Box 3 of 3

Daguillard Collection, Exhibition Postponed, 1992

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Inactive Exhibition Proposals, 1992

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Inactive Exhibition Proposals, 1987-1991

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Uriah Levy, Guest Curator: Leslie Freudenheim, Exhibition Proposal, 6/20/1997-12/7/1997

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Red Hot & Blue: A Salute to American Musicals, 10/25/1996-7/6/1997

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Image of the President: Photographs by George Tames, 8/30/1996-9/1/1997

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Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy, 7/26/1996-12/1/1996

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1846: Portrait of the Nation, 4/12/1996-8/18/1996

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Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s, 2/24/1996-6/2/1996

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Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture, 10/6/1995-1/28/1996

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The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten, 6/16/1995-8/13/1995

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In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler, 4/7/1995-8/13/1995

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Presidents on TIME, 2/24/1995-7/21/1996

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Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass, 2/10/1995-11/19/1995

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