Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 97-046
National Portrait Gallery. Department of Painting and Sculpture
Curatorial Records, 1966-1995
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records that were transferred from the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). They were mostly created by Robert G. Stewart, Associate Curator, 1964, Curator, 1965, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, 1979-1994, and Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, 1994. A small volume of records was also created by Monroe Fabian, Assistant Curator, 1969-1971, Associate Curator, 1972-1978, and Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture, 1979-1986. Fabian died in July 1988.
The records consist mostly of files created by Stewart, Fabian, and others for exhibits that were proposed by museum staff for internal development, or external traveling exhibits that were considered for mounting at NPG. The files include staff evaluations and comments on proposed exhibits, exhibit scripts, documentation of brochure and catalog development, and memoranda between NPG staff as well as correspondence with potential exhibit donors. Some files also document NPG contributions to special traveling exhibits, and staff participation in symposia and seminars.
The records include a small amount of administrative material, plus correspondence files of secretarial staff which consist mostly of replies to public inquiries. The records also include documentation of the book On Stage written by Monroe Fabian, and published in the spring of 1980. These files consist of correspondence regarding the use of quotations and images for On Stage, photographs, a manuscript, and an unbound copy of the published volume.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Fabian, Monroe H.
- Stewart, Robert G.
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
- Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988
- Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
- Wright, Joseph, 1756-1793
- Portraits from The Americans: The Democratic Experience (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- The Dye is Now Cast: The Road to the American Revolution (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900 (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Five of Hearts: Henry Adams and His Washington Circle (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- U.S. Grant: The Man and the Image (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Peace and Friendship: Indian Peace Medals in the United States (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Art of Henry Inman (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew Jackson (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970-1990 (Exhibition) (1992 Washington, D.C.)
- Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- On the Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920 (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Spirit of the Party: Hamilton and Jefferson at Odds (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Masterpieces from Versailles: Three Centuries of Portraiture (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)
- William Edward West: Kentucky Painter (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Brushes with the Literary: Portraits by Washington Artist Marcella Comes Winslow (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Masterpieces from Gripsholm Castle: The Swedish National Portrait Collection (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Icons of Invention: American Patent Models (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Joseph Wright, American Artist, 1756-1793 (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- On stage: 200 years of great theatrical personalities (Monograph)
Subject
- Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 -- Exhibitions
- War correspondents
- World War, 1914-1918
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill.)
- Art museum curators
- Museum exhibits
- Congresses and conventions
- Museums -- Public relations
- Traveling exhibitions
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 97-046, National Portrait Gallery. Department of Painting and Sculpture, Curatorial Records