Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 97-046
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). 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
- American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920 (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970-1990 (Exhibition) (1992 Washington, D.C.)
- Art of Henry Inman (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Brushes with the Literary: Portraits by Washington Artist Marcella Comes Winslow (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900 (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Fabian, Monroe H.
- First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Five of Hearts: Henry Adams and His Washington Circle (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
- Icons of Invention: American Patent Models (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Joseph Wright, American Artist, 1756-1793 (Exhibition) (1985: 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.)
- Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988
- Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew Jackson (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- On stage: 200 years of great theatrical personalities (Monograph)
- On the Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Peace and Friendship: Indian Peace Medals in the United States (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Portraits from The Americans: The Democratic Experience (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
- 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.)
- Stewart, Robert G.
- The Dye is Now Cast: The Road to the American Revolution (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss (Exhibition) (1989: 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.)
- William Edward West: Kentucky Painter (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Wright, Joseph, 1756-1793
Subject
- Art museum curators
- Congresses and conventions
- Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 -- Exhibitions
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Public relations
- Traveling exhibitions
- War correspondents
- World War, 1914-1918
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill.)
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 97-046, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Department of Painting and Sculpture, Curatorial Records