Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 05-186
Smithsonian American Art Museum. Office of Design and Production
Exhibition Records, 1994-1999
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of materials that document the design, production, and installation of exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery. Among those exhibitions represented include Edward Hopper: The Watercolors; Abbott Thayer: The Nature of Art; Silver and Gold: Photographs of the California Gold Rush; Posters American Style; Michael Lucero: Sculpture; American Photographs: The First Century from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art; Ansel Adams, A Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography; Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured; Bard Brothers: Painting America Under Steam and Sail; Lia Cook: Material Allusions; Chaim Gross Sculptor; Contemporary Printmaking: Collaborative Prints and Presses; White House Collection of American Crafts; Elihu Vedder's Drawings from the Rubaiyat; Contemporary Crafts from the Saxe Collection; and Gilded Age. Materials include drawings, sketches, floor plans, correspondence, memoranda, reports, budget records, production schedules, checklists, notes, scripts, proposals, photographs, and slides.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967
- Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
- Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923
- Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991
- Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
- Lucero, Michael, 1953-
- Cook, Lia, 1942-
- Michael Lucero: Sculpture (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
- American Photographs: The First Century from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Exhibition) (1996-1997: Washington, D.C.)
- Ansel Adams, A Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography (Exhibition) (1997-1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Bard Brothers: Painting America Under Steam and Sail (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
- Lia Cook: Material Allusions (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Chaim Gross Sculptor (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Contemporary Printmaking: Collaborative Prints and Presses (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- White House Collection of American Crafts (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Elihu Vedder's Drawings from the Rubaiyat (Exhibition) (1995-1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Gilded Age (Traveling exhibition)
- Posters American Style (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Silver and Gold: Photographs of the California Gold Rush (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Abbott Thayer: The Nature of Art (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Edward Hopper: The Watercolors (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 05-186, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Office of Design and Production, Exhibition Records