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Accession 08-057

Smithsonian American Art Museum. Curatorial Office

Exhibition Records (Declined), 1996-2001

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:Smithsonian American Art Museum. Curatorial Office
Title:Exhibition Records (Declined)
Dates:1996-2001
Quantity:1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection:Accession 08-057
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of exhibition proposals declined by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and the Renwick Gallery. Also includes records from when SAAM was known as the National Museum of American Art. Materials include correspondence, notes, memoranda, proposals, brochures, press kits, and color slides.

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This accession consists of exhibition proposals declined by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and the Renwick Gallery. Also includes records from when SAAM was known as the National Museum of American Art (NMAA). Materials include correspondence, notes, memoranda, proposals, brochures, press kits, and color slides.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 08-057, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Curatorial Office, Exhibition Records (Declined)

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Container List

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Read File 1998

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Everson Museum of Art - Debora W. Ryan, Assistant Curator - Some Assemblage Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America - DECLINED: 6/22/2001

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Exhibitions International - Ms. Osanna Urbay - Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African American South - DECLINED: 03/2001

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The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy - Adam D. Weinberg - The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz: Miracle in the Scrap Heap - DECLINED: 8/6/2001

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Museum of New Mexico - Mimi Roberts - Marylou Reifsnyder - DECLINED: 02/2001

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Museum of Photographic Arts - Arthur Ollman, Director - Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene - DECLINED: 10/04/2001

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Judy A. Saslow Gallery - Ms. Paula Goldman - Outsider Art (no title) - DECLINED: 05/2001

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Musee de L'Elysee Lausanne - Ms. Rachel Vez Fridrich - The Outlanders forging ahead with Art Brut - DECLINED: 01/2001

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National Association of Women Artists - Ms. France Garrido and Ms. Caroline Golden - Mirrored Echoes - Self Portraiture - DECLINED: 02/2001

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Art Services International - Lynn Rogerson and Joseph Saunders - Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection and Others - DECLINED: 05/2001

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Bellevue Art Museum - Diane Douglas - Alfredo Arreguin: Patterns of Dreams and Nature - DECLINED: 4/4/2001

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Jeff Scott Studio, Dallas - Vanishing America - DECLINED: 2/2000

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Curatorial Assistance - Fairfield Porter - DECLINED: 1/2000

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UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History - Passport to Paradise: Visualizing Islam - DECLINED: 5/2000

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Debra Trione, Rochester, New York - Paintings/descriptions of ideal world - DECLINED: 7/2000

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Trust for Museum Exhibitions - Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture - DECLINED: 2/2000

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San Jose Museum of Art - Dr. Susan Landauer - Nathan Oliveira - DECLINED: 2/2000

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The National Arts Club - Northern Arcadia: Artists in Canada, 1870-1940 - DECLINED: 1/2000

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West Enterprises - Unique Creative Visions: The Art of Jessie Montes - DECLINED: 11/2000

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North Carolina State University Gallery of Art & Design - Modernist Eye - The Art and Design of Nathan Lerner - DECLINED: 10/2000

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The Light Factory - Cuban Allure: Photography and Video - DECLINED: 6/2000

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Licio Isolani - Installation/ Performance - DECLINED: 8/4/2000

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University of Memphis Art Museum - Coming Home! Southern Self- Taught Artist - The Bible, and The American South - DECLINED: 10/2000

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Holly Larner - Loring Coleman (Paintings of rural New England) - DECLINED: 2/2000

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Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc. - Jia- Rhon Chen: Recent Paintings - DECLINED: 2/2000

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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art - Frederick J. Brown: Portraits in Jazz - DECLINED: 5/2000

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Carl Hodges - 25 Paintings on Life of Cavalier De Seigalt (Giacomo Casanova) - DECLINED: 8/2000

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Oakland Museum of Art - Drew Johnson, Curator of Photography - Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000 - DECLINED: 11/16/2000

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Jean B. Bubley - Esther Bubley: American Photo- Journalist - DECLINED: 9/15/2000

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National Museum of American Jewish History - With Eyes Toward Zion: The Political Cartoons of Noah Bee - DECLINED: 2/2000

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American Watercolor Society - American Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibition - DECLINED: 6/2000

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Bezirks Verband Pfalz - Dr. Brita Buhlmann - American Abstract Expressionism (no title) - DECLINED 04/2000

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Farnsworth Art Museum - One Nation: Patriots & Pirates Portrayed by NC and Jamie Wyeth - DECLINED: 11/1999

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Francesca Woodman Retrospective - DECLINED: 7/1999

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Krakow Gallery - Terry Winters: Prints - DECLINED: 5/1999

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Walter Wickiser Gallery - Ralph Wickiser, The Four Seasons - DECLINED: 4/1999

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Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and Country Roads, Inc. - Spirited Objects - DECLINED: 6/1999

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FUN ART Galleries - 50th Anniversary of Charles Schultz - DECLINED: 4/1999

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Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Rosenak [Jan Rosenak] - Tohono O'ohham Horsehair Baskets - DECLINED: 12/1999

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Robert Henderson Studios - Cheryl Reich Henderson - Pioneer Jews - DECLINED: 1/1999

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Roger Wollen - Liliane Lijn Retrospective - DECLINED: 4/1999

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Brooklyn Museum of Art, Kenneth S. Moser - Martin Lewis' World: Cityscapes on Paper DECLINED: 2/1999

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Jim Rosen, Meyer Shapiro Fund - Drawings by James Kiberd - DECLINED: 3/1999

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Linda Shearer, Williams College Mus. - 100 Years of Difference: The Hampton Project - DECLINED: 2/1999

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The Philbrook Museum - Green Woods & Crystal Tradition: American Landscapes Since 1950 - DECLINED: 4/1999

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Tuscon Museum of Art, Joanne Stuhr - Adolph Gottlieb & the West - DECLINED: 3/1999

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Lyle Gomes - Handmade Landscape: Photographs From the English Countryside - DECLINED 7/1999

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Hana B. Engel, Israeli Artist - GOLEM - DECLINED: 3/1999

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Oakland Museum - The Discovery of California Gold: Paintings of Harry Fonseca - DECLINED 5/1999

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Turner Carroll Gallery - Michael Bergt - DECLINED: 4/1999

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Walter Wickiser Gallery - Sally S. Bennett - DECLINED: 11/1999

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New Bedford Whaling Museum - William Bradford - DECLINED: 5/1999

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Illinois State Museum, Kent Smith - The Bridges Collection: Paintings by Chicago Artists - DECLINED: 3/1999

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Indianapolis Museum of Art - Crossroads of American Sculpture - DECLINED 7/1999

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Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, David Mickenberg - Carole Kreeger Davidson: 1976- 2000 - DECLINED: 3/1999

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Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University - Carole Kreeger Davidson: 1976- 2000 - DECLINED: 6/1999

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Christopher Doncsecz, Photographer - DECLINED: 4/99

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Memorial Art Gallery, Grant Holcomb - Woodstock: A Century of American Art - DECLINED: 8/1998

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University of Wisconsin, Russell Panczenko - John Wilde Retrospective - DECLINED: 7/1998

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Portland Art Museum, Linda Brady Tenser - Sisters of the Light: Myra Wiggins, Lil White, Sarah Ladd, Oregon Photo-Secessionists - DECLINED: 7/1998

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Irene Gennaro, New York - Spirited Messengers - DECLINED: 8/1998

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South Carolina State Museum, Robin S. Waites - Still Worth Keeping - DECLINED: 8/1998

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Curatorial Assistance, Inc., Robin Berg - Kenneth Tyler: Thirty Years of Printmaking - DECLINED: 7/1998

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Rector & Associates, Neil K. Rector - 50 Year Retrospective of Julian Stanczak - DECLINED: 7/1998

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Walker Art Center, KathyHalbriech - Edward Ruscha: Editions 1962- 1999 - DECLINED: 9/1998

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Art Services International, Lynn K. Rogerson - Joseph Raphael: The Many Faces of Modernism - DECLINED: 10/1998

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Susan Landauer - Nathan Oliveira Retrospective - DECLINED: 9/1998

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National Association of Women Artists - N.A.W.A. Art for 2004 - DECLINED: 1/1998

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Collins Communication, Daniel R. Surdam - Constance Kheel's Space & Scale - DECLINED: 10/1998

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Jeffrey Gross - Potthast Paintings - DECLINED: 10/1998

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Global Art 2000, Elizabeth Gaerlan - Global Art 2000 - DECLINED: 8/1998

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Fiber Art at Renwick - DECLINED: 10/1998

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Curatorial Assistance, Inc., Robin Berg - Camera Over Hollywood - DECLINED: 10/1998

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Haggerty Museum of Art, Curtis L. Carter - Signs of Inspiration-The Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon - DECLINED: 12/1998

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Jo Babcock, San Francisco, CA - Photographs of Jo Babcock - DECLINED: 12/1998

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Literary Agency, Sandra Dijkstra - American Expressionism (Bram Dijkstra) - DECLINED: 12/1998

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Neuberger Museum of Art/Purchase Coll./State University of New York (SUNY) - Welded Art of the 20th Century - DECLINED: 6/1997

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"M," Inc. (Mauren Rorech) - 13 Gowns Worn by Princess Diana - DECLINED: 9/1997

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Audrey Lushkin - Russian Jewelry, Russian Tea-Drinking, Russian Textile and Costumes - DECLINED: 2/1997

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DeBeyerd Municipal Center - Postcards from Black America - DECLINED: 9/1997

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Mariners' Museum - A Maritime Album - DECLINED: 7/1997

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Kathleen Holmes - Saints and Haints: Illuminated Lives: Southern Family Registries - DECLINED: 1/1997

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Entourage: Exhibitions - American Silver-point Drawings - DECLINED: 3/1997

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Dallas Museum of Art - That Earlier, Wilder Image: Oil Sketches by American Landscape Painters, 1830- 1880 - DECLINED: 4/1997

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Karl P. Wirth - Civil War Art - DECLINED: 4/1997

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Tucson Museum of Art - Calido! A Survey of Contemporary Warm Glass - DECLINED: 7/1997

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Dallas Museum of Art - Art of Texas: The 20th Century - DECLINED: 12/1997

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University of Iowa - No! Art and Aesthetics of Doom - DECLINED: 3/1997

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Dr. Kenneth W. Prescott - Anuskiewiczop Art - DECLINED: 5/1997

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Michael Valentine - Amistad Collection - DECLINED: 10/1997

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American Watercolor Society - DECLINED: 10/1997

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Plattsburgh State University of NY - The American Terrain - DECLINED: 2/1997

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American Federation of the Arts - All-Stars: American Sporting Prints - DECLINED: 1/1997

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Studio Museum in Harlem - African- American Artists and American Modernism or To Conserve a Legacy - DECLINED: 5/1997

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International Center of Photography - Weegee's World: Death and the Human Drama - DECLINED: 6/1997

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Bates College - Prints and Drawings by Claire Van Vliet - DECLINED: 5/1997

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Fort Wayne Museum of Art - Alma Thomas: A Retrospective of Paintings - DECLINED: 3/1997

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Ron Stark - DECLINED: 12/1997

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Independent Curators, Inc. - David Smith: Medals of Dishonor - DECLINED: 1/1997

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Roger Shimomura - Revisit to my Grandmother's Diaries - DECLINED: 5/1997

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Stephen Visakay - Shaken, Not Stirred: Shakers and Design - DECLINED: 6/1997

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ACA Galleries - John Schuler - DECLINED: 5/1997

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The Jewish Museum - Allegories: Paintings of Ben Shahn 1943-1962 - DECLINED: 2/1997

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Luv Life Collectibles, Lynne Steffaniak - Red Book and Cotton (paintings by John Solomon Sandridge) - DECLINED: 1/1997

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Helen Z. Chilton - David Riffle/Sunrise Museum - DECLINED: 5/1997

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Guggenheim - Rauchenberg - Not Offered: 5/1997

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American Federation of Arts - Elie Nadelman: Classical Folks - DECLINED: 5/1997

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Christopher Hill Morse - My Studio - DECLINED: 2/1997

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Stephen Mirabella - Satan Penseroso - DECLINED: 5/1997

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McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina - The Middleton Drawings - DECLINED: 2/1997

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Francine Seders Gallery Ltd. - Jacob Lawrence's "Aesop's Fables" - DECLINED: 5/1997

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Joyce Kozloff - Crossed Purposes: Max & Joyce Kozloff - DECLINED: 12/1997

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High Museum - Walker Evans: Photographs from the Benjamin A. Hill Collection - DECLINED: 3/1997

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Art Museum of Western Virginia - Judith Godwin: Style and Grace - DECLINED: 4/1997

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Museum of Northwestern Art - Morris Graves: Early Works - DECLINED: 10/1997

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Georgia Museum of Art - Gregory Gillespie - DECLINED: 5/1997

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University of Georgia - Paintings of Gregory Gillespie - DECLINED: 1/1997

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Maryhill Museum of Art - Transcending Vision: R. H. Ives Gammell - DECLINED: 12/1997

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Vanderbilt University - Eichenberg Retrospective - DECLINED: 12/1997

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Cheekwood Museum of Art - Matter & Spirit in Black and White: The Sculpture of William Edmundson - DECLINED: 5/1997

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SECCA - Vincent Desiderio - DECLINED: 6/1997

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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center - Heroic America: James Daugherty's Mural Drawings - DECLINED: 6/1997

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Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum - John Coplans - DECLINED: 2/1997

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Michael Cook: Instructions Paintings, 1991-1996 - DECLINED: 4/1997

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University of Iowa Museum of Art - Jess: Romantic Paintings and Salvages - DECLINED: 5/1997

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Nan Richardson, Brooklyn, New York - Lillian Bassman: Elusive Elegance - DECLINED: 9/1997

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University of New Mexico - Spirit Ascendent: The Art and Life of Patrocino Barela - DECLINED: 1/1997

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Spelman College Museum - Herman "Kofi" Bailey - DECLINED: 3/1997

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Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center - Eve Arnold: In Retrospect - DECLINED: 2/1997

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Palm Springs Dessert Museum - Collaborations: William Allen, Robert Hudson, William Wiley - DECLINED: 4/1997

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Milwaukee Art Museum, Russell Bowman - Vito Acconci: Machines for Living - DECLINED: 9/1998

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Albert Bloch - DECLINED: Spring 1996

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Visions and Voices: Native American Painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art - DECLINED 11/1996

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