Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 15-005
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Registrar
Exhibition Records, 1998-2012
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of exhibition records created and maintained by the Office of Registrar. The records relate their work in managing the loan of museum collection items for permanent and traveling exhibitions. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, facility reports, condition reports, loan agreements, images, schedules, object lists, and contracts.
Restrictions
Use RestrictionRestricted for 15 years; until Jan-01-2029. Boxes 1-8 contain materials restricted indefinitely; see finding aid. Transferring office; 9/25/1995 memorandum, Kirby to Jenkins; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery (Traveling exhibition) (2001-2003)
- American Women: A Selection from the National Portrait Gallery (Traveling exhibition) (2004-2005)
- Americans: Paintings and Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington (Traveling exhibition) (2002-2003)
- Edward Steichen: Portraits (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings (Traveling exhibition) (2002-2004)
- George Washington: A National Treasure (Traveling exhibition) (2002-2004)
- Gilbert Stuart (Traveling exhibition) (2004-2005)
- Glimpse of the Past: A Neighborhood Evolves (Exhibition) (2010-2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Great Britons: Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, London (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Harry Benson: Being There (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Herblock's Presidents: "Puncturing Pomposity" (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.)
- Josephine Baker: Image and Icon (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848 (Exhibition) (2007-2008; Washington, D.C.)
- Let Your Motto Be RESISTANCE: African American Portraits (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- One Life: Kate, A Centennial Celebration (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- One Life: The Mask of Lincoln (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.)
- One Life: Thomas Paine, the Radical Founding Father (Exhibition) (2009: Washington, D.C.)
- One Life: Walt Whitman, a kosmos (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Oscar! (Proposed exhibition)
- Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition (Exhibition) (2009-2010: Washington, D.C.)
- Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs (Traveling exhibition) (2002-2004)
- Portraits in Jazz: Thirty Musicians Who Made a Difference (Traveling exhibition) (2003)
- Portraits of Sandra Day O'Connor (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Portraits of the Presidents from the National Portrait Gallery (Traveling exhibition) (2000-2003)
- Portraiture Now (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Portraiture Now: Feature Photography (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.)
- Portraiture Now: Framing Memory (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Presidential Scholars in the Arts: Visual and Literary Works (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.)
- RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits (Traveling exhibition) (2004-2006)
- Royal Portraits of Celebration (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Temple of Invention: History of a National Landmark (Exhibition) (2006-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- The Civil War Era: Images from the National Portrait Gallery (Proposed exhibition) (2001-2002)
- The Presidency and the Cold War (Exhibition) (2006-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Tokens of Affection and Regard: Photographic Jewelry and Its Makers (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.)
- Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery (Traveling exhibition) (2003-2005)
- Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Art museums
- Museum exhibits
- Museum loans
- Museum registration methods
- Museums -- Collection management
- Portraits
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 15-005, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of the Registrar, Exhibition Records