Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 17-310
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Curatorial - Japanese Art
Curatorial Records, 1953-2000
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Curatorial - Japanese Art |
Title: | Curatorial Records |
Dates: | 1953-2000 |
Quantity: | 3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 17-310 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records documenting the curatorial activities of Harold P. Stern, assistant in research, 1951-1958; Associate Curator, 1958-1961; Curator of Japanese Art, 1961-1962; Acting Assistant Director, 1962; Assistant Director, 1963-1971; and Director, 1971-1977; and Ann Yonemura, Museum Specialist, 1976-1979; Assistant Curator, 1979-1990; and Associate Curator, 1990- . Topics include lectures, research, outreach, administration, and professional activities. Both Stern and Yonemura specialized in Japanese art, but occasionally lectured on Chinese and other East Asian art. Stern continued his curatorial duties during his tenure as assistant director and director. Many records in this accession were created within the Freer Gallery of Art prior to the establishment of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1982. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, lecture scripts, photographs of artwork, notes, proposals, installation photographs, meeting materials, and related materials. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting the curatorial activities of Harold P. Stern, assistant in research, 1951-1958; Associate Curator, 1958-1961; Curator of Japanese Art, 1961-1962; Acting Assistant Director, 1962; Assistant Director, 1963-1971; and Director, 1971-1977; and Ann Yonemura, Museum Specialist, 1976-1979; Assistant Curator, 1979-1990; and Associate Curator, 1990- . Topics include lectures, research, outreach, administration, and professional activities. Both Stern and Yonemura specialized in Japanese art, but occasionally lectured on Chinese and other East Asian art. Stern continued his curatorial duties during his tenure as assistant director and director. Many records in this accession were created within the Freer Gallery of Art prior to the establishment of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1982. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, lecture scripts, photographs of artwork, notes, proposals, installation photographs, meeting materials, and related materials.
Index Terms
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Name
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Freer Gallery of Art. Office of the Director
- Stern, Harold P.
- Yonemura, Ann, 1947-
Subject
- Art -- History
- Art museum curators
- Art museums
- Art, Chinese
- Art, East Asian
- Art, Japanese
- Lectures and lecturing
- Museums -- Administration
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 17-310, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Curatorial - Japanese Art, Curatorial Records
Container List
Box 1
Harold P. Stern Lecture - The Korean Imperial Treasures, January 7, 1958
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Hokusai, January 12, 1961
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Hokusai, 1972
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Tokyo, January 1972
Harold P. Stern Lecture - The Magnificent Three, New York, September 1972
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Buson, Seattle, 1974
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Mirror, Mirror, Art Institute of Chicago
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Popular Painting of Tukugawa, Japan
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Birds, Beasts, Blossoms and Bugs: The Nature of Japan
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Exhibition of Japanese Painting and Sculpture
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Master Prints of Japan
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Innovations in Japanese Art
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Draft, Japan Society
Harold P. Stern Lecture - Japanese Screen Paintings of the Floating World
Ann Yonemura Public Lectures, 1976-1977
Ann Yonemura Gallery Talks, 1976-1979
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Kyoto for the Grandeur of Antiquity, Smithsonian Associates, January 12, 1977
Ann Yonemura Lecture - The Arts of Japan, Smithsonian Associates, April 12, 1977
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Ukiyo, River Road Unitarian Church, May 6, 1977
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Japanese Animated Film, Smithsonian Associates, May 23, 1977
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Ukiyo-e Prints, Jinglar Society, December 8, 1977
Ann Yonemura Lecture - China: A Cultural History, Smithsonian Associates, June 19, 1978
Ann Yonemura Lecture - China: A Cultural History, Smithsonian Associates, January 15, 1979
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Arts of Japan, Smithsonian Associates, May 23, 1979
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Maki-e Lacquerware, Stanford University, May 31, 1979
Ann Yonemura Lecture - China: A Cultural History, Smithsonian Associates, July 11, 1979
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Japanese Lacquer, Smithsonian Associates, August 5, 1979
Ann Yonemura Lecture - The Artistic Fenius of Asia: Japanese Lacquerware, Smithsonian Associates, October 15, 1979
Ann Yonemura Lecture - The Shogun Age, Dallas Museum of Art, April 7, 1984
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Japanese Lacquer in the Edo Period (1615-1868), Walters Gallery, April 10, 1984
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Introduction to the Arts of Japan, Baltimore Museum of Art, June 3, 1985
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Japanese Art in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Associates, August 13, 1985
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Asia Society, February 12, 1987
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Ukiyo-e Society, February 12, 1987
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Asia Society, May 28, 1987
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, October 21, 1987
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Smithsonian National Associates Seminar, January 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Japanese Lacquer, Walters Art Gallery, January 29, 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Ann Yonemura Lecture, Sackler Gallery Curatorial Series, February 4, 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Radiant Treasures: The Art of Japanese Lacquer, North Carolina Museum of Art, April 5, 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - The Emerging History of Chinese Lacquer: Recent Archaeology in the People's Republic of China, Tradition China Colloquy, April 16, 1988
Traditional China Colloquium, 1988
Traditional China Colloquium - Ishikawa Jozan
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Saint Louis Art Museum, May 5, 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Smithsonian Resident Associates, September 27, 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Japanese Art at the Sackler Gallery, October 10, 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Daimyo Exhibition for Smithsonian National Associates Seminar, November 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - National Gallery of Art, November 12, 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 13, 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Brooklyn Museum, December 17, 1988
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Renwick Symposium, March 11, 1989
Ann Yonemura Lecture - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 3, 1991
Ann Yonemura Lectures - Japanese Art (Lecture Notes and Slide Lists)
Japanese Exhibition Photographs, National Gallery of Art, January 26-February 26, 1953
Master Prints of Japan (Photographs) by Harold P. Stern
Mrs. Burke's [Mary Griggs Burke] Collection - Installation Photographs
Box 2
Nanban Art Show - Photographs of Artwork
Art Treasures from Japan Exhibition - Object Photographs
Public Inquiries for Object Identification, 1970
Public Inquiries for Object Identification, 1971-1973 (2 folders)
Public Inquiries for Object Identification, 1974
Japanese Masterworks Object Lists, 1973
Notes on Brundage Screens
Ukiyo-e Manuscript
The Japan Group, 1976-1977
Harold P. Stern Manuscript - Gakken Company, November 1971
Miscellaneous Sketches and Studies by Hiroshige
Some Basic Investigations as to Japanese Influences on Modern European Art
Lecture - Exhibition of Japanese Painting and Sculpture
Mutual Influences of Japanese and Western Art in the Last One Hundred Years
James A. Michener Review of The Floating World: The Story of Japanese Prints by Harold P. Stern
Freer Gallery of Art Object Comments, Reviews, and Publicity, 1958-1963
Committee on Prints and Drawings, 1978
Hokusai Lecture Script
Japanese Painting to the 15th Century Outline
Asian Religions Outline
Harold P. Stern Biographical Statement and Curricula Vitae
Harold P. Stern Manuscript - Japanese Art, 1972
Artwork Notes
Aga-Oglu, Kamer - Ming Porcelain from Sites in the Philippines
Cort, Louise - Offprints: Ceramics, Textiles, 1983-1989
Egami, Yasushi - Nishi Hongan-ji Sanjuro-kuninshu, 1982
Fitzhugh, Elizabeth, 1983
Goke, Tadaomi - Boxes, 1982-1983
Groos, Arthur - Madame Butterfly, 1991
Guth, Christine M. E., 1986
Seminar - Egami Heian Ornament, March 11, 1988
Haino, Aiko, 1985
Handler, Sarah A. - Chinese Furniture
Hickman, Money L., On the Trial of Kume the Transcendent
Hillier, Jack - Sourcebooks for Japanese Craftsmen, 1978
Kihara, Toshie, 1984
Korr, Craig S. - Carved Ivory in the Second Millennium B. C., 1981-1984
Kummel, Otto, et al. - Incense and the Japanese Incense Game
Lovell, Hin-cheung, 1976
Meech, Julia - Freer Lecture, January 10, 1984
Murase, Miyako, 1986
Nishida, Hiroko - Pope Lecture, November 13, 1984
Pollack, David - Kokan Shiren and Muso Soseki: Chineseness versus Japaneseness, 1984
Box 3
Shimizu, Yoshiaki - The Poetics of a Nirvana Painting: Vegetable Nehan (unpublished manuscript)
Shimizu, Yoshiaki - Miscellaneous
Shimizu, Yoshiaki - The Rite of Writing: A Thought in the Oldest Genji Text, Genji Symposium, Indiana University, 1982
Shimizu, Yoshiaki - Workshop Management of the Early Kano Painters, circa A. D. 1530-1600, Archives of Asian Art, 1981
Simpson, Marianna Shreve, 1981
Stanley-Baker, P. Richard - Gahuo's Eight Views of Hsiao and Hsing
Stanley-Baker, P. Richard - Some Muromachi Perspectives on Early Yi Dynasty Paintings, March 22, 1980
Takatori, Seizan, 1981
Winter, John - Offprints, 1981-1985
Winter, John - Freer Gallery of Art Gettens Memorial Lecture, 1980
Yanomoto, Yoko (Kawaguchi), 1986
Miscellaneous Programs and Symposia, 1998-1999
Art for Life: The Culture of Aesthetics in Japan and the West, Symposium, Japan Society and International House of Japan, 2000
The Art of Japan: An International Symposium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 28-May 1, 2000
Collecting Art in Pre-Meiji Japan, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, May 1, 2000
Japanese Buddhist Culture, Yale University, October 16-18, 1998
United States-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON), Japan-United States Friendship Commission, May 8-9, 1997
The Art and Aesthetics of Buddhism, Japan Society, May 17, 1997
Imaging Meiji: Emperor and Era, 1868-1912, Haverford College Exhibition, 1997
American Association of Museums Workshop - Curators
American Association of Museums Professional Roundtable for Curators, 1996
Mitate: Metaphor and Humor in the Floating World, Worcester Art Museum, April 13-14, 1996
The Religious Experience of Buddhist Ritual Art, Harvard University, May 24-25, 1996
Sexuality and the Edo Culture, Indiana University, August 17-20, 1995
Kansai Conference, London, August 29-September 2, 1995
Ryuku Conference, Harvard University, 1994
Korean Art in the 18th Century, Asia Society, February 10-12, 1989
The Artist's Workshop: A Symposium, Johns Hopkins University and the National Gallery of Art, March 10-11, 1989
The Poetics and Politics of Representation, Smithsonian Institution, 1988
International Conference on Urushi, Tokyo, June 18-21, 1985
The Shogun Age, Dallas Museum of Art, 1984
Japanese Arts of the Edo Period, New Orleans Museum of Art, November 13-15, 1983
James McNeill Whistler: A Re-examination, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, May 11, 1984
Japanese Painting Symposium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 4-7, 1982
Genji International Conference and Exhibition, August 17-21, 1982
Colloquy II: Lacquerwork, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, June 22-24, 1981
International Symposium on Chinese Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, March 25-27, 1981
Nara Ehon, Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Japan, Japan House Gallery, September 1-17, 1978
Paper, Art, and Technology, World Print Council, March 23-25, 1978
A Symposium on Chinese Calligraphy, Yale University, April 8-10, 1977
International Symposium on Chinese Ceramics, Seattle Art Museum, July 24-28, 1977
Shinto History and Aesthetics, Japan Society, September 30-October 1, 1976
Voices of Discovery, 1995-1998
Japanese Lacquer Today: Modern Concepts in an Ancient Craft, Japan Society Lecture, February 1996
Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Organic Analysis in Archaeology and the Arts, Smithsonian Institution and National Bureau of Standards Joint Seminar, October 20, 1980
Origins of the Iron Age, Smithsonian Institution and National Bureau of Standards Joint Seminar, May 20, 1976
Far Eastern Ceramics, Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies, October 16-18, 1981
Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, December 16-17, 1983
Comite International d'Histoire de l'Art, August 10-17, 1986
Urushi Study Group, Getty Conservation Institute
Innovative Approaches to Society and Literature and the Arts in Japan, May 11, 1982
Chinese Lacquer, Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, October 28, 1982
Millersville State College Lecture, September 29, 1981
Arts of Japan, Smithsonian Associates, May 21, 1980
Discoveries in Oriental Art: Japanese Discoveries, Princeton Night, April 29, 1980
Japanese Lacquer, Birmingham, Alabama, February 13, 1980
Japanese Lacquer, National Museum of Natural History Docent Council, March 21, 1979
Freer Gallery of Art Lectures, 1979-1980
Asian Pacific American Heritage Committee, 1989-1995
Box 4
Smithsonian Art Curators, 1993
ArtCIS (Collection Information System) Request for Proposals, 1997
Asian American Matters, 1993-1997
Asian Pacific Advisory Committee, 1996
American Association of Museums, Asian Pacific Professional Interest Committee, 1996
Smithsonian Council, 1992-1996
Congress of Scholars, 1994-1997
Smithsonian Council Meeting, May 12-14, 1978
Smithsonian Ethics Policies, 1982-1993
Smithsonian Exhibition Awards Program, 1993
Smithsonian National Associates Program Seminar, 1994
Ainu Project, National Museum of Natural History, 1992-1995
Itchiku Kubota Kimono Exhibition, National Museum of Natural History, 1994
Japanese Portraits from the Hosokawa Collection, National Portrait Gallery, 1988-1989
Smithsonian Millennium Time Theme, 1997
Notes on Kemakua
Study Prints and Notes - Non-Freer Artworks
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