Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 23-010
Smithsonian American Art Museum. Office of the Director
Exhibition Records, 1978-2013
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the exhibition records of Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), 1989-2016. Museum exhibits took place at both SAAM and the Renwick Gallery. Particularly well documented is the exhibit "Albert Pinkham Ryder." Some materials date to when Broun was the Chief Curator and Assistant Director, as well as from when the museum was known as the National Museum of American Art and the National Collection of Fine Arts. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, exhibit schedules, exhibit guidelines, floor plans, brochures, images, educational guides, symposium records, proposals, press kits, brochures, clippings, and other related records.
Restrictions
Use RestrictionRestricted for 15 years, until Jan-01-2029; Transferring office; 1/14/2009 memorandum, Toda to Howard; 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
- Albert Pinkham Ryder (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Broun, Elizabeth
- Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Free Within Ourselves: African American Art from the National Museum of American Art (Exhibition) (1994-1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Homecoming: William H. Johnson and Afro-America, 1938-1946 (Exhibition) (1991-1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Inventing a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection (Exhibition) (2011-2013: Washington, D.C.)
- James Hampton: The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation's Millennium General Assembly (Exhibition) (1976: Washington, D.C.)
- KPMG Peat Marwick Collection of American Craft: A Gift to the Renwick Gallery (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection of the National Museum of American Art (Exhibition) (1990-1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987 (Exhibition) (1992-1993: Washington, D.C.)
- National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.). Office of the Director
- National Museum of American Art (U.S.). Office of the Deputy Director
- National Museum of American Art (U.S.). Office of the Director
- Renwick Gallery
- The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.)
- The Great American Hall of Wonders (Exhibition) (2011-2012: Washington, D.C.)
- The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920 (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.)
- Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (Exhibition) (1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color (Exhibition) (2013: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Art museum curators
- Art museum directors
- Art museums
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Women museum directors
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 23-010, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Office of the Director, Exhibition Records