NMAA Sells Deaccessioned Works
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PrintThe National Museum of American Art, now known as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, begins selling 79 works from its collection (55 American and 24 non-American) at a series of public auctions at Christie, Manson & Woods, New York. Funds from the sale of the deaccessioned works are to be used for the purchase of other, more relevant works.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, "The Torch," November 1985, p. 2.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
September 1985