Results for "Art patrons"
Who Wore What and When?
- Date: August 31, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Savage Beauty, the posthumous and retrospective exhibition of women’s fashions designed by Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art closed early in August. The record breaking event—an official attendance count of 661,509 visitors made it the eighth biggest show in the museum’s history—featured approximately one hundred ensembles drawn, primarily,
- Authority Record/EAC
Agency history, 1976-
- Date: 1976 1976-
- Creator: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Office of Public Affairs
- Document
Torch 03/1972
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1972 Box 1 Folder 3
- SI History Chronology
Smithsonian Scientific Series Published
- Date: 1929
- Blog Post
Reflections on a Reference Request: Father’s Day Edition
- Date: June 17, 2021
- Creator: Hannah Byrne
- Description: Learn how our archive of institutional memory can also be a place for family stories.
Summer Wind to Ban-y-Bryn
- Date: July 25, 2013
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: This blog piece is about summer weather in Washington, DC, the Alice Pike Barney collections here at SIA, and the Barney’s “summer cottage” in Bar Harbor, ME, “Ban-y-Bryn.”
- SI History Bibliography
Searching the Source: Origins of Indian Painting in the National Anthropological Archives
- Date: Winter 2000
- Creator: Wade, Edwin L
- Creator: Wade, Edwin L
"1876: A Centennial Exhibition," Arts and Industries Building
- Date: 1977 February 16, 1977
- Creator: Farrar, Richard
Studios and Cottages of a D.C. Socialite
- Date: December 5, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On December 5, 1961, the Smithsonian announced the gift of the Barney House Studio. We have written previously about Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931); artist, actor, playwright, and Washington D.C. socialite at The Bigger Picture. Barney donated her artwork and her D.C. residence which became part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. In 1999, however, the house
Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions
- Date: February 28, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: An introduction to our new Archives Technicians.
- SI History Chronology
Poor Conditions in the Smithsonian Library
- Date: December 31, 1853
- Blog Post
A Surprise from Th Jefferson
- Date: January 6, 2011
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="221" caption="At the turn of the century, visitors are entering and leaving the United States National Museum Building, now Arts and Industries Building, via the North Entrance, c. 1900, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 8, Negative Number:
