Exhibition files concern two exhibitions, The American Artist and Water Reclamation in 1972 and America 1976. Files contain a wide variety of materials, such as scattered correspondence, a drawing by William Palmer, scattered financial material, lists of exhibited artwork, miscellaneous notes, a scrapbook, clippings, exhibition catalogs; photographs of scenes of the American West; photographs of participating artists including Vija Celmins, Hereward Lester Cooke, Ralston Crawford, Richard Diebenkorn, Lamar Dodd, Michael Frary, Xavier Gonzalez, Peter Hurd, Billy Morrow Jackson, Mitchell Jamieson, Dong Kingman, Ethel Magafan, Carl Morris, William Palmer, Norman Rockwell, and Fritz Scholder; and phtotographs of their artwork. There is also an album of photographs of the opening of the exhibition The American Artist and Water Reclamation. Audio recordings on cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes contain interviews concerning the exhibition, as well as a tape of a symposium on the exhibition America 1976.
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Collection Citation:
John DeWitt papers, 1962-1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
