Exhibition files document the exhibition The Emmets: A Family of Women Painters held at the Berkshire Museum/Danforth Museum in Pittsfield/Farmingham, Massachusetts, in 1982. Records include budget and loan material, checklists, correspondence, announcements and a catalog, press clippings and press releases, photographs of artwork in the exhibition, and photos of the installation, including slides taken by Holly Pedlosky and Mary Snow.
Series also includes two sound cassettes with recordings from the "Art for Lunch" series, of a discussion with Rosamond Sherwood about the exhibition, and with Berkshire Museum director Gary Burger on "Putting the Emmet Exhibition Together."
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Collection Citation:
Emmet family papers, 1792-1989 (bulk 1851-1989). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by The Walton Family Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art