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Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection

Creator:: Archives of American Art Search this

Names:: Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949 Search this

Extent:: 4.4 Linear feet

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Exhibition catalogs

Date:: 1813-1953; bulk 1915-1925

Summary:: Primarily exhibition catalogs for modernist art exhibitions held in New York City during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Also included are catalogs for Boston exhibitions, mainly pre-1900, and a few other locales; exhibition announcements; gallery publications; and other printed material.

Scope and Content Note:: The collection comprises circa 770 items, dating from 1813-1953, the bulk of which are exhibition catalogs from New York City art galleries for the first two decades of the twentieth century, representing exhibitions of mainly modernist art. Catalogs for exhibitions held in Boston (mainly pre-1900) and a few other cities are also present. Included are several rare catalogs, notably one for the "Eight" held at Macbeth Gallery in 1908. Besides catalogs, the collection also contains exhibition announcements, gallery publications, and other printed material. The collection is especially relevant for the study of early American modernism, and is useful in understanding the role of art galleries, exhibitions, the art market, and the exhibition catalog itself, in American art.

Arrangement:: The collection is arranged as 8 series representing alphabetical groups. Catalogs are arranged within these groups according to name of the sponsoring gallery, or if no gallery is listed, by the name of the club or organization. Catalogs are arranged chronologically thereafter, with undated material first. Many catalogs are undated, list only a year, or are annotated with a date. No attempt has been made to date or verify these at this time. Catalogs which are annotated with a date are filed chronologically, and are indicated with brackets around the date.

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Series 1: Art Exhibition Catalogs, A-C

Series 2: Art Exhibition Catalogs, D-F

Series 3: Art Exhibition Catalogs, G-I

Series 4: Art Exhibition Catalogs, J-L

Series 5: Art Exhibition Catalogs, M-O

Series 6: Art Exhibition Catalogs, P-R

Series 7: Art Exhibition Catalogs, S-T

Series 8: Art Exhibition Catalogs, U-Z

Historical Note:: In 1979, the American Antiquarian Society donated several hundred exhibition catalogs and art-related printed material to the Archives of American Art (AAA). The Society had received most of them over a long period of time, many of them addressed to the director, Charles Brigham. For several years subsequent to the donation, AAA sporadically added exhibition catalogs to the collection from various sources. Some of these additions are annotated in the hand of Walt Kuhn and are presumed to have been part of his papers in the Archives.

Related Material:: Researchers may find duplicate or related items in galleries' records held at the Archives of American Art. Additional or duplicate catalogs may appear in AAA's Catalog of Exhibition Catalogs (1979).

Provenance:: The bulk of the collection was donated 1979 by the American Antiquarian Society, who presumably assembled them from various sources. Others were received individually, while many are annotated in the hand of Walt Kuhn and are presumed to have originally been part of his papers in the Archives. In 2005, additional catalogs were integrated, some of which are presumed to have been removed from various collections over the years.

Restrictions:: Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Rights:: The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Topic:: Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Massachusetts -- Exhibitions Search this; Art, Modern -- 19th century -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions Search this; Art, American -- Exhibitions Search this; Artists -- United States -- Exhibitions Search this; Modernism (Art) Search this; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions Search this

Function:: Art galleries, Commercial -- Massachusetts; Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)

Genre/Form:: Exhibition catalogs

Citation:: Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection, 1813-1953, bulk 1915-1925. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:: AAA.archamea

See more items in:: Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Art

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Milton Wolf Brown papers

Creator:: Brown, Milton Wolf (Milton Wolf), 1911-1998 Search this

Names:: Archives of American Art Search this; Armory Show 50th anniversary exhibition (1963 : New York, N.Y.) Search this; Brooklyn College -- Faculty Search this; Century Association (New York, N.Y.) Search this; City University of New York -- Faculty Search this; Whitney Museum of American Art Search this; Brown, Blanche Search this; Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000 Search this; Lozowick, Louis, 1892-1973 Search this; Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991 Search this; Meltzoff, Stanley Search this; Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968 Search this; Prendergast, Charles, 1863-1948 Search this; Prendergast, Maurice Brazil, 1858-1924 Search this; Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965 Search this

Extent:: 26 Linear feet; 0.225 Gigabytes

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Gigabytes; Travel diaries; Articles; Interviews; Essays; Drafts (documents); Transcripts; Photographs; Notebooks; Lectures; Scripts (documents)

Date:: 1908-1998

Summary:: The papers of art historian and educator Milton Wolf Brown date from 1908 to 1998 and measure 26.0 linear feet and 0.225 GB. The collection documents Brown's career through scattered biographical material, correspondence with friends, publishers, colleagues, artists, museums, and art organizations, travel journals, files for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, exhibition, research, teaching, and organization files, printed and digital material, and scattered photographs. A large portion of this collection consists of writings by Brown including notebooks, draft writings for books and other publications, lectures, and his writings as a student.

Scope and Content Note:: The papers of art historian and educator Milton Wolf Brown date from 1908 to 1998 and measure 25.8 linear feet and 0.225 GB. The collection documents Brown's career through scattered biographical material, correspondence with friends, publishers, colleagues, artists, museums, and art organizations, travel journals, files for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, exhibition, research, teaching, and organization files, printed and digital material, and scattered photographs. A large portion of this collection consists of writings by Brown including notebooks, draft writings for books and other publications, lectures, and his writings as a student.

Biographical material includes academic records, travel documents, financial documents, Brown's military records, and a transcript of a 1997 interview. Correspondence is with students, museums, universities, publishers, art organizations, and others. The bulk of these letters document Brown's professional activities, but also found are scattered letters from friends, artists, and colleagues such as Russell Lynes, Stanley Meltzoff, Louis Lozowick, Erwin Panofsky, and Paul Sachs.

This collection also contains 33 detailed travel journals written primarily by Milton Brown's wife, Blanche, documenting their travels in Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world. Within the writings series are notebooks from the period that Brown was a student and while traveling in Europe in 1959 and 1960; book project files, which include draft writings as well as related correspondence, research material, notes, photographs and other material. Files are found for American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography (1979), American Painting, From the Armory Show to the Depression (1955), The Story of the Armory Show (1963, 1988 2nd ed.), and other books. Among the writings are files for lectures written by Brown; essays, articles, and scripts written for various publications; general research notes and student writings; and writings by others sent to Brown for review and feedback.

Brown maintained a set of files documenting his work on the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, which consist of correspondence, drafts, reports, and research materials, including notes on twenty meetings with Mrs. Prendergast. Exhibition files document Brown's work as curator on several major exhibitions, including a Jacob Lawrence exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and his contributions to others. Also found here are three interviews of Milton Brown and Marcel Duchamp concerning the 50th Anniversary of the Armory Show and anniversary exhibition. Research files include notes, research material, and printed material on various art-related subjects that were maintained by Milton and Blanche Brown for regular use for lectures, teaching, and writing projects. Brown's teaching files contain scattered lecture notes, syllabi, correspondence, faculty records, and other materials from his time at CUNY, Brooklyn College, and other visiting professorships. Organization Files contain correspondence, reports, planning documents, and event materials. These records document his membership or advisory role in various organizations such as the Archives of American Art and Century Association.

This collection also contains printed material, such as exhibition announcements, newsletters, brochures, journals, event programs, and magazine and newspapers clippings compiled by Brown. Scattered photographs include nine photographs of Milton Brown, a few photographs of friends, and photographs of artwork.

Arrangement:: The collection is arranged as 11 series:

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Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1932-1998 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1908, 1934-1998 (Boxes 1-3; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Travel Journals, 1941-1996 (Boxes 3-4; 1.6 linear feet)

Series 4: Writings, circa 1929-1990s (Boxes 4-13, 25; 8.7 linear feet)

Series 5: Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, circa 1952-1990 (Boxes 13-14, 25; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 6: Exhibition Files, 1962-circa 1997 (Boxes 14-16, 28; 2.0 linear feet, ER01; 0.225 GB)

Series 7: Research Files, circa 1930s-1986 (Boxes 16-19; 3.0 linear feet)

Series 8: Teaching Files, circa 1946-1993 (Boxes 19-21; 2.0 linear feet)

Series 9: Organization Files, 1959-1995 (Boxes 21-22; 1.3 linear feet)

Series 10: Printed Material, 1925-1990s (Boxes 22-24, 26, 27; 3.2 linear feet)

Series 11: Photographs, circa 1956-1990s (Boxes 25, 27; 0.2 linear feet)

Biographical Note:: Milton Wolf Brown (1911-1998) was an art historian and educator in New York City.

Known to his friends as "Mainey," Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1911. At a young age he intended to be a painter and studied with Louis Lozowick. However, instead of attending art school, he entered New York University to study education and eventually received his master's and doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts. While there he took courses with Walter Friedlander, Erwin Panofsky, and Mayer Schapiro. He also received fellowships to the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1934 and Brussels in 1937, and studied from 1938-1939 at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. In 1938 he married fellow student Blanche Levine. After serving in World War II, he began teaching in the art department at Brooklyn College in 1946. There he developed a specialization in American art history and his doctoral dissertation, American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression, was published in 1955. In 1963 he participated in the fiftieth anniversary exhibition of the 1913 Armory Show. The publication of his book Story of the Armory Show coincided with this event.

In 1971 Brown established the graduate program in Art History at the City University of New York, which became preeminent in the areas of modern art and American art history. During the 1980s he remained a resident professor at CUNY, though he retired in 1979, and he held visiting professorships at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. From 1983 to 1987 he had a senior fellowship at Williams College for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project.

Over the course of his career Brown curated exhibitions, including an exhibition on the works of Jacob Lawrence and The Modern Spirit: American Painting and Photography, 1908-1935, and wrote for numerous publications. He also served as an active member of several professional societies. Brown was close friends with art scholars and artists, such as Jack Levine, Moses and Raphael Soyer, Ad Reinhardt, and Paul Strand. In 1991 he returned to painting landscape watercolors, and had the opportunity to exhibit his work before his death in 1998.

Related Material:: Also at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Milton Wolf Brown, conducted in 1976 by Paul Cummings.

Provenance:: The Milton Wolf Brown papers were donated in 2000 and 2001 by Blanche R. Brown, Brown's widow. Three reel-to reel sound recordings were lent for duplication to cassette and transcript in 1986 by Milton Brown. A cassette copy of the Martha Deane interview was donated in 2006 by Milton Brown's estate, via Naomi Rosenblum. Additional material was donated in 2002 and 2004 by Naomi Rosenblum, executor for the estate of Blanche R. Brown, who died in 2002.

Restrictions:: Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Rights:: The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:: Art museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York Search this; Educators -- New York (State) -- New York Search this; Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York Search this

Topic:: Art, American History Sources Search this

Genre/Form:: Travel diaries; Articles; Interviews; Essays; Drafts (documents); Transcripts; Photographs; Notebooks; Lectures; Scripts (documents)

Citation:: Milton Wolf Brown papers, 1908-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:: Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Identifier:: AAA.browmilt

See more items in:: Milton Wolf Brown papers

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Art

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E.P. (Edgar Preston) and Constance Richardson papers

Creator:: Richardson, Edgar Preston, 1902-1985 Search this; Richardson, Constance, 1905- Search this

Names:: Archives of American Art Search this; Castano Galleries (Boston, Mass.) Search this; Detroit Institute of Arts Search this; Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Search this; Historical Society of Pennsylvania Search this; Macbeth Gallery Search this; National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.) Search this; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) Search this; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Search this; Philadelphia Museum of Art Search this; White House (Washington, D.C.) Search this; Peale family Search this; Allen, Joseph Search this; Allston, Washington, 1779-1843 Search this; Andrews, Wayne Search this; Aram, Siegfried F. Search this; Bishop, Isabel, 1902-1988 Search this; Bostick, William A. Search this; Bouché, Louis, 1896-1969 Search this; Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks), 1903- Search this; Castano, Giovanni, 1896-1978 Search this; Cohn, Harold Search this; Copeland, Lammot du Pont Search this; Culver, Charles B. (Charles Beach), 1908-1967 Search this; Fleischman, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur), 1925-1997 Search this; Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-2003 Search this; Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981 Search this; Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 Search this; Freeman, Michael W. Search this; Garrison, Eve Josephson, 1903-2003 Search this; Groce, George C., 1899- Search this; Hardy, Jeremiah Pearson, 1800-1889 Search this; Heil, Walter, 1890-1973 Search this; Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967 Search this; Jungwirth, Irene G. (Irene Gayas), 1913- Search this; Krentzin, Earl, 1929- Search this; Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953 Search this; Lee-Smith, Hughie Search this; Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979 Search this; Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991 Search this; Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954 Search this; Mast, Gerald, 1908-1971 Search this; McDermott, John Francis, 1902- Search this; Middeldorf, Ulrich Alexander, 1901- Search this; Morse, John D., 1906- Search this; Moser, Liselotte, 1906-1983 Search this; O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 Search this; Oliver, Andrew, 1906- Search this; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 Search this; Pleasants, J. Hall (Jacob Hall), 1873-1957 Search this; Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001 Search this; Rockefeller, John D., 1906- Search this; Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 Search this; Rutledge, Anna Wells Search this; Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903- Search this; Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965 Search this; Simper, Fred, 1914- Search this; Simpson, Corelli C. W. Search this; Soria, Regina, 1911- Search this; Spark, Victor D. (Victor David), 1898-1991 Search this; Speck, Walter, 1895- Search this; Stevens, William B. Search this; Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958 Search this; Vose, Robert C. (Robert Churchill), 1911-1998 Search this; Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972 Search this; Wedda, John Search this; Woolfenden, William E. (William Edward), 1918-1995 Search this; Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 Search this

Extent:: 28.7 Linear feet

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Photographs; Manuscripts; Interviews; Diaries; Transcripts; Sketches; Lectures

Place:: Detroit (Mich.)

Date:: 1814-1996; bulk 1921-1996

Summary:: The papers of art historian E. P. Richardson measure 28.7 linear feet and date from 1814-1996, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1921-1996. Within the papers are scattered biographical materials; acquisition files for Richardson's personal art collection; professional and personal correspondence with colleagues, art historians and critics, artists, museums, galleries, and dealers; numerous writings, including manuscripts and research files for his published books, articles, and lectures; general research notebooks and files compiled by Richardson on a wide variety of art-related topics and artists; professional and committee files; as well as a smaller amount of Constance C. Richardson's papers.

Scope and Contents:: The papers of art historian E. P. Richardson measure 28.7 linear feet and date from 1814-1996, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1921-1996. Within the papers are scattered biographical materials; acquisition files for Richardson's personal art collection; professional and personal correspondence with colleagues, art historians and critics, artists, museums, galleries, and dealers; numerous writings, including manuscripts and research files for his published books, articles, and lectures; general research notebooks and files compiled by Richardson on a wide variety of art-related topics and artists; professional and committee files; as well as a smaller amount of Constance C. Richardson's papers.

Biographical materials include certificates, awards, and honorary degrees, membership information, personal and family photographs, a few sketches, and a transcript of an oral history Interview with E.P. Richardson conducted by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1982.

There are acquisitions files for the Richardsons' personal art collection that invoices, photographs, correspondence with galleries and collectors, appraisals, price lists, and artwork examination forms.

Correspondence is with colleagues, art dealers, collectors, museums and museum curators, foreign scholars, organizations, galleries, artists, art historians and critics, publishers, editors, librarians, friends, and family. Topics regard purchasing art for various collections, consultations about art and collecting including authentications and attributions, publishing, general art history, lectures, and personal matters, among other topics. There is correspondence with the Archives of American Art, Castano Galleries, Lawrence Fleischman, James Thomas Flexner, Alfred V. Frankenstein, George Croce, Walter Heil, Earl Krentzin, Wilmarth Lewis, Russel Lynes, John Francis McDermott, Philadelphia Museum of Art, J. Hall Pleasants, Anna Rutledge, Charles Sellers, Smithsonian Institution, Regina Soria, Victor Spark, William Stevens, Robert Vose, William Woolfenden, and many others. Scattered correspondence with artists is with Isabel Bishop, Louis Bouche, William Bostick, Eve Garrison, Edward Hopper, Irene Jungwirth, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Hughie Lee-Smith, Reginald Marsh, Gerald Mast, Georgia O'Keefe, Charles Sheeler, Walt Speck, and John Wedda, among many others. The greatest extent of correspondence is with Andrew Wyeth, Harold Cohn, and Frederick Simper. There is also personal correspondence with family and friends, and between E.P. and Constance Richardson.

E.P. Richardson's prominence as an art historian, writer, and expert on collecting is well documented through his prolific writings. Materials include drafts, notes, typescripts, and outlines for articles, exhibition catalog essays, and lectures. Also found are research files and publishing documentation for Richardson's books, including Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America (1948), Painting in America (1956), Charles Willson Peale and his World (1983), and American Romantic Painting (1944). There are also miscellaneous notes and four diaries. Two of the diaries comment on the social and cultural life of Detroit; the authenticity of paintings; Richardson's reflections on contemporary American painting, thoughts about museums, dealers, artists, and art historians (especially Wilhelm R. Valentiner); and travel.

Notebooks compiled by Richardson on a wide variety art-related topics cover nearly six decades. There are also numerous research files organized Richardson about individual artists and art history. And, the art collector files contain reference materials about art collectors and their collections including Lamont du Pont Copeland, Michael W. Freeman, Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Allen, and the Marquis de Somerlous. There are three index card file boxes containing bibliographic data on published books and articles.

Professional and committee files document Richardson's professional and consulting work for the Art Quarterly, Detroit Institute of Arts, National Collection of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the John D. Rockefeller III collection, Winterthur Museum, the White House, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Constance C. Richardson's papers include business and professional correspondence with various institutions, most extensively with the Macbeth Gallery. In addition, there is a smaller amount of personal correspondence, photographs and slides of her artworks, printed materials, two illustrated notebooks on her work, and miscellaneous notes. Also included is Constance's artist palette.

Biographical / Historical:: Art historian, museum director, and writer E. P. (Edgar Preston) Richardson (1902-1985) served as director of the Detroit Institute of Arts (1945-1962) and Winterthur Museum (1963-1966). He was also a board member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1966-1977 and, in 1954, co-founded the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

E. P. Richardson was born in 1902 in Glens Falls, New York and died in Philadelphia in 1985. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1925 and studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for the three years following graduation. In 1930 he became educational secretary at the Detroit Institute of Arts, was quickly named assistant director in 1933, and served as director from 1945 to 1962. He left Detroit to take the position of director of the Winterthur Museum, where he remained until 1966. Richardson married Constance Coleman in 1931. Born in Berlin, Germany in 1905, Constance Coleman Richardson was an award-winning and widely exhibited realist style painter of American landscapes. She gave up painting in the 1960s and died in 2002.

While at the Detroit Institute of Arts, E. P. Richardson co-founded the Archives of American Art with Lawrence Fleischman, and served as the Archives' first director. Richardson was also art advisor to John D. Rockefeller III for over ten years, editor of Art Quarterly from 1938 to 1967, and a member of various boards, including the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Smithsonian Arts Commission, and the National Portrait Gallery. He authored numerous books including ones on artists Washington Allston and Charles Willson Peale, and The Way of Western Art: American Romantic Painting (1939), Painting in America: The Story of Four Hundred and Fifty Years (1956), A Short History of Painting in America (1963), and American Art, an Exhibition of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 3d (1976).

Related Materials:: Related collections among the holdings of the Archives of American Art include an interview with E.P. Richardson dated February 6, 1978 conducted by Linda Downs; and several miscellaneous manuscripts that include an E.P. Richardson Letter to Rockwell Kent, June 15 1959; E.P. Richardson letters to Lawrence Arthur Fleischman, May 13, 1962 and August 22 1954; and a Yasuo Kunioshi letter to E.P. Richardson, July 25 1948.

Additional E.P. Richardson papers are found at the Detroit Institute of Arts and in the archives of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

Separated Materials:: The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming (reel D46) including E.P. Richardson's research material on Jeremiah P. Hardy. These materials are housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Library and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:: Edith Wilkinson first donated a letter to E. P. Richardson from herself in 1957. E.P. Richardson donated papers to the Archives of American Art in 1958 and 1960 and lent materials for microfilming in 1961. Addition material was donated by Constance Richardson in 1985, and by Martha Fleischman in 2003.

Restrictions:: Use of original material requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact References Services for more information.

Rights:: The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:: Authors -- Michigan -- Detroit Search this; Art historians -- United States Search this

Topic:: Art -- Collectors and collecting Search this; Painting, American Search this; Art, American Search this; Romanticism Search this; Art -- History -- Study and teaching Search this

Genre/Form:: Photographs; Manuscripts; Interviews; Diaries; Transcripts; Sketches; Lectures

Citation:: Edgar P. Richardson papers, 1814-1996, bulk 1921-1996. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:: Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.

Identifier:: AAA.richedga

See more items in:: E.P. (Edgar Preston) and Constance Richardson papers

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Art

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The museum and its public: scholarship or spectacle : panel discussion

Creator:: Archives of American Art Search this; Middlekauff, Robert Search this; Koshalek, Richard Search this; Powell, Earl A. Search this; Karlstrom, Paul J. Search this

Names:: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery Search this; Los Angeles County Museum of Art Search this; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) Search this

Collection Creator:: Archives of American Art Search this

Extent:: 1 Sound cassette

Container:: Item aaaoh010

Type:: Archival materials; Audio [31027000729877]; Sound cassettes; Sound recordings; Interviews

Date:: 1986 February 13

Scope and Contents:: A panel discussion sponsored by the Archives of American Art at the Founders Luncheon and Museum Panel, held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1986 February 13. The participants were Richard Koshalek, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art; Earl A. Powell, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Robert Middlekauff, Director of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Paul Karlstrom is moderator.; Moderator Paul Karlstrom introduces the topic and panelists; identifies differences between the three institutions, the appeal of blockbuster shows, and with references to an article by Mortibello of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, questions whether a museum can successfully balance scholarship and interpretation; the high cost of research and programming; and the shift to temporary exhibitions.; Koshalek discusses how MOCA continues to look for a balance as a new organization and their decision to start with temporary exhibits to build an audience and collection. Middlekauff discusses the Huntington as a research institution and its policy to not loan books and papers and the impact then on hosting only temporary exhibits, and the parallel to problems universities face in funding programming. Powell discusses the benefits of blockbuster exhibits, the need to integrate scholarship, and the problems in corporate sponsorships.

General:: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hrs., 3 min.

Funding note:: Funding for the digital preservation of this recording was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Collection Restrictions:: Use requires an appointment.

Occupation:: Art critics -- California, Southern Search this; Art historians -- California, Southern Search this; Educators -- California, Southern Search this; Museum directors -- California, Southern Search this

Topic:: Art, American -- California, Southern Search this

Function:: Art museums

Genre/Form:: Sound recordings; Interviews

Sponsor:: Funding for the digital preservation of these recordings was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:: AAA.archiv57, Item AAA

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Archival Repository:: Archives of American Art

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American art exhibition catalog collection [microfilm]

Collector:: Archives of American Art Search this

Extent:: 134 Microfilm reels

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Microfilm reels

Date:: 1820-1960

Scope and Contents:: Ca. 7,000 exhibition catalogs published from the early nineteenth century to the 1960s for for exhibitions of American art held in galleries, museums, and art societies throughout the United States. The catalogs were microfilmed between 1964-1966, at libraries, museums and other institutions throughout the United States as part of the American Art Exhibition Catalog Project.

Provenance:: The Archives of American Art microfilmed the catalogs at libraries throughout the United States for an American Art Exhibition Catalog Project during 1964-1966. Among the institutions were the Architectural League of New York, Boston Antheneum, Boston Public Library, Columbia University, Cooper Union Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the New York Public Library, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, and many others. Some of the catalogs identified were included in individual collections of artists papers or organizational records. Researchers may also find exhibition catalogs in artists' papers and other collections in the Archives, although they are generally not described at the item level.

Restrictions:: The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Topic:: Art, American -- Exhibitions Search this; Art, Modern -- 19th century -- United States -- Exhibitions Search this; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States -- Exhibitions Search this