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"Alaskan Eskimo Art" Exhibit Case

Creator:
Scott, Jack  Search this
Subject:
Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this
Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Anthropology  Search this
Physical description:
4 x 5;
Type:
Black-and-white negatives
Place:
North America
Date:
1959
September 1959
Topic:
Indians of North America  Search this
Exhibitions  Search this
Museum exhibits  Search this
Eskimos  Search this
Eskimo art  Search this
Indian masks  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 16-126 [MNH-024]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
No Copyright - United States
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_397156

"Northwest Coast Art" Exhibit Case

Creator:
Scott, Jack  Search this
Subject:
Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this
Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Anthropology  Search this
Physical description:
4 x 5;
Type:
Black-and-white negatives
Place:
Northwest Coast of North America
North America
Date:
1959
July 1, 1959
Topic:
Indians of North America  Search this
Exhibitions  Search this
Museum exhibits  Search this
Indian arts  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 16-126 [MNH-018]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
No Copyright - United States
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_397150

"Plains Indian Painting" Exhibit Case

Creator:
Scott, Jack  Search this
Subject:
Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this
Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Anthropology  Search this
Physical description:
4 x 5;
Type:
Black-and-white negatives
Place:
Great Plains
Date:
1959
September 1, 1959
Topic:
Indians of North America  Search this
Exhibitions  Search this
Museum exhibits  Search this
Indian art  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 16-126 [MNH-030]
Restrictions & Rights:
No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
No Copyright - United States
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_397162

13 most wanted men : Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair / edited by Larrisa Harris and Media Farzin

Title:
Thirteen most wanted men
Author:
Warhol, Andy 1928-1987  Search this
Editor:
Harris, Larissa  Search this
Farzin, Media  Search this
Contributor:
Ballon, Hilary  Search this
Subject:
Warhol, Andy 1928-1987  Search this
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Physical description:
151 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
New York (N.Y.)
Date:
2014
20th century
Topic:
Pop art  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
N6537.W28 A4 2014
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1041184

33c American Samoa pane of twenty

Title:
Scott Catalogue USA 3389
Medium:
paper; ink (multicolored) / lithographed; adhesive
Dimensions:
Height x Width: 5 7/8 x 7 5/16 in. (15 x 18.5 cm)
Type:
Postage Stamps
Place:
United States of America
Date:
April 17, 2000
Topic:
Asian-Pacific American Heritage  Search this
Contemporary (1990-present)  Search this
U.S. Stamps  Search this
Credit line:
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Object number:
2000.2013.159.1-20
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National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source:
National Postal Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm80d6f317c-2a9d-4e99-925c-811a248eda8d
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npm_2000.2013.159.1-20

33c American Samoa single

Title:
Scott Catalogue USA 3389
Medium:
paper; ink (multicolored) / lithographed; adhesive
Dimensions:
Height x Width: 1 × 1 9/16 in. (2.54 × 3.97 cm)
Type:
Postage Stamps
Place:
American Samoa (U.S. territory)
United States of America
Date:
April 17, 2000
Topic:
Asian-Pacific American Heritage  Search this
Contemporary (1990-present)  Search this
Ships & Waterways  Search this
U.S. Stamps  Search this
Credit line:
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Object number:
2000.2020.842
See more items in:
National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source:
National Postal Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8a0e3ae9d-f01d-4cd2-8608-10776646fb61
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npm_2000.2020.842

A guide to the microfilm edition of Papers of Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1915-1950 / editorial adviser, Jacquerine Goggin ; project coordinator, Randolph H. Boehm ; guide compiled by Daniel Lewis

Title:
Papers of Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1915-1950
Author:
Gogin, Jacqueline Anne 1953-  Search this
Boehm, Randolph  Search this
Lewis, Daniel, 1925-  Search this
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc  Search this
University Publications of America (Firm)  Search this
Subject:
Woodson, Carter Godwin 1875-1950  Search this
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc  Search this
Physical description:
94 p. ; 28 cm
Type:
Archives
Sources
Place:
United States
Date:
1999
Topic:
Historians  Search this
African American historians  Search this
African Americans--History  Search this
Call number:
E175.5.W65 G85 1999
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_729078

A strange and distant shore : Indians of the Great Plains in exile / Brent Ashabranner

Author:
Ashabranner, Brent K. 1921-  Search this
Physical description:
54 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm
Type:
Juvenile literature
Place:
Great Plains
Florida
Saint Augustine
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Fla.)
Date:
1996
C1996
Topic:
History  Search this
Indians of North America--Relocation  Search this
Indian art  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_918239

A strange mixture : the art and politics of painting Pueblo Indians Sascha T. Scott

Author:
Scott, Sascha T  Search this
Author:
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies  Search this
Southern Methodist University  Search this
The Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Fund of the College Art Association  Search this
ProQuest (Firm)  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) illustrations
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
United States
New Mexico
Date:
2015
20th century
Topic:
Pueblo Indians--History  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Pueblo art  Search this
Indians in art  Search this
Art--Political aspects--History  Search this
Art, American  Search this
Artists  Search this
HISTORY--State & Local--Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)  Search this
HISTORY--State & Local--West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)  Search this
Art--Political aspects  Search this
Pueblo Indians  Search this
Pueblo Indians--Social life and customs  Search this
Puebloindianer  Search this
Malerei  Search this
Indianer  Search this
Politik  Search this
Call number:
E99.P9 S36 2015 (Internet)
Restrictions & Rights:
1-user
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1145026

A survey of art work in the city and county of San Francisco, / by Martin Snipper for the art commission, city and county of San Francisco

Creator:
Snipper, Martin  Search this
Names:
Federal Art Project (Calif.)  Search this
Public Works of Art Project  Search this
United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this
Extent:
100 Pages ((on partial microfilm reel))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
1950
Scope and Contents:
A descriptive list of paintings and sculpture in San Francisco public buildings done for federal projects; programs covered include Public Works of Art Project, the Federal Art Project, and Section of Fine Arts competitions for federal buildings.
Biographical / Historical:
Art historian, San Francisco, Calif. The New Deal art programs provided jobs for thousands of unemployed artists during the Depression.
Provenance:
Snipper prepared the survey for the Art Commission of San Francisco in 1950.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Topic:
Federal aid to the arts -- California -- San Francisco  Search this
Art and state -- California -- San Francisco  Search this
Mural painting and decoration, American  Search this
Public sculpture -- California -- San Francisco  Search this
Identifier:
AAA.snipmart
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw952b3bc47-03f0-4b06-8b2d-27135a89baaa
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-snipmart

A survey of art work in the city and county of San Francisco, / by Martin Snipper for the art commission, city and county of San Francisco, 1950

Creator:
Snipper, Martin  Search this
Subject:
Federal Art Project (Calif.)  Search this
Public Works of Art Project  Search this
United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this
Citation:
A survey of art work in the city and county of San Francisco, / by Martin Snipper for the art commission, city and county of San Francisco, 1950. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Federal aid to the arts -- California -- San Francisco  Search this
Art and state -- California -- San Francisco  Search this
Mural painting and decoration, American  Search this
Public sculpture -- California -- San Francisco  Search this
Theme:
Patronage  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)9831
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212296
AAA_collcode_snipmart
Theme:
Patronage
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_212296

A tribute to Roy Sieber. Part 2

Author:
Kreamer, Christine Mullen  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Sieber, Roy 1923-2001  Search this
Sieber, Roy 1923-2001 Art collections  Search this
National Museum of African Art (U.S.)  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
United States
Date:
2003
Topic:
Art, African--Study and teaching (Higher)  Search this
African art historians  Search this
Connoisseurship  Search this
Call number:
N1 .A258
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_756857

A. Hyatt Mayor papers, 1815-1980

Creator:
Mayor, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1901-1980  Search this
Subject:
Berenson, Bernard  Search this
Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 1876-1973  Search this
Kroll, Leon  Search this
Sachs, Maurice  Search this
Arms, John Taylor  Search this
Biddle, George  Search this
Bacchelli, Mario  Search this
Crawford, Ralston  Search this
Hirsch, Joseph  Search this
Ivins, Barbara  Search this
Ivins, Katherine  Search this
Kent, Norman  Search this
Mayor, Alfred G.  Search this
Mayor, Joseph Henry  Search this
Sanchez, Emilio  Search this
Pound, Ezra  Search this
Parrish, Maxfield  Search this
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Moffett & Sheldon  Search this
Citation:
A. Hyatt Mayor papers, 1815-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Art -- History  Search this
Theme:
Diaries  Search this
Research and writing about art  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)9041
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211230
AAA_collcode_mayoa
Theme:
Diaries
Research and writing about art
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211230

Abram Lerner papers, circa 1930-2006

Creator:
Lerner, Abram  Search this
Subject:
Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  Search this
Type:
Sketchbooks
Sound recordings
Radio programs
Lectures
Citation:
Abram Lerner papers, circa 1930-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Theme:
Art organizations  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)17624
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)397727
AAA_collcode_lernabra
Theme:
Art organizations
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_397727

Adelyne Dohme Breeskin papers

Creator:
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, 1896-1986  Search this
Names:
National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)  Search this
National Museum of American Art (U.S.)  Search this
Avery, Milton, 1885-1965  Search this
Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926  Search this
MacIver, Loren, 1909-  Search this
Extent:
2.5 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Date:
circa 1934-1986
Summary:
The papers of Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington D.C. art historian and museum curator Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, measure 2.5 linear feet and date from circa 1934-1986. The papers provide scattered documentation of Breeskin's career, focusing on writings and lectures delivered in the United States and abroad, and briefly documenting her work as an art exhibition juror, as a consultant, and as a teacher of a community art course. The collection also includes papers documenting some of Breeskin's research on Loren MacIver, Mary Cassatt, and others, and is comprised of biographical material, personal and professional correspondence with artists, friends, and colleagues, manuscript and lecture notes and drafts, professional files, sound recordings, and a few photographs.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington D.C. art historian and museum curator Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, measure 2.5 linear feet and date from circa 1934-1986. The papers provide scattered documentation of Breeskin's career, focusing on writings and lectures delivered in the United States and abroad, and briefly documenting her work as an art exhibition juror, as a consultant, and as a teacher of a community art course. The collection also includes papers documenting some of Breeskin's research on Loren MacIver, Mary Cassatt, and others, and is comprised of biographical material, personal and professional correspondence with artists, friends, and colleagues, manuscript and lecture notes and drafts, professional files, sound recordings, and a few photographs.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as four series:

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1938-1986 (0.6 linear feet; Box 1, OVs 4-6)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1940-1970 (0.5 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 3: Writings and Lectures, circa 1934-1981 (1 linear foot; Boxes 1-2)

Series 4: Professional Files, 1945-1984 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 2-3)
Biographical / Historical:
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1896-1986) was an art historian and museum curator in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. She was the first woman to be named director of a major American museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Adelyn Dohme took her first museum job in the print department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked with Kathryn B. Child under the supervision of William Mills Ivins. She left the museum in 1920 to marry violinist Elias Breeskin, and the couple had three children before divorcing in 1930.

Following her divorce, Breeskin returned to her native Baltimore and took a position as a curator with the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1942 she was appointed director of the museum and remained in that position until 1962. As director she gave Milton Avery and Mary Cassatt's graphics their first museum shows.

Breeskin served as commissioner for the American contingent of the Venice Biennale in 1960 and was director of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art from 1962-1964. She then became a special consultant in twentieth-century art for the Smithsonian's National Collection of Fine Art and served as the museum's curator of contemporary painting and sculpture from 1968 to 1974.

Breeskin authored two catalogue raisonnés of Mary Cassatt's work, and conducted extensive research for a monograph on Loren MacIver, although the monograph was ultimately not published. In 1985 Breeskin received the Smithsonian Institutions highest award, the Gold Medal for Exceptional Service, and at the time of her death in 1986, was senior curatorial adviser.
Related Materials:
The Archives of American Art also holds oral history interviews with Adelyn Breeskin conducted by Paul Cummings in 1974, and Julie Haifley in 1979.
Provenance:
Portions of the collection were donated to the Archives of American Art in a series of gifts from Adelyn Breeskin, 1979-1985. Material relating to Loren MacIver was donated 1979-1987 by Breeskin and Robert Frash, who had possession of Breeskin's research materials on MacIver for an exhibition on MacIver he curated in California. Letters from Georgia O'Keeffe, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, and Lawrence Calcagno, an exhibition catalog for Calcagno, and the file on Milton Avery, were donated by the National Museum of American Art on January 28, 1981. The birthday book was a gift from Breeskin's daughter, Gloria Breeskin Peck, in 2015. The sound recordings were transferred from the National Museum of American Art, circa 1984.
Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.

Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. 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:
Art museum curators -- Maryland -- Baltimore  Search this
Art historians -- Maryland -- Baltimore  Search this
Art museum directors -- Maryland -- Baltimore  Search this
Topic:
Women art historians  Search this
Women museum curators  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Citation:
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin papers, circa 1934-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.breeadel
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Adelyne Dohme Breeskin papers
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw98710b071-3f06-4f02-a54b-d26d215a0ed4
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-breeadel
Online Media:

Adelyne Dohme Breeskin papers, circa 1934-1986

Creator:
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, 1896-1986  Search this
Subject:
MacIver, Loren  Search this
Cassatt, Mary  Search this
Avery, Milton  Search this
National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)  Search this
National Museum of American Art (U.S.)  Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Citation:
Adelyne Dohme Breeskin papers, circa 1934-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Women art historians  Search this
Women museum curators  Search this
Theme:
Women  Search this
Research and writing about art  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)8422
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210596
AAA_collcode_breeadel
Theme:
Women
Research and writing about art
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210596
Online Media:

Adolf Fleischmann papers, 1892-2011

Creator:
Fleischmann, Adolf, 1892-1968  Search this
Subject:
Fleischmann, Elly  Search this
Citation:
Adolf Fleischmann papers, 1892-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Theme:
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)8183
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210354
AAA_collcode_fleiadol
Theme:
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210354

Adrian Piper interview

Interviewer:
Withers, Josephine  Search this
Interviewee:
Piper, Adrian, 1948-  Search this
Extent:
15 Pages (Transcript)
1 Sound cassette
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound cassettes
Interviews
Sound recordings
Date:
1991
Summary:
An interview of Adrian Piper conducted by Josephine Withers, 1991 [month and day unidentified]. Withers conducted the interview as part of her research for an unpublished book Musing about the Muse.
Scope and Contents:
An interview of Adrian Piper conducted by Josephine Withers, 1991 [month and day unidentified]. Withers conducted the interview as part of her research for an unpublished book Musing about the Muse.
Arrangement:
Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
Biographical / Historical:
Josephine Withers (1938-) is an art historian and a professor emerita of art history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Adrian Piper (1948-) is a conceptual artist and philosopher. She taught philosophy at numerous institutions and was the first female African American philosophy professor to receive academic tenure in the United States. Piper moved to Berlin, Germany in 2005 where she now runs the Adrian Piper Research Archive (APRA).
Provenance:
Donated 2005 by Josephine Withers.
Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact Reference 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:
Conceptual artists  Search this
Art historians -- Maryland  Search this
Topic:
African American artists  Search this
Women artists  Search this
Genre/Form:
Interviews
Sound recordings
Citation:
Adrian Piper interview, 1991. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.withjose
See more items in:
Adrian Piper interview
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9977c9dc8-1612-4110-8759-e3c9da0277e8
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-withjose

Adrian Piper interview, 1991

Creator:
Withers, Josephine  Search this
Piper, Adrian, 1948-  Search this
Type:
Interviews
Sound recordings
Citation:
Adrian Piper interview, 1991. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
African American artists  Search this
Women artists  Search this
Theme:
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)13361
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)255124
AAA_collcode_withjose
Theme:
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_255124

African art studies at the crossroads : an American perspective

Author:
Blier, Suzanne Preston  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
United States
Date:
1990
Topic:
Art, African--Study and teaching (Higher)  Search this
Art, African--Research  Search this
African art historians  Search this
Call number:
N7391.65 .A374
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_518307

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