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Maker:

Unidentified Artist  Search this

Sitter:

George Herbert Walker Bush, 12 Jun 1924 - 30 Nov 2018  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan, 6 Feb 1911 - 5 Jun 2004  Search this

Medium:

Campaign button

Dimensions:

Diameter: 7.6cm (3")

Type:

Artifact

Topic:

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Male  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Literature\Writer  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Politics and Government\President of US  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Politics and Government\Governor\California  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Journalism and Media\Broadcast journalist\Sportscaster  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Presidential Medal of Freedom  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Congressional Gold Medal  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Male  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\Vice-President of US  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\President of US  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Military and Intelligence\Intelligence agent\CIA director  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Texas  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Military and Intelligence\Navy\Naval aviator  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\Diplomat\Ambassador\United Nations  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Business executive\Oil  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Presidential Medal of Freedom  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

Object number:

EXH.PW.13

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm47b1b9740-2564-46ea-b162-c5cc6cbd1873

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_EXH.PW.13

Maker:

Unidentified Artist  Search this

Sitter:

George Herbert Walker Bush, 12 Jun 1924 - 30 Nov 2018  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan, 6 Feb 1911 - 5 Jun 2004  Search this

Medium:

Campaign button

Dimensions:

Diameter: 7.6cm (3")

Type:

Artifact

Topic:

Button\Campaign button  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Male  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Literature\Writer  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Politics and Government\President of US  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Politics and Government\Governor\California  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Journalism and Media\Broadcast journalist\Sportscaster  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Presidential Medal of Freedom  Search this

Ronald Wilson Reagan: Congressional Gold Medal  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Male  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\Vice-President of US  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\President of US  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Military and Intelligence\Intelligence agent\CIA director  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Texas  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Military and Intelligence\Navy\Naval aviator  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\Diplomat\Ambassador\United Nations  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Business executive\Oil  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Presidential Medal of Freedom  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

Object number:

EXH.PW.15

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4a73ef565-35cb-43e0-bc18-fb301bbbff74

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_EXH.PW.15

Artist:

Bronson High Charles, 1923 - 2016  Search this

Sitter:

George Herbert Walker Bush, 12 Jun 1924 - 30 Nov 2018  Search this

Medium:

Oil

Type:

Painting

Date:

c. 1823

Topic:

Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie  Search this

Symbols & Motifs\Flag  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Male  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\Vice-President of US  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\President of US  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Military and Intelligence\Intelligence agent\CIA director  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Texas  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Military and Intelligence\Navy\Naval aviator  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Politics and Government\Diplomat\Ambassador\United Nations  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Business executive\Oil  Search this

George Herbert Walker Bush: Presidential Medal of Freedom  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

Object number:

TX900016

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

See more items in:

Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm47aea1dcf-7367-45ce-abfc-a8853fd42bae

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_TX900016

Creator:

Blue Eagle, Acee, 1907-1959  Search this

Names:

Abbott, Mae  Search this

Beaver, Fred  Search this

Bosin, Blackbear, 1921-1980  Search this

Campbell, Walter S.  Search this

Dale, Edward E.  Search this

Debo, Angie, 1890-1988  Search this

Dja, Devi  Search this

Echohawk, Brummett T., 1922-2006  Search this

Fairbanks, Charles H. (Charles Herron), 1913-1985  Search this

Feder, Norman  Search this

Field, Dorothy  Search this

Gilcrease, Thomas, 1890-1962  Search this

Houser, Allan, 1914-1994  Search this

Howe, Oscar, 1915-1983  Search this

Jackson, Oscar B.  Search this

Lemos, Pedro de  Search this

Marriott, Alice  Search this

Martinez, Julian, -1943  Search this

Martínez, María Montoya  Search this

McCombs, Solomon, 1913-1980  Search this

Medicine Crow, Joseph, 1913-2016  Search this

Mirabel, Eva  Search this

Momaday, Al  Search this

Pond, Charles E.  Search this

Rowan, Edward B.  Search this

Shears, Glen E.  Search this

Sheets, Nan  Search this

Steinke, Bettina, 1913-1999  Search this

Sunrise, Riley  Search this

Te Ata  Search this

Whitehorse, Roland Noah, 1920-1998  Search this

Extent:

673 Paintings (visual works) (approximate)

30 Linear feet (55 document boxes and 8 oversize boxes)

Culture:

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Paintings (visual works)

Date:

1907 - 1975

Summary:

Acee Blue Eagle was a Pawnee-Creek artist, poet, dancer, teacher, and celebrity. The papers relate to both Blue Eagle's personal and professional life. Also included are some materials of Blue Eagle's friend Mae Abbott and a collection of art by other Indians.

Scope and Contents:

This collection reflects the life and work of Acee Blue Eagle, internationally famed Indian artist of Oklahoma. Identified for his brilliant paintings of tribal ceremonies, legend and dance, Blue Eagle's work is represented in numerous private collections and museums both in this country and abroad.

A portion of the papers contains correspondence. Fan mail written by school children to Chief Blue Eagle of the Chief Blue Eagle television program is included. Letters regarding Blue Eagle's participation in Indian festivals and events, art shows and exhibitions, speaking engagements on Indian life and culture are found in the collection. Personal correspondence is included; most frequent correspondents are Devi Dja, Mae Abbott, and Charles E. Pond. There are approximately 100 letters from Devi Dja, approximately 90 to or from Mae Abbott, and approximately 36 from Charles E. Pond. Some letters addressed to these individuals from other friends and acquaintances are also within this collection.

Photographs comprise a large portion of the Blue Eagle collection. Included are not only portraits of the artist himself and photographs of his art work, but a large number of prints of Blue Eagle in full costume and other Indians engaged in tribal ceremonies, identified by tribe, whenever possible. Photographs of Mae Abbott, Devi Dja and the latter's Balinese dance troupe are identified. A file of negatives is arranged in the same subject order as the prints. Newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Blue Eagle's work and activities are also included in the collection. These clippings have not been arranged. In addition, Mae Abbott's recipes and notes for her cookbook, wood blocks, greeting cards and other miscellaneous publications can be found in the collection. These items have been sorted but not arranged.

Within the collection are also over 600 pieces of artwork. A good number are by Blue Eagle while most are by other Native artists. Artists whose are work are represented in the collection include Fred Beaver, Harrison Begay, Archie Blackowl, Woodrow Crumbo, Allan Houser, Ruthe Blalock Jones, Quicy Tahoma, Pablita Verde, and members of the Kiowa Five (Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke).

Arrangement note:

The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Personal; 2) Collections; 3) Artwork; 4) Television; 5) Correspondence; 6) Photographs.

Biographical / Historical:

Acee Blue Eagle was an artist, poet, dancer, teacher, and celebrity. Born Alex C. McIntosh in 1907, Blue Eagle attended Indian schools in Anadarko, Nuyaka, and Euchee, Oklahoma, and the Haskell and Chilocco Indian schools. Advanced study came at Bacone Indian College and the University of Oklahoma. At the latter, he studied with Oscar B. Jacobson. Privately he studied with Winold Reiss. Discrepancies exist in the records regarding his early life: born in either Anadarko or Hitchita, Oklahoma; he's cited as both Pawnee-Creek and 5/8 Creek without any Pawnee blood; his mother is either Mattie Odom, the first wife of Solomon McIntosh or Ella Starr, McIntosh's second wife.

A prolific painter who, for the sake of authenticity, carried out research in libraries and museums, Blue Eagle was an outstanding American Indian artist of the 1930s-1950s. His paintings hung in many exhibits, including the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, 1932-1933; International Art Exhibition of Sport Subjects at Los Angeles, 1932; Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1934; a one-man show at the Young Galleries in Chicago; National Exhibition of Art at the Rockefeller Center in New York, 1936; a one-man show at the Washington, D.C., Arts Club, 1936; Museum of Modern Art, 1941; Northwest Art Exhibition at Spokane, Washington, 1944; a one-man show at the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1953; An Exposition of American Indian Painters in New York, 1955; and a one-man show at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, 1957. Between 1946 and 1965, over fifty galleries hung his paintings. Some pieces are among the permanent holdings of many institutions.

In 1934, Blue Eagle joined the Work Projects Administration (WPA) Public Works of Art Project, painting murals in public buildings. In 1935 at Oxford University, he participated in a program of the International Federation of Education and lectured on Indian art. A tour of Europe followed. He taught at Bacone Indian College from 1935-1938 where he founded the art program and became Director of Art. He also taught at the University of Kansas extension division in 1949 and Oklahoma State Technical College beginning in 1956. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Force; and, following the war, he spent a few years attempting to get into the movies. During 1946-1952, he was married to his second wife, a famous Balinese dancer, Devi Dja, and became involved in her career, an involvement that was briefly reflected in his art. However, Dja and Blue Eagle divorced and Blue Eagle lived with Mae Wadley Abbott for the last years of his life. During the 1950s, he had a television show for children on a Tulsa-Muskogee station. Acee Blue Eagle died on June 18, 1959 of a liver infection.

Sources Consulted

Martindale, Rob. Muskogee Paying Tribute to Blue Eagle. Biographical/Genealogical data, Box 1, Acee Blue Eagle Collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

West, Juanita W. 1967. Acee Blue Eagle: A.C. McIntosh. Biographical/Genealogical data, Box 1, Acee Blue Eagle Collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

1907 -- Born August 17, 1907 on the Wichita Reservation, north of Anadarko, Oklahoma

1928 -- Graduated Chilocco High School

1929-1934 -- Attended Bacone College, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State Tech

1935 -- Toured United States and Europe giving lecture-exhibition program, "Life and Character of the American Indian"

1935-1938 -- Established and headed art department at Bacone College at Muskogee

1936 -- Exhibited at the National Exhibition of Art, Rockefeller Center, New York

1942-1945 -- World War II, U.S. Air Force (Army)

1947-49 -- Free-lance work in New York and Chicago

1951-52 -- Artist-in-residence at Oklahoma Tech

1950-54 -- Conducted TV program, Muskogee, OklahomaToured U.S. West Coast exhibiting and lecturing about ways to improve TV programs for children

1958 -- Named Indian-of-the-Year by the American Indian Expostion at Anadarko, Oklahoma

1959 -- Died June 18, 1959

Related Materials:

Other materials relating to Acee Blue Eagle at the National Anthropological Archives include correspondence in the Solomon McCombs papers, 1914-1972, and correspondence with Betty Meilink under Manuscript 2011-20.

Provenance:

Acee Blue Eagle's private papers and collection of paintings were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Mrs. Mae Abbott of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Restrictions:

There are no restrictions on access.

Rights:

Literary property rights to unpublished material in the collection in the National Anthropological Archives has been given to the public.

Topic:

Indian art -- North America  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Citation:

Acee Blue Eagle Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.1973-51

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Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw30f5eef50-cb31-4d85-87ef-5ae9fedac6f7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-1973-51

Creator:

Freelon, Philip G., 1953-2019  Search this

Names:

American Institute of Architects  Search this

Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup  Search this

Freelon Bond Architects  Search this

Freelon Group  Search this

Hampton University (Va.)  Search this

Harvard University  Search this

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Search this

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture  Search this

National Museum of African American History and Culture  Search this

National Organization of Minority Architects (U.S.)  Search this

North Carolina Board of Architecture  Search this

NorthStar Church of the Arts  Search this

PPG Industries, Inc.  Search this

Perkins & Will  Search this

Adjaye, David, 1966-  Search this

Bond, J. Max, Jr.  Search this

Freelon, Allan Randall, 1895-1960  Search this

Extent:

5.1 Cubic feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Correspondence

Place:

North Carolina -- United States

United States of America -- North Carolina -- Durham County -- Durham

United States of America -- Massachusetts -- Suffolk County -- Boston

United States of America -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia County -- Philadelphia

United States of America -- New York -- New York

Date:

bulk 1939-2017

Scope and Contents:

The Philip G. Freelon Architectural Archival Collection documents the life and career of architect, educator, cultural heritage preservation advocate and artist Philip G. Freelon. The collection highlights his distinguished career from its inception to his role as the "architect of record" for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Freelon was one of the leading African American architects of his generation and he created a focus designing and constructing buildings that paid reverence to African Americans and other underrepresented communities. This collection is comprised of business records, photographic materials, ephemera, correspondence, architectural drawings, and clippings.

Arrangement:

The materials in this collection have been separated into seven series. The materials have been ordered and organized based on the content and chronology. Within each series and sub-series, the folders are organized as close to the collection's original order as when it was acquired.

Biographical / Historical:

Philip Goodwin Freelon was born March 26, 1953, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Allan Freelon, Jr. and Elizabeth Neal Freelon. Freelon was greatly influenced by his grandfather, Allan Freelon Sr., a notable Harlem Renaissance visual artist, educator, and civil rights activist. His grandfather's values and artistry inspired him to create a career that focused on creating historical and cultural spaces in African American communities. Freelon attended high school at the former predominantly white elite all-boys school, Central High School located in upper North Philadelphia from 1967 to 1971. His attendance at this school during of the Civil Rights Movement afforded him the unique experience that inspired him to attend a historically Black college (HBCU). Freelon selected Hampton Institute (Hampton University) to develop his veneration of the composition and design of the buildings that held cultural and artistic treasures. Located in the Tidewater area of Virginia, Hampton was renowned among HBCUs for its architecture program. His professor and mentor at Hampton, John Spencer, pushed Freelon academically as he moved easily through the school's curriculum. After two years at Hampton, Spencer helped Freelon transition to a more challenging program at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh, North Carolina. Freelon graduated in 1975 with a bachelor's in environmental design in architecture.

Later in the fall of 1975, Freelon enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to pursue a master's in architecture. During the summers, Freelon worked with one of former his NC State professors at the architectural firm of John D. Latimer and Associates. After graduating from MIT in 1977, Freelon returned to North Carolina to take his Architecture Registration Examination (ARE), becoming the firm's youngest person to receive licensure. He also began teaching classes at his alma mater, NC State. It was there that Freelon met his future wife, Nnenna Pierce. Pierce, a Massachusetts native was attending Simmons College in Boston at the time. The connection was immediate, and the pair was married in 1979 and welcomed their first son, Deen in 1980. After a brief employment for a large Texas firm 3/D International, Freelon returned to Durham to join O'Brien Atkins Associates. He was the firm's youngest partner, eventually serving as principal and vice president of architecture. Freelon worked on a wide variety of projects throughout the state including learning centers, university buildings, churches, and parking garages. Along with Freelon's budding career, his family was expanding as well. Phil and Nnenna welcomed their daughter Maya in 1982 and their son, Pierce in 1983. During this time, Freelon was being highly recognized for his work. The American of Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded him the Honor Award for his design of Terminal 2 of the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, which has since been rebuilt.

By the end of the decade, Freelon and his wife Nnenna needed a change of pace. Nnenna pursued a professional career in music while Phil took a break from his career to expand his skillset and reinforce his intellectual approach to design. In 1989, Freelon was granted the Loeb Fellowship for one year of independent study at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He also pursued a longtime hobby of furniture design, calling the practice "small architecture". He received industry awards like first prize in the PPG Industries, Inc. Furniture Design Competition as well as AIA Honor Award for conference table designs. With a year away from the field to clarify his vision, Freelon opened his own firm, simply titled, the Freelon Group in 1990. Beginning as a one-man operation, the Freelon Group grew to become one of the largest African American owned architectural firms in the country with over 50 employees, forty percent of which were women, and thirty percent were people of color. With freedom within his own firm, Freelon focused on designing learning centers, libraries and museums and vowed to never build anything that did not bring cultural and intellectual value to a community.

Over the next twenty years, Freelon would assert himself as a force in designing notable cultural institutions and community-driven projects in and around the country including the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC), Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture (Baltimore, MD), Museum of African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA), Harvey B. Gantt for African American Arts and Culture (Charlotte, NC), the Anacostia and Tenley-Friendship branches of the District of Columbia Public Library , National Center for Civil Rights and Human Rights (Atlanta, GA), Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (Jackson, MS) and Emancipation Park (Houston, TX). Alongside his architectural career, Freelon served as a lecturer and adjunct professor at several colleges and universities including North Carolina State University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Maryland College Park, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and the Florence, Italy program at Kent State University. Freelon was awarded a full-time appointment as professor of Professional Practice at MIT in 2008. The Professional Practice (4.222) course was a requirement for the master's in architecture and he used examples from his extensive career and personal experience to illustrate legal, ethical, and management concepts. Nnenna's music career was also thriving. She would go on to record twelve albums and be nominated for six Grammys. This fusion of education, the arts, and music inspired another generation of Freelons: their son, Pierce Freelon is a hip-hop artist, educator, and political activist; daughter Maya Freelon is a visual artist; and son Deen Freelon is a professor.

In 2001, George W. Bush established a commission to create a new museum on the National Mall. Freelon wanted to enter his firm to participate in the international design competition. Freelon would partner with famed African American New York City architect, J. Max Bond, Jr. and by 2006 the two officially formed the Freelon Bond Architects.The Freelon Bond group submitted their proposal and soon after were elected to create programming and pre-design work for the museum. When the official design competition for the museum was announced in 2008, UK-based architect David Adjaye joined the team as the lead designer, and along with the partnering firm SmithGroup, the new architectural team became Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup. The three black architects combined a variety of distinctive elements from Africa and the Americas to create the building's unique, historically significant design. The Freelon Group served as the "architect of record" and were responsible for ensuring that key design ideas were upheld. Freelon and key firm members such as Zena Howard were active as on-site project managers during the museum's construction process to certify that the building would be developed according to plan. Freelon, Adjaye, and Bond were tasked with taking the collective history of the African American experience-- generations of pain, triumph, and perseverance-- and forming it into a structure. The team looked to African sources, such as Yoruban architecture, for inspiration. They sought to connect the building's design to the geographic and cultural roots of African Americans. Their design choices also reference the contributions of enslaved and free black metalworkers made to the landscape of the American South. Their goal was to make the museum an extension of its contents, and an expression of the stories told inside. By the groundbreaking for NMAAHC in 2012, Freelon had been appointed to the U.S. Commission of the Fine Arts by President Barack Obama. In an effort to broaden his resources and expand his firm, The Freelon Group merged with Perkins & Will, a firm originating in Chicago that grew to have offices across the United States. Freelon was appointed the managing director and later lead design director at the firm's North Carolina offices in Charlotte and Durham in 2014. By the next year, Freelon understood that his work in architecture and education was a necessary voice to preserve, which he did through donation of the bulk of his personal papers to his alma mater, NC State University. The year 2016 proved to be a year of triumph for Freelon as NMAAHC opened its doors on September 24th to much jubilation and celebration. That same year, Freelon's legacy was further cemented as the Phil Freelon Fellowship Fund was established at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a fellowship designed to broaden opportunities for African Americans and other underrepresented communities in architecture and design.

Unfortunately, this triumphant year was met with difficulty as Freelon was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive disease that affects the nervous system. He would continue to work and lecture for the next two years until it became too challenging. One of those projects was the renovation and opening of The NorthStar Church of the Arts in early 2019. A passion project with his wife and son, Pierce, a former church was renovated and repurposed as an arts and cultural space for all. This space was created in an effort to support the Durham cultural community as it began to feel the effects of gentrification. When Freelon lost his battle with ALS on July 9, 2019, in his home in Durham, North Carolina, the family requested that in lieu of flowers that donations be sent to the NorthStar Church to continue the center's mission and Phil's dream to give back to the Durham community.

Historical Timeline

1953 -- Philip Goodwin Freelon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Allan Freelon Jr. and Elizabeth Neal Freelon.

1971 -- Freelon graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and entered School of Architecture, Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia as a design student.

1973 -- Freelon transferred to College of Design at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

1975 -- Graduated with a Bachelor's in Environmental Design in Architecture from NC State University. He received the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Book Award for Outstanding Work in Architectural Design. In the fall, he began his master's program in architecture at MIT.

1976 -- Began working as aide for architectural firm, John D. Latimer and Associates.

1977 -- Graduated with a Master's in Architecture and Design from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT.)

1978 -- Freelon became youngest architect to pass the North Carolina Architecture Registration Exam. Freelon started teaching at North Carolina State University.

1979 -- Married Chinyere "Nnenna" Pierce. Freelon began working for, 3/D International in Houston, Texas.

1980 -- Son Deen Freelon was born.

1981 -- Freelon returned to Durham, NC to join O'Brien Atkins Associates as the firm's youngest partner.

1982 -- Daughter Maya Freelon was born.

1983 -- Son Pierce Freelon was born.

1989-1990 -- Received Loeb Fellowship for independent study at Harvard University. Freelon received AIA Honor Award for American Airlines Terminal 2 at Raleigh-Durham Airport, NC (RDU).

1990 -- Freelon left O'Brien Atkins Associates to open his own firm The Freelon Group.

1991 -- Won first prize in the PPG Furniture Design Competition.

1992 -- Won the AIA Honor Award for Conference Table Designs.

2001 -- Won the AIA Firm Award for The Freelon Group and the AIA Design Award for Parking Structure, RDU Airport. Began attending meetings of President George W. Bush's commission on new National Mall museum dedicated to African American history and culture.

2003 -- Freelon merged his firm with New York architect Max Bond to create Freelon Bond Architects.

2004 -- Sonja Haynes Stone Center at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC) was completed.

2005 -- Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture (Baltimore, MD) and Museum of African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA) were both completed.

2008 -- UK-based architect David Adjaye and Washington, DC based architecture firm, Smithgroup joined the team, creating the Freelon Adjaye Bond Group/SmithGroup Freelon began teaching at MIT's school of Architecture and Design.

2009 -- Freelon Adjaye Bond/Smithgroup won the official design for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Harvey B. Gantt for African American Arts and Culture (Charlotte, NC) was completed.

2010 -- Anacostia branch of the District of Columbia Public Library (Washington, DC) was completed.

2011 -- Tenley-Friendship branch of the District of Columbia Public Library (Washington, DC) was completed.

2012 -- Construction began on NMAAHC.

2014 -- The Freelon Group merged with Perkins & Will, a much larger architectural firm. Freelon became managing director and lead design director of the North Carolina branches in Durham and Charlotte. National Center for Civil Rights and Human Rights (Atlanta, GA) was completed.

2016 -- Freelon was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

2017 -- Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (Jackson, MS) and Emancipation Park (Houston, TX) were completed.

2019 -- Freelon died in his home in Durham, North Carolina at age 66 on July 9.

Related Materials:

Phil Freelon Papers, 1975-2019 at North Carolina State University Libraries.

Provenance:

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Philip G. Freelon.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Access to collection materials requires an appointment.

Rights:

The NMAAHC Archives can provide reproductions of some materials for research and educational use. Copyright and right to publicity restrictions apply and limit reproduction for other purposes.

Topic:

Architecture  Search this

Business  Search this

Construction  Search this

Entrepreneurship  Search this

Local and Regional  Search this

Design  Search this

Education  Search this

Photographs  Search this

Museums  Search this

Genre/Form:

Correspondence

Citation:

Philip G. Freelon Archival Collection, 1939-2017. National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAAHC.A2017.51

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Philip G. Freelon Architectural Archive

Archival Repository:

National Museum of African American History and Culture

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/io3ba3ca2a2-5495-45cf-801c-f3d66a7002fd

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmaahc-a2017-51

Creator:

Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961  Search this

Subject:

Lay, Charles Downing  Search this

Ivins, William Mills  Search this

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph)  Search this

Ruzicka, Rudolph  Search this

Rogers, Bruce  Search this

Webster, Herman A. (Herman Armour)  Search this

Sizer, Theodore  Search this

Simonson, Lee  Search this

Sarton, George  Search this

Winter, Carl  Search this

Wind, Edgar  Search this

Käsebier, Gertrude  Search this

Ames, Winslow  Search this

Arensberg, Walter  Search this

Arms, John Taylor  Search this

Berenson, Bernard  Search this

Ivins, Emma Yard  Search this

Ivins, Barbara  Search this

Ivins, Katherine  Search this

Ivins, Florence Wyman  Search this

Greene, Belle da Costa  Search this

Friedländer, Max J.  Search this

Holmes, Margaret Ivins  Search this

Constable, W. G. (William George)  Search this

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir  Search this

Frankfurter, Felix  Search this

Dodgson, Campbell  Search this

Burroughs, Bryson  Search this

Boas, George  Search this

Carrington, Fitz Roy  Search this

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Pierpont Morgan Library  Search this

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Grolier Club  Search this

Citation:

William Mills Ivins papers, 1878-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Aesthetics  Search this

Art museums  Search this

Book collectors and collecting  Search this

Museum directors  Search this

Perspective  Search this

Designers  Search this

Museums -- Acquisitions  Search this

Prints -- History  Search this

Etching -- History  Search this

Engraving -- History  Search this

Medicine and art -- History  Search this

Illustrated books -- History  Search this

Museum curators  Search this

Theme:

Research and writing about art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8805

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210990

AAA_collcode_ivinwill

Theme:

Research and writing about art

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210990

Creator:

Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961  Search this

Names:

Century Association (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Grolier Club  Search this

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Pierpont Morgan Library  Search this

Ames, Winslow  Search this

Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954  Search this

Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953  Search this

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959  Search this

Boas, George, 1891-  Search this

Burroughs, Bryson, 1869-1934  Search this

Carrington, Fitz Roy, 1869-1954  Search this

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962  Search this

Constable, W. G. (William George), 1887-1976  Search this

Dodgson, Campbell, 1867-1948  Search this

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965  Search this

Friedländer, Max J., 1867-1958  Search this

Greene, Belle da Costa, 1883-1950  Search this

Holmes, Margaret Ivins, 1882-1954  Search this

Ivins, Barbara  Search this

Ivins, Emma Yard, 1857-1940  Search this

Ivins, Florence Wyman, 1881-1948  Search this

Ivins, Katherine  Search this

Ivins, William Mills, 1851-1915  Search this

Lay, Charles Downing, 1877-1956  Search this

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957  Search this

Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883-  Search this

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965  Search this

Sarton, George, 1884-1956  Search this

Simonson, Lee, 1888-  Search this

Sizer, Theodore, 1892-1967  Search this

Webster, Herman A. (Herman Armour), 1878-1970  Search this

Wind, Edgar, 1900-  Search this

Winter, Carl, 1906 Jan. 10-  Search this

Photographer:

Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934  Search this

Extent:

20.5 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1878-1964

Summary:

The papers, 1878-1964 (20.5 linear feet) of museum curator, director, and art scholar William Mills Ivins (1881-1961) consist of correspondence, writings, notes, photographs, and Ivins family papers. Ivins was Curator of Prints, 1916-1946, Assistant Director, 1933-1938, and Acting Director, 1938-1940 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection contains professional and personal correspondence with art historians, art dealers, museum curators, print and book collectors, and artists concerning the history of print making, book design and illustration, print collectors and collecting, exhibitions, and museum administration. Also found are Ivins' published and unpublished writings and lectures, and notes. The collection contains some Ivins' family papers including family correspondence, genealogies, and photographs.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers, 1878-1964 (20.5 linear feet) of museum curator, director, and art scholar William Mills Ivins (1881-1961) consist of personal and professional correspondence, writings, notes, photographs, and Ivins family papers. Ivins was Curator of Prints, 1916-1946, Assistant Director, 1933-1938, and Acting Director, 1938-1940 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection contains professional and personal correspondence with art historians, art dealers, museum curators, print and book collectors, and artists concerning the history of print making, book design and illustration, print collectors and collecting, exhibitions, and museum administration. Correspondence files appear to be complete, and correspondence is of substantive content. Also found are Ivins' published and unpublished writings and lectures, and notes. Of particular interest are the letters from Bernard Berenson, Paul J. Sachs, and Theodore Sizer, each of whom corresponded with Ivins freqently over extended periods about both personal and professional and matters.

Ivins' family papers include family correspondence, genealogies, and photographs. The papers of Ivin's wife, illustrator Florence Wyman Ivins (1881-1948), and the correspondence of several other relatives, can be found here augmented by family photographs.

Arrangement:

The collection has been arranged into 7 series. The contents and organization are noted in the individual series descriptions.

Missing Title

Series 1: Professional and Personal Papers, circa 1908-1961 (Boxes 1-8; 6.5 linear ft.)

Series 2: Writings, circa 1910-1960 (Boxes 8-12; 4.9 linear ft.)

Series 3: Publications, 1896-1958 (Boxes 13-14; 2.0 linear ft.)

Series 4: Miscellaneous, 1915, undated (Box 15; 1.0 linear ft.)

Series 5: Ivins Family Papers, 1878-1964, undated (Boxes 16-20; 4.5 linear ft.)

Series 6: Photographs, circa 1890-1940 (Boxes 20-21; 1.5 linear ft.)

Series 7: Oversized Material, 1897-1950 (1 OV folder)

Biographical Note:

William Mills Ivins, Jr. (1881-1961), a lawyer, first became interested in collecting prints and illustrated books while an undergraduate at Harvard. He studied the history of printmaking through self-directed reading, by looking at prints in the major European libraries and museums, and tried his hand at many of the printmaking processes. While practicing law, he wrote articles and organized some small exhibitions of prints as early as 1908. In 1916, the Metropolitan Museum of Art appointed its first Curator of Prints to organize a Department of Prints and Drawings and to develop its small existing collection. Upon the recommendation of Paul J. Sachs who was unable to accept the position, Ivins was selected. He held the post until his retirement some thirty years later.

During his tenure as Curator of Prints, Ivins became one of the most highly-respected individuals in the profession. Under Ivins the collection grew in scope, size, and quality; he acquired materials by cultivating potential donors, and through systematic purchase of pieces not likely to come into the collection by bequest. The department's active exhibition schedule included some especially noteworthy shows, such as The Arts of the Book in 1924.

Ivins was knowledgeable and shared information by writing several books on prints and the history of printmaking, and by writing large numbers of articles for the educated layman. His articles often highlighted items in the permanent collection, and frequently appeared in the museum's Bulletin. He was interested in perspective, psychology of perception, aesthetics, mathematics and modern philosophy, and wrote on these topics, as well.

He was an accomplished speaker and was in much demand as a lecturer. Of particular note were his series on Illustrated Books of the Renaissance at the Morgan Library in 1936, and the 1950 Lowell Lectures (subsequently published under the title Prints and Visual Communication).

In addition to his curatorial duties, Ivins served as Assistant Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art between 1933 and 1938, and was its Acting Director from 1938 until 1940. Francis Henry Taylor was appointed Director in 1940, and Ivins was named to the newly created post of Counselor; failure to attain the directorship was a bitter disappointment, which many attributed to his lack of tact and generally difficult disposition.

Ivins retired in 1946, and continued to write and publish until the mid-1950's. During this period he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Yale University (1946), made an honorary fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1946), named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1950), and invited to deliver the annual lectures at the Lowell Institute (1950). He died at the age of eighty in 1961, after several years of declining health.

Ivins' private collection of prints and illustrated books, which he had continued to amass through the 1930's, was partially dispersed during his lifetime through gifts to the Metropolitan Museum and to a number of university and special libraries. The portion remaining in his estate was sold at auction by Parke Bernet between 1962 and 1964.

Missing Title

1881 -- born to William Mills Ivins and Emma Yard Ivins, Flatbush, N.Y.

1890-1893 -- attended King's School, Stamford, Conn.

1896 -- trip to South America with father

1897 -- graduation from St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.

1901 -- graduation from Harvard (A.B.)

1901-1902 -- travelled in Europe with Paul Haviland, and studied economics at University of Munich

1902-1904 -- employed by The World's Work, writing articles on economic and artistic subjects

1907 -- graduation from Columbia School of Law

1907-1916 -- practiced law in New York City: Ivins, Wolff and Houget for New York Public Service Commission, 1907-1908; Strong and Cadwallader, 1908-1909; Cravath, Henderson, and der Gersdorff, 1909-1916

1908 -- arranged first exhibition of prints, Keppel & Co,

1910 -- marriage to Florence Wyman, an illustrator

1916 -- appointed first Curator of Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art

c. 1927-1935 -- served on editorial board of Metropolitan Museum Studies

1933-1938 -- Assistant Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art

1937 -- Morgan Library Lectures

1938 -- Honorary Curator of Prints and Drawings, Morgan Library

1938-1940 -- Acting Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Note: Mr. Ivins continued to act as Curator of Prints during periods when he was assigned other major administrative responsibilities at the museum)

1940 -- Counselor, Metropolitan Museum of Art

1946 -- Honorary Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art; retirement from Metropolitan Museum of Art; Honorary Doctorate, Yale University

1950 -- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Lowell Lectures (published in 1953 under the title Prints and Visual Communication)

1961 -- death

1962-1964 -- Ivins Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books sold at auction by Parke Bernet

1977-1983 -- William M. Ivins, Jr. Papers donated to the Archives of American Art by his daughter, Barbara Ivins

Provenance:

The William Mills Ivins, Jr., papers were donated to the Archives of American Art by his daughter, Barbara Ivins, in several installments between 1977 and 1983.

Restrictions:

Use of unmicrofilmed material in the holdings of the Archives of American Art requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C., facility.

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:

Illustrators  Search this

Art historians  Search this

Topic:

Aesthetics  Search this

Art museums  Search this

Book collectors and collecting  Search this

Museum directors  Search this

Perspective  Search this

Designers  Search this

Museums -- Acquisitions  Search this

Prints -- History  Search this

Etching -- History  Search this

Engraving -- History  Search this

Medicine and art -- History  Search this

Illustrated books -- History  Search this

Museum curators  Search this

Citation:

William Mills Ivins papers, 1878-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.ivinwill

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William Mills Ivins papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw948e0d1d0-c1e5-4575-b422-cf91cb813195

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-ivinwill

Lantern slide maker:

Van Altena, Edward  Search this

Architect:

Chambers, William Sir, 1726-1796  Search this

Publisher:

Chambers, William Sir, 1726-1796  Search this

Printmaker:

Rooker, Edward, -1774  Search this

Draughtsman:

Marlow, William, 1740-1813  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Lantern slide (black-and-white, 3.25 x 4 in.)

Type:

Archival materials

Lantern slides

Etchings

Prints

Reproductions

Place:

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London, England)

United Kingdom -- England -- London -- Richmond -- Kew

Date:

[between 1914 and 1949]

General:

Historic plate caption: "A View of the Wilderness, with the Alahambra, the Pagoda, and the Mosque."

Mount reads: "Edward Van Altena, 71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C." Additional information on slide with possible identification of photographer not legible without a scope.

Historic plate number: "17."

Related Materials:

Editions of this etching are held by various repositories, including The Morgan Library and Museum, the Museum of London, the British Museum, and The Royal Collection.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Gardens -- England -- London  Search this

Pagodas  Search this

People  Search this

Mosques  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lantern slides

Etchings

Prints

Reproductions

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item GCA002046

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The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Unidentified Garden Images / International / United Kingdom / GCA002: Richmond -- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6c61f4214-df93-4e80-abfa-ebc7e3973e38

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref5142

Artist:

John Butler Yeats, 16 Mar 1839 - 3 Feb 1922  Search this

Sitter:

Lady Isabelle Augusta Gregory, 1852 - 1932  Search this

Medium:

Pencil

Dimensions:

25cm x 18cm (9 13/16" x 7 1/16"), Estimate

Type:

Drawing

Date:

1903

Topic:

Lady Isabelle Augusta Gregory: Female  Search this

Lady Isabelle Augusta Gregory: Performing Arts\Performing arts director\Theater director  Search this

Lady Isabelle Augusta Gregory: Literature\Writer\Playwright  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: Sligo County Library and Museum

Object number:

IE030009

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

See more items in:

Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4baf6172b-9a21-4fb4-94d8-8a515d9d8a70

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_IE030009

Publisher:

National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center  Search this

Language:

English

Object type:

Lesson Plan

Topic:

American History  Search this

Famous People  Search this

Leaders  Search this

Civil War  Search this

Wars  Search this

Time Periods  Search this

Presidency  Search this

Presidential  Search this

Nineteenth century  Search this

19th century  Search this

Typical age range 8-10  Search this

Typical age range 10-12  Search this

Typical age range 12-14  Search this

Typical age range 14-16  Search this

Typical age range 16-18  Search this

Educational alignment:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.3

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.10

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4a

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.8

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.3

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.10

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.4a

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.8

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.8

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.3

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.8

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.9

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.8

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2

Data source:

SI Center for Learning and Digital Access

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SCLDA_272

Author:

Free Public Libraries and Museum (Sheffield, England)  Search this

Free Public Libraries and Museum (Sheffield, England)  Search this

Physical description:

30 p. 25 cm

Type:

Bibliography

Date:

1960

Topic:

Cutlery  Search this

Call number:

Z7914.C9 S47X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_214389

Creator:

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979  Search this

Extent:

18 Photographs

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Place:

Iran

Iṣfahān (Iran)

Bisutun Site (Iran)

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Color photoprints, matted, and housed in a portfolio entitled Iran, dated 1957, taken by Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979) of architecture, mostly in the city of Isfahan, including The Cihil Sutun; and the Darius relief momument at Bistun.

Arrangement:

18 mounted color photographs in a folio.

Biographical / Historical:

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was born in Bar Harbour, Maine on July 8, 1908 to John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abigail Greene Aldrich, respectively the children of John. D Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil and wealthiest man in the US, and Nelson Aldrich, a US senator from Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller graduated from Dartmouth College in 1930 with an economics degree and spent the next ten years working for various companies owned or affiliated with his family. In 1940, he joined Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration as the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs for the State Department and then became the Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs. After a few years in charitable work, he rejoined the federal government as the Undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Eisenhower administration from 1953-1954. In 1958, he became the Governor of New York, a position he held until 1973. During that time, he ran unsuccessfully for President three times before being appointed Vice President to Gerald Ford from 1974-1977 following Richard Nixon's resignation of the presidency. Rockefeller then retired and spent the rest of his life focusing on philanthropy and art. He married twice, first to Mary Todhunter Clark in 1930, with whom he had five children. They divorced in 1962. Rockefeller married his second wife, Margaretta Large "Happy" Fitler in 1963, with whom he had another two children. They remained married until his death on January 26, 1979 from a heart attack.

 

Rockefeller had a lifelong interest in art. He was an avid collector of modern art as well as Asian, African, Oceanic, and Latin American art. He travelled widely, including Africa, Korea, and Iran. While there, he toured and photographed various historical sites including the city of Isfahan, Iran. As well as being an avid collector of art, he was an active member of the Museum of Modern Art's board from 1932-1979 and acted in numerous positions, including Chairman of the Board. He founded the Museum of Primitive Art when the Metropolitan Museum of Art refused to allow Pre-Columbian art into their collection. It opened its doors in 1957, ultimately merging with the Met in 1974.

Local Numbers:

FSA A1998.03

Related Materials:

Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

Archive of the Museum of Primitive Art, 1949-1992 (bulk 1957-1975). Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

New York State Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Central Subject and Correspondence Files, 1959-1973. New York State Archives, New York State Education Department.

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979, Person Authority Record. National Archives.

Rockefeller, Nelson – FBI Vice Presidential Nomination Investigation Case File, (1950, 1952, 1969) August 1974 – December 1974. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Cihil Sutun  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Nelson A. Rockefeller Photographs of Iran, FSA.A1998.03. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Gift of Lawrence Roberts.

Identifier:

FSA.A1998.03

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3f004e40f-52a9-4285-a884-9728780c248c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-fsa-a1998-03

Creator:

March, Benjamin, 1899-1934  Search this

Names:

Yanjing da xue  Search this

Ferguson, John Calvin, 1866-1945  Search this

March, Benjamin, 1899-1934  Search this

Priest, Alan Reed  Search this

Rowe, Dorothy, 1898-1969  Search this

St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968  Search this

Collection Creator:

March, Benjamin, 1899-1934  Search this

Extent:

182 Items (typed unbound pages with solid wood covers)

Container:

Box 1, Folder 9

Type:

Archival materials

Diaries

Place:

China

Beijing (China)

China -- Description and Travel

Date:

1925-1926

Scope and Contents note:

Binding removed, 9 ½" x 6". 182 pages. First entry, 30 June 1925. Last entry, 13 March 1926. Inscribed, "The Memoirs of MA". Wood cover. In the introduction, March wrote, "Chronicles of Benjamin" had, for three years, served as a journal, notebook, and record for himself of places he visited. Said that since he's now not alone that it is fitting to rename his notes, "Memoirs of MA." (Chinese name of his family). ["Chronicles of Benjamin" may be found in Series V, subseries B, photo albums.]

Scope and Contents:

A diary typed by the young Chinese art scholar Benjamin March from June 1925 to March 1926 describing his life in China. Events include March's marriage to the author Dorothy Rowe (1898-1969) in Nanjing, their honeymoon in Hangzhou and Suzhou, and their subsequent life in Beijing. March describes hikes through scenic areas in Hangzhou and Beijing; his acquaintance with scholars such as John Calvin Ferguson and Alan Priest; attending performances by Ruth St. Denis and Mei Lanfang, and his work at Yenching University.

The Memoirs of Ma

Biographical / Historical:

East Asian art historian, curator and lecturer, Benjamin Franklin March Jr., was born in Chicago on July 4, 1899 to Benjamin and Isabel March. He studied, lectured, and wrote in the United States and China and through his works gained respect as one of the foremost authorities on Chinese art during the 1920s and 1930s. March was East Asian art lecturer at the University of Michigan, and curator of Asian art at the Detroit Institute of Art. Although he lived only thirty-five years, Benjamin March was a respected and influential scholar of Asian art.

Local Numbers:

FSA A1995.10 2.3

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

No restrictions on use.

Topic:

Art, Asian  Search this

Art, Asian -- Research  Search this

Art, Chinese  Search this

Chinese language -- Terms and phrases  Search this

Painting, Chinese  Search this

Genre/Form:

Diaries

Collection Citation:

Benjamin March Papers, FSA.A.1995.10. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Judith March Davis, 1995

Identifier:

FSA.A1995.10, File FSA A1995.10 2.3

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Benjamin March Papers

Benjamin March Papers / Series 2: Diaries

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc36bd63e4b-4db8-4872-ac06-0002023d7c84

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a1995-10-ref40

Creator:

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2021-05-20T13:00:01.000Z

YouTube Category:

Science & Technology  Search this

Topic:

Astronomy  Search this

See more by:

cxcpub

Data Source:

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

YouTube Channel:

cxcpub

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_2_SyNqWPZJY

Published by:

Playbill, American, founded 1884  Search this

Used by:

Imperial Theatre, American, founded 1923  Search this

Subject of:

Brock Peters, American, 1927 - 2005  Search this

Gilbert Price, American, 1942 - 1991  Search this

Margaret Cowie  Search this

Jack Gwillim, British, 1909 - 2001  Search this

Leonard Jackson, American, born 1928  Search this

Ian Martin, Scottish, 1912 - 1989  Search this

Rod Perry, American, born 1941  Search this

Rosetta LeNoire, American, 1911 - 2002  Search this

Damon Evans, American, born 1949  Search this

Medium:

ink on paper

Dimensions:

H x W: 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm)

Type:

theater programs

Place used:

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Date:

1972

Topic:

African American  Search this

Actors  Search this

Broadway Theatre  Search this

Musical Theatre  Search this

Tragedy (Theatre)  Search this

Credit Line:

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kayla Deigh Owens

Object number:

2011.45.56

Restrictions & Rights:

Playbill used by permission. All rights reserved, Playbill Inc

Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification:

Memorabilia and Ephemera

Data Source:

National Museum of African American History and Culture

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5c9e7d01a-af85-4f1c-baff-ad71195db397

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmaahc_2011.45.56

Published by:

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909  Search this

Edited by:

W.E.B. Du Bois, American, 1868 - 1963  Search this

Medium:

ink on paper

Dimensions:

9 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 1/8 in. (24.8 x 17.1 x 0.3 cm)

Type:

magazines (periodicals)

Place printed:

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Date:

April 1915

Topic:

African American  Search this

Advertising  Search this

Associations and institutions  Search this

Black Press  Search this

Business  Search this

Civil Rights  Search this

Education  Search this

Literature  Search this

Mass media  Search this

Poetry  Search this

Politics  Search this

Race relations  Search this

Social life and customs  Search this

Social reform  Search this

Credit Line:

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Bobbie Ross in memory of Elizabeth Dillard

Object number:

2012.84.13

Restrictions & Rights:

Public Domain

Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification:

Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

Data Source:

National Museum of African American History and Culture

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd572b20d5d-e523-405b-9728-6a0920afe994

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmaahc_2012.84.13

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Container:

Box 17, Folder 26-34

Box 18, Folder 1-10

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1892-1917

Scope and Contents note:

See also: Allen, Horace N.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc32ed3e0e3-1419-4fdc-ac1c-e34b3b19f2e0

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref283

Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Collection Creator:

Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919  Search this

Extent:

283 Pages

Type:

Archival materials

Pages

Letters (correspondence)

Place:

Sri Lanka

Singapore

Indonesia

Egypt

Syria

Japan

Paris (France)

London (England)

Date:

1904-1908

Scope and Contents:

Letters written by Charles Lang Freer to his friend and business associate Frank Hecker (1846-1927) during multiple trips to Europe and Asia between 1904 and July of 1908. After a decade absence, Freer travelled again to Asia, taking extended tours of Egypt, Syria, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Japan. Also included are letters written from Detroit that describe the status of Freer's offer of his collection to the Smithsonian.

Arrangement:

Organized chronologically.

Local Numbers:

FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel4

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Travel  Search this

Genre/Form:

Letters (correspondence)

Collection Citation:

Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:

FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel4

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence / Hecker, Frank J., Col.

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc31be8c988-7719-4a23-854e-4c80efae4722

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-01-ref3172

Extent:

8.70 cu. ft. (9 document boxes) (7 12x17 boxes) (1 16x20 box)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Manuscripts

Date:

1846-1995

Descriptive Entry:

These records are the official minutes of the Board. They are compiled at the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian, who is also secretary to the Board, after approval by the Regents' Executive Committee and by the Regents themselves. The minutes are edited, not a verbatim account of proceedings. For reasons unknown, there are no manuscript minutes for the period from 1857 through 1890; and researchers must rely on printed minutes published in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution instead. Minutes are transferred regularly from the Secretary's Office to the Archives. Minutes less than 15 years old are closed to researchers. Indexes exist for the period from 1907 to 1946 and can be useful.

Historical Note:

The Smithsonian Institution was created by authority of an Act of Congress approved August 10, 1846. The Act entrusted direction of the Smithsonian to a body called the Establishment, composed of the President; the Vice President; the Chief Justice of the United States; the secretaries of State, War, Navy, Interior, and Agriculture; the Attorney General; and the Postmaster General. In fact, however, the Establishment last met in 1877, and control of the Smithsonian has always been exercised by its Board of Regents. The membership of the Regents consists of the Vice President and the Chief Justice of the United States; three members each of the Senate and House of Representatives; two citizens of the District of Columbia; and seven citizens of the several states, no two from the same state. (Prior to 1970 the category of Citizen Regents not residents of Washington consisted of four members). By custom the Chief Justice is Chancellor. The office was at first held by the Vice President. However, when Millard Fillmore succeeded to the presidency on the death of Zachary Taylor in 1851, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney was chosen in his stead. The office has always been filled by the Chief Justice since that time.

The Regents of the Smithsonian have included distinguished Americans from many walks of life. Ex officio members (Vice President) have been: Spiro T. Agnew, Chester A. Arthur, Allen W. Barkley, John C. Breckenridge, George Bush, Schuyler Colfax, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Curtis, George M. Dallas, Charles G. Dawes, Charles W. Fairbanks, Millard Fillmore, Gerald R. Ford, John N. Garner, Hannibal Hamlin, Thomas A. Hendricks, Garret A. Hobart, Hubert H. Humphrey, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, William R. King, Thomas R. Marshall, Walter F. Mondale, Levi P. Morton, Richard M. Nixon, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, James S. Sherman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, Henry A. Wallace, William A. Wheeler, Henry Wilson.

Ex officio members (Chief Justice) have been: Roger B. Taney, Salmon P. Chase, Nathan Clifford, Morrison R. Waite, Samuel F. Miller, Melville W. Fuller, Edward D. White, William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan F. Stone, Fred M. Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren E. Burger.

Regents on the part of the Senate have been: Clinton P. Anderson, Newton Booth, Sidney Breese, Lewis Cass, Robert Milledge Charlton, Bennet Champ Clark, Francis M. Cockrell, Shelby Moore Cullom, Garrett Davis, Jefferson Davis, George Franklin Edmunds, George Evans, Edwin J. Garn, Walter F. George, Barry Goldwater, George Gray, Hannibal Hamlin, Nathaniel Peter Hill, George Frisbie Hoar, Henry French Hollis, Henry M. Jackson, William Lindsay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Medill McCormick, James Murray Mason, Samuel Bell Maxey, Robert B. Morgan, Frank E. Moss, Claiborne Pell, George Wharton Pepper, David A. Reed, Leverett Saltonstall, Hugh Scott, Alexander H. Smith, Robert A. Taft, Lyman Trumbull, Wallace H. White, Jr., Robert Enoch Withers.

Regents on the part of the House of Representatives have included: Edward P. Boland, Frank T. Bow, William Campbell Breckenridge, Overton Brooks, Benjamin Butterworth, Clarence Cannon, Lucius Cartrell, Hiester Clymer, William Colcock, William P. Cole, Jr., Maurice Connolly, Silvio O. Conte, Edward E. Cox, Edward H. Crump, John Dalzell, Nathaniel Deering, Hugh A. Dinsmore, William English, John Farnsworth, Scott Ferris, Graham Fitch, James Garfield, Charles L. Gifford, T. Alan Goldsborough, Frank L. Greene, Gerry Hazleton, Benjamin Hill, Henry Hilliard, Ebenezer Hoar, William Hough, William M. Howard, Albert Johnson, Leroy Johnson, Joseph Johnston, Michael Kirwan, James T. Lloyd, Robert Luce, Robert McClelland, Samuel K. McConnell, Jr., George H. Mahon, George McCrary, Edward McPherson, James R. Mann, George Perkins Marsh, Norman Y. Mineta, A. J. Monteague, R. Walton Moore, Walter H. Newton, Robert Dale Owen, James Patterson, William Phelps, Luke Poland, John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn, B. Carroll Reece, Ernest W. Roberts, Otho Robards Singleton, Frank Thompson, Jr., John M. Vorys, Hiram Warner, Joseph Wheeler.

Citizen Regents have been: David C. Acheson, Louis Agassiz, James B. Angell, Anne L. Armstrong, William Backhouse Astor, J. Paul Austin, Alexander Dallas Bache, George Edmund Badger, George Bancroft, Alexander Graham Bell, James Gabriel Berrett, John McPherson Berrien, Robert W. Bingham, Sayles Jenks Bowen, William G. Bowen, Robert S. Brookings, John Nicholas Brown, William A. M. Burden, Vannevar Bush, Charles F. Choate, Jr., Rufus Choate, Arthur H. Compton, Henry David Cooke, Henry Coppee, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Edward H. Crump, James Dwight Dana, Harvey N. Davis, William Lewis Dayton, Everette Lee Degolyer, Richard Delafield, Frederic A. Delano, Charles Devens, Matthew Gault Emery, Cornelius Conway Felton, Robert V. Fleming, Murray Gell-Mann, Robert F. Goheen, Asa Gray, George Gray, Crawford Hallock Greenwalt, Nancy Hanks, Caryl Parker Haskins, Gideon Hawley, John B. Henderson, John B. Henderson, Jr., A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Gardner Greene Hubbard, Charles Evans Hughes, Carlisle H. Humelsine, Jerome C. Hunsaker, William Preston Johnston, Irwin B. Laughlin, Walter Lenox, Augustus P. Loring, John Maclean, William Beans Magruder, John Walker Maury, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, John C. Merriam, R. Walton Moore, Roland S. Morris, Dwight W. Morrow, Richard Olney, Peter Parker, Noah Porter, William Campbell Preston, Owen Josephus Roberts, Richard Rush, William Winston Seaton, Alexander Roby Shepherd, William Tecumseh Sherman, Otho Robards Singleton, Joseph Gilbert Totten, John Thomas Towers, Frederic C. Walcott, Richard Wallach, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., James E. Webb, James Clarke Welling, Andrew Dickson White, Henry White, Theodore Dwight Woolsey.

Topic:

Museums -- Administration  Search this

Museum trustees  Search this

Genre/Form:

Manuscripts

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 1, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes

Identifier:

Record Unit 1

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Minutes

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-faru0001

Author:

Chermayeff & Geismar  Search this

Chermayeff, Ivan  Search this

Geismar, Thomas H. 1932-  Search this

Kenedi, Aaron  Search this

Subject:

Chermayeff & Geismar  Search this

Physical description:

250 pages chiefly color illustrations 28 cm

Type:

Catalogs

Case studies

Date:

2011

Topic:

Trademarks--Design  Search this

Logos (Symbols)--Design  Search this

Corporate image--Design  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1153979