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Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records

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Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records

Featured Document

Leo Castelli in a room of the Jasper Johns exhibit at the Castelli Gallery, 1958

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Dorothea Tanning postcard to Joseph Cornell, 1965 Sep. 21

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Announcing the Opening of Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art Exhibition Records

Collection is now fully accessible to researchers, including a detailed finding aid and digitized portions.

2012 Graduate Research Essay Prize

$1000 to be awarded to compelling original research using the resources of the Archives of American Art as primary evidence.

The Archives of American Art Presents “Words cannot express, Death in the Archives”

On display in Washington, D.C. until Dec. 31 in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery at the Smithsonian’s Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.