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    Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America.


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    Acquisition Highlight

    Detail from Journal 101, 11 June through 1 Sept. 2003, Janice Lowry papers, 1957-2008. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

    Acquisition Highlight: Janice Lowry Illustrated Journals

    November is American Indian Heritage Month

    Portrait of Mamie Deschillie by Chuck Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Rosenak research material, ca. 1987-1998, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

    Portrait of Navajo folk artist Mamie Deschillie by Chuck Rosenak

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    Oral history interview with Chuck and Jan Rosenak about their involvement with the American folk art world



    Annual Benefit October 29

    The Archives saluted Richard Artschwager, Douglas S. Cramer, Jack Lenor Larsen and Klaus Kertess in NYC
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