Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Upcoming Exhibition: Little Black Books: Address Books from the Archives of American Art

August 7–November 1, 2015

Women in design poster, 1975. Woman's Building records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

The Woman's Building Records

Featured Collection: Woman's Building records, 1970-1992

Ivan C. Karp papers and OK Harris Works of Art gallery records

Featured collection: Ivan C. Karp papers and OK Harris Works of Art gallery records, 1960-2014

With over 20 million items in its continually growing collections, the Archives is the world’s largest and most widely used resource dedicated to collecting and preserving the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America.

News

“Little Black Books: Address Books from the Archives of American Art” Reveals Artists’ Personal and Professional Connections

Exhibition Will Be on View August 7– November 1, 2015

Tanya Sheehan to serve as guest editor of the Archives of American Art Journal for 2016

Dr. Sheehan is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Colby College, where she teaches American and African American art history. She is the author of Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (2011), editor of Photography, History, Difference (2014), and co-editor of Photography and Its Origins (2015).

The Archives of American Art announces two free programs with artist Aram Han Sifuentes

Artist Aram Han Sifuentes will lead a discussion and a workshop in conjunction with the Archives of American Art’s current exhibition, Artist Teacher Organizer: Yasuo Kuniyoshi in the Archives of American Art.