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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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    New Issue of the Journal

    Cover, 50th Anniversary Issue

    Celebrating Fifty Years of the Archives of American Art Journal

    Now Showing in DC

    Detail from Journal 98, 2002 to 2003. Janice Lowry papers, 1957-2008. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

    Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Archives of American Art

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    Now Showing in NYC

    Exhibition marks Kraushaar Galleries’ 125th Anniversary
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    Save the Date: Annual Benefit October 28

    Join us for a salute to Mark di Suvero, Sheila Hicks, Don and Mera Rubell, and William H. Gerdts
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    Artist Ding Ren Performs in Lists Exhibition

    “Observations with a Typewriter” in DC
    held on August 20
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