TABLE OF CONTENTSSeries Descriptions/Container Listing Board of Trustees, circa 1895-1968 Administrative Records, 1910-1966 Miscellaneous Files, 1926-1962, undated |
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Collection Overview | ||
| Creator: | American Federation of Arts | |
| Title: | American Federation of Arts records | |
| Dates: | 1895-1993 (bulk 1909-1969) | |
| Abstract: | The records of the American Federation of Arts (AFA) provide researchers with a complete set of documentation focusing on the founding and history of the organization from its inception through the 1960s. The collection measures 78.6 linear feet, and dates from 1895 through 1993, although the bulk of the material falls between 1909 and 1969. Valuable for its coverage of twentieth-century American art history, the collection also provides researchers with fairly comprehensive documentation of the many exhibitions and programs supported and implemented by the AFA to promote and study contemporary American art, both nationally and abroad. | |
| Extent: | 78.6 linear feet | |
The records of the American Federation of Arts (AFA) were donated to the Archives of American Art (AAA) over a thirteen-year period, with the bulk of the material arriving between 1964 and 1966. In 1979, Preston Bolton donated his letters and those from John de Menil, Ann Drevet, Lee Malone, and others regarding planning for the 1957 AFA annual convention held in Houston, Texas; convention committee minutes from 1956; and AFA newsletters. This material, as well as a 1979 gift from Louise Ferrari of transcripts from a panel discussion from the 1957 AFA convention in Houston, was microfilmed on AAA Reel 1780. All material previously microfilmed on Reel 1780 has been fully integrated into the collection and arranged within proper series and subseries. The provenance of the 1990-1993 printed material is unknown.
The collection was processed and the finding aid written by Wendy B. Bruton and Barbara D. Aikens in 2000 with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. The finding aid was modified during EAD conversion by Stephanie Ashley in 2002.
American Federation of Arts records, 1895-1993 (bulk 1909-1969). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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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.
The name of organization records are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
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Index Terms | ||
| This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Archives of American Art under the following index terms. People, families and organizations are listed under "Names" when they are creators or contributors and under "Subjects" when they are the topic of collection contents. | ||
| Subjects: | ||
| Adams, Ansel, 1902- | ||
| Albers, Anni | ||
| Albers, Josef | ||
| Albert, Calvin, 1918- | ||
| Altman, Harold, 1924- | ||
| Antreasian, Garo Z., 1922- | ||
| Arp, Jean, 1887-1966 | ||
| Avery, Milton, 1885-1965 | ||
| Barnet, Will, 1911- | ||
| Baskin, Leonard, 1922- | ||
| Baziotes, William, 1912-1963 | ||
| Bellows, George, 1882-1925 | ||
| Berman, Eugene, 1899- | ||
| Bertoia, Harry | ||
| Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879 | ||
| Bishop, Isabel, 1902- | ||
| Blume, Peter, 1906- | ||
| Braque, Georges, 1882-1963 | ||
| Breuer, Marcel, 1902- | ||
| Brooks, James, 1906- | ||
| Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967 | ||
| Callahan, Kenneth, 1905- | ||
| Casarella, Edmund, 1920- | ||
| Chagall, Marc, 1887- | ||
| Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 | ||
| Chesney, Lee, 1920- | ||
| Citron, Minna Wright, 1896-1991 | ||
| Clements, Geoffrey | ||
| Coen, Eleanor, 1916- | ||
| Conover, Robert F. (Robert Fremont), 1920- | ||
| Crawford, Ralston, 1906- | ||
| Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879 | ||
| Day, Worden, 1916-1986 | ||
| De Diego, Julio, 1900- | ||
| De Kooning, Willem, 1904- | ||
| De Rivera, José Ruiz, 1904- | ||
| Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 | ||
| Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935 | ||
| Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922- | ||
| Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946 | ||
| Dubuffet, Jean, 1901- | ||
| Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 | ||
| Eilshemius, Louis M. (Louis Michel), 1864-1941 | ||
| Ernst, Jimmy, 1920- | ||
| Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956 | ||
| Fine, Perle, 1908-1988 | ||
| Force, Juliana, 1876-1948 | ||
| Francis, Sam, 1923- | ||
| Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928- | ||
| Frasconi, Antonio | ||
| Gatch, Lee, 1902-1968 | ||
| George, Thomas, 1918- | ||
| Gonzalez, Xavier, 1898-1993 | ||
| Goodnough, Robert, 1917- | ||
| Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974 | ||
| Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828 | ||
| Graves, Morris, 1910- | ||
| Gwathmey, Robert, 1903-1988 | ||
| Hartigan, Grace | ||
| Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943 | ||
| Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935 | ||
| Hayter, Stanley William, 1901- | ||
| Heliker, John Edward, 1909-2000 | ||
| Henri, Robert, 1865-1929 | ||
| Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966 | ||
| Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967 | ||
| Jones, John Paul, 1924- | ||
| Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973 | ||
| Kahn, Max, 1904- | ||
| Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923- | ||
| Kienbusch, William, 1914-1980 | ||
| Klee, Paul, 1879-1940 | ||
| Knaths, Karl, 1891- | ||
| Kohn, Misch, 1916- | ||
| Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953 | ||
| Lawrence, Jacob, 1917- | ||
| Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 | ||
| Levine, Jack, 1915- | ||
| Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891- | ||
| Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933 | ||
| MacIver, Loren, 1909- | ||
| Margo, Boris, 1902- | ||
| Marin, John, 1870-1953 | ||
| Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954 | ||
| Meeker, Dean, 1920- | ||
| Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) | ||
| Miró, Joan, 1893- | ||
| Moller, Hans, 1905- | ||
| Moore, Henry, 1898- | ||
| Morris, George L. K., 1905- | ||
| Moy, Seong | ||
| Murch, Walter | ||
| Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988 | ||
| Nicholson, Ben, 1894- | ||
| Okada, Kenzo, 1902- | ||
| O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 | ||
| Oliveira, Nathan, 1928- | ||
| Parks, Gordon, 1912- | ||
| Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice), 1902-1971 | ||
| Perlmutter, Jack, 1920- | ||
| Peterdi, Gabor | ||
| Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 | ||
| Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956 | ||
| Porter, Fairfield | ||
| Pozzatti, Rudy, 1925- | ||
| Prendergast, Maurice Brazil, 1858-1924 | ||
| Ratkai, George | ||
| Rattner, Abraham | ||
| Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925- | ||
| Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967 | ||
| Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 | ||
| Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919 | ||
| Rivers, Larry, 1925- | ||
| Roszak, Theodore, 1907- | ||
| Rouault, Georges, 1871-1958 | ||
| Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917 | ||
| Saetti, Bruno, 1902- | ||
| Santomaso, Giuseppe | ||
| Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 | ||
| Sato, Tadashi, 1900- | ||
| Savelli, Angelo, 1911- | ||
| Schanker, Louis, 1903-1981 | ||
| Schongauer, Martin, 15th cent. | ||
| Schrag, Karl | ||
| Seligmann, Kurt, 1900-1962 | ||
| Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969 | ||
| Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965 | ||
| Sloan, John, 1871-1951 | ||
| Smith, David, 1906-1965 | ||
| Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987 | ||
| Spaeth, Eloise | ||
| Spruance, Benton, 1904-1967 | ||
| Stamos, Theodoros, 1922- | ||
| Steg, J. L., 1922- | ||
| Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973 | ||
| Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946 | ||
| Sterne, Hedda, 1916- | ||
| Sterne, Maurice, 1878-1957 | ||
| Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 | ||
| Stone, Edward Durell | ||
| Summers, Carol, 1925- | ||
| Suzuki, James | ||
| Takal, Peter, 1905- | ||
| Tamayo, Rufino, 1899- | ||
| Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957 | ||
| Thon, William, 1906- | ||
| Thrall, Arthur | ||
| Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770 | ||
| Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico, 1726?-1804 | ||
| Tobey, Mark | ||
| Tomlin, Bradley Walker, 1899-1953 | ||
| Tooker, George | ||
| Treiman, Joyce | ||
| Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 | ||
| Tworkov, Jack | ||
| Vespignani, Renzo, 1924- | ||
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | ||
| Von Wicht, John, 1888-1970 | ||
| Von Wiegand, Charmion | ||
| Wald, Sylvia, 1915- | ||
| Walkowitz, Abraham, 1880-1965 | ||
| Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972 | ||
| Weber, Max, 1881-1961 | ||
| Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919 | ||
| Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 | ||
| Whittredge, Worthington, 1820-1910 | ||
| Wines, James, 1932- | ||
| Wyeth, Andrew, 1917- | ||
| Xceron, Jean, 1890-1967 | ||
| Yunkers, Adja, 1900- | ||
| Zao, Wou-ki, 1921- | ||
| Zerbe, Karl, 1903-1972 | ||
| Zoellner, Richard | ||
| Zorach, Marguerite, 1887-1968 | ||
| Zorach, William, 1887-1966 | ||
| Subjects-Topical: | ||
| Art -- Exhibitions | ||
| Art, American | ||
| Traveling exhibitions | ||
| Types of Materials: | ||
| Administrative records | ||
| Exhibition catalogs | ||
| Lantern slides | ||
| Photographs | ||
| Sound recordings | ||
| Names: | ||
| Architectural League of New York | ||
| Force, Juliana, 1876-1948 | ||
| Mechlin, Leila, 1874-1949 | ||
| Neuberger, Roy R. | ||
| Schramm, James S. | ||
| Spaeth, Eloise | ||
| Whiting, Frederic Allen, 1873-1959 | ||
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Researchers may wish to conduct SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research and Information System) searches on individual names, as the Archives of American Art holds the personal papers of several of the artists represented in the American Federation of Arts records.
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Founded in 1909 by Elihu Root, the American Federation of Arts (AFA) exists today as a national nonprofit museum service organization striving to unite American art institutions, collectors, artists, and museums. Elihu Root, then secretary of state in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, spoke of his idea at the first meeting of the AFA held in New York at the National Academy of Arts. He envisioned an organization that would promote American art most often seen only by the elite in the major cities of the East and upper Midwest by sending "exhibitions of original works of art on tour through the hinterlands across the United States."
The American Academy in Rome, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Metropolitan Museum of Art were influential organizing member institutions. Individual members included such notables as William Merritt Chase, Charles L. Freer, Daniel C. French, Charles L. Hutchinson, Henry Cabot Lodge, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Walters. The founding of the AFA provided the American art world with a forum for communication and participation among artists, cultural institutions, patrons of the arts, and the public.
To accomplish its mission, the AFA established volunteer committees for membership, exhibitions, and publications. During its first year, the AFA began publishing Art and Progress (later changed to Magazine of Art) and the American Art Annual (now the American Art Directory). In 1909, the AFA also organized its first traveling exhibition, Paintings by Prominent American Artists, which was shown at museums in Fort Worth, New Orleans, Minneapolis, and New Ulm, Minnesota.
By the end of the first year, the headquarters of the organization moved to Washington, D.C., to facilitate lobbying the federal government for favorable art legislation. In 1913, the AFA lobbied successfully for the removal of the tariff on foreign art entering the United States. In 1916, the Federation met with the Interstate Commerce Commission to protest prohibitively high interstate taxes on traveling art exhibitions.
Throughout the next fifteen years, the AFA continued to grow in membership and influence. By 1919, membership included 438 institutions and 2,900 individuals. The AFA's annual conventions were held in major national art centers and were attended by members, chapter delegates, and the public. At the conventions, scholars, patrons, and curators lectured on and discussed subjects of national interest, thereby fostering an exchange of ideas. The AFA also sponsored periodic regional conferences to promote institutional cooperation and to discuss mutual problems and needs. To facilitate exhibition venues west of the Mississippi River, in 1921 the AFA opened regional offices at the University of Nebraska and at Stanford University. The AFA produced and circulated slide programs and lecture series to museums and educational institutions that fostered art education. By 1929, the Federation had developed forty-six slide-lecture programs that covered American mural painting, European and American contemporary art, and textiles.
During the 1930s, the Federation expanded its services by providing schools with teaching guides, student workbooks, slides, and films about art. In 1935, the AFA began publishing Who's Who in American Art, later publishing The Official Directory of Illustrators and Advertising Artists and Films on Art reference guides. To reach an even larger audience, the AFA began collaborating with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to organize national circulating exhibitions to "bring the museum to the people."
One of AFA's priorities was to make American art more visible abroad. The Federation focused on encouraging the representation of American artists in foreign exhibitions, and in 1924 it lobbied successfully for additional American participation in the Venice Biennale. The AFA's focus on exhibiting American art abroad continued to expand, particularly following World War II. In 1950, recognizing that the AFA could assist in promoting American culture, the State Department awarded the AFA a grant for a German "re-orientation program" consisting of educational exhibitions shown in German museums. Additional government funding further enabled the AFA to organize American participation in exhibitions in India, Japan, Paris, Switzerland, and Rotterdam between 1950 and 1970. Later, the AFA collaborated with the United States Information Agency (USIA) to create the Overseas Museum Donor Program which permitted donations of American art to foreign institutions on a restriction-free, tax-deductible basis. During the 1950s, the AFA was a very active member of the Committee on Government and Art, a national committee with members from across the art and museum world concerned with government sponsorship of and legislation affecting art sales, commissions, and trade.
In 1952, the headquarters of the AFA returned to New York, sparking a period of innovation and expanded of programs. Throughout the 1950s, the AFA distributed films about art and co-sponsored the Films on Art Festival in Woodstock, New York. The AFA also introduced its Picture of the Month Program in 1954, renting original works of art to small American art and educational institutions. In 1956, the AFA organized the Art Collectors Club of America to provide fellowship for art collectors through meetings and activities. The club disbanded in the 1970s.
The Federation's exhibition programs continued to flourish during the 1950s and 1960s. Private and public financial support allowed the AFA to achieve many of its goals. In 1958, the Ford Foundation awarded an important grant to organize a series of traveling one-person shows and a series of monographs devoted to contemporary American artists. Milton Avery, Andrew Dasburg, José DeCreeft, Lee Gatch, Walter Quirt, Abraham Rattner, and others were among the artists who participated. Private foundation support for the AFA's Museum Donor Program provided an annual allowance that was distributed to regional museums for the pourchase of contemporary American art. Cooperative programs and joint venues also became popular during this period. For example, public support from the New York State Council on the Arts allowed the AFA to circulate exhibitions to small New York State communities, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts provided the AFA with five exhibitions for national tours.
Throughout its history, the American Federation of Arts has concentrated on its founding principle of broadening the audience for contemporary American art. Through its numerous exhibition and film programs, the AFA has succeeded in "breaking down barriers of distance and language to broaden the knowledge and appreciation of art." Annual exhibitions such as New Talent in the USA and Art Schools USA, organized by the AFA, brought before the public the most contemporary American artists and craftspeople, genres, and artistic forms of experimentation, exposing viewers to new ways of thinking and expression. In 1965, AFA produced The Curriculum in Visual Education, a series of films created to heighten the aesthetic awareness of children.
A vital part of American art history, the AFA was one of the first organizations to develop successfully the concept of traveling art exhibitions on a national and international level. The AFA was instrumental in assisting museums with circulating important juried exhibitions of contemporary art, such as the Whitney Annual and Corcoran Biennial. The AFA also recognized the importance of the exchange of cultural ideas, and it brought exhibitions of the European masters to the American public as well as exhibitions focusing on foreign contempoorary art, photography, and architecture. Many organizations and museums have followed the AFA's precedent, and traveling national and international venues are now commonplace.
Since 1909, women have served as officers and members of the Board of Trustees. Leila Mechlin was a founding participant and served as secretary from 1909 to 1933. Juliana R. Force and Eloise Spaeth both chaired the Exhibition Committee in the late 1940s. Women and artists of diverse backgrounds and nationalities were widely represented in the AFA's exhibition programs, most notably during the 1960s. In 1960, the AFA organized, with financial support from the Ford Foundation, a major Jacob Lawrence retrospective. Additional culturally diverse exhibitions included Contemporary Jewish Ceremonial Art (1961), The Heart of India (1962), 1,000 Years of American Indian Art (1963), and Ten Negro Artists from the United States (1966).
The AFA also had an impact on patronage in the arts. AFA exhibitions of contemporary art provided collectors with knowledge of new artists and avant-garde art forms, creating a broader demand and market for this type of work. Museums and collectors began purchasing work by new or obscure American artists whom they learned about through AFA exhibitions and programs.
The historical records of the American Federation of Arts offer the researcher a unique opportunity to study the development of American art and artists in the twentieth century as well as providing insight into trends in American culture.
| Date | Event | |
| 1909 | Founded in New York City. Began publishing Art and Progress (later retitled Magazine of Art) and the American Art Annual. | |
| 1910 | Moved headquarters to Washington, D.C. | |
| 1913 | Lobbied successfully for the removal of the tariff on art entering the United States. | |
| 1915-1916 | Lobbied successfully against the Cummins Amendment and the Interstate Commerce Commission's prohibitively high interstate tax on traveling art. | |
| 1920 | Organized a lobbying campaign for the development of a national gallery of art at its national convention. | |
| 1921 | Opened two new offices at the University of Nebraska and at Stanford University. | |
| 1924 | Arranged American participation in the Venice Biennale exhibition. | |
| 1927 | Closed office at Stanford University. | |
| 1929 | Organized American participation in exhibitions in France and Germany. | |
| 1933 | Closed office at the University of Nebraska. | |
| 1935 | Began publishing Who's Who in American Art. | |
| 1948 | Published The Official Directory of Illustrators and Advertising Artists. | |
| 1949 | Collaborated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to circulate exhibitions from its collections. | |
| 1950 | Participated in the U.S. government's German re-orientation program. | |
| 1951 | Joined forces with the United States Information Agency (USIA) to create the Overseas Museum Donor Program. Published the reference guide Films on Art. Co-sponsored the Films on Art Festival in Woodstock, New York, through 1957. | |
| 1952 | Moved headquarters to New York City. | |
| 1953 | Magazine of Art liquidated. | |
| 1954 | Introduced the Picture of the Month Program. | |
| 1956 | Founded the Art Collectors Club of America. | |
| 1958 | Received a Ford Foundation grant to finance a series of one-person shows of contemporary American artists. | |
| 1960 | Created the Museum Donor Program. | |
| 1961 | Received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to circulate exhibitions to small New York state communities. | |
| 1963 | Received a grant from the Ford Foundation for the Artists in Residence program. | |
| 1964 | Introduced the List Art Poster Program. | |
| 1965 | Produced The Curriculum in Visual Education, a series of films that attempted to heighten the aesthetic awareness of children. |
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The records of the American Federation of Arts (AFA) provide researchers with a complete set of documentation focusing on the founding and history of the organization from its inception through the 1960s. The collection measures 78.6 linear feet, and dates from 1895 through 1993, although the bulk of the material falls between 1909 and 1969. Valuable for its coverage of twentieth-century American art history, the collection also provides researchers with fairly comprehensive documentation of the many exhibitions and programs supported and implemented by the AFA to promote and study contemporary American art, both nationally and abroad.
The earliest documentation from 1895 to 1909 concerns the organization's history and founding and is located in Series 1: Board of Trustees. Also found in this series are meeting minutes, 1909-1963 and 1968. Interfiled with the board meeting minutes are minutes of the executive committee and other special and ad hoc committees, reports to the board, financial statements and reports, and lists of committee appointments and board membership. This series also contains the scattered correspondence and subject files of various officers. Although not a complete set of officers' files, Presidents' Frederick Allen. Whiting (1931-1936), Lawrence M.C. Smith (1948-1952), Thomas Brown Rudd (1952-1954), Daniel Longwell (1954-1956), James S. Schramm (1956-1958), and Roy R. Neuberger (1958-1961) are represented. Leila Mechlin served on AFA's board as secretary from its founding to 1929, and her files are a particularly rich resource for AFA's activities during its early years. Lawrence M.C. Smith's files documenting his years as board treasurer are also arranged in this series. Additional officers' correspondence is interspersed throughout the Alphabetical Files and other series.
General information about the scope of AFA's programs, affiliations, founding, functions, and proceedings are arranged in Series 2: Administrative Records. The first subseries, Alphabetical Files, houses a wide variety of subject files that contain memoranda, correspondence, printed materials, lists, reports, and other papers. These files document the AFA's general history and founding, organizational affiliations, buildings and moves, grants, federal and state government art programs, auctions and other fund-raising efforts, publicity and public relations, publications, and fiftieth anniversary celebration. The subject headings by which these files are arranged are, for the most part, the ones designated by the AFA. The second subseries, Staff Records, houses the scattered files of AFA's director, assistant director, registrar, and special state representative, Robert Luck.
During its most active period, the AFA sponsored or participated in several special programs and Series 3: Special Programs houses the files that document many of them. The first subseries consists of the files for the Artists in Residence program that was funded by the Ford Foundation. Awarded in 1963, the grant sponsored short-term teaching residencies for artists in museums throughout the United States. The host museums were encouraged to hold exhibitions of the artists' works. This subseries contains both the general files of the program, as well as individual files on the participating artists. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the AFA and the Ford Foundation also sponsored additional programs for artists, including Grants in Aid, Purchase Awards, and the Retrospective Exhibitions Program. The files documenting these three programs are also arranged in Series 3, under the subseries Ford Foundation Program for Visual Artists. In the late 1950s, the AFA implemented the Museum Donor Program with benefactors and philanthropists Audrey Bruce Currier and Stephen Richard Currier. Through the administration of the AFA, the Curriers donated funds to selected institutions specifically for the purchase of contemporary American art. The Curriers preferred to remain anonymous throughout the program. Files documenting this program include correspondence, applications from the accepted institutions, rejections, a summary report, and clippings about the untimely deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Currier in 1967.
Also found in Series 3 are the files documenting AFAs working relationship with the first state arts council, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). In 1961, AFA and NYSCA implemented a traveling exhibition program in New York State. Found here are files for possible itineraries, proposals, publicity, loans, budgets, and the actual exhibition files. Additional AFA special programs documented in Series 3 include the Picture of the Month program of the mid-1950s and the Jean Tennyson Foundation Color Slide Lecture Program.
AFA Annual Convention files constitute Series 4. Beginning with the Third Annual Convention in 1912 and continuing through the 1963 Annual Convention, the files contain official proceedings, speeches, programs, clippings, correspondence, and press releases. Files are missing for 1913, 1915, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1931, 1936-1949, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1960, and 1962. There are also audio recordings in the form of reel-to-reel tapes for the 1951 Annual Convention.
Series 5: Exhibition Files forms the bulk of the collection at circa 62 linear feet and is arranged into twenty subseries. The first subseries, Exhibitions, General, houses primarily the records of the Board of Trustees Exhibition Committee and documents the AFA's earliest involvement with traveling exhibitions. These files contain reports, budgets, correspondence, memoranda, scattered exhibition catalogs, and photographs. They are primarily the files of the chair of the Exhibition Committee and include the files of Juliana R. Force, Eloise Spaeth, and Mrs. John Pope. Also found in this series is a subseries of Mrs. John Pope's records documenting circulating exhibitions from 1934 to 1955, arranged by state.
The remaining nineteen subseries of the Exhibition Files reflect either specific exhibition programs, many of which have unique numbers assigned by AFA to individual exhibitions, or other exhibition-related files, such rejected, canceled, and suggested exhibitions and miscellaneous installation photographs. The Annual Exhibitions files constitute the largest of the subseries and are numbered according to the system assigned by AFA, following a typical chronological order. Although the documentation for each exhibition varies widely by both type and amount, most of the files contain contracts and legal agreements, correspondence, memoranda, itinerary information, condition reports, publicity materials, catalogs, announcements, price lists, and other such information arranged into one or more files. The files were labeled "documentation files," "dispersal files," "report form files," "loan agreement files," and "publicity files" according to the filing system devised by AFA. Many of the files also house a significant amount of correspondence with museum officials, lenders, and artists.
Additional subseries document AFA's exhibition venues and partnerships with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the New York State Council on the [UNK] Life magazine, and Addison Gallery. A complete list of all of the subseries, including specific exhibition programs, follows in the Series Outline.
The final three series of the collection are small: Printed Material, Miscellaneous Files, and Oversized Material. The printed material was donated much later to the Archives and dates from 1990 to 1993. Found here are scattered press releases, annual reports, and an exhibition program. Miscellaneous Files contain scattered records, 1926-1962, of the Architectural League of New York relating to national award programs. It is not clear why this small group of Architectural League records was found mixed with the AFA records but perhaps the collaboration between the two organizations on several special projects provides an explanation. Also found in Miscellaneous Files is a group of black and white lantern slides from a lecture series, "New Horizons in America." Oversized Material includes a portfolio, a work of art, and posters.
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Arrangement | ||
The collection is arranged into eight primary series based primarily on administrative units or program areas. Several of the series are further subdivided into subseries. While processing, it became clear that the two filing systems were redundant and overlapped in both subject area and type of material. Most of these files were subsequently merged into the now broader Alphabetical Files or into separate series. Oversized material may be found at the end of the collection arranged in a separate series. | ||
In most cases, files related to one another by subseries or subject areas (in the case of the Alphabetical Files) or by individual name (in the case of officers and staff files) are arranged in chronological order. The entire subseries of Alphabetical Files in Series 2 is arranged by subject heading, as assigned by the AFA, or individual name. The Alphabetical Files originally formed two broad filing systems as established by the AFA: one for general correspondence arranged by subject; and one for director's and other staff correspondence, also arranged by subject. | ||
| Series 1: Board of Trustees, circa 1895-1968 (Boxes 1-3) | ||
| Series 2: Administrative Records, 1910-1966 (Boxes 4-8) | ||
| Series 3: Special Programs, 1950-1967 (Boxes 9-13) | ||
| Series 4: Annual Conventions, 1912-1963 (Boxes 14-16) | ||
| Series 5: Exhibition Files, 1934-1969 (Boxes 17-78) | ||
| Series 6: Printed Material, 1990-1993 (Box 78) | ||
| Series 7: Miscellaneous Files, 1926-1962, undated (Box 79) | ||
| Series 8: Oversized Materials, 1890, undated (OV Folders) | ||
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Series 1: Board of Trustees, circa 1895-1968 (boxes 1-3) |
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The series is organized into three subseries. |
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| 1.1: Constitution and By-Laws, circa 1895, 1913, 1952-1959 | |||||||||
| 1.2: Meeting Minutes, 1909-1963, 1968 | |||||||||
| 1.3: Officers' Correspondence Files, 1904-1961 | |||||||||
1.1: Constitution and By-Laws, circa 1895, 1913, 1952-1959 |
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| 1 | Constitution and By-Laws, circa 1895, 1913, 1952-1959 | ||||||||
1.2: Meeting Minutes, 1909-1963, 1968 |
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| 1 | Executive Committee, 1909-1912, 1962, 1964-1965 | ||||||||
| Board of Directors, 1911-1963, 1968 | |||||||||
1.3: Officers' Correspondence Files, 1904-1961 |
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| 2 | President Frederic Allen Whiting's Files, 1931-1936 | ||||||||
| President Lawrence M.C. Smith's Files, 1948-1954 | |||||||||
| President Thomas Brown Rudd Files, 1953-1955 | |||||||||
| President Daniel Longwell Files, 1954-1956 | |||||||||
| President James S. Schramm Files, 1956-1957 | |||||||||
| President Roy R. Neuberger Files, 1957-1961 | |||||||||
| Vice President Richard F. Bach Files, 1948, 1951-1957 | |||||||||
| Secretary Leila Mechlin's Files, 1904-1929 | |||||||||
| Carnegie Corporation, 1919-1929 | |||||||||
| Clippings, 1904, 1917-1920 | |||||||||
| Conventions, 1920-1921 | |||||||||
| General Correspondence, 1920-1925 | |||||||||
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| 3 | Cummins Ammendment, 1915 | ||||||||
| Directors' Meetings, 1916-1927 | |||||||||
| War Memorials, 1915-1922 | |||||||||
| Assistant Secretary Frances M. Henderson's Files, 1935-1936 | |||||||||
| Treasurer Lawrence M.C. Smith's Files, 1938-1948 | |||||||||
Series 2: Administrative Records, 1910-1966 (boxes 4-8) |
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The series is organized into two subseries: | |||||||||
| 2.1: Alphabetical Files, 1910-1966 | |||||||||
| 2.2: Staff Records, 1927-1966 | |||||||||
2.1: Alphabetical Files, 1910-1966 |
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| 4 | Adler Lecture Tour, 1954 | ||||||||
| American Committee for the Restoration of Italian Monuments, Inc., 1946-1948 | |||||||||
| American Federation of Arts, Background Information, 1942-1955 | |||||||||
| American Federation of Arts, Building Fund, 1960-1963 | |||||||||
| American Federation of Arts, General, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| American Federation of Arts, National Headquarters, 1947 | |||||||||
| American Federation of Arts, Washington Property, 1954-1959 | |||||||||
| American Federation of Arts, Chapters, 1953 | |||||||||
| American Federation of Arts, Histories, 1959, undated | |||||||||
| American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1947-1951 | |||||||||
| Art Dealers Association of America, Inc., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Art Digest, 1945-1953 | |||||||||
| Art in the Embassies Program, 1964-1967 | |||||||||
| Art Magazines and Publications (not AFA), 1956-1959 | |||||||||
| Art Resources Services Center, 1958 | |||||||||
| Auction Files, Correspondence, 1961-1964 | |||||||||
| Benefits, 1952-1961 | |||||||||
| Black List, 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Book Sales and Service (Florence S. Berryman), 1951-1955 | |||||||||
| Budget and Finance, General, 1941-1956 | |||||||||
| Carnegie Corporation, 1935-1958 | |||||||||
| Catalog Distribution Plan, 1959 | |||||||||
| Collectors' Club, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| College Art Association, 1952-1959 | |||||||||
| Columbia University | |||||||||
| Community Art Associations, 1954-1956 | |||||||||
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| 5 | Conferences, Regional, Denver, 1928 | ||||||||
| Conferences, Regional, Buffalo, 1953 | |||||||||
| Conferences, Regional, Cleveland, 1953 | |||||||||
| Conferences, Regional, Indianapolis, 1953 | |||||||||
| Conferences, Regional, Chicago, 1954 | |||||||||
| Conferences, Regional, Newark, 1954 | |||||||||
| Contributions, Correspondence, 1951-1954 | |||||||||
| Contributions, Monthly Breakdowns, 1958-1963 | |||||||||
| Contributions, Pledge Sheet, 1953 | |||||||||
| Contributions, Thank You Letters, 1961-1964 | |||||||||
| Contributions, Trustees, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Cooper Union Museum, 1963 | |||||||||
| Corning Glass Center, 1952-1954 | |||||||||
| Corporate Solicitations, 1956-1957 | |||||||||
| The Cultural Development Fund, 1951 | |||||||||
| D, General, 1955-1959 | |||||||||
| Dealers' Advisory Committee Project, 1960 | |||||||||
| De Young Museum, San Francisco, 1966 | |||||||||
| F, General, 1953-1965 | |||||||||
| 50th Anniversary, 1959 | |||||||||
| Award Citations, 1959 | |||||||||
| Awards, 1959 | |||||||||
| Casebook, 1959 | |||||||||
| Casebook Statements from Small Museum Directors, 1957-1959 | |||||||||
| Committee Acceptances, 1959 | |||||||||
| Philadelphia Reception, 1959 | |||||||||
| Utica Celebration, 1959 | |||||||||
| Film Festival, 1957, 1963 | |||||||||
| Films on Art, 1952-1956 | |||||||||
| Fund for the Republic, 1956 | |||||||||
| Glick & Lorwin, Inc., First and Second Annual Displays of Free and Inexpensive Teaching Aids, 1955-1956 | |||||||||
| Government and Art, Committee on, 1950-1962 | |||||||||
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| 6 | Edith Gregor Halpert Foundation | ||||||||
| Award for Critical Writing, 1952-1955, 1965, undated | |||||||||
| Correspondence, General, 1951-1960 | |||||||||
| Survey of Contemporary American Art, 1953-1955 | |||||||||
| Holmes Report, 1956-1958 | |||||||||
| Institute of International Education, 1954-1958 | |||||||||
| International Art Exchange Program, 1958-1960 | |||||||||
| Job Applications, 1952-1960 | |||||||||
| Joint Artists-Museums Committee, 1955-1957 | |||||||||
| Joint Committee on Educational Television, 1951-1953 | |||||||||
| Joint Committee on the National Capital, 1955-1961 | |||||||||
| K-L, General, 1957-1961 | |||||||||
| Latin American Project, 1958 | |||||||||
| Life, New Reproduction Process, 1956 | |||||||||
| Lilly Endowment, Inc., 1953-1954 | |||||||||
| Los Angeles County Art Museum, Director's Resignation, 1965 | |||||||||
| Magazine of Art, 1949-1953 | |||||||||
| M, General, 1954-1962 | |||||||||
| Membership and Development, 1952-1962 | |||||||||
| Morley, Grace L. McCann, 1951-1962 | |||||||||
| Moscow Show, 1959 | |||||||||
| National Sculpture Society, 1952 | |||||||||
| P, General, 1952-1958 | |||||||||
| Peck and Peck, 1953 | |||||||||
| Personnel (including director search), 1955-1956 | |||||||||
| Public Relations, 1957-1961 | |||||||||
| Publications (AFA), 1939-1966, undated | |||||||||
| Publicity, A and B Lists, 1960-1961 | |||||||||
| Publicity, Clippings, 1950-1966 | |||||||||
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| 7 | Publicity, Correspondence, 1955-1960 | ||||||||
| Publicity, Magazine Article "Art in Your Life," undated | |||||||||
| Publicity, Photographs, 1954-1955, undated | |||||||||
| Publicity, Press Releases, 1953-1958, undated | |||||||||
| Publicity, Special, 1953 | |||||||||
| Publicity, Trustee Officers and Staff, 1956-1963 | |||||||||
| R, General, 1954-1959 | |||||||||
| Refregier Murals, 1953 | |||||||||
| Ruder and Finn, 1953-1956, undated | |||||||||
| S, General, 1957-1961 | |||||||||
| Show Magazine Opening, 1962 | |||||||||
| State Sponsored Art Programs, Survey and Analysis, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| State Sponsored Art Programs, Correspondence, 1962-1963, 1965-1968 | |||||||||
| State Sponsored Art Programs, State Councils on the Arts, 1964-1967 | |||||||||
| Statement of Director before Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare to Fine Arts Bills, 1962 | |||||||||
| T, General, 1959-1963 | |||||||||
| Trustees, Files on Individuals | |||||||||
| Allerton, John Gregg, 1965 | |||||||||
| Avnet, Lester, 1964-1969 | |||||||||
| Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1952-1956 | |||||||||
| Belluschi, Pietro, 1954 | |||||||||
| Berkowitz, Sidney, 1952-1957 | |||||||||
| Blair, William McCormick, 1961-1964 | |||||||||
| Bliss, Robert Woods, 1951-1962 | |||||||||
| Bonner, Paul Hyde, 1953-1954 | |||||||||
| Colin, Ralph F., 1952-1956 | |||||||||
| Cowles, Russell, 1951-1953 | |||||||||
| Crosby, Sumner McK., 1951-1954 | |||||||||
| Defenbacher, Daniel S., 1951-1954 | |||||||||
| de Menil, John, 1958-1965 | |||||||||
| Fuller, Adelaide P., 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| Graves, Katharine I., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Hanna, Leonard, 1954-1958 | |||||||||
| d'Harnoncourt, René, 1951-1958 | |||||||||
| Haswell, Anthony, 1955 | |||||||||
| Hayes, Bartlett H., Jr., 1951-1964 | |||||||||
| Hope, Henry R., 1951-1960 | |||||||||
| Houghton, Arthur A., 1952-1956 | |||||||||
| Iselin, Lewis, 1966 | |||||||||
| Jarvis, Alan, 1960-1965 | |||||||||
| List, Vera G. (Mrs. Albert A.), 1959-1968 | |||||||||
| Longwell, Daniel, 1952-1954; 1956--1961 | |||||||||
| Ludgin, Earle, 1950-1954 | |||||||||
| Marcus, Stanley, 1952-1967 | |||||||||
| Maremont, Adele and Arnold, 1958-1968 | |||||||||
| Miller, Elizabeth F. (Mrs. Robert Watt), 1960-1964 | |||||||||
| Murray, William C., 1957-1964 | |||||||||
| Nagel, Charles, Jr., 1954-1966 | |||||||||
| Olsen, Fred, 1958 | |||||||||
| Palmer, Fred L., 1955-1959 | |||||||||
| Pei, I. M., 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| Rentschler, Rita (Mrs. George A.), 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Rudd, Thomas Brown, 1951-1952 | |||||||||
| Russell, Helen G. (Mrs. Henry P.), 1954-1966 | |||||||||
| Saltonstall, Nathaniel, 1965 | |||||||||
| Sawyer, Charles H., 1951-1956 | |||||||||
| Schenck, Edgar C., 1959, undated | |||||||||
| Slocum, John J., 1964 | |||||||||
| Smythe, Craig, 1954 | |||||||||
| Soby, James Thrall, 1950-1956 | |||||||||
| Stone, Edward D., 1960 | |||||||||
| Taylor, Francis Henry, 1951-1957 | |||||||||
| Tremaine, Emily Hall (Mrs. Burton G., Jr.), 1951-1953 | |||||||||
| Wintersteen, Bernice McIlhenny (Mrs. John), 1966 | |||||||||
| Zurcher, Suzette M., 1952-1962 | |||||||||
| Trustees, Memoranda to, 1951-1953 | |||||||||
| Trustees, Nominations, 1954-1960 | |||||||||
| Trustees, Photographs, undated | |||||||||
| UNESCO, 1958-1961 | |||||||||
| U.S. Government Officials, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| USIA-AFA Relations, Press Reactions, 1954-1956 | |||||||||
| W, General, 1953-1962 | |||||||||
| Woodstock Art Conference, "The Artist and the Museum," 1950 | |||||||||
2.2: Staff Records, 1927-1966 |
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| 8 | Director Alexander B. Trowbridge, Correspondence, 1927-1928 | ||||||||
| Acting Director Andrew Wright Crawford, Correspondence, 1929 | |||||||||
| Director Harris K. Prior, Correspondence, 1957-1961 | |||||||||
| Director Roy Moyer, Correspondence, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Assistant Director Robert H. Luck, Correspondence, 1967-1969 | |||||||||
| Special Representative Robert H. Luck, Correspondence, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Registrar | |||||||||
| Insurance Claims, 1947-1962 | |||||||||
| Insurance, General, 1955-1963 | |||||||||
| Customs, 1960-1962 | |||||||||
| Sales, 1958-1960 | |||||||||
| Shipping, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| General Correspondence, 1963 | |||||||||
Series 3: Special Programs, 1950-1967 (boxes 9-13) |
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This series is organized into 6 subseries. |
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| 3.1: Artists in Residence (Ford Foundation), 1957-1966 | |||||||||
| 3.2: Ford Foundation Program for Visual Artists | |||||||||
| 3.3: Museum Donor Program, 1959-1967 | |||||||||
| 3.4: New York State Council on the Arts Circulating Exhibitions Program, 1959-1966 | |||||||||
| 3.5: Picture of the Month, 1951-1958 | |||||||||
| 3.6: Jean Tennyson Foundation Color Slide Lecture Program, 1950-1962 and undated | |||||||||
3.1: Artists in Residence (Ford Foundation), 1957-1966 |
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| 9 | Correspondence, 1963 | ||||||||
| Future Possibilities, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Replies Pending, A-Z, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Refusals, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Unsolicited, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Artists in Residence | |||||||||
| Abramowitz, Benjamin, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Adler, Samuel, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Alps, Glen, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Apple, Billy, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Azuma, Norio, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Barnet, Will, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Blanch, Arnold, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Blaustein, Alfred, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Brach, Paul, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Brackman, Robert, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Browning, Colleen, 1957, undated | |||||||||
| Burford, Byron, 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| Calcagno, Lawrence, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Callahan, Kenneth, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Chapin, Francis, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Chieffo, Clifford T., 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Citron, Minna, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Cohen, George, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Cox, Jan, 1963 | |||||||||
| Crawford, Ralston, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Davis, Jerrold, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Decker, Lindsey, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| De Diego, Julio, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Delap, Tony, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Dienes, Sari, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Drexler, Sherman, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Dugmore, Edward, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Ernst, Jimmy, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Florsheim, Richard, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Fogel, Seymour, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Forst, Miles, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Freimark, Robert, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Giobbi, Edward, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Gonzalez, Xavier, 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| Gray, Cleve, 1963 | |||||||||
| Greene, Stephen, 1965 | |||||||||
| Grillo, John, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Gropper, William, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Hare, David, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Henselmann, Caspar, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Hultberg, John, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Ippolito, Angelo, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Kanemitsu, Matsumi (Mike), 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Kantor, Morris, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Koerner, Henry, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Lahey, Richard, 1965 | |||||||||
| Mallary, Robert, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Marcus, Marcia, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Margo, Boris, 1959-1965 | |||||||||
| Martinelli, Exio, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Martin, Fletcher, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Massin, Eugene, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| McGarrelll, James, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Millman, Edward, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Mitchell, Fred, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Murch, Walter, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
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| 10 | Natkin, Robert, 1963-1964 | ||||||||
| Pachner, William, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Parker, Raymond, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Peterdi, Gabor, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Pickhardt, Carl, 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| Quirt, Walter, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Reinhardt, Ad, 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| Rockmore, Noel, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Roth, Frank, 1966 | |||||||||
| Ruben, Richards, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Saltzman, William, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Schwartz, Aubrey, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Shapiro, Seymour, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Soffer, Sasson, 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| Sonenberg, Jack, 1063-1966 | |||||||||
| Stankiewicz, Richard, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Stuempfig, Walter, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Summers, Carol, 1965 | |||||||||
| Takal, Peter, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Vickrey, Robert R., 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Waldman, Paul, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Wildenhain, Marguerite, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Wilson, Ben, 1965 | |||||||||
| Wines, James, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Youngerman, Jack, 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| Yunkers, Adja, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Correspondence, 1963-1967, undated | |||||||||
| Lists, Artists, 1963-1967 | |||||||||
| Lists, Works, 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| Museums | |||||||||
| Correspondence, General, 1963 | |||||||||
| Future Possibilities, 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| Refusals, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Replies Pending, A-Z, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Publicity, undated, 1963 | |||||||||
| Reports, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
3.2: Ford Foundation Program for Visual Artists |
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| 10 | Grants-in-Aid Correspondence, 1958-1959 | ||||||||
| Purchase Awards, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| Correspondence, General, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| Insurance Claim, 1960 | |||||||||
| National Jury, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| Retrospective Exhibitions, 1958-1963 | |||||||||
| Budgets, 1959-1961, undated | |||||||||
| Catalogs, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Color Transparencies, undated | |||||||||
| Comments, 1960, undated | |||||||||
| Correspondence, General, 1958-1963 | |||||||||
| General Information, 1958-1961 | |||||||||
| Inquiries and Bookings (arranged by location) | |||||||||
| Abroad, 1960 | |||||||||
| Alabama, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Arizona, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Arkansas, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| California, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Canada, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Colorado, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Connecticut, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Delaware, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| District of Columbia, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Florida, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Georgia, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Hawaii, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Idaho, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
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| 11 | Illinois, 1959-1962 | ||||||||
| Indiana, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Iowa, 1959-1963 | |||||||||
| Oregon, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Pennsylvania, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Puerto Rico, 1960 | |||||||||
| Rhode Island, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| South Carolina, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| South Dakota, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Tennessee, 1959-1963 | |||||||||
| Texas, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Utah, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| Vermont, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Virginia, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Washington, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| West Virginia, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Wisconsin, 1959-1962 | |||||||||
| Wyoming, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Insurance Claims, 1958-1959 | |||||||||
| Insurance Valuations, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Itineraries, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Jury Correspondence, 1958-1959 | |||||||||
| Jury Reports, 1958-1959 | |||||||||
| Proposals, 1960-1961 | |||||||||
| Publicity | |||||||||
| Clippings, 1960-1963, undated | |||||||||
| Press Releases, 1958-1959 | |||||||||
| Questionnaire, 1960 | |||||||||
| Refusals, 1959 | |||||||||
| Reports, 1960-1964 | |||||||||
3.3: Museum Donor Program, 1959-1967 |
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| 11 | Accepted Applications | ||||||||
| Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Albion College, 1966-1967 | |||||||||
| Allentown Art Museum, 1966-1967 | |||||||||
| Baltimore Museum of Art, 1959 | |||||||||
| Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1961 | |||||||||
| Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1962 | |||||||||
| Currier Gallery of Art, 1960 | |||||||||
| Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Dayton Art Institute, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Delgado Museum, 1959 | |||||||||
| Dennison University, 1966-1967 | |||||||||
| Denver Art Museum, 1960 | |||||||||
| Everhart Museum, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Howard University, 1962 | |||||||||
| McNay Art Institute, 1961 | |||||||||
| Miles College, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Milwaukee Art Center, 1960 | |||||||||
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| 12 | Montclair Art Museum, 1960 | ||||||||
| Morgan State College, 1962 | |||||||||
| Museum of African Art, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Oakland Art Museum, 1959 | |||||||||
| Pasadena Art Museum, 1962 | |||||||||
| Portland [Maine] Art Museum, 1966-1967 | |||||||||
| Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| San Francisco Museum of Art, 1960 | |||||||||
| Talladega College, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Tougaloo College, 1966-1967 | |||||||||
| University of California at Los Angeles, 1961 | |||||||||
| University of Massachusetts, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| University of Nebraska, 1961 | |||||||||
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1960-1961 | |||||||||
| Wadsworth Athenaeum | |||||||||
| White Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1959 | |||||||||
| Williams College, 1961 | |||||||||
| Worcester Art Institute, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Applications, Not Granted, 1959-1964 | |||||||||
| Applications, Proposed Institutions, 1964 | |||||||||
| Applications, Refused, 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| Applications, To Be Submitted, 1965-1967 | |||||||||
| Applications, Unsolicited, 1965 | |||||||||
| General Correspondence, 1960-1966 | |||||||||
| Currier, Audrey B. and Stephen R., 1966-1967 | |||||||||
| Selection of Works, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| Special Project, Nell Blaine, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| Summary, 1959-1967 | |||||||||
3.4: New York State Council on the Arts Circulating Exhibitions Program, 1959-1966 |
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| 12 | Budgets and Expenditures, 1961-1962 | ||||||||
| Comments from Exhibitors, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Condition Reports, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Exhibition Proposals, 1962-1963, undated | |||||||||
| Exhibition Files | |||||||||
| John Francis Cropsey (tentative), 1964 | |||||||||
| Portrait of Jefferson (dropped), 1964 | |||||||||
| The River: Places and People, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Inquiries and Bookings (arranged by location) | |||||||||
| Akron, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| Albany, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| Albertson, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Alfred, N.Y., 1961 | |||||||||
| Armonk, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Auburn, N.Y., 1961 | |||||||||
| Batavia, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Binghamton, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Brockport, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Bronxville, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Brooklyn, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Buffalo, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Canton, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Cazenovia, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Chautauqua, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Cincinnatus, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Clinton, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Corning, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| Cortland, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Eastchester, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Elmira, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Farmingdale, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Floral Park, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Flushing, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Fort Edward, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Fredonia, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Garden City, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Geneseo, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Glens Falls, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Hempstead, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Highland Falls, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Hornell, N.Y., 1961 | |||||||||
| Houghton, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Ithaca, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Jamaica, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Jamestown, N.Y., 1961 | |||||||||
| Katonah, N.Y., 1961 | |||||||||
| Kinderhook, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Kingston, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Loudenville, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Lynbrook, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Massena, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| Middletown, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Newberg, N.Y., 1961 | |||||||||
| New Paltz, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| New York, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Northport, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Ogdensberg, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Oneonta, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Oswego, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Port Washington, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Potsdam, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Purchase, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Rochester, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| Rockville Centre, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Rome, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Rye, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Scarsdale, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Schenectady, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| Setauket, N.Y., 1962-1964 | |||||||||
| Southampton, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Staten Island, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| Syracuse, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Tarrytown, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| Troy, N.Y., 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Utica, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| Wantagh, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Warsaw, N.Y., 1963 | |||||||||
| Warwick, N.Y., 1961 | |||||||||
| Watertown, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Wellsville, N.Y., 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| White Plains, N.Y., 1962 | |||||||||
| Yonkers, N.Y., 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Out of State, 1961-1963 | |||||||||
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| 13 | Itineraries, 1961-1963 | ||||||||
| Lists, New York State Historical Societies, 1963 | |||||||||
| Lists, Nonprofit Institutions in New York State, 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| Loans, Temporary, 1963 | |||||||||
| Loans, Temporary to New York City Offices, 1964 | |||||||||
| Plans, 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| Programs, 1962-1966, undated | |||||||||
| Publicity, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| Reports, 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| Rockefeller, Gov. Nelson A., 1962 | |||||||||
3.5: Picture of the Month, 1951-1958 |
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| 13 | Applications and Agreements for Exhibition Display, 1954-1955 | ||||||||
| Billing, 1954-1955 | |||||||||
| Borrowers, 1954-1956 | |||||||||
| Budget and Administration, 1953-1955 | |||||||||
| Condition Reports, 1951-1952 | |||||||||
| Condition Reports and Related Correspondence, 1955-1958 | |||||||||
| Desirable Paintings, undated | |||||||||
| Dispersals of Loans, 1955-1956 | |||||||||
| Documentation Research Source Sheets, 1956-1957, undated | |||||||||
| Inquiries, 1954-1956 | |||||||||
| Lenders, 1956-1958 | |||||||||
| Photographs and Negatives, 1955-1958, undated | |||||||||
| Promotion, 1955 | |||||||||
| Publicity, 1950s | |||||||||