Documents & Interviews Out On Loan
This page displays information about original documents from the Archives of American Art which have been loaned to other institutions for exhibition or tours. To learn more about our loan program, see Borrowing Documents for Exhibition.
Whitney Biennial - 2012
March 1 - May 27, 2012
The exhibition explores the life and works of numerous artists exhibited at the Whitney including painter Forrest Bess and Eyre de Lanux. Documents from both artists' papers are featured in the Biennial.
This exhibition will not travel.
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Whitney Biennial - 2012
March 1 - May 27, 2012
The exhibition explores the life and works of numerous artists exhibited at the Whitney including painter Forrest Bess and Eyre de Lanux. Documents from both artists' papers are featured in the Biennial.
This exhibition will not travel.
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Fire and Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic
March 15, 2012- January 30, 2014
Fire and Ice marks historic anniversaries of two tragic events in American history, the Titanic and Hindenburg disasters. Featured documents memorialize the lives of so many individuals lost, and include condolence letters to Lily Millet, whose spouse, artist Francis D. Millet, went down with the Titanic, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sketchbook containing studies for a Titanic memorial.
The exhibition is on display in the Philatelic Gallery and the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery.
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Space--Light--Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta
February 4, 2012- September 23, 2012
Space--Light--Structure provides an overview of Margaret De Patta's work as a jeweler and features one of her pin drawings that exemplifies her design work.
Travels to the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
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Audio tour of public art collection
March 2011
The San Francisco Arts Commission is using excerpts from oral history interviews with Lee Mullican, Roy De Forest and Wally Hedricks conducted for the Archives of American Art, to highlight their public art collection with an audio tour in terminal 2 at the SFO airport.
This is an ongoing tour.
Atalaya Tour
July 31, 2010- Ongoing
Audio excerpts from the 1964 oral history interview with Anna Hyatt-Huntington conducted by Dorothy Seckler for the Archives of American Art are used in the audio tour of Anna and Archer Huntington's winter home.
This tour is available as an audio tour and can be downloaded from the website.
Henry O. Tanner: A Retrospective
January 27, 2012- January 13, 2013
This exhibition focuses on the life and work of African American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner. It is an historic project, marking the first retrospective exhibition featuring Tanner and his work. An abundance of photographs taken during different periods of Tanner's life are found in his papers at the Archives of American Art and are featured in the show.
Travels to the Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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