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.
Everything Loose Will Land
May 8 - August 11, 2013
A part of the Getty Foundation inititiive Pacific Standard Time: Modern Architectue in L.A., Everything Loose Will Land is a part of a series of exhibitions focusing on Los Angeles arhitecture from the 1960s-1980s. The exhibition will feature floor plans and blueprints from the Woman's Building records and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary records, as well as a poster for Carl Andre's exhibition Cuts, held at the Virginia Dwan gallery in 1967.
This exhibition will not travel.
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Artist/ Rebel/ Dandy: Men of Fashion
April 26- August 18, 2013
Men of Fashion explores the personality of the dandy from the 19th through the 21st centuries as expressed through garments and captured in photographs, drawings and other formats on display. Photographs of Romaine Brooks and Langston Hughes by Carl Van Vechten are featured in the exhibition.
This exhibition will not travel.
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Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible
April 19, 2013- September 14, 2014
The exhibition focuses on the life and career of the artist Forrest Bess. Photographs of Bess, correspondence, and his thesis are included in the exhibition, devoted to exploring Bess' inner self in relation to his art. Documents comes from the Betty Parsons papers and Gallery records and the Meyer Schapiro papers.
Travels to the Hammer Museum, University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, The Neuberger Museum of Art at the Purchase College State University of New York, Purchase, New York, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives at the University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
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Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
October 1, 2012- October 31, 2014
Excerpts from a 1968 and a 1980 interview with Romare Bearden are included in the audio tour and documentary portion of the exhibition.
Travels to Reynolda House Museum of Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York
Fire and Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic
March 15, 2012- January 6, 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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The Story of the Armory Show: Some notes as to why and how it happened, from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
February 17- June 16, 2013
The exhibition chronicles the development and critical reception of the 1913 Armory show through letters, sales records, printed ephemera, and personal diaries. The exhibition, on display at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, marks the 100th anniversary of the Armory Show. The Story of the Armory show is exhibited in conjunction with The New Spirit, American Art in the Armory Show also on display at The Montclair Art Museum.
This exhibition will not travel.
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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.
