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John W. Smith Named as New Director

John W. Smith was recently named the new director of the Archives, effective June 26, 2006.
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New Finding Aids Online

The papers of illustrator and poet Charles Green Shaw, painter Francis Davis Millet, sculptors Dorothy Dehner and Adolph Weinman, artists? model Florence Allen, and paint manufacturer Louis Bocour are among the collections that have recently been processed and described in detailed archival finding aids. The collections represent a wide range of periods, artistic styles, and art historical documentation.
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Getty Foundation Three Year Major Collections Processing Project Completed

With generous support from the Getty Foundation, three major research collections are now more fully accessible to researchers through archival processing and web-accessible finding aids - Macbeth Gallery Records; Walt Kuhn Family Papers and Armory Show Records; and Joseph Cornell Papers.
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Just Published:

More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art written by Liza Kirwin, curator at the Archives
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Include the Archives in your Holiday Giving

With your support, the Archives can make significant strides in meeting the next technical challenge - to provide virtually instant, 24-hour online access to the rich and varied documents in the Archives.
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Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, 2000-2005

The five year project to conduct 100 oral history interviews with leading craft artists is now complete.
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50th Anniversary Annual Benefit Gala

The Archives of American Art honors Board Chair Barbara G. Fleischman and her husband, Lawrence Fleischman, co-founder of the Archives of American Art.
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Back Issues of the Archives of American Art's Journal Now in JSTOR!

Back issues of the Archives of American Art Journal are now available through JSTOR, the not-for-profit online digital archive, as of November 2005.
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