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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. Learn more About the Archives


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    Currently on View in DC

    Class at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, Provincetown, Massachusetts, circa 1945. Hans Hofmann papers, Archives of American Art.

    Class at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts, circa 1945

    New exhibition: Summer School: Selections from the Archives of American Art

    Currently on View in NYC

    Elaine de Kooning sketching John F. Kennedy

    1962 photo of Elaine de Kooning sketching John F. Kennedy

    New exhibition: Recent Acquisitions: The James Graham & Sons Gallery Records



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    New Acquisitions

    Records of Thread Waxing Space and Photographic Archive of Colin de Land
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    New Journal Issue

    Landscape is the subject of Vol. 46, 3-4 of the
    Archives of American Art Journal


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    New Collections Online

    The papers of Arthur Wesley Dow, John Steuart Curry and Albert Bierstadt have been digitized and added to Collections Online


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