Archives of American Art Blog
Read first-hand perspectives from the staff who preserve and document the history of the visual arts in America.
Matthew Simms highlights papers of two Los Angeles artists: one a new donation and the other a significant addition.
Emma Eubank, a former processing intern, shares her work on the Henri Bella Schaeffer Papers and the value she sees in archival work
Josh T. Franco, head of collecting, introduces the first donation to the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Correspondence Archive.
Processing archivist Jayna Josefson highlights a project to organize small collections of women artists
Gilbert and Ann Kinney New York Collector Jacob Proctor writes about Paul J. Smith, whose papers are now at the Archives of American Art, and his contributions to American Studio Craft and Fluxus movements.
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