We are pleased to announce that our 200th fully digitized collection, the Bob Thompson papers, is now available online.
Archives of American Art Blog
Read the first-hand perspectives from the staff who preserve and document the history of the visual arts in America.
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This entry is part of an ongoing series highlighting new acquisitions. The Archives of American Art collects primary source materials—original letters, writings, preliminary sketches, scrapbooks, photographs, financial records and the like—that have significant research value for the study of art in the United States. The following essay was originally published in the spring 2017 issue (vol. 56, no. 1) of the Archives of American Art Journal. More information about the journal can be found at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/aaa/current.
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Reference specialist Elizabeth Botten explores the papers of Gertrude Abercrombie to find out what’s in a name.
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This entry is part of an ongoing series highlighting new acquisitions. The Archives of American Art collects primary source materials—original letters, writings, preliminary sketches, scrapbooks, photographs, financial records and the like—that have significant research value for the study of art in the United States. The following essay was originally published in the spring 2017 issue (vol. 56, no. 1) of the Archives of American Art Journal. More information about the journal can be found at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/aaa/current.
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Rihoko Ueno, a co-curator of our current exhibition, Before Internet Cats: Feline Finds from the Archives of American Art, looks at one of Romare Bearden's great loves, his cats.
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