Read the first-hand perspectives from the staff who preserve and document the history of the visual arts in America.
Guest author Marina Pacini examines what can be gleaned from an interview with an artist who does not like to talk about herself in Conversations Across Collections.
Matthew Simms, the Gerald and Bente Buck West Coast Collector, highlights the Ronald Davis Papers, recently acquired by the Archives. The following essay was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue (vol. 59, no. 2) of the Archives of American Art Journal.
Interim director Liza Kirwin looks closely at Oscar Bluemner's 1933 painting diary and self-portrait in the latest installment of Conversations Across Collections.
National collector Josh T. Franco highlights the Fred Truck Papers, recently acquired by the Archives. The following essay was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue (vol. 59, no. 2) of the Archives of American Art Journal.
In the first of a series of collaborative essays with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Liza Kirwin examines Martin Johnson Heade's Notebook on Hummingbirds.
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