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Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource
January 1, 2017
The Chicagoan, 1928 Jan. 14. John Henry Bradley Storrs papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Explore the Archives' newest online resources documenting American art related archival collections in Chicago made possible with funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
With funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Archives has conducted interviews of Chicago artists and art dealers for the Archives’ oral history program. The interviews gather a wealth of information on Chicago’s art history, adding to the Archives’ existing in-depth interviews in and about Chicago.
Chicago Art and Artists in the Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art holds rich resources documenting important Chicago artists, art institutions, and organizations, and we have selected some rare and unique materials from those resources to highlight here.
Art historian Wendy Greenhouse provides an overview of the archival documentation project she recently undertook with the sponsorship of the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource • Blum, Betty • Kuh, Katharine, 1904-1994 • Dinkins, Fitzhugh D., 1919-1993 • McBride, William, 1912-2000 • Baum, Don, 1922-2008 • Duckworth, Ruth, 1919-2009 • Florsheim, Richard A., 1916-1979 • Ghez, Susanne, 1937- • Hunt, Richard, 1935- • Gray, Richard, 1928-2018 • Nilsson, Gladys, 1940- • Ito, Miyoko, 1918-1983 • Rorimer, Anne, 1944- • Motley, Archibald John, 1891-1981
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Archives of American Art in the Smithsonian Transcription Center
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Terra Foundation Center for Digital Collections
A virtual repository of a substantial cross-section of the Archives' most significant collections.