Adelyne Dohme Breeskin papers, circa 1934-1986

Professional files provide scattered documentation of Breeskin's career as a director, consultant, and teacher. They include notes, correspondence, and reports relating to Breeskin's work as a consultant to the National Collection of Fine Arts (later the National Museum of American Art); a letter, a memorandum, and a transcript of a news clipping briefly summarizing Breeskin's work as Commissioner of the American Pavilion at the 1960 Venice Biennale; correspondence, notes, and course outlines for an art appreciation course Breeskin taught at Johns Hopkins University in the late 1940s; a sound recording of a lecture delivered by Ilya Bolotowsky and introduced by Breeskin at the National Museum of American Art; and correspondence and other documentation relating to arrangements for travel by Breeskin in the USA and abroad, generally related to speaking engagements and participation in art juries.