MacAgy, Jermayne Virginia, 1914-1964
Museum director
Size: 7000 items (on 8 microfilm reels).
Summary: Exhibition files containing correspondence, lender's forms, receipts, catalogs, invitations, photographs of art work, and installation photographs, for exhibitions MacAgy directed at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the University of St. Thomas, Houston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Also included are four albums of installation photographs.
Museum director; Houston, Tex. Director Contemporary Arts Museum, 1934-1959; head of art department, University of St. Thomas,
Lent for microfilming 1979 by the Menil Foundation.
Microfilm rolls 1693-1700 available at Archives of American Art offices; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Jermayne MacAgy exhibition files, 1955-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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