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National Academy of Design records, 1817-2012

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Series 15: Other Organizations, 1817-1997
1.8 Linear feet
Boxes 57-59, 131

Files from other organizations may include correspondence, ledgers, and printed material. Many of these organizations had business with the National Academy of Design, and records pertain to events, meetings, and exhibitions. Records of the New York Etching Club are particularly robust, and contain the Club's minutes and member certificates. Other notable organizations include the American Academy of Fine Arts, American Federation of Arts, American Watercolor Society, Art Students League, Fine Arts Federation of New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Salmagundi Club.
The series is arranged alphabetically with a few certificates from various organizations arranged at the end.
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Academie des Beaux-Arts, 1878
57
11
American Academy of Fine Arts, 1817-1833
57
12
American Art Union, 1839-1853, 1883
57
13-16
American Federation of Arts, 1911-1942
57
17
American Fine Arts Society, 1890-1919
57
18
American Fine Arts Society, 1920s-1940s
58
1-3
American Society of Painters in Watercolor, 1867-1877
58
4
American Watercolor Society, 1868-1902, 1920
58
5
Architectural League of New York, 1895-1939
58
6
Art Students League, 1938-1950
58
7
Art Union of Philadelphia, 1848
58
8
Artists' Fellowship, Inc., 1925
58
9
Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia, 1837-1840
58
10
A-C, General, 1859-1935
58
11
Carnegie Institute, 1902
58
12
Century Association, 1918
58
13
Fine Arts Federation of New York, 1895-1964
58
14-16
International Art Union, 1849
58
17
Kensington Life Academy, 1858
58
18
League of New York Artists, Inc., 1922
58
19
Metropolitan Fair, 1864
58
20
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1890s, 1931
58
21
National Sculpture Society, 1945-1973
58
22
New Society of Artists, 1924-1929
58
23
New York Etching Club, 1877-1889, 1981
58
24-26
New York Etching Club, 1891-1893
59
1
New York Gallery of Fine Arts, 1844-1850, 1982
59
2
N, General, 1846-1887, 1965
59
3
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1905, 1982
59
4
Salmagundi Club, 1904-1944, 1962, circa 1990
59
5-7
Sketch Club, 1828, 1983, 1997
59
8
Society of American Etchers, 1943-1948
59
9
V-W, General, 1847, 1955
59
10
Certificates of Membership, 1826-1939
American Academy of Fine Arts, Mercantile Library Association, and Metropolitan Museum of Art
131
5

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