Doty, Robert M.
Curator, Arts administrator
Size: 3.4 linear feet
Summary: The Robert M. Doty papers measure 3.4 linear feet and date from 1913-1992. Included are personal and professional correspondence; writings; exhibition, project, artist and subject files; photographs, transparencies and slides; lists of works; notes; and copies of funding proposals.
Robert Doty (1933-1993) was an arts administrator and curator in New Hampshire Doty was director of The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H. (1977-1987); director and curator at the Akron Art Institute, Ohio (1974-1977); curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y. (1966-1974); assistant to the director at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. (1964-1965); assistant to the director at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1963-1964); and assistant director at the George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y. (1956-1963).
Donated 1994 by Joan Doty, Doty's wife and in 2018 by Paul Doty, Robert Doty's son.
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Robert M. Doty papers, 1913-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
