Doty, Robert M.
Curator, Arts administrator
Size: ca. 1.4 linear ft.
Summary: Primarily artist and exhibition files containing correspondence, writings, exhibition and printed material (including a 1913 exhibition catalog), photographs, transparencies, slides, lists of works, notes, and copies of funding proposals. Also included are personal correspondence and writings.
Administrator, curator; New Hampshire, Ohio, New York, Connecticut. Born 1933. Died 1992. 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.
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Robert M. Doty papers, 1913-1992, (bulk 1951-1992). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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