News

2012

• November 28, 2012

  Online Project Commemorates Civil War Sesquicentennial

  The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art presents "Henry Mosler's Civil War Diary," a digital exhibition at civilwardiary.aaa.si.edu launched in recognition of the sesquicentennial of Mosler's diary. Mosler (1841-1920) was a painter and illustrator who worked primarily in Ohio, Kentucky, New York City and Europe. Mosler began his career during the Civil War when he served as an artist correspondent for Harper's Weekly.
• November 8, 2012

  Archives of American Art Journal to publish newly identified installation shots of the 1913 Armory Show

  A special issue of the Archives of American Art Journal will publish several important new finds by scholar Laurette E. McCarthy.  The most significant is her identification and attribution of two seemingly lost installation photographs by Hagelstein Brothers, the official photographers of the Armory Show, which show in vivid detail the infamous Cubist and Matisse rooms.
• July 13, 2012

  2012 Graduate Research Essay Prize Winners Announced

  Meredith A. Brown and Jennifer Stettler Parsons were awarded the Archives of American Art Graduate Research Essay Prize funded by the Dedalus Foundation, Inc. This prize, in its inaugural year, recognizes compelling original research using the resources of the Archives of American Art as primary evidence and celebrates scholarship that lends itself to innovative online presentations. The annual competition is open to anyone enrolled in a graduate program in art history, visual culture, American studies or related fields.
• July 2, 2012

  Archives Receives Grant from Samuel H. Kress Foundation

  The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has been awarded $100,000 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation’s Digital Resources grant program to support a project to preserve, arrange and create Web-searchable online electronic finding aids for 10 archival collections that are central to provenance research for the history of art during World War II. 
• June 26, 2012

  Archives of American Art Presents “Six Degrees of Peggy Bacon”

  This summer, the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art presents an exhibition based on the concept of six degrees of separation with New York artist Peggy Bacon as the central figure. “Six Degrees of Peggy Bacon” will highlight how the collections of the Archives of American Art represent the deep and diverse history of art in the United States and beyond. 
• April 23, 2012

  The Archives' New York Research Center is Moving

  The Archives of American Art’s New York Research Center at 1285 Avenue of the Americas will close on May 4, 2012, and reopen at its new location at 300 Park Avenue South, Suite 300, in early 2013.
• April 4, 2012

  Archives of American Art Contributes to Syracuse University Library's Marcel Breuer Digital Archive

  The Archives of American Art has contributed more than 1,350 digital images, representing nearly 1,000 documents, to the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive. 
• February 9, 2012

  Archives of American Art Announces Election of Four New Trustees

  The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has elected Perry Amsellem, Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan, Bridget Moore and Martin O’Brien to its board of trustees. They will join the board’s membership including nearly 40 prominent members of the American art community.
• February 3, 2012

  Archives Receives Major Grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources

  The Archives of American Art was awarded $222,700 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation via the Council on Library and Information Resources “Hidden Collections” grant program for “Uncovering Hidden Audiovisual Media Documenting Postmodern Art.” The Archives’ project was one of only 19 selected for funding from 71 applications. 
• February 2, 2012

  Archives of American Art Exhibition Celebrates Jackson Pollock's Enduring Legacy

  The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art presents “Memories Arrested in Space, a centennial tribute to Jackson Pollock from the Archives of American Art.”