Summary: One National Endowment for the Arts black and white press release photograph of artist Buell Mullen, March 29, 1940, working on a mural for the Hispanic Room, Congressional library, ...

Since 1958, the Archives of American Art’s oral history program has preserved the distinct voices and human memory of the American art world in more than 2,500 interviews. Articulated draws on those ...

This site provides access to the papers of Ray Yoshida in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2018, and total 6,780 images. The processing and digitization of the Ray Yoshida papers ...

Archival and manuscript collections usually consist of a full range of formats and sizes, such as typed and handwritten correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, diaries, original and copy ...

Minimal/Full Processing Interleaving: When fully processing a collection, always place interleaving paper between documents and highly acidic items such as newspapers, telegrams, or thermograph paper.

Welcome to the Terra Foundation Center for Digital Collections, a virtual repository of a substantial cross-section of the Archives' most significant collections. Since 2005, over 270 archival ...

Founded at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1954, the Archives of American Art collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States.

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The following chapters were originally written as part of a workflow development and processing project at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution from 2012-2015, with funding from the ...

Summary: The papers of painter, stained glass artist, and muralist Violet Oakley measure 56.5 linear feet and date from 1841-1981. Found within the papers are biographical materials; personal and ...

Summary: The records of the Perls Galleries measure 79.6 linear feet and date from 1937 to 1997. Founded by Klaus Perls in 1937 and operating until 1997, the gallery dealt primarily in modern French ...

The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art commemorates the centennial of the International Exhibition of Modern Art, known as the 1913 Armory Show--the first major exhibition of European modern art ...