Founded in Detroit in 1954, the Archives of American Art became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1970. The Archives is the world's preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to ...

The Carnegie Institute Museum of Art was established in 1895 by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. One of the first modern contemporary art museums in the United States, its flagship ...

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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 ...

Physical Details: 1 collage : various media ; 22 x 28 cm. Description: Response by Nancy Graves to participation invitation sent by Ruth Iskin, Lucy Lippard, and Arlene Raven for 1976 "What is ...

Summary: The papers of Massachusetts art patron, art collector and engineer Desmond Fitzgerald measure 1 linear foot and date from 1868 to 1927. The papers consist of 28 diaries, one account book, one ...

Sculptors James and John Joseph Earley ran a studio in Manassas, Virginia where they executed architectural sculpture for buildings in the Washington, D.C. area, including the Library of Congress, and ...

Summary: Twenty three black and white photographs of artists and art related figures taken by photographer Stephanie Chrisman including Richard Bellamy, Dan Christiansen, Robert Durand, Buckminster ...

Summary: Selected records of the PWAP include the following series: Central Office (Washington, D.C.) Correspondence and Related Records, including progress reports, minutes of meetings, and finance ...

The papers of Joseph Cornell were digitized in 2006 and 2009 by the Archives of American Art. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 38,634 images. Funding for the processing and ...

Summary: Printed material, correspondence, financial and membership material. REELS D323-D325: Constitutions and by-laws; minutes of meetings; membership lists ...

The records of the American Federation of Arts (AFA) provide researchers with a complete set of documentation focusing on the founding and history of the organization from its inception through the ...