Exhibitions
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art
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- Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Brown Foundation. Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
- Extent
- 20 Linear feet (Boxes 184-204)
- Date
- 1901-1940
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.carninst, Series 3
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records, 1883-1962. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement note
- From 1907 to 1940, these files were originally boxed in two year periods, and within that, arranged numerically according to the star (*) filing number assigned by the Museum of Art. Records dating from 1895-1906 were boxed separately. All records have been rearranged into an alphabetical folder heading order with all the years merged and organized into chronological order. This series has been scanned in its entirety.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents note
- Exhibitions includes correspondence, lists, planning notes, and available catalogs related to 185 traveling and loan exhibitions held at the Museum of Art from 1901 to 1940. Of these, 82 are group, survey, regional, or topical shows and over 100 are one-artist shows. The museum's early interest in American painters are clearly evident under Beatty's directorship, with 22 of 32 shows falling into that category. Under Saint-Gaudens' directorship, the museum continued to showcase American and regional Pennsylvania painters, but also expanded to showcase mural decorators, architecture, crafts, printed books, and sculptures, in addition to exhibitions focused on Mexican, Itlaian, Canadian, German, French, Swedish, Dutch, and Spanish art. The collaborative work involved in curating and hosting major exhibitions is documented throughout this series, particularly through the extensive exchanges with collectors, museums, galleries, dealers, shippers, and many of the artists themselves. Much of the correspondence centers on the availability or whereabout of works and requests for loans. Information regarding the provenance, ownership, and price, sales, and insurance values of artworks are frequently noted in letters or catalogs.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562715681344-1562715682861-5
- Metadata Usage
- CC0