Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection Committee
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003
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- Dorothy C. Miller papers
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
- Extent
- 1.4 Linear feet (Boxes 13-14, 26)
- Date
- 1959-circa 1985
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.milldoro, Series 5
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Dorothy C. Miller papers, 1853-2013, bulk 1920-1996. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- 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
- This series documents Miller's work as the first art consultant to the Chase Manhattan Bank and founding member of the bank's art collection committee in 1959. Files here trace the development of the Chase collection from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s. Records include a series of files labeled "Catalogs of Artwork" which provide detailed lists of all artwork; committee files containing correspondence and memoranda between members of the art committee including Miller, Alfred Barr, Robert Hale, Perry Rathbone, David Rockefeller (then the bank's president) and James Johnson Sweeney; committee meeting minutes, agendas, and reports; catalogs of the bank's acquisitions and collection; and news clippings. There is also correspondence with the Chase curator Mary Lanier and art institutions and galleries. A draft of Miller's text for the bank's published catalog of essays, Art At Work: Chase Manhattan Bank Collection is filed in this series, as well as an interview transcript with Miller conducted by Peter Morin of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, about the exhibition, Chase Manhattan: the First 10 Years of Collecting, 1959-1969.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513295030-1503513295097-8
- Metadata Usage
- CC0