Object Details
sova.aaa.washgall_ref13
- Collection Creator
- Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.)
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- Washington Gallery of Modern Art records
- Washington Gallery of Modern Art records / Series 1: Trustee Records
- Sponsor
- The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.washgall, Subseries 1.4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Washington Gallery of Modern Art records, 1959-1992. 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
- Found here are correspondence, grant and project proposals, lists, memoranda, and miscellaneous notes from the files of the WGMA'ts three Board of Trustee Presidents - Julian Eisenstein, Carleton B. Swift Jr., and Helen Stern. The Julian Eisenstein files are made up exclusively of correspondence. Many of the materials created by Eisenstein, one of the WGMA founders and the first Trustee President, are located in the WGMA Trustee records. The Carleton B. Swift Jr. records contain correspondence as well as files concerning the selection of a new director for the gallery in 1966. The Helen "Leni" Stern records make up the bulk of the President's records. Materials include chronological files; miscellaneous correspondence, including, letters from Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern; and such subject files as the Adams-Morgan Neighborhood Festival, the merger proposal with American Univeristy, the Meyer Foundation grant proposal, and the resignations of a majority to Trustees in June 1967.
- Collection Restrictions
- This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.
AAA.washgall_ref13
Large EAD
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AAA.washgall
AAA
- Record ID
- ebl-1613572285914-1613572292329-0