Skip to main content Skip to main navigation
heart-solid My Visit Donate
Home
Press Enter to activate a submenu, down arrow to access the items and Escape to close the submenu.
    • Overview
    • Museums and Zoo
    • Entry and Guidelines
    • Maps and Brochures
    • Dine and Shop
    • Accessibility
    • Visiting with Kids
    • Group Visits
    • Overview
    • Exhibitions
    • Online Events
    • All Events
    • IMAX & Planetarium
    • Overview
    • Topics
    • Collections
    • Research Resources
    • Podcasts
    • Stories
    • Overview
    • For Caregivers
    • For Educators
    • For Students
    • For Academics
    • For Lifelong Learners
    • Overview
    • Become a Member
    • Renew Membership
    • Make a Gift
    • Volunteer
    • Overview
    • Our Organization
    • Our Leadership
    • Reports and Plans
    • Newsdesk
heart-solid My Visit Donate

Beverly Buchanan papers

Archives of American Art

Artist Statements and Writings by Beverly Buchanan
There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .
Finding aid
There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .

Object Details

sova.aaa.buchbeve
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97499cc73-b028-4e58-9bf4-c984c68a499d
Creator
Buchanan, Beverly, 1940-
Names
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Lippard, Lucy R.
Scott, Arden
Sims, Lowery Stokes
Occupation
Sculptors -- Georgia
Painters -- Georgia
Environmental artists -- Georgia
Topic
Environment (Art)
African American artists
Women artists
Women painters
Women sculptors
Provenance
The Beverly Buchanan papers were donated to the Archives of American Art in 2018 by Jane Bridges, and in 2021 by Bridges and Susan Welsh, Buchanan's executors.
Creator
Buchanan, Beverly, 1940-
See more items in
Beverly Buchanan papers
Sponsor
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Summary
The papers of African American sculptor, painter, and land artist Beverly Buchanan measure 17 linear feet and 34.2 gigabytes, and date from 1912 to 2017 with the bulk of the material dating from the 1970s to the 1990s. The collection contains biographical material, including audiovisual and born-digital interview recordings; correspondence; writings; and exhibition and project files, including audiovisual documentation from Bernice Steinbaum Gallery/Steinbaum Krauss Gallery. Material related to professional activities; personal business records; printed material, including born-digital and audiovisual records; scrapbooks; photographic material, including photograph albums; and artwork are also found in the collection.
Biographical / Historical
Beverly Buchanan (1940-2015) was an African American sculptor, painter, and land artist in Macon, Georgia. Born in Fuquay, North Carolina and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Buchanan studied medical technology at Bennett College before going on to earn two master's degrees in parasitology and public health from Columbia University in 1968 and 1969. Her artistic career began in 1971 when she enrolled in a class at the Art Students League in New York City taught by Norman Lewis. She moved to Georgia in 1977. Buchanan is most well known for her "shack" sculptures and paintings, depictions of houses tied to Southern identity and memory. Buchanan has been included in exhibitions at institutions such as Cinque Gallery, Truman Gallery, the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, GA, the Chrysler Museum, and a traveling retrospective exhibition organized by the Montclair Art Museum. Her work is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, High Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Beverly Buchanan has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the Women's Caucus for Art lifetime achievement award, among others. She died in 2015 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Extent
17 Linear feet
34.2 Gigabytes
Date
1912-2017
bulk 1970s-1990s
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.buchbeve
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Gigabytes
Scrapbooks
Sketchbooks
Photograph albums
Motion picture film
Citation
Beverly Buchanan papers, 1912-2017. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged as ten series. Series 1: Biographical Material, 1917-2015 (Box 1, Boxes 19-20, Box 24; 0.6 linear feet) Series 2: Correspondence, 1919-1954, 1967-2017 (Boxes 1-2; 0.9 linear feet; ER01, 0.017 GB) Series 3: Writings, 1960-circa 2009 (Boxes 2-3, Box 24; 0.7 linear feet) Series 4: Exhibition and Project Files, 1974-2001, 2010-2017 (Boxes 3-4, Box 24, OV 21, FCs 22-23; 1.9 linear feet; ER02, 0.020 GB) Series 5: Professional Activities, 1962, 1979-2005 (Box 4, Box 19, Box 24; 0.3 linear feet) Series 6: Personal Business Records, 1966-2010 (Box 4; 0.3 linear feet) Series 7: Printed Material, 1912, 1923-2014 (Boxes 4-7, Box 19, Box 25, OV 21; 3.9 linear feet) Series 8: Scrapbooks, 1970-circa 1977 (Box 7, Box 20; 0.3 linear feet) Series 9: Photographic Material, circa 1920s-2013 (Boxes 7-13, Boxes 16-18, Box 20; 8.8 linear feet; ER03, 1.03 GB) Series 10: Artwork, 1956-2013, undated (Boxes 13-15, Box 20; 0.7 linear feet)
Processing Information
The collection was minimally processed and a finding aid prepared by Rayna Andrews in 2019 with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. Born-digital materials were processed by Jess Purkis in 2019 and George Apodaca in 2021. The 2021 addition was processed in 2021 by Rayna Andrews with funding provided by the Roy Lichtenstein foundation.
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.
Genre/Form
Scrapbooks
Sketchbooks
Photograph albums
Motion picture film
Scope and Contents
The papers of African American sculptor, painter, and land artist Beverly Buchanan measure 17 linear feet and 34.2 gigabytes, and date from 1912 to 2017 with the bulk of the material dating from the 1970s to the 1990s. The collection contains biographical material, including audiovisual and born-digital interview recordings; correspondence; writings; and exhibition and project files, including audiovisual documentation from Bernice Steinbaum Gallery/Steinbaum Krauss Gallery. Material related to professional activities; personal business records; printed material, including born-digital and audiovisual records; scrapbooks; photographic material, including photograph albums; and artwork are also found in the collection. The Beverly Buchanan papers contain biographical material including address books, calendars, awards and education certificates, identification documents, family history research material, and audiovisual and born-digital interview recordings; correspondence with friends and colleagues including Lucy Lippard and Lowery Stokes Sims, and with galleries and museums such as Bernice Steinbaum Gallery/Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, the Georgia Museum of Art, and the High Museum of Art. Also included are writings such as artist's statements, journals and notebooks, notes, and writings by others about Beverly Buchanan; exhibition and project files including audiovisual documentation from Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and Steinbaum Krauss Gallery of various exhibitions; material related to professional activities including teaching files and grant and fellowship applications; personal business records such as sales and consignment records; printed material including clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, magazines, posters, audiovisual and born-digital recordings, including A World of Art profile, and other published material; and scrapbooks, including one documenting Buchanan's City Walls series, containing primarily photographs and artwork with some printed material. The collection also contains photographic material including photographs, snapshots, negatives, and photograph albums; and artwork including sketchbooks, drawings, folded cardboard artwork, and illustrated cards.
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 Reference Services for more information.
AAA.buchbeve
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97499cc73-b028-4e58-9bf4-c984c68a499d
AAA.buchbeve
AAA
Record ID
ebl-1579213858679-1579213858712-0

  • Images 74 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Archival materials 465 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Gigabytes 18 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Videocassettes (vhs) 13 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Moving Images [31027000852729] 4 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Moving Images [31027000852711] 3 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Electronic discs (dvd) 2 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Film reels 2 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Moving Images [31027000380622] 1 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Moving Images [31027000380689] 1 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Moving Images [31027000894010] 1 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Sound cassettes 1 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Videocassettes (betacam) 1 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 1910s 11 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 1920s 16 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 1930s 14 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 1940s 57 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 1950s 70 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 1960s 101 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 1970s 187 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 1980s 253 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 1990s 303 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 2000s 217 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • 2010s 105 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers 465 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 9: Photographic Material / 9.1: Photographs and Negatives 112 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 7: Printed Material 70 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 2: Correspondence 47 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 4: Exhibition and Project Files 41 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 10: Artwork / 10.2: Sketchbooks 30 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 1: Biographical Material 29 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 10: Artwork / 10.1: Artist's Books 24 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 9: Photographic Material / 9.2: Photograph Albums 22 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 3: Writings 21 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 5: Professional Activities 17 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 10: Artwork / 10.3: Other Artwork 15 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 6: Personal Business Records 12 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 9: Photographic Material / 9.3: Slides 6 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 10: Artwork 3 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 8: Scrapbooks 3 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Beverly Buchanan papers / Series 9: Photographic Material 3 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • CC0 465 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • No 380 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Yes 85 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • ead_component 465 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • City Walls (1976), Montclair Art Museum

  • Garden Ruins Artist's Book

  • Beverly Buchanan, Other Individuals, and Works of Art

  • Printed Material Related to Other Artists, Romare Bearden

  • Beverly Buchanan and Other Individuals

  • Works of Art, Chalk in a Box

  • Works of Art

  • Notebook, Wall Series Notes

  • Postcards and Reproductions of Beverly Buchanan Works

  • Beverly Buchanan and Works of Art

  • Beverly Buchanan and Works of Art

  • Scrapbook

  • Beverly Buchanan and Other Individuals, "Yard also Georgia"

  • Works of Art and Locations and Buildings

  • Notes and Photographs Related to Sculpture Off Pea Ridge Road, Monroe Co., Georgia

  • Installation of Unity Stones Artist's Book

  • Works of Art

  • Works of Art

  • Works of Art

  • Notebook

  • Marsh Ruins Environmental Sculpture

  • Chalk in a Box Macon, GA

  • Works of Art, Heidelberg Project

  • Flyers, Brochures, and Programs


  1. First page First
  2. Previous page Previous
  3. Page 1
  4. Current page 2
  5. Page 3
  6. Page 4
  7. Page 5
  8. Page 6
  9. Page 7
  10. Page 8
  11. Page 9
  12. Next page Next
  13. Last page Last
arrow-up Back to top
Home
  • Facebook facebook
  • Instagram instagram
  • LinkedIn linkedin
  • YouTube youtube

  • Contact Us
  • Job Opportunities
  • Get Involved
  • Inspector General
  • Records Requests
  • Accessibility
  • EEO & Small Business
  • Shop Online
  • Host Your Event
  • Press Room
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use