Acquisition and Deaccession Files
Object Details
- Creator:
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Office of the Director
- Topic
- Art, Modern
- Art museums
- Museums -- Administration
- Museums -- Acquisitions
- Museums -- Collection management
- Auctions
- Art museum directors
- Creator:
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Office of the Director
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- Acquisition and Deaccession Files
- Extent
- 2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Date
- 1984-2000
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Identifier
- Accession 04-143
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Manuscripts
- Citation
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 04-143, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Office of the Director, Acquisition and Deaccession Files
- Genre/Form
- Manuscripts
- Descriptive Entry
- This accession consists of records created and maintained by James Demetrion, Director, 1984-2001, documenting artwork offered to the museum and new acquisitions as well as deaccessioned artwork and its disposition. Materials include correspondence, agreements with auction houses, after-sale advice, auction reports, estimates, receipts, confirmations, estimates, and lists of artworks for deaccessioning or proposed deaccessioning.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512166504-1503512166506-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
