Archives of American Art

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Smithsonian Archives of American Art

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Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Smithsonian Institution. Archives of American Art

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From its founding to 1954 the Archives was headquartered at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1960 the Archives moved its headquarters to New York but a branch office remained in Detroit. In 1963 an office was opened in Rome to collect the records of American artists' work in Italy. In 1970 the Archives became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution and moved to Washington, D.C. Directors have included Edgar Preston Richardson, 1954-1964; William E. Woolfenden, 1964-1983; Richard N. Murray, 1983-1988; John A. Fleckner (Acting Director), 1987-1988; Susan A. Hamilton (Acting Director), 1988-1990; Richard J. Wattenmaker, 1990-2005; John W. Smith, 2006-2011; Liza Kirwin (Acting Director), 2011- .

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Agency History. Record 217833

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https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n79065944

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Art, Modern

Art, Modern

Art, Modern

Art, Modern

Art, Modern

Art, American

Art, American

Art, American

Art, American

Art

Art auctions

Art critics

Art galleries, Commercial

Art galleries, Commercial

Art galleries, Commercial

Art historians

Artists

Artists

Artists' studios

Art museum directors

Art museums

Art objects

Asian American art

Asian American artists

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Eight (Group of American artists)

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Modernism (Art)

Modernism (Art)

Modernism (Art)

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Still-life painting, American

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Americans

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Smithsonian Archives of American Art

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California, Southern

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California, Southern

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New York (State)--New York

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California

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Massachusetts--Boston

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