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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Director's Office Records, 1955-1977.

Title: Director's Office Records, 1955-1977.

The Director's Office records 1955-1977 are comprised almost entirely of business correspondence between the Director of the museum and other people and institutions though other records, such as receipts and publications, are occasionally present. During this nascent phase of the museum the Director's Office handled almost all aspects of business and consequently these files reflect a wide spectrum of museum concerns including publicity, acquisitions, finances, staff hiring, construction, and expansion of the museum. Some files are devoted to individuals and institutions while others are labelled with subjects such as Inquiries, Acquisitions, and Employment. The subject headings and content of the materials remains quite consistent throughout the years, even through the tenures of different Directors.

ArchivalResource: 31.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263174350 View

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Director's Office Records of Trustees' Meetings, 1966-1989.

Title: Director's Office Records of Trustees' Meetings, 1966-1989.

These records appear to be from the Director's Office and span the tenures of David Brooke and George Heard Hamilton. The files are related to Trustees' meetings. There is one file for each meeting, containing the Director's report, minutes, handwritten notes, annotated reports, agendas, reports from committees, and / or reports from other departments to the Director. The information contained in these records ranges from financial planning and staffing decisions to loan requests and purchases of artwork. There is also a run of files spanning 1979 - 1988 pertaining to planning for meals and accommodations for the Trustees' meetings.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263030772 View

Cunningham, Charles Crehore, 1910-1979. Curatorial Office Records of Charles Cunningham, 1973-1977.

Title: Curatorial Office Records of Charles Cunningham, 1973-1977.

Born in 1910 in Mamaroneck, NY, Charles C. Cunningham attended Harvard and became a curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1935. From 1941 to 1966 he was the director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. He went on to become director of the Art Institute of Chicago until he retired from this position in 1972. George Heard Hamilton, then director of the Clark, invited Cunningham to become chief curator. Cunningham was responsible for two major exhibits at the Clark, The Elegant Academics in 1974 and Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists: The Painters of the Ecole Saint-Simeon in 1976. He also initiated the Conservation Laboratory, which opened in 1977. Cunningham retired from the Clark that year and died in 1979. The Curatorial Office Records of Charles C. Cunningham primarily contain correspondence about potential museum acquisitions and discussions of loans with staff at other museums. Due to his long and respected career, Cunningham had many acquaintances and close friends among curators and directors at other art institutions, as well as among art historians and dealers. The correspondence in these records includes numerous exchanges about intellectual and business concerns in the art world. The high esteem and affection his peers felt for him is evidenced in letters that blur the line between professional and personal. Other materials in this series include: class lists and grades, assignments, and correspondence with students from several courses taught by Cunningham; CAI memoranda; and financial records about costs of exhibits and loans.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263070846 View

Brooke, David S. Records and Papers of David Brooke, Director, 1975-1996.

Title: Records and Papers of David Brooke, Director, 1975-1996.

David S. Brooke, Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from 1977-1994, was born in Walton-on-Thames, England in 1931. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Harvard University. Before joining the Clark, he served as assistant curator at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA from 1960-1961, as assistant to the director at the Smith College Museum in Northampton, MA from 1963-1965, as chief curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto from 1965-1968, and as the director of the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, NH from 1968-1977. The majority of these records came from David Brooke's office but a smaller group was found at a later date in the Director's Vault. The records retrieved from Brooke's office are divided into categories of professional records and personal research. The professional records span a wide variety of museum concerns including research and planning for exhibitions, grant applications, the museum s acquisitions policy, budgets, annual reports, inventories, lists of artworks, correspondence, and speeches Brooke gave to students and staff. There are particularly extensive files of research on William Bouguereau and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The Bouguereau research pertains to Brooke's 1983 publication "A Biography of Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr" and a 1985 exhibit "Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr: A Biography of a Painting." The files on Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema concern the acquisition of the Alma-Tadema painting, "The Women of Amphissa," in 1978, which was the first major acquisition during Brooke's tenure. The correspondence in this series contains exchanges with Clark staff, researchers, donors and lenders, and staff at other museums and foundations. The professional records also contain eulogies for John Edward Sawyer, George Heard Hamilton, and Talcott Banks, and poetry by Daniel Perry, architect of the 1955 building. There is an outline and bibliography of materials in the Clark Archives detailing the papers and articles left by RSC and listing articles written about the Clark family. There are daily planners for the years 1977-1992. There are several audiotapes of interviews with David Brooke and a videotape labeled "Portrait by Clemens." Brooke s research on RSC and the Clark family is divided into the categories of RSC Interests, Clark Family Research, Diary Photocopies, RSC Letters, Collectors, and Dealers. RSC Interests contains copies of excerpts from RSC's diaries, Brooke's notes, articles, and other research on topics that particularly interested RSC, such as horses, books, military history, and food and wine. The Clark Family Research includes articles, genealogical records, and folders of Brooke s notes on RSC and his family members. The Diary Photocopies section includes photocopies, transcripts, and indices of RSC' s diaries. RSC's letters includes both photocopies of letters to and from RSC, and Brooke s correspondence with people who knew RSC and other researchers about his research. The autobiography of Paul Clemens is also found in this section. The Collectors and Dealers sections contain Brooke's research about and correspondence with other prominent art collectors of Clark's time and art and book dealers with whom Clark dealt. Finally, this series includes an index of books on military history once owned by Robert Sterling Clark and currently in the collection of the Beinecke Library. The records from the Director's Vault contain planning materials and drafts of the 25th anniversary report, copies of director's reports, research about and correspondence with art dealers, photocopies of early institutional records such as the articles of incorporation and trustee meeting minutes from the 1950s, and photocopies of catalogue information for the RSC military library.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263131260 View

Rinehart, Michael. Library Records of Michael Rinehart, 1965-1980.

Title: Library Records of Michael Rinehart, 1965-1980.

This series contains the records of Michael Rinehart, librarian of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from 1966-1987. The series includes an assortment of records regarding the early development and administration of the Library. The bulk of the material is business and personal correspondence. The correspondents include other museums and libraries, national museum and library associations, Clark trustees, Rinehart's students, and Clark staff. Much of the correspondence deals with the development of the library collection through gifts, purchases, and exchanges with other libraries. There are several folders of personal correspondence with Rinehart's colleagues, friends, and former students. The series also contains syllabi and course work for graduate courses taught by Rinehart, daily planners for the years 1977-1980, files on the hiring and evaluation of library staff, and financial records such as budgets, records of gifts, and drafts of annual report statements.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263068525 View

Brooks, John H. Records of John H. Brooks, 1968-2007.

Title: Records of John H. Brooks, 1968-2007.

This record group consists of carbon copies of John H. Brooks's outgoing business correspondence from 1968-1977. They are mostly short letters and there are rarely replies or earlier correspondence from the recipients. Brooks was employed by the museum beginning in 1968 as the assistant, and later associate, director. The content of this correspondence primarily deals with planning and organizing events at the Clark, confirming school group visits, confirming flight and hotel reservations for visiting lecturers, and arranging meetings between staff members.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263146161 View

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Historical Records of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from the Director's Vault, 1950-1994.

Title: Historical Records of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from the Director's Vault, 1950-1994.

This series contains an assortment of records relating to the early history of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. The records include newspaper clippings; early photographs of the museum; correspondence and memoranda discussing the development of museum policies and regulations; correspondence and notes from Talcott Banks, first president of the Board of Trustees, about Peter Guille's resignation as director; a report on Stone Hill by a Williams student; and correspondence with Peter Guille's family from the 1980s.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263289326 View

Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Financial Series, 1903-1955 (bulk 1921-1954)

Title: Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Financial Series, 1903-1955 (bulk 1921-1954)

The business records span the years 1903-1955. The material consists of bank statements; assets statements; cash statements; statements of holdings and earning on the Bond and Stock markets; expense reports on RSC's various businesses and properties; and reports on financial and investments accounts for RSC, Francine and RSC's companies. The Equitable Trust company folder contains bank statements; the Tiffany & Co. folder contains receipts and appraisals for jewelry; and the Gardner, Mountain & Co. folder contains receipts and insurance policies, many of them forwarded from Lloyd's of London. In addition to these companies, there are many assets statements from William Allen & Co.; bank statements from Chase National Bank and Bankers Trust Company; and financial and investment reports from R.G. Rankin & Co. The receipts series contains receipts from 1920-1955 for a variety of goods and services such as jewelry, horse breeding and care, rare books, clothing, luggage, medical expenses and hotel bills. There are significant quantities from the book dealers James F. Drake, Inc., Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. and the Estate of George D. Smith. There are many receipts for horse breeding and care from the British Bloodstock Agency, A.B. Hancock and the Kentucky Association. There are many bills from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Folder 20a contains a number of records received from the office of Talcott Banks related to insurance and shipping. At the end of the receipts, there are two folders: one contains some real estate records; the other contains reports from private investigators RSC engaged to scrutinize people who asked him for money. The checkbooks span the years of 1937-1948.

ArchivalResource: 3.3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263440407 View