Archives of American Art
Variant namesHistory notes:
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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Subjects:
- 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
- Auction catalogs
- Educators
- Eight (Group of American artists)
- Language and languages
- Modernism (Art)
- Modernism (Art)
- Modernism (Art)
- Museum directors
- Museums
- Still-life painting, American
- Art, Modern
- Art, Modern
- Art, Modern
- Art, Modern
- Art, American
- Art, American
- Art, American
- Art galleries, Commercial
- Art galleries, Commercial
- Artists
- Modernism (Art)
- Modernism (Art)
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Places:
- Smithsonian Archives of American Art, ,
- California (as recorded)
- California (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- California, Southern (as recorded)
- California, Southern (as recorded)
- California, Southern (as recorded)
- California, Southern (as recorded)
- New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
- Massachusetts (as recorded)
- California, Southern (as recorded)
- California (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- California, Southern (as recorded)
- California, Southern (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)