Archives of American Art

Variant names
Dates:
Americans
English

History 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)

Occupations:

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Places:

  • District of Columbia, DC, US