Department of Art of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1934-1987

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Department of Art of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1934-1987

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The Department of Art was created in 1936. Originally its curriculum was limited to art history; later, courses in studio art were added. The chairman of the Department of Art was also the director of the university's art museum until 1974, when the museum became a separate administrative unit. Established in 1937, the art museum was first located in Person Hall. In 1958, a new building was completed with funds from the bequest of William Hayes Ackland. The museum then moved and was renamed the William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center; in 1979, its name changed again, to the Ackland Art Museum. (Records of the art museum after 1974 are a separate record group). Records include correspondence and other files relating to the administration of the Department of Art and of the university's art museum; files concerning graduate and undergraduate programs in art; and museum exhibition records, 1935-1959.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Records Service

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The University of North Carolina's Department of Art was established in 1936 through the efforts of Mrs. Katherine Pendleton Arrington and the North Carolina Art Society. With funding from the Works Progress Administration and donations from the Art Society membership, Person Hall was renovated and, on 15 January 1937, rededicated as the Person Hall Art Gallery. Under its first chairman, Russell T. Smith, the department consolidated the university's holdings of paintings, sculpture,...