Thomas S. Buechner records, 1960-1971.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The main building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a new art reference library, named the Thomas J. Watson Library, was designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford and Forbes in consultation with the Museum. Severud-Elstad-Krueger were the structural engineers; Krey and Hunt were the mechanical engineers. The Library formally opened Jan. 26, 1965. It occupies three floors: the two lower floors comprise s...

Brooklyn Museum. Roebling Society.

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Brooklyn Museum. Office of the Director.

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Philip N. Youtz was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1895. He received a B.A. degree from Amherst College in 1918, where he had served as curator of the Mather Art Museum since 1916, and an M.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1919. During the early 1920s he taught and practiced architecture in China and from 1926-29 taught at Columbia University and Columbia Teacher's College and was in charge of adult education programs in fine arts at the People's Institute. In 1930, he was appoi...

Brooklyn Museum. Community Gallery.

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The records of the Community Gallery at the Brooklyn Museum document the administrative and curatorial activities of the department from soon after its inception up through 1985. From the description of Records, Exhibition views: installations. Six Photographers/Six Visions. 1972. (Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives). WorldCat record id: 752597034 The records of the Community Gallery at the Brooklyn Museum document the administrative and curatorial activities of the de...

Buechner, Thomas S., 1926-2010

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Thomas S. Buechner, was appointed the founding director of The Corning Museum of Glass in 1950, six months before its public opening. Trained as an artist and working at the time as an exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he moved to Corning, developed a world-class glass collection and library, and led the institution to its public opening on May 19, 1951. Buechner established the Museum's academic journals, New Glass Review and The Journal of Glass Studies (both still publish...

Brooklyn Museum Art School.

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The Brooklyn Museum Art School was founded in 1941 in Brooklyn, NY and closed in 1985. A non-degree-granting institution, its chief purpose was the training of professional artists, although it also offered classes for amateurs. At its peak in the 1950s, the school was run by artist Augustus Peck and benefited from the GI Bill; continual efforts to either become accredited or to merge with an existing degree-granting institution began during this period and remained a concern until the School's ...

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979

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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th governor of New York from 1959 to 1973. He also served as assistant secretary of State for American Republic Affairs for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1944–1945) as well as under secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1954....

Stern, Louis E., 1886-1962

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Art collector, attorney; New York, N.Y. Born in Balta, Russia, Stern joined his father in America ca. 1900, and earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1909. An avid patron of the arts, Stern's collection was notable for its illustrated artists' books, prints, sculpture, ancient and primitive objects, and paintings, in particular his many works by Marc Chagall. Upon his death, his collection was given to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, his art librar...

Steuben Glass, inc.

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Wilkinson, Charles Kyrle, 1897-1986

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Saltonstall, David.

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Kevorkian Foundation

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Association of Art Museum Directors

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Corning Museum of Glass

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Bothmer, Bernard V., 1912-1993

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Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980

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Submitted in Prof. Rowe's creative writing course, between 1936-38. From the description of Go down, Moses [ca. 1937] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34370465 American poet, educator, and author. Winner of Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards for poetry (1941, 1942), graduate of the University of Michigan (1944), and profesor at Fisk University until 1969, then at the University of Michigan until his retirement. From the description of Poetry collection, 1...

Museum Computer Network

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Erickson, Ernest, 1893-1983

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American association of museums

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New York State Council on the Arts

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The position of executive director has been held by the following individuals: Laurence Roberts (1960-1961); John H. MacFadyen (1961-1964); John B. Hightower (1964-1970); Eric Larrabee (1971-1975); Kent Barwick (1975-1976); Robert A. Mayer (1976-1979); Theodore Striggles (1979-1980); Mary Hays (1980-1995); Al Berr (April, 1995-August, 1996); and Nicolette B. Clark (1996-present). From the description of Executive Director's subject and correspondence files, 1960-2001. (New York State...

Brooklyn Museum

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The origins of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences extend back to 1823, with the founding of the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library. The Library, located at the corner of Cranberry and Henry Streets in the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, was established for the education and cultural enrichment of young tradesmen. In 1841, the Library relocated to the building of the Brooklyn Lyceum, an organization devoted to intellectual pursuits in the arts and sciences, at the corner of Washington and C...

Blum, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1899-1999

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Brown, Lawford and Forbes (Firm)

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