Office of the Director records, 1932-1982.

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Office of the Director records, 1932-1982.

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The records consist primarily of correspondence, and to a lesser extent chronological and subject files that reflect the activities of Paul Gardner, Laurence Sickman, and Ralph T. Coe while each served, in succession, as director of the Museum.

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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Sickman, L. C. S. (Laurence C. S.)

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Laurence Sickman began his long association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1931 as an advisor on Oriental art. He served as curator of Oriental art from 1935 to 1973. He was appointed vice-director of the Museum in 1947 and was promoted to director in 1953. He remained as director until he retired in 1977. From the description of Laurence Sickman papers, 1898-1989. (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art). WorldCat record id: 122561071 ...

Gardner, Paul, 1895-

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Joseph Paul Gardner was born October 20, 1894, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Joseph Alexander Gardner and Emma Blanch Crowell. He majored in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but left in 1917 to join the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corp. He served in France during World War I, attained the rank of Captain and was awarded the Croix De Guerre with Palm at age 21. At the end of the war, he traveled Europe studying architecture. The summers between 1920 and 1930 were spent in E...

Coe, Ralph T.

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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There was only one individual to hold an exhibition design related curatorship at the Museum. This was D. Craig Craven. Craven joined the Museum staff in March 1964 as the exhibitions designer. The following year the position title was changed to assistant curator of exhibitions. In 1970 Craven was promoted to curator of exhibitions. He left the Museum in 1973, after a short stint as the adjunct curator of exhibitions. From the description of Curator of Exhibitions records, 1967-1972...