Edgar Craig Schenck Records, 1955-1960.

Brooklyn Museum. Edward C. Blum Design Laboratory.

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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...

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. Community Committee.

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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 ...

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.)

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The Fashion Institute of Technology, opened in 1944, is a State University of New York college for design and business professions that trains students to work in the fashion, design, business, communication and other related industries. In 1951 FIT was one of the first SUNY community colleges empowered to grant Associate degrees in Applied Science, in 1975 it was permitted to grant bachelor's degrees, and in 1985 it began offering its first master's degrees. FIT is a public institution, receivi...

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

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Long Island University

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Long Island University was founded in 1926 with the Brooklyn campus as the original campus. It is a private university offering graduate, undergraduate, and professional degrees. The Brooklyn campus consists of the Richard L. Conolly College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business and Public Administration, and the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. From the description of Miscellaneous records, 1926-[ca.1983] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155456...

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

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On November 11, 1862, a group of prominent Buffalo citizens met to adopt a constitution and by-laws for the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. At this initial meeting, it was agreed to establish and maintain a permanent art gallery in Buffalo. Until this was accomplished in 1905, the Academy held exhibitions in several locations in downtown Buffalo. In 1905, the Academy moved to its current location on Elmwood Avenue. The 1905 building, gifted by Buffalo entrepreneur and philanthropist John...

American federation of arts

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The American Federation of Arts was a non-profit education association that sponsored group and one-man shows as well as lecture tours to promote the arts in America. The correspondence with A.F.A. staff Leila Mechlin, Horace Jayne and Burton Cummings deals primarily with exhibitions of the work of Federico Castellón, Misch Kohn and Mauricio Lasansky. Also mentioned is a lecture tour on prints made by Elmer Adler. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1929-1953...

Schenck, Edgar Craig, 1909-1959

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Edgar Craig Schenck became director of the Albright Art Gallery on September 1, 1949. He left office July 1, 1955. His five-year term as art director was a transitional period between the directorships of his predecessors, who struggled to achieve and maintain regional and national standards of excellence, and that of his successor, Gordon M. Smith, under whose leadership the Gallery achieved international recognition. Schenck was born in Hot Springs, North Carolina in 1909. He earned his MFA fr...

Association of Art Museum Directors

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Bachrach, Grace, 1884-1962.

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University of Hawaii (Honolulu)

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Nagel, Charles

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American association of museums

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Christy, Francis T. (Francis Taggart), 1897-

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Cooney, John D. (John Ducey), 1905-1982

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Brown, Lawford and Forbes (Firm)

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Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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Founded 1843, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences was the umbrella organization for four major Brooklyn institutions: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Several smaller organizations were also under its jurisdiction. From the description of Records, 1843-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122529756 The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (BIAS) evolved from the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library Assoc...

Schenk family.

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Honolulu academy of arts

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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...