Paul Gardner papers, 1916-1950.

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Paul Gardner papers, 1916-1950.

The papers consist of correspondence, class notes, tests and papers, study materials, catalogs, programs, invoices, travel schedules, maps, bills, check stubs, and photographs which document his personal, academic, and professional life.

3.5 cubic feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7615736

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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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...

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...