Jeanne Harris papers, 1947-1987.

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Jeanne Harris papers, 1947-1987.

The papers consist primarily of maps, postcards, photographs, scholarly papers, a scrapbook, and other miscellaneous materials.

2 cubic feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7615747

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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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...

Harris, Jeanne G.

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Jeanne Harris was born on March 9, 1919. She earned her bachelor's degree in Romance languages from Sweet Briar College in Virginia. After this she moved to New York City where she worked in the lending collections department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Harris then decided to pursue a master's degree in Oriental art at Columbia University, from which she later graduated. Her next job was in an Oriental gallery on 57th Street in New York City. Here she met Laurence Sickman, who was then th...