James Roth collection, 1947-1975.

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James Roth collection, 1947-1975.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/499190436

The collection consists primarily of correspondence and conservation reports which document his work as a freelance conservator.

2 cubic feet.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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SNAC Resource ID: 7615751

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Roth, James F. (James Frank), 1925-

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James Roth was born in California, Missouri on May 11, 1910. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and in 1933 he began working at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He became interested in art conservation while assisting a French restorer, Marcel Rouguon, who was hired to work on the collection. In 1938, he received a Carnegie Grant to study at the Fogg Museum. He returned to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to establish and head the restoration department. In 1939, he also employed the skill...

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...