Mead Art Museum records, 1874-[ongoing], (bulk 1946-[ongoing]).

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Mead Art Museum records, 1874-[ongoing], (bulk 1946-[ongoing]).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51775152

The collection contains correspondence, research notes, news clippings, guest books, exhibit catalogues, monographs, press releases, and photographs relating to Amherst College's Mead Art Museum. The bulk of the collection relates to the Armory Show Retrospective of 1958. The collection also contains numerous exhibit catalogues, dating from 1946 to present.

2 record storage boxes, 4 archives boxes, 3 half archives boxes, 1 oversize folder (5.6 linear ft.)

Amherst College. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7643580

Amherst College. Library

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Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)

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Professor Charles H. Morgan of the College's Fine Arts Department was responsible for developing the museum's original art collection. He became the museum's first director in 1948, a position which he held for twenty years. The Mead Art Museum building was constructed in 1948-49 on the site of the Stearns Church (the Stearns Church spire was retained). Construction was financed by gift from William R. Mead (AC 1867) and directed by the college architect, James Kellum Smith of the firm McKim, Me...

Mead Art Building

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Armory Show (1913 : New York, N.Y.)

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