Records: Departmental administration 1899-1997 (inclusive).

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Records: Departmental administration 1899-1997 (inclusive).

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This series contains records relating to the administrative functions of the department. The bulk of the records are correspondence with institutions, artists, colleagues, donors, trustees, and collectors regarding topics such as proposed exhibitions, research, recommendations, donations, and tours. Monthly and departmental reports provide a useful account of the various projects and developments of the department. Also included are records which provide information on the creation, development, and maintenance of the Sculpture Garden.

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Brooklyn Museum. Department of American Painting and Sculpture.

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Brooklyn Museum. Department of Contemporary Art.

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Brooklyn Museum. Departments of European Painting and Sculpture, American Painting and Sculpture, Contemporary Art.

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The origins of the Departments of European Painting and Sculpture, American Painting and Sculpture, and Contemporary Art can be traced to the opening of the Brooklyn Museum building in 1897. William Henry Goodyear, who had been titular curator of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences since 1890, became curator in 1899 of the Brooklyn Museum's new Department of Fine Arts, the predecessor of the Department of Painting and Sculpture. In the early 1930s, the Department...

Brooklyn Museum. Department of European Painting and Sculpture.

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Brooklyn Museum. Department of Painting and Sculpture.

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The records of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum document the administrative and curatorial activities of the department from soon after its inception in 1897 up through the present day. They reveal the history of the department by providing information on development of the object collection, exhibitions since 1911, and the department's associations to other art institutions and the local community. From the description of Records, Exhibition views: ins...

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Museum

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Gallati, Barbara Dayer.

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Ferber, Linda S.

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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...

Millstein, Barbara Head

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Kotik, Charlotta, 1940-

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Hoopes, Donelson F.

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Gordon, John, 1912-....

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Ross, Marvin C. (Marvin Chauncey), 1904-

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Carbone, Teresa A.

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Rapaport, Brooke Kamin.

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Brooklyn Museum of Art

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Brooklyn Museum. Department of Natural History.

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Faunce, Sarah.

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Sweet, Frederick A. (Frederick Arnold), 1903-1984

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Art historian, museum administrator; Chicago, Illinois. From the description of Research material on Mary Cassatt and James A. McNeill Whistler, 1872-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515133 Frederick A. Sweet (1903-1984) was a museum curator from Sargentville, Me. From the description of Oral history interview with Frederick A. Sweet, 1976 Feb. 13-14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83548327 Frederick A. Sweet (b. 1903) was an art hist...

Brooklyn Museum. Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs.

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Goodyear, W.H. (William Henry), 1846-1923

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William Henry Goodyear (1846-1923) was an art and architectural historian and the Brooklyn Museum of Art's first Curator of Fine Arts from 1899-1923, an appointment he accepted soon after serving as curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1881-1888). In addition to his responsibilities of developing and maintaining the fine arts collection at the Museum, Goodyear published extensively on art history and pursued research in architectural history. He developed a theory, based on direc...

Easton, Elizabeth Wynne

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Tschudy, Herbert B. (Herbert Bolivar), 1874-1946

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Saldern, Axel von, 1923-....

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Baur, John I. H. (John Ireland Howe), 1909-1987

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Museum curator; New York, N.Y. From the description of John I. H. Baur interviews, 1970 Jan. 22-Feb. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220178585 John I.H. Baur (1909-1987) was a museum curator from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with John I.H. Baur, 1970 Jan. 22-Feb. 19 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595042 Museum curator, museum director, and writer; New York, N.Y. Curator Br...