Records. Exhibitions 1941-2002 (inclusive).

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Records. Exhibitions 1941-2002 (inclusive).

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This series contains records relating to the planning and organization of the department's exhibitions. The files provide information on the various stages involved in the preparation and mounting of exhibitions, as well as related activities such as events and publicity. Exhibitions which are most extensively documented are Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan (1978) and Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies (1988). In addition, this series contains files on Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period. Organized by Bernard Bothmer and John Cooney in 1960, it was the first comprehensive showing of Egyptian sculpture of the late period and was the culmination of ten years of research in Egypt, Europe and the Americas.

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Brooklyn Museum. Department of Egyptian, Classical & Ancient Middle Eastern Art.

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Beginning in 1898, a year after the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences opened the central museum building, the Museum began actively collecting Egyptian and classical objects through private donations and sponsored excavations. Prior to 1932, when the Department of Antiquities was created, the Museum acquired Egyptian and classical objects through the efforts and guidance of William H. Goodyear, the first curator of the Department of Fine Arts. By the mid-1930s, the newly estab...

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Romano, James F.

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Riefstahl, Elizabeth

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Fazzini, Richard A.

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