Records: Exhibitions 1911-2005 (inclusive).

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Records: Exhibitions 1911-2005 (inclusive).

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This series contains records relating to the planning and development of exhibitions. The files provide information on the various stages involved in the preparation and mounting of exhibitions as well as related activities such as symposia and lectures. Notable exhibitions include the Grand Lobby installation series, Curator's Choice series and Listening to Pictures (1968). The department(s) organized major exhibitions of artists of international renown, such as Albert Bierstadt, Art & Enterprise (1991) and Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993 (1994), as well as shows that featured local and emerging artists. These included Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters (1915), Paintings and Sculpture by Brooklyn and Long Island artists (1934) and the Contemporary division's Working in Brooklyn series in the 1980s and 1990s, which featured works by painters and sculptors with studios in Brooklyn. Files in this series also include materials regarding collaborative exhibitions with other museum departments; photography exhibitions through the mid-1970s; and exhibitions that were cancelled after the initial planning stages.

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Brooklyn Museum. Department of American 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...

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

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Gordon, John, 1912-....

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Rapaport, Brooke Kamin

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Kotik, Charlotta, 1940-

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Ferber, Linda S.

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Carbone, Teresa A.

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Faunce, Sarah.

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Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

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

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Gallati, Barbara Dayer

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Hoopes, Donelson F.

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Brooklyn Museum

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Millstein, Barbara Head

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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...

Saldern, Axel von, 1923-....

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Easton, Elizabeth Wynne

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

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