Archives of American Art Announces the Opening of Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art Exhibition Records for Research
The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art is pleased to announce the completion of a major project funded in 2007 by the Brown Foundation Inc. to fully arrange, preserve and describe the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art Exhibition Records (264 linear feet). One of the Archives’ most significant collections is now fully accessible to researchers and includes a detailed online finding aid.
As part of this effort, portions of the collection were also digitized. Researchers now have online access to nearly 147,000 digital images, including the correspondence of the museum’s first two directors John Beatty (1896-1921) and Homer Saint-Gaudens (1922-1950) and the voluminous records of the Pittsburgh International Exhibitions of Contemporary Painting from 1895 to 1940 (now known as The Carnegie International). The Archives’ transformative Digitization Initiative funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art supported the digitization of the records.
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The collection includes extensive exhibition-related correspondence with artists, dealers, galleries, collectors, museum directors, representatives abroad, shipping and insurance agents and museum trustees. Nearly every late 19th and early 20th century American and European artist of note is represented, from Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer to Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Also found are interoffice memoranda and reports, loan exhibition files and letterpress copy books.
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