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Annual Report OCTOBER 1, 2019—SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 Letter from the 2020 Annual Report Archives of American Art 2 Interim Director Annual Report OCTOBER 1, 2019—SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 Letter from the 2020 Annual Report Archives of American Art 2 Interim Director DEAR FRIENDS, In early October 1918, art critic James Britton wrote its collections and making them publicly available. in his diary, “When the health law rings the gong— To support this vision, this year, the Roy Lichtenstein even art must stand attentive to Influenza.” More Foundation made a transformational $5 million gift than a century later, the Archives of American Art to create an endowment to process and digitize stands attentive to COVID-19. On March 16, 2020, collections on art and artists from historically we moved our entire staff to telework status, closing underrepresented groups. Digitization requires time our DC and New York research centers. Now, as and meticulous attention to detail. Having recently we begin 2021, many staff are still working from completed a three-year challenge grant from home, continuously finding new ways to connect the Walton Family Foundation, we improved our our mission to collect, preserve, and share the efficiency, doubling our rate of digitization. legacy of American art with the increasingly virtual With schools across the US now turning to world. Others are in the office on a staggered distance learning, we are well positioned to schedule, preserving the collections we continue help and to scale up our efforts to promote the to acquire during the pandemic and digitizing value of teaching with primary sources. This material for curious individuals everywhere to year, continuing our partnership with the Lunder consult on our website. In the report ahead, you Institute for American Art at Colby College and will find highlights from a year like no other, the Cleveland Museum of Art, we held the second one that generated innovative projects, exciting in a series of three workshops focused on creating partnerships, and new examples of our expertise innovative, adaptable models for using archival applied amid the challenges of a global pandemic. materials to teach the history of American art. These accomplishments were made possible only by the generosity of our donors and the hard work While the Archives’ oral histories have traditionally of our staff. been recorded in person, the pandemic inspired staff to reimagine the program with the Pandemic The turbulence of 2020 and beyond has made Oral History Project, 85 interviews with American us keenly aware of how fortunate we are to have artists and art world figures conducted remotely so many of our collections digitized and freely on Zoom. This remarkable collection gives voice available online. We are reminded, once again, of to the arts community during one of the most our gratitude to the Terra Foundation for American turbulent periods in modern history, a time in Art for setting us on this path in 2005, and more which many cultural institutions have been forced recently for establishing an endowment that will to temporarily or permanently close, radically ensure that large-scale digitization is at the heart reshaping relationships between artists and the of our mission. During COVID-19, the ability to find, public. Project participants include Ed Bereal, request, and study archival material remotely has Mark Bradford, Lenore Chinn, Allana Clarke, been imperative for researchers working from home DEMI, Deana Haggag, Sheila Hicks, Alfredo Jaar, in the United States and abroad. As one told us, “I Alessandra Moctezuma, Wendy Red Star, and simply couldn’t do my job without the Archives.” Krzysztof Wodiczko, among others. Engaging and Since its establishment 65 years ago, the Archives cathartic, these firsthand accounts serve as a has been committed to diversifying and broadening powerful primary source for anyone investigating Letter from the 2020 Annual Report Archives of American Art 3 Interim Director the collective and individual challenges of art and from individual donors. This year, we are deeply life in the age of COVID-19, as well as amidst the thankful to Joyce Menschel and the Richard and sustained deadly violence against Black Americans Jane Manoogian Foundation for their support of and a national reckoning with racism. our mission through leadership gifts. The Trustees and staff likewise join me in expressing gratitude to In late June, we acquired four World War II Amy Bermingham, Martha Fleischman, and George diaries kept by art conservator and Monuments Merck and the Merck family for sustaining our Man Lieutenant Commander George Leslie Stout, mission with significant gifts. dating from 1944 to 1946. In these volumes, Stout recorded, with clarity and precision, his movements In closing, I share a quote from the Pandemic through France, Germany, and Japan, at first Oral History Project interview with fiber artist surveying the damage to historic monuments and Sheila Hicks, from her home in Paris. When asked then discovering and recovering looted treasures about life after COVID-19, she responded, “I don’t stolen and stockpiled by the Nazis. The diaries tell think of the pandemic ending. Over here in my an extraordinary story of heroism, persistence, neighborhood, we don’t think of it as ending…. It’s problem solving, and cultural recovery. This a ship that’s been pushed out to sea.” Her advice? acquisition was made possible through the efforts “Learn to swim!” With my deepest appreciation to of Dr. Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian Distinguished our committed staff, dedicated Board of Trustees, Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large, who raised the generous donors, and supportive Smithsonian Duane Michals, Portrait of Merce Cunningham, undated. necessary funds for the purchase in a matter of colleagues, I am proud to say that, in 2020 the Duane Michals papers, 1940–2019. days. The diaries are now reunited with the papers Archives has done more than tread water—we have that Stout donated in 1978, as well as the papers found new ways to swim and interviews of other Monuments Men in our collection, including Thomas Carr Howe, James J. Rorimer, and Otto Wittmann. These documents and With gratitude, recordings have been preserved and are available to scholars and historians looking to the Archives for the personal perspectives of these courageous individuals as they risked their lives to protect historic sites, icons, artifacts, and masterpieces Liza Kirwin during World War II. We are honored to hold them Interim Director in trust for the nation. While the Archives receives federal funding as part of the Smithsonian Institution, more than half of its annual operating budget is derived from gifts, grants, and income from our endowments. To support important initiatives like the Pandemic Oral History Project and to remain a leader in the archival field, we rely on unrestricted funding Year In Review 2020 Annual Report Archives of American Art 4 63,583 21,556 85 Digital images created, Images created through Oral histories recorded corresponding to 45.9 Digitization on Demand linear feet of collections 38 1,004 80 Collections donated Research inquiries answered by Oral history transcripts the reference department made available online 126 200 1,485,147 Collections processed Reproduction requests fulfilled Page views on the AAA website 816 156 13,475 Linear feet of collections processed Notable press mentions Pages transcribed in the Transcription Center Exhibitions 2020 Annual Report Archives of American Art 5 Ephemeral and Eternal: The Archive of Lenore Tawney September 15, 2019 to March 1, 2020 John Michael Kohler Arts Center Sheboygan, WI Guest curated by the Archives’ curator of manuscripts Mary Savig, this exhibition explored correspondence, journals, artist books, photographs, and ephemera drawn from collections at the Archives and the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation. Savig’s selection highlighted key moments in Tawney’s career, as well as her everyday life and close friendships. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: 1 Installation view of Ephemeral and Eternal: The Archive of Lenore Tawney, John Michael Kohler Arts Center. 2 Mary Savig and Kathleen Mangan, Executive Director of the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, at the opening of the exhibition Ephemeral and Eternal: The Archives of Lenore Tawney, October 5, 2019. 3 Lenore Tawney, Artist book with rodent skull, circa 1985; paper, bone, and ink; 4 x 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. Courtesy of the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, New York. Photograph by Rich Maciejewski, 2018. Exhibitions 2020 Annual Report Archives of American Art 6 What Is Feminist Art? Opened November 26, 2019; closed indefinitely due to COVID-19 on March 14, 2020 Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Washington, DC As a public health precaution due to COVID-19, all Smithsonian museums, including the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery, are closed. We are not announcing a reopening date for What Is Feminist Art? but will provide updates on our website and social media as they become available. Photographs of the exhibition What is Feminist Art? in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery, Washington, DC, and intern Lauren Kershenbaum assisting with the installation. Events 2020 Annual Report Archives of American Art 7 October 22, 2019 November 7–8, 2019 At the annual Archives of American Art gala, held at the Essex House in New York, Interim director Liza Kirwin participated in the Institut national d’histoire d’art (INHA) artist Howardena Pindell and the American Academy of Art and Letters were symposium on collecting the papers of art historians, in Paris, France. awarded the Archives of American Art Medals. Alexander Nemerov received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History. Premiering at the 2019 gala, the short film Dig Deep articulates the Archives’ mission and highlights its contributions to the field of American art. The film Symposium participants tour the INHA’s library, Bibliothèque de features conversations with Archives staff l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, November 7, 2019.
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