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NEW YORK, NY 300 Park Avenue South, Suite 300 In fiscal year 2016 (October 1, 2015-September 30, 2016), the Archives New York, NY 10010 of American Art was awarded the inaugural Don Tyson Prize from T: 212.399.5015 the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in September. The prize recognizes significant achievements in American art, as selected by a Mailing Addresses prestigious national jury of art historians and museum professionals. U.S. POSTAL SERVICE The Archives was honored for “advancing knowledge in the field of Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution American art since [its] establishment in 1954.” P.O. Box 37012, MRC 937 Victor Building, Suite 2200 This acknowledgment of our work is heartening, as it arrived at the end Washington, DC 20013-7012 of another successful year. Our collectors traveled across the country and back again, continuing to grow our holdings. Over the course of this FEDEX/UPS fiscal year, we added 111 new collections or additions to our holdings. Archives of American Art The Latino Collecting Initiative entered its second year and featured the Smithsonian Institution acquisition of the papers of photographer Andres Serrano and artist/ 750 9th Street, NW architect Moses Ros. This year we also acquired the papers of the late Victor Building, Suite 2200 philanthropist, artist, collector, and art dealer James R. “Jimmy” Hedges Washington, DC 20001 III, and the records from his Rising Fawn Folk Art Gallery, showcasing Gallery more than 400 “outsider” artists, a term Hedges used interchangeably Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery with “self-taught” and “folk.” Located in the Smithsonian’s Donald W. Reynolds Center We continued to digitize our collections, making them available to for American Art and Portraiture anyone, anywhere, at any time, and added 190,135 new digital images 8th and F Streets, NW to our website thanks to the generosity of our supporters, among them Washington, DC 20001 The Terra Foundation for American Art. Digitization support also came Affiliated Research Centers from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, which allowed us to process Amon Carter Museum, FortIII ANNUAL Worth, REPORT TX 2013 and digitize the collections of W.G. Constable and Wilhelm Reinhold Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Valentiner. European by birth, Valentiner and Constable had long and de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA seminal careers as art historians and museum leaders in the United Huntington Library, San Marino, CA States. Their archives have extraordinary value for understanding the history of art history, and are now more easily available to the public through our website.
In October 2015 at the annual Archives of American Art Benefit, we honored a group of esteemed members of the American art world. Archives of American Art medals were presented to the Ford Foundation for its leadership in the “Grand Bargain” that saved the Detroit Institute of Arts, and to artist Robert Gober for his estimable body of work. William H. Truettner, Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, was awarded the Lawrence A. Flesichman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of Art History.
III ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Our curatorial department put on four exhibitions at the Lawrence A. Oral histories Fleischman Gallery in Washington, DC. Little Black Books: Address recorded Books from the Archives of American Art showcased the address books 34 of influential artists, divulging important connections and relationships between artists and their colleagues, dealers, family members, and Collections friends. Robert Motherwell: A Centennial Celebration marked the processed centennial of Motherwell’s birth; the exhibition illuminated his many 104 roles in the early years of Abstract Expressionism as well as the personal relationships that shaped his career and impact on the history of modern art in the twentieth century. The exhibition was guest-curated Collections by Tim Clifford, co-author of Robert Motherwell: 100 Years (2015) acquired 111 and Robert Motherwell, Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941–1991 (2012).
Reproduction requests fulfilled The exhibition Finding: Source Material in the Archives of American Art 371 looked at the ways in which artists find, collect, and organize sources that impact and influence their works. The show included comic strips, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks and more. Our final Linear feet of collections processed exhibition, Expanding the Legacy: New Collections on African American 1,228 Art, opened just before the close of this fiscal year and celebrated the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution. The Archives of American Art In-person visitors consulted 4,213 presented selections from recently acquired collections highlighting the containers of primary documents cultural contributions and the personal stories of African Americans in 1,607 the art world. These records reveal the ways in which artists, dealers, and scholars experienced and contended with racism, explored cultural identity and aesthetics, navigated the art market, and were shaped by— Digital files created 190,135 and helped shape—major social and political currents. Although as a unit of the Smithsonian Institution, the Archives of American Art receives federal support, each year we must secure more Sessions on the website than half our operating budget from private donors in order to make 654,643 our work possible. Among the contributions we received in fiscal year 2016 was a generous gift from Joyce Menschel toward the oral history program. In addition, Lloyd Herman, the Founding Director Emeritus of Page views on the website the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, made a 1,997,541 seed gift to the Archives to spark others to give to the important cause of raising the visibility of American studio craft within the field of American art history.
The Archives relies on the commitment of so many individuals – our tireless staff, our dedicated Board of Trustees, and individual and foundation donors. Together, you are what keeps us moving forward and growing every day. It is a joy to be able to acknowledge and thank you – for your time, advice, gifts, grants, and most of all, encouragement. All these things allow us to continue acquiring and sharing the papers of artists, collectors, dealers, art historians, and critics, with a community of scholars, researchers, and anyone who is interested in American art, worldwide. For this, we thank you.
Kate Haw
2 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Exhibitions
Little Black Books: Address Books from the Archives of American Art August 7 to November 1, 2015 Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Washington DC
Robert Motherwell: A Centennial Celebration November 21, 2015 to March 27, 2016 Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Washington DC
Finding: Source Material in the Archives of American Art April 22 to August 21, 2016 Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Washington DC
Expanding the Legacy: New Collections on African American Art September 23, 2016 to March 21, 2017 Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Washington DC
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner’s address book, circa 1950-1956 / Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Events
October 25, 2015 November 10, 2015 January 26, 2016 At its annual benefit, the Archives Clockwise from Top Deputy Director Dr. Liza Kirwin The Archives organized a awarded Archives of American Kate Haw, Martha Fleischman, and hand-carried the Congressional 101st birthday party for Art Medals to the Ford Foundation Barbara Fleischman. Gold Medal awarded to the Robert Motherwell in the Kogod and artist Robert Gober; and the Benefit honorees Darren Walker, Monuments Men to the Kimbell Courtyard of the Donald W. Robert Gober, and William Truettner. Lawrence A. Fleischman Award Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Reynolds Center for American for Scholarly Excellence in the Alice Walton and John Randal Tyson. and gave remarks at a reception Art and Portraiture. To celebrate Field of American Art History to Photo credit: Michael Seto honoring the legacy of the the occasion, the Archives gave William H. Truettner. Monuments Men and celebrating away 101 cupcakes and birthday the efforts of Rep. Kay Granger cards which featured facts (R-Texas), who spearheaded the about Motherwell. legislation for the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian award bestowed by Congress. The medal was directed to the Archives for safekeeping because of the work we have done to preserve and share the papers and oral history interviews of the Monuments Men. March 8, 2016 Deputy Director Dr. Liza Kirwin delivered the 10th annual Richard Murray Memorial Lecture for the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s docents in the McEvoy Auditorium. She spoke about artists-writers in the Archives of American Art, with a special emphasis on Richard Murray’s research interests.
December 5, 2015 Left to Right Congressional Gold Medal, Monuments Mary Savig, Curator of Men, 2014. Manuscripts, gave a lecture on Robert Motherwell in his Greenwich studio, handmade holiday cards by 1991 / Renate Ponsold, photographer. Long American artists at the Rhode Point Gallery records. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Island Historical Society.
6 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Events
May 17, 2016 July 15, 2016 The Archives’ New York Research The Archives hosted a Center hosted a conversation conversation between artist between Annette Leddy, Gilbert Paul Ramirez Jonas and Dr. Josh and Ann Kinney New York T. Franco, Latino Collections Collector, and Catherine Morris, Specialist, in the Lawrence A. Curator of the Elizabeth A. Fleischman Gallery. They talked Sackler Center for Feminist Art about Jonas’s recent donation at the Brooklyn Museum, about of papers to the Archives, some photographer Cosmos Andrew of which were featured in the Sarchiapone. The event was exhibition Finding: Source followed by a viewing of selected Material in the Archives of items from the Cosmos archive. American Art.
June 18, 2016 September 14, 2016 Karen Weiss, Head of Digital The Archives hosted a Operations, and Deputy conversation entitled “African Director Dr. Liza Kirwin American Art and Artists Today” delivered a talk about the at DC Moore Gallery in New Archives’ collections at the York. The event featured artists Museum of Modern Art Tokyo Whitfield Lovell and Leslie (MOMAT). The talks, which Hewitt, and was moderated by were simultaneously translated Franklin Sirmans, Director of the into Japanese, were sponsored Perez Art Museum Miami. by a consortium of Japanese art museums and research institutes including MOMAT, the National Museum of Ethnology, the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, and the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo.
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Photo credit: C. Daniel Dawson Ray Johnson note to Eva Lee, Great Neck, NY, 1969 September 15. Eva Lee Gallery records. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
8 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Linden, Diana L. Hofer, Margaret K., and Reference Ben Shahn’s New Roberta J.M. Olson, eds. Deal Murals: Jewish Making It Modern: Highlights Identity in the The Folk Art Collection American Scene. of Elie and Viola Selected publications Detroit: Wayne State Nadelman. New York: that relied on the University Press, 2015. New-York Historical Archives’ collections Society and D. Giles Drexler, Martha Lynn. Ltd., London, 2015. American Studio Ceramics: Innovation Auping, Michael. and Identity 1940 to Frank Stella: A 1979. New Haven: Yale Retrospective [Whitney University Press, 2015. Museum of American Art]. New Haven: Yale Fine, Ruth, ed. University Press, 2015. Procession: The Art Left to Right of Norman Lewis. Hankins, Evelyn C. Frederick Hammersley Philadelphia: University Robert Irwin: All the collage An Idea, between of California Press/ Rules Will Change. 1948 and 1971 / Frederick Hammersley, Pennsylvania Academy Munich/London/New artist. Frederick of Fine Arts, 2015. York: DelMonico Books/ Hammersley papers. Prestel, 2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Cover of Pen to Paper, featuring Abraham Rattner letter to William Kienbusch, 1944. Courtesy of SPC Foundation, Inc. and Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art; Maxfield Parrish letter to Martin Birnbaum, 1918, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Lee Krasner letter to Jackson Pollock, 1956, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Corita Kent letter to Ben Shahn, ca. 1960. Reproduced with permission of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles; Jacob Lawrence letter to Edith Halpert, 1944. © 2016 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Archives of American Pen to Paper: Artists’ Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Art Journal Handwritten Letters Isamu Noguchi envelope Publications Volume 55, Number 1, from the Smithsonian’s to Andrée Ruellan, 1924. Reproduced with Spring 2016; Archives of American Art permission of the Isamu Volume 55, Number 2, By Mary Savig. Noguchi Foundation and Fall 2016. June 2016. Garden Museum, New York.
10 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 The Phillips Collection, Renaissance Society Loan Washington, DC at the University of June 4- September 8, Chicago, Highlights 2016. William Merritt Chicago, Illinois Chase: A Modern Master November 14- ITEMS LENT A letter from December 20, 2015. William Merritt Chase’s Let Us Celebrate While students at the Arts Youth Lingers and Students League and Art Ideas Flow, Archives, Notes by Chase 1915-2015 ITEMS LENT 34 documents from The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago records
Center Pompidou, Paris, France June 22, 2016- October 2016. The Beat Generation ITEMS LENT Photographs Clockwise from Top Left and documents from The Occident by Imamu the Wallace Berman Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones), annotated papers and Bob and signed. June 1966. Thompson papers Bob Thompson Papers, 1949-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Photograph of Bradley Walker Tomlin, Kay Bell Reynal, photographer, 1952. Photographs of Sketchbook #8, 19-- / Karl Knaths, artist. Artists by Kay Bell Reynal. Karl Knaths papers. Archives of American Art, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution.
Photograph of Jazz at Slugs, New York. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson. Bob Thompson Papers, 1949-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
12 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Artists Talk on Art Max Kozloff papers, records, 1975–2015 circa 1950–2015 Acquisition Oral History GARY GARRELS OH INTERVIEW Highlights Dore Ashton papers, David Levinthal papers, Highlights TRANSCRIPT, PAGE 41. circa 1928–2014 1967–2015 (addition) James Magee papers, Dennis Adrian Charles “Chaz” 1978–2010 “We got like 25, 30 Bojórquez papers, Ed Bereal 1966–2009 Duane Michals papers, Ross Bleckner people together, circa 1970–2010 Ben Buchanan Rackstraw Downes and… that big photographs, Kenjilo Nanao papers, Joy Episalla 1985–2015 1960–2013 meeting was at the Gary Garrels Richard York Gallery New Museum, and records, 1981–2004 Antonio Homem (addition) I can’t remember if Barbara Kruger Moses Ros papers, Mary Miss it was the second 1975–2012 Irving Petlin or third meeting Nan Rosenthal papers, Robert Pincus-Witten circa 1960–2014 but [we] decided Jim Shaw Andres Serrano papers, to do—to launch 1979–2012 Michelle Stuart Carrie Yamaoka something called A Jaime Davidovich Kathy Vargas papers, papers, 1954–2010 1980–2015 Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Day Without Art...” Left to Right Artists Talk on Art flyer, Roy De Forest papers, Douglas Volk and March–April 1978. circa 1960–2007 Leonard Wells Volk Artist Talk on Art records, 1975–2015. Archives (addition) papers, circa 1858– of American Art, 1965 (addition) Smithsonian Institution. Nancy Goldring Roy and Gloria De Forest, papers, circa Washington Gallery Port Orfold, Oregon, in the late 1970s. Photograph by 1950–1980 of Modern Art records, Pam Patrie. Roy De Forest 1961–1970 (addition) papers, circa 1960–2007. Chaim Gross papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1929–1991 (addition)
Installation view of Roy Joseph H. Hirshhorn Lichtenstein’s sculptures exhibition at 420 W. papers regarding Elmer Broadway, 1977 Nov 19- MacRae, 1958–1975 Dec 17 / unidentified photographer. Leo Castelli Gallery records. Archives Moritz and Sophie of American Art, Jagendorf letters, Smithsonian Institution. 1917–1967
14 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Douglas S. Cramer David Levinthal Demi and $25,000 or more Arturo Rodríguez Darryl Curran Joe Lopez The Bresler Family Moses Ros Collection Jaime Davidovich Helen Ludwig Estate via Donors Agnes Gund, AG Foundation Vera Conrad Nan Rosenthal and Alexander Kaplen*, Donors Terry DeLapp Henry B. Cortesi Estate via $1,000,000 or more James Magee The Kaplen Brothers Fund Hirshhorn Museum and Katherine C. Armstrong, Ann & Gilbert Kinney, Artists Talk on Art via John R. & Barbara Robinson, Sculpture Garden Gloria Marchant Executor Renaissance Charitable Douglas Sheer, Chairman The Widgeon Point Richard D. Marshall Bernard Rost Estate via Foundation Inc. Charitable Foundation Dore Ashton via William T. Georgis, Keith Bringe, Executor Terra Foundation for Dr. & Mrs. R. Perry Robinson, Barbara Aubin Estate via Executor David S. Rubin American Art The Widgeon Point Amie Hyman, Executor James A. McGrath Julia Santos-Solomon Charitable Foundation Cindy Lee Bass Mary K. and Jane Sauer $250,000 or more Marla Prather & Gifford Beal Estate John F. McGuigan Barbara G. Fleischman Jonathan Schiller via Katherine Degn, Janet Sawyer Grete Meilman Smithsonian Institution Kraushaar Galleries Scott Scherr Martha J. Fleischman Janet Meredith and National Museum of African Estate of Charles Liz Westerfield Andres Serrano Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan American History and Ronald Bechtle Jr. via Helene Shuter & Dr. Louis D. Kaplan, Culture Pool David B. Harwi, Executor Thomas Messer Estate via Lichtenberg Family Adam Lehner, Executor Eric Spoutz Foundation Robert H. Bergman, Carol B. Cohen and Duane Michals Robert Stanley Walton Family Foundation, Inc. Betty L. Rosenfield Shayle Miller Dinah Starr Smithsonian Institution Robert Bliss Norma Minkowitz Jenny J. Sykes Collections Care and Krikor Der Hohannesian Preservation Fund Charles “Chaz” Bojórquez Gail Nanao Robin Tewes Takis Efstathiou Norma Broude and Claire Nivola Peter Traugott Mary Garrard Paula Maria Espinosa $100,000 or more Christine I. Oaklander John F. Turner Ben Buchanan Lillian Falk The Ford Foundation Tony Ortega Edwin Ullman Linda Burnham John and Janet Fesler Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Nancy Papazian Kathy Vargas Barbara Frank Richard and Jane Frank Paraday Scott R. Vickrey Karen Freeman Manoogian Foundation Gloria Breeskin Peck Roslyn A. Walker Wynn Gaylor Joyce F. Menschel, Lucio Pozzi Edward Weiss The Robert and Joyce $10,000 or more Constance Glenn Kate Prendergast Helene Weiss Menschel Family Ann Berman & Daniel Feld, Nancy Goldring Foundation & Vital Projects Jewish Communal Fund & Jules David Prown Reid White Fund, Inc. Renee and Chaim Gross Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Foundation via Sybao Cheng Wilson Smithsonian Institution Berman Foundation Susan Fisher Collections Information The Honorable Max N. Berry Systems Information Diane Gunter Resources Management Pool Mr. & Mrs. Norman R. Bobins, The Robert Thomas Bobins Kimberly Camp Frederick Hammersley Foundation via Foundation Enrique Chagoya Kathleen Shields, Director $50,000 or more Gay F. Boswell Judith Childs Lisa Bush Hankin Dedalus Foundation Edward O. Cabot William Clutz James R. Hedges IV Lloyd E. Herman Mr. & Mrs. Leslie J. Garfield Theodore Arthur Andre Jagendorf Samuel H. Kress Foundation Bernard Goldberg, Bernard Cooper Estate via Smithsonian Institution Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC Laura Cooper Jordan Wendy Jeffers Latino Initiatives Pool Nancy Kelker Judith & Steaven K. Jones, Corcoran Gallery of Steaven K. and Judith G. Art via David Julyan, Max Kozloff Jones Foundation representative of the Louise Katzman Kurabi Trustees of the gallery Dorothy Lichtenstein Jo Lauria Michael Cortor The Boris Lurie Art Foundation
16 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Bridget Moore $2,500 or more Michael N. Altman Fine Art Meredith Ward & Ernest & Nancy Keet, Marty O’Brien Elena Barnet and Advisory Services, LLC Debra Wieder Cloudsplitter Foundation Janice C. Oresman Christie’s International Leslie Nelson Negley Washburn Gallery Liza Kirwin Shaun Caley Regen Kathleen M. Doyle Steve Nelson, Evelene Wechsler, Evan Lindquist The Nelson Family Wechsler Foundation Smithsonian Institution Susan Dunne Renee Nelson Foundation Candace King Weir, Asian Pacific American Miriam & Leon Ellsworth Trudy Owett Initiatives Pool Alice K. Netter, David and Candace Elizabeth & Anthony Enders David B. Kriser Foundation Weir Foundation James Reinish & Smithsonian Institution Associates, Inc. Kathy Fuld Susan Bay Nimoy Ann Wright Wilson, Research Equipment Pool Christopher Rothko & Kristina Olitski Princeton Area Community The Hedda Sterne Judy & Bob Huret Foundation Lori Cohen Foundation Wendy Jeffers & Lee & Carol Orr Alan E. Schwartz Anthony Orphanos Alan Pensler Yvonne de C. Segerstrom Patricia Johanson & $5,000 or more $1,000 or more Karen & Michael Pomarico, Rick Sharp Gerrit Goossen Pomarico Design Studio Sandra Berler Elizabeth C. Baker Susan & Henry Johnson Architecture, LLC Fern Tessler Debra Force, Debra Force The Barkley Fund Frederick W. Wackerle Fine Art Inc. Patricia & John Klingenstein Warrie & James Betty Krulik Fine Art Limited David Price, Patti Warashina Dr. Daniel W. Fort* Margo Leavin Fieldland Investment W.P. Buckthal Mary Adams Wotherspoon Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Gund, Glenn & Susan Lowry Company Mr. Albert Butzel The Geoffrey Gund Nicholas Lowry Joel Rosenkranz, Foundation Arthur Cohen, LaPlaca Conner-Rosenkranz LLC $250 or more Matthew Marks Cohen Advertising, Inc. Kate Haw David Ross Anonymous Jeffrey & Jonna Mazet Thomas Colville Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Kogod, Samuel I. Newhouse Georgia B. Barnhill The Robert P. and Arlene R. Grete Meilman & Katherine Degn, Hanno Mott Foundation, Inc. Lillian Rose Brenwasser Kogod Family Foundation The Bridgewater Fund, Inc. $500 or more The Leon Levy Foundation Robert E. Meyerhoff & Rackstraw Downes Sarah Burns Rheda Becker Phil Alexandre, The Honorable & Mrs. Virginia Dwan Alexandre Fine Art, Inc. John W.M. Butler Jr. & Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Miller, Jr. John M. VanderLinden Earle I. Mack, Earle I. Mack Susanne Emmerich Peggy Cafritz Foundation, Inc. Philippa Polskin Davida Deutsch Jeannine Falino Paula Cooper, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Martucci Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Paula Cooper, Inc. Charles C. Eldredge M. Rosen The Fifth Floor Foundation Constance C. McPhee, Alice M. Denney Jacqueline L. & PECO Foundation Barbara & Donald Tober Marilyn F. Friedman Christian P. Erdman Beth Rudin DeWoody Gerald Peters, Mr.* & Mrs. Thurston Robert Gober & Dr. Linda S. Ferber Donald Moffett Elizabeth Ely Gerald Peters Gallery, Inc. Twigg-Smith Ellen Flamm Sotheby’s Inc. Strypemonde Foundation Henry and Rose Pearlman Andrea Henderson Foundation, Inc. Fahnestock Greg Freeman William Truettner Jackie Vossler Richard Kaplan & Barbara File Roland F. Ginzel Duane A. Wakeham Roz Westmoreland Warren & Charlynn Goins John Stuart Gordon Sue Anne Weinberg, Larry Shar Raymond Learsy Mary Anne Goley Jon & Katherine Gothold John L. and Sue Ann Adrian Shelby & Ed Bindel Weinberg Foundation Thelma & Melvin Lenkin, Anne Goodyear, Bowdoin J. Ben Ali Haggin Thelma & Melvin Lenkin Mr. & Mrs. Peter Sheldon Billie Milam Weisman, College Museum of Art Morrison Heckscher Family Charitable Amy Newman & Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Inc. Richard & Mary L. Gray, Ms. Lesley B. Hoopes Foundation Max R. Shulman Richard Gray Gallery L.P. Peter and Paula Lunder, Nancy Iacomini Barrie A. & Deedee Mr. & Mrs. Richard Solomon S. Ira Grossman The Lunder Foundation Sarah Iselin Wigmore, Barrie A. & Patricia Brown Specter David Maupin, The Linda and Harvey Deedee Wigmore Saligman Charitable Megan Fox Kelly Foundation Lehmann Maupin Ann Temkin & Wayne Hendrickson Foundation Frances Levin Richard & Ronay Menschel, Charina Foundation, Inc. Eric Thiebaut Harris K. & Lois G. Roberta Mayer & Oppenheimer Foundation George Wagner
18 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Jim Melchert William Agee Lee Dalzell Erica Hirshler & Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Peter Root Hattula Moholy-Nagy Harriet Irgang Alden Daniel O’Connell’s Sons, Inc. Harold D. Clark Deane Leonard Tamara & Michael Root Carol Neuberger Ms. Carolyn Small Alper Dr. Bernard & Ruth DeHovitz Joseph Holbach Jeff & Leslie London Naomi Rosenblum Robert Nover Ruth Appelhof Lea Rosson DeLong Roger Hull Mary Lublin Margot Rosenstein Mrs. Susan Conway Heidi Applegate James Demetrion Elizabeth Ives Hunter Younghee Kim-Wait Marjorie Safran & Oliphant & Mr. Patrick Judith Arginteanu Pat Doherty Elizabeth Hutchinson M.A. Martin Fine Art, LTD Jeffrey Leppo Oliphant, Oliphant David Joselit Kenneth W. Maddox Jean Sapin Enterprises, Inc. & Betsy Shack Barbanell Mr. David C. Driskell Susan Conway Gallery Vivian Barnett EDM CT, Inc. J.N. Marquis, Carol Maynard Dorothy R. Saxe Marquis Studios Michael Bellet & Joanne EDM Services, Inc. David McCarthy & Sophia D. Schachter and Gardens Marina Pacini Blau Bellet Mr.* & Mrs.* Ingrid Schaffner Julie Berkowitz Julian Eisenstein Julie McGee Dr. Joyce K. Schiller* John & Natalie Blaney Rosa Esman Connie Menke, Sam & Suzanne Schiller Broughton, Fidder, Ms. Annette Blaugrund Stuart P. Feld, Morger and Associates Mary C. Schlosser Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. Alexis L. Boylan Forrest L. Merrill Bill Schneider Bruce Feldacker Stanley Brodsky & Laura Meyer Marianne Schnell Jeanne Hewitt Arline M. Fisch Rachel Middleman June & Paul Schorr III Deborah B. Brown Kathleen A. Foster Richard H. Miller Phil Serka Phil Brown & Clare Fraser, Giorgio Sezzano Barbara Wolanin Leland Little Auctions & MJ Moran Inc. Suzanne Shaker Peter C. Bunnell Estate Sales Don. R Mullins, Jr., Brian & Kimberley Orcutt 126 West 11th LLC Ted & Mary Jo Shen Sally T. Butler Alvin E. Friedman-Kien Mr.* & Mrs. John Payson Gay Myers, Patricia M. Shippee, James B. Byers Frost Library Joanne Rapp Lyman Allyn Art Museum Patricia Shippee Jim & Cindy Cartwright Susan Futterman Fine Art LLC Ann K. Rawley Mrs. Milo M. Naeve Mrs. March Avery Lisa Garcia J. Schoen LLC Shirley Sikov Ms. Anne N. Rorimer Mira Nakashima, Cavanaugh Joy Glass & Richard Milazzo Herschel Kanter George Nakashima Sara Beth & Ronald & Andrea Sandler Adele Chatfield-Taylor Raymond Gloeckler Mr.* & Mrs. Richard Kaplin Woodworker George Silverman Mr. Steve Sharp Susanna Coffey J. Godwin Berta Kerr Helen Nicholson Suzanne Smeaton, Patterson Sims Suzanne Smeaton LLC Eleanor S. Congdon Lawrence Goldrich, Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Kerzic Christine I. Oaklander Mr. Nelson E. Smyth L & J Goldrich Foundation Raymond W. Smith, Wanda & Joe Corn Leftwich Kimbrough Elissa Oberman Alvin L. Snowiss James N. & R.W. Smith Bookseller Robert Cozzolino Nancy Koenigsberg Oldenburg Van Bruggen Charles F. Stuckey Katherine Goodman, Foundation Robert H. & Sharon W. Smith Darryl Curran Jewish Communal Fund Pam Koob Hollis Taggart, Hollis Alan & Carol-Ann Olson David Sokol William P. Daley Charles Gosse Elizabeth Kopley Taggart Galleries Mark Ostrander & Joan Snyder Gretchen G. Vanderhoof Francine du Plessix Gray Janet Koplos Marjorie Vancura Gertrude de G. Wilmers The Honorable & Ethel Fisher Kott Elizabeth Pergam Mrs. William S. Greenberg Heidi Lange Jody Pettibone Maurice W. Gregg Up to $249 Susan G. Larkin Jody Pinto C.R. Grigg Anonymous Denise Lassaw, Ibram Ellen Pollak & Nigel Paneth Mimi Gross Lassaw Studio Louis D. Aaron, CPA Jules David Prown George Gurney Catherine C. Lastavica Elaine Abbe Don Quaintance Joanne Gustafson Janice & Paul Lefkowitz Ita Aber Raymond M. and Cynthia Harris Joshua Lefkowitz Jane E. Cracchiolo Ann Abrams Neil Harris & Teri J. Edelstein Michael Leja & Foundation Inc. Adamson-Duvannes Margaret Werth Robert H. Robles Galleries Andree Hayum
20 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Mr. & Mrs. George R. Sprague P. 16-17: Left to Right Hedda Sterne with her cat, circa 1940 / Evelyn Hofer, Robert Motherwell on Rachel Stella photographer. Hedda Sterne the beach, circa 1945 / papers. Archives of American Jane Stevens unidentified photographer. Art, Smithsonian Institution. Elizabeth Stillinger Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers. Clipping From Glasgow Kay Sekimachi Stocksdale Archives of American Art, Evening Times. W. G. Constable Nancy Strauss Smithsonian Institution. papers, 1905-1983, bulk 1920- 1976. Archives of American Art, Newspaper comic clippings, Smithsonian Institution. Mary & Robert Tanner 199-? / unidentified creator. Ray Yoshida papers. Teagno Construction, Inc. George Grey Barnard Archives of American Art, working on his sculpture Mary Thorp, Smithsonian Institution. Harry Bertoia Lincoln in Thought, ca. 1915 Research Project Inkjet print of astronaut / Underwood & Underwood Buzz Aldrin walking on the Studios, photographer. Ellen Todd moon in 1969, ca. 2002 / George Grey Barnard papers. unidentified photographer. Archives of American Art, Beth Treadway Paul Ramirez Jonas papers. Smithsonian Institution. Roslyn Tunis Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. P. 22: Clockwise from Top Roger van Oosten Ana Mendieta postcard to Michael Bidlo Christmas Robin Veder Judith Wilson, 1981 December card to Leo Castelli, 198?. Glyn Vincent 15. Judith Wilson papers. Leo Castelli Gallery records. Archives of American Art, Archives of American Art, Diane Waller, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution. La Mano Pottery P. 18-19: Left to Right Marisol: recent sculpture Alexandra Warshaw exhibition announcement for Ray Johnson mail art to John Stable Gallery, New York, NY, Washington University Held, 1981 April 7. John Held 1962 / unidentified creator. in St. Louis papers relating to Mail Art. Stable Gallery records. Joni M. Weyl & Archives of American Art, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Sidney B. Felsen Smithsonian Institution. Estampas de la Revolución Brian E. Wilkinson Alfred Joseph Frueh to Mexicana, 85 Grabados de Giuliette Fanciulli, 1913 Jan. Dr. John Wilmerding Los Artists del Taller de Grafica 1. Alfred J. Frueh papers, 1904- Popular, 1947. Marta Adams 1993. Archives of American Art, Mary M. Wolff papers. One print from a Smithsonian Institution. Michele Zackheim portfolio of 84 engraving prints by various Mexican Joachim Strange mail art to Marjorie Zapruder artists depicting scenes of John Held, 1984. John Held the Mexican Revolution. papers relating to Mail Art. Dr. Judith Zilczer Archives of American Art, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution. *Deceased Alfred Joseph Frueh to Giuliette Fanciulli, 1913 Apr. 13. Alfred J. Frueh papers, 1904-1993. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Frederick Hammersley collage An Idea, between 1948 and 1971 / Frederick Hammersley, artist. Frederick Hammersley papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
P. 20-21: Left to Right Frida Kahlo, 1941 / Emmy Lou Packard, photographer. Emmy Lou Packard papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
22 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Staff Kate Haw Endowed Gifts Support the Board of Director Endowed gifts are both a Archives gift for the future and a gift Trustees Dr. Liza Kirwin for today, supporting the Deputy Director Archives in perpetuity and Martha J. Fleischman Chair Help Us to Fulfill providing the donor with Barbara Aikens Our Mission long-term recognition and Arthur Cohen Stephanie Ashley The Smithsonian’s Archives tax benefits. Vice Chair Elizabeth Botten of American Art personalizes Marisa Bourgoin Edward O. Cabot our nation’s art, shaping Planned Gifts Antoinette Brawner how art history is written Secretary Megan Burdi Planned gifts allow the and how art is viewed. Join Members Susan Cay donor to leave an important us in our effort to leverage Carrie Rebora Barratt Elizabeth Willson legacy while also receiving public dollars with private Sandra Berler Christopher gifts that will help us attract, tax benefits and income for Kathryn Donahue life. Those who include the Ann E. Berman inspire, and serve the public. Virginia Bobins Poreia Duncan Now, as never before, you Archives of American Art in Brandon Eng their estate plans and notify Helen W. Drutt English can make an impact on Antonia Gardner us are eligible for member- Susan Dunne what is collected, preserved, Michelle Herman ship in the Smithsonian Debra J. Force and made available to the Zoe Herrmann world. Legacy Society. Leslie J. Garfield Susan I. Johnson Taylor Hicks Judith Jones Robin Holladay Peak Outright Gifts Your investment in the Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan Erin Kinhart Archives of American Art Gilbert H. Kinney Beth Kopley Gifts of cash, stock, or other Annette Leddy personal assets provide is a commitment to future Nicholas Lowry Bridget Mazet vital unrestricted support generations. Bridget Moore Marty O’Brien Michelle McDaniel and may be made to the For more information about Marla Prather Megan McShea Archives of American Art by how you can support the mail or phone at any time. Deborah Schmidt Robinson Judy Ng Archives of American Art, Kelly Quinn please contact us: Trustees Emeriti Mary Savig Individual Giving T: 202.633.7940 Max N. Berry, Esq. Emily Shapiro Barbara G. Fleischman Donors to the Annual F: 202.633.7993 Sharon Shepard Dona S. Kendall Fund provide operating www.aaa.si.edu/support Bettina Smith Richard A. Manoogian support that enables us Jennifer Snyder Frank Martucci to create new exhibitions, Archives of American Art Jason Stieber Nancy Brown Negley Ariana Stowe publications, programs, Office of Advancement Janice C. Oresman Sara Torgerson and special events each P.O. Box 37012 MRC 937 Rihoko Ueno year, while continuing to Victor Building, Suite 2200 Founding Trustees preserve and make available Vivian Vargas Washington, DC Lawrence A. Fleischman significant records and Karen Weiss 20013-7012 Mrs. Edsel B. Ford untold stories documenting Edgar P. Richardson the history of American art and visual culture. Ex Officio Dr. David J. Skorton Secretary, Smithsonian Corporate Giving Institution Corporations and galleries may support the Archives in Dr. Richard Kurin a variety of ways including, Under Secretary for History, but not limited to, financial Art, & Culture, Smithsonian contributions, gifts in kind, Institution and sponsorship of special Kate Haw events, including our Annual Director, Archives of Benefit. American Art COVER Top Row, Left to Right Charles B. Culver letter to Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman, Detroit, Mich., 1956 Aug. 1. Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Mount Rushmore monument photographic transparencies, circa 1938-1939. Collection of Michael De Vivo, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Greeting card featuring peace is a human right by Emmy Lou Packard, 1963. Emmy Lou Packard papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Second Row, Left to Right Hedda Sterne with her cat, circa 1940 / Evelyn Hofer, photographer. Hedda Sterne papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Ray Johnson mail art to John Held, 1981 April 7. John Held papers relating to Mail Art. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
William Cushing Loring papers, 1899-1961, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.