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Exhibition Records, 1980-1996 Exhibition Records, 1980-1996 Finding aid prepared by Smithsonian Institution Archives Smithsonian Institution Archives Washington, D.C. Contact us at [email protected] Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Descriptive Entry.............................................................................................................. 1 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 2 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 4 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251986 Collection Overview Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C., [email protected] Title: Exhibition Records Identifier: Accession 97-083 Date: 1980-1996 Extent: 29 cu. ft. (29 record storage boxes) Creator:: National Portrait Gallery. Office of Exhibitions Language: English Administrative Information Prefered Citation Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 97-083, National Portrait Gallery. Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records Access Restriction Box 29 contains materials restricted indefinitely; see finding aid; Transferring office; 5/2/1985 and 3/3/1999 memoranda; Contact reference staff for details. Descriptive Entry This accession consists of records which document the work of the Office of Exhibitions on exhibitions that were mounted by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) from 1980 to 1995. Major exhibitions undertaken by the NPG in this period, and documented in these records, include Benjamin West and His American Students (1980-1981); Charles Willson Peale and His World (1982-1983); American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776 (1987-1988); On the Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting (1988-1989); and Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew Jackson (1990-1991). The exhibition records consist largely of lender files, which contain correspondence with lenders, loan agreements, and object photographs. Other exhibition files include scripts, label copy, travel schedules, shipping and insurance information, object conservation information, and catalog and brochure information. The records also include a series of files on outgoing loans from the NPG permanent collection, dating from 1992 to 1996. Page 1 of 74 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251986 Names and Subject Terms This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms: Subjects: Art museums Museum exhibits Portraits, American Types of Materials: Black-and-white photographs Brochures Clippings Manuscripts Names: American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776 (Exhibition) (1987-1988: Washington, D.C.) American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920 (Exhibition) (1982: Washington, D.C.) Arnold Newman's Americans (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.) Artists by Themselves (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.) Benjamin West and His American Students (Exhibition) (1980: Washington, D.C.) Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, London 1839-1989 (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.) Charles Willson Peale and His World (Exhibition) (1982-1983) Washington, D.C.) Court Portraiture in Habsburg Spain: From Catholic Kings to Philip IV (Proposed exhibition) Dwight D. Eisenhower Centennial (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.) Erastus Salisbury Field, 1805-1900 (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.) Eric Knight and Lassie (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.) Five of Hearts: Henry Adams and His Washington Circle (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.) Group Portrait: First American Avant Garde (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.) Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1921-1941 (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.) Icons of Invention: American Patent Models (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.) Instant Likeness: Polaroid Portraits (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.) Joseph Wright, American Artist, 1756-1793 (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.) Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1896-1917 (Exhibition) (1995-1996: Washington, D.C.) Old Hickory: A Life Sketch of Andrew Jackson (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.) Oliphant's Presidents: Twenty-five Years of Caricature (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.) On the Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting (Exhibition) (1988: Washington, D.C.) Peace and Friendship: Indian Peace Medals in the United States (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.) Portraits of the American Law (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.) Private Lives of Public Figures: The Nineteenth-Century Family Portrait (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.) Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic (Exhibition) (1991: Washington, D.C.) Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the Dawn of Photography (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.) Smithsonian Resident Associate Program Studies from Life: Portrait Photogrphs by Julia Margaret Cameron from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.) The Levy-Franks Family Colonial Portraits (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.) Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.) Washington Print Club Page 2 of 74 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251986 West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 White House Families: Portraits from Life (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.) William Edward West: Kentucky Painter (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.) Page 3 of 74 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251986 Container Listing Box 1 BENJAMIN WEST AND HIS AMERICAN STUDENTS; October 16, 1980 - January 4, 1981 Box 1 of 29 General Box 1 of 29 Contract with The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) Box 1 of 29 Correspondence with PAFA Box 1 of 29 Shipment to PAFA Box 1 of 29 London, England/Pitt and Scott Box 1 of 29 Insurance information Box 1 of 29 Shipping estimates for incoming Box 1 of 29 Pickup lists Box 1 of 29 Status Memos Box 1 of 29 Illustration Requests Box 1 of 29 Catalog Box 1 of 29 Exhibition Script Box 1 of 29 General/ Security/Frames Box 1 of 29 Script, list by artists Box 1 of 29 Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy/Rowlandson and Pugin (Emory) Box 1 of 29 The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1784/J. H. Ramberg (British Museum) Box 1 of 29 The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1787/P. Martini after Romberg (J. Goode) Page 4 of 74 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251986 Box 1 of 29 Academy Study for an Eve/Lewis Schiavonetti after B. West (British Museum) Box 1 of 29 Judge David Sewall by John Johnston (Bowdoin College Museum of Art) Box 1 of 29 West's Picture Gallery/John Le Keux (British Museum) Box 1 of 29 Boy With a Squirrel/John Singleton Copley (BMFA) Box 1 of 29 Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman by James Earl (Bowdoin College Museum of Art) Box 1 of 29 The Skater (William Grant) by Gilbert Stuart (National Gallery of Art) Box 1 of 29 The Death of Major Peirson/Copley (National Portrait Gallery) Box 1 of 29 The Blue Boy (Master John Buttall) by Thomas Gainsborough (Henry E. Huntington Library...) Box 1 of 29 Pascal Paoli by Henry Benbridge (The Fine Arts Museum San Francisco) Box 1 of 29 Peter Paul Reubens Self-Portrait (Her Majesty The Queen) Box 1 of 29 The Death of the Earl of Chatham by John Singleton (The Tate Gallery, England) Box 1 of 29 Bandit Taking Up his Post/J. H. Mortimer (Detroit Institute Of Art) Box 1 of 29 The Blind Fiddler by David Wilkie (The Tate Gallery, England) Box 1 of 29 The Hours/Samuel Shelley (Metropolitan) Box 1 of 29 Photos Which Will be Part of Exhibition Labels and Supplementary Work Box 1 of 29 The Homecoming (Last Chapter) Box 1 of 29 Extra Box 1 of 29 John S. Copley (Incl.?) Box 1 of 29 John Downman Box 1 of 29 Lydia Smith Russell Page 5 of 74 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251986 Box 1 of 29 Frank W. Wilkin Box 1 of 29 Background Box 1 of 29 Correspondence Box 1 of 29 C. W. Peale, Pratt, Sargent, Stuart, Sully, Trumbull, Tuthill, Waldo Box 1 of 29 Study for Balshazzar's Feast (1817)/Washington Allston (Fogg Art Museum) Box 1 of 29 Saul and the Witch of Endor by Washington Allston (Amherst) Box 1 of 29 Son, from the Antique Statue, Laocoon/Washington Allston (Fogg) Box 1 of 29 Landscape by Washington Allston (Concord) Box 1 of 29 Benjamin West/Washington Allston (Boston Athenaeum) Box 1 of 29 Study for the Head of St. Peter/Washington Allston (Bliss) Box 1 of 29 Letter, Allston to Fraser (Mass HS) Box 1 of 29 Two Groups of Angels from "Jacob's Dream" by Washington Allston (Fogg) Box 1 of 29 The Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison/W. Allston (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) Box 1 of 29 Self-Portrait by Washington Allston (Fogg) Box 1 of 29 A Scene in an Eating House by Allston (Milwaukee Art Center) Box 1 of 29 Belshazzar's Feast/Washington Allston (Detroit Institute Of Art) Box 1 of 29 Dead Man Restored by Washington Allston (PAFA) Box 1 of 29 Tragic Figure in Chains by Washington Box 1 of 29 Allston (Addison Gallery of American Art) Allston Box 1 of 29 Flight of Florimell by Allston (Detroit) Box 1 of 29 A Rocky Coast with Banditti/Washington Allston (MESDA) Page 6 of 74 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251986 Box 1 of 29 Prometheus by Washington Allston (BM) Box 1 of 29 Frederick
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