Annual Report OCTOBER 1, 2018—SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 Letter from the 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 2 Interim Director

DEAR FRIENDS,

In 1954, at a time when few universities offered of detailed online finding aids for the papers of courses in American art, Edgar P. Richardson Beverly Buchanan, Ruth Jett, and Senga Nengudi. A and Lawrence A. Fleischman envisioned a central new comprehensive guide to the papers of African repository of historical records dedicated to the American artists and related resources will soon be subject that would encourage and support further available online. research. Never could they have imagined that the Two engaging exhibitions in the Lawrence A. Archives of American Art would grow from their initial Fleischman Gallery this year inspired visitors to small collection of microfilmed records in Detroit, the Donald W. Reynolds Center to think differently Michigan, to a full-fledged Smithsonian research about archives. The fiscal year began with center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives providing access to primary sources that document of American Art, guest curated by Miriam Kienle, the history of the visual arts in the United States. assistant professor of contemporary art history at Over the years, the Archives has continued to the University of Kentucky, in collaboration with innovate, adopting and even creating best practices her students. Together, professor and students for making our more than 6,100 collections, including examined issues of collaboration, circulation, and 30 million items and nearly 2,500 oral history community within the robust artistic networks of interviews, freely available to the public. Providing the international mail art movement. This exhibition access to the wealth of knowledge housed here is was followed by Bloom: Flowers in the Archives central to our mission. Now, as we add born-digital of American Art, which featured beautiful floral materials to our scope of interest, we are establishing sketches and drawings by artists inspired by nature. new protocols to save and serve these resources. Our A collaboration with Smithsonian Gardens, Bloom Digitization on Demand service, launched in 2016 to offered interpretive content articulating the many fulfill individual requests for digitized materials, is a facets of flora written by archivists, horticulturalists, success. Through this crowdsourcing approach, 61.8 artists, curators, educators, and gardeners. We linear feet of primary sources have been digitized also commissioned Detroit-based artist Ouizi to for patrons and repurposed online. This year we also paint a large flower mural for the gallery, creating piloted a program to provide digital recordings of a luscious, immersive environment that proved to be oral histories on demand. Our reference team served highly Instagrammable. Pen to Paper: Handwritten more than 100 audio files to researchers for short- Letters from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American term use, offering greater access to the voices of Art ended its national tour at the J. Wayne Stark artists, art dealers, and collectors than ever before. Galleries at Texas A&M University, following its presentation at the Norton Museum of Art in West In this second year of our African American Palm Beach, Florida, and at the Florence Griswold Collecting Initiative, generously funded by the Henry Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Luce Foundation, our curator of African American manuscripts and our project archivist continued The Archives was proud to organize and host the first to expand our resources for the study of African in a series of three unique workshops on teaching American art. Highlights include the acquisition the history of American art with primary sources, in of the papers of artists Renee V. Cox, Maren partnership with the Lunder Institute for American Art Hassinger, and Arthur Monroe, and the creation at Colby College and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Letter from the 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 3 Interim Director

Ten early-career assistant professors were selected paid internships at the Archives. We are also deeply from forty-five applicants to attend all three grateful to Joyce Menschel and Wick Moorman workshops. The outcome will be a set of distinct for their continued commitment to our mission and adaptable models for incorporating primary through leadership gifts. Ms. Menschel supported source materials into the teaching of American art both reference services and the digitization of the history. The workshop in Washington was generously Woman’s Building Records, while Mr. Moorman’s gift supported by Trustee Emeritus Max N. Berry, and provided critical unrestricted funding. The Trustees forthcoming workshops will be held at the Lunder and staff likewise join me in expressing sincere Institute in 2020 and the Cleveland Museum in 2021. gratitude to George Merck and the Merck family for making significant contributions to sustain In October of 2018, the Archives announced a $5 our mission. million gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation to create an endowment to process and digitize I would like to extend my deepest appreciation to material on art and artists from historically our talented staff, dedicated Board of Trustees, underrepresented groups in the Archives’ collection. generous donors, supportive Smithsonian colleagues, This generous and timely gift, which helps to match and the many scholars and researchers who use a 2016 Terra Foundation for American Art challenge our collections every day. Our founders would be grant to endow digitization at the Archives, brings so proud of the Archives’ growth and its enduring our digitization endowment to more than $11 million. dedication to collecting, preserving, and providing Since establishing this endowment, the Archives access to America’s treasures. I am particularly has digitized and made available online more grateful to Kate Haw, who after more than six years than 230 archival collections comprised of nearly of devoted service to the Archives, has accepted three million images. These transformational gifts, a position at the National Gallery of Art. We will along with the completion of the Walton Family miss Kate’s enthusiasm, dedication, and leadership. Foundation’s three-year project to support expanded Please join me in thanking her! I look forward to digitization of primary sources at the Archives, sharing more announcements from the Archives with Kate Haw, Jim Dine, and Liza Kirwin at Dine’s studio in Paris, secure a robust future for our digitization program. you soon; please visit aaa.si.edu to subscribe to our France, Nov. 10, 2019. Photograph by Daniel Clarke. We are profoundly grateful to the Roy Lichtenstein online newsletter. Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Walton Family Foundation for their magnanimous support. With gratitude, Federal funding covers only 35% of our annual operating costs, and we rely on the largesse of private donors to provide critical funding that allows us to seize opportunities and remain a leader in the Liza Kirwin archival field. This year we are especially thankful Interim Director for the support of Martha Fleischman, who made a major gift to create The Barbara Fund, in honor of her mother’s 95th birthday. Many of Barbara’s friends gave generously to the fund, which will support Year In Review 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 4

142,462 26,566 133 Digital images created, Number of images created through Notable press mentions corresponding to 102.5 linear Digitization on Demand feet of collections

41 1,111 17 Collections acquired In-person visitors consulted 3,973 Oral histories recorded containers of primary documents

150 975 177 Collections processed Number of research inquiries Oral history transcripts answered by the reference made available online department

810.8 212 1,685,204 Linear feet of collections processed Reproduction requests fulfilled Page views on the website in 464,684 sessions Exhibitions 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 5

Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives of American Art

August 10, 2018 to January 4, 2019 Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Washington, DC

Bloom: Flowers in the Archives of American Art

March 1 to October 6, 2019 Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Washington, DC

Installation photograph of Bloom: Flowers in the Archives of American Art in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery with mural by Louise “Ouizi” Jones. Events 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 6

October 6, 2018 November 9, 2018

Deputy director Liza Kirwin presented “Case Studies: Teaching the History of Curator of manuscripts Mary Savig led a Mail Art Study Day, as part of programming American Art with Primary Sources,” as a lunchtime workshop at the annual for the exhibition Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives of American Art. meeting of the Association of Historians of American Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Participants included scholars, curators, archivists, and practitioners involved with Presenters included Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame; Janice Simon and Akela the international mail art movement. Reason, University of Georgia; Andrew Wasserman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and Miriam Kienle, University of Kentucky.

October 23, 2018

At the annual Archives of American Art gala, held at 583 Park Avenue in New York, artist Sam Gilliam and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation were awarded Archives of American Art Medals. Scholar Cécile Whiting was given the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History. Mail Art Study Day led by Mary Savig, November 9.

December 6, 2018

National collector Josh Franco welcomed Cheech Marin for a public, interactive talk, “Riffing on the Collection: Cheech Marin Encounters the Archives of American Art,” at the Archives’ offices in Washington, DC.

Adam Weinberg, Barbara Fleischman, and Gene Gargaro at the annual gala. Photographed by Michael Seto. Liza Kirwin, Cheech Marin, and Josh Franco during Marin’s visit to the Archives, December 6. Events 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 7

February 14, 2019 April 11, 2019

Curator of manuscripts Mary Savig and national collector Josh T. Franco led Curator of African American manuscripts Erin Gilbert participated in the panel a panel, “Letters to Lucy,” at the College Art Association Annual Conference in “Blackness, Modernity, and the Future of the Archive” at the Center for Advanced New York City. Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.

March 22, 2019 June 1–2, 2019

Director Kate Haw contributed to the panel “Defining the Field: What is at Stake National collector Josh Franco presented “Mayahuel Meets Guadalupe: Ecology in the Care of Artist Archives,” part of the Hauser & Wirth Institute’s symposium of Faith and Practice in the Borderlands,” a conversation with Kay Turner and The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Archive Stewardship in Contemporary Art. Santa Barraza at the Agave Festival in Marfa, Texas.

March 26, 2019

Erin Gilbert spoke about her work as the Archives’ curator of African American manuscripts for the second installment of “Archives Matters,” a collaboration between the Archives and Swann Auction Galleries. The event also promoted the spring issue of the Archives of American Art Journal.

Erin Gilbert in conversation with Nigel Freeman at “Archives Matters,” A group procession with accomplished folklorist Kay Turner during Josh Swann Auction Galleries, March 26. Franco’s trip to Marfa’s Agave Festival, June 1. Photograph by Alex Marks. Events 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 8

July 9, 2019 September 26–28, 2019

Curator of manuscripts Mary Savig presented “Piecing Together Histories The Archives, in partnership with the Lunder Institute for American Art and the of American Craft” at the Haystack Summer Conference, Craft and Legacy: Cleveland Museum of Art, hosted the first of three workshops for teaching the Writing a History, Preserving a Field, in Deer Isle, Maine. history of American art with primary sources. The workshop in Washington was generously supported by Max N. Berry. The second and third workshops will be held at the Lunder Institute in Waterville, Maine, April 2–4, 2020; and the Cleveland Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, March 25–27, 2021. The outcome will be a set of distinct and adaptable models for incorporating primary sources into the teaching of American art history.

Mary Savig and curators attending Haystack Summer Conference, July 9.

LEFT TO RIGHT FROM TOP: Katie Anania, assistant professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Melody Deusner, assistant professor, Indiana University; Tess Korobkin, assistant professor, University of Maryland, College Park; Annie Ronan, assistant professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Allison Stagg, curator, Mark Twain Center for Transatlantic Relations, Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg, Germany; Sarah Archino, assistant professor, Furman University; Melanee Harvey, assistant professor, Howard University; Austin Porter, assistant professor, Kenyon College; Emma Silverman, visiting assistant professor, Smith College; Bernida Webb-Binder, assistant professor, Spelman College. Selection of Outside Publications That Archives of American Art 9 Relied on the Archives’ Collections Publications

Barnes, Lucinda, Ellen G Landau, O’Meally, Robert G., ed. The Romare Michael Schreyach, Hans Hofmann, Bearden Reader. Durham: Duke and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific University Press, 2018. Film Archive. Hans Hofmann: The Park, David, Janet C Bishop, Tara Nature of Abstraction, 2019. McDowell, Corey Keller, Sara Wessen Fort, Ilene Susan, and Mark Pascale. Chang, Lee Hallman, Modern Art Charles White: A Retrospective. Yale Museum of Fort Worth, Kalamazoo University Press, 2018. Institute of Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Gershon, Pete. Collision: The University of California Press. Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, David Park: A Retrospective, 2019. 1972–1985. Texas A&M University Press, 2018. Seibert, Elke. “‘First Surrealists Were Cavemen’: The American Abstract Hale, Grace Elizabeth. “Signs of Artists and Their Appropriation of Return: Photography as History in Prehistoric Rock Pictures in 1937.” the U.S. South.” Southern Cultures Getty Research Journal 11 (January 25, no. 1 (April 16, 2019). 1, 2019). Hartung, Martin. “Under Control: Taft, Maggie, and Robert Cozzolino. Sol LeWitt and the Market for Art in Chicago: A History from the Conceptual Art.” Journal for Art Fire to Now. University of Chicago Market Studies 2, no. 4 (December Press, 2018. 14, 2018). Taylor, Michael R. Percy Rainford: McCarthy, Jeremiah William, Diana Duchamp’s Invisible Photographer. Thompson, American Federation of Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, 2019. Arts, and Dayton Art Institute. For America: Paintings from the National Tuner, Mark. Forrest Bess. Stuart Academy of Design, 2019. Shave/Modern Art, 2019. McComas, Jennifer. “Public Art Weyl, Christina. The Women of and the Perils of Canonization: Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking Archives of American Art Journal The Case of Swing Landscape in Midcentury New York, 2019. Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 2019 by Stuart Davis.” Journal of Art Volume 58, Number 2, Fall 2019 Historiography; Glasgow, no. 19 The Los Angeles Tapes: Alan Solomon’s Interviews with Kauffman, (December 2018): 1–21. Bell, Turrell, and Irwin. Edited with introduction by Matthew Simms. Morgan, Jo-Ann. The Black Arts Circle Books and Archives of American Art, 2019. Movement and the Black Panther Mary Savig, Artful Cats: Discoveries from the Smithsonian’s Archives Party in American Visual Culture. of American Art. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2019. Routledge, 2018. Loan Highlights 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 10

November 4, 2018–April 26, 2020 Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950

ITEMS LENT: 1941 issue of The Crisis magazine and a photograph of Peter Pollock by Gordon Parks.

VENUES: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 4, 2018 to February 18, 2019; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, March 23 to June 16, 2019; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, August 31 to December 29, 2019; and Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, February 1 to April 26, 2020.

March 23–June 16, 2019 Joseph Cornell: Collage & Montage

ITEMS LENT: Diaries, correspondence, and source material from the papers of Joseph Cornell.

VENUE: Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan.

April 24, 2019–May 31, 2020 Art After Stonewall, 1969–1989

ITEMS LENT: Posters from The Woman’s Building LEFT TO RIGHT FROM TOP: records and a flyer from the papers of Gregory 1 Joseph Cornell, study for Untitled Battcock. (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall), 1945–46. Joseph Cornell VENUES: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, and Leslie-Lohman papers, 1939–1972. Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City, April 24 to July 21, 2019; Patricia & Phillip Frost Museum, Miami, Florida, 2 Sheila Levant de Bretteville, exhibition September 14, 2019 to January 6, 2020; and Columbus Museum poster for Woman to Woman, 1975. of Art, March 6 to May 31, 2020. Woman’s Building records, 1970–1992. 3 Gordon Parks, photograph of Peter Pollack. Peter Pollack papers, 1939–1979. Acquisition Highlights Oral History Highlights 11

AC Project Room Ad Reinhardt postcards George Tooker papers, Holly Barnet-Sánchez Matt Mullican records, 1991–2001 to Barbara Mason, 1920–2009 Barbara Chase-Riboud Juan Sanchez 1951–1963 Betty Blayton-Taylor What is Feminist Agnes Denes Renée Stout papers, 1937–2015 Andrea Rosen Gallery Art? questionnaire records, 1990–2017 responses, 2019 Mimi Haas Lawrence Weiner Nanette Carolyn Carter papers, 1972–2009 Joyce Scott papers, Charles W. and Julie B. Martin Terry Winters 1954–2014 Frances B. White letters Charles Caryl Coleman and photographs to Delilah Montoya photographs, circa 1870 Lowery Stokes Sims Melvin and Lorraine papers, circa 1980–2017 Renee V. Cox papers, Williamson, 1956–1961 1966–2016 Gene Swenson papers, Jack Zajac papers, 1950–1969 Ronald Davis papers, 1950–2018 1960–2017 Jorge Tacla papers, “I have nothing against 1960–2018 Maren Hassinger the academy. It’s papers, 1947–2018 useless but it isn’t—no, Steve Kahn papers, it’s true. The purpose of 1943–2018 the academy is to have Evangeline J. Montgomery papers, an answer and, at the 1929–2019 least, a solution. But the Modern Multiples purpose of art is to not records, 1968–2017 have an answer, it’s to Ruth Nickerson papers, circa 1933–1995 question.” Chiura Obata papers, 1930–1975 Barbara Chase-Riboud, Paris, France, June 11, 2019. LAWRENCE WEINER Photograph by Erin Gilbert. ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT, Irving Petlin papers, MARCH 25 AND 28, 2019. circa 1960–2014 Robert Pincus-Witten papers, 1950–2017 Collection Donors 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 12

Kelly E. Adams Ira Licht Norman Sasowsky Jorge Tacla Tanya Aguiñiga Carole Frances Lung Judith Schwartz William P. Tarbell Mel Alexenberg Estate of Jean MacDonald- Joyce Scott Fred J. Tharpe Wright via Ilene Susan Fort Marla Allison Ilene Segalove Jerry L. Thompson Maya Mackrandilal Jerri Allyn Jean Shahn Cynthia Tom Loren Madsen Andrea Rosen Gallery Roger Shimomura Aaron Watkins and Andrea Rosen James Magee Francis Shishim Judith Wechsler Alejandro Anreus Gloria Marchant and Paul Velik Faith Wilding Baxter Art Gallery Laurie Marshall Charles Simonds Anne Wilson via Jay Belloli Amber McCrary Lowery Stokes Sims Martha Wilson John M. Bennett Paul Cadmus postcard to George Tooker (front image), 1980. Mary K. McGuigan and Mimi Smith George Tooker papers, circa 1851–2010. Stephen and Connie Wirtz Siri B. Berg John F. McGuigan, Jr. Sylvia Snowden Scott Wolfgang Nancy Berner Ronald Davis Leon Hecht Susan Michod James Straub Terry Wolverton Graham Boettcher Robert Dell John Held Benna Miller Skowhegan School of Miriam Wosk Family Trust Regina Bogat Stephen Diamond Jodie Herrera Yong Soon Min Painting and Sculpture via Adam Gunther via Katie Sonnenborn Stephen Bornemann Tina Dickey Julia P. Herzberg Claudia Minicozzi Jack Zajack Mary Swift via Isabel Swift Carolyn Burger Kristen Dorsey Wendy Fern Hutton Evangeline J. Montgomery Byron and William Swift Guoda M. Burr Joan Doty Kimi Kodani Hill and Stephanie Monyak Mia Kodani Brill Anthony Candido Patricia and William Nora Naranjo Morse Taffe Driscoll Ginny Huo Margaret Carney Paula Muller Lisa Duardo Xandra Ibarra Eduardo Carrillo estate Senga Nengudi via Alison Carrillo Anaïs Duplan E. Jane Christine Isabelle Oaklander Nanette Carter Vanessa Dion Fletcher Arlette Jassel Philomena Ojeda Nanibah Chacon Mary Frank Zoe A. Kahn James Oles Ann Chernow Frederick Hammersley Paul Karlstrom Patricia Olson Foundation via Kathleen Judith Childs Aleksandra Kasuba Shields Sarah Petlin Jesse Chun Laura Kina Sherry Frumkin Carolyn Gassan Plochman Cory Churches and the Elizabeth R. Knudsen Jean Gibran Astrid Preston Estate of Grace Pugh Connie Korbel-Mickey Frank Goss Hannah Priest William Conger Joyce Kozloff Jacqueline Gourevitch Liz Whitney Quisgard Lee Corbino Nina Kuo Grace Graupe-Pillard Charles Ramsburg Renee V. Cox Aaron Kurzen and Harmony Hammond Tom Ray Crown Point Press via Kathan Robert Echter Brown and Sasha Baguskas Linda Roscoe Hartigan Lisa Rosenburg Barbara G. Fleischman Photograph of Jack Zajac with others working on Big Skull Kenneth M. Davis Maren Hassinger Martha Rosler Aline Libassi and Horn, 1975. Jack Zajac papers, 1950–2018. Donors 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 13

$1,000,000 or more Gloria Marchant $5,000–$9,999 $2,500–$4,999 Marty O’Brien Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Karole Dill Barkley Ann E. Berman and Leon Polk Smith Foundation Daniel J. Feld Terra Foundation Elizabeth Beaman for American Art Wyeth Foundation and Scott Delman Carnegie Corporation for American Art of New York The Dedalus Foundation Helen W. Drutt English Barbara G. Fleischman Cary J. Frieze $250,000–$499,999 John Stuart Gordon $10,000–$24,999 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gold Dr. Vartan Gregorian Walton Family Foundation Peter and Paula Lunder The Honorable Max N. Berry The Brent R. Harris Debra J. Force, Debra Force Charitable Fund Renee and David McKee Fine Art, Inc. Susan and Henry Johnson Jim Melchert $100,000–$249,999 Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Garfield JPMorgan Chase Foundation Richard and Ronay Menschel Joyce F. Menschel, Vital Annie Gawlak and Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Kogod, Mr. Robert E. Meyerhoff Projects Fund, Inc. Samuel Gilliam, Jr. The Robert P. and Arlene R. Philippa Polskin Wick and Bonnie Moorman Garth Greenan, Garth Kogod Family Foundation Jane Gregory Rubin, Greenan Gallery Leon Levy Foundation The Reed Foundation, Inc. Agnes Gund, AG Foundation Nicholas D. Lowry, Mrs. Bonnie Simon, Esther Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan Swann Galleries $50,000–$99,999 Simon Charitable Trust and Dr. Louis D. Kaplan, Constance C. McPhee, Lichtenberg Family Duane Wakeham Amy G. Bermingham, Nina W. PECO Foundation Foundation Diana Wege Werblow Charitable Trust Grete Meilman and The Kaplen Brothers Fund Mr. and Mrs. Norman R. Hanno Mott Bobins, The Robert Thomas Bridget Moore and George Frederick Mead Bobins Foundation Christoph Kotowski Merck Contact sheet of George Tooker and William Christopher, circa 1950. George Raymond Learsy Susan Dunne Janice C. Oresman Tooker papers, circa 1851–2010. Martha J. Fleischman Dorothy Lichtenstein Ellen Phelan and Joel Evelyn Day Lasry, Two Palms Richard and Jane Shapiro, The Joel Shapiro Manoogian Foundation Foundation, Inc. Frank and Katherine Martucci, Gulf Coast Adele S. Merck, Wells Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas Community Foundation Family Foundation Barbara and Donald Tober, Kate Prendergast Barbara and Donald Tober Foundation John R. and Barbara Robinson, The Widgeon Point $25,000–$49,999 Charitable Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Dr. and Mrs. R. Perry Diamond Robinson, The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc. Donors 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 14

$1,000–$2,499 Ms. Barbara T. Hoffman Marion True and Patrick de Carol LeWitt Philip and Lorraine Brewer John and Patricia Maisonneuve Klingenstein Fund Titia Hulst, Strypemonde Christine Isabelle Oaklander Sarah Burns Mr. and Mrs. Allen Adler Foundation Patti Warashina Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ms. Claire O. O’Malley John William Butler, Jr. and Kornblatt Willis Burton* and Peg Alston Wolf Kahn and Wechsler Foundation John M. VanderLinden Mr. Sean Sawyer Emily Mason Kahn Joyce H. Lowinson, MD American Friends of the Candace King Weir, Margaret B. Caldwell Mrs. Walter Scheuer National Gallery of Australia Buff Kavelman David and Candace Dr. Diana Lee Lucker Ms. Karen Davidson Weir Foundation Alan E. Schwartz & Family Sidney Babcock and Ann and Gilbert Kinney, Mary-Anne Martin, Mary-Anne Jacqueline and Christian Jose Romeu Renaissance Charitable Dr. and Mrs. Clifton R. Judith Ogden Thomson Martin Fine Art, Ltd. Erdman Foundation Inc. Wharton, Jr. Charles Balducci Dr. Thayer Tolles Deirdre and Kevin O’Donnell Ms. Margaret Fisher Liza Kirwin Ms. Nina Yankowitz Thomas C. Barry Gertrude and Edward Wiener Ms. Nicole Gresham Perry Mr. and Mrs. George Betty Krulik, Charitable Foundation Bonhams Frelinghuysen Ms. Jody Pinto Betty Krulik Fine Art Francis H. Williams Lillian Rose Brenwasser Ms. Adelma Gillespie Mr. Robert H. Pittinger Suzanne Lemakis $500–$999 Lucas Reiner Jacqueline Brody Mrs. Alva G. Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Poster Glenn Ligon Alexander Gray Ms. Jan I. Abrams Mr. Robert Hayden III Richard Powell Evan and Sharon Lindquist Paula Cooper Elizabeth Baker Joseph and Lesley Hoopes Emily Rauh Pulitzer Glenn and Susan Lowry $250–$499 Mrs. Jean Cox Mr. William L. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. William G. Ann K. Rawley Mrs. Ellen F. Marcus Hyland Beth Rudin DeWoody Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Ms. Erica Barrish Sheila Johnson Robbins Mr. Robert Kirk Marx Edelman Helen Ibbitson Jessup Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Mr. William Bernhard, E. Bruce Robertson Carol Mitchell The Fifth Floor Foundation The Bernhill Fund Ms. Younghee Kim-Wait Susanne Emmerich Rosina Rubin Dr. Lynda Mulhauser and Steven R. Finley and Ms. Nancy Rosen Blackwood Michael Klein Arts Elizabeth and Mr. Richard Pierce Linda and Harvey Saligman Anthony Enders Linda Stillman Mr. Limor Nissan and Curtis Shappee Gregory Freeman Eykyn Maclean Mr. Martin Nutty Alvin L. Snowiss Warren and Charlynn Goins, Dr. Linda S. Ferber Lee and Carol Orr Goins Family Fund Charles F. Stuckey Barbara File Warrie and James D. Price, James N.* and Katherine Glyn Vincent Fieldland Investment Co. Mrs. Charlotte M. Ford Goodman, James Goodman Jacqueline Vossler Mrs. Mary E. Frank, Mr. Harold Prince* Gallery and Jewish Communal Fund of New York Alexandra Wait Frank Family Charitable Janis Conner and Foundation Joel Rosenkranz, Mrs. Teresa Grana Ms. Suzanne S. Weil Conner•Rosenkranz, LLC Helen Frankenthaler Richard Gray Gallery, LLC Gertrude de G. Wilmers Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Charles R. Grigg Polly Wotherspoon Freeman’s Rosowski Karen Grinthal Mary Anne Goley Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Sheldon Cynthia Harris Kate Haw Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims Mr. James E. Hunt Ms. Elizabeth A. T. Smith Mr. John Hays Envelope addressed to the Association of American Painters and Nancy Iacomini Dr. Susan Hobbs and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Stanos Sculptors, 1913. Elmer Livingston MacRae papers related to the Margo Leavin Gallery, Inc. Association of American Painters and Sculptors, 1899–circa 2013. Mr. Gerald Toner Mr. Stephen G. Stein Donors 2019 Annual Report Archives of American Art 15

Less than $249 Mr. Jonathan P. Harding Ms. Roberta A. Mayer Ted and Mary Jo Shen Lucy Harper David McCarthy Mr. Harvey S. Shipley Miller 126 West 11th LLC Helen A. Harrison Ms. Megan McCarthy Patricia Shippee, Patricia Ann Abrams Shippee Fine Art, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Forrest L. Merrill Mr. and Mrs. William G. Helman Shirley Ann and Ms. Hattula Moholy-Nagy Anthony Stanford L. Sikov Linda D. Henderson Mr. Donald R. Mullins, Jr. Ruth Appelhof Patterson Sims and Ms. Martha Henry Mr. David Applegate and Lance Mayer and Gay Myers Katharine Homans Mr. Guy Kevin Whitfield Mrs. Heidi Applegate Mrs. Nancy J. Naeve Suzanne Smeaton and Ms. Patricia Hills Ms. Vivian Barnett Ms. Mira Nakashima-Yarnell Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Erica E. Hirshler and Smith, Jr. Georgia B. Barnhill Harold D. Clark, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nover Ms. Judith Sobol Ann Dobson Barrett Mr. Steven Holl Ms. Elissa Oberman Ms. Patricia Brown Specter Ms. Jill P. Beach Mr. Andrew Hottle Susan Conway Oliphant Mr. Matthew Sperling Julie and Henry Berkowitz Ms. Kerry Inman, Mark Ostrander Inman Gallery Mr. Robert Jordan Spiller David Bjelajac Mr. and Ms. Richard Panofsky Mr. Eliseo Jessie Mr. Thomas Sullivan Annette Blaugrund Nina Kuo, What is Feminist Art questionnaire response, 2019. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pearlstein Ms. Jane Johnston Mr. Cleophus Thomas and Ms. Barbara Britton Jody Pettibone Mrs. Carla Thomas Ms. Lynn Kearney Deborah B. Brown Mr. Darryl J. Curran Mr. Fabio Fernandez Drs. Ellen M. Pollak & TIAA Charitable Peter C. Bunnell Lee Dalzell Curtis Finch, Jr. Mr. Christopher Ketcham Nigel S. Paneth Ellen Wiley Todd Mr. Joe White and Mr. Larry Patrick Daughtry Ms. Arline M. Fisch Nancy Koenigsberg Mr. George B. Post Ms. Renee Butler Ms. Malissa Weikel Ms. Nancy Davidson Kathleen Foster Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Kolodny Ms. Lee Findlay Potter James B. Byers Mrs. John L. Weinberg Ms. Lyle Dawson Mr. Frank E. Fowler Pam Koob Mr. Robbert Flick and William A. Camfield Ms. Susan Rankaitis Dr. John Wilmerding Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Dehovitz Mr. Jeffrey Fuller Janet Koplos Rochester Area Community Dr. Barbara A. Wolanin Jim Herrington and Barbara Krueger Suzanne Delehanty Ms. Joanna Gardner-Huggett Foundation Carol Camiener Ms. Michele Zackheim Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Di Mare George Nakashima Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Dr. Adele Chatfield-Taylor Sydney Roberts Rockefeller Woodworkers Landau Marjorie Zapruder Mr. Owen Duffy Mr. Alexander Chester Rosa Esman, LLC Mr. Roland F. Ginzel Ms. Heidi I. Lange Dr. Judith K. Zilczer Ms. Maria Dunn Eleanor Congdon Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Roux Mr. Irv Goldberg Dr. Catherine Lastavica Karen Zukowski and David Ms. Dana Edelman Mr. William Conger Ms. Nicole Rudick Diamond, Zukowski Diamond Dr. and Mrs. Frank J. Greene Dr. Michael Leja and Janis Kay Ekdahl Foundation Mr. Robert Cozzolino Ms. Margaret Werth Ms. Sharon Ruwart Mr. Maurice W. Gregg Dr. Charles C. Eldredge Raymond M. Cracchiolo, Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Deane Ms. Dorothy Saxe Ms. Nancy Grinnell Leonard *Deceased Raymond M. and Jane E. Ms. Nancy Escher, Escher Mary Coxe Schlosser Cracchiolo Foundation Inc. Associates Mimi Gross Ms. Joanne Leonard Mr. Leslie J. Schreyer Mr. Peter Cramer and Rosa Esman Ms. Barbara Grossman Ms. Lucy R. Lippard Mr. Jack Waters Mr. and Mrs. Alan Seligson Mr. Sidney Felsen and Ms. Elizabeth Stillinger Martha Henry Inc. Melissa Cristal Joni Moisant Weyl, Gemini Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Sharf Ms. Maria Hambourg G.E.L. Supporting the Archives Sources of Funding 16 for Fiscal Year 2019

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Bridget Moore Trustees Emeriti Staff Elissa Jerome Chair Jayna Josefson Deborah Schmidt Robinson Max N. Berry, Esq. Kate Haw Director Erin Kinhart Vice Chair Nancy Brown Negley Liza Kirwin Rachel Larsen Susan I. Johnson Barbara G. Fleischman Secretary Deputy Director Annette Leddy Dona S. Kendall Michelle McDaniel Gilbert H. Kinney Rayna Andrews Megan McShea Richard A. Manoogian Members George Apodaca Sarah Mitrani Frank Martucci Stephanie Ashley Sarah Mundy Karole Dill Barkley Janice C. Oresman Sarah Bohannan Jennifer Neal Elizabeth B. Beaman Elizabeth Botten Matt Parker Amy Bermingham Marisa Bourgoin Deloris Perry Virginia G. Bobins Founding Trustees Lindsey Bright Hilary Price Gilberto Cárdenas Lawrence A. Fleischman Megan Burdi Jessica Purkis Anthony Cummings Mrs. Edsel B. Ford Amanda Carroll Toby Reiter Helen W. Drutt English Edgar P. Richardson Susan Cary Kirsi Ritosalmi-Kisner Susan Dunne Melissa Cristal Mary Savig Debra J. Force Chris DeMairo Craig Schiffert Leslie J. Garfield Ex Officio Caroline Donadio Emily Shapiro Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel Katy Donahue Tanya Sheehan Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan Lonnie G. Bunch III Secretary Poreia Duncan Sharon Shepard Evelyn Day Lasry Smithsonian Institution Thomas Edwards Matthew Simms Nicholas Lowry John Davis Ryan Evans Jennifer Snyder George Merck Provost/Under Secretary for Museums, Education Josh Franco Laurie Stepp Richard J. Miller & Research Toni Gardner Rihoko Ueno Marty O’Brien Smithsonian Institution Erin Gilbert Vivian Vargas Marica Vilcek Ricky Gomez Karen Weiss Diana Wege Michelle Herman Liza Zapol Royal Chicano Air Force, El Teatro Campesino Fundraiser, 1978. Amy Zinck Zoe Herrmann Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material on Chicano art, 1965–2004. COVER

TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT:

1 Photograph of William Zorach with sculpture, circa 1940. Photograph by John D. Schiff. Forbes Watson papers, 1840–1967.

2 Grace Anna Storrs Hunt, Travel diary, July 11–July 24, 1889. Leigh H. Hunt papers, 1870–1937.

3 Charles Robert Searles, Abstract watercolor sketch, between 1968 and 2010. Charles Searles papers, 1953–2010.

4 Photograph of Robert Smithson walking under a bridge in Pine Barrens, New Jersey, January 1968. Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt papers, 1905–1987.

5 Detail of a watercolor from James Penney’s sketchbook, 1934. James Penney papers, 1913–1984.

RESEARCH CENTERS EXHIBITION GALLERY MIDDLE ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Lawrence A. Fleischman Washington, DC 1 Souvenir ticket from the dedication of the Gateway Arch, Gallery Saint Louis, Missouri, 1968. Lilian Swann Saarinen papers, 750 9th Street, NW Located in the Smithsonian circa 1909–1977. Victor Building, Suite 2200 Donald W. Reynolds Washington, DC 20001 2 George Tooker, Figure sketch of subway rider, 1944. Center for American Art T: 202.633.7940 George Tooker papers, circa 1851–2010. and Portraiture Research: 202.633.7950 8th and F Streets, NW 3 Photograph of Yasuo Kuniyoshi painting, circa 1945. Washington, DC 20001 Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers, 1906–2016. New York, NY 4 Detail of a sketch from Janice Lowry’s journal, August 13 300 Park Avenue South to November 21, 2005. Janice Lowry papers, 1957–2009. Suite 300 New York, NY 10010 AFFILIATED RESEARCH 5 Ad Reinhardt postcard to Barbara Mason, September 20, 1951. T: 212.399.5035 CENTERS Ad Reinhardt postcards to Barbara Mason, 1951–1957 and undated.

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX BOTTOM ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: MAILING ADDRESSES 1 Detail of an envelope commemorating opening day at UNESCO Boston Public Library, Headquarters, Paris, November 1, 1958. Marcel Breuer papers, U.S. Postal Service Boston, MA 1920–1986. Archives of American Art de Young Museum, 2 Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Annotated study, circa 1970. Smithsonian Institution San Francisco, CA Stanton Macdonald-Wright papers, 1890–2018. Victor Building, Suite 2200 P.O. Box 37012, MRC 937 3 Photograph album of Sunken Meadow Gallery Exhibition, 1959. Huntington Library, Washington, DC 20013 Anna Walinska papers, 1927–2002. San Marino, CA 4 Photograph of Roger Shimomura with his works of art, undated. FedEx/UPS Roger Shimomura papers, 1965–2014. Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution Victor Building, Suite 2200 All images are from the collections of the 750 9th Street, NW Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC 20001