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Annual Report October 1, 2017–September 30, 2018 Letter from the Director

RESEARCH CENTERS EXHIBITION GALLERY Dear Friends, through this initiative include the records Washington, DC Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery of the Parish Gallery and the of Located in the Smithsonian 750 9th Street, NW It is with great pride that I share with Emilio Cruz, Sam Gilliam, and Jacob Victor Building, Suite 2200 Donald W. Reynolds Center for you this annual report for fscal year Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight, Washington, DC 20001 and Portraiture T: 202.633.7940 8th and F Streets, NW 2018 (October 1, 2017 to September among others. Our successes this fscal Research: 202.633.7950 Washington, DC 20001 30, 2018). This year has truly been year will build critical momentum in an extraordinary one for the Archives cementing the Archives as a leading , NY AFFILIATED RESEARCH of American Art. In the report ahead, institution for the study of African 300 Park Avenue South, CENTERS you will fnd highlights including American art and artists. Suite 300 our Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery New York, NY 10010 Amon Carter Museum, exhibitions, collection acquisitions, In our work to preserve complex and T: 212.399.5035 Fort Worth, TX publications that featured the Archives, compelling stories of art in America, we Public Library, and loans of objects in our collection reached the culmination of our Visual MAILING ADDRESSES Boston, MA to institutions around the world. These Arts and the AIDS Epidemic oral history U.S. Postal Service , highlights, and all that we accomplished, project, funded by the Keith Haring , CA have been made possible by the Foundation in 2015. In 40 oral history , generosity of our donors and the work interviews with artists who experienced Victor Building, Suite 2200 San Marino, CA P.O. Box 37012, MRC 937 of our dedicated staf. Their support the front lines of the epidemic, this project Washington, DC 20013 ensured that our ever-growing collection explored the direct and indirect impacts, is increasingly accessible to anyone, and how they continue to resonate today. FedEx/UPS anywhere, at any time, and continues to A moving symposium, held in conjunction Archives of American Art speak to the rich and vibrant diversity of with the opening of the Whitney Museum Smithsonian Institution our nation’s art and artists. of American Art’s exhibition David Victor Building, Suite 2200 Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake 750 9th Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 This year, through the African American at Night, centered on this oral history Collecting Initiative, generously funded project. It provided an opportunity for by the Henry Luce Foundation, the artists, narrators, and the community to curator of African American manuscripts engage in a dialogue that demonstrated and project archivist have made great the value of these interviews, bearing progress in enhancing the Archives’ witness to artists’ lived experience during collections by and about African this tumultuous period. American artists. Highlights from the initiative include seven newly acquired We were thrilled to announce in June collections, including the papers of Ed that the Archives will be a benefciary Clark, Beverly Buchanan, and Chakaia of a major promised gift from the Roy Booker. In addition, thanks to the Lichtenstein Foundation: the expansive Foundation’s support of processing, records of the our staf was able to preserve papers Foundation and the personal papers of African American artists already of Roy Lichtenstein. As the largest in our collection and create detailed collection ever donated to the Archives, fnding aids to make them more easily the gift constitutes the most complete accessible. Collections processed research resource anywhere on the

ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 art and life of the artist and his times, endowment for our digitization program, illuminating Lichtenstein’s wide-reaching the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, 33 138 57 infuence and legacy through over Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Oral histories Collections Collections 500 linear feet of documents and Foundation for the Arts, Charles recorded processed acquired photographs and 300 oral history Moorman, and Wyeth Foundation for interviews. As a valued partner in the American Art made leadership gifts digitization of the Gallery that have ensured we are ever closer records, I am grateful for the generosity to completing the Terra Foundation’s and vision of the Roy Lichtenstein $4 million challenge. In a similar vein, 1,034 166,274 the Walton Family Foundation’s grant, Foundation in selecting the Archives Linear feet of Digital images created, which matches current use donations as one of two successor institutions. collections corresponding to 99.1 linear to collections digitization, inspired a Work has already begun to facilitate processed feet of collections the processing and digitization of this generous gift from Joyce Menschel collection, and I look forward to bringing through the Vital Projects Fund. these important records to our research center and website in the years ahead. In closing, I share a quote from the remarks of the 2017 Archives of American To support important initiatives like Art Medal recipient, Glenn Ligon. In 786 713 these while continuously growing our describing reasons why the Archives is Reproduction In-person visitors consulted collections and making them freely an essential institution, he said, “the most requests fulflled 3,742 containers of primary available to a global audience, we important one for me is to preserve the documents rely on the generosity of our donors memories that we have until we are ready to provide the critical funding that to receive them.” While the future may be empowers us to carry out our mission. far from certain, the work we have done, Although the Archives is a research and will continue to do, enables current center of the Smithsonian Institution, and future generations to access and 1,206 20,000 federal funding covers less than half of receive these memories of our nation’s Number of letters, faxes, Number of hours the our annual operating costs. Thanks to artists and art communities. This would & emails answered by the containers were in use investments made in us from individuals not be possible without the passion of reference department in the reading rooms and foundations from across the our researchers, commitment of our staf, country, we are able to seize every leadership from our Board of Trustees, opportunity and remain a leader in and the generosity of our donors. the archival feld. With gratitude, Last year, the Terra Foundation for 1,708,378 American Art and Walton Family Kate Haw Page views on the website in 485,375 sessions Foundation made transformative Director investments in our digitization program and infrastructure, allowing our staf to Amount of audio innovate and increase the rate at which recorded for oral we can bring our collections online. 176:28:14 history interviews Responding to the Terra Foundation’s challenge grant, which established an

3 Exhibitions

Before Internet Cats: Feline Finds from the Archives of American Art April 28, 2017 to October 29, 2017 Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Washington, DC

Of the Beaten Track: A Road Trip through the Archives of American Art December 8, 2017 to June 3, 2018 Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Washington, DC

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

Sheet of artistamps, 1986. John Held papers relating to Mail Art, 1973-2013.

ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Events

Oct. 24, 2017 April 17, 2018 At the annual Archives of American Art gala, held at 583 Park Avenue Director Kate Haw, deputy director in New York, artist Glenn Ligon and philanthropist Sharon Percy Liza Kirwin, and curator of manuscripts Rockefeller were awarded Archives of American Art Medals. Scholar Mary Savig discussed fnding and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto was given the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award saving treasures from artists’ archives for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History. at Archives Matters, an event hosted by Swann Auction Galleries in recognition of their support of four issues of the Archives of American Art Journal.

Liza Kirwin, Mary Savig, and Kate Haw. Photo credit: Archives of American Art staf.

Clockwise from Left: 1 Kate Haw, Chon Noriega, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Barbara Fleischman, Earl A. Powell III, Glenn Ligon, and Byron Kim. 2 Barbara and Martha Fleischman. 3 Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim. Gala photographer: Michael Seto.

April 29, 2018 Nov. 3, 2017 Curator of manuscripts Mary Savig presented the talk, “The Art of Handwriting,” National collector Josh T. Franco participated in “‘A line that birds cannot at the Florence Griswold Museum in New Lyme, Connecticut, in conjunction see’: Mexican/US Art and Artists Crossing Borders in the 20th Century,” a with the Archives’ traveling exhibition Pen to . In addition to more symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition Tamayo: The New York than 50 documents from the Archives’ collections, the exhibition featured Years at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He served as the discussant related artworks from the Griswold Museum’s collection, encouraging for a panel and delivered brief remarks titled “Tmas and Chaz in Mexico: visitors to fnd their own connections between letter writing and art making. Documents from the Archives of American Art… and Postcommodity.”

5 Events

May 11, 2018 July 26, 2018 National collector Josh T. Franco and archivist Hilary Photography survey archivist Elissa Jerome and head of Price participated in a panel discussion, “Three collections processing Erin Kinhart gave a gallery talk for Case Studies: Curatorial, Digital Preservation, and the exhibition Pop Up: Photographic Discoveries from the Processing,” at the symposium “Is This Permanence: Archives of American Art in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Preservation of Born-digital Artists’ Archives,” at the Yale Gallery in Washington, DC. Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.

July 13, 2018 Sept. 11, 2018 The Archives presented the symposium Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic at the Director Kate Haw participated Whitney Museum of American Art in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition in a panel discussion “Document David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night. The symposium, funded by or Artwork? A Panel Discussion on the Keith Haring Foundation, was the culmination of a three-year project to produce Archives in the Art World” at the 40 in-depth oral history interviews with key witnesses to the AIDS epidemic in the art Dedalus Foundation in New York. world. The project focused on the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, when the AIDS crisis was at its height, and the lasting legacy of that time on each subject’s work, life, and relationships. Four panels focused on the themes of the interviews, featuring conversations with artists, activists, and narrators. Clockwise from Top Right: 1 Elissa Jerome and Erin Kinhart leading the gallery talk. Photo credit: Archives of American Art staf. 2 James Wentzy, Sur Rodney (Sur), Alexandra Juhasz, Avram Finkelstein, and Ted Kerr. 3 Alex Fialho, Carrie Yamaoka, Julie Tolentino, Robert Vázquez-Pacheco, and Joy Episalla. Symposium photographer: Filip Wolak.

6 Outside Publications That Relied on the Archives’ Collections

Benayada, Kamila. “Redefning Manolescu, Monica. “Eternal : Stuart Davis’s Cold Cities: Rome/Passaic. On Robert War Champion Series.” IdeAs: Idées Smithson’s ‘Monuments of Passaic.’” d’Amériques 11 (June), 2018. Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities. Bergdoll, Barry. “ and Cham: Springer International the Invention of Heavy Lightness.” Publishing, 2018. Places Journal (June), 2018. Martin, Henry. Agnes Martin: Pioneer, Black, Charlene Villaseor. “Founding Painter, Icon. Tucson: Schafner Artists and the History of Aztlán: A Press, 2018. Journal of Chicano Studies.” Diálogo 20 (2), 2017. Martineau, Kate Dempsey. Ray Johnson: Selective Inheritance. Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts. Oakland: University of New York: Laurenz Foundation, Press, 2018. Schaulager, and The Museum of Modern Art, 2018. Middleman, Rachel. Radical Eroticism: Women, Art, and Sex in Christianson, Frank. The Popular the 1960s. Oakland: University of Frontier: Bufalo Bill’s Wild West and California Press, 2018. Transnational Mass Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Roberts, Ellen E. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture. West Palm Fort, Ilene Susan, and Mark Pascale. Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 2018. Charles White: A Retrospective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Steinberg, Monica. “Naming: Heteronymy and the Imaginary Japp, James. “Willa Cather, Ernest L. Artists of George Herms.” American Blumenschein, and ‘The Painting of Art 32 (2), 2018. Tomorrow.’” Cather Studies, Volume 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Archives of American Press, 2017. Art Publications Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Politics in the Art of War: The American War Archives of American Art Journal Cemeteries.” International Journal of Volume 57, Number 1, Spring 2018 Military History and Historiography Volume 57, Number 2, Fall 2018 38 (2), 2018.

7 Loan Highlights

January 25, 2018–July 7, 2019 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture Venues include Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, January 25–April 29, 2018; Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island, April 7–July 7, 2019. ITEMS LENT: Preparatory drawings by Vanderbilt Whitney depicting the various subject matter she sculpted were displayed among her completed works.

January 28, 2018–March 28, 2019 Outliers and American Vanguard Art Venues include the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 28–May 13, 2018; High Museum of Art, , Georgia, June 24–September 30, 2018; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, November 18, 2018–March 18, 2019. ITEMS LENT: Documents regarding artist Forrest Left to Right: 1 Photograph of Bess including images of Bess, pages from his thesis, Robert Smithson walking letters, and material documenting his relationship with under a bridge in Pine the Gallery. Barrens, New Jersey, 1968 January / unidentifed photographer. Robert March 10, 2018–September 22, 2018 Smithson and Nancy Robert Smithson: Time Crystals Holt papers, 1905-1987. 2 Gertrude Vanderbilt Venues include The University of Queensland Whitney, ca. 1913 / Adolf Australia, Brisbane, Australia, March 10–July De Meyer, photographer. 8, 2018; Monash University Museum of Art, Gertrude Vanderbilt Melbourne, Australia, July 22–September 22, 2018. Whitney papers, 1851-1975. ITEMS LENT: Over 50 documents from the Smithson papers and 24 books from Smithson’s library.

8 Acquisition Highlights Oral History Highlights

Charles Arnoldi papers, Doug Aitken Michael Smith 1946–2017 Julie Ault Michael W. Monroe Joey Terrill Paulus Berensohn papers, Fleur Bresler Robert Morris Julie Tolentino circa 1950–2017 Nancy Brooks Brody Catherine Murphy Robert Vázquez-Pacheco Chakaia Booker papers, Kathan Brown Allen Ruppersberg Jack Waters circa 1998–2013 Brian Daniel Butler Cliford Schorer Eduardo Carrillo papers, Tony DeLap Jon Shirley Nina Yankowitz 1971–1986 Hester Diamond Laurie Simmons Andrea Zittel Ed Clark papers, Helen W. Drutt English 1923–2017 Barbara Hammer papers, John Held circa 1973–2012 Joan Jonas JACK WATERS ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW Tom Marioni papers, Bill T. Jones TRANSCRIPT, 2018 FEBRUARY 21–22, PAGE 32 1975–2018 Alexandra Juhasz Senga Nengudi papers, Thomas Lawson “I don’t know whether I 1948–2016 Robert Mangold Linda Nochlin papers, Cheech Marin believe in an afterlife 1937–2017 Top Down: 1 Linda Nochlin with Joyce Kozlof, or the spirit world. It’s papers, 1990 / Mel Rosenthal, photographer. Linda 1935–2015 Nochlin papers, 1937-2017. certainly been a large 2 Photograph of Don Reitz loading a kiln on papers, his farm in Spring Green, Wisconsin, circa part of my creative 1963–2017 1965 / unidentifed photographer. Don Reitz papers, circa 1935-2015. practice. But art, and Ilene Segalove papers, 1963–2018 art-making, and memory, Roberto Sifuentes papers, and art practice, is the circa 1988–2006 Elaine Sturtevant papers, Mary Schimpf Webb closest thing that I have circa 1960–2014 papers, 1955–2016 to proof. You know, to Susanne Hilberry Gallery J. Fred Woell papers, records, 1964–2017 1943–2016 be able to say, ‘This is Masami Teraoka papers, Nina Yankowitz papers, actual proof.’” 1966–2017 circa 1950–2017

9 Collection Donors

Roy E. Abrahamson Peter A. Bradley James Daugherty Left to Right: 1 Photograph of James W. Washington, Jr. Academy Film Archive via Jane Bridges Foundation via John Solum with bust of Martin Luther Fritz Herzog Jack Brogan King, Jr., 1969 / unidentifed Gustavo Acosta Patrick Dufy photographer. James W. Jefrey Owen Brosk Washington, Jr. papers, Constance Duhamel Michael Arnautof, Deborah Mirski Brown 1938-1989. 2 Moses Soyer Peter Arnautof, and Leslie Ferrin letter to David Soyer, 1940. Robert Cherny Kathan Brown Moses Soyer papers, circa Arline M. Fisch 1905-1974. Phillip Barcio Anthony F. Bultman, IV and Ellis Johann Bultman Margaret Fisher Carla Becker Linda Burnham Martha J. Fleischman Paulus Berensohn Estate Lee Hall Estate via Tom Marioni Richard Shebairo Eduardo Carrillo Estate Ann Hubbard Gaddis via Jon Ellenbogen Carolyn Crozier and via Alison Carrillo Hal Glicksman Gail Mazur Roberto Sifuentes Oscar Blayton Deborah Jacobson Melanca Clark Piri Halasz Nora Chapa Mendoza Kristen Skedgell Frederick Hammersley Charles “Chaz” Bojrquez Museum of Modern Art Ann Stannard Ann Burr Czepiel Foundation via Kathleen Chakaia Booker via Michelle Elligott Shields Loren Sturtevant Gail Nanao James R. Hedges IV on William P. Tarbell behalf of Wildcat Asset National Academy of Kendall Taylor Management, LLC Design via Maura Reilly Temple of Man via George Leah Hertz Senga Nengudi Herms and Yoav Getzler Susanne Hilberry Estate Robert Niedringhaus Masami Teraoka via Daniel Feld Carolyn Owen-Towle Jerry L. Thompson Patricia Hills Betty Parsons Estate Tibor de Nagy Gallery Irene Hollister Estate via and Foundation via via Andrew Arnot Joanne F. Oscadal Christopher Schwabacher Richard Tuttle Grace Hopkins Heather Peck Frances Valesco James Graham & Sons Daisy Pommer Mary Schimpf Webb via Cameron Shay Paul Henry Ramirez Judith Wechsler Marilynn Karp Charles Ramsburg Debra Werblud Jonathan Katz Brent Reitz Patricia Wheeler Dodie Kazanjian Juan Rodriguez George Cooke White Lynn Kearney Barbara A. Roux Bill Wilson Enid Klass David S. Rubin Jan Wurm Vera Klement Rosina Rubin Nina Yankowitz Elizabeth G. Knudsen James Schick Adam Zagorin Joanne Leonard Gail R. Scott Lisa Lipofsky-Valenzula Ilene Segalove Maria Luisa F. Mansfeld Joe Segura Herman Maril Foundation Gabrielle Selz via David Maril

10 Donors

$1,000,000 or more Nicholas D. Lowry, John R. & Barbara The Reed Foundation, Inc. Barbara & Donald Tober, Robinson, The Widgeon Swann Galleries Richard and Jane Barbara and Donald Tober Point Charitable Ann & Gilbert Kinney, Mr. Charles Moorman, IV Manoogian Foundation Foundation Renaissance Charitable Foundation Marty O’Brien Smithsonian Institution Lulu & Anthony Wang, The Foundation Inc. Dr. & Mrs. R. Perry Shoreland Foundation Wyeth Foundation for Latino Initiatives Pool Terra Foundation for Robinson, The Widgeon American Art Jan & Marica Vilcek American Art Point Charitable Foundation Adele S. Merck, Wells $2,500 or more $25,000 or more Jamie S. Gorelick, Shirley Family Foundation Thomas Barry $500,000 or more Gorelick Foundation Bayles Resource LLC Helen W. Drutt English & H. Smithsonian Women’s Barbara G. Fleischman $5,000 or more Ethel Fisher Kott* Peter Stern* Committee Mr. & Mrs. Irving Blum Frederick Hammersley Raymond Learsy Debra Force, Debra Force Karole Dill Barkley Barbara Bertozzi Castelli Foundation Jim Melchert Fine Art Inc. Ann Berman & Daniel Feld, Lori Cohen & Henry Luce Foundation $10,000 or more Mr. & Mrs. Leslie J. Garfeld Jewish Communal Fund of Christopher Rothko Richard & Ronay Walton Family Foundation Menschel, Charina Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel & Carrie Rebora Barratt New York David Kordansky Gallery, Foundation, Inc. John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Elizabeth Beaman & Mr. & Mrs. Norman R. Los Angeles Amy Newman & $250,000 or more Scott Delman Bobins, The Robert Thomas Kathleen M. Doyle, DOYLE Bobins Foundation Bud Shulman The Honorable Max N. Virginia Dwan Martha J. Fleischman Jane Chace Carroll, Point Roselyne Chroman Swig Berry Susanne Emmerich Gammon Foundation Warrie & James D. Price, Frank & Katherine Gilberto Cárdenas & Elizabeth & Anthony Fieldland Investment Martucci, Gulf Coast Dolores García Paula Cooper Community Foundation Enders Company The Dedalus Foundation John Davis & Jason Hefner Friends of Duane Wakeham Susan Dunne $100,000 or more John Stuart Gordon Cary J. Frieze Candace King Weir, Gagosian David and Candace Weir Kate Haw Katie Kitchen and Paul The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Agnes Gund, AG Kovach, Fidelity Foundation Joanna McNeil Lewis J. Horowitz Foundation for Foundation John and Patricia Migs & Bing Wright, B & M the Arts Susan & Henry Johnson Grete Meilman & Klingenstein Fund Wright Foundation Hanno Mott Joyce F. Menschel, Vital The Kaplen Brothers Fund Projects Fund, Inc. Robert E. Meyerhof & The Keith Haring Rheda Becker Smithsonian Institution Foundation Collections Care and PECO Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Kogod, Preservation Fund Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan The Robert P. and Arlene R. Gerald Peters, Gerald & Dr. Louis D. Kaplan, Kogod Family Foundation Peters Gallery Inc. $50,000 or more Lichtenberg Family Evelyn Day Lasry, The Ronald & Jo Carole Foundation Two Palms Lauder Foundation Amy G. Bermingham, George Frederick Mead LLWW Foundation Donna Perret Rosen & Nina W. Werblow Merck Benjamin M. Rosen Janice C. Oresman Charitable Trust Bridget Moore & Sotheby’s, Inc. Kate Prendergast Dorothy Lichtenstein Christoph Kotowski

11 Donors

$1,000 or more Judith & Steaven K. Jones, $500 or more Lois A. & Richard A. Pace, Marc J. Masurovsky Steaven K. and Judith G. Jewish Communal Fund Hattula Moholy-Nagy Alexander Gray Jones Foundation Anonymous of New York Carol Mitchell Anonymous Liza Kirwin Naomi S. Antonakos Mrs. Joanne D. Payson Michael Klein Arts Craig P. Baker Glenn Ligon Sidney Babcock & Richard Gray Gallery, LLC Deirdre & Kevin O’Donnell Elizabeth Baker Sueyun Locks Jose Romeu Dame Jillian Sackler Richard Powell Jack Bankowsky & Victoria Newhouse, Mrs. George M. Bissell, Jr. Alan E. Schwartz & Family William S. Reese Matthew Marks, Matthew Samuel I. Newhouse Adele Chatfeld-Taylor Marc Schwartz Marks Charitable Trust Foundation Inc. Lucas Reiner Ms. Alice M. Denney Marion True & Patrick Ms. Betty Sams, Betty H. W.P. Buckthal Mrs. Susan Conway Teri J. Edelstein & de Maisonneuve Oliphant & Mr. Patrick Sams Fund Stanley Brodsky & Drs. Bobbi & Barry Coller Neil Harris Tanya Wells, TMSW Art Jeanne Hewitt Oliphant, Susan Conway Sophia D. Schachter Elizabeth De Cuevas Gallery Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Deborah B. Brown Gargaro, Jr., Eugene and Jean S. Sharf Dagny J. Corcoran Andrea Rosen, Andrea $250 or more Barbara C. Buenger Mary Anne Gargaro Fund Patterson Sims Wendy Cromwell Rosen Gallery Peter C. Bunnell Warren & Charlynn Goins, Charles Balducci Susan Sosnick Katherine Degn, The Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Goins Family Fund Sarah Burns Bridgewater Fund, Inc. & Rosowski Mr. William Bernhard, Charles F. Stuckey James N. & Katherine William A. Camfeld Kraushaar Galleries The Bernhill Fund Cynthia King Vance Stephen M. Salny Goodman, James Nancy Druckman Ruth L. Bohan & Lee Vance Ms. Carol B. Camiener, Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Sheldon Goodman Gallery & Gulf Coast Community Glyn Vincent Amy Ernst Richard & Ann Solomon Jewish Communal Fund Lillian Rose Brenwasser Foundation of New York Jacqueline Vossler Dr. Linda S. Ferber Susan Sosnick, United Philip & Lorraine Brewer Ellen Cantrowitz Greg Kucera Gallery, Inc. Gertrude de G. Wilmers The Fifth Floor Foundation Jewish Foundation Margaret B. Caldwell Constance R. Caplan Charles R. Grigg Polly Wotherspoon Barbara File Patricia Brown Specter Helen A. Cooper Mrs. March Avery Steven R. Finley & Linda Joan Washburn, Karen Grinthal Jacqueline & Christian Cavanaugh Stillman Washburn Gallery Cynthia Harris Erdman Up to $249 Alexander Chester Marilyn Friedman Wechsler Foundation Harris K. & Lois G. Rosa Esman Robert Chlebowski Oppenheimer Foundation Anonymous Jonathan Boos Toby Etkin Thomas Colville Mary A. Heilmann Elaine Abbe Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Finch Ms. Susan Cooke Nancy Iacomini William C. Agee Gregory Freeman Joe & Wanda Corn Helen Jafe, The Jafe Ms. Carolyn Alper Joseph & Lesley Hoopes Robert Cozzolino Family Foundation William G. Anthony Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Raymond M. Cracchiolo, Buf Kavelman Ruth Appelhof Hudson, Jr. Raymond M. and Jane E. Linda & Harvey Saligman Sarah Iselin Judy Arginteanu Cracchiolo Foundation Charitable Foundation James Reinish & Vivian E. Barnett Inc. Glenn & Susan Lowry Associates, Inc. Ms. Georgia Barnhill Darryl Curran Roberta A. Mayer Jay E. Cantor, Fine Art Julie S. Berkowitz William P. Daley Barbara Millhouse Consulting, Inc. Edward Bindel Lee Dalzell Susan & Joel Mindel Pamela Koob Annette Blaugrund Larry Patrick Daughtry Brian & Kimberly Orcutt Carol LeWitt Nancy Davidson

12 Donors

William DeCosta & Mr. Michael J. Horvitz Ernest Lippard Philip & Dorothy Pearlstein Page 11, Clockwise from Bottom Ann Foley Left Corner: 1 Album of Sunken Amy Jalbert Lucy Lippard Jody Pettibone Meadow Gallery Exhibition, Dr. Bernard & Ruth Jane Johnston Peter Lister Ellen Pollak 1959. papers, DeHovitz 1927-2002. 2 Photograph of David Joselit Margaretta M. Lovell Jules D. Prown Lonnie Holley with artwork, 198-? Lynn Kearney Kenneth W. Maddox Emily Rauh Pulitzer / unidentifed photographer. Janis Ekdahl Jimmy Hedges papers and Christopher Ketcham David McCarthy Dr. & Mrs. Keith Rapp Rising Fawn Folk Art Gallery Mr. & Mrs. Charles Deborah Weyhe Kiley Bretton McCreight Ann K. Rawley records, 1969-2016. 3 Another C. Eldredge Map to Nevada, circa 2000. Victoria Kirby Julie L. McGee Leland Rice Bruce Feldacker Robert Delford Brown papers, Nancy Koenigsberg Denise Meringolo E. Bruce Robertson 1964-2009. Sidney Felsen Janet Koplos Pauline C. Metcalf Robert H. Robles Page 12, Left to Right: 1 Postcard Arline M. Fisch from J. Robert Boomer to the Barbara Krueger Gay Myers Mr. & Mrs. Michael Root Mr. John Smith Diane Forsberg Macbeth Gallery, 1932 October Betty Krulik, Betty Krulik Mrs. Milo M. Naeve Naomi Rosenblum Robert H. & Sharon 21. Macbeth Gallery records, Kathleen A. Foster W. Smith 1838-1968. 2 Photograph of Fine Art Leslie N. Negley Dulcie Rosenfeld Francis M. Naumann Grinstein family visiting Spiral Heidi Lange Mrs. Nelson E. Smyth Fine Art Martha Nodine & Penelope Rothfeld Jetty, 1970 August / Robert Catherine C. Lastavica Wright Nodine Jr. Alvin L. Snowiss Smithson, photographer. Robert Barbara Roux Smithson and Nancy Holt Joan Snyder Woodworkers Andrea & Ron Sandler papers, 1905-1987. David M. Sokol Ed Gilbert, Anglim Jean Sapin Page 13, Left to Right: 1 Photograph Gilbert Gallery Robert Solomon of Salvatore Scarpitta racing Willard Saunders his car at Hagerstown Raceway, Roland Ginzel Mr. & Mrs. George 1987 August 23 / Joan Bankemper, Dorothy Saxe R. Sprague Joy Glass & Richard photographer. Leo Castelli Ingrid Schafner Milazzo Elizabeth Stillinger Gallery records, circa 1880-2000. Lewis R. Schiller 2 Guy Bleus Mail Art to John Jon & Katherine Gothold Mark Thistlethwaite Held Jr., 1990. John Held papers Ms. Mary C. Schlosser Maurice Gregg Valentin Valls relating to Mail Art, 1973-2013. Max Schneider, Nancy Grinnell Julia Van Haaften MJS Construction Barbara Grossman Consulting, LLC. Robin Veder *Deceased George Gurney Marianne Schnell Sue Ann Weinberg, The John L. and Sue Ann J. Ben Ali Haggin June & Paul Schorr III Weinberg Foundation Lucy & Kenneth James Helen Searing Brian Wilkinson Harper Michael Leja & Dr. Percy North Phil & Mary Serka John Wilmerding Helen A. Harrison Margaret Werth Christine Isabelle Curtis Shappee Alona Cooper Wilson Olga Gussow Hauptman Suzanne Lemakis Oaklander Ted & Mary Jo Shen Dr. Barbara Wolanin Andree Hayum Emily Lenz Elissa Oberman Harvey S. Shipley- Linda Yablonsky John Held, Jr. Miller, The Shipley-Miller Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Ms. Jane Opper Michele Zackheim Marilyn Henrion Deane Leonard Foundation Mr. Mark Ostrander & Judith Zilczer Patricia Hills Joanne Leonard Ms. Marjorie Van Cura Shirley Sikov Ms. Karen Zukowski & Mr. Erica Hirshler E. Crichton Singleton Nicoletta Leonardi Richard & Carolyn David Diamond, Zukowski Joseph Holbach Panofsky Suzanne Smeaton Diamond Foundation

13 Supporting the Archives Sources of Funding for Fiscal Year 2018

The Archives of American Art in perpetuity, creating a is the largest resource for permanent legacy for donors the study of American art at the Archives. 9% in the world, with millions of Foundation primary sources that tell the FOUNDATIONS & Grants stories behind our nation’s CORPORATIONS great art and artists. By Foundations have long preserving and providing provided critical funding access to these priceless for many of our most documents, the Archives important projects, including serves as a rich and enduring digitization, public programs, source of knowledge about and collecting initiatives. 44% the history of the visual The Archives also relies Goverment arts and culture in the on partnerships with the 27% Allocation , informing corporate community, Current and engaging scholars, art including galleries, auction Use Gifts lovers, and inquisitive minds houses and art-industry from across the nation and consultants, and suppliers. around the world. Together, foundations and corporations enable the Join us in our efort to Archives to remain a leader leverage public dollars with in its feld through fnancial private gifts that will help us support, event sponsorship, attract, inspire, and serve and in-kind gifts. the public. Your support makes an impact on what PLANNED GIFTS is collected, preserved, and Estate and life income gifts 11% made available to the world. leave a lasting personal Endowments 6% legacy at the Archives and 3% Earned Smithsonian can ofer tax incentives for Grants INDIVIDUAL GIVING donors and their heirs. Those Income Private donations enable who share with us that they us to collect, process, and have made a planned gift digitize collections, and to beneft the Archives are create new exhibitions, recognized for their support publications, programs, and and invited for membership special events each year to in the Smithsonian Legacy advance and support our Society. core mission. Contributors may restrict their gift to a T: 202.633.7989 particular priority, while W: www.aaa.si.edu/support unrestricted gifts provide fexible funding to help us Archives of American Art respond quickly to new Ofce of Advancement opportunities and unforeseen P.O. Box 37012 MRC 937 challenges. Endowed gifts Victor Building, Suite 2200 fund projects and programs Washington, DC 20013-7012 critical to our success

14 Board of Trustees

Martha J. Fleischman Founding Trustees Ryan Evans Chair Lawrence A. Fleischman Josh Franco Mrs. Edsel B. Ford Toni Gardner Deborah Schmidt Edgar P. Richardson Erin Gilbert Robinson Ricky Gomez Vice Chair Ex Ofcio Siobhan Hagan Dr. David J. Skorton Michelle Herman Susan I. Johnson Secretary Zoe Herrmann Secretary Smithsonian Institution Robin Holladay Peak Kendra Jae Members John Davis Elissa Jerome Karole Dill Barkley Provost/Under Secretary Jayna Josefson Carrie Rebora Barratt for Museums, Education Erin Kinhart Elizabeth B. Beaman & Research Rachel Larsen Ann E. Berman Smithsonian Institution Annette Leddy Amy Bermingham Michelle McDaniel Virginia G. Bobins Kate Haw Megan McShea Gilberto Cárdenas Director Sarah Mitrani Helen W. Drutt English Sarah Mundy Susan Dunne Staf Hilary Price Debra J. Force Kate Haw Toby Reiter Leslie J. Garfeld Director Mary Savig Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel Craig Schifert Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan Liza Kirwin Emily Shapiro Gilbert H. Kinney Deputy Director Tanya Sheehan Evelyn Day Lasry Sharon Shepard Nicholas Lowry Rayna Andrews Matthew Simms George Merck George Apodaca Jennifer Snyder Richard J. Miller Stephanie Ashley Rihoko Ueno Bridget Moore Elizabeth Botten Vivian Vargas Marty O’Brien Marisa Bourgoin Karen Weiss Marica Vilcek Toni Brawner Liza Zapol Amy Zinck Lindsey Bright Megan Burdi Trustees Emeriti Amanda Carroll Max N. Berry, Esq. Susan Cary Nancy Brown Negley Melissa Rollenhagen Barbara G. Fleischman Cristal Dona S. Kendall Caroline Donadio Richard A. Manoogian Katy Donahue Carving of Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore, ca. 1934 Frank Martucci Poreia Duncan / unidentifed photographer. Mount Rushmore monument photographic transparencies, circa 1938-1939. Janice C. Oresman Thomas Edwards

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Top Row, Left to Right: Luis Jimenez postcard to Rochelle Shicof, 1991 April 28. Luis Jimenez letters to Rochelle “Shelly” Shicof, 1981-1998. Notebook, 2010. Matt Mullican papers, circa 1968-2017. Detail of a beauty salon sign, between 1972 and 1981 / , photographer. Ray Yoshida papers, circa 1895-2010. Bottom Row, Left to Right: Letter from Henry H. Rueter, Paris, France to Sylvester Rosa Kohler, 1889 September 7. Sylvester Rosa Koehler papers, 1833-1904. Photograph of Reuben Tam, 1948 / unidentifed photographer. Reuben Tam papers, 1931-2006. Mock up for mural, 2005. Juan Sánchez papers, circa 1972-2010.

All images are from the collections of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.