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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Exhibition Records, 1993-2000
Summary
- Collection ID:
- SIA.FA08-105
- Creators:
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Director
- Dates:
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1993-2000
- Languages:
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English
- Physical Description:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Descriptive Entry
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting the Director's involvement in many aspects of exhibition development at the National Portrait Gallery during the tenure of Alan Maxwell Fern (1982-2000). Exhibitions documented include Drawings by Hugo Gellert; Tete a Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson; A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist; Edward Sorel: Unauthorized Portraits; Ernest Hemingway: A Writer in His Time; Hans Namuth: Portraits; Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America; George and Martha Washington Portraits from the Presidential Years; Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen; Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century; Andy Warhol's Flash - November 22, 1963; Faces of TIME: Seventy-Five Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits; George C. Marshall: Soldier of Peace; Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places; Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio; and Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection. Materials include loan requests, correspondence, memoranda, agreements, and newspaper clippings.
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Using the Collection
Prefered Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 08-105, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of the Director, Exhibition Records
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