Biographical data; letters, 1955-1983, from Artists Equity Association of New York, Hashomer Hatzair, Meltzer Gallery, National Association of Women Artists, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, The Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey, Summit Gallery, Village Art Center Gallery, and others; a report to the National Association of Women Art...

This accession consists mostly of files documenting the exhibitions developed by the Curatorial Office, National Museum of American Art (NMAA), from 1982 to 1993. The exhibition files document all stages of exhibition planning, and include exhibition prospectuses; timetables and schedules; expense reports; loan agreements; fundraising informat...

The records of New York City's National Academy of Design measure 92.7 linear feet and date from 1817-2012. The records pertain to all three constituents of the tripartite organization consisting of the Academy, a membership body of artists founded in 1825; the school, founded at the same time to promote arts education; and the exhibition program, inaugurated in 1826. Extensive administrative records include minutes, committee files, director files, annual reports, constitutions, and correspondence and subject files of council officers. Exhibition records, also substantive, date to the Academy's first annual exhibition and include gallery and special exhibitions, as well as exhibitions at the Academy's museum, established in 1979. The collection also includes gifts and funding files, especially relating to endowments and prizes; membership records; National Academy Association records; Ranger Fund assignments; extensive files pertaining to the school's administration, courses of instruction, registrations, and attendance; twenty scrapbooks containing clippings and ephemera; Society of American Artists records; correspondence and ephemera from other organizations; transcripts from oral histories with Academy members; extensive photographic material documenting artists, members, the school, exhibitions, buildings, and artwork created by Academy members; artist files containing correspondence, writings, and sketches from those associated with the Academy; and assorted printed material and ephemera.

The papers of Los Angeles Abstract Classicist painter and educator Frederick Hammersley measure 35.05 linear feet and date from circa 1860-2009, bulk 1940-2009. The papers contain biographical materials, 32 diaries, family and professional correspondence, personal business and financial records, estate records, writings, graphic design projects, teaching files, printed materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and works of art. There is a 0.3 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2020 that includes photographs of Hammersley's family, and most significantly for research, a study in pencil and a "model for making cubes," a paper document that can be stored flat and folded into a cube shape.

Correspondence, reports, notes, photographs, and printed material concerning Field's association with Asia House, American Federation of Arts, National Endowment of the Arts, and painter John Von Wicht.

Two letters from Millard Sheets, 1985, discussing his frescoes at South Pasadena High School which he painted in 1934; and exhibition announcements from the Baxter Art Gallery (9) and the Pasadena Art Museum (3), 1969-1977.

An interview of Eleanor Sayre conducted 1993 April 19-1997 January 10, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

The Marcia M. Mathews papers relating to Henry Ossawa Tanner consist of 54 items and date from 1937 to 1969, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1963 to 1969. The collection primarily consists of correspondence preceding Mathew's 1969 book Henry O. Tanner, American Artist and related printed material. REEL 64: 26 letters, January 21, 1966 t...

Exhibition catalog inscribed by Orr to Ambia Harris who bought an etching from the exhibition. Orr explains its significance as a scene from the small town in France, St. Gilles, where he met his wife.

Material gathered by Berkson in preparation for exhibitions on sculptors Ronald Bladen and Les Levine.