Armory Show Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
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content: Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2, 27-31, 56, OV 36)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kuhnwalt, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: This series is arranged according the following 9 subseries:

1.1: Correspondence, 1912-1914

1.2: Domestic Art Committee Records, 1913

1.3: European Entry Cards, circa 1912

1.4: Notes, 1912-1913

1.5: Printed Material and Memorabilia, 1912-1913

1.6: Writings of Walt Kuhn, 1912-1913

1.7: Photographs, 1912-1913

1.8: Scrapbooks, 1912-1913

1.9: Retrospective Materials, 1938-1963, undated
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been digitized in entirety with the exception of duplicates, copies, and the 2015 addition.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: As Secretary of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors (AAPS), and as selector of European works included in the show, Walt Kuhn was heavily involved in the conception, organization, and production of the International Exhibition of Modern Art, more commonly known as the Armory Show of 1913. Records in this series document the exhibition, including the selection of art work in Europe and the U.S., selection of venues, negotiation of contracts, production of the exhibitions, publicity, promotion, sales, and the wide array of responses to the exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

Types of material found in this series include correspondence, clippings, notes, inventories, insurance policies, mailing lists, a record book, writings, entry cards, marked and unmarked catalogs, pamphlets, postcards, floor plans, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia related to the exhibition. Also included are a handful of records related to retrospective accounts and exhibitions produced in 1938 and 1963 for the 25th and 50th anniversaries of the exhibition, including Walt Kuhn's 1938 pamphlet, "The Story of the Armory Show."

Records relating to the formation and administration of the AAPS are found in Series 2.