Mary E. Adams letters from Wilhelm Valentiner
name: label: Creator
content: Adams, Mary E., 1920-
label: Names
content: J. Paul Getty Museum
label: Names
content: North Carolina Museum of Art
label: Names
content: Adams, Mary E., 1920-
label: Names
content: Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958
topic: label: Occupation
content: Museum directors
label: Occupation
content: Art museum directors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1997 by Mary E. Adams.
creator: label: Creator
content: Adams, Mary E., 1920-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mary Adams was assistant to Wilhelm Valentiner at the J. Paul Getty Museum, in 1954. She is the wife of printmaker Clinton Adams. Art historian Wilhelm Valentiner was born in Karlsruhe, Germany. He served as Director, Detroit Institute of Art, 1924-1946, Director-Consultant, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1946-1954, Director, J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, Calif., 1954, Director, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1955-1958. Editor, Art in America, 1913-1931, and was the author of books on Dutch painting and modern sculpture.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1954-1957
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.adammary
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters from Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, the first director of the Getty Museum, to his assistant, Mary E. Adams. Five letters from 1954 regard the opening of the museum; the remainder were written while Valentiner was director at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Included are typescripts of the letters.