American art exhibition catalog collection [microfilm]
name: label: Collector
content: Archives of American Art
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Exhibitions
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 19th century -- United States -- Exhibitions
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States -- Exhibitions
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Archives of American Art microfilmed the catalogs at libraries throughout the United States for an American Art Exhibition Catalog Project during 1964-1966. Among the institutions were the Architectural League of New York, Boston Antheneum, Boston Public Library, Columbia University, Cooper Union Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the New York Public Library, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, and many others. Some of the catalogs identified were included in individual collections of artists papers or organizational records. Researchers may also find exhibition catalogs in artists' papers and other collections in the Archives, although they are generally not described at the item level.
creator: label: Collector
content: Archives of American Art
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 134 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1820-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.archaaec
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Indexed by artist and sponsoring museum/gallery in: The Archives of American Art Collection of Exhibition Catalogs (Boston : G.K. Hall & Co., 1979).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Ca. 7,000 exhibition catalogs published from the early nineteenth century to the 1960s for for exhibitions of American art held in galleries, museums, and art societies throughout the United States. The catalogs were microfilmed between 1964-1966, at libraries, museums and other institutions throughout the United States as part of the American Art Exhibition Catalog Project.