San Francisco Art Association and related organizational records
name: label: Creator
content: San Francisco Art Association
label: Names
content: California School of Design
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content: Mark Hopkins Institute of Art
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content: San Francisco Art Institute
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content: San Francisco Museum of Art
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content: Western Round Table of Modern Art (1949 : San Francisco, Calif.)
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content: Bateson, Gregory
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content: Boas, George, 1891-
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content: Burke, Kenneth, 1897-
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content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
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content: Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981
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content: Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958
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content: Goldwater, Robert John, 1907-1973
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content: MacAgy, Douglas, 1913-
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content: Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974
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content: Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
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content: Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951
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content: Tobey, Mark
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content: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- California -- San Francisco
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1977-1987 by the San Francisco Art Institute. The sound recordings were borrowed from the San Francisco Art Institute, recorded on cassette in 1987 and then the orginal wire tapes were subsequently returned to the San Francisco Art Institute.
creator: label: Creator
content: San Francisco Art Association
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The San Francisco Art Association (SFAA) was founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1889. The California School of Design was established under the auspices of SFAA in 1874, changing its name to the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in 1893 after the Mark Hopkins mansion was given to SFAA. It became the San Francisco Institute of Art in 1907, and the California School of Fine Arts in 1917. From 1916-1924, SFAA retained the Palace of Fine Arts, which had been part of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In 1921, SFAA incorporated the San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMA) into its administration although each retained autonomy. In 1961, SFAA merged with the School and was renamed the San Francisco Art Institute. A change in the constitutional by-laws officially dissolved the SFAA in 1966, leaving the SFAI and the SFMA. In 1976, SFMA changed its name to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: On April 8-10, 1949, the SFAA sponsored the Western Round Table of Modern Art, organized by Douglas MacAgy for the purpose of bringing together a representation of the best informed opinion to discuss questions about art of the day.
function: label: Function
content: Art Schools -- California -- San Francisco
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content: Art museums -- California
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Microfilm reels
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content: 9 Sound cassettes (Sound recordings)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1871-1978
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content: bulk 1871-1920
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sanfraaa
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
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content: Sound cassettes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1288-1289, 2429-2433 and 4962-4963 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in San Francisco Art Institute.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Primarily records of the San Francisco Art Association (1871-1920), but also of the California School of Design (1873-1905) (briefly called the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in 1893), the Palace of Fine Arts (1915-1945), The Western Round Table on Modern Art (1949), the San Francisco Art Institute (1911-1978), the San Francisco Museum of Art (1921-1970), and the Douglas MacAgy papers (1944-1950).
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 1288-1289: 3 vol. containing minutes of board of trustees meetings of the Association and Institute, 1871-1915, and minutes of the meetings of the board of directors of the California School of Design, 1873-1905.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 2429-2433: Historical data contains material relating to the museum. San Francisco Art Association records include correspondence; photographs; membership records; organizational and registrarial records; reports; printed material; and materials regarding the Palace of Fine Arts. San Francisco Museum of Art section includes correspondence; minutes of board meetings; reports; legal documents; clippings; and printed materials. "Western Round Table on Modern Art" conference sponsored by SFAA, April 8-10, 1949, includes letters to organizer Douglas MacAgy regarding arrangements, publicity, and comments, including several from participants Gregory Bateson, Kenneth Burke, George Boas, Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Frankenstein, Norman Bel Geddes, Robert Goldwater, Darius Milhaud, Andrew Ritchie, Arnold Schoenberg, Mark Tobey, and Frank Lloyd Wright; Abstract of Proceedings; transcripts of the meeting edited by participants; clippings; and photographs. The microfilm also includes papers of Douglas MacAgy; and correspondence, clippings, and photographs of artists' models for the San Francisco Art Institute.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 4962-4963: Files, primarily correspondence, from the director, J. Nilsen Laurvik, from the 43rd (1919) and 44th (1920) San Francisco Art Association Annual Art Exhibition of the Works of American Artists, pertaining to its organization, promotion and administration; and additional material relating to the "Western Round Table on Modern Art," including transcripts from the Apr. 8th session edited by participants, some with notes and letters, and a final draft of an edited version; a scrapbook of publicity clippings on the Round Table; and 30 photographs taken during the conference.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are 9 audio cassettes (copied from original Webcor wire recordings) of the entire proceedings of the "Western Roundtable."