President's Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.)
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content: Washington Gallery of Modern Art records
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content: Washington Gallery of Modern Art records / Series 1: Trustee Records
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.washgall, Subseries 1.4
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content: Archival materials
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content: Found here are correspondence, grant and project proposals, lists, memoranda, and miscellaneous notes from the files of the WGMA'ts three Board of Trustee Presidents - Julian Eisenstein, Carleton B. Swift Jr., and Helen Stern. The Julian Eisenstein files are made up exclusively of correspondence. Many of the materials created by Eisenstein, one of the WGMA founders and the
first Trustee President, are located in the WGMA Trustee records. The Carleton B. Swift Jr. records contain correspondence as well as files concerning the selection of a new director for the gallery in 1966. The Helen "Leni" Stern records make up the bulk of the President's records.
Materials include chronological files; miscellaneous correspondence, including, letters from Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern; and such subject files as the Adams-Morgan Neighborhood Festival, the merger proposal with American Univeristy, the Meyer Foundation grant proposal, and the resignations of a majority to Trustees in June 1967.