RISD Museum of Art records
name: label: Creator
content: Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1985 by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art.
creator: label: Creator
content: Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art
function: label: Function
content: Art museums, University and college -- Rhode Island -- Providence
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1877-1960]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rhodisla
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3629-3645 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the RISD Museum of Art, Providence, R.I.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Index to microfilm reels 3629-3645 compiled by John Carpenter of the RISD museum available in all Archives of American Art offices.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, writings and notes, business records, scrapbooks and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: "The Rhode Island School of Design: A Half Century Record (1879-1928)," by Elsie S. Bronson, A.M., 1928, providing historical information on the founding, organization, and activities of the school and museum; excerpts from RISD yearbooks pertaining to the museum, 1877-1944, including exhibitions (complete listing after 1901), loans, gifts, lectures, and prizes awarded from year to year; "Lists of articles belonging to RISD, 1898," a notebook containing handwritten lists of donations and donors and receipts of purchases of works of art and supplies needed for teaching;
label: Scope and Contents
content: Six volumes of minutes of the Museum committee, 1894-1950, also included within the volumes are museum "rules adopted before 1901," correspondence regarding the acquisition of a Chinese fresco, 1949, and a six-page undated list of "European Acquisitions" of drawings and prints including prices paid, names of dealers, and countries represented. Presidents' and Directors' correspondence with dealers, artists, curators, donors, educators, and others. Included in the Isaac Comstock Bates correspondence file are his will, a three-page memorial tribute to him, and a list of articles willed to the school by him. Also included are correspondence and writings of Heinrich Schwartz, Curator of Prints and Drawings;
label: Scope and Contents
content: exhibition files, 1885-1950, containing catalogues, price lists, checklists, insurance valuations, clippings, a few letters, an incomplete list of exhibitions (1885-1951), and a list of artists and titles of paintings in annual fall exhibitions; a scrapbook of Isaac Comstock Bates, 1877-1889, containing letters from artists and dealers; and 27 scrapbooks, 1877-1889, containing clippings, notices, and catalogues relating to the school and museum.