Professional Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, 1896-1986
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content: Adelyne Dohme Breeskin papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 2-3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945-1984
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.breeadel, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Professional files provide scattered documentation of Breeskin's career as a director, consultant, and teacher. They include notes, correspondence, and reports relating to Breeskin's work as a consultant to the National Collection of Fine Arts (later the National Museum of American Art); a letter, a memorandum, and a transcript of a news clipping briefly summarizing Breeskin's work as Commissioner of the American Pavilion at the 1960 Venice Biennale; correspondence, notes, and course outlines for an art appreciation course Breeskin taught at Johns Hopkins University in the late 1940s; a sound recording of a lecture delivered by Ilya Bolotowsky and introduced by Breeskin at the National Museum of American Art; and correspondence and other documentation relating to arrangements for travel by Breeskin in the USA and abroad, generally related to speaking engagements and participation in art juries.