Dallas Museum of Fine Arts records
name: label: Creator
content: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Art -- Exhibitions -- Texas -- Dallas
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.
label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 1909 was donated 1980 by Mrs. Betty Marcus, President of DMFA, 1970. Material on reel 3475 was donated 1984 by Dr. Patrick Stewart, curator of American Art, DMFA and transferred to the Smithsonian's NMAA/PG Library after microfilming. The remainder was lent for microfilming 1980-1981 by the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
creator: label: Creator
content: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art museum; Dallas, Tex.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Texas
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dallmuse
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 1909, 1916, 1921-1925, 2001-2003, 2058-2060, 2693-2700 and 3475 available for use through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: All but reel 1909 and 3475: Originals in: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Exhibition files and records of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition files contain correspondence, publicity, announcements, catalogs, price lists, press releases, photographs and miscellany.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 1909: Records, 1950-1972, including correspondence, reports, and memoranda regarding the Exhibition Committee, 1950-1954, and the Art Rental Gallery, 1971-1972; and newspaper clippings relating to the controversy over the Art Rental Program.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 1916, 1921-1925: 201 exhibition files, 1904-1955. [Exhibition files for the year 1950 are on reel 1916.]
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 2001-2003 & 2058-2060: 69 exhibition files, 1956-1964.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 2693-2700: 156 exhibition files, 1965-1975.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3475: A catalog of centennial exposition, Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture & Graphic Arts, 1936; an overview report, 1984, relating to the Museum's Texas Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Lone Star Regionalism: Art and Artists in Texas, 1928-1945, organized by Dr. Patrick Stewart; and three photographs of the new Dallas Museum of Fine Arts which opened in 1983.