Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts records
name: label: Creator
content: Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts
label: Names
content: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Dallas Society for Contemporary Arts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed 1980-1985 as part of AAA's Texas project. Portions of this collection formerly loaned in 1980 by DMCA founders Betty Marcus and Juanita Bromberg were donated to AAA, 1980 through 1983. Paul Harris, a former employee of DMCA loaned material on reels 3434-3435 in 1985.
creator: label: Creator
content: Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art museum; Dallas, Tex. The Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art was founded by the Dallas Society for Contemporary Arts in 1956. In 1963 a merger of DMCA with the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts was approved, with the arrangement that the former DMCA collection would continue to be owned and maintained by DMCA.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Texas
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet ((on 5 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955-1966
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dallmuca
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1908-1909, 1921, 3434-3435 available through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 3434-3435, Loan: Originals returned to the lender, Paul Rogers Harris, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, business records and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 1908-1909: Business correspondence; financial records; Executive Committee minutes, memoranda, and correspondence; by-laws and minutes of the Dallas Society for Contemporary Arts; files of the Exhibitions Committee, including correspondence, reports, schedules, and minutes; exhibition catalogs and announcements; membership lists; news clippings; and correspondence and memoranda relating to the merger of the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts with the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 1921: Exhibition Committee files kept by John W. O'Boyle, including correspondence, memoranda, catalogs, and miscellaneous printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3435, Gift: Correspondence and printed material, including statements of purpose and the by-lays of the organization, the plan of merger with the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, minutes of meetings, exhibition proposals, a program for a museum concert, an auction list, an exhibition catalog, and 2 clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 3434-3435, Loan: A history of the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts; correspondence; printed material, including exhibition announcements and catalogs, clippings, press releases and miscellaneous public relations printed material; material relating to the Dallas Musuem for Contemporary Arts Children's House, including a scrapbook; and financial records.