Legacy and Memorialization
name: label: Collection Artist
content: Smith, Art, 1917-1982
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content: Art Smith Archive
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982-2010
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Legacy and Memorialization series (1982-2010) documents the activities of Charles Russell, the Hatch-Billops Collection, and other museums and private collections that exhibited Arthur Smith's work or contributed to projects memorializing his legacy as an artist. The series contains materials created as Charles responded to exhibitions and museum permission requests for the inclusion of ArtSmith Jewelry pieces or photographs, including correspondence sent to Charles with copies of exhibition catalogues and books which are in Series 5, Books and Exhibition Catalogues. The series also includes facsimiles of oral history interview transcripts created by the Hatch-Billops Collection during the "Art Smith Project" in addition to several copies of the exhibition catalogue for the Arthur Smith: A Jeweler's Retrospective exhibition curated by Camille Billops at the Jamaica Arts Center in 1990. Charles and Yvonne O'Neal, Arthur's niece, contributed to the "Art Smith Project" with Camille Billops between 1986 and 1989 before the exhibition. Lastly, the series documents the research materials, preliminary drafts, facsimiles of Arthur's drawings, notes, collected jewelry information, and correspondence related to Charles's writing of the biography, Art as Adornment: The Life and Work of Arthur George Smith.

The series is arranged in three subseries:

Subseries 4.1: Posthumous Exhibitions and Estate Management, circa 1985-2010

Subseries 4.2: Hatch-Billops Collection Projects, 1974-1990

Subseries 4.3: Writing and Biography Research, 1982-2010