MA/MA-3. Curatorial and Research

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This collection contains records created or received by Patrick "Rick" Stewart, Curator of American Art and Chairman of American Paintings and Decorative Arts, 1983-1986. The collection primarily consists of Stewart's records relating to three exhibitions he curated: Lone Star Regionalism, Dallas Collects Americam Painting, and Visions of the West. Files include exhibition planning, lender correspondence, loan files, shipping, and research materials.

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This collection contains records of Margaret McDermott Curator of African Art Roslyn (Roz) Walker. Records include African Art and textile exhibition, object research, and gallery reinstallation planning (2005, unrealized). The majority of the collection documents the research for the reinstallation of African Art Gallery in 2015, and the site visits for the installation research project funded by the Texas Fund for Curatorial Research.

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This collection contains the records created or received by Sabiha Al Khemir, the DMA's Senior Advisor for Islamic Art, inlcuded files related to the Nur exhibition, Keir Collection and general curatorial records.

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This collection contains records created or received by Stephen Harrison, Assistant Curator of Decorative arts from 1996-2002. The collection primarily features Harrison's correspondence and lectures.

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The collection contains the records of Steven Nash, Deputy Director / Chief Curator, 1980-1988. Records document adminstrative activities of the curatorial department.

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This collection consists of the 1992 chronological correspondence of Susan Barnes, Senior Curator of Western Art, and Emily Sano, Senior Curator of Non-Western Art. Sano also served as Deputy Director in this period. Chronological correspondence files contain copies of every piece of external correspondence that went out under either Barnes' or Sano's signature. The collection may also contain copies of internal memos.

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This collection contains records created or received by Susan Barnes, Senior Curator of Western Art 1989-1994. Barnes also served as Deputy Director. Records include exhibition proposals, chronological correspondence December 1992-July 1994, dealer correspondence, and museum/insitutional correspondence.

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This collection contains records created or received by Suzanne Weaver, Nancy and Tim Hanely Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art until 2008. Records include Concentrations Series exhibition files, Texas and other contemporary artist files, correspondence, and acquisitions.

Scope and Contents This collection contains records created by Slide Library / Visual Resources Library staff from 1981-2001. Staff creators include Eileen W. Coffman, Mary H. Mills, Rita Lasater, Kevin ComerfordThe collection includes department policy and procedure manuals, VRL status and project reports, memoranda to staff regarding policy and procedures for usage of the slide library / VRL, project proposals and plans, slide library evaluation, ARCH, digital imaging, and Texas issue of VRA...

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This collection contains the records of William B. "Bill" Jordan, Adjunct Curator of European Paintings, 1976-1980. Records consist primarily of correspondence and memoranda with some topical/subject files