SC. Special Collections

This collection contains the 500X Gallery history which dcouments gallery activity from 1977-1996. Documentation includes photographs, exhibition checklists, press releases, gallery mailings, and news clippings.

The collection consists 36 8x10 inch color photographs of sculptor Henry Moore and his home, studio and garden in Much Hadam, Hertfordshire, England. The photographs were taken during The Associates of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts visit to Moore on 10 November 1975, and assembled in a photo album by Bob Sands.

This collection documents the personal and professional life of Barbara Maples (1912-1999), a Dallas-based artist and art educator.

Collection is comprised primarily of 7 scrapbooks made by Barney and Barbara Delabano documenting Barney's work as an artist and work at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1958-1991.

The collection contains artist files, slides and gallery catalogs for Texas artits. The majority of the correspondence with local artists, galleries, and museums dates from the 1980s to early 2000s.

The collection contains papers and publications related to painter Alfred Jensen, specifically the Jensen painting The Ten Thousand Things owned by Betty Blake and bequested to the Dallas Museum of Art. Included are sale documents, loan correspondence, and exhibition catalogues. The collection also includes an exhibition catalogue and magazine documenting Blake's collection as a whole and her home where the collection was hung.

The collection contains the papers of Betty Marcus, Board of Trustees member and President of the Board. Papers document the long range planning of the DMFA, and her Mrs. Marcus' participation in various committees and the future of the museum. The papers have been arranged into informal series due to size.

The collection consists of a binder containing orignial colonial-era documents related to the Captain John Pratt portrait in the DMA collection, an a CD of scans of the documents.

Carolyn Sortor Papers consist of records of her work and association with the board of the Video Assocation of Dallas (VAD) and Dallas Video Festival as organizer, and the board of The MAC. Papers include board minutes, contracts, fund raising, and printed materials. Collection covers 1994-2010.

The Charles Dee Mitchell Collection consists primarily of materials Mr. Mitchell has collected over the years through his interest in art activities in Dallas and his relationships with artists in Dallas and throughout Texas. The collection does not include the personal papers of Mr. Mitchell or records of his writing and curating.