Curatorial Departmental Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records from various curators on topics including exhibitions, loans, collection development and acquisitions, funds, grants, budgets, conservation, adminstrative files, project files, permanent collection installations (Museum of Europe, Museum of the Americas), and correspondence. Records creators included in the collection are: Charles Venable, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Annegreth Nill, Charlie Wylie, Anna McFarland, Irene Martin, Dorothy Kosinski, and other curatorial staff and interns.
Dates
- 1980 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unprocessed. Access may be permitted at the discretion of the archivist; contact the archives at archives@DMA.org.
Institution-wide restriction on publicly disclosing the purchase price, appraised value, insurance value of a work of art (DMA Acquisition and Deaccession Policies and Procedures) and anonymous donor or lender information may apply to this collection. This information is only accessible to DMA staff or representatives.
Extent
12.00 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the transferring department.
This collection is described with each carton as a separate series. This is to incorporate box information identifying the creator or broad subject of the files housed in the container.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Departmental transfer prior to 2009.
Collection was re-accessioned in 2022 during the ArchivesSpace migration to incorporate a revised collection number.
Collection accessioned by Hillary Bober on 15 April 2022.
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Hillary Bober
- Date
- 2022-04-15
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 202-04-15: Accession number updated per revised protocol. Previous accession number was 200X.039.
Repository Details
Part of the Dallas Museum of Art Archives Repository