Contemporary Curatorial Department Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records created and received by Curatorial Assistants for Contemporary Art Victoria Estrada-Berg and Erin Murphy. The contemporary curatorial assistant also worked with the Curator of Decorative Arts. Records in the collection document administrative functions performed for curators such as correspondence management and travel. The collection also includes departmental exhibition information. The primary curators included are Charlie Wylie, Kevin Tucker, Suzanne Weaver, and Annegreth Nill; though there are some files from Dorothy Kosinski, Charles Venable, and Stephen Harrison as well.
Dates
- 1990 - 2007
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
1.0 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.
Some records are grouped by curator and arranged chronologically by year.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Departmental transfer from Erin Murphy received in late 2010 or January 2011. Date acquired: 01/11/2011
Collection accessioned by Hillary Bober on 11 January 2011.
Collection description was updated in 2022 during the ArchivesSpace migration per local usage guidelines for accession resource records.
Separated Materials
2008-2009 Awards to Artists were removed from this accession and processed into the Awards to Artists records.
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Hillary Bober
- Date
- 2022-04-13
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2022-04-13: Accession number updated per revised protocol. Previous accession number was 2011.002.
Repository Details
Part of the Dallas Museum of Art Archives Repository