Abstract

This collection contains records from various curators and curatorial department staff. Curators included are Steve Nash, Susan Barnes, Charles Venable and Carolyn Tate.

Abstract

Collection contains correspondence related to DMA objects from the Curatorial files. Types of correspondence for each object may include letters documenting acquisition, loans, and requests for reproduction or further information. Files are arranged alphabetically by artist surname.

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This collection contains correspondence related to artworks offered and refused between 1975-1981, exhibitions offered and refused 1980-1981, and acquisitions 1980-1981. Later records were created by Chief Curator Steve Nash (1980-1988); earlier records were maintained in the Curatorial Department.

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This collection contains records of curatorial activities and the curatorial department from 1936-1991, though the bulk of the records reflect the 1964-1991 time period. Records include chronological correspondence; art refused from dealers, individuals and artists; and deaccessions & miscellaneous.

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This collection contains records created by Curatorial Department staff related to the Friends Groups for art types. Friends Groups represented in this collection are: Friends of Contemporary Art, 1989-1991 and 1996-19997; Friends of Photography, 1994-1996; Friends of Decorative Arts, 1995-1998; Friends of Asian Art; and Friends of African and African-American Art.

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...

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This collection consists of the records created and maintained by Laura Bruck for the exhibition Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg, 4 September 2005-8 January 2006. The exhibition was curated by Dorothy Kosinski. Files include general exhibition planning, installation, checklists, programs, events, loans, catalogue, video, and research.

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The Dallas Art Association operated a public gallery or museum under various names from 1903-1970. The collection includes DAA board of trustee minutes, budget and membership records, miscellaneous publications and ephemera, and scrapbooks. The collection is arranged into 5 series: Minutes, Administrative, Publications, Exhibitions, and Accurals.

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The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts (DMCA) was founded 1956 to support the collecting and exhibition of contemporary art in Dallas, and continued until it merged with the Dallas Museum of Fine Art in 1963. The collection is arranged in three series: Adminstrative, Exhibition and Scrapbooks.