The Armory Show and Contemporary American Art

ma78 Mead Art Museum Records, 1874-present (bulk 1946-present) Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Peter A. Nelson. Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Amherst, MA

2013 Finding aid encoded in NoteTab Pro. Encoded by Peter A. Nelson. 2013-03-13 Finding aid written in English Collection Overview Mead Art Museum (Amherst College) Mead Art Museum Records 1874-present 1946-present 5 records storage boxes, 3 archives boxes, 4 half archives boxes, 3 oversize flat boxes, 1 oversize folder (8.6 linear ft.) English Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Amherst, MA

Correspondence, research notes, news clippings, guest books, exhibition catalogues, monographs, press releases, and photographs relating to Amherst College's Mead Art Museum. The records include significant documentation of the museum's first major exhibition, the Armory Show Retrospective of 1958. Historical Note

Professor Charles H. Morgan of the College's Fine Arts Department was responsible for developing the museum's original art collection. He became the museum's first director in 1948, a position which he held for twenty years. (Morgan wrote a detailed history of the collection in 1972, entitled The Development of the Art Collection of Amherst College, 1821- 1971).

The Mead Art Museum building was constructed in 1948-49 on the site of the Stearns Church (the Stearns Church spire was retained). Construction was financed by gift from architect William R. Mead (AC 1867) and directed by the college architect, James Kellum Smith of the firm McKim, Mead and White, in collaboration with Professor Morgan. Originally the Mead facility served as both a venue for displaying works of art and a teaching facility with offices and studio space.

As the Fine Arts Department evolved, it shifted its curriculum slightly away from the scholarly study of art and towards the creation of art in the studio. As early as the 1970s Mead's studio facilities became obsolete. In 1985 the college planned a major renovation and extension of the museum, but these plans were postponed; the Arts department relied instead on the use of the Fayerweather building for studio space. Finally, in 1999, when it was apparent that Mead's facilities were inadequate to even preserve its existing collection, the College began an ambitious renovation project. The interior of the building was completely gutted, offices and studios made way for display and storage space, and state-of-the-art climate control and security systems were installed to protect the collection. The museum reopened in March 2001.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection contains correspondence, research notes, news clippings, guest books, exhibition catalogues, monographs, press releases, and photographs relating to Amherst College's Mead Art Museum. The records include significant documentation of the museum's first major exhibition, the Armory Show Retrospective of 1958.

Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into three series:

Exhibition Files, 1946-present Printed Material, 1930s-present Art Gallery Guest Books, 1874-1879, 1970-1980

There is no restriction on access to the Mead Art Museum Records for research use. Particularly fragile items are restricted for preservation purposes.

Requests for permission to publish material from the Records should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Mead Art Museum Records [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

Additional records received in 1997 (accession #97-086), 1999 (99-106) and 2012.

Reprocessed in 2013 by Peter A. Nelson, Archivist, and Nicole Sanches (AC 2013), Student Assistant.

Art--Massachusetts--Amherst Armory Show (1913 : New York, N.Y.) Art museums--Massachusetts--Amherst. Art--Study and teaching--Massachusetts--Amherst. Amherst College--Buildings. Mead Art Building--History--Sources. Mead Art Museum (Amherst College) Exhibition catalogs--Amherst College. Posters--Amherst College. Series 1: EXHIBITION FILES

Series 1, Exhibition Files, comprises the bulk of the records and consists of publications and other documents related to specific exhibitions in the museum. Chiefly included here are catalogs and promotional materials, but for some exhibitions, photographs and planning documents are available as well.

One notable part of this series is the files on the exhibition "The 1913 Armory Show in Retrospect, 1957-1964." This material consists primarily of correspondence related to the organization and administration of the exhibition, including requests for the loan of artwork. The Armory Show Retrospective, arranged by the Mead Art Museum in February 1958, was the most ambitious one undertaken by the Amherst College Fine Arts Department to date. It was organized by Professor Frank Anderson Trapp, comprised sixty works of art, most of them borrowed from other institutions and from private collections. Research notes and administrative details for the preparation of the exhibition and related publications are also included. Of special interest are forty letters from two family members, an art historian, and artists whose works were included in the original 1913 Armory Show and were also a part of the 45th anniversary retrospective at Amherst. Correspondence subsequent to the opening of the exhibitions, particularly that of other institutions that later organized Armory Show retrospectives, is also found here.

See also series 2, subseries D: Posters.

EX-1 1 Undated exhibition announcements n.d. EX-1 1 Etchings and Engravings Collected by the Late Arthur C. Rounds. Morgan Library 1929 Nov EX-1 1 The George D. Pratt Collection of American Art 1932 EX-1 1 Amherst College Portraits 1940 EX-1 1 The Herbert L. Pratt Collection 1946 EX-1 1 Announcements for exhibits in Morgan Hall 1940-1949 EX-1 1 Exhibition announcements 1950-1959 EX-1 1 Stage Designs of Donald Oenslager 1950 Jan-Feb EX-1 1 Benjamin West 1950 May EX-1 1 Graphic Art Today: An Honors Thesis Exhibition by Norman Gorbaty 1953 Apr-May EX-1 1 13 Painters 40 Years 1956 May ARM-1 A The Armory Show and Contemporary American Art by Kendall Birr n.d. ARM-1 1 Budget 1957 May-Jun ARM-1 2 The Catalogue 1959 Feb-Mar ARM-1 3 Artist's profiles - Typescript n.d. ARM-1 4a Artist's profiles - Typescript n.d. ARM-1 5 Introduction - Typescript n.d. ARM-1 6 Preparation - Data on Artwork n.d. ARM-1 7 Preparation - Data on Artwork n.d. ARM-1 8 Printer's Proofs, Layouts n.d. ARM-1 9 Catalogues of Other Armory Show Retrospectives n.d. ARM-1 10-16 Correspondence/Administration 1957 -1958 ARM-2 1 Correspondence/Administration 1957 -1958 ARM-2 1a Correspondence/Administration 1958 -1959 ARM-2 2 Gift Catalogue Acknowledgements 1958 Mar-Jun ARM-2 3 Inquiries, Catalogue Orders, Sales 1958 -1964 ARM-2 4 Refusals 1957 -1958 ARM-2 5 Thank You Letters to Lenders 1958 Feb-Apr ARM-2 6 With Artists and Artists' Families 1957 -1958 ARM-2 7 With Artists and Artists' Families 1957 -1958 ARM-2 8 With journalists, publicity 1961 -1963 ARM-2 9 Lecturers and Visiting Artists 1957 -1958 ARM-2 10 Course Work for Students 1958 Jan ARM-2 11 Course Work for Students 1958 Jan ARM-2 12 Insurance 1958 Jan-Feb ARM-2 13 List of works in exhibition and of lenders n.d. ARM-2 14 Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 50th Anniversary Retrospective n.d. ARM-2 15 News clippings n.d. ARM-2 16 The Opening Reception, Invitations, Attendants n.d. ARM-2 17 Original (1913) Show - Photostats of documents n.d. ARM-2 18 Professor Trapp's notes n.d. ARM-2 19 Research for Catalogue Preparation 1957-1958 ARM-2 19a Slides of artwork (digitized on 4 CDs) 1958 Feb ARM-2 20 Transportation - Arrivals - Receipts 1958 Jan-Feb ARM-3 1 Transportation - Returning Art Work 1958 Jan-Apr ARM-3 2 Transportation - Shipping: Receipts, Insurance 1958 Jan-Feb ARM-3 3 News clipping - Amherst Student (Dummy) 1958 Feb 20 ARM-3 4 Control Cards for Art Objects n.d. ARM-3 5 Photocopies of Original 1913 Armory Show Catalogues n.d. ARM-3 6 Opening Reception - RSVP Cards n.d. ARM-3 7 Opening Reception - RSVP Cards n.d. ARM-3 8 Photostatic Copy of the Original Armory Show Poster. Poster in Map Case 3, Drawer 6 1958 Feb 27 EX-1 8 Twentieth Century European Painting Collected by Richard S. Zeisler 1958 Nov-Dec EX-1 8 American Painting 1959 May EX-1 8 The Lost Portraits of Thomas Jefferson Painted by Gilbert Stuart 1959 Jun EX-1 8 Exhibition announcements 1960-1969 EX-1 8 New Documents: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand 1960 EX-1 8 Art of the Twentieth Century Collected by James S. and Dorothy Schramm 1961 Jan-Feb EX-1 8 A Study Collection of Italian Paintings: The Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to Amherst College 1961 May-Jun EX-1 8 The Art of Sidney Waugh 1964 Apr-May EX-1 8 Italian Drawings of the XV - XVI Centuries from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Janos Scholz 1966 Nov EX-1 8 A Selection of American Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Bloedel 1966 Nov-Dec EX-1 8 Contemporary Art from Israel 1967 Mar EX-1 8 The Amherst Family Portraits 1967 Oct-Nov EX-1 8 The Herbert W. Plimpton Collection of Nineteenth Century American Paintings 1968 Apr EX-1 8 Miscellaneous exhibition announcements - 1970s 1970-1979 EX-1 8 Carleton Watkins: Photographs from the Collection of the Park-McCullough House Association [1970s] Feb-Mar EX-1 8 American Impressionists from the Amherst College Collection [1970s] EX-1 8 Personages from the Past of Amherst College: Ercole Cartotto Portraits [1970s] EX-1 8 The Spirit Carvers: Indian Art of the Northwest Coast 1971 Apr-May EX-1 8 Sculptures by Richard Stankiewicz 1971 May EX-1 8 Selections from the Amherst College Collections 1971 Oct EX-1 8 Color Painting 1972 Feb-Mar EX-1 8 The Amherst Sesquicentennial Exhibition 1972 Mar-Apr EX-1 8 George Wesley Bellows 1972 Nov EX-1 8 Twenty from Brandeis: a Loan Exhibition from the Collection of Brandeis University 1972 Nov-Dec EX-1 8 Ben Chassiel: Heliokinetic Collages 1972 Nov-Dec EX-1 8 Cowboys, Indians, Trappers & Traders 1973 Feb EX-1 8 Jo Mielziner: Designs for the Theater 1973 Mar EX-1 8 Faculty Art Exhibition: Oxman, Schmalz, Sweeney, Utermohlen 1973 Oct EX-1 8 Major Themes in Roman Baroque Art from Regional Collections (part of Five College Roman Baroque Festival) 1974 Apr EX-1 8 American Folk Art 1974 Oct EX-1 8 American Painters of the Arctic 1975 Feb-Mar EX-1 8 War à la Mode: Meissonier, Detaille, de Neuville, & Berne-Bellecour 1975 May EX-1 8 Joseph Ablow 1976 Apr-May EX-1 8 New New England Houses 1976 Sep EX-1 8 Richard Yarde: Recent Works 1977 Feb-Mar EX-1 8 Seventeenth Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Collection of Hanz Klenk 1977 Feb-Mar EX-1 8 Drawings for Outdoor Sculpture (1946-1977) 1977 Nov EX-1 8 American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection at the Mead Art Gallery, Amherst College 1978 EX-1 8 Roman Opalka 1978 Apr EX-1 8 Of Praise and Passage: Images in West African Sculpture 1978 Oct-Nov EX-1 8 Valley People: Portraits by Oriole Farb 1978 Dec-Jan EX-1 8 Paul Dougherty: A Retrospective Exhibition 1979 Jan-Feb EX-2 8 The Glass of René Lalique: The Magriel Collection 1979 Feb-Mar EX-2 8 19th Century American Realism: The Amherst College Collection 1979 Feb-Apr EX-2 8 Sculptures and Drawings by Fumio Yoshimura 1979 Mar-Apr EX-2 8 Native American Images: Photogravures by Edward S. Curtis 1979 May EX-2 8 Ten Years Out... An Exhibition by Amherst Artists, Class of '69 1979 May-Jun EX-2 8 Background to Modernism: Prints and Drawings (1889-1906) 1979 Oct-Nov EX-2 8 Traditions in Islamic Weaving 1979 EX-2 8 Miscellaneous exhibition announcements, 1980s 1980-1989 EX-2 8 Images of the End of Days 1980 Jan-Feb EX-2 8 A Moving Point of View and Portraits of Trees: Photographs by Tom Zetterstrom 1980 Feb-Mar EX-2 8 American Figure Drawings: The Paul Magriel Collection 1980 Feb-Mar EX-2 8 Women Artists, 1600-1980, Selections from Five College Collections 1980 Mar-Apr EX-2 8 Paintings by Fairfield Porter 1981 Apr-May EX-2 8 Romantic Images: Paintings from the Amherst College Collection 1981 Apr-Jun EX-2 8 Invention and Tradition: Selected Works form the Julia A. Whitney Foundation and the Thomas P. Whitney Collection of Modernist Russian Art 1981 Oct-Nov EX-2 8 Sculpture and Graphics by Henry Bursztynowicz 1982 Apr EX-2 8 Isabel Bishop Etchings and Aquatints 1982 Apr-May EX-2 8 Recent Works by Bart Wasserman 1982 Oct EX-2 8 Herbert W. Plimpton Memorial Exhibition 1982 Nov EX-2 8 Robert Sweeney: Landscape Paintings of the Connecticut River Valley 1982 Nov-Dec EX-2 8 Drawings by Jan Menses 1983 Apr-May EX-2 8 Edward Powis Jones: Extending the Photographic Medium 1983 Apr-May EX-2 8 The Holyoke Project: Recent Photographs by Bill Ravanesi 1983 Apr-May EX-2 8 Iwa Yoruba: An Exhibition of Yoruba Art 1983 Apr-May EX-2 8 Paul Jenkins: An Abstract Phenomenist 1983 Oct EX-2 8 New Ideas in Paper 1984 Mar-Apr EX-2 8 The Quiet Interlude: American Etchings of the late Nineteenth Century: Prints from the Collection of Rona Schneider 1984 Apr-May EX-2 8 American Portrait Miniatures from the Tennenbaum and Amherst College Collections 1984 May-Jun EX-2 8 From the Land of the Snows: Buddhist Art of Tibet 1984 Oct-Nov EX-2 8 Still Lifes by Peter Jones 1984 Nov-Dec EX-2 8 American Drawings and Watercolors from Amherst College 1985 EX-2 8 Images of Aleksei Remizov 1985 May EX-2 8 Peter Blume: The Italian Drawings 1985 Nov-Dec EX-2 8 Rules of the Game: Culture Defining Gender 1986 Jan-Feb EX-2 8 The Art of the Sepik River Peoples from the Friede Collection 1986 Mar-Apr EX-2 8 Time and Defiance of Gravity: Recent Works by Wendell Castle 1986 Oct EX-2 8 American Landscapes in the Wake of French Impressionism 1986 Oct-Nov EX-2 8 An Alumnus Collects 1986 Nov-Dec EX-2 8 Anneke van Brussel: Contemporary Dutch Watercolors 1987 Oct-Nov EX-2 8 Sculptures by Kazuma Oshita and Works on Paper by Anneke Van Brussel 1987 Nov-Dec EX-2 8 The Grand Tradition: British Art from Amherst College 1988 EX-2 8 Progressive Geometric Abstraction in America, 1934-1955: Selections from the Peter B. Fischer Collection 1988 Mar-May EX-3 8 Willard Boepple: Sculpture 1988 Apr-May EX-3 8 Delacroix and the Romantic Image: Oriental Themes, Wild Beasts, and the Hunt 1988 Oct-Nov EX-3 8 The Schmidgall Collection of Animal Sculptures 1988 Oct-Nov EX-3 8 Wayne Thieband: Works on Paper 1989 Apr EX-3 8 Representing Revolution: French and British Images (1789-1804) 1989 Sep-Nov EX-3 8 American Modernism from Amherst and Williams Colleges 1989 Oct-Dec EX-3 8 Miscellaneous exhibition announcements, 1990s 1990-1999 EX-3 8 Simplicissimus: German Caricatures (1896-1914) 1990 Feb-Apr EX-3 8 Shades of Difference: Images of American Women 1990 Mar-Apr EX-3 8 Northern Travelers to Sixteenth-Century Italy: Drawings from New England Collections 1990 Oct-Dec EX-3 8 Russian Graphic Design Before the Revolution, 1880-1917 1991 Sep-Nov EX-3 8 Paul Resika: A Spontaneous Encounter with Art 1991 Nov-Dec EX-3 8 Elegant Impressions: Surimono from the Collection of William Green 1991 Dec-Feb EX-3 8 Collegial Collectors: American Art from the Class of 1967 1992 May-Jun EX-3 8 The Rediscovery of Jared French 1992 Oct-Nov EX-3 8 Parkopolis: Sue Coe's Jungle 1993 Feb-Mar EX-3 8 Fairfield Porter: An American Painter 1993 Oct-Dec EX-3 8 The Canadian Painters Eleven (1953-1960) 1994 Feb-Apr EX-3 8 American Woodblock Prints of the Arts and Crafts Era: The Andrew Terry Keats Collection 1994 May-Jun EX-3 8 Triptychs, Diptychs & Single Prints: Recent Photographs by Carl Chiarenza 1994 Jul-Aug EX-3 8 Theater as Spectacle: Early Twentieth-Century Russian Set and Costume Design 1994 Sep-Nov EX-3 8 Five Artists at Amherst College: Carl Schmalz, Robert Sweeney, Charles Kanwischer, Timothy J. Segar, Devid Gloman 1994 Nov-Dec EX-3 8 Rescuers: Portraits of the Holocaust 1995 Jan-Feb EX-3 8 An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital: the Hallmark Photographic Collection 1995 Mar-May EX-3 8 Annual Student Exhibition 1995 May EX-3 8 Amherst College Architecture (cross-reference to Buildings and Grounds Collection) 1995-1996 EX-3 8 Built and Unbuilt: Architecture at Amherst College: exhibition labels (2 folders) 1995-1996 EX-3 8 Built and Unbuilt: Amherst College Architecture - photocopies of exhibition labels 1995-1996 EX-3 8 Josef Breitenbach: Pioneering Photographer (1924-1944) 1997 Jan-Mar EX-3 8 Fine Arts at Amherst: A.C. Studio Thesis Students: Scott Campbell, Josh Koppel, Andrea Latvis & James Wood 1997 May EX-3 8 "Language as Object": Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art 1997 Mar-Jun 1 14 "Language as Object": Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art - oversize printed material 1997 Mar-Jun EX-3 8 "For Beauty and for Truth": The William and Abigail Gertz Collection of American Still Life 1998 Feb-Apr EX-3 8 The Artist's Eye, The Diviner's Insight: African Art in the Barry D. Maurer Collection 1998 Mar-May EX-3 8 Pastels & Drawings by Russian American Artist Henry Elinson 1998 Oct-Dec EX-3 8 Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century 1998 Sep-Dec EX-3 8 The Hanged Man: Cezanne and the Art of the Print 1999 Feb. EX-3 8 Creative Transformations: Japanese Prints from the Collection of William Green 1999 Mar-May EX-3 8 Annual Student Exhibition 1999 Apr-May EX-3 8 Miscellaneous exhibition announcements, 2000s 2000-2009 EX-3 8 Chuck Close Self-Portrait/Scribble/Etching Portfolio 2000 Nov-Mar EX-3 8 The World Opened Wide: Twentieth-Century Russian Women Artists from the Collection of Thomas P. Whitney '37 2001 Mar-May EX-4 8 Casa Mañana: The Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular Arts 2001 Mar-Apr EX-4 8 Emmet Gowin Photographs 2001 Mar-Apr EX-4 8 Myth and Madness of Ophelia 2001 Oct-Dec EX-4 8 A New York View: Modern Art from the Collection of Steven M. Jacobson '53 2001 Jun-Oct EX-4 8 "Locally Grown": Photographs by Jerome Liebling 2001 Jul-Aug EX-4 8 Humanity in Action Resistance and Rescue: Photographs by Judy Ellis Glickman 2001 Aug-Oct EX-4 8 18 Alumni Artists 2001 Oct-Dec EX-4 8 The Silver Age Endured: Russian Costume Design 2001 EXH-4 8 Casa Mañana: The Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular Arts 2002 Mar-Apr OS-2 3 Casa Mañana: The Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular Arts 2002 Mar-Apr EX-4 3 The Belles of Amherst: Contemporary Women Artists 2002 May-Sep EX-4 3 An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art 2002 Sep-Dec EX-4 3 Assembly/Line: Works by 20th Century Sculptors 2002 Oct-Dec EX-4 3 American Edge: Photographs by Steve Schapiro (folder 1 of 3) 2003 Feb-Mar EX-4 3 American Edge: Photographs by Steve Schapiro (folder 2 of 3): catalog 2003 Feb-Mar EX-4 3 American Edge: Photographs by Steve Schapiro (folder 3 of 3): articles and notes about 2003 Feb-Mar OS-2 4 American Edge: Photographs by Steve Schapiro: posters for films 2003 Feb-Mar EX-4 4 Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University (1955-1972) - general 2003 Feb-Jun EX-4 4 Critical Mass - ephemera 2003 Feb-Jun EX-4 4 Critical Mass- guide to exhibit and catalog 2003 Feb-Jun EX-4 4 Critical Mass- news articles and press release 2003 Feb-Jun EX-4 4 Critical Mass - museum file 2003 Feb-Jun OS-2 5 Critical Mass: poster and book cover 2003 Feb-Jun EX-4 5 Amherst College Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit 2003 Sep-Nov EX-4 5 Off The Beaten Track: Contemporary Mindscapes 2003 Sep-Dec EX-4 5 Visions of Hati: Vodou and Carnaval à Jacmel: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo 2004 Feb-May EX-4 5 Cloth Only Wears to Shreds: Yoruba Textiles and Photographs from the Beier Collection - catalog 2004 Feb-Apr

Includes electronic media.

EX-4 5 Cloth Only Wears to Shreds - notes for catalog 2004 Feb-Apr EX-4 5 Cloth Only Wears to Shreds - mock-up of catalog 2004 Feb-Apr EX-5 5 Cloth Only Wears to Shreds - invitations and flyers 2004 Feb-Apr EX-5 5 Cloth Only Wears to Shreds - articles about and notes on exhibition 2004 Feb-Apr OS-1 5 Cloth Only Wears to Shreds - related VHS videocassette and DVD 2004 OS-2 6 Cloth Only Wears to Shreds: event posters 2004 Feb-May OS-2 7 Cloth Only Wears to Shreds: poster in mailer 2004 Feb-May OS-2 8 Cloth Only Wears to Shreds: layout for catalog 2004 Feb-May EX-5 8 Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson (folder 1 of 3) Catalog and Invitations 2004 Sep-Oct EX-5 8 Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side (folder 2 of 3) articles about exhibition 2004 Sep-Oct EX-5 8 Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side (folder 3 of 3) Press Release and Articles about the Artist 2004 Sep-Oct OS-2 9 Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Newspaper 2004 Sep-Oct EX-5 9 In Response to the Pain of War 2004 Oct-Dec EX-5 9 In Response to the Pain of War - press release and articles 2004 Oct-Dec EX-5 9 In Response to the Pain of War - articles and invitations 2004 Oct-Dec

Includes electronic media.

OS-2 10 In Response to the Pain of War: Poster 2004 Oct-Dec EX-5 10 Town and Country: Modern Life in America 2005 Jan-May EX-5 10 "Quicker than a Wink": Photographs by Harold Edgerton 2005 Jan-Apr EX-5 10 The Empress Josephine: Art and Royal Identity (3 folders) 2005 Sep-Dec

Includes electronic media.

OS-2 11 The Empress Josephine: posters 2005 Sep-Dec EX-5 11 Duane Michals: Photography and Reality 2006 Jan-Apr EX-5 11 Natalia Goncharova: Mystical images of War 2006 Feb-Jun EX-5 11 The Print, The Pear and the Prostitute: Art Politics and Society in 19th Century France 2006 May-Aug EX-5 11 Pop! 2006 Aug EX-5 11 Dutch Masters of the 17th Century 2006 Aug EX-5 11 Some Assembly Required: Cumulative Visions 2006 Aug-Sep EX-5 11 George Bellows: A Ringside Seat 2006 Sep-Dec EX-5 11 Gifts from the Ebb Tide and the World of Kitagawa Utamaro 2006 Sep-Dec EX-5 11 The Magic of Signs: American and European Art of the 1950s and 60s 2007 EX-5 11 Visionary Anatomies (Richard Yarde) 2007 Jan-Mar EX-5 11 Through British Eyes: British Art at the Mead 2007 Jan-Aug EX-5 11 Back to the Future: Contemporary American Art from the Collection 2007 Mar-Aug EX-5 11 Stephan Koplowitz: Revealed: Installation/Performance 2007 Sep EX-5 11 Off The Shelf: Artists' Books from Amherst College Collections 2007 Sep-Nov EX-5 11 A Room With a View: The Photography of Abelardo Morell 2007-2008 OS-2 12 A Room with a View: Poster for film 2007 EX-5 12 The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today 2008 Feb-Jun OS-2 13 The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today: poster 2008 Feb-Jun EX-5 13 Alarm de Alarm (Propaganda in Alaska) Works by Jonathan Meese 2008 Oct EX-5 13 Arthur Lourié and the Voice of Silver-Age Russia 2009 Oct EX-5 13 Michael Mazur Coming Home: A Memorial Installation 2009 Oct EX-5 13 Lino Mannocci: Sea, Sky Smoke 2009-2010 EX-5 13 Miscellaneous exhibition announcements, 2010s 2010-2019 EX-5 13 Orra White Hitchcock: An Amherst Woman of Art and Science 2011 Jan Series 2: PRINTED MATERIAL

Series 2, Printed Material, 1930s-present, is organized into five sub-series: A. Annual Reports, 2008- B. Mead Monographs, 1979-1989: a collection of book-length publications on Mead collections of a certain period, country, or style. Arranged chronologically. C. Art Notes, 1998-2008: an occasional publication of the museum highlighting various aspects of its collection. D. Posters, 1934-2010: Exhibition posters related to Mead gallery shows as well as shows in the former Mather Art Gallery in Williston Hall. E. Articles and Miscellaneous: Printed matter from newspapers and journals related to exhibitions and holdings of the Mead.

Subseries A: Annual Reports PRM-1 1-2 Annual reports 2008-2011 Subseries B: Mead Monographs, 1979-1989 PRM-2 1 The Classical Collection at Amherst College 1979 PRM-2 2 The Temptation of Saint Anthony (2 copies) 1980 PRM-2 3 Decorative Arts at Amherst College (2 copies) 1981-1982 PRM-2 4 Masterworks of European Sculpture (2 copies) 1983 PRM-2 5 Nineteenth-Century American Art (2 copies) 1985 PRM-2 6 British Art (2 copies) 1985-1986 PRM-2 7 British Art (2 copies) 1985-1986 PRM-2 8 French Art (2 copies) 1987-1988 PRM-2 9 French Art (2 copies) 1987-1988 PRM-2 10 Italian-Netherlandish Paintings 1989 PRM-2 11 Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art 1997 PRM-2 12 The Artist's Eye, The Diviner's Insight: African Art in the Barry D. Maurer Collection by John Pemberton II 1998 Subseries C: Art Notes, 1998-2007 PRM-3 0 Art Notes 1998-2007 Subseries D: Posters OS-3 1 Mather Art Gallery poster and related clippings 1934-1985 OS-3 2-6 Posters, 1960s through 2010s 1960-2009

Folders arranged by decade.

OS-3 7 Undated posters n.d. OS-3 8 Artist-in-residence posters n.d. Subseries E: Articles and Miscellaneous PRM-3 1 Newspaper clippings about art exhibitions 1950-1999 PRM-3 2 Printed material 1920s PRM-3 3 Printed material 1930s PRM-3 4 Printed material - exhibitions 1940s PRM-3 5 Printed material 1960s PRM-3 6 Press Release - AC News Bureau - Art Exhibition 1963-1964 PRM-3 7 Printed material 1980s PRM-3 8 Printed material 1990s PRM-3 9 Printed material 2000s OS-2 1 Calendar 2003 OS-2 2 Printed material - events at the Mead not part of exhibitions 2008, n.d. PRM-3 10 Related Exhibitions in other museums 1992-2007 PRM-3 11 Spring 2001 PRM-3 12 "Mead Art Museum" by Trinkett Clark in American Art Review June 2004 Series 3: ART GALLERY GUEST BOOKS 1874-1879, 1970-1980

Guest books recording visitor entries to museum galleries.

Arranged chronologically.

GBK-1 1 - 1874-1879 GBK-1 2 Mead 1970 Nov 30-1972 Mar 22 GBK-1 3 Mead 1977 Feb 28-1978 Apr GBK-1 4 Mead 1978 APRM-1979 May GBK-1 5 Mead 1979 Jun-1980 Dec