Architecture Exhibition records
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Scope and Contents
The records document architecture exhibitions held at the Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, 1939-1943, and the use of exhibition materials by the Museum's Department of Education, 1940-1953. The bulk of the records document the 1939 Rhode Island Architecture exhibition and its subsequent use as a loan exhibition by the Department of Education. Records include correspondence, photographs and exhibition photograph panels, printing blocks, and publications.
Dates
- Creation: 1939-1953
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1939-1943
Creator
- Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art. Office of Museum Education (creator, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from archival materials must be obtained in writing from the Archives. The researcher assumes full responsibility for use of material and for conformity to all applicable laws, including copyright.
Biographical / Historical
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art held the Rhode Island Architecture exhibition 1939 June 18-December 5. Architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr. developed the exhibition under Director Alexander Dorner with Museum Assistant Barbara Wriston. The exhibition surveyed three hundred years of Rhode Island buildings with much of the photographic material coming from Antoinette Dowling's 1937 work "The Early Homes of Rhode Island" and the Historic American Buildings Survey. Dowling, Norman M. Isham, and others provided assistance in gathering materials and photographs.
The exhibition's photograph panels came under the purview of the Museum's Education Department, which loaned them to local and national educational and civic institutions. Additional visiting architecture exhibitions administered by Writson were held at the Museum, particularly during Education Director Lydia Powel's tenure, 1943-1944. The Rhode Island Historical Society acquired the panels sometime after 1953 and transferred them to the RISD Archives in 2011.
Extent
10 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The records document architecture exhibitions held at the Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, 1939-1943, and the use of exhibition materials by the Museum's Department of Education, 1940-1953.
Arrangement
Organized into four series:
- I. Administrative files, 1939-1943, 1952
- II. Photographs, 1939-1942
- III. Exhibition photographs, 1939, 1953
- IV. Halftone Copper Printing Blocks, 1939
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Records were transfered from the Museum of Art and the Rhode Island Historical Society.
Subject
- Wriston, Barbara (Person)
- Powel, Lydia Bond, 1891-1978 (Person)
- Pei, I. M., 1917- (Person)
- Hitchcock, Henry Russell, 1903-1987 (Person)
- Downing, Antoinette Forrester, 1904-2001 (Person)
- Abbott, Bernice, 1898-1991 (Person)
- Cady, John Hutchins (Person)
- Devlon, Thomas H. (Person)
- LeBoeuf, Arthur W. (Person)
- Romano, Nicholas, 1887-1953 (Person)
- Covell, William King, 1904-1975 (Person)
- McCarthy, Joseph (Person)
- Weber, Harvey (Person)
- Watson, Norman S. (Person)
- Legere, Adelard T., 1905- (Person)
- Powel, Harford, 1887-1956 (Person)
- Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art. (Organization)
- Historic American Buildings Survey. (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Architecture Exhibition records1939-1953 bulk 1939-1943
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Douglas Doe.
- Date
- 2013 March 22
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Describing Archives: A Content Standard (Dacs)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Rhode Island School of Design Archives Repository