SC. Special Collections
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Frederick R. Brandt Personal Papers (SC-36)
Records of the Camera Club of Richmond (SC-22)
The collection is comprised of over 100 mounted exhibition prints by members of the Camera Club of Richmond. Almost all of the prints were taken by Philip M. Luce, however there are several prints by William Edwin Booth (co-founder of the Club in 1932) and Vallie L. Booth.
Leslie Cheek, Jr. Personal Papers (SC-02)
Carl Chiarenza Collection (SC-34)
Records of the Council of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (SC-04)
Erina Duganne Collection of Photography Interviews (SC-29)
The collection is comprised of interviews Duganne completed with members of the Kamoinge Workshop. Members included in the interviews are Adger Cowans, Al Fennar, Ray Francis, Louis Draper, Herb Randall, Beuford Smith, and Shawn Walker, as well as New York school photographer Harold Feinstein.
Alvan Fisher Personal Papers (SC-33)
The collection documents the relationship between the equestrian artist Alvan Fisher and one of his patrons, New York lawyer and horse breeder Charles Henry Hall. The letters discuss the likenesses of the horses Fisher painted, as well as upcoming races, and the noted 19th century racehorse American Eclipse.
William Robert Gaines Personal Papers (SC-16)
The collection documents the life of William "Bill" Robert Gaines, artist and long-time program director at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The collection is comprised of a partial manuscript of his autobiography as well as photographs, clippings, and other documents related to his career at the museum.
Records of the Home for Needy Confederate Women (SC-23)
The collections documents the administration of the Home for Needy Confederate Women, a large residential building for destitute female relatives of Confederate veterans for over 50 years. The collection includes administrative files, applicant and resident files, and financial files, among other related ephemera.
Ivan Bilibin Postcard Collection (SC-30)
The collection consists of 12 postcards illustrated by Russian Art Nouveau artist Ivan Bilibin between 1899-1909 depicting scenes from traditional Russian folktales.
T. Catesby Jones Personal Papers (SC-06)
The collection documents the relationship between T. Catesby Jones, prominent lawyer and art collector, and Michael Agelasto, cotton broker and later Greek consul to the Port of Norfolk. While they met professionally as younger men in Norfolk, their lifelong friendship was sustained by a common appreciation for modern art, as evidenced by the content of the collections’ correspondence between Jones’ widow, Louisa Brooke Jones, and Agelasto, after Catesby’s death in 1946.
Christel Ludewig McCanless Collection Related to Peter Carl Fabergé (SC-27)
Robert Merritt Personal Papers (SC-11)
The collection contains research files on VMFA history created by Robert “Bob” Merritt, who was a theater and arts critic for the "Richmond Times-Dispatch" newspaper from the 1970s through the 1990s and wrote about VMFA frequently. The boxes were originally labeled “narrative history,” a project which was sponsored by the museum's Marketing and Public Affairs department, probably as part of the plans to commemorate the museum's 50th anniversary in 1986.
Mona Lisa Memorabilia Collection (SC-18)
The collection consists of various forms of memorabilia (postcards, cartoons, brochures, greeting cards, buttons, pins, stickers) depicting Leonardo da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa" as appropriated art. The collection was assembled by Mary Moore Jacoby in honor of Pinkney L. Near, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' senior curator, who died in 1990.
Margaret M. and Arthur J. Mourot Personal Papers (SC-13)
The collection includes photographs, articles, and correspondence related to the collection and subsequent donation of 18th century Meissen porcelain by Margaret M. and Arthur J. and Margaret Mourot.
Harriet Severance Munn Postcard Collection (SC-14)
The collection consists of two bound albums of postcards mostly depicting art and architecture throughout Europe and the United States. The volumes belonged to Harriet Severance Munn, and many contain correspondence between Harriet, her sister Marjorie, and other family members.
Records of the Oaks (SC-01)
William O'Neal Photograph Collection (SC-17)
The collection is comprised of photographs of architectural works designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh in Glasgow, Scotland. The photographs were taken by architectural historian William Bainter O'Neal in 1949 and feature the Glasgow School of Art, Hill House, Willow Tea Rooms, and Queen's Cross Church. The envelope that housed the images features diagrams and notes about the Glasgow School or Art presumably written by O'Neal.
John Barton Payne Personal Papers (SC-31)
Laila W. Pearsall Personal Papers (SC-10)
John Garland Pollard, Jr. Personal Papers (SC-25)
Lillian Thomas Pratt Personal Papers (SC-07)
Pueblo Chant Recordings (SC-26)
The collection is comprised of eight rare 78 rpm shellac records of Native American chants and songs. Recorded in the early 1950s by Manuel Archuleta, the first Native American in the United States to own his own record label, the chants preserve the songs and dances from the Navajo and several Southwestern pueblos, including the Hopi, Zuni, and San Juan peoples.
R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans Papers (SC-21)
Records of the Richmond Artists Association (SC-09)
Records of the Roycroft Community (SC-08)
The collection includes postcards, concert and recital announcements, subscription offers, Richmond newspaper accounts of Hubbard’s visit, Roycroft Fraternity membership, an original manuscript of “A Visit to the House of Shakespeare” with handwritten annotations by Hubbard, a blank copy of Memory Book in its original box and other ephemeral material.
Gary Saretzky Personal Papers (SC-35)
Scandinavian Design Collection (SC-15)
The collection is comprised of brochures, catalogs, and specification sheets produced by mid-20th century Scandinavian designers and design firms.
Beuford Smith Archives (SC-32)
The collection helps document the formation of the Kamoinge Workshop in the early 1960s, including a notebook with minutes from their earliest meetings. Photographs from the collection show the early members of Kamoinge, and in particular focuses on the life of Louis H. Draper (1935-2002).
Robert S. Telford Personal Papers (SC-05)
The collection documents the life and career of Robert (Bob) S. Telford from 1959-2008. Telford, director of the Virginia Museum Theatre from 1955-1966, helped to strengthen the program and is known for casting African American actors in productions with white actors at a time when interracial casting was illegal in Virginia.