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Records of the Information Technology Department (RG-21)
File
Identifier: RG-21
Dates:
1987-2012 [minimally processed; subject to change]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Bob Jones, Jr. Photographs of Leslie Payne (VA-03)
Collection
Identifier: VA-03
Dates:
1972
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
T. Catesby Jones Personal Papers (SC-06)
Item — Box: SC-06 Box 1
Identifier: SC-06
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1946-1949
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Library (RG-29)
Collection
Identifier: RG-29
Dates:
[unprocessed]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Lila Wallace "Reader's Digest" Grant (RG-16)
File
Identifier: RG-16
Dates:
1990-1997 [unprocessed; subject to change]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Marketing and Communications Department (RG-09)
Collection
Identifier: RG-09
Dates:
[unprocessed]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Christel Ludewig McCanless Collection Related to Peter Carl Fabergé (SC-27)
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-27
Abstract
The collection represents portions of the extensive research library and archives formed by Christel Ludewig McCanless over forty years. A noted Fabergé scholar, McCanless published the first annotated bibliography of literature about Fabergé in 1994, the premiere encyclopedia about the Fabergé eggs in 2001, and founded the "Fabergé Research Newsletter" and "Fabergé Research" website in 2006. While dedicated to research about the artistry of Fabergé, McCanless' collection also includes numerous...
Dates:
1971-2016
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Media Services Department (RG-26)
Collection
Identifier: RG-26
Dates:
1952-2017 [minimally processed; subject to change]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Membership Department (RG-12)
File
Identifier: RG-12
Dates:
1935-2004, undated
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Robert Merritt Personal Papers (SC-11)
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-11
Abstract
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.
Dates:
[before 1983]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Mona Lisa Memorabilia Collection (SC-18)
Item
Identifier: SC-18
Abstract
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.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Margaret M. and Arthur J. Mourot Personal Papers (SC-13)
File
Identifier: SC-13
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1947-1998
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Harriet Severance Munn Postcard Collection (SC-14)
Collection
Identifier: SC-14
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1911-1928
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Oaks (SC-01)
File
Identifier: SC-01
Abstract
This collection documents a portion of the life of Lizzie Edmund Boyd and the history of her home, The Oaks, during her ownership from 1927 until the transfer of ownership to the VMFA in 1975. In addition, the lives of several of her family members, namely James Boyd Phillips and Asa Phillips, can be seen through official military documents, tax forms, bank records and personal correspondence, offering a glimpse into their time serving in WWII and assimilation back into society after the war’s...
Dates:
1894-1995
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
William O'Neal Photograph Collection (SC-17)
File
Identifier: SC-17
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1949
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Paintings Conservation Department (RG-14)
File
Identifier: RG-14
Dates:
1978-2008
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
John Barton Payne Personal Papers (SC-31)
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-31
Abstract
The collection documents parts of John Barton Payne's varied professional career. It contains correspondence, including letters from President Woodrow Wilson and federal agencies including the White House, Senate, House of Representatives, and Postmaster General, as well letters from Payne's former employer, invitations, letters of thanks, and requests from private entities. The collection also contains photographs from trips that Payne took during his tenure as Secretary of the Interior, most...
Dates:
1881-1938, undated
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Laila W. Pearsall Personal Papers (SC-10)
Collection
Identifier: SC-10
Abstract
The collection documents the service of Laila W. Pearsall to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Pearsall was nominated to be a Trustee of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1967, and served for 10 years until 1977, including consecutive terms as Vice-President from 1970-1976. She was also a long-standing member of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Council, serving for over 50 years from 1957-2009. She was instrumental in founding the museum Shop in 1962 and served as President of the Council...
Dates:
[unprocessed]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
John Garland Pollard, Jr. Personal Papers (SC-25)
Collection
Identifier: SC-25
Dates:
[unprocessed]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Lillian Thomas Pratt Personal Papers (SC-07)
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-07
Abstract
The collection documents the formation of the Lillian Thomas Pratt Collection of Fabergé decorative artworks at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Bequeathed to the museum upon her death in 1947, Pratt’s Fabergé collection consistently remains one of the highlights of the museum’s permanent collection. Pratt purchased most of her Fabergé collection from the Schaffer Collection and Hammer Galleries, both of New York City, in the 1930s and 1940s. Comprised of correspondence, invoices, price tags,...
Dates:
1901-1947
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Publications Department (RG-10)
File
Identifier: RG-10
Dates:
1940-2011 [minimally processed; subject to change]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Pueblo Chant Recordings (SC-26)
Collection
Identifier: SC-26
Abstract
The collection is comprised of eight rare 78 rpm shellac records of Native American chant recordings. 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 several Southwestern pueblos, including the Hopi, Zuni, and San Juan peoples.
Dates:
[late 1940s]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans Papers (SC-21)
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-21
Abstract
The collection documents the history of R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, a large residential complex for poor and infirm Confederate veterans of the Civil War. Altogether a total of nearly three thousand veterans from thirty-three states called the camp home, and after the camp’s closing, the Commonwealth eventually granted use of the buildings and land to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The collection is comprised of photographs and postcards that document the changing landscape...
Dates:
1885-1958
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Registration Department (RG-08)
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-08
Abstract
The collection documents the work of the Registration Department from 1919-1994, including management of the permanent art collection, loans, and exhibition documentation.
Dates:
1919-1994
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Richmond Artists Association (SC-09)
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-09
Abstract
The collection documents the history of the Richmond Artists Association (RAA), from its founding in 1955 by artist Westwood Winfree, to 2005 when the group joined with another Richmond art organization to form the Metropolitan Richmond Artists Association. The material highlights RAA’s growth and achievements over five decades, including early annual exhibitions at the Carillon and Miller and Rhoads, as well as numerous other exhibitions. Meeting minutes, officer files, and membership...
Dates:
1955-2005
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Records of the Roycroft Community (SC-08)
File
Identifier: SC-08
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1899-1915
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Russian Postcard Collection (SC-30)
Collection
Identifier: SC-30
Dates:
[unprocessed]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Gary Saretzky Personal Papers (SC-35)
Collection
Identifier: SC-35
Dates:
[unprocessed]
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Scandinavian Design Collection (SC-15)
File
Identifier: SC-15
Abstract
The collection is comprised of brochures, catalogs, and specification sheets produced by mid-20th century Scandinavian designers and design firms.
Dates:
1955-1960, undated
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
Beuford Smith Archives (SC-32)
Item — Box: SC-32 Box 1
Identifier: SC-32
Abstract
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).
Dates:
1964-2003
Found in:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives
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