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Beuford Smith Archives (SC-32)
Item — Box: SC-32 Box 1
Identifier: SC-32
Overview
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, undated
Found in:
Archives
Records of the Staff Association (RG-30)
File
Identifier: RG-30
Overview
The collection documents the work of the Staff Association from 1996-2009, including the group's by-laws, meeting minutes, and event files. The Staff Association was comprised of employees from across the museum's various departments and was founded to provide support for the staff through different activities and staff events.
Dates:
1996-2009
Found in:
Archives
Records of the Statewide Partnerships Department (RG-15)
Collection
Identifier: RG-15
Dates:
unprocessed
Found in:
Archives
Robert S. Telford Personal Papers (SC-05)
Item
Identifier: SC-05
Dates:
1959-2008, undated
Found in:
Archives
Records of Virginia Museum Theatre / TheatreVA (RG-04)
Collection
Identifier: RG-04
Dates:
1955-2003
Found in:
Archives
Records of the Tour Services Department (RG-20)
Collection
Identifier: RG-20
Dates:
unprocessed
Found in:
Archives
Records of the Trustees (RG-02)
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-02
Overview
The collection documents the work of the Trustees from 1933-2010, including committee files, signed minutes, meeting files, rosters, and records from Trustee Presidents and the Secretary of the Museum.
Dates:
1933-2010
Found in:
Archives
Deborah Turbeville Artist Archives
Collection
Identifier: SL-01
Dates:
[unprocessed]
Found in:
Archives
Pierre Sanchez Collection of Horace Vernet Graphic Works (SC-28)
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-28
Overview
The collection was assembled by the French scholar Pierre Sanchez, who collected hundreds of lithographs by Horace Vernet (1789-1863) to write the catalogue raissoné of Vernet's lithographic work. The largest privately owned collection of Vernet's graphic works, the collection is comprised of three unpublished volumes of over 300 works, as well as eight loose prints, one poster, and one letter.
Dates:
1816-1838, 1996
Found in:
Archives
Records of Virginia Arts Organizations (SC-03)
Item — Box: SC-03 Box 1
Identifier: SC-03
Overview
The collection documents the rich history of Richmond’s artistic culture and community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing upon the legacy of the first Academy of Fine Arts in the United States, founded in Richmond in 1786, the Richmond Academy of Arts was revived in 1930, and records created throughout the organization’s history comprise the majority of the collection. The Academy provided the most cohesive and active arts organization in Richmond before the founding of the...
Dates:
1888-1942
Found in:
Archives
Records of the Virginia Society for the Photographic Arts (SC-19)
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-19
Overview
This collection documents the history of the Virginia Society for the Photographic Arts (VSPA), from its founding in 1975 in Charlottesville to the mid-2000s when the organization disbanded. The material highlights VSPA’s mission to promote art created by photographic processes through its outreach, activities, and exhibitions. History and membership files detail VSPA’s administration over the years, while the newsletters provide an overview of all VSPA activities. The rest of the collection...
Dates:
1975-2004
Found in:
Archives
Records of the Visitor Services Department (RG-24)
File
Identifier: RG-24
Dates:
1953-2009
Found in:
Archives
James H. Willcox, Jr. Personal Papers (SC-20)
Collection
Identifier: SC-20
Scope and Content Note
Comprised of one bound volume entitled “Silver in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts” and includes photographs from an installation of Willcox’s silver loan in the Thalhimer Gallery in 1989 as well as clippings, research, and photographs related to Willcox’s collection. The volume was bound by Willcox himself.
Dates:
Unknown- unprocessed
Found in:
Archives
Eda Carter Williams Personal Papers (SC-12)
File — Box: SC-12 Box 1
Identifier: SC-12
Overview
The collection documents the service of Eda Carter Williams to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Williams was nominated to be a Trustee of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1954, and served for 11 years until 1965. She was also a founding member of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Council in 1955 and served on the Council for 45 years, until 2000.
Dates:
1940-1993
Found in:
Archives
Priscilla Quiles Wood Personal Papers (SC-24)
Collection
Identifier: SC-24
Dates:
[unprocessed]
Found in:
Archives
Willie Anne Wright Personal Papers (VA-02)
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: VA-02
Overview
The collection documents the career of renowned lensless photographer Willie Anne Wright. Wright's paintings, serigraphs and drawings were her professional focus until 1972 when pinhole photography became her primary creative medium. Comprised mainly of the exhibition files Wright maintained, as well as information about gallery representation and art sales, the collection traces the evolution of her artistic journey over four decades.
Dates:
1958-2003
Found in:
Archives
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