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Twentieth Century Art Department Records

Collection Summary

Information for Researchers

Administrative Information

Historical Note

Scope and Content Note

Series Outline

I. Exhibition records

A. "Mondrian." April 2, 1966-May 9, 1966

B. "Friends Select: Acquisitions Exhibition." April 1967 - May 1967

C. "Paintings by Peter Hurd-Henriette Wyeth." May 12, 1967-June 11, 1967

D. "American Sculpture of the Sixties." September 15, 1967-October 29, 1967

E. "Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition." January 20, 1968-February 26, 1968

F. "The Collection of Emily McFadden Staempfli." May 24, 1968 - September 2, 1968

G. "The Art of Mexico." October 4, 1968-December 24, 1968

H. "Sculpture: Gift of R. Sturgis and Marion B.F. Ingersoll." October 4, 1968-December 24, 1968

I. "The Pure and Clear: American Innovations." November 13, 1968-January 21, 1969

J. "Charles Sheeler Memorial Exhibition." January 10, 1969 - February 16, 1969

K. "Constantin Brancusi, 1876-1957: A Retrospective." September 26, 1969-November 2, 1969

L. "Peace." May 19, 1970-June 21, 1970

M. "Multiples: The First Decade." March 5, 1971-April 4, 1971

N. "Recent Acquisitions of Sculpture." October 13, 1971 - January 2, 1972

O. "Friends Purchase Party and Exhibition: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture." April 27, 1972 - May 7, 1972

P. "Summer Loans 1972." 1972 Summer

Q. "American Art since 1945: A Loan Exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art." September 15, 1972-October 22, 1972

R. "Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic." Mid-January 1973 - End February 1973

S. "A Child's Garden of Art." February 6, 1973 - February 28, 1973

T. "Summer Loans 1973." Summer 1973

U. "The Woodward Foundation." July 20, 1973-July 29, 1973

V. "Friends Purchase Party and Exhibition." May 1974

W. "Summer Loans 1974." Summer 1974

X. "Recent Acquisitions: 20th Century Art Department." October 30, 1974 - February 18, 1975

Y. "Claes Oldenburg: Object into Movement." November 17, 1972-December 27, 1972

Z. "Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art." April 11, 1976-October 10, 1976

AA. "Recent Acquisitions: Made in Philadelphia." March 18, 1977 - August 30, 1977

AB. "Life with Dada: Beatrice Wood Drawings." March 11, 1978 - April 9, 1978

AC. "Eight Artists." April 29, 1978-June 25, 1978

AD. "Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia II." March 24, 1979 - May 20, 1979

AE. "Violet Oakley (1874-1961)." June 30, 1979 - August 12, 1979

AF. "Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes." October 20, 1979 - January 6, 1980

AG. "Brancusi as Photographer." March 22, 1980 - May 18, 1980

AH. "Futurism and the International Avant-Garde." October 26, 1980 - January 4, 1981

AI. "Spirit of an American Place: Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz." November 22, 1980 - March 29, 1981

AJ. "Picasso from the Collections." June 6, 1981 - August 23, 1981

AK. "Master Drawings by Picasso." July 11, 1981 - August 23, 1981

AL. "Marius de Zayas: Conjuror of Souls." December 18, 1981-February 14, 1982

AM. "John Cage: Scores & Prints." September 11, 1982 - October 31, 1982

AN. "Julius Bloch: Portrait of the Artist." March 20, 1983 - May 1, 1983

AO. "Jonathan Borofsky." October 7, 1984 - December 2, 1984

AP. "Marc Chagall." May 12, 1985 - July 21, 1985

AQ. "Diego Rivera: A Retrospective and Diego Rivera and His Mexico: Through the Camera's Eye." June 1, 1986 - August 10, 1986

AR. "Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940." September 28, 1986-November 30, 1986

AS. "The Captured Imagination: Drawings by Joan Miró from The Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona." October 3, 1987 - November 29, 1987

AT. "Picasso, Braque, Léger, Gris: Drawings from the Douglas Cooper Collection." June 16, 1988 - July 31, 1988

AU. "Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974." October 23, 1988 - January 8, 1989

AV. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray." October 22, 1989 - January 7, 1990

AW. "Dada and the Surrealism Project." 1989

AX. "Ian Hamilton Finlay: The Garden and the Revolution." December 21, 1991 - February 29, 1992

AY. "Martin Puryear." November 1, 1992 - January 3, 1993

AZ. "Thinking is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys." October 10, 1993 - January 2, 1994

1. Administrative and planning files

2. Ann Temkin's research files

3. Catalogue files

5. Private and public collections (not in the exhibition)

6. Topics and research files

BA. "Museum Studies 1: Sherrie Levine." October 23, 1993 - November 28, 1993

BB. "Museum Studies 2: Richard Long." April 12, 1994 - November 21, 1994

BC. "Museum Studies 3: Lawrence Weiner." December 7, 1994 - February 5, 1995

BD. "Constantin Brancusi." Oct. 8 1995 - Dec. 31, 1995

BE. "Sidney Goodman: Paintings and Drawings, 1959-1995." February 11, 1996 - March 31, 1996

BF. "Encounters with Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collections." March 2, 1997 - May 11, 1997

BG. "Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology." March 10, 1998 - May 17, 1998

BH. "Museum Studies 4: Rirkrit Tiravanija." April 1, 1998 - May 31, 1998

BI. "Twenty Philadelphia Artists: Celebrating Fleisher Challenge at Twenty." July 18, 1998 - September 13, 1998

BJ. "Henry Moore: A Centennial Salute; An Exhibition in Celebration of Philip I. Berman." July 30, 1998 - November 29, 1998

BK. "Raymond Pettibon." April 30, 1999 - July 25, 1999

BL. "Museum Studies 5: Gabriel Orozco." October 27, 1999 - December 12, 1999

II. Exhibition records, unrealized

Subseries . "Thinking is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys." October 10, 1993 - January 2, 1994

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