Greetings friends,
Posted on behalf of Mary Woolever, Archivist, Ryerson and Burnham
Libraries. Contact information is provided via the address Mary
provides below.
Regards,
Peter Blank
Head, Reader Services
Ryerson & Burnham Libraries
The Art Institute of Chicago
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The Ryerson & Burnham Archives in the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries are
pleased to announce the addition of 100 electronic finding aids to
their Web site
http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/rbarchives/rbarchives.html
This online access is made possible by a major grant from The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation through its Museums and Conservation program.
These electronic finding aids document the contents of individual
archival collections and offer access to two-thirds of the 143
processed collections currently held in the R&B Archives; additional
finding aids will be placed on the Web site in the coming months. The
finding aids can be downloaded from the Web site as PDF files.
Qualified readers may access all processed collections, without prior
appointment, during the Reading Room's public hours.
The Ryerson & Burnham Archives collect artists' and architects'
papers that complement and extend the permanent collections of the
museum's curatorial departments. The collections include
correspondence, published and unpublished writings, scrapbooks,
drawings and prints, business papers, research materials,
photographs, slides, ephemera, artifacts, and audio, film, and video
recordings.
The Archives' collections are diverse but focus on late 19th- and
20th-century American architecture, with particular depth in Midwest
architecture. Architects such as Edward Bennett, Daniel Burnham,
Bruce Goff, Bertrand Goldberg, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright are represented by a
broad range of materials. Additionally, the World's Columbian
Exposition of 1893 in Chicago is documented in photographs by C.D.
Arnold and through a small collection of ephemera. Chicago's Century
of Progress International Exposition of 1933-34 and the World's Fair
of 1939 in New York are also each represented in an individual
archive. A large collection of mounted photographs and lantern slides
provides valuable historic records of American architecture,
landscape design, and urban planning between 1875 and 1940.
The Archives also collect the papers of artists and designers. Of
particular note are the archives of such figures as Ivan Albright,
Irving Penn, and Richard Ten Eyck, each of whom played a key role in
recent exhibitions organized by The Art Institute of Chicago. Other
significant collections include materials gathered by noted
researchers such as André Mellerio, friend and biographer of artist
Odilon Redon; William B. Fagg, an expert in West African art and
architecture; and George Collins, scholar of Catalan art and
architecture.
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