Hello all,
The following announcement is sent on behalf of Cheryl Leibold,
who is about to retire from her position as Archivist for the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Ed Deegan
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“In The Service Of Art”: A Guide to the Archives
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has published a guide to the holdings of its Archives. The result of ten years of preparation, the guide is 76 pages with thirty-four illustrations, and sells for $24.95. Authored by Academy archivist Cheryl Leibold, each chapter provides an historical overview for a department or function of the Pennsylvania Academy, and an itemized list of all records of that department housed in the Archives.
The PAFA Archives is the repository for the records of America's oldest art museum and school. Its history is of singular importance for anyone working in the field. The surviving primary materials include minutes, annual reports, correspondence, printed matter, student records, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The institutional records of the Academy include voluminous correspondence with artists who studied or exhibited there such as Henry O. Tanner, Winslow Homer, Robert Henri, Maxfield Parrish and scores of others. In addition the guide features a summary list of over sixty collections of artists’ manuscripts in the PAFA Archives. Among these are major troves of papers for Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Cecilia Beaux, Daniel Garber, and Arthur B. Carles, to name just a few.
The archival collections at PAFA are frequently consulted by museum and university-based scholars, gallery owners, writers, and the general public. A newly enlarged web page for the PAFA Archives includes a pdf of the guide without the illustrations, and an abbreviated list of the manuscript collections (www.pafa.org).
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