Archives West Finding Aid

Scope and Content: Correspondence and supporting records from the Seattle Art Museum and its two predecessor organizations.

Scope and Content: Letters between Dr. Richard E. Fuller and artists, mostly from the Northwest.

Scope and Content: Letters, layout designs, notes, tapes concerning the Skagit Valley Artists Exhibition, catalogs in 1974. Includes Jeri McDonald's files dealing with Skagit artists as well as the exhibition catalog.

Scope and Content: Five electrical transcription discs from 1953-1956, presumably broadcast on KXA. They concern the Seattle Art Museum, Norman Davis, a Japanese Art Exhibit Premiere, and a Walter P. Chrysler Exhibit.

Scope and Content: Clippings. Photocopies of clippings are pasted to 8.5" x 11" loose sheets of bond paper with dates pencilled on the upper corner of sheets.

Scope and Content: Exhibition files, including correspondence, loans, clippings, photographs; 1975-1979. Files are from Modern Art Department of Seattle Art Museum and are in chronological order.

Scope and Content: Exhibition files.

Scope and Content: General correspondence, exhibit planning files, related materials; ca. 1959-1986. The records are primarily files of Executive Directors Willis Woods (1974-1979) and Arnold Jolles (1979-1985). Also includes papers of Thomas Maytham as Associate Director, and records of Asian Art Department, primarily exhibition and publication correspondence.

Scope and Content: Engagement books; 1953-1974.

Complete run of Seattle Art Museum engagement books, from the initial year a book was produced in 1953 through the 1974 edition . Each page of the calendar has a picture of an item from the Museum collection.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, reports, exhibition files, ephemera; 1957-1985; Seattle Fine Arts Society records, 1913-1917.

Scope and Content: Clippings; 1953-1968. Photocopies of clippings are pasted to 8.5" x 11" loose sheets of bond paper. Dates are penciled on the upper corner of sheets.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, exhibition files, conferences and conventions, project and planning files, photographs, subject series; 1962-1983.

Except for a small amount of material from Curator of Textiles, this entire accession is from the Asian Art Department.

Scope and Content: Typewritten drafts of two monographs: "Various Chinese Poets, Their Biographies and Selected Poems", 1935 and "Art-Themes in Chinese Poetry", 1936 by Hardin T. McClelland.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes, budgets, reports, planning files, exhibition files, other record series; 1947-1986. Includes files of Henry Trubner and Bill Rathbun.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes, budgets, personnel files, policy manuals, and subject series, from the Seattle Art Museum's Personnel Department; 1978-1987.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes, exhibition files, lists, clippings; 1973-1985. The bulk of this accession is from the Modern Art Department.

Scope and Content: Index produced in 1990 concerning the artists described in the Seattle Art Museum's computerized data-management system. The system documents over 550 artists working in all media. Biographical features, exhibition histories, bibliographies, etc. can be obtained for a small charge per page from the Seattle Art Museum by written request. A cover letter gives the name and address of the person to contact in the Museum's Office of the Registrar. The title of the index is "Northwest Artists in the Seattle Art Museum Collection".

Scope and Content: Correspondence, financial records, budgets, development files, acknowledgements of gifts, grants and grant proposals, reports, publicity, newsletters/calendars, surveys, exhibition files, publications, blueprints, photographs, clippings; 1960-1991.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, financial records, development files, public relations files, exhibition files, newsletters, and minutes; 1923-1991.

Scope and Content: Two negatives with corresponding photographs (8" x 10", black and white). One shows Kenjiro Nomura, probably taken at the Zoe Dusanne Gallery, 1953; the other is of Zoe Dusanne, Paul Horiuchi, his wife and child, May 1957.

Scope and Content: Scrapbook of color photographs compiled by Priscilla Klepser, documenting her collection of porcelain in the museum.

Scope and Content: Exhibition records, comment books; 1978-1997 (bulk 1986-1996).

Scope and Content: Correspondence, photographs, subject series; 1932-1993 (bulk ca. 1970-1993). Records document the work of the Office of the Registrar.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, project files, curatorial files, director's office files, council and guild files, press releases and other files of the museum, subject series; 1927-2002 (bulk ca. 1980-1997). Records document, in part, the administrative and curatorial functions of the museum.

Scope and Content: Exhibition files, loan files, committee files, budget files, annual reports, subjet files; 1933-2004 (bulk 1979-2003). Exhibition files include correspondence, check lists, condition reports, photographs, slides, and other records created by the Office of the Registrar during planning for past Seattle Art Museum exhibits.

Scope and Content: Published report on the Seattle Art Museum Westlake Campaign. Includes sections on Seattle Art Museum history, collections and curators, named galleries, endowment, programs and services, Westlake, opportunities for giving, financial statement, questions and answers, and media coverage.