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Henry Art Gallery records, 1917-2016

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Henry Art Gallery
Title
Henry Art Gallery records
Dates
1917-2016 (inclusive)
Quantity
191.05 cubic feet (240 boxes, including videotapes, 1 package, 6 rolls, 2 tubes, 1 oversize folder, 1 vertical file)
Collection Number
UW Resource No. 00328
Summary
Organizational records documenting curatorial functions and past exhibitions prepared by the Henry Art Gallery staff.
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users, but access to portions of the records restricted. Some records are stored offsite; advance notice is required for use. Contact Special Collections for details.

Request at UW

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

The Henry Art Gallery was founded in 1927, as the first public art museum in the state of Washington and the art museum of the University of Washington. The Henry Art Gallery is a nationally-recognized center for the exploration of visual culture and is the Pacific Northwest's premier modern and contemporary art museum. The museum's exhibitions bring important works of art to Seattle from throughout the world and bring into public view works of art from the Northwest. These exhibitions and their related programs invite dialogue about contemporary culture, politics, aesthetics and the traditions of visual art and design of the last two centuries. Exhibitions at the Henry frequently present recent or newly commissioned work of visually and conceptually challenging artists such as Ann Hamilton (1992), Gary Hill (1994), Kara Walker (1998), Roni Horn (1998), Leone & Macdonald (1999), Josiah McElheny (1998), Jennifer Steinkamp (1999), Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (2000) and Tony Oursler (2000). The museum also hosts nationally and internationally touring exhibitions such as Deep Storage, The Arsenal of Memory (1998), Thinking Print (1998), Inside Out: New Chinese Art (1999-2000) and Andy Warhol: Drawings, 1942-1987 (July 20 - October 8, 2000).

The museum's major renovation and expansion, completed in April 1997, quadrupled the museum's size - from 10,000 square feet to over 40,000 square feet. Increased size allowed for the addition of a 154-seat auditorium, a multi-media gallery, café, bookstore and sculpture court along with improved facilities for art handling and storage and collections research. An architectural collage of glass, textured stainless steel and cast stone, designed by Charles Gwathmey, compliments the original red brick collegiate-Gothic structure designed by Carl Gould in the 1920s.

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Content Description

Organizational features, correspondence, exhibition files, donor files, planning files, project files, committee files, grant files, reports, loan agreements and contracts, registration volumes, usage cards, lists, workshop files, course files, writings, financial records, annual reports, subject files, exhibit catalogs, publications, newsletters, clippings, photographs, posters, scrapbooks, slides, films, videotapes, sound recordings; 1917-2016.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Public Records (use unrestricted when access is granted).

Preferred Citation

Henry Art Gallery records. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized into 30 accessions.

  • Accession No. 75-006, Henry Art Gallery records, 1927-1949
  • Accession No. 79-016, Henry Art Gallery sound recordings, 1974-1975
  • Accession No. 80-036, Henry Art Gallery Public Art Programs and Northwest Registry slides, undated
  • Accession No. 80-109, Henry Art Gallery records, 1936-1978
  • Accession No. 81-064, Henry Art Gallery films and videotapes, undated
  • Accession No. 82-048, Henry Art Gallery records, 1948-1978
  • Accession No. 83-011, Henry Art Gallery records, 1969-1982
  • Accession No. 83-065, Henry Art Gallery publications and posters, 1974-1983
  • Accession No. 86-042, Henry Art Gallery records, 1917-1985
  • Accession No. 88-054, Henry Art Gallery records, 1977-1988
  • Accession No. 89-157, Henry Art Gallery registration volumes, 1922-1988
  • Accession No. 90-063, Henry Art Gallery exhibit files, circa 1988
  • Accession No. 90-112, Henry Art Gallery exhibit posters, 1979-1985
  • Accession No. 90-172, Henry Art Gallery records, 1943-1988
  • Accession No. 90-195, Henry Art Gallery records, 1975-1982
  • Accession No. 91-008, Henry Art Gallery exhibit catalogs, 1989-1990
  • Accession No. 92-107, Henry Art Gallery Thomas Hart Benton files, 1984-1991
  • Accession No. 93-036, Henry Art Gallery donor file, 1985
  • Accession No. 94-075, Henry Art Gallery registry list, undated
  • Accession No. 94-076, Henry Art Gallery organizational features and filing plan, circa 1986
  • Accession No. 95-187, Henry Art Gallery records, circa 1985-1995
  • Accession No. 97-021, Henry Art Gallery records, 1993-1996
  • Accession No. 00-046, Henry Art Gallery records, 1988-1989
  • Accession No. 01-006, Henry Art Gallery exhibit files, 1987-1992
  • Accession No. 02-023, Henry Art Gallery accession ledgers, 1926-2001
  • Accession No. 03-023, Henry Art Gallery exhibit files, 1930-1999
  • Accession No. 04-071, Henry Art Gallery exhibit files, 1988-2003
  • Accession No. 06-037, Henry Art Gallery records, 1990-2004
  • Accession No. 17-030, Henry Art Gallery records, 1981-2009
  • Accession No. 18-006, University of Washington Henry Art Gallery records, 1980-2016

Processing Note

Minimally processed.

Related Materials

The Henry Art Gallery website has been regularly captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine since 2014. The snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/4366/*/https://henryart.org/

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

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Subject Terms

  • Art museums--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Art--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Museum curators--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Museum exhibits--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Museums--Washington (State)--Seattle--Employees
  • University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Padelford, Frederick Morgan, 1875-1942--Correspondence

Corporate Names

  • Henry Art Gallery--Archives

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names

    • University of Washington. University Archives


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