UUM_Acc572 Guide to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts records 1968-2004 Utah Museum of Fine Arts records Finding aid created by David Buhler University Archives and Records Management, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Acc0572 Utah Museum of Fine Art records 1968-2004 1976-2000 Utah Museum of Fine Art Utah Museum of Fine Arts records 3.75 linear feet The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is a department within the College of Fine Arts with the primary mission of providing essential cultural and educational resources in the visual arts for the University and the broader community. This collection contains administrative files, exhibit and event files, and research papers compiled by Ron Allen for his masters thesis from the Department of Art and Art History in 2004. Material in English. Historical Note

A Department of Fine Arts was first organized at the University of Deseret in 1888. Along with this, an art museum was also established in order to "cultivate good judgement as well as refinement of taste". At the University of Utah's present location, an art gallery was first opened on the fourth floor of the John R. Park Building in 1914. After the University received a substantial gift of art from Winifred Kimball Hudnut in the 1940's, this space was rennovated and officially incorporated as the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in 1951.

The College of Fine Arts was established at the University of Utah in 1947 offering both BFA and MFA degrees. After the College experienced substantial growth in enrollments during the 1950's and 1960's, the need for more space for fine arts education became apparent. Eventually, the new Art and Architecture Center was opened in September 1971 with space for both the art and the architecture departments as well as for a new fine arts museum. This space served as the Utah Museum of Fine Arts until 2001 when the museum was moved into its current location at the Marcia and John Price Museum Building.

The bulk of this collection covers the administration of Frank Sanguinetti who was the first director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts from 1967 to 2001. The first series is comprised of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports. 0.5 linear feet of of this series consists of minutes from the museum's advisory board meetings dating from 1976 to 2002. The second series consists 0.75 linear feet of event and exhibit files dating from 1971-2000. The third series contains 1.00 linear foot of copied material compiled by Ron Allen during research for his thesis A History of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts which he submitted in 2004 as part of his masters program for the Department of Art and Art History.

This collection is divided into the following three series: Administrative Files, Exhibit and Event Files, and the Ron Allen Papers. All three series are arranged alphabetically.

Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Reel tapes sent to audio-visual.

Initial Citation: Utah Museum of Fine Art records, Acc. 572, Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Acc. 572

This collection came from five cubic feet of material that was picked up from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in 2007 and one cubic foot of material from Ron Allen's research also obtained in 2007.

Processed by David Buhler in 2019.

 Allen, Ron Sanguinetti, Frank University of Utah. College of Fine Arts Museums--Utah--History--Sources Universities and colleges--Utah--Salt Lake City--History--Sources Colleges and Universities Fine Arts Correspondence Memorandums Minutes Reports 1 Administrative Office Files 1 Advisory Board Committee 1 Advisory Board Committee - Annual Reports 1983-1994 2 Advisory Board Committee - Handbook 1998-1999 3-19 Advisory Board Committee - Meeting Minutes 1976-1993 2 Advisory Board Committee to Christmas Party 1-2 Advisory Board Committee - Meeting Minutes 1993-1994 1997-1998 2001-2002 3 Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, Inc. 1991-1994

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 4 Art Museum Outreach to Carbon County Public Schools 1987-1989 5-17 Brochures, Flyers, Etc. 1968-1980 1990 undated 18 C. Comstock Clayton Foundation 1993-1996

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 19 Christmas Flyers 1978-1979 20 Christmas Party 1977 December 10-12 3 Considerations for Performing Arts Organizations to Northwest Pipline Corporation 1 Considerations for Performing Arts Organizations Using the Utah Museum of Fine Art's Facilities circa 1978 2 Docent Program circa 1978 3 Dr. Ezekial R. and Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation 1986-1988

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 4 Eaton-Kenway 1985-1986

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 5 Eccles, Sallie 1995 6 Emma Eccles Jones Foundation 1987-1990

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 7 Herbert I. and Elsa B. Michael Foundation 1987-1990

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 8 Financial Foundation 1984-1993

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 9 Fine Art of Soup Cookbook 1991 10 Friends of the Museum 1975-1994 11 Kennecott Corporation 1981-1999

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 12 Loan Forms 1981 13 Marriner S. Eccles Foundation 1984-1995

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 14 Miscellaneous Corporate Sponsors 1985-1997

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 15 Museum Education and Outreach Program 1979-1980 16 Museum Experiences for Senior Citizens 1978 17 Museum on the Road Program 1977-1980 18 Northwest Pipeline Corporation 1987-1990

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 4 News Articles to Volunteer Program 1 News Articles 1987-1999 2 Norton Christensen, Inc. 1981-1987

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 3 Press Clippings and Press Releases 1979-1999 4 A Public Service Outreach Program to Rural Utah 1986-1987 5 Reports to Museum of Fine Arts Committee of the National Advisory Council 1974 April 6 Senior Citizen Outreach Program 1977-1989 7 Society of Museum Associates 1978 8 Society of Museum Associates - Advisory Committee 1978 9 Special Exhibitions Council 1997-2000 10 Summer Inservice for Teachers K-12 1989 11 Teachers Resource Center 1978-1980 12 Utah Arts Council: Educational Services Grant 1981-1982 13 Utah Arts Council: The Magic of Art: How Artists Use the Elements of Art 1991 14 Utah Arts Council: Museum Education Outreach Program 1980-1981 15 Utah Arts Council: Travelling Exhibition Grant 1981-1982 16 Val A. Browning Collection 1991-1994

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 17 Volunteer Program 1978-1979 2 Exhibition and Event Files 5 Accessions 77 to Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture 1 Accessions 77 1978 February 11-March 26 2 The Age of Tolouse-Lautrec 1978 September 24-November 5 3 Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition 1971 November 13-December 18 4 Art and Decoration 78 1978 May 6-21 5-8 Art in Bloom 1992 1994 1998 2000 9-10 Art of the Gardner 1995 1999 11 Art of the Grand Couturier 1979 April 8-29 12 Aston Magna Foundation for Music, Inc.: From Rococo to Revolution in Eighteenth Century France 1988 April 23-24 13 Bert G. Clift Collection of Chinese Ceramics 1979 January 28-April 29 14 Contemporary Works by June Freilicher 1979 February 25-March 25 15 The Divine Presence 1979 October 23-December 9 16 French Symposium: A Bicentennial Celebration 1989 April 15 17 John S. Takehara Exhibit 1979 February 25-March 25 18 Have You Ever Seen a Rainbow at Night?, Navajo Children's Art Exhibit 1992 October 11-December 20 19 Images of Women: Printmakers in France From 1830-1930 1978 January 8-February 19 20 Kieth Crown Watercolors 1978 May 14-June 12 21 Lakeside Studio Print Exhibit 1979 March 29 22 LeConte Stewart: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints 1978 January 22-February 26 23 Master of Fine Arts Candidates 1979 May 13-June 10 24 Max Beckman: Lithographs and Etchings 1979 June 17-July 22 25 Natacha Rambova Collection of Egyptian Antiquities 1978 October 22-1979 January 14 26 The Navajo Weaver: The Judge Willis R. Ritter Collection 1978 March 5-April 16 27 Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Masoud Yasami 1979 January 14-February 11 6 Poetry Series to William Henry David Koerner 1 Poetry Series 1979-80 1979 September 17-1980 May 15 2 Ransom G. Holdredge, 1836-1899: Brigham Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, Ca 1870 1978 3 Ten Artists Exhibit 1976 June 3-11 4 Trevor Sotheby Exhibit 1979 February 25-March 25 5 Utah 78 1978 June 30-September 3 6 Utah State Silver Collection 1979 April 7 Utah Watercolor Society Fourth Annual Juried Exhibit 1978 June 23-August 27 8 Views from Afar: Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America in the Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts 1989 April 22 9 What is Native American Art? 1987 August 30-November 16 10 William Henry David Koerner: Paintings of the American West 1978 September 24-November 5 3 Ron Allen Papers circa 2004 7 A.B. Wright to Strategic Plans 1 A.B. Wright 2 Advisory Board Scrapbook 3 A. Ray Olpin Journal 4 Balken/Loving Interviews 5 Blueprints/Floorplans 6 Early Pioneers: Pre-Museum Notes 7 E.B. Wicks 8 Exhibition History 9 Frank Sanguinetti 10 Hatch Collection 11 I. Owen Horsfall 12 J.L. Franken 1938 13 Kress Collection 14 Marion Robinson Collection 15 Source Material - Library Searches 16 Strategic Plan 2003-2008 8 UMFA to William Earl Steadman 1 UMFA to 1900 2 UMFA 1901-1947 3 UMFA 1948-1955 4 UMFA 1956-1966 5 UMFA 1967-1975 6 UMFA 1991-2003 7 UMFA Collection Report - Appendix 8 UMFA Collection Report - Inventories 9 UMFA - Hudnut Collection 10 UMFA Inventory 1913, 1940 11 UMFA - Other Museums 12 University Catalogs 1914-1951 13 Will South - Manuscript 14 William Earl Steadman