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Collection Number: 40077

Collection Title: Department of Art of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1934-1987

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Size 13.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 10800 items)
Abstract The Department of Art was created in 1936. Originally its curriculum was limited to art history; later, courses in studio art were added. The chairman of the Department of Art was also the director of the university's art museum until 1974, when the museum became a separate administrative unit. Established in 1937, the art museum was first located in Person Hall. In 1958, a new building was completed with funds from the bequest of William Hayes Ackland. The museum then moved and was renamed the William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center; in 1979, its name changed again, to the Ackland Art Museum. (Records of the art museum after 1974 are a separate record group). Records include correspondence and other files relating to the administration of the Department of Art and of the university's art museum; files concerning graduate and undergraduate programs in art; and museum exhibition records, 1935-1959.
Creator University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dept. of Art.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives.
Language English
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[Identification of item], in the Department of Art of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40077, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from the Department of Art, 1970-2006.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

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The University of North Carolina's Department of Art was established in 1936 through the efforts of Mrs. Katherine Pendleton Arrington and the North Carolina Art Society. With funding from the Works Progress Administration and donations from the Art Society membership, Person Hall was renovated and, on 15 January 1937, rededicated as the Person Hall Art Gallery. Under its first chairman, Russell T. Smith, the department consolidated the university's holdings of paintings, sculpture, prints, architectural samples, and other art objects as well as published works on art.

The curriculum, originally limited to art history, was considered a novelty during the early years and soon suffered under the strains of overcrowding and limited finances. Nevertheless, the department gained a wide reputation for its academic instruction, especially after it added instruction in studio art. It maintained its dual concentration on art history and studio art, and expansion in both curricula and staff occurred under the subsequent chairman, John V. Allcott (1939-1957).

The William Hayes Ackland bequest and the completion of the Ackland Memorial Art Center in 1958 provided long-needed, specially designed space as well as funding for the development of the curriculum and expansion of the art collection. Under Joseph C. Sloane, who served as department chairman, 1959-1974, and director of the Art Center, 1959-1978, growth in both areas was striking. Assistant chairmen were appointed to oversee the curricula in art history and studio art. With Sloane's retirement in 1974, the departmental chairmanship and the museum directorship became separate positions. Evan H. Turner succeeded Sloane as director of the Ackland Art Museum in 1978. Subsequent chairmen of the Department of Art have been:

1974-1980 J. Richard Judson
1980-1983 Peter Plagens
1983-1988? Jaroslav T. Folda III
1988?-1993 Arthur Marks
1993-2003 Mary Sturgeon
2003-2010? Mary D. Sheriff
2010?- James N. Hirschfield

In addition to state appropriations, the Department of Art has been the beneficiary of a number of endowment funds, including the Katherine Pendleton Arrington Trust. The William Hayes Ackland Fund has provided major support for the museum's acquisitions program.

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The records of the Department of Art include a variety of materials relating to the development of the department and the art museums. Of special note are the files dealing with the department's growth in regional, national, and international reputation for its academic curriculum, both graduate and undergraduate. Equally significant are the records relating to the art museum's evolution into an institution attracting major exhibitions due to its broad holdings of paintings, sculpture andother art objects.

Records of the Ackland Art Museum dated after 1974 will be found in a separate record group.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Administrative Files, 1934-1987.

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This subseries of the departmental records relates to internal functions that do not directly concern any one of the university's administrative divisions. This series does, however, contain the chairman's correspondence with the university's chancellor. Cross references are provided to other series and subseries as appropriate.

Box 1

Accreditation (see National Association of Schools of Art, Series 1.9.)

Affirmative Action, Department of Art Report, 1973

Announcements of the Art Department, 1963-1971

Annual Reports, 1937-1987

(see also History of the Art Department, under News Bureau in Series 1.8.; and Reports of Activities for Person Hall Gallery, Series 4.1.)

Budget (see Business and Finance Affairs in Series 3, below)

Buildings and Space Needs: Ackland Memorial Art Center: Committee on the Ackland Memorial, Report, 1951

Buildings and Space Needs: Ackland Memorial Art Center: Committee on Plans and Specifications for the Ackland Building, 1952-1953

Buildings and Space Needs: Ackland Memorial Art Center: Construction/Renovations/Additions: Correspondence/Memoranda, 1953-1983

(includes material on Committee to Work with Ackland Architects and on Faculty Buildings and Grounds Committee)

Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-40077/1

Buildings and Space Needs: Ackland Memorial Art Center: Construction/Renovations/Additions: Blueprints, 1953-1955

(See also Project #1301 in Series 3.1. of Business and Finance: Vice Chancellor's Records)

Box 1

Buildings and Space Needs: Ackland Memorial Art Center: Dedication, 1958

Buildings and Space Needs: Person Hall Art Gallery: Opening and Dedication, 1936-1937

Buildings and Space Needs: Person Hall Art Gallery: Post-Ackland Completion, Need for, 1957-1970

Buildings and Space Needs: Space Needs, 1946-1977

(in buildings other than Person and Ackland)

Bylaws, Department of Art, 1973

Ceramics Class, Proposed, 1940-1943; 1954

Chancellor's Office, 1936-1977

Committees, Departmental: Graduate Students as Teaching Assistants (see Committees in Series 3)

Committees, Departmental: Graduate Studies in Art History (see Committees in Series 3)

Committees, Departmental: Minority Groups, 1968; 1970

Committees, Departmental: Planning Committee on Program and Goals of the Art Department: Questionnaires: Faculty

Committees, Departmental: Planning Committee on Program and Goals of the Art Department: Questionnaires: Graduate Students

Committees, Departmental: Planning Committee on Program and Goals of the Art Department: Questionnaires: Undergraduate Students

Committees, Departmental: Planning Committee on Program and Goals of the Art Department: Report, 1971

Committees, Departmental: Teaching Evaluation, 1972-1973

Courses, Schedules of Graduate and Undergraduate, 1942-1974

(see also Faculty, below; Permanent Record of Courses in Series 1.7.; and Series 2 and 3)

Oversize Volume SV-40077/8

Department of Art, January 1945

(a history of the department in pictures; copy number one of a limited edition of fifteen, presented to Frank Porter Graham)

Box 1

Enrollment Statistics, Graduate and Undergraduate, 1943-1973

(see also Permanent Record of Courses, Series 1.7. and Series 2 and 3)

Evening Sketch Class, 1949-1959; 1965

Faculty: General Correspondence with and listings of, 1950-1979

(includes material on new positions, promotions, salaries, and teaching schedules; see also College of Arts and Sciences and General College in Series 1.2.)

Faculty: Minutes of Faculty Meetings: Full Faculty Meetings, 1951-1953; 1959-1975

Faculty: Minutes of Faculty Meetings: Art History Staff, 1964-1976

Faculty: Minutes of Faculty Meetings: Studio Art Staff, 1960-1973

Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration, 1987

Films, Art, 1942-1955

Foundry, Construction of, 1969

Box 2

Journal Club, 1964-1965

Lectures, Funding for and Invitations, 1963-1977

(includes Riggins Lecture Fund)

Library, Department of Art, 1938-1978

(see also Academic Affairs Library in Series 2, below)

Memoranda and General Correspondence of Chairman, 1944; 1959-1976

(see also News Bureau in Series 1.8.)

Publicity, Department of Art and Art Museum (see News Bureau in Series 1.8., and Series 4)

Slide and Photograph Collection, 1942; 1957-1979

Studio Models, 1960-1967

Studio Supply Store, 1937-1941; 1945; 1961

University Portraits, Inventory and Restoration of, 1938-1946

(see also University Portrait Committee, Series 1.4.)

Box 3

Chronological Files, 1979-1987

(daybooks of the chairmen of the Department of Art; include entries from Richard Judson, Peter Plagens, and Jaroslav Folda)

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This subseries includes material concerning the various units of the Division of Academic Affairs. The files deal mainly with budgetary planning/funding requests and undergraduate program development. See also Budget in Series 1.3., Business and Finance, below; and for the department's undergraduate program, see also Series 2., Undergraduate Program.

Box 4

Provost/Dean of the Faculty, 1959-1977

(includes faculty position requests; see also Chancellor's Office in Series 1.1.)

College of Arts and Sciences and General College, 1935-1978

(includes budget requests; see also Provost above)

Division of Fine Arts: General Correspondence, 1958-1979

Division of Fine Arts: Fine Arts Alumni Assembly, 1967-1968

Division of Fine Arts: Division of Humanities, 1938-1963

Division of Fine Arts: Division of Teacher Training, 1937-1940

Academic Affairs Library, 1937-1975

(includes book Fund Requests; see also Art Department Library in Series 1.1.)

School of Education, 1959-1971

Summer Session, 1937-1975

(includes courses and budget)

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This subseries includes the Department of Art's files pertaining to its relations with the university's Business Manager, later the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance. Of special note is the correspondence concerning space needs.

Box 4

General Correspondence, 1937-1974

(includes requests for space; see also Buildings and Space in Series 1.1.)

Budget Requests and Accounts of Expenditures, 1938-1971

(includes state appropriations, personnel and non-personnel budgets; see also Chancellor's Office, Series 1.1.; Provost and College of Arts and Sciences and General College, Series 1.2.; Fellowships and Assistantships, under Graduate Students, Series 3; and Ackland Funds, Series 4.2.)

Buildings and Space Needs (see Buildings in Series 1.1., and General Correspondence, above)

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This subseries includes files relating to the General Faculty and Faculty Council. See also the Division of Fine Arts, Division of the Humanities, and Teacher Training Committee in Series 1.2.

Box 4

Secretary of the Faculty, 1967-1974

Faculty Committees: Chancellor's Advisory Committee, 1964-1974

Faculty Committees: Creative and Performing Arts, 1961-1963

Faculty Committees: Honorary Degrees, 1963-1968

Faculty Committees: Superior Students, 1954

(see also Honors Program, Series 2)

Faculty Committees: University Portraits, 1961-1972

(see also University Portraits, Series 1.1.)

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This subseries pertains to the Department of Art's graduate program as it relates to the overall university program administered by the Graduate School. See also Series 3., Graduate Program.

Box 4

Dean and Vice Chancellor, 1939-1972

(includes correspondence on curriculum in general, graduate student regulations, admission requirements, and enrollment levels as well as requests for appointments to the graduate faculty. For information on graduate fellowship and assistantships, see Graduate Students in Series 3)

University Research Council, 1960-1973

(includes requests for funding to support faculty research)

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This subseries contains files on the Department of Art's activities in the areas under the supervision of the university's Dean of Students and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs. Also included are files concerning student government programs and activities.

Box 4

Fine Arts Festival, 1963-1967; 1975; 1985

International Student Advisor, 1969-1971

Orientation, 1962-1972

Placement Service, 1963-1968

Student Government, Course Evaluations, 1960-1971

(see also Teaching Evaluation, under Committees in Series 1.1.)

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This subseries contains files relating to activities under the supervision of the Vice Chancellor for University Affairs (formerly Administration). In the main, these files concern undergraduate admissions, academic course registration, and student aid.

Box 4

Office of Records and Registration: Grade Distribution Survey, Department of Art, 1958-1966

Office of Records and Registration: Permanent Record of Courses, Department of Art, 1945-1972

Office of Records and Registration: Registrations (see Permanent Record of Courses, above, and Enrollment, Series 1.1.)

Student Aid Office, 1937-1967

Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 1969-1971

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This subseries includes files pertaining to the Department of Art's relations with the offices and programs in the university's Division of University Relations (formerly Development and Public Service). In general, they concern publicity, development, and special education programs.

Box 5

Alumni Association, 1938-1940; 1971

Development Office, 1959-1963

Extension and Continuing Education Division, 1934-1979

(regarding the Art Extension Program operated by Corinne McNeir in the 1930s and 1940s, which included correspondence courses and the evening college program; see also Southern Art Projects, Series 1.9., and Graduate Fellowships/Assistantships, under Graduate Students, in Series 3)

News Bureau: Department of Art, General Press Releases, 1935-1972

(for news releases on museum exhibitions, see Series 4.3.)

Oversize Volume SV-40077/1

News Bureau: History of the Department of Art in Pictures, 1937-1944

Oversize Volume SV-40077/2

News Bureau: Scrapbooks: Clippings, October 1940-July 1941

(oversize volumes 2-7 contain mainly Person Hall Gallery Exhibition publicity; see also Exhibition Files, Series 4.3.)

Oversize Volume SV-40077/3

News Bureau: Scrapbooks: Clippings, September 1941-July 1942

Oversize Volume SV-40077/4

News Bureau: Scrapbooks: Clippings, October 1942-July 1943

Oversize Volume SV-40077/5

News Bureau: Scrapbooks: Clippings, October 1943-April 1944

Oversize Volume SV-40077/6

News Bureau: Scrapbooks: Clippings, May 1946-July 1949

Oversize Volume SV-40077/7

News Bureau: Scrapbooks: Clippings, September 1949-August 1958

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This subseries contains correspondence and other material relating to professional art associations and other organizations outside the Chapel Hill campus administrative structure.

Box 5

American Association of Museums, 1938-1963

American Council of Learned Societies, 1940-1941; 1959-1964

American Federation of Arts, 1936-1940; 1961-1966

(see also exhibitions supplied by the Federation in Exhibitions, Series 4.3.)

American Security and Trust Company (see Ackland Foundation, Series 4.2.)

Chapel Hill Art Guild, 1958

College Art Association, 1941-1944; 1961-1978

Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, 1937

(Duke University-University of North Carolina joint committee; see also Cooperative Program in the Humanities, below)

Consolidated University of North Carolina: Office of the President, 1937-1947; 1960-1970; 1978

Cooperative Art Conference, Blue Ridge College, 1937-1941

Cooperative Program in the Humanities, 1963-1971

(cooperative program of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Division of Cooperation in Education and Race Relations, 1935-1938

Folklore Council of North Carolina, 1937-1939

Ford Foundation Program in Humanities and Arts, 1961-1969

(see also Cooperative Program in the Humanities, above)

Inter-American Institute (see Latin American Summer School, below)

Kappa Pi, National Honorary Art Fraternity, 1937-1950

(Chapel Hill campus Alpha Alpha Phi Chapter established 10 March 1950)

Kress, Samuel H., Foundation (see Fellowships/Assistantships under Graduate Students in Series 3)

Latin American Summer School, 1940-1944

National Art Week, 1940-1941

(Work Projects Administration (WPA) project)

National Association of Schools of Art: Accreditation of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Art Program, 1968-1972

National Council of Arts in Education, 1962-1974

North Carolina Arts Council, 1965-1972

North Carolina State Art Museum/Society, 1939-1954; 1961-1975

Southeastern Arts Association, 1937-1942

Southeastern College Arts Association, 1963-1972

Southern Art Projects, 1935-1940

(Carnegie Corporation funding; see also Exhibition Files, Series 4.3.)

WFMY Scholastic Art Awards, 1961-1971

Washington (Canova) Statue Commission, 1965-1968

Winchester Excavations Institute, 1963-1964

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This series includes records relating to the undergraduate academic program of the Department of Art. See also Provost and College of Arts and Sciences and General College in Series 1.2., and Permanent Record of Courses in Series 1.7.

Box 6

Enrollment (see Enrollment Statistics in Series 1.1., and Permanent Record of Courses, Series 1.7.; see also Majors, below)

Freshman Seminar Program, 1971-1972

Freshman Women, Admission of and Progress of, 1963-1966

Honors Program, 1943-1978

Letters to Students, 1948-1949

Majors, Department of Art, 1938-1972

Undergraduate Curriculum: General, 1959-1978

(see also College of Arts and Sciences and General College in Series 1.2., and Courses in Series 1.1.)

Undergraduate Curriculum: Art 30 Course, 1966-1970

Undergraduate Curriculum: Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Program, 1948-1967

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This series includes files concerning the Department of Art's graduate program and includes material on degree requirements, enrollment, fellowships and assistantships. See also Graduate School, Series 1.5; Courses in Series 1.1.; and Permanent Record of Courses in Series 1.7.

Box 6

Graduate Curriculum, Department of Art: General Announcements, 1944; 1961-1978

Graduate Curriculum, Department of Art: Committees: Graduate Students as Teaching Assistants, 1968

Graduate Curriculum, Department of Art: Committees: Graduate Studies in Art History, 1974-1975

Graduate Curriculum, Department of Art: Teacher Training Program for Graduate Students, 1970

Graduate Degree Programs: Master of Art with Major in Creative Art, 1949-1967

Graduate Degree Programs: Master of Fine Arts, 1963-1972

Graduate Degree Programs: Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, 1964-1967

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Lists of, 1948-1972

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Assistantships/Fellowships: Correspondence, General, 1962-1979

(see also Summer Session in Series 1.2., and Extension and Continuing Education in Series 1.8.)

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Assistantships/Fellowships: Hill, Ann McCulloch, Fellowship, 1964-1979

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Assistantships/Fellowships: Kress, Samuel H., Foundation Fellowship: Correspondence, 1963-1979

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Assistantships/Fellowships: Kress, Samuel H., Foundation Fellowship: Financial Records: Balance Sheets, 1963-1970

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Assistantships/Fellowships: Kress, Samuel H., Foundation Fellowship: Financial Records: Expenditure/Requisition Forms, 1964-1971

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Assistantships/Fellowships: National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Fellowships: Correspondence, 1965-1971

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Assistantships/Fellowships: National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Fellowships: Expenditure/Requisition Forms, 1965-1971

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Assistantships/Fellowships: Pollard, Emily, Fellowship, 1966; 1971-1979

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Assistantships/Fellowships: Sommer, Clemens E., Fund, 1961-1978

Graduate Students, Department of Art: Personnel/Payroll Forms, Graduate Students, 1965-1973

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In 1936, Person Hall, constructed in 1797, was renovated with federal, state and private funds. On 15 January 1937, Consolidated University President Frank Porter Graham rededicated the building as the Person Hall Art Gallery. The university's collection of portraits, sculpture and other art objects, which had been inadequately stored and displayed in Hill Hall, was consolidated in the gallery. Development of the gallery and of the university's art collection was stimulated by the work of the Friends of Person Hall, organized in February 1941. Person Hall continued to serve as the university's museum until 1958, when the art collection was moved to the new Ackland Memorial Art Center. The records of Person Hall Art Gallery include the files of the Extension Division's Field Representative in Art, 1935-1936; the Supervisor of Exhibitions, 1936-1940; and the Curator, 1940, as well as the Director of the Museum.

Box 7

Correspondence, General, 1935-1957

(letters, memoranda, announcements, and other material relating to acquisitions, loans of exhibits to the Person Hall Art Gallery, circulation of gallery holdings, and costs of exhibitions in Person Hall; see also Exhibition Records, Series 4.3.)

Friends of Person Hall: Correspondence, Membership Lists, Reports of Activities, 1941-1952

Friends of Person Hall: Financial Records, 1941-1947

Guest Registers, January 1937-May 1950

(7 volumes)

Insurance on Art Collection, 1939-1942

(see also Insurance in Series 4.2.)

Reports on Gallery Activities, 1940-1945

(see also Annual Reports in Series 1.1.)

Schedules of Exhibitions by Fiscal Year, 1937-1958

(see also Exhibition Records, Series 4.3.)

The Story of Person Hall by Gladys Hall Coates (1943)

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The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center was officially dedicated on 20 September 1958. Constructed with funds from the Ackland Estate, the center provided space for the academic programs of the Department of Art as well as galleries and storage areas for the art collection. The Ackland Estate, administered by an independent foundation through the American Security and Trust Company, also provided funds for the purchase of paintings and other art objects. For records dated after 1974, see the Ackland Art Museum Records, a separate records group in the University Archives.

Box 7

Ackland Foundation/Trust Fund, 1958-1974

Ackland Memorial Committee (see Buildings and Space in Series 1.1.)

Ackland Art Center Construction (see Buildings and Space in Series 1.1.)

Ackland Art Center Dedication (see Buildings and Space in Series 1.1.)

Acquisitions Correspondence, 1961-1974

(see also Correspondence in Series 4.1.)

Budget, Ackland Funds, 1958-1967

(see also Ackland Foundation/Trust Fund, above)

Reel M-40077/1-2

M-40077/1

M-40077/2

Catalog of Museum Collection through August 1978 (microfilm)

Box 7

Insurance on Collection, 1958; 1961-1966

(see also Insurance in Series 4.1.)

Personnel: Curator Position, 1971

Personnel: Assistant to Curator Position, 1966-1967

Personnel: Museum Guards, 1959-1973

Personnel: Packer-Shipper Position, 1968-1969

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This subseries consists of individual folders on exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, photographs, graphics, and other art works. Included in the folders are correspondence, financial records, and publicity relating to the exhibition. See also News Bureau in Series 1.8., and reports of activities and schedules of exhibitions in Series 4.1. All of the exhibitions through 1958 listed below were displayed in the Person Hall Art Gallery. Records of exhibitions displayed after 1974 will be found in the Ackland Art Museum Records, a separate records group in the University Archives.

Box 8

March 1935: Smith, Russell T., Paintings

October 1935: Lane, Stephen, Watercolors

November 1935-March 1936: Shima Art Company, Japanese Print Exhibition

January-February 1936: Person Hall Inaugural Exhibition, American Oils and Watercolors

March 1936: Mora, F. Luis, Drawings

August 1936-March 1937: American Artists Group Prints

March 1937: Johnston, Frances B., Photographs

May-June 1937: Isochromatic Exhibition of Photographs, M. Grumbacher Color Research Laboratories

June-July 1937: British Wood Engravings, American Federation of Arts

October 1937: American Oil Paintings, American Federation of Arts

October 1937: Japanese Prints, Southern Art Projects

November 1937: Obata, Chiura, Watercolors

December 1937: First Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

December 1937: Garfield, Marjorie S., Watercolors

January 1938: Grand Central Art Galleries Exhibition

January 1938: Eby, Kerr, Prints

January-February 1938: Keith, Elizabeth, Prints

February 1938: Sargent, John Singer, Drawings

March 1938: First Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

March 1938: Cook, August, Paintings

March-April 1938: Mathews, William Henry, Theatrical Costume and Poster Exhibition

April 1938: Fourth Annual International Leica Exhibition of Photographs

April-May 1938: Decaris, Albert, Engravings

May 1938: American Watercolors, Ferargil Gallery

May 1938: New York Municipal Art Committee Exhibition

June-July 1938: Textile Design Exhibition

June-August 1938: Rivera, Diego, Frescoes

July-August 1938: Survey of Modern Painting, Museum of Modern Art

September-October 1938: 100 Print Salon, Photographic Society of America

October 1938: Shepler, Dwight, Watercolors and Drawings

November 1938: Huntington, Anna Hyatt, Sculpture

December 1938: Daumier Lithographs, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

January 1939: Paintings of Chinese (Buddhist) Sculpture

January 1939: Albers, Joseph, Abstract Paintings

January-February 1939: Stevens, W. Lester, Paintings

February 1939: Modern Architecture of England Photographs, Museum of Modern Art

March 1939: Third Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

March 1939: Palette Exhibition

March 1939: Second Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

April 1939: Weisz, Eugen, Watercolors and Drawings

April-May 1939: Prince, William Meade, Illustrations

May 1939: Art Students League of New York Exhibition of Watercolors and Prints

May-June 1939: Third Annual Exhibition of Student Work

June-July 1939: Modern Watercolors and Pastels, Museum of Modern Art

August-September 1939: The Contrast Show, Raymond & Raymond

October 1939: Person, Joseph, Paintings, Corcoran Gallery

October 1939: Wheaton College Art Center Architectural Competition Drawings

October-November 1939: Conrow, Wilford S., Oils

November 1939: Braun, Maurice, Oils

November 1939: Contemporary American Watercolors

December 1939: Survey of the American Film (Stills), Museum of Modern Art

January 1940: Bouchard, Thomas, Photographs of Dance

January 1940: Southern States Art League Oils Exhibition

February 1940: Smith, Russell T., Watercolors

March 1940: Fourth Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

March-April 1940: Third Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

April 1940: Drama in the South, Carolina Playmakers 21st Anniversary Celebration

April-May 1940: Cooley, Dixie, Watercolors

May-June 1940: Fourth Annual Exhibition of Student Work

June-August 1940: Development of Italian Painting, Raymond & Raymond

July-August 1940: Southern States Art League 18th Circuit Exhibition

September-October 1940: Photography Exhibition, Carl Zeiss, Inc.

October-November 1940: European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art

October-December 1940: Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century French Prints, Wesleyan University Print Collection

November 1940: Index of American Design Plates Exhibition, Work Projects Administration

December 1940: Portinari, Candido, Paintings Photograph Exhibition, Riverside Museum

January 1941: The Modern House in America, Museum of Modern Art

January-February 1941: North Carolina Pottery Exhibition

February 1941: Van Gogh Exhibition

February-March 1941: "Face of America" Photograph Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art

March 1941: The Written Book

March-April 1941: Fourth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

April-May 1941: Ceramics Exhibition, Work Projects Administration (WPA)

April-May 1941: Chapel Hill People, University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill Photographs and Portraits

May 1941: French Painting from Ingres to Picasso

June-July 1941: Anna Pavlova Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art

July 1941: Lankes, J. J., Woodcuts

September-October 1941: Klitgaard, Kaj, Paintings

October 1941: Ness, Kenneth, Drawings and Paintings

October 1941: Medieval Architecture and Sculpture Photographs

November 1941: Pike, John, Watercolors, Ferargil Gallery

November 1941: Fifth Annual North Carolina Artists Club Exhibition

December 1941: Mexican Prints Exhibition

January 1942: Directions in American Painting, Association of American Artists

January-February 1942: Modern Interiors, Museum of Modern Art

February 1942: Modern Architecture in North Carolina

February-March 1942: Work Projects Administration Art Activities Photograph Collection

March 1942: Fifth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

April 1942: Stage Design Show, American Educational Theater Association

May 1942: Raleigh Sesquicentennial Exhibition

June-July 1942: Silk Screen Group Exhibition

July 1942: American Indian Arts and Crafts Exhibition

October 1942: Huntington, Anna Hyatt, Sculpture

October 1942: Art of the Armed Forces, American Federation of Art

October 1942: Fort Bragg Art Exhibition

November 1942: Visual Aids in Army Education Exhibition

December 1942: Hambidge, Mrs. Jay, Pottery and Weaving

December 1942: Milwaukee Handicraft Project Exhibition

December 1942: Sixth Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

January 1943: Camouflage for Civilian Defense, Musuem of Modern Art

January 1943: Leighton, Clare, Prints from Southern Harvest

January-February 1943: Neuman, J. B., German Prints Exhibition

February 1943: Green, Russell, Watercolors

March 1943: Photographs of Berenice Abbott, Work Projects Administration

March-April 1943: War Posters Today, Museum of Modern Art

April-May 1943: Sixth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

June 1943: Rouault, Georges, Etchings and Engravings

July 1943: What is Modern Architecture, Museum of Modern Art

November 1943: Albers, Joseph, Paintings and Mrs. Albers' Weavings Exhibition

December 1943: Seventh Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

January 1944: Thorne, James Ward, Three-Dimensional Photograph Exhibition, Drexel Furniture Company

January-February 1944: African Negro Sculpture, American Association of University Women

March 1944: Prince, William Meade, Paintings

March-April 1944: Paintings from Ten Latin American Republics, Museum of Modern Art

April 1944: Seventh Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

May 1944: Modern Architecture for the Modern School, Museum of Modern Art

July 1944: Seligmann, Kurt L., Etching and Photograph Exhibition

July-August 1944: Seventy-Five Latin American Prints, IBM

August 1944: Look at Your Neighborhood Photograph Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art

October 1944: Sunderland, ELizabeth R., Architectural Photographs

November 1944: Brazil Builds Photograph Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art

November-December 1944: Wildenhain, Margaret, Ceramic Exhibition

December 1944: Eighth Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

1945: January "The People of Bali" Photographs, Museum of Modern Art

February 1945: Development of Modern Art, Gallery-Owned Paintings

February-March 1945: Twentieth-Century Drawings, Museum of Modern Art

March-April 1945: From Sketch to Stage, Museum of Modern Art

April 1945: Six American Painters, Museum of Modern Art

May 1945: Eighth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

June 1945: Ancient Peruvian Textiles, Textile Museum of Washington

July-August 1945: Goldthwaite, Anne, Paintings and Drawings, M. Knoedler and Company

September 1945: Shanker, Louis, Print Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum

December 1945: Ninth Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

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April 1946: American Painting, University of North Carolina Sesquicentennial Celebration

July 1946: French Paintings (Reproductions), French Embassy

August 1946: Photographing Science, Life Magazine

October 1946: Fine Arts Under Fire, Life Magazine

November-December 1946: "If You Want to Build a House," Museum of Modern Art

December 1946: Yale University Collection of French Paintings

December 1946-January 1947: Smith College Dorm Competition Architectural Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art

January 1947: Thomas, Howard and Mary, Paintings

January-February 1947: Weston, Edward, Photographs, Museum of Modern Art

February 1947: Eleventh Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

March 1947: Daumier Prints Exhibition, National Gallery of Art

March-April 1947: Modern Art in Advertising, Container Corporation of America

May 1947: Tenth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

July 1947: West, Joy Griffin, Photographs

October 1947: Drexel Furniture Company Photographic Display

October 1947: Houses USA, 1607-1946, Life Magazine

October 1947: Great Passion by Albrecht Durer

November 1947: "Emerson's New England" and "Artists from UNC" Exhibitions

December 1947: Modern Buildings for Schools and Colleges, Museum of Modern Art

December 1947: Pucinelli Sculpture

January 1948: The Modern House Comes to Life, American Institute of Architects

February 1948: Twelfth Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

March 1948: "Taliesin," Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Life Magazine

March 1948: Menaboni, Athos, Bird Paintings, National Audubon Society

April 1948: Contemporary Art Center Exhibition

April 1948: Jules, Mervin, Paintings

May 1948: Eleventh North Carolina School Art Exhibition

June-July 1948: Works by French Children, Museum of Modern Art

October 1948: 19th-century American Landscape Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art

November 1948: Claude Howell, Philip Moose, and Ernst Freed Paintings

November-December 1948: Man Ray, Photographs, Museum of Modern Art

December 1948: London, Frank, Photographs

January 1949: North Carolina Architects Exhibition

February 1949: Thirteenth Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

March 1949: Amino, Leo, Sculpture in Plastics

March-April 1949: Asher Squares Exhibition, American British Art Center, Inc.

May 1949: Albers, Joseph, Paintings

May 1949: Twelfth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

November 1949: New Directions in Modern Painting, American Federation of Art

December 1949: Howell, Claude, Paintings

January 1950: Fourteenth Annual North Carolina Professional Artists Club Exhibition

February 1950: North Carolina Architects Exhibition

March-April 1950: Hayter, Stanley W., Drawings and Prints

April 1950: Twenty-Two Painters of the Western Hemisphere, IBM

May 1950: Thirteenth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

October 1950: North Carolina Painting, 1950, State Art Gallery

December 1950-January 1951: Contemporary Mexican Prints and Watercolors, IBM

January 1951: Miller Company Collection, North Carolina Architects Exhibition

March-April 1951: First Annual Southeastern State University Art Faculty Exhibition

April-May 1951: Fourteenth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

June 1951: Phillips Gallery Collection

November 1951: Young Painters in the USA, American Federation of Art

January 1952: Contemporary Art Center Exhibition

February 1952: Fact and Fantasy, Bertha Schaefer Gallery

March-April 1952: Calligraphic and Geometric, Museum of Modern Art

April 1952: North Carolina State University Faculty Exhibition

July-August 1952: Neal, Thomas, Paintings

October 1952: Landmarks in Photography, American Federation of Art

January-February 1953: North Carolina Architects Exhibition

February 1953: Leger, Fernand, Le Cirque Paltes, Museum of Modern Art

March 1953: Woman's College Faculty Exhibition

March-April 1953: Renger-Patzsch, Albert, Photographs

March-April 1953: Cherokee Indian Arts and Crafts Exhibitions

April 1953: The Human Quality in Creative Experience

May 1953: Sixteenth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

October-November 1953: Twentieth Century Master Movements: Cubism, Museum of Modern Art

November 1953: Whitney Museum Collection

January 1954: Forty-Five Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art Collection

February 1954: Lebrun, Rice, Drawings, Studio Guild

March 1954: Woodruff, Hale, Paintings

March-April 1954: Europe in the New Generation, Museum of Modern Art

October 1954: Recent Works by Young Americans, Museum of Modern Art

November 1954: Six Artist Teachers, Museum of Modern Art

December 1954: Creative Art by Children of Many Nations, Museum of Modern Art

December 1954: Callahan, Harry, Photographs, Museum of Modern Art

January-February 1955: North Carolina Architects Exhibition

March 1955: A Collection of Original Signed Color Prints, Color Print Society

April 1955: Laposky, Ben F., "Electron Abstractions," Sanford Museum

May 1955: Eighteenth Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

November-December 1955: Four American Graphic Designers

January-February 1956: North Carolina Architects Exhibition

March-April 1956: Half-Century of Picasso, Museum of Modern Art

April 1956: Pictures of the Passing World: Japanese Printmakers, 1660-1858

October 1956: Religious Prints from Durer to Rouault, George Binet Print Collection

November 1956: Marc Chagall Exhibition, Roten Art Frame Studio

February-March 1957: Southwestern Indian Paintings, New Mexico Museum

April-May 1957: Testa, Angelo, Design and Textile Exhibition

October 1957: Cape Cod Artists, Rowland Traveling Exhibitions

November 1957: Young Contemporary Sculptors Exhibition

January-February 1958: Ancient African Art Exhibition, D'Arcy Galleries

February 1958: Original Graphics by Modern Masters for Young Collectors, Roten Art Frame Studio

March 1958: Contemporary French Masters, Roten Art Frame Studio

March 1958: Contemporary Theater in the United States

April-May 1959: Twenty-Second Annual North Carolina School Art Exhibition

January 1976: The American Situation (National Bicentennial Exhibit), Museum of Modern Art

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