Archives of American Art Celebrates Finale

Saturday, 03 September 2005 10:29

NEW YORK.-The Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art will end its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration by honoring Board Chair Barbara G. Fleischman and the legacy of her husband Lawrence Fleischman, co-founder of the Archives of American Art. The Archives is also delighted to present Helen A. Cooper with the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History. A distinguished scholar and curator, Cooper is presently the Holcombe T. Green curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery, where she has served since 1979. She is a member of the White House Preservation Committee and a recipient of the Yale University Frances Blanchard prize and numerous research awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. and the Robert Lehman Foundation. Collections in the Archives vary greatly, including letters and diaries of artists and collectors, photographs of artworld figures and events, and oral history interviews. Highlights from the exhibition include a letter from Lee Krasner to Jackson Pollock (1956), a photograph of Alexander Calder’s studio “mailbox” (1963), Robert Smithson’s draft writing on the earthwork, “Spiral Jetty” (1970) and a memorandum from Christo regarding “The Gates” (1980).

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