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A detailed biography of Anne d'Harnoncourt is included in the finding aid to the Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers.
1943 (Sept. 7) Anne Julie d'Harnoncourt is born in Washington, D.C. to René and Sarah (Carr) d'Harnoncourt.
1944 René d'Harnoncourt is appointed Vice President in charge of Foreign Activities and Director of the Department of Manual Industries at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Family moves to New York, NY.
1949 René d'Harnoncourt is appointed Director of MoMA.
1949-1961 Anne d'Harnoncourt attends Brearley School, 12-year preparatory school in New York.
1959 Travels to Kenya, Northern Rhodesia, and Ghana in Africa to participate in four-week International Affairs seminar.
1961-1965 Attends Radcliffe College, majoring in History and Literature of Europe and England since 1740.
1962 Travels to what is now Tanzania in Africa as a member of volunteer group, Project Tanganyika, to teach reading and writing to the local population.
1965 Awarded B.A. magna cum laude, Radcliffe College.
1965-1967 Attends Courtauld Institute of Art, London University.
1966-1967 As part of M.A. thesis, works at Tate Gallery, London, to prepare catalogue entries of 30 Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings.
1967 Awarded M.A. with distinction, Courtauld Institute of Art.
1967-1969 Serves as Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA).
1968 (Mar. 25) Interviews Marcel Duchamp at his studio in New York City.
1968 (Aug. 13) René d'Harnoncourt dies at the age of 67.
1968 (Oct. 2) Marcel Duchamp dies. Soon thereafter, the Cassandra Foundation presents to PMA the artist's mixed-media assemblage "Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage . . . ". D'Harnoncourt participates in the dismantling and reinstallation of piece.
1969 (July 7) "Étant donnés" is unveiled to the public. D'Harnoncourt and Walter Hopps co-author an essay about the piece for the PMA Bulletin.
1969-1971 Serves as Assistant Curator of 20th Century Art, Art Institute of Chicago. Meets Joseph J. Rishel, Assistant Curator of European Painting.
1971 (June 19) Marries Joseph J. Rishel in New York
1971 Returns to Philadelphia Museum of Art as Associate Curator, Department of 20th Century Painting. Joseph J. Rishel joins PMA as Associate Curator of Painting before 1900.
1972-1982 Serves as Curator, Department of 20th Century Painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1982 (July)-1996 (Dec.) Serves as George D. Widener Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1995 (Jan.) Awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Republic of France.
1995 PMA milestone: Reinstallation of Museum's collection of European art from 1100 to 1900 is completed. Project resulted in the renovation of 55,000 square feet of exhibition space, conservation of thousands of objects and development of new interpretive materials.
1996 (May-Sept.) PMA milestone: "Cézanne" exhibition generates $122.5 million in tourism for the city of Philadelphia. Attendance of 548,000 visitors exceeds original estimates two-fold.
1996 (Dec.) PMA milestone: Museum acquires the marble bust of "Benjamin Franklin" carved by Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1779 at auction for nearly $3 million. Considering the importance of the artist to the Museum and Franklin's historical significance to the city of Philadelphia, d'Harnoncourt describes the acquisition as "everything rolled into one."
1997 (Jan.)-2008 (June) Serves as George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1998 (June) Receives Philadelphia Award (1997 award).
2000 (Dec.) PMA milestone: 2001 Fund 125th Anniversary Campaign is launched. Raises nearly $250 million by its conclusion in 2004.
2001 (Aug. 7) Sarah d'Harnoncourt dies at the age of 97.
2005 (Feb.-May) PMA milestone: "Salvador Dalí" exhibition draws more than 370,000 visitors, an attendance second only to the "Cézanne" exhibition of 1996. On average, visitors spend nearly two hours at the restrospective, a significantly longer time than one typically spends at one of the Museum's special exhibitions.
2006 (Dec.) PMA milestone: With the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Museum raises $68 million to jointly purchase "Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)."
2007 (Sept.) PMA milestone: Ruth and Raymond G. Perleman Building opens as annex to main museum building.
2007 (Nov.) Awarded the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, Government of Mexico.
2008 (June 1) Anne d'Harnoncourt dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 64.
2008 (June 4) At the request of U.S. Representatives Robert Brady, the Flag of the United States is flown over the United States Capitol in memory of d'Harnoncourt.
2008 (June 19) Official day of appreciation of Anne d'Harnoncourt declared by Museum and City officials, and joined by the Governor of Pennsylvania. Outdoor tribute with performance by the Philadelphia Boys Choir held later that day on what would have been d'Harnoncourt and Rishel's 37th wedding anniversary.
2008 (Sept. 7) "Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Anne d'Harnoncourt" held at the Academy of Music (Philadelphia) on what would have been d'Harnoncourt's 65th birthday.
- Finding aid at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. "Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers." Historical note, 2011.
In a 1977 article recounting the tastemakers of the arts in the 1970s, New York Times critic John Russell pointed to a new generation of intelligent, dedicated, and energetic women in the visual arts. Having names too numerous to list, Russell instead singled out one: "it would be hard . . . to find anyone in the profession who doubts that Anne d'Harnoncourt, now curator of 20th-century art in the Philadelphia Museum, will one day make a great museum director." Five years later, Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943-2008) assumed the role Russell predicted, and for the next 25 years, served as the George D. Widener Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), adding the position of Chief Executive Officer in 1997. During her tenure, d'Harnoncourt led the Museum through milestones that transformed its collections, exhibitions, curatorial and educational missions, and physical environment. The records she compiled during that time provide the framework for those transformations and underscore the attention to detail, encyclopedic intellect and interests, community commitment and contagious enthusiasm for the arts that characterized d'Harnoncourt's styles of leadership and life. Her records consist primarily of correspondence, notes, press clippings, ephemera, reference materials, reports and draft writings. Photographs, phone logs, appointment calendars, floor plans and other drawings are also included.
The records are arranged in four series, beginning with the most voluminous, "NAMES AND SUBJECTS" (SERIES I). Comprised of alphabetically arranged files, the series documents d'Harnoncourt's steady contact with colleagues, artists and patrons of the arts, as well as city officials, government and private funders, corporate leaders, scholars and educators and a number of PMA visitors. Subject files track the development of social, cultural and political trends, topics and events, as well as projects, programs and issues specific to Museum operations. The series is comprised of six date-defined subseries that adhere to the bulk dates of materials as transferred to the Archives: 1982-1985; 1986-1991; 1992-1996; 1997-1999; 2000-2003; and 2004-2008.
While the lengthy lists of names and subjects suggest the scope of d'Harnoncourt's responsibilities, the singular focus of the second series, "EXHIBITIONS" (SERIES II), indicates her maintaining at the least an overview of the approximately 200 exhibitions PMA presented to the public during her tenure. As the number of folders per exhibition makes evident, d'Harnoncourt's involvement varied. For some exhibitions, she'd receive general updates. With others, files of correspondence document her communicating directly with lenders, funders, and directors and curators of participating museums. Notes and annotated typescripts show d'Harnoncourt's work in drafting catalogue forewords as well as remarks she gave at gala openings, press previews and symposiums accompanying some of the exhibitions. Arranged chronologically in subseries of date ranges similar to those in Series I, each exhibition is processed as a sub-subseries, with files of unrealized exhibitions and other records at the end of each subseries.
Although not to the extent of her exhibition files, d'Harnoncourt maintained record groups for several other subjects for extended lengths of time. These records comprise the third series, "LONG-TERM RECORDS" (SERIES III), with each subject processed as a subseries. The subjects are: "Barnes Foundation," "Board of Trustees," "Calder Museum," "Duchamp, Marcel," and "Reinstallation project." Because d'Harnoncourt also kept a running file of the lectures and other talks she gave on behalf of the Museum, those records have also been processed here as the "Remarks" subseries. Both the "Barnes Foundation" and "Calder Museum" records pertain to PMA's involvement in projects outside the Museum that, respectively, sought to preserve intact a world-renown collection of art and to create a new venue in Philadelphia for the works of one of America's most distinguished family of artists. An ambitious undertaking at this Museum is the subject of the "Reinstallation project" subseries. A decade in the making, the project significantly changed the way visitors would experience PMA's exceptional collection of European art. D'Harnoncourt's files cover every aspect of the project, including gallery construction and renovations, object conservation and reinstallation, the development of new interpretive materials, as well as the studies and funding that enabled all the work. It is no wonder that Marcel Duchamp, the artist best associated with d'Harnoncourt's scholarship and curatorial tenure should be the subject of another subseries, "Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968." These records document the evolution of that association, which grew into the close relationship d'Harnoncourt shared with the artist's widow and step-daughter. The substantial amount of correspondence attests to how frequently the three consulted in order to insure the integrity of the artist's body of work. Other files make evident d'Harnoncourt's regular contact with her curatorial and library staff on matters of collection development for works of art and archival material in order to strengthen the Museum's reputation as an important center of Duchampian studies. Completing the series of long-term records is the "Board of Trustees" subseries, which documents d'Harnoncourt's work with members of the Museum's Board of Trustees. Most of the files pertain to the discussions and decisions of the Nominating Committee, charged with identifying new or re-nominating previous members to the board.
The last series, "OTHER MATERIALS" (SERIES IV), consists of records compiled and used by d'Harnoncourt and her staff to manage her daily activities and travel. Records are arranged in two subseries: "Administrative records" and "Assistant's files." The types of records created and the length of time such records were used no doubt reflect the different office practices of the approximately 20 assistants engaged over the course of d'Harnocourt's tenure. It is just as likely that the change of pace in the director's office that accompanied d'Harnoncourt's expanded responsibilities in 1997 when she was appointed CEO and her increased involvement in professional affiliations around the world also made an impact on recordkeeping.
Researchers should note that there is no electronically-formatted material in the Anne d'Harnoncourt Records. Although the Museum was making use of electronic communications by 1998, these paper-only records make clear that e-mail was not d'Harnoncourt's preferred medium of correspondence. Instead, she continued to write a significant amount of her letters and memos by hand, in her ubiquitous blue or black felt-tip pens. Notes, often of multiple pages, were also handwritten. And it was not uncommon for d'Harnoncourt to add whimsical images to her writings--literally illustrating her point. Her access to e-mail was often through an intermediary, with staff opening messages and printing them for her review. Neither did d'Harnoncourt frequently access the World Wide Web. Staff or others would provide printouts of pertinent websites and news articles.
- Museum resources. American Association of Museums. Copyright 1999. AAM. 26 Apr. 2007. "AAM accreditation program."
Consisting of more than half of the documentation to the Anne d'Harnoncourt Records, Series I, Names and subjects, is comprised of six subseries of chronological date spans. Folders within each subseries are alphabetically arranged. Series II, Exhibitions, is comprised of four subseries of chronological date spans, with sub-subseries of individual exhibitions, chronologically arranged by exhibition date. There are six alphabetically-arranged subject subseries to Series III, Long-term records. They are: Barnes Foundation; Board of Trustees; Calder Museum; Duchamp, Marcel; Reinstallation project; and Remarks. The final series, Series IV, "Other materials," consists of two subseries of record types: "Administrative records," and "Assistant's files." Material of the former subseries is grouped by format, such as appointment calendars and phone logs. Files of the latter are arranged chronologically by date of the event documented.
Throughout this finding aid and within folder titles, the abbreviation "PMA" refers to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In folder titles, "AdH" refers to Anne d'Harnoncourt. For purposes of preservation, photocopies were made during processing to replace post-it notes and thermofax pages, used for printing facsimile transmissions in the earlier-dated files. Photocopies were made on 8 1/2 x 11 paper, and in the case of the former, copies were folded around or clipped to the document on which the note was affixed. Clippings from newspapers and other publications are identified as "press clippings," maintaining d'Harnoncourt's nomenclature. Print outs of news articles posted online have also been processed as press clippings.
As director, d'Harnoncourt regularly received copies of documents as a matter of procedure. During processing, it was determined that certain documentation need not be retained and that the removal of such items from the records would not compromise informational value. Exceptions were made for any documents that d'Harnoncourt annotated or letters of gifts addressed to her. These were retained. Documents removed and discarded are: checks (photocopies); conservation reports, including examination, proposal and treatment reports; drafts not prepared by AdH; expect notices (from Registrar); gift processing forms and attachments, except for cover letters addressed to AdH; grant applications and interim reports submitted by staff other than AdH; invoices, invoice transmittals or purchase requisitions (object-related); loan-out cards; restricted contribution forms. If access to such records is needed, researcher should consult with Archivist and/or the department of record for this documentation.
These materials were arranged and described by Bertha Adams, Tanya Brun, and Rose Chiango, with the assistance of Alva Barozzi, Katherine Gambaccini, Anne Hagele, Insley Julier, Phoebe Kowalewski, Ashley Lazevnick, Ryan McNally, Katherine Miller, Leslie O'Neill, Jeanne Pond, Scott Radway, Elizabeth Snowdon, Jennifer Stettler, and Paula Zamora. Funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Transferred to the Library. A folder level inventory of this material is available in the Museum archives. Various exhibition catalogues and other publications.
Transferred to the Robert Montgomery Scott Records. A folder level inventory of this material is available in the Museum archives. Corporation files.
Transferred to the Twentieth Century Art Department Records. A folder level inventory of this material is available in the Museum archives. Curatorial files.
Transferred to the Jean Sutherland Boggs Records. A folder level inventory of this material is available in the Museum archives. Director files.
Transferred to the Evan Turner Records. A folder level inventory of this material is available in the Museum archives. Director files.
People
- d'Harnoncourt, Anne, 1943-2008
- Boggs, Jean Sutherland
- Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
- Institute of Museum Services
- Johns, Jasper, 1930-
- McIlhenny , Henry P.
- Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988
- Norman, Dorothy, 1905-
- Oakley, Violet, 1874-1961
- Pittman, Hobson, 1900-
- Rothschild, Judith
- Rush, William
- Wood, Beatrice
- Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009
- Bizot, Irène
- Cage, John
- Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906
- Gallatin, A. E. (Albert Eugene), 1881-1952
- Haupt, Enid A. (Enid Annenberg), 1906-2005
- Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-
- Kiefer, Anselm, 1945-
- O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
- Rambova, Natacha
- Rieff, Philip, 1922-2006
- Rosenthal, Mark (Mark Lawrence)
- Russell, John, 1919-2008
- Segal, George, 1924-2000
- Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937
- Turner, Evan H.
- Twombly, Cy, 1928-
- Anastasi, William, 1933-
- Garvan, Beatrice B.
- Kramrisch, Stella, 1898-1993
- Laclotte, Michel
- Lange, Dorothea
- MacGregor, Neil, 1946-
- Marceau, Henri Gabriel, 1896-1969
- Mondale, Joan
- Naumann, Francis M.
- Roberts, Howard, 1843-1900
- De Montebello, Philippe
- Drutt, Helen Williams
- Foglietta, Thomas M. (Thomas Michael), 1928-
- Harrity, Gail
- Martins, Maria
- Menil, Dominique de
- Rosenberg, Pierre
- Schwarz, Arturo, 1924-
- Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-
- Williams, Charles K., 1930-
- Etting, Gloria Braggiotti
- Fattah, Chaka, 1956-
- Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917
- Annenberg, Lee
- Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815
- Cunningham, Merce
- Dalí, Salvador, 1904-
- Hopps, Walter
- Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828
- Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-
- McNeil, Robert L. Jr.
- Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944
- Newman, Arnold, 1918-
- Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919
- Rice, Danielle
- Rousseau, Henri (le Douanier)
- Ruysdael, Salomon van
- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
- Sewell, Darrel, 1939-
- Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
- Stroud, Marion Boulton
- Wintersteen, George Francis
- Bonk, Ecke
- Duchamp, Alexina, 1906-1995
- Duchamp-Villon, Raymond, 1876-1918
- Matisse, Paul
- Sawelson-Gorse, Naomi
- Shearer, Rhonda Roland, 1954-
- Tomkins, Calvin, 1925-
- Villon, Jacques, 1875-1963
Organization
- Fairmount Park Art Association
- Fairmount Park Commission (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
- J. Paul Getty Trust
- United States. Internal Revenue Service
- Henry Luce Foundation
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Mobil Oil Corporation
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Moore College of Art and Design
- Mount Pleasant (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Gallery of Art (U. S.)
- William Penn Foundation
- Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
- Pew Memorial Trust
- Rodin Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Mark Rothko Foundation
- School District of Philadelphia, PA
- Smithsonian Institution
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- American Express Company
- American Philosophical Society
- Central Philadelphia Development Corporation
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Lincoln University (Pa.)
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Réunion des musées nationaux (France)
- Tate Gallery
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of the Arts (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Venturi Scott Brown and Associates
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
- Wolfsonian Foundation
- Alliance française de Philadelphie
- Archives of American Art
- Francis Bacon Foundation
- W.L.R. Cassidy & Associates
- Center City District (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Fairmount Park Commission
- Global Business Network
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Independence National Historical Park (Agency : U.S.)
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management Inc.
- Musée du Louvre
- Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums
- National Constitution Center (U.S.)
- Foundation for New Era Philanthropy
- Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
- Print Council of America
- Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
- Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals
- Judith Rothschild Foundation
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- American Society of Appraisers
- Annenberg Foundation
- Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
- Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia
- Harvard University
- Hunt Manufacturing Co.
- Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News (Firm)
- Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.)
- Menil Foundation
- Isamu Noguchi Foundation
- Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
- Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
- Vitetta Group
- Free Library of Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
- Wistar Association
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
- Brooklyn Museum
- Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania
- Curtis Institute of Music
- Delaware Art Museum
- Fabric Workshop and Museum
- Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- International Women's Forum
- John G. Johnson Collection (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Philadelphia Art Alliance
- Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
- Philadelphia Zoological Garden
- Publisher
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Bertha Adams, Tanya Brun, and Rose Chiango, with the assistance of Alva Barozzi, Katherine Gambaccini, Anne Hagele, Insley Julier, Phoebe Kowalewski, Ashley Lazevnick, Ryan McNally, Katherine Miller, Leslie O'Neill, Jeanne Pond, Scott Radway, Elizabeth Snowdon, Jennifer Stettler, and Paula Zamora.
- Finding Aid Date
- ©2016
- Sponsor
- Funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research as follows. Records created before the year 2000 are open, with exceptions noted at the subseries or folder level. Folders containing some items requiring further restriction are noted as "permanently restricted in part" or "restricted in part." Access to the latter is at the discretion of the archivist. All press clippings, photographs, and transcripts of remarks and lectures are open for research. Records created after 1999 will be subject to a 15-year closure calculated on the last year of designated date spans. Accordingly, 2000-2003 records will become available on Jan. 1, 2019; and 2004-2008 on Jan. 1, 2024.
- Use Restrictions
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The Anne d'Harnoncourt Records are the physical property of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. The Museum holds literary rights only for material created by Museum personnel or given to the Museum with such rights specifically assigned. For all other material, literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for obtaining permission from rights holders for publication and for other purposes where stated.
Collection Inventory
As the seemingly endless inventories to this series suggest, there were few names or subjects that did not catch Anne d'Harnoncourt's attention. Comprised primarily of correspondence, clippings, notes, reports and ephemera, "Names and Subjects" documents d'Harnoncourt's steady contact with colleagues, artists and patrons of the arts, as well as government officials, corporate leaders, scholars and educators. She also kept a number of subject folders, monitoring trends, topics and events, as well as issues specific to Museum operations.
Indicative of a museum director's priorities, all the date-defined subseries contain extensive documentation pertaining to each Museum department, particularly the curatorial ones. Memos between d'Harnoncourt and curators trace an ongoing dialogue regarding issues such as collection development, conservation, technological innovations in collection management, exhibition and publication ideas, and staffing. D'Harnoncourt often received copies of staff's outgoing correspondence as well. In many cases, the conversations would continue beyond the initial communication. Using photocopies of interoffice and outgoing correspondence, d'Harnoncourt and her staff would add handwritten comments, sometimes filling the page with their exchange of ideas. Outside the Museum, d'Harnoncourt's correspondents include collectors, researchers, visiting scholars and other museum professionals. Folders also include meeting minutes and correspondence with departmental committee members and other trustees, press releases, gallery announcements and magazine and newspaper clippings. By the number of clippings filed throughout this series, it seems d'Harnoncourt was a voracious reader of a wide-range of publications and a true conduit of information--regularly forwarding copies of articles about which she felt the recipient needed to know.
Also well-documented in this series is the Museum's relationship with the governmental offices of the city of Philadelphia. Having provided the funding in 1919 to begin construction of the Museum's now iconic building atop Fairmount Hill, the city continues to own the main building and grounds, with the Museum acting as its agent in managing the indoor portion of the building. As stated in the Museum's 2008 Annual Report, the city pays all utilities and certain costs for building maintenance and provides appropriations to support operations. While private sources, such as endowments, grants and the Museum's campaign and marketing efforts, remain PMA's primary source of funding, the city's appropriations are vital to its successful existence. It is not surprising then that most of d'Harnoncourt's "City" files pertain to budget issues, revealing the Museum's actions to ensure adequate funding, which were heightened at times of local fiscal crisis. Documentation consists of correspondence with numerous officials, including the Mayor and his staff, the City Controller, members of City Council, and the Finance Director, as well as legal counsel. Internal memos, reports, budget submissions, drafts and transcripts of testimony given by d'Harnoncourt and other Museum executives to City Council about PMA's economic impact on the City, as well as d'Harnoncourt's notes from meetings and phone conversations are also included. As other files make evident, the Museum worked with city officials on matters other than money. By no later than 1984, d'Harnoncourt joined the Mayor's Cultural Advisory Council and later served on the Collection Review Committee of the city's Civic Center Museum. The Museum, along with other curating institutions, was also instrumental in the 1985 launch of "Art in City Hall" exhibitions, and as later files attest, continued to monitor the program. [The material is filed under project name, rather than a subset to "City" folders.] General "City" folders include d'Harnoncourt's correspondence with the Superintendent of Schools regarding the Museum's role in education. Files of the Museum's "Division of Education" as well as "City: School District" hold related documentation. D'Harnoncourt also kept record on mayoral transitions, center city development, and tourism. Additional documentation of the latter two can be found in the "Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce" and "Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance" files.
Although the amount of documentation filed as "Fairmount Park Commission" is much less by comparison to "City" folders, the office was integral to the Museum's operation. It was the Commission, on behalf of the city, that supervised the 1920s construction project and remained responsible for the Museum's public funding. [The Commission was dissolved in the November 2008 elections. In its place is the Commission of Parks and Recreation.] The Museum reported to the Commission on matters relating to PMA's housing, care and display of several art collections that the city owns through bequests from some of Philadelphia's most prominent citizens of the early to mid-20th century. These are the George W. and William L. Elkins, the W.P. Wilstach and the John H. McFadden art collections. In d'Harnoncourt's files, correspondence pertaining to the collections primarily documents the Museum's formal request for permission to send works of art out on loan. A variety of issues relating to the public space surrounding the Museum, such as the feasibility of paid parking and an outdoor café on the terrace, are also documented.
The Museum has long cared for the John G. Johnson collection, which was also bequeathed to the city in 1917. Wachovia Bank serves as the successor trustee to this important collection of more than 1,200 European paintings and sculptures. While the amount of documentation is not extensive, it is consistent throughout the series. So, too, are d'Harnoncourt's files of the Museum's own "Ars Medica" collection, which is comprised of more than 2,500 drawings, photographs and rare books that examine the practice of medicine, pharmacy and public health through the visual arts.
Another aspect of collection development and management documented in this series is the critical role of private funding and support. Based on the number of files, those institutions with which the Museum cultivated a long and steady relationship include the J. Paul Getty Trust, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, William Penn Foundation and Pew Charitable Trust. D'Harnoncourt also remained aware of and involved in the activities of groups formed specifically to support the Museum; namely, Collab, Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her participation in the acquisition, deaccessioning or loan of works of art is documented in files titled by each activity or as subgroups to curatorial department folders.
Committed to engaging others in a conversation with art, d'Harnoncourt struck up conversations of her own with a number of contemporary artists. With some, the association mixed the professional with the personal as the enthusiastically drawn hearts and exclamation points she added to her handwritten letters make evident. Such artists documented here include John Cage, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Dorothy Norman, Dorothea Tanning and Andrew Wyeth. The files attesting to d'Harnoncourt's long association with family members of Marcel Duchamp are included in Series III, "Long-term records." Also in that series are the records of PMA's close work with descendants of Alexander Calder to build a museum in Philadelphia devoted to that family of artists.
D'Harnoncourt held a number of professional affiliations, and documentation to most was transferred to her papers. During processing, however, it was determined that files of certain institutions should remain with her Museum records. The criteria to retain were whether the institution was either: a local, city or state organization devoted to the promotion of public appreciation of the arts, including tourism; or a national or international coalition of museums. Since documentation of the 20 institutions meeting the criteria is dispersed among the appropriate date-span subseries, their listing, along with d'Harnoncourt's role in each, is given below. Her participation in the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) is by far the best documented in this series. She sat on a number of committees, regularly attended the annual meetings, and as folder content confirms, took copious notes of the proceedings. D'Harnoncourt's affiliation with some organizations began during her curatorial years. Because those files originally were processed with her earliest director's records, they have been left here.
AAM--member since 1977 with service on Trustee Committee
AAMD--member since 1983 with service on various committees and as elected officer
Alliance Française de Philadelphia--1992 chairperson
American Arts Alliance [defunct?]--1981 appointment to Board of Directors
AMICO--1998 appointment to Board of Directors
Art in City Hall--1997 appointment to Board of Directors
Barnes Foundation--1990? Appointment to Advisory Committee
City Hall Museum--1994 appointment as Committee member
[Philadelphia] Civic Center Museum--1993? Appointment to Collection Review Committee
Fairmount Park Art Association--1994? Appointment to Board of Trustees; earlier service on committees
Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences. 1988 appointment to Arts Review Panel [1996 known as Governor's Awards for the Arts]
Governor's Travel and Tourism Council--member since 1997
ICOM Committee of the AAM [AAM/ICOM]--member since 1974
ICOM/CIMAM--member since 1977?
Mayor's Cultural Advisory Council--1987 appointment [with later reappointments]
Mitchell Prize for the History of Art--1987 juror
Parkway Council Foundation--member since 1997?; service on Marketing and Planning Committee.
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts--Annual appointments to various panels since 1982
Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau--1999 appointment to Board of Directors
Philadelphia Hospitality, Inc.--1997 appointment to Board of Advisors
The date spans that define each subseries are based on the bulk dates of records as periodically accessioned by the Archives. Within each subseries, folders are alphabetically arranged, with general alphabet folders consisting of multiple names and subjects preceding individually titled folders.
For the most part, original order of folders has been retained. Names have been revised, however, according to the Library of Congress Name Authority File. For example, a folder originally entitled "Mellon Foundation" has been renamed to "Andrew W. Mellon Foundation," and alphabetically filed by "Mellon." Because of originally inconsistent and/or incorrect naming, the following institutions have now been identified and alphabetically filed by their more familiar acronyms: American Association of Museums (AAM); American Association of Museums/US-International Council of Museums (AAM/ICOM); Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC); Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD); American Federation of Arts (AFA); American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA); Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO); International Council of Museums (ICOM); International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (ICOM/CIMAM); International Exhibition Organizers Conference (IEOC); and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA).
With general alphabet folders, researchers may need to consult several folders to find certain documentation as there are several filing conventions pertaining to certain institutions, particularly museums outside the United States. Some are filed by the city in which the institution is located; others are filed under the letter "M" for that country's word for "museum" or "S" if the institution name begins with that country's word for "state" (German or Swedish) or "municipal" (Dutch). See the Museum Archivist for a list of such institutions that were identified during processing.
Within the alphabetical arrangement of each subseries, similarly titled folders are in ascending chronology. Material within each folder is in descending chronological order. Items originally clipped or stapled together (but not as attachments or enclosures) have remained so, and filed within a folder by the latest date of the bundled items. [This was no doubt the assistant's procedure, keeping together material documenting a particular activity from its initiation to completion.] The date span for such material is noted on the paper wrap that now replaces the original metal fastener or is now noted in pencil and in brackets on the latest dated item. These date spans were also used to determine the date(s) noted in the folder title. Because of this, the folder dates may appear to be out of chronological order--they are not.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers / IV. Professional affiliations
Physical Description137.25 linear feet
This subseries consists of the records compiled during the first four years of d'Harnoncourt's tenure as Museum director. Of the accomplishments achieved during this time period, one of the most significant and best documented here is the Museum's acquisition of thousands of drawings and prints by European old masters and artists of the 19th century. The seller was PAFA, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which had long ago changed its emphasis to the collection and study of American art. The sale, which occurred in two phases and included an exchange of several works of art by American artists from PMA's holdings, not only established this Museum as a major repository for European works on paper, but also, as d'Harnoncourt often noted, allowed these works, all of which came to PAFA as bequests from three prominent Philadelphia families, to remain in the city.
According to a newspaper article included in these files, the talks between the two institutions about the European drawings and prints began in 1978, which is when PAFA decided to sell the collections and therefore requested PMA to return the works, which had been here on loan since 1956. Based on a letter from PAFA's Acting Executive Director Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., however, it would be another four years before negotiations truly began. In his letter of November 1982, Goodyear expressed his hope that d'Harnoncourt would "be able to see [her] way to the point of reopening discussions." In addition to the "Correspondence w/PAFA" folder that contains Goodyear's letter, the correspondence with Philip and Muriel Berman is also significant. The Bermans twice provided the funding allowing PMA to purchase the more than 2,400 drawings in 1983 and then in 1985 the 43,000 prints. Both folders contain correspondence with d'Harnoncourt as well as that of Museum President Robert Montgomery Scott. The third correspondence folder pertains to the London fine arts dealer Morton Morris & Co Ltd. That PAFA retained to act as its agent. The 1983 prospectus and inventory that the firm prepared separately for the drawings and the prints are included in subsequent folders. The bulk of folders are grouped by acquisition, with "Drawings" folders preceding "Prints." Both groups show d'Harnoncourt's close consultation with staff; namely Ann Percy, acting curator of drawings, and Ellen Jacobowitz, acting curator of prints. In various folders are numerous memos and other documents exchanged among them regarding collection assessments, exchange recommendations, conservation needs and possible exhibitions. Because the sale involved bequeathed collections, hearings and court filings were required with the Orphans Court, the entity that handles estates within the Court of Common Pleas. Legal documents and attorney correspondence are therefore also included. Press releases from both institutions and newspaper clippings also document these most important transactions.
Also occuring during the early years of d'Harnoncourt's tenure was the Museum's required application for reaccreditation. In 1973, the American Association of Museums (AAM) granted PMA accreditation, thereby affirming the Museum's "commitment to professional standards of operation." In order to ensure that museums continued "their efforts to maintain and strengthen their level of professional performance," AAM would review an institution's accredited status. In February 1983, d'Harnoncourt, who had yet to complete her first year as director, received AAM's determination to review the Museum. The related files, identified as "Reaccreditation 1983," document the entire two-year process, from the Museum's application preparation and formal submission, to its preparations for the visiting examiner, and the examiner's report. Working papers include draft responses from most departments to the reaccreditation questionnaire and related memos. Most of the Museum's voluminous original submission of 1983 is processed here in three folders and consists of the questionnaire, checklist, and supporting documents, which includes photographs. In February 1985, Peter C. Marzio, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, spent three days touring the Museum's exhibition, public and non-public spaces, and interviewing staff and certain trustees. His report and on-site evaluation document his findings and conclude this group of records. Issued in 1986, AAM's letter of determination and certificates granting the 1983 reaccreditation are filed in the "1986-1991" subseries. In 1997, the Museum was again required to apply for reaccreditation. Those records, even more voluminous than the 1983 application, are part of the "1997-1999" subseries.
Other activities or events of note that are documented here, although to a lesser extent, include the 1982 launch of an innovative two-year education program, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Institute. Under the guidance of Theodore Katz, Chief of the Museum's Division of Education, and co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the PMAI offered an intensive two-week summer training session of Pennsylvania elementary and secondary school teachers on ways to integrate the use of art in teaching all subjects in the traditional curriculum. The program included a follow-up session of activities to be carried out in the participating schools, and in 1984 Katz published a book about PMAI. In addition to the correspondence, draft writings and ephemera that document the planning and implementation of the program is a folder of letters of thanks from participants. The Museum's Division of Education reintroduced a very similar program in the summer of 1987 entitled Visual Arts as Sources for Teaching. The VAST program continues to this day.
There are also files pertaining to a few important acquisitions; namely the pair of highly decorative 19th-century urns by the Tucker Factory of Philadelphia, the 14th-century painted panels of the Madonna and Child and donor by Pietro Lorenzetti, and the monumental wood sculptures of "Comedy" and "Tragedy" carved by William Rush in 1808. Folders documenting the first two are filed as "Acquisitions" with appropriate subtitles. The latter is filed as "Rush" and consists of three folders. Probably more publicized than any of these objects was the statue of "Rocky," the fictional boxer who trained by running up the Museum's steps and portrayed by Sylvester Stallone in the 1976 film of the same name. In 1982, discussions began on moving the statue gifted by Stallone to the city from the top of the Museum's steps to a downtown sports venue. The correspondence and press coverage for and against the move included here proved to be only the beginning of what became the protracted saga of Rocky's travels. Documentation of Rocky's move back to the Museum, although this time on the lawn rather than steps, is included in the "2004-2008" subseries.
This subseries also includes papers created by d'Harnoncourt's predecessor, Jean Sutherland Boggs, and consulted by d'Harnoncourt as she moved previously initiated projects forward. Entire folders compiled by the former director include [J. Boggs] in the folder titles.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Reaccreditation 1983. Pre-submission to June 1983. Correspondence and other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers / II. Remarks and recognitions / B. Outside lectures and other remarks / f. (June 1, 1976). AAM 71st annual meeting. Panel discussion: "Collecting for art museums." Remarks (incomplete draft Ts.), correspondence, ephemera, other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Rush, William. "Comedy" and "Tragedy." Acquisition. Correspondence. Incl. papers re grant, legal and valuations
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. AAM. General member mailings
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Library
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department. Kienbusch Collection of Arms and Armor. Dresden [provenance issue].
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / D. 1997-1999 / f. European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department. Arms and Armor
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department. Kienbusch Collection of Arms and Armor. Dresden [provenance issue].
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. [Kienbusch Collection of] Armor and Arms
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Japan. Seibu Museum of Art
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. City
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. C. Clemente-Columbus
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Development Department. Associate interviews [reporting sheets] and profiles
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Development Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. AAMD. General
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Tannenbaum, Sidney A. Estate. Yoshitoshi acquisition
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. West foyer project. Correspondence and other papers. Incl. minutes
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Operations
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. City. [PMA] Building
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Development Department. Campaign case statement draft
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Development Department. Campaign case statement draft
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Landmark Renewal Fund, 1986-1991. Correspondence and other papers.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / II. Exhibitions / A. 1981-1996 / 19. Marc Chagall." May 12-July 21, 1985 / f. General. Incl. object photos
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. School District of Philadelphia, Pa.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Art in City Hall
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Art in City Hall
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Building
- Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. City
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Press clippings. Incl. non-PMA articles
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. European Decorative Arts Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. PAFA acquisition/exchange. Prints. Correspondence and other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. European Decorative Arts Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / D. 1997-1999 / f. European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department. European Decorative Arts after 1700
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Memoranda [w/various departments and offices]
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. School District of Philadelphia, Pa.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Philadelphia Museum of Art Institute
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. E. Eastern-Exxon
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Decorative Arts after 1700 Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. John G. Johnson Collection
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Installations
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. East Asian Art Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Getty Grant Program. Internship and publication grants
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Getty Focus Group Project [at PMA]. AdH meeting notes and agenda
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Pew Memorial Trust. Grant-related papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Ars Medica Collection. Five-year grant
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. European Painting before 1900 Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Réunion des musées nationaux (France).
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Lewis, Howard H. and Maxine
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Archives
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Slide library
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. European Decorative Arts Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Director's Office. General memos
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Volunteer Services Department. Incl. manual
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Guides
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Smithsonian Institution.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. National Endowment for the Arts. General
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. National Endowment for the Humanities. General
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / D. 1997-1999 / f. Norman, Dorothy, 1905-. [Biographical reference material.] Clippings and reprint of 1968 publication
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Finance Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Building
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Building
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Public sculpture
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. PAFA acquisition/exchange. Drawings. Inventories (2) and prospectus
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. PAFA acquisition/exchange. Correspondence w/Morton Morris & Company, Ltd.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. PAFA acquisition/exchange. Drawings. Works recommended for accessioning. List incl. accession numbers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. PAFA acquisition/exchange. Drawings. Inventories (2) and prospectus
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Deaccessioning [by dept.]. Prints, Drawings and Photographs. PAFA/Berman exchange
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. European Painting before 1900 Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. European Painting before 1900 Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Painting Checklist [publication].
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Human Resources Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Glenmede Trust Company
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Pew Charitable Trusts. Various grants
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Division of Education
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. City
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. City
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. D. DeMontebello-Donor
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. City
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. City
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Registrar. Theft. Incl. press clippings
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Public Relations Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. [Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department.] Alfred Stieglitz Center of Photography
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Press releases. 1982 events.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Press releases. 1982 events.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Public Relations Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / D. 1997-1999 / f. Reaccreditation 1997. Original submission [w/highlighted text]. Questionnaire, pages 1-69 and Mar. 28 cover letter
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Reaccreditation 1983. Letter of determination and certificates
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Press clippings. Incl. non-PMA writings
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Acquisitions [by dept.]. American Art
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. "Rocky" statue
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. City
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Division of Education
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Library
Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers / II. Remarks and recognitions / B. Outside lectures and other remarks / f. Speaking engagements. Correspondence and other papers. [No remarks]
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Ars Medica Collection. Five-year grant. [J. Boggs file]
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. National Museum Act. Various grants
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Ad-Hoc Planning Committee. [Assistant's file]
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Stroud, Marion Boulton
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Stroud, Marion Boulton
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Bequests
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. T. Tabu-Turner
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. West foyer project. Correspondence and other papers. Incl. minutes
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Guides
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Building
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Ad-Hoc Planning Committee. [Assistant's file]
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / II. Exhibitions / A. 1981-1996 / 19. Marc Chagall." May 12-July 21, 1985 / f. General. Incl. object photos
The first major fundraising campaign d'Harnoncourt oversaw as director was the Landmark Renewal Fund, originally planned to run from 1986 to 1991. The goal of the campaign was to raise $50 million for endowment increases, building improvements and a bridge fund to support operations until the new endowments began generating income. Later in the campaign, the goal was increased another $10 million to fund a major overhaul of the Museum's European art collection. According to later press releases, the campaign concluded in 1993, raising more than $64 million. While the campaign was launched in 1986, its two-part planning began five years earlier during Jean Sutherland Boggs' tenure. In 1981, the architectural firm of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown prepared a long-range plan that called for the significant rearrangement and renovation of the building's interior space. A copy of this comprehensive plan is included in a "Building" folder in the preceding subseries. In 1985, to determine the financing of this ambitious plan, the Museum's Oversight Committee engaged C.W. Shaver & Co., a management consulting and fund-raising firm, to ascertain the feasibility of a major capital campaign. Their findings comprise the two "Capital campaign" folders, also in the preceding subseries.
In this subseries, a detailed account of the initiation and goals of the campaign is provided in a 1986 report filed as "Development Department: Campaign case statement draft." As listed in the report's table of contents, the campaign title likely stemmed from the building improvements subheading, "A Renewed Landmark Building." Five folders titled "Landmark Renewal Fund" document the launching and tracking of the campaign, and the Museum's efforts to solicit funds from individuals and foundations. In addition to correspondence and funding reports, a campaign packet is included. Intended no doubt as a fundraising handout, the packet consists of several summary sheets and printed material, including campaign newsletters, a detailed booklet and individual information sheets of each of the departments that would benefit from the campaign; namely all curatorial departments, registrar, education, publications, and the library and archives. While the success of the campaign exceeded original expectations, not all goals were met. To remedy the cramped space and disparate locations of the library, archives and slide library, the campaign sought to unite the three offices in expanded quarters. It would take another 17 years before such improvements occurred when in 2007 the three offices and their collections moved to state-of-the art facilities across the street to the Museum's Perelman Building, which also houses many of the curatorial and administrative offices and new gallery spaces.
A building improvement that was realized and documented here is the "West foyer project." The same architectural firm that prepared the comprehensive plan, Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, designed and oversaw execution of this renovation. The most noticeable change was the installation of the elliptical information desk in the center of the foyer. Capped off with neon-colored plexiglass griffins, the mythical animals that serve as the Museum's icon, the desk, as described in a 1989 Philadelphia newspaper review, was a wake up and shake up to this "once-somber anteroom" with the effect similar to "a little kid yanking the bedcovers off his snoring, snoozing mom and dad." Documentation consists of correspondence, including grant-related writings, clippings, notes, drawings, including two oversized blueprints, and a number of minutes from the design review meetings of the architects and pertinent Museum staff. Minutes offer discussion of other aspects of the west foyer project, as well as improvements to the Museum's east entrance.
The most ambitious project funded by the Landmark campaign was the renovation, reinstallation, and reinterpretation of the Museum's European art collection. This project was the incentive for raising the campaign's goal an additional $10 million. Referred to by staff as the "Reinstallation project," this project was also first considered in the 1981 comprehensive plan. From planning to completion, the project took nearly 15 years to be fully realized. Its records are in the "Long-term records" series. Documentation of the campaign's funding efforts continues and concludes with two "Landmark" folders in the 1992-1996 subseries.
Although coincidental in timing, the Museum participated in a Getty Focus Group project during the course of the Landmark campaign and related projects that afforded yet another opportunity to study ways to improve the museum visitor's experience. A small set of files document the initial 1988 focus group visits and the seminar held the following year involving all participating museums. Sponsored by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts and the J. Paul Getty Museum, the study project required PMA to hold two sessions of two focus groups. Although there is little documentation of the Museum's preparation for the groups, d'Harnoncourt's extensive notes recording their reactions are included, as is a list of participant demographics. A memo submitted in 1990 by Daniel Rice, then Curator of Education at the Museum, to the director of Getty's Education Center covers a synopsis of three projects undertaken by PMA intended to address some of the perceived needs uncovered in the focus group sessions. The projects consisted of redesigning the museum map, improving the didactic materials and signage in the 20th century galleries, and reinstalling collections. The last project, for which d'Harnoncourt was listed as staff contact, was of course the "Reinstallation project" referenced above, which was well underway by that time. Included in the same folder is a 1989 report of the research done in the past decade about art museum visitors. That same year, Getty hosted its seminar comprised of some of the museums participating in its focus group experiment. As noted in the bound volume of session summaries, filed in a separate folder, both d'Harnoncourt and Rice participated in the seminar. A summary of d'Harnoncourt's remarks as moderator to the session "Must we give the visitors what they say they want?" is included in the volume. Her notes from the seminar, once again extensive, are separately filed as are the focus study reports submitted by the other participating museums. Although no such report from PMA is included, related documentation of how the Museum worked to improve communication and enhance the visitor experience can be found in the "Reinstallation project" records, particularly the "Education" files. Later visitor studies conducted by the Museum are included in the 1992-1996 and 1997-1999 subseries, examining visitor reaction to blockbuster exhibitions, namely the Barnes and Cézanne shows of 1995 and 1996, as well as to the services the Museum provides visitors in general, which was studied in 1997. These are filed, respectively, as "Visitors study" and "Visitors report."
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / II. Exhibitions / A. 1981-1996 / 31. "African sculpture from the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania." Nov. 23, 1986-Feb. 8, 1987 / f. General
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. [Fairmount] Park Houses
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906. Sketchbooks
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Francis Bacon Foundation.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department. Incl. purchase prices
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Ars Medica collection. General. Incl. other travel venues
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department. Incl. committee minutes (1)
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Tannenbaum, Sidney A. Estate. Yoshitoshi acquisition. [Incl. Agreement of Sale]
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. McIlhenny, Henry P. Estate and bequest
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986. Estate and bequest
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Rosenwald, Edith G. Estate and bequest
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Operations
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. West foyer project. Correspondence and other papers. Incl. minutes.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / III. Long-term records / E. Reinstallation project / 1. Planning / f. Architects. Meeting summaries and invoices
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Landmark Renewal Fund, 1986-1991. Correspondence and other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Annenberg, Walter H. and Lee
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. City. Mayor's Cultural Advisory Council. Final draft of July 1983 report w/AdH annotations
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Turner, Evan H.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Operations
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Development Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Associates [membership level]
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Landmark Renewal Fund, 1986-1991. Correspondence and other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Associates [membership level]
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Building. Proposed comprehensive plan. Prepared by Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Capital campaign. [Pre-campaign financial analysis?] Prepared by C.W. Shaver & Co.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. European Decorative Arts Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / E. 2000-2003 / f. Etting, Gloria Braggiotti.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916. Incl. exhibition and publication planning
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. European Decorative Arts Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Operations
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Collab
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Decorative Arts after 1700 Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Medieval and Renaissance Decorative Arts Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / D. 1997-1999 / f. European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department. Dutch ceramics
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Development Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / E. 2000-2003 / f. Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. A.E. Gallatin Collection. Bulletin article
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. J. Paul Getty Trust.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. J. Paul Getty Trust.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. van Gogh, Vincent. "Rain" and "Sunflowers."
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / D. 1997-1999 / f. Installation Design. [office of Facilities and Operations Department]
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Ars Medica Collection. PMA and travel exhibitions
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Development Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / III. Long-term records / E. Reinstallation project / 1. Planning / f. Other correspondence
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. West foyer project. Correspondence and other papers. Incl. minutes.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Capital campaign. [Pre-campaign financial analysis?] Prepared by C.W. Shaver & Co.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Lewis, Maxine deSchauensee
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Marketing Department. 1992
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Public Relations Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Marketing. "Economic impact and importance of [PMA]." Prepared by Jerry Wind, Wharton School. Incl. related correspondence
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Annenberg, Walter H. and Lee
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Bequests
Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers / II. Remarks and recognitions / B. Outside lectures and other remarks / f. (Nov. 10, 1988). Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. 20th century writing awarded to Angelica Zander Rudenstine. Presenter (AdH) remarks (Ts)
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Smithsonian Institution.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / D. 1997-1999 / f. Norman, Dorothy, 1905-. [Biographical reference material.] Clippings and reprint of 1968 publication
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Development Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Multiculturalism. Incl. self study project proposal
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Bequests
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Building
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. American Art Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Pew Memorial Trust. Grant-related papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. University of the Arts (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. City
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Ars Medica collection. General. Incl. other travel venues
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Arensberg archives (preliminary)
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Security
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Marketing. Agenda and minutes of staff meetings
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. P. Portland-Purchase
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Reaccreditation 1983. Visiting examiner report and original on-site evaluation
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Landais, Hubert
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Bizot, Irène.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Bequests
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. National Museum Act. Various grants
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. USSR
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Bequests
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Cleveland Museum of Art.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Berman, Philip I. and Muriel
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Museum guides
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Landmark Renewal Fund, 1986-1991. Correspondence and other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Building
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Marketing. Incl. committee meeting minutes
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Pennsylvania. [various state offices]
As evidenced in the records of the previous subseries, the Landmark Renewal campaign afforded the Museum the opportunity to enhance nearly every aspect of its art collection, from display to scholarship. This subseries documents another ambitious program to improve the 24-acre grounds surrounding the "temple on the hill." The Landscape Rehabilitation Project was initiated by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), another venerable Philadelphia institution, as part of its Philadelphia Green program. With funding from the City, which owns the Museum property, a collaborative committee consisting of representatives from PMA, PHS, the Fairmount Park Commission, the landscape architects Wallace Roberts & Todd, and the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, was charged with developing a plan that addressed not only plants, trees and outdoor benches, but also roads, which required a temporary rerouting of traffic, walkways, terraces, and outdoor signage. While the project was launched in 1991, detailed planning did not begin until 1992. Identified as a subset of "Pennsylvania Horticultural Society" files, the records in this subseries consist of numerous meeting minutes that detail each project suggestion and implementation, as well as correspondence, notes, drawings and a few clippings. Memos between d'Harnoncourt and Museum staff document internal reactions and recommendations. As Alice Beamesderfer, then Special Assistant to the Director for Projects, was often the Museum's representative at these meetings, some of her papers are included here. Several studies and reports, including the initial feasibility study, are filed individually, following the chronologically arranged folders. Project documentation in this subseries concludes with the first of three phases receiving approval with preparations set for the ground-breaking. Project records continue through the 1997-1999 subseries, and end in 2001, which is processed in the 2000-2003 subseries.
As this subseries also makes evident, the challenge of balancing budgets, especially for an institution dependent in part upon municipal government support, was particularly challenging for d'Harnoncourt and other Museum executives in 1995. That January, the city announced that its FY 1996 budget would include funding cuts to various programs. For the Museum, this initially meant a loss of more than $2 million, which the city felt would be offset if PMA increased its earned income and improved its operation. To determine how to achieve these goals, the Museum, at the city's request, sought outside consultants to conduct a study of its earned income performance and an assessment of the cost efficiency of its operation. With financial support from the William Penn Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts, the Museum hired the firm of Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management to prepare a Management and Marketing Study. The study would include an assessment of the "best practices" of other museums that were successful in attaining the types of results for which PMA hoped. The development of the study and funding requirements as well as the Museum's selection process for the appropriate firm are documented in the several "Lord Cultural Resources" and "Lord report" files. Papers consist of correspondence with Museum staff and funders, requests for proposals, and a draft of the 1996 study, annotated by d'Harnoncourt. Related material includes correspondence from d'Harnoncourt and Museum President Bob Scott, which provides the Museum's response to the city's proposed cuts and negotiations with the Mayor's office, as well as the Museum's work with its two funders. Cross references to this documentation are given at the folder level. According to the Museum's 1996 annual report, the consultants concluded that given economic and other factors, the Museum's marketing programs and operating cost structure were more than satisfactory in supporting its earned income potential. In the end and after lengthy negotiations, the city awarded PMA $4.3 million. The amount, while not an increase in the Museum's annual appropriations, included $2.6 million, as reimbursement of private funds the Museum spent on capital expenses, and $1.7 million in low-interest loans.
Despite the tension of appropriation negotiations, the Mayor's office often sought the Museum's counsel in matters of the arts. One of Edward G. Rendell's mandates upon his election as mayor of Philadelphia in 1991 was "to support the City's many arts and cultural organizations and institutions." To that end he called for the establishment of the Mayor's Cultural Advisory Council, which would be comprised of "the most influential, knowledgeable and civic-minded members of the cultural and business communities." Recognizing the revenue generated for the city by such institutions, the mayor envisioned the Council's role to be "the main source of information on issues of importance to both providers and audiences of [the] arts..." Rendell invited d'Harnoncourt to accept his appointment to the Council in March 1992. She remained a member, which included an assignment to the Funding, Dedicated Taxes & Regionalism subcommittee, throughout Rendell's two terms as mayor. Included as a subset in the "City" files, documentation consists primarily of correspondence and related news articles, along with a few pages of d'Harnoncourt's meeting notes and agenda. Certain papers refer to the group by a slightly different title: the Mayor's Arts and Culture Advisory Council. D'Harnoncourt's later and more active advisory role with Rendell's successor, John Street, is documented in the 2000-2003 subseries.
While overhauling budgets and landscapes requires the work of many, the life and work of one diminutive woman had an equally significant impact on the Museum. As a teacher, lecturer, curator and writer, Stella Kramrisch devoted nearly 70 years to the study and appreciation of Indian art. She joined the Museum as its curator of Indian art in 1954, and upon her retirement in 1972 continued as Curator Emeritus until her death in 1993. The records in this subseries, filed by her surname, pertain to the generous bequests she made to PMA as well as the way in which the Museum and other colleagues remembered her. Kramrisch left the Museum her art collection as well as funds to endow a curatorship in Indian and Himalayan art and to support ongoing acquisitions and care of the collection. Related documentation consists of inventories, and subfiled as "Estate," legal papers, appraisals and correspondence. Writings published about the bequest as well as correspondence pertaining to related exhibitions are in a separate folder. In honoring Kramrisch's wish that there be no funeral or memorial service for her, the Museum held a concert celebrating her life. The related file consists of d'Harnoncourt's correspondence to plan and announce the event and the program distributed during the concert. Condolences from artists, scholars, and museum professionals in the U.S. and India are in separate folder as is d'Harnoncourt's acknowledgements. Writings about Kramrisch, including obituaries, comprise the last folder. A few of the writings worth noting are those the photographer and writer Dorothy Norman sent to d'Harnoncourt, along with her letter of condolence. One, a short unpublished typescript, is Norman's recollection of her visits with Kramrisch, including their first meeting in Calcutta and later visits in New York and at Kramrisch's home in the Philadelphia suburbs. The other is a photocopy of two published works. In the excerpt from "Encounters," Norman's memoir, she elaborates on her first meeting with Kramrisch in Calcutta. She also makes reference to an article she would later write about Kramrisch for "Marg," an Indian magazine of the arts. A photocopy of that article, which was based on Norman's interview of Kramrisch and her interpretation of Indian art, is also included.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. [Director's Office.] AdH notebooks and misc. memos, incl. those generated during AdH travel
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / IV. Other materials / A. Administrative records / f. Miscellaneous notes
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. [Fairmount] Park Houses
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Wish List
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. City. Miscellaneous
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Arensberg archives (preliminary)
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Bequests
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Greenwood, Ethel Elizabeth. Estate. Incl. photocopies of 1989 "original contact" correspondence
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Behrend family
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986. Estate
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Merriam, John W. Estate and Merriam, Elizabeth C.L.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Réunion des musées nationaux (France).
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. IEOC. Incl. AdH notes and minutes of NYC meeting
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Building book
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Finance Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. [PMA] Landscape rehabilitation project
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Greenwood, Ethel Elizabeth. Estate. Incl. photocopies of 1989 "original contact" correspondence
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Venturi Scott Brown and Associates.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Parkway planning
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Parkway planning
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management Inc. Incl. correspondence w/others re purpose and funding of consultant study.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management Inc. Incl. correspondence w/others re purpose and funding of consultant study.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Lord Report [PMA: management and marketing study]. Draft discussion paper
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Pennsylvania Convention Center
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Avenue of the Arts. Correspondence and other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. [PMA] Landscape rehabilitation project.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Merriam, John W. Estate and Merriam, Elizabeth C.L.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Computerization
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. City. Civic Center Museum. Collection review committee
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Correspondence. General
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Complaints
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department. Kienbusch Collection of Arms and Armor. Dresden [provenance issue]. Reference photocopies of 1979-1992 correspondence
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Landmark Renewal Fund, 1986-1991. Correspondence and other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Major Gifts Committee. 4/19 mtg
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / E. 2000-2003 / f. Development Department. 2001 Fund. Correspondence and other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / E. 2000-2003 / f. Development Department. Collections 2001
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / D. 1997-1999 / f. Development Department. Cabinet for Campaign 2001. Lists of naming opportunities
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. AAMD. New Orleans midwinter meeting. Minutes, notes and other papers
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. External Affairs Department. 1994-1996
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. Thomas Eakins House
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. Far Eastern Art Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management Inc.Incl. correspondence w/others re purpose and funding of consultant study.
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Japan trip
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Hornbeck, David W
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / B. 1986-1991 / f. European Decorative Arts Department
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. [Kienbusch Collection of] Armor and Arms
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. [Kienbusch Collection of] Armor and Arms
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / A. 1982-1985 / f. [Kienbusch Collection of] Armor and Arms. Collection issues
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. IEOC. Incl. AdH notes and minutes of NYC meeting
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Diversity Task Force
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. William M. Reilly Trust
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. [PMA] Landscape rehabilitation project
Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / I. Names and subjects / C. 1992-1996 / f. Budget, FY 1995