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Patrick J. Kelleher Papers
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Patrick Joseph Kelleher, born in 1917, was the much-loved director of the Princeton University Art Museum from 1960 to 1972. During World War II, Kelleher headed the Greater Hesse Division of the monuments, fine arts, and archives section of the United States Army's Office of Military Government for Germany, recovering and returning works of art in Europe. He was most notably in charge of the Holy Crown of Hungary during this time. Kelleher eventually moved to Princeton, where he supervised the first modern expansion of the University's Art Museum. He oversaw the construction and dedication of a new museum building in 1966, and served on the committee that oversaw the selection and installation of the Putnam Memorial Sculptures on campus. He passed away on June 16, 1985.
Consists of correspondence, publications, notes, press releases, schedules, and photographs collected by Patrick J. Kelleher over the course of his directorship of the Princeton University Art Museum. Also included are syllabi and course materials from a museology seminar Kelleher taught, and awards received from other museums and institutions.
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Container list created by Eleanor Wright '14 in January 2012 and finding aid updated by Christie Peterson in February 2012.
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- John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection (Princeton, N.J.).
- Princeton University
- Princeton University. Art Museum
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- University Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Christie Peterson
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
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The collection is open for research use.
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Collection Inventory
Series 1: 1992 Accession of Papers and Photographs, 1942-1984 consists of correspondence, publications, notes, press releases, schedules, and photographs collected by Patrick J. Kelleher over the course of his directorship of the Princeton University Art Museum. Also included are syllabi and course materials from a museology seminar Kelleher taught, and awards received from other museums and institutions.
The materials in Series 1: 1992 Accession of Papers and Photographs remain in the original order in which they were received in the archives, with the exception of several folders of photographs that were removed from the various folders in boxes 1 and 2 and grouped together in folders at the end of box 3.
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