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    Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America.


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    New Collection Online

    [Photo - Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, ca. 1946]

    The Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner Papers have been digitized and added to Collections Online

    Now Showing: Of the Moment - A Video Sampler from the Archives of American Art

    Film Still - Davigene

    Of the Moment: A Video Sampler from the Archives of American Art
    April 4 — July 27, 2009
    Exhibited in Washington, D.C. at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery inside the Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture

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    Finding Aid Wins Award

    The Oscar Bluemner Collections Online site received first place in the Fredric M. Miller Finding Aid Award by the Mid-Atlantic Archives Conference.



    Raymond Lecture April 30

    Join us in New York for the Ninth Annual Raymond Lecture with artist Rackstraw Downes.



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    New Issue of the Journal

    The Archives of American Art Journal explores the influence of war on art and artists.


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