A Guide to the Records at the Indiana University
Archives
Indiana University Art Museum
publications, 1920-2016 (bulk
1920-1994)
Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.
The Indiana University Art Museum traces its establishment to 1941 with the hire of
IU Fine Arts Professor Henry Radford Hope, although a small art teaching collection
already existed prior to that date. That same year, the Board of Trustees approved
the construction of a “fireproof gallery and storage room for the showing and
storage of valuable art and exhibits” in Mitchell Hall. In 1948, Hope established
the Hope Fund with the help of a few major donors to create a collection of prints,
photographs, drawings and watercolors for the university which would lay the
foundation for the permanent collection of the IU Art Museum. The collection
flourished and grew, and in 1982 it moved into its current building designed by I.M.
Pei. To date, the museum has amassed over 45,000 pieces spanning ancient artifacts
to modern pieces to create what has become one of the foremost teaching collections
in the country.
The collection is organized chronologically.
This collection consists of Indiana University Art Museum publications documenting
Bloomington campus exhibitions dating from 1920 to 2016. Arranged chronologically,
files typically contain catalogs or marketing pieces for exhibitions at the IUAM or
exhibitions which the Museum helped organize. In addition, for each decade, a
general file contains miscellaneous publications.
Additional records such as newsletters, annual reports, bulletins, and publications
may be accessed in the
Archives of Institutional Memory.
Series:
Publications, 1920-2016
Box 1
Exhibition of Paintings by Robert E. Burke, 1920
Commencement Exhibit, 1926-1949
Art Museum/ General File 1930s
Louis O. Griffith, 1934, 1950
Brown County Artists 1934-1951
Selected Group of Watercolors from the American Watercolor
Society, 1936
Fall Opening, 1936
Watercolors, 1936,
1944
Watercolors of South America, 1939
I.U. Bookstore Presents…, 1939
Hoosier Art Salon, 1944-1950
An Exhibition of Medieval Art, 1945
Dailey Family Memorial, 1946-1961
Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters From the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1948
Contemporary Landscape Painting, 1948
Gianni Cilfone, 1948
Adelee B. Wendel, 1949
Art by Bonsib, 1950
Exhibit of Prints by Paul W. Ashby, 1950
John D. Whiting, 1950
Arnold E. Turtle, 1950
Animal in Chinese and Japanese Art, 1952
Art Center Review, 1952-1954
Silversmithing Workshop, 1954-1955
Christmas Gifts, 1956
Baudelaire and the Graphic Arts, 1957
Classical Tradition, 1958
Drawings of the Italian Renaissance, 1958
Exhibition of Jewelry, Textiles, and Pottery, 1958
German Art in Our Time, 1958
Mexican Art, 1958-1959
Medieval Craftsman and His Modern Counterpart, 1959
Art Museum/ General File 1960s
(2 folders)
Shapes of Recent Sculpture, 1960
Marvin Cone, 1960
Exhibition of Pre-Columbian Art, 1960
Arts of Thailand, 1960
(2 folders)
Crafts 1961, 1961
Arts of Africa, 1961
Italian and Spanish Painting, 1962
Drawings: Faculty Artists and Friends, 1962-1963
Many Faces of Japan, 1964
American Painting 1910-1960, 1965
Ancient Indian Sculpture and Painting, 1965
Textiles by Faculty Craftsmen, 1966
25 Still Life Paintings, 1966
25: Tribute to Henry Radford Hope, 1966
East-West in Art, 1966
One Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, 1968
Academic Tradition, 1968
Painting and Sculpture Today 1969, 1969
MFA Exhibition, 1969
Art Museum/General File 1970s
Six Faculty Painters, 1970
Islamic Art Across the World, 1970
African Art, 1970
Noguchi and Rickey and Smith, 1970
The American Scene, 1970
Box 2
Reflection thru a Collector’s Eye, 1971
Memorial Exhibition in Honor of Harry Engel, 1971
Sculpture of Thailand, 1973
Focus: The Arts, 1973
Karl Martz, 1977
German and Austrian Expressionism, 1977
Indiana Arts Retreat, 1978
Art of the Surimono, 1979
Paul Klee, 1979
Art Museum/ General File 1980s
Contemporary Glass, 1980
Genji: The World of a Prince, 1982
The Hope Collection, Selections from the Twentieth Century,
1982
Interior Design Reflecting the Arts, 1983
Hands Across the Sea, 1983
Italian Portrait Drawings, 1983
Faculty Exhibition, 1983-1991
Italian Art at the Indiana University Art Museum, 1984
Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americans: Gallery Opening,
1985
Piranesi, Prints from Indiana Collections, 1986
Visions and Dreams, 1988
Chiaroscuro: Beyond Black and White, 1989
Art Museum/ General File 1990s
Robert Barnes Watercolors, 1990
Africobra, 1991
An American Picture Gallery, 1992
Color/Form: The Geometric Sculptures of Morton C. Bradley Jr.,
1992
Bovines in Art, 1992
Affinities of Form, 1993
Contemporary Trends Series, 1993
Outrage, 1994
Art Museum/ General File, 2010s
Art Museum/ General File, undated
French Art, undated
Masterpieces of Italian Religious Paintings, undated
One Two Man Print Show, undated
Apples and Persimmons, undated
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