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Archives and Finding Aids

TexTreasures -- 2020

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Digitization and access for this material is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (2020), with collaboration of the Museum of FIne Arts, Houston, and the University of Houston Libraries and permission of the Smithsonian Insitution's Archives of American Art.

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Texas Art Project Microfilm: Blanche McVeigh papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 7969
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Texas Art Project Microfilm: Blanche McVeigh papers
Dates: 1920-1970
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with W. King Ambler, John Taylor Arms, Jerry Bywaters, Doel Reed, James Swann, Maynard Walker, and print and art societies; a career resume and other biographical material; price lists of prints; a scrapbook containing clippings; exhibition catalogs and invitations.

Octavio Medellin papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 5503
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Octavio Medellin papers
Dates: 1932-1979
Scope and Contents

Archives loaned by Medellin to be microfilmed for the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art Texas Art Project.

Martha Mood papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 10089
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Martha Mood papers
Dates: 1965-1985
Scope and Contents Letters; photographs; printed material; and miscellany.REEL 3316: An invitation and catalog, 1972, for an exhibition of Mood's stitcheries, ceramics, sculpture and photography at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston; 4 newspaper clippings; a letter to Roger and Mary Louise Mood from Martha and Beau Mood, 1965; and an undated photograph of Mood.REEL 3449: Material gathered by Martha Mood's agent, Lester Kierstead Henderson, including photocopies of letters...

Texas Art Project Microfilm: Moody Gallery Records

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 8023
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Texas Art Project Microfilm: Moody Gallery Records
Dates: 1975-1979
Scope and Contents

Business correspondence; and files on artists, containing biographical material, correspondence, photographs, sketches, price lists, exhibition catalogs, and clippings. Information on Lamar Briggs, Fritz Scholder, Donald Roller Wilson, Joe Atteberry, Lucas Johnson, Arthur Turner, and others is included.

The New Arts records

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 8083
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / The New Arts records
Dates: 1952-1977
Scope and Contents Files on artists and people associated with the gallery, including: Forrest Bess, James Boynton, Lawrence Calcagno, Joseph Cornell, André Emmerich, Max Ernst, Walter Kuhlman, Peter Plagens, Hassel Smith, Richard Steinberg, Jean Varda, and others. The files usually contain correspondence, exhibition catalogs and announcements, clippings, and photographs. Also included are exhibition files, material on the Contemporary Arts Association in Houston, and miscellaneous catalogs and...

Elisabet Ney papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 10541
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Elisabet Ney papers
Dates: 1865-1984
Scope and Contents Biographical accounts; a history of the Ney Museum; Ney family, business and Ney Museum correspondence, 1871-1981; a transcript of an interview with the museum's curator, Mrs. J.W. Rutland; articles and poems dedicated to Ney and 4 of her notebooks, 1865-1898, containing letters and accounts of her experiences with Guiseppe Garibaldi and her travels to Egypt; legal documents, Ney's marriage certificate, contracts for indenture, deeds and wills of her husband, Edmund Montgomery; financial...

Norma R. Ory papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 10545
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Norma R. Ory papers
Dates: 1948-1984
Scope and Contents Printed material, biographical data, correspondence and photographs. REEL 3447 (fr. 3-455): Biographical data; Christmas cards by Ory; exhibition catalogs and clippings; teaching material kept as Dean of the Junior School, Arthur Glassel, Jr. School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and files on exhibitions curated by Ory, containing correspondence, clippings and photographs. REEL 3447 (fr. 458-613); Six catalogs from exhibitions curated by Ory and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,...

Margaret Bosshardt Pace papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 10546
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Margaret Bosshardt Pace papers
Dates: 1949-1984
Scope and Contents

A birth certificate and resumes; correspondence; clippings, newsletters, exhibition catalogs and announcements; a scrapbook containing clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs; a sketchbook of Italy; and photographs of Pace and her work.

Texas Art Project: Dorothy Poulos Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 8373
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Texas Art Project: Dorothy Poulos Papers
Dates: 1954-1979
Scope and Contents

Correspondence; a resume; photographs of Poulos' paintings; three sketchbooks and nine prints; financial and business records; exhibition catalogs and announcements; clippings; and miscellaneous printed material.

Lynn Moore Randolph papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 8358
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Lynn Moore Randolph papers
Dates: 1964-1979
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, sketchbooks, slides, set designs and writings.

REEL 1829: A resume; 7 sketchbooks, with photographs of models and of finished paintings; sketches; set designs for James Clouser's SPACE/DANCE/THEATRE; correspondence and two essays by Randolph about Houston's Contemporary Art Museum; notebook pages with philosophical quotations and comments on art; and a clipping.

UNMICROFILMED: Eight slides of paintings.

Philip Renteria printed material

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 13448
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Philip Renteria printed material
Dates: 1976-1984
Scope and Contents

A resume; 1 photograph of Renteria's art work; and printed material including exhibition catalogs and announcements, reviews, articles and clippings.

Jeanne Herron Richards papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 8349
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Jeanne Herron Richards papers
Dates: 1888-1981
Scope and Contents

A resume; business and personal correspondence, including letters from Richards to her family from Paris, and correspondence with galleries and museums; business records, including invoices and receipts; exhibition catalogs; photographs of Richards, her family, friends, and her work; and ink drawings.

Judith-Ann Saks papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 10090
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Judith-Ann Saks papers
Dates: 1953-1979
Scope and Contents

Printed material including newspaper clippings, exhibition catalogs, announcements, and invitations; biographical information; magazine articles on Saks's work for the Houston Port Authority Bicentennial Project; photographs; correspondence; and reproductions of works.

Texas Art Project Microfilm: Porfirio Salinas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 13498
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Texas Art Project Microfilm: Porfirio Salinas Papers
Dates: 1943-1974
Scope and Contents

REEL 2249: A letter from Lyndon B. Johnson; a scrapbook of clippings and a few photos; sketches; and photos of Salinas and his paintings.

REEL 2250: Clippings and printed material, 1949-1974.

Ruth Goddard collection on Porfirio Salinas

 Collection
Identifier: AAA 10610
Found in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Art Project Microfilm / Ruth Goddard collection on Porfirio Salinas
Dates: 1943-1981
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1943-1981, gathered by Ruth Goddard, a biographer of Salinas. Included are: correspondence; price lists; portions of interview transcripts about Salinas; a few manuscript pages; the cover and title page of Goddard's 1975 book, PORFIRIO SALINAS; an unpublished article on Salinas by Goddard; two photos of Salinas; and miscellany.