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Pre-Columbian Peruvian Art, February 26-March 31, 1951

 Sub-Series

Scope and Contents

An exhibition of textiles and pottery by Peruvian artists, lent by the Carlebach Gallery.
The exhibition records span four folders and include an exhibition description, object and price list, planning correspondence, and registration receipts. Installation photograph prints and negatives are in the photograph collection.

Dates

  • Creation: February 26-March 31, 1951

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

At this time, the exhibition records are unavailable to the public and will only be made available to FAMSF staff upon request.

Biographical / Historical

The history of Peru spans 15 millennia, extending back through several stages of cultural development along the country's desert coastline and in the Andes mountains. Peru's coast was home to the Norte Chico civilization, the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the six cradles of civilization in the world. When the Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century, Peru was the homeland of the highland Inca Empire, the largest and most advanced state in pre-Columbian America. After the conquest of the Incas, the Spanish Empire established a Viceroyalty with jurisdiction over most of its South American domains. Peru declared independence from Spain in 1821, but achieved independence only after the Battle of Ayacucho three years later.

Carlebach Gallery, Inc. was a New York City art gallery owned by Julius Carlebach, 1909-1964.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Peru
https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/5077

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (The exhibition records span four folders plus photographs.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

An exhibition of textiles and pottery by Peruvian artists, lent by the Carlebach Gallery. The exhibition records span four folders plus photographs.

Arrangement

The materials are separated by content and type and organized chronologically.

Related Exhibitions

de Young: Pre-Columbian Collection from Philadelphia, Costa Rica, and Cannon Island, Collected and Lent by Dr. Jose B. Gonzalez (1936)
de Young: Peruvian Textiles (1938)
de Young: Pre-Columbian Peruvian Textiles from the Collections of Mrs. Herbert Fleishhacker and Dr. Hans Gaffron (1939)
de Young: Spanish-Colonial Furniture (1940)
de Young: Arts of America Before Columbus (1942)
Legion of Honor: South American Colonial Silver (1943)
Legion of Honor: Spanish Colonial Design (1943)
de Young: Pre-Columbian Peruvian Textiles, 100–1400 A.D. from the Collection of Mr. Lionel H. Pries (1950)
Legion of Honor: Pre-Columbian Peruvian Art (1951)
de Young: Early American Silver from the Mark Bortman Collection (1953)
de Young: Masterpieces of Pre-Columbian Gold (1954)
de Young: The Nathan Cummings Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art (1955)
Legion of Honor: Pre-Columbian Mexican Sculpture from San Francisco Collections (1955)
Legion of Honor: Studies of Pre-Columbian Objects from Mexico: Photographs by Lee Boltin (1958)
Legion of Honor: Spanish Colonial Religious Art (1960)
de Young: Gold of the Andes, Treasure of Peru (1963)
Legion of Honor: Pre-Columbian Art from the Victor Bergeron Collection (1969)
de Young: Man and Animals from Pre-Columbia (1972)
de Young: Bigware: Large Pots from African, Oceanic, North and South American, and European Cultures (1978)
de Young: Aymara Weavings: Ceremonial Textiles of Colonial and 19th Century Bolivia (1984)
de Young: Pre-Columbian Couples from the Land Collection (1988)
de Young: The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Acqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera (1997)

Separated Materials

Installation photograph prints and negatives are housed in the Legion of Honor Exhibition Photograph collection in box 8.

Subjects

Repository Details

Repository Details

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