Box 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records
Container
Contains 48 Results:
Conference program, March 26-28, 1925
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 2, Folder: 1
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The exhibition featured works of art by school children and students from primary schools through universities throughout the West Coast, including textiles, etchings, jewelry, metal work, and block printing.
The exhibition materials span one folder and include several copies of the program for the School Board conference that the exhibition accompanied. Plus, a short description of the exhibition from the Legion of Honor Director’s Report 1924-1925.
Dates:
March 26-28, 1925
Exhibition announcement, undated
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 13, Folder: 1
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The largest special exhibition held at the Legion of Honor to that point featured 1335 sculptures of over 300 sculptors representing everything within the range of contemporary American sculpture, from small medals to equestrian groups designed for municipal parks. The exhibition occupied all galleries of the Legion of Honor as well as the surrounding grounds. Special landscape settings were arranged by Mr. Herbert Fleishhacker, President of the Legion of Honor, as well as Mr. John McLaren,...
Dates:
undated
Opening day program, November 11, 1924
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 1, Folder: 1
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The California Palace of the Legion of Honor was opened with an exhibition of over 700 works of art which were assembled in Paris for Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels by Monsieur André Tirman, Chairman of the French High Commission; Monsieur Jean Guiffrey, Director of the Musée du Louvre; Léonce Benédite, Director of the Luxembourg and Rodin Museums, Paul Léon and Henri Guillaume, Associate Architect of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. The installation occupied all nineteen...
Dates:
November 11, 1924
Catalog correspondence & draft, Nov 1, 1930
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 4
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120 paintings and drawings by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Due to a larger exhibition of Rivera's work going on at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, director of the Legion of Honor, Lloyd LaPage Rollins, had to seek out loans from private collectors across the United States and Mexico. He loaned works from not only the Mexican Government, but Rivera himself. As well as, Bay Area artists and collectors including Eugen Neuhaus lent works to the exhibition. Writer Frances Tour who founded...
Dates:
Nov 1, 1930
Planning correspondence: refusals, Sep-Nov 1930
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 5
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From the Sub-Series:
120 paintings and drawings by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Due to a larger exhibition of Rivera's work going on at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, director of the Legion of Honor, Lloyd LaPage Rollins, had to seek out loans from private collectors across the United States and Mexico. He loaned works from not only the Mexican Government, but Rivera himself. As well as, Bay Area artists and collectors including Eugen Neuhaus lent works to the exhibition. Writer Frances Tour who founded...
Dates:
Sep-Nov 1930
Planning correspondence with Mexican government, 1930 - 1931
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
120 paintings and drawings by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Due to a larger exhibition of Rivera's work going on at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, director of the Legion of Honor, Lloyd LaPage Rollins, had to seek out loans from private collectors across the United States and Mexico. He loaned works from not only the Mexican Government, but Rivera himself. As well as, Bay Area artists and collectors including Eugen Neuhaus lent works to the exhibition. Writer Frances Tour who founded...
Dates:
1930 - 1931
Lender correspondence A-K, 1930 - 1931
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
120 paintings and drawings by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Due to a larger exhibition of Rivera's work going on at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, director of the Legion of Honor, Lloyd LaPage Rollins, had to seek out loans from private collectors across the United States and Mexico. He loaned works from not only the Mexican Government, but Rivera himself. As well as, Bay Area artists and collectors including Eugen Neuhaus lent works to the exhibition. Writer Frances Tour who founded...
Dates:
1930 - 1931
Lender correspondence L, 1930 - 1931
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
120 paintings and drawings by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Due to a larger exhibition of Rivera's work going on at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, director of the Legion of Honor, Lloyd LaPage Rollins, had to seek out loans from private collectors across the United States and Mexico. He loaned works from not only the Mexican Government, but Rivera himself. As well as, Bay Area artists and collectors including Eugen Neuhaus lent works to the exhibition. Writer Frances Tour who founded...
Dates:
1930 - 1931
Lender correspondence M-R, 1930 - 1931
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
120 paintings and drawings by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Due to a larger exhibition of Rivera's work going on at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, director of the Legion of Honor, Lloyd LaPage Rollins, had to seek out loans from private collectors across the United States and Mexico. He loaned works from not only the Mexican Government, but Rivera himself. As well as, Bay Area artists and collectors including Eugen Neuhaus lent works to the exhibition. Writer Frances Tour who founded...
Dates:
1930 - 1931
Lender correspondence S, 1930 - 1931
File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
120 paintings and drawings by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Due to a larger exhibition of Rivera's work going on at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, director of the Legion of Honor, Lloyd LaPage Rollins, had to seek out loans from private collectors across the United States and Mexico. He loaned works from not only the Mexican Government, but Rivera himself. As well as, Bay Area artists and collectors including Eugen Neuhaus lent works to the exhibition. Writer Frances Tour who founded...
Dates:
1930 - 1931