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Price list, ca. 1928

 File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 11, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

An exhibition of 25 original paintings by celebrated American artist Rockwell Kent, arranged by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The paintings depict landscapes in Ireland, Tierra del Fuego, and Alaska.
The exhibition materials span one folder and include shipping correspondence and a price list of the objects in the exhibition.

Dates: ca. 1928

Shipping correspondence, 1929

 File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 11, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

An exhibition of 25 original paintings by celebrated American artist Rockwell Kent, arranged by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The paintings depict landscapes in Ireland, Tierra del Fuego, and Alaska.
The exhibition materials span one folder and include shipping correspondence and a price list of the objects in the exhibition.

Dates: 1929

Future exhibition correspondence, 1929 - 1930

 File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 12, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of 161 paintings by leading American artists, lent to the Legion of Honor by the Grand Central Art Galleries of New York City. This exhibition came from a project led by Walter L. Clark to encourage American artists by collecting their work into a central agency which would then distribute their works for them. In exchange for an initiation fee, the artists would be given gallery space and part of the commission on the sale of their artworks. The exhibition records include...
Dates: 1929 - 1930

Artist list from the exhibition catalog, 1929

 File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 13, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: 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: 1929

Shipping information & object lists, May 22, 1929

 File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 15, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

An exhibition of 55 photographs by Danish artist Albert Petersen of landscape and water scenes, portraits, figure studies, and symbolic compositions.
The exhibition records span one folder and include shipping information and object lists. A copy of the exhibition catalog is housed within the Legion of Honor Exhibition Catalogs collection.

Dates: May 22, 1929

Museum planning notes, ca. 1930

 File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 1
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: ca. 1930

Shipping information & object lists, 1930

 File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 2
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

Artist statement, ca. 1930

 File — Box: 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Records, Folder: Exhibition 19, Folder: 3
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: ca. 1930

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