Box 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Catalogs

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of 24 paintings by major nineteenth century French Impressionist artists, arranged with artworks from private collections and the museum's loan collections. The exhibition records span five folders and include an exhibition description, lender correspondence, general correspondence, registration receipts, and collateral from other installations. A copy of the exhibition catalog is in the catalog collection. Installation photograph prints are in the photograph...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and cartoons depicting boxing and wrestling. The exhibition investigates how artists studied the human form and depicted it in these sports. This exhibition was organized by Legion of Honor interim director, Jermayne MacAgy. The exhibition records span seven folders and include an exhibition description, object and lender lists, planning notes, insurance information, registration receipts, and lender correspondence....

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An exhibition of 20 aluminum sculptures of animals by American artist Anna Hyatt Huntington.
The exhibition records span five folders and include an object list, planning correspondence, general correspondence, registration receipts, and collateral from other installations. A copy of the exhibition catalog is in the catalog collection. Installation photograph negatives are in the quarantine box.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of 90 drawings by Old Master artists of the sixteenth through nineteenth century from the collection of Moore S. Achenbach, whose entire collection of works on paper he would donate to the City of San Francisco in 1948 and would become the core of the FAMSF department, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. The exhibition records span four folders and include an exhibition description, price list, general correspondence, and registration receipts. A copy of the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of 218 paintings by 204 contemporary American artists, assembled by Jermayne McAgy with official approval of the State Department to accompany the United Nations Conference taking place in San Francisco in 1945. The Conference committee sponsored the exhibition and dinner was given for the delegates at the Legion of Honor. The exhibition records span 18 folders and include an object and price list, publicity information and correspondence, shipping correspondence,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of about 170 paintings by 7 American artists tracing the story of the Navy aviation program, from pre-flight training through combat action in the Pacific during World War II. The works were commissioned by the Abbott Laboratories with the purpose of presenting the activities of the navy to the public. The collection was then gifted to the U.S. Navy and was soon to be included in the Navy’s War Museum. Additionally, an exhibition of photographs of naval aviation by Edward J....

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An exhibition of 50 portrait, figure, and landscape paintings by American artist Abel George Warshawsky. The exhibition originated at the Legion and was then circuited by the Western Association of Art Museum Directors.
The exhibition records span six folders and include a price list, correspondence with the artist, planning correspondence, future exhibition correspondence, registration receipts, and shipping and sales information. A copy of the catalog is in the catalog collection.

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A memorial exhibition of 19 marine paintings by the late Swedish artist Leon Lundmark.
The exhibition records span five folders and include an artist biography, price list, correspondence with the artist’s wife, planning correspondence, and registration receipts. A copy of the exhibition catalog is in the catalog collection.

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An exhibition of 24 paintings by American artist Martin Baer.
The exhibition records span five folders and include a price list, correspondence with the artist, planning correspondence, registration receipts, and collateral from other installations. A copy of the exhibition catalog is in the catalog collection. Clippings are in the clipping collection.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Arranged by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of about 120 prints surveying the development of printmaking by European and American artists from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, including loans from the National Gallery at Washington, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum, and private collectors. The exhibition accompanied the 1957 San Francisco Print Festival and was intended to...