Box 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Catalogs

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A major exhibition of more than 400 native, indigenous, and folk art objects tracing the history of the South American Andean region from about 1200 BCE until the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, including artists of Peru, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama, and Costa Rica. The exhibition was a collaboration between the Legion of Honor, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The exhibition records span 19 folders...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of weapons and armor from medieval and renaissance Europe, lent by the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The exhibition records span 12 folders and include a radio broadcast transcript, exhibition preview information, planning correspondence, loan slips, future exhibition correspondence, a draft from the LACMA catalog, general correspondence, expense information, shipping information and receipts, registration receipts, and collateral from other installations. A copy of the...

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An exhibition surveying the history of textile art over five centuries across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, arranged from an indefinite loan of textiles from the William H. Crocker estate and supplemented by textiles and decorative arts from the permanent collection.
The exhibition records span four folders and include an exhibition description, price list, general correspondence, and registration receipts, plus a catalog and installation photographs.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of furniture, paintings, and everyday objects that indicate “elegance” from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries.The exhibition records span three folders and include a radio broadcast transcript, general correspondence, and registration receipts. The Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Vol. 11, No. 3 served as the exhibition catalog and is in the catalog collection. Clippings are in the clipping collection. Installation photograph prints and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of export porcelain dishes by Chinese artists of the middle ages, celebrating a recent gift of 21 porcelain objects collected in Paris, France and donated to the museum by Legion of Honor co-founder, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels. Additional loans were made by Mrs. D.C. Ashley and Mrs. James V. Coleman. The exhibition records span one folder of registration receipts. The Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Vol. 11, No. 5 served as the exhibition...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of over 200 everyday wooden objects from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, assembled from Bay Area collections and dealers.The exhibition records span two folders and include general correspondence and registration receipts. The Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Vol. 11, No. 6 & 7 served as the exhibition catalog and is in the catalog collection. Clippings are in the clipping collection. Object and installation photograph prints are in the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of 60 masks comparing the religious, decorative, and festival masks across the globe including masks from Austria, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Guatemala, China, Tibet, Africa, Japan, New Guinea, and Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest and Southwestern U.S. An additional section showed papier mache masks created by the children who attended the museum’s Saturday morning art classes. The exhibition records span three folders and include a price list, lender...

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An exhibition of 23 paintings by Austrian Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, arranged by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
The exhibition records span four folders and include a price list, planning correspondence, registration receipts, and shipping information, plus a catalog, clippings and object and installation photograph prints and negatives.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of 44 costumes and clothing dating from 1876 to 1954 arranged by the I. Magnin & Company department store of San Francisco in celebration of their 78th anniversary. Designs by the most famous designers of this era were included. The exhibition was sponsored by the San Francisco Junior Auxiliary of the Stanford Convalescent Home.The exhibition records span four folders and include exhibition descriptions, receipts, planning correspondence, and registration receipts,...

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An exhibition of 20 sculptures dating from 1760 to 1860 by colonial American folk artists, collected by Adele Earnest and Cordelia Hamilton for the Stony Point Folk Gallery, New York.
The exhibition records span five folders and include an exhibition description, planning correspondence, registration receipts, and shipping information, plus the Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Vol. 12, No. 5, and installation and object photographs.