Box 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Catalogs

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of 250 fine books, illustrating all phases of the art of bookmaking in France from 1900 to 1948, with special emphasis on the last 10 years. The exhibition was lent by the French government and was sponsored by a committee of leading San Francisco bibliophiles.The first section of the show included 142 examples of limited editions produced from 1937 to 1947 and were selected from the Bibliotheque Nationale, L’Impremerie Nationale, and other public and private...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The fourth annual juried exhibition of paintings by contemporary American artists at the Legion of Honor, including about 150 surveying American painting of the time. The exhibition records span 11 folders and include a price list, exhibition preview invitation, entry forms, lender correspondence, registration receipts, information of art purchases. A copy of the catalog is in the catalog collection. Installation photograph prints and negatives as well as object photograph negatives are...

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An exhibition of artworks created by the students of the museum’s children’s art classes during the previous year. The exhibition records include the Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Vol. 10, No. 4, which served as the exhibition bulletin and is in the catalog collection.

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 showcasing the collection to be installed in the intended “Museum of Dance and Theater,” a project to build a permanent museum within Golden Gate Park to house the dance and theater collection of Legion of Honor co-founder Alma de Bretteville Spreckels. The collection featured small sculptures by such noted artists as Theodore Riviere, Paul Troubetzkoy, Emmanuele Rosales, and Malvina Hoffman. There were also watercolors by J. Paget-Fredericks, sketches by Emile Bourdelle,...

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An exhibition of watercolor paintings and gouache paintings by American artist Jason Schoener.
The exhibition records span three folders and include an artist biography, general correspondence, and registration receipts, plus photographs and a catalog.

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An exhibition of 40 paintings by Italian artist Giuseppe Gambino, lent by Gladys Lloyd Robinson. This was the artist’s first exhibition in the United States.
The exhibition records span one folder of planning correspondence, plus a catalog and photographs.

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An exhibition of 35 paintings by American artist Jean Halpert-Ryden.
The exhibition records span four folders and include an artist biography, object list, price list, correspondence with the artist, and registration receipts, plus a catalog and photographs.

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....