Box 1 - Legion of Honor Exhibition Catalogs

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An exhibition of 33 paintings by Indonesian artists, arranged by the Indonesian Consulate of San Francisco intended to display Indonesian culture to Americans.
The exhibition records span three folders and include a preview invitation, price list, planning correspondence, and registration receipts, plus a catalog and photographs.

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An exhibition of 20 oil paintings and watercolor paintings by Russian-born American artist Boris von Clodt depicting German cities post World War II, from 1945 to 1949.
The exhibition records span three folders and include an exhibition description, didactic information, correspondence with the artist, and registration receipts, plus a catalog, clippings, and photographs.

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A new permanent exhibition showcasing bronze sculptures by American artist Arthur Putnam from the Spreckels collection. It is not known how long the gallery was installed.
The exhibition records include a catalog.

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An exhibition of 40 oil paintings by Greek-born American artist Cosmy, exhibited in celebration of the artist’s 90th birthday.
The exhibition records span four folders and include an exhibition description, invitation, price list, press release, and registration receipts, plus a catalog and photographs.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition surveying the development of decorative arts by Native American artists in the Southwestern U.S. from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, with some earlier dated objects, including textiles, jewelry, dishes, silverware, pottery, sand paintings, and other art objects. The exhibition was arranged by the Legion of Honor in collaboration with the California League for American Indians. The exhibition was so popular that a sequel to the exhibition, Southwest Indian Arts II, was...

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An exhibition of 19 paintings by American artist C. Fredric Hobbs, arranged by the museum in collaboration with the Artists Guild of America, Carmel chapter.
The exhibition records span four folders and include an artist biography, price list, planning correspondence, and registration receipts, plus a catalog, clipping, and photographs.

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An exhibition of 18 collages by American artist Don Reich. This was the artist’s first solo exhibition in San Francisco.
The exhibition records span two folders and include registration receipts and sales correspondence, plus a catalog and photographs.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: An exhibition of the 21 paintings by nineteenth and twentieth century French artists recently donated to the museum by American collector Andre J. Khan. The collection included more nineteenth century French paintings than in the exhibition, as well as seventeenth and eighteenth century Dutch and French paintings, sculpture from antiquity to the Gothic period to eighteenth century France, and eighteenth century French furniture. Khan also provided a fund to make future acquisitions. The...

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...

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An exhibition of 19 paintings by American artist Marjorie Phillips, co-founder of the Phillips Gallery in Washington D.C.
The exhibition records span five folders and include an artist biography, object list, planning correspondence, registration receipts, and planning for the preview party, plus a catalog and photographs.