Title
Wilhelm
Valentiner (Archives of American Art)
Record
Wilhelm
Reinhold Valentiner papers 1860-1974
16 microfilm reels: reels D31, 272-276,
2140-2144, and 3963-3967
Description
Wilhelm
Reinhold Valentiner edited Art in America (1913-1931), founded the Detroit
Institute of Art and was its director from 1924 to 1946. He was also the
director-consultant of the Los Angeles County Museum from 1946 to 1954, director
of the Getty Museum in 1954, and North Carolina Museum of Art (1955-1958). His
archive includes diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, printed material and
photographs.
Location of
Record
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian
Institution
Washington DC Research Center Suite 2200
750 9th St.
NW
Washington DC
Tel.: +1 202 275 2156 (General queries)
or: +1 202
275 1961 (Reference desk)
http://artarchives.si.edu/
Searchable
catalogue: http://www.siris.si.edu/
Postal Address:
Reference Services/ILL
Archives of American
Art
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Victor Building, Room 2200,
MRC 937
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Opening Hours:
Microfilm Reference Room: 9-5, Monday-Friday; no
appointment necessary, but researchers are advised to contact the archive in
advance.
Oral History Tapes and Transcripts: 9-5, Monday-Friday; by
appointment only.
Manuscript Reading Room - for use of original papers:
9:30-12 and 1-4:30,
Monday-Friday, by appointment only.
Source
Smithsonian
Institution Research Information System
<http://www.siris.si.edu/>, accessed 3
January 2003.
N.H. Yeide, K. Akinsha, A.L. Walsh (eds.), AAM Guide to Provenance Research, Washington 2001, p. 239.
See also Valentiner (North Carolina State Archives)