Abstract The Directors Exhibition Records of the Philadelphia Museum of Art contain documentation of exhibition activities at the museum. These records are not a comprehensive account of exhibitions held by the museum, but an ongoing file produced by the executive office in the course of administering exhibitions between 1915 and 1981. Museum directors during this period included Edwin AtLee Barber, Langdon Warner, Fiske Kimball, Henri Marceau, Evan Turner, and Jean Sutherland Boggs. Additional...

Abstract Dr. Jean Sutherland Boggs was a prominent art historian and expert scholar on Degas who served as director of several major North American museums. She was appointed as the first female director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and served from 1970 to 1982. The Jean Sutherland Boggs records contain the general correspondence and administrative records of Dr. Boggs. The records date from 1977 to 1983 and include correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, financial records,...

Abstract William P. Wood was President of the Corporation from 1977 to 1981. Earlier he had served as Chairman of the Board and on several Board committees. These records are mostly correspondence, often of a political and administrative nature. Subjects include the transition of officers, lobbying, development, introduction of the new Director, and development and organization of the Irish and Second Empire Exhibitions. Also included is a series of recent bequests to the Philadelphia Museum of...