Rishel, Joseph J.

Abstract Art to Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943-2008) was both a professional and personal passion. Best recognized for her twenty-five year tenure as director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, d'Harnoncourt collaborated with local, national and international individuals and organizations, to keep art relevant and essential in building and bridging communities. Most of the material comprising the Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers traces her professional development in and away from the Museum and consists...

Abstract The Johnson Collection Curatorial Records represent two "generations" of curatorial oversight of the art collection acquired by John Graver Johnson (19841-1917), one of Philadelphia's most prominent corporate lawyers. In these curatorial records, the earlier files reflect the administrative and curatorial activities of Henri Marceau and Barbara Sweeny, roughly documenting their combined years of service, 1926-1972. Joseph J. Rishel succeeded Sweeny as Johnson Collection curator in November...

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This collection contains personal papers, documents, photographs, and ephemera kept by Joseph J. Rishel from 1978-2014.

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Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Carl Colozzi, Anne d'Harnoncourt, John Tancock, Joseph Rishel, Kneeland McNulty, and Michael Botwinick.

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Correspondence from Joe Rishel, Curator of European Painting, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, George D. Widener Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Correspondence from Joe Rishel, Curator of European Painting, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, George D. Widener Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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The Painting and Sculpture Department records consist of departmental and exhibition records. It includes correspondence, subject files, lender files, artist and object research files, photographs, draft catalogue writings and other documentation of the Department’s activities.

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Duchamp, Marcel. "Rotoreliefs," 1953. Photo by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Duchamp, Marcel. "Rotoreliefs," 1953. Photo by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Oral History Collection preserves first-hand accounts of the museum’s activities. This collection is comprised of transcripts, audio and video interviews with artists, museum staff, scholars, curators, and trustees.The recording of oral histories began at the museum in the 1980s and restarted in 2006, with an informal series of interviews that included Henry Magaziner (a close friend of Julian Abele, a noted architect and co-designer of the museum’s Fairmount Building), Ella...