Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012
Person
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Announcement of Robert Lebel's memorial service, 1986
Object — Box: 8, Folder: 16
Identifier: MDR_B008_F016_001
Scope and Contents
"Robert Lebel." Announcement of Lebel's memorial service.
Dates:
1986
Correspondence from Charles Henri Ford to Marcel Duchamp, 1947 August 6
Object — Box: 14, Folder: 20
Identifier: MDR_B014_F020_001
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Charles Henri Ford to Marcel Duchamp [copy].
Dates:
1947 August 6
Excerpt from "The Imagery of Chess Revisited", 2005
Object — Box: 14, Folder: 21
Identifier: MDR_B014_F021_004
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Excerpt from "The Imagery of Chess Revisited" by Larry List and Ingrid Schaffner showing the blindfold chess event at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Dates:
2005
"Imagery of chess" exhibition brochure, 1944
Object — Box: 14, Folder: 21
Identifier: MDR_B014_F021_001
Scope and Contents
Julien Levy Gallery. "Imagery of chess" exhibition brochure.
Dates:
1944
"Imagery of chess" exhibition brochure, 1944-1945
Object — Box: 36, Folder: 3
Identifier: JLP_B036_F003_003
Scope and Contents
Julien Levy Gallery. "Imagery of chess" exhibition brochure. Group Exhibition: The Imagery of Chess: Paintings, Sculpture, Newly Designed Chessmen, Music and Miscellany.
Dates:
1944-1945
Photograph of Vittorio Rieti, Dorothea Tanning, and Max Ernst during the blindfold chess event, 1944
Object — Box: 14, Folder: 21
Identifier: MDR_B014_F021_002
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Vittorio Rieti, Dorothea Tanning, and Max Ernst (left to right) during the blindfold chess event at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Dates:
1944
Tanning, Dorothea, 2004-2005
File — Box: 506, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries currently is closed to researchers. File titles are subject to change when processing is finalized at a later date. Under d'Harnoncourt's direction, the museum continued to envision grander goals that would enhance the visitor's experience and allow the institution to better serve its diverse community. It seems only fitting that this last subseries should document the initiation of the most transforming project for the museum's iconic neo-classical "triumph on...
Dates:
2004-2005
Tanning, Dorothea, 1997, 1999
File — Box: 301, Folder: 13
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From the Sub-Series:
Following Robert Scott's retirement as museum President in 1996, d'Harnoncourt was appointed the following year as the museum's Chief Executive Officer in addition to her continued role as its George D. Widener Director. This subseries coincides with d'Harnoncourt's earliest years leading the museum in her dual roles. During this period, with the approach of the new millennium as well as its 125th anniversary, the museum began to plan for its future while building upon its past. There are...
Dates:
1997, 1999
Tanning, Dorothea. Correspondence, 2001
File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
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From the Sub-Series:
As documented in the "Library Company of Philadelphia" folder, d'Harnoncourt again crossed paths with Fiske Kimball, her directorial predecessor by 30 years. (Both were recipients of the prestigious Philadelphia Award--Kimball in 1950 and d'Harnoncourt in 1997.) In the tradition of Benjamin Franklin and its other original founders, the Library Company offers shares in its organization as a form of support. In 2001, it informed d'Harnoncourt that the share previously purchased in 1929 by...
Dates:
2001
Tanning, Dorothea. Third party correspondence, 1997
File — Box: 3, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-subseries and the remaining ones replicate the arrangement by date span of d'Harnoncourt's PMA records that were created after 1996. All date spans, therefore, coincide with her dual role as PMA's director and CEO. Of note in this sub-subseries are the letters of congratulations sent to d'Harnoncourt upon her receipt of The Philadelphia Award, one of the city's most prestigious recognitions, and one bestowed nearly 50 years earlier to d'Harnoncourt's directorial predecessor at PMA,...
Dates:
1997