"Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection." 1999 March 7-May 16, 1991-2003
Scope and Contents
In 1999, Innis Shoemaker curated an exhibtion dedicated to the Philadelphia-born artist, Earl Horter, including some 50 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by the seminal European figures in early modern art such as Picasso, Braque, Duchamp and Brancusi, as well as Horter's American colleagues such as Charles Sheeler and Arthur B. Carles. These records document the planning necessary to execute the exhibition, featuring extensive archival research, object files for exhibited works, correspondence, preparatory texts for the exhibtion catalogue, and a variety of administrative materials regarding funding, installation, and related programming.
Dates
- 1991-2003
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: ? linear feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Arrangement
Contents are arranged into groups that roughly correspond with the chronology of exhibition planning and have been maintained in original order.
Creator
- From the Collection: Percy, Ann (Creator, Person)
- From the Collection: Shoemaker, Innis H. (Creator, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives Repository
Philadelphia Museum of Art
PO Box 7646
Philadelphia PA 19101-7646 United States
archives@philamuseum.org