2. Records of the Directors

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,...

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Langdon Warner, a scholar of Asian art and an archaeologist, was Director of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art from 1917 to 1923. Warner also served as Curator of the Wilstach Collection. The Langdon Warner records contain correspondence of Langdon Warner, museum Director between 1917 and 1923, and E. Hamilton Bell, Acting Director during Warner’s absence while he traveled in Asia.

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From 1971 to 1974 Botwinick was the first Assistant Director for Art, a newly created post. He left here to become the Director of the Brooklyn Museum and, beginning in 1982 served as Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. His records consist of exhibition files, curatorial department records, and Museum subjects.

Abstract Woodhouse, a medical doctor and a scholar, was Acting Director of the Museum from 1923 to 1925, Associate Director until 1927, and Advisor in the 18th Century Industrial Arts until 1928. The collection contains primarily correspondence regarding acquisitions. Several long sets include: correspondence with dealers and scholars, especially in the field of furniture and letters from the officers in the Corporation, including John D. McIlhenny and others. There is a small amount of...