Box 35

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: This exhibition, organized through a collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, explored the Victorian fasination with photography, from its earliest invention in 1839 through the end of the nineteenth century. Some 240 extraordinary 19th-century photographs by such photographers as William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, John Murray, Oscar G. Rejlander, and Julia Margaret Cameron were brought together by Michael E. Hoffman, Adjunct...

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: This exhibition, organized through a collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, explored the Victorian fasination with photography, from its earliest invention in 1839 through the end of the nineteenth century. Some 240 extraordinary 19th-century photographs by such photographers as William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, John Murray, Oscar G. Rejlander, and Julia Margaret Cameron were brought together by Michael E. Hoffman, Adjunct...

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Burk Uzzle, American photographer and social documentarian, turned his lens upon all aspects of American life throughout his career. Martha Chahroudi chose 77 examples of his work for display in this exhibition.

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

Burk Uzzle, American photographer and social documentarian, turned his lens upon all aspects of American life throughout his career. Martha Chahroudi chose 77 examples of his work for display in this exhibition.

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

Burk Uzzle, American photographer and social documentarian, turned his lens upon all aspects of American life throughout his career. Martha Chahroudi chose 77 examples of his work for display in this exhibition.

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J. M. W. Turner's paintings documenting the burning of the Houses of Parliament on October 16, 1834 were featured in an exhibition organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the fire. The Philadelphia installation was supported through a grant from The Pew Memorial Trust.

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: The year 1984 marked the centennial birthday of the late Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch, a prominent collector of arms and armor. The Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the Kienbusch collection by bequest, and it has been a focal point of the Museum since its earliest display in 1964. This subseries includes a small collection of memoranda discussing the possibility of arranging an exhibition in honor of Kienbusch on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. Sadly, this exhibition was...

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In 1984, the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs department proposed an exhibition of early 20th-century Russian paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrated books from the collection of Christian Brinton, a Philadelphia art critic. Though the exhibition was never realized, early preparatory materials, including a 1985 review of the collection and internal memoranda.

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This installation in the "Pertaining to Philadelphia" series featured a set of paintings by Sidney Goodman on the subject of the Four Elements--earth, water, fire, and air--with a fifth canvas in the series representing the human component. Mark Rosenthal, Curator of 20th-Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum, organized the exhibition.

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Carl Strehlke, Assistant Curator of the Johnson Collection, organized this exhibition featuring paintings from the collection executed in Spain during the 14th and 15th centuries. Each of the 15 paintings provides insight into the geographic and cultural diversity of Spanish interpretations appled to the International Gothic Style.