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Records of the Exhibitions Department (RG-23), 1936/2015 193.0 Linear Feet 265 boxes

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The collection's inclusive dates are 1936-2015, with the bulk of the material dating from 1979-2004. The collection is comprised of correspondence, exhibition schedules, budgets, grant applications, photographs, object lists, notes, collection statements, planning documents, project files, policies, loan arrangements and decisions, and other materials.

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Records of the Fischer Collection (RG-31), 1967/2013 1.25 Linear Feet 1 box; 34 files

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The collection was artifically created in order to bring together records about the Fischer collection residing in multiple collections in the VMFA Archives, as well as in the museum's records at the Library of Virginia. As such, the collection is entirely comprised of photocopies of records from the 1960s to the 2010s. To date, the museum has not located a collection of contemporaneous Fischer family records within its collections.
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Records of Virginia Arts Organizations (SC-03), 1888/1942 0.5 Linear Feet 1 box, 12 folders; 113 items

Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts
The collection documents the rich history of Richmond's artistic culture and community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing upon the legacy of the first Academy of Fine Arts in the United States, founded in Richmond in 1786, the Richmond Academy of Arts was revived in 1930, and records created throughout the organization's history comprise the majority of the collection. The Academy provided the most cohesive and active arts organization in Richmond before the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Even after the museum's opening in 1936, the relationship between the Academy and the museum is notable; from the correspondence between Thomas C. Colt, the museum's first Director, and two Presidents of the Academy, to the creation of Richmond's first "Salon des Refuses," and to the repeated overlapping of artist and patron names within the organizations.
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R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans Papers (SC-21), 1885/1958 0.2 Linear Feet 3 boxes; 13 items

The collection documents the history of R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, a large residential complex for poor and infirm Confederate veterans of the Civil War. Altogether a total of nearly three thousand veterans from thirty-three states called the camp home, and after the camp's closing, the Commonwealth eventually granted use of the buildings and land to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The collection is comprised of photographs and postcards that document the changing landscape of the camp over 50 years, a rare guest register that includes thousands of guest signatures and a page signed by ten members of the Blackfeet Nation, and two extremely rare artifacts – reunion ribbons – provide material testimony to the reconciliation efforts of Confederate and Union veterans only twenty years after they faced each other as enemies during the Civil War.
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Robert Merritt Personal Papers (SC-11), 1983 2.5 Linear Feet 2 boxes; 111 folders

Merritt, Robert
The collection contains research files on VMFA history created by Robert "Bob" Merritt, who was a theater and arts critic for the "Richmond Times-Dispatch" newspaper from the 1970s through the 1990s and wrote about VMFA frequently. The boxes were originally labeled "narrative history," a project which was sponsored by the museum's Marketing and Public Affairs department, probably as part of the plans to commemorate the museum's 50th anniversary in 1986.
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Series 10: Studio School, 1992/2010 4 boxes 4 binders Binder PH-01-10 Binder 1, Binder 1, Binder PH-01-10 Binder 2, Binder 2, Binder PH-01-10 Binder 3, Binder 3, Binder PH-01-10 Binder 4, Binder 4

This series documents the various classes held at the Studio School, aka the HealthSouth Visual Arts Center on Grove Avenue, and includes contact sheets, photographic prints, and class catalogs.

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