Victor D'Amico Papers
in The Museum of Modern Art Archives

Overview of the Collection

Arrangement

Index Terms

Series I. Department of Education Administration, 1938-1973

The series includes a small amount of administrative material from the Department of Education during D'Amico's tenure. Notable are three folders (I.14-16) of correspondence and other information about the reconfiguration of the Department at D'Amico's retirement, and the discontinuation of onsite art classes at the Museum. Course descriptions and registration forms are included in Series III.C. Art Classes General.

Historical Note

D'Amico's first involvement at MoMA was as head of the Museum's Educational Project, a two-year pilot project (1937-1939) that was an outcome of the report on art education in museums funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (see also Series VIII. Professional Involvement). The Department of Education was formally inaugurated in 1939; its services to high schools were termed The New York City High Schools Program (see Series II).

Blank forms to be filled in by teachers re: students and classes

Includes list of activities and schools participating; minutes of the first Advisory Committee meeting (2/16/1939); Tentative Plans for the Three Year Experiment of the Educational Project with Secondary Schools (6/13/1939)

View PDF of folder I.2

View PDF of folder I.3

Proposed program of courses for teachers and children

View PDF of folder I.4

B/w prints, some mounted; transparencies

Includes letters (decorated with sketches) from D'Amico to "Kearsargists" while in India and Rome with the Children's Art Carnival [1963], and his "open letter to class on the last day" (1956)

Glass-mounted slides

7" audio reel: Participants included Museum Trustee William A.M. Burden, Museum Director René d'Harnoncourt, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Gardner Cowles on occasion of The Museum of Modern Art Builds: Models and Photographs of Proposed Building Plans of Museum [MoMA Exh. #710a, October 1, 1962 - cont.].

NOTE: this recording in digital format (Sound Recordings, 62.2, 62.2D) can be used in the MoMA Archives Manhattan reading room

Receipts for donations, fund-raising letters, account balances and expenses

For four-program pilot to teach creative art to underprivileged children and their families. Includes correspondence, budget

Includes memo D'Amico-MoMA Trustee Henry Allen Moe (1/28/1969) summarizing accomplishments at MoMA; TLS D'Amico-MoMA Director Bates Lowry (4/10/1969) re: request to postpone planned closing of Art Center; letters from parents and others to MoMA; originals and copies of correspondence sent to MoMA Director and Trustees

Includes original and photocopied letters to MoMA, and responses

Correspondence re: orders and budgets

Draft press release

Includes agendas for program committee meetings, schedules of exhibitions, clippings

Series II. New York City High Schools Program, [1940s]-1974

The series includes information on circulating exhibitions, teaching portfolios, slide sets, and other educational materials and their use in programs provided to the New York City public high schools by MoMA's Department of Education during and after D'Amico's tenure.

Historical Note

MoMA's New York City Public High Schools Program was formally inaugurated in 1937, as one of MoMA's newly formed Education Project's first initiatives. In cooperation with the New York City Board of Education (which, at that time, employed no art teachers), the Program provided circulating exhibitions and teaching materials (including slides, slide talks, teaching portfolios and models, and libraries of reproductions) to schools. It also held programs at the Museum that included opportunities for students to curate exhibitions (see Series VI. MoMA Exhibitions). At the Program's peak in 1957-1958, 59 schools were being provided with more than 100 circulating items.

Arrangement

The series is organized into two subseries:

Subseries II.A. General Background, [1940s]-1971
Subseries II.B. Alphabetical List of Exhibitions and Slide Programs Distributed to Schools, 1941-1974

Subseries II.A. General Background, [1940s]-1971

Scope and Content

The subseries includes administrative information on the Program, as well as photographic documentation of teaching materials and some exhibitions. No explanations are provided for the abbreviations E.P. and V.P. in the records, but they appear to relate to exhibition and visual materials, respectively.

12" film reel

Note: This 12" film reel has been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening it. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

Super 8 film reel

Note: This Super 8 film reel has been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening it. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

11" film reel

Note: This 11" film reel has been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening it. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

E.P.1: text to accompany slides

E.P. 2A: text to accompany slides

Includes photographs of installation at Fieldston school, art teacher, and unidentified images: b/w prints

Questionnaire responses received from high schools. Most are aggregated from individual responses.

Photographs of panels, box for traveling version of the exhibition: b/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

Mounted b/w prints removed from post album

Includes list of exhibitions, information on school art departments, form letters

Includes list of exhibitions, information on school art departments, form letters

Includes list of exhibitions, information on school art departments

Includes list of exhibitions, information on school art departments, form letters

Includes list of exhibitions, information on school art departments, form letters

Includes list of exhibitions, information on school art departments, form letters

Postcards returned from schools with information on art classes, teachers, and semester schedules

Photographs of box, contents: b/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

Photographs of box, contents: b/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

B/w prints

Photographs of box, contents, students using materials: b/w prints

Photographs of cabinets of materials distributed for use in classrooms: b/w glass-mounted slides

Paper-mounted color- and b/w glass-mounted slides

Lists of items for Lending Library of Color Reproductions, E.P. 45A-D

Includes photograph of demonstration teaching model for design (see folder II.A.17): b/w prints

Photographs of exhibition panels: b/w prints

B/w prints

Correspondence with schools, Board of Education; includes lists of available exhibitions, participating vocational high schools

Includes reports on the High School Program, and information on previous High School Program exhibitions

B/w prints

Photographs of exhibition of circulating educational exhibitions, displayed in their packaging: b/w prints

Photographs of unidentified location: b/w prints

11x15 panels showing works of modern art, reproduced on wallboard

11x15 panels showing works of modern art, reproduced on wallboard

11x15 panels showing works of modern art, reproduced on wallboard

"Teaching portfolio number one: Modern sculpture": text and 40 b/w plates

"Teaching portfolio number one: Modern sculpture": text and 40 b/w plates

Set of b/w plates of contemporary photography, some labeled "S1" on reverse

Laminated album pages of captioned op art: b/w and color

Album pages (lamination previously removed) of original drawings showing various art techniques, including assemblage, mobiles, and reed sculpture

Album pages (lamination previously removed) of original drawings showing various art techniques, including assemblage, mobiles, and reed sculpture

Includes 1970 summary of the program; various materials supplied

Correspondence with schools, intra-MoMA correspondence

Lists of books and other printed items supplied to schools as E.P. 68, 99, 111, 125, 127

List of works in MoMA's collection; photocopied pages from publication Collage: Personalities, Concepts [and] Techniques

12" film reel

Note: This 12" film reel has been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening it. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

Photographs of various objects in MoMA's collection: b/w prints

Subseries II.B. Alphabetical List of Exhibitions and Slide Programs Distributed to Schools, 1941-1974

Scope and Content

Subseries II.B is a set of files received in alphabetical order by exhibition/slide set title, which have been maintained in that order here, preceded by administrative information in chronological order. They were received partly in materials from Teachers College and partly as stored at MoMA by the Department of Education. No explanations are provided for the abbreviations E.P. and V.P. in the records, but they appear to relate to exhibition and visual materials, respectively.

The subseries includes information on educational materials, exhibitions, and slide sets that circulated to New York City public schools during and after D'Amico's tenure at MoMA, documenting the extent and range of the Program. Some exhibitions were versions of those mounted at MoMA, and some were created especially for the Program (including Modern Art of the Small House and City Apartment, Design for the Theatre, Poster Design Today, Contrasts in Painting). The materials include checklists, intra-MoMA requisitions for photographic reproductions and shipping, as well as correspondence with schools that received the materials. In folder II.B.81, High School Program Coordinator Sue Raices explains why the Program was discontinued in the early 1970s: "While exhibitions were once an important part of the program, the vastly changed school population and sometimes difficult situation in the schools have caused a shift in emphasis. Today the schools are finding more and more need for audio-visual materials."

List of some works in MoMA's collection: original typescript

Detailed chart of schools to which exhibitions, teaching portfolios, and other materials traveled, with months of distribution in unidentified years

Includes number of pieces, dimensions, and weight

Annotated list of discontinued materials

Includes lists of items from What is Modern Painting?, What is Modern Sculpture?, A Century of Photography, Modern Architecture of the Modern School

E.P. 71; includes checklist, caption text from two versions of exhibition

E.P. 130; checklist, text accompanying slides

E.P. 57A, B; V.P. 3; includes checklist, caption text. Exhibition was composed of examples selected from the 28th Annual National Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art, sponsored by the Art Directors Club of NY and held at MoMA as Art Directors Club [MoMA Exh. #401, March 15-April 17, 1949]

Draft press release; photocopied clipping

E.P. 124; text for one caption

E.P. 38A, B; includes checklist, diagrams of panels, photostats of caption text

V.P. 20; includes checklist

E.P. 101A, B; includes caption text, photostat images, map of panel layout

Correspondence, order and requisition forms

Includes checklist

Includes captions, transparencies and photographic prints, order and requisition forms

E.P. 8B; checklist

E.P. 42, 90; checklist, order and requisition forms. After the exhibition was dismantled in 1970, fabrics from it were donated to the Harlem Carnival.

E.P. 41, 44; includes checklist, order and requisition forms

E.P. 105A, 105B (revised 1970); includes checklist, order and requisition forms, information on a slide set "Sculpture of Our Century"

E.P. 47A, B; includes checklist, edited caption text, order and requisition forms

E.P. 136A, B; includes checklist, list of New York City high school contacts, order and requisition forms

E.P. 46; includes checklist. Also has some information on "Original Costume Designs for the Modern Theater" (E.P. 14)

E.P. 58; includes checklist, order and requisition forms

E.P. 73; includes checklist, panel text

E.P. 64; photostat labels

E.P. 55, 54; includes checklist

E.P. 121A, B; includes order and requisition forms

E.P. 103A, B; includes checklist, transparencies of panels

E.P. 105A, B; includes checklist, caption photostats

E.P. 122; includes checklist

E.P. 104A, B; panel text and transparencies, captions, panel layout

E.P. 85A, B; includes description of set

E.P. 102A, B; includes panel text, transparencies

E.P. 103: checklist

E.P. 132A, B; checklist

E.P. 39A, B; includes checklist, photostat captions

E.P. 60; includes checklist, label copy, order and requisition forms

E.P. 116A, B: includes box list, order and requisition forms

E.P. 8A, 8B; given to Abraham Lincoln High School, Waitor High School, 1950; list of panels, panel labels

E.P. 117; includes checklists, correspondence, transfer forms, transparencies

E.P. 82: includes order and requisition forms

E.P. 96A, 96B; checklist; discontinued 1970

V.P. 7 (1950-1951), E.P. 30 (1946-1947). The latter was given to Girls High School in the fall of 1951.

E.P. 62; previous title: How the Modern Artist Works; includes transparency, label text, correspondence

E.P. 61: includes checklist, correspondence, order and requisition forms, b/w photographs with captions. Note on original folder: "The photographic panels and the box containing them were discarded on June 14, 1956"

Includes checklist, order and requisition forms. Note on original folder: "Discarded February 1971"

E.P. 56, V.P. 1; includes checklist, panel text, b/w prints

Glass-mounted color slides. These were found separately in the original folders and appear to match contents of folder II.B.51

E.P. 93, 94; checklists, order and requisition forms, correspondence

E.P. 49A, 49B; includes draft panel text, order and requisition forms

E.P. 73, V.P. 21; discontinued 1967, panels were discarded by Berkeley Express July 1970; includes panel text, label photostats, exhibition catalogue, press release

E.P. 43; includes panel text, order and requisition forms

E.P. 24A, 24B, 83, V.P. 22; withdrawn and dismantled July 1970. Includes checklist, panel text, correspondence

E.P. 40A, 40B; checklist

E.P. 109; includes checklist, label text

Includes checklist, order and requisition forms, correspondence

E.P. 86A, 86B; b/w photographs, checklist, order and requisition forms

E.P. 66A, 66B; includes b/w photographs, checklist, order and requisition forms

E.P. 66, 122; checklists

E.P. 77; order and requisition forms, panel text

E.P. 87A, 87B, V.P. 27; includes checklist, draft panel text, list of materials ordered

E.P. 120A, 120B; includes packing list, panel text

E.P. 80; includes checklist, order and requisition forms, panel text

Subtitled "The Photographer's Eye." Includes checklist, correspondence

E.P. 108; includes order and requisition forms, packing list

E.P. 81; includes checklist, partial panel text

E.P. 139; includes checklist, order and requisition forms, edited Acoustiguide text, press release

This exhibition included a recorded slide talk; checklist, order and requisition forms

E.P. 115; order and requisition forms

E.P. 123A; includes checklists, order and requisition forms

E.P. 129; includes checklist, mounted labels, order and requisition forms

E.P. 48A, 48B; includes labels, checklist

E.P. 98; checklist, labels

E.P. 134A, 134B; this exhibition was never completed; includes correspondence, information on science fiction films

E.P. 140; correspondence, press release re: film strip created from exhibition; includes checklist

E.P. 135A, B; includes draft and final checklists, order and requisition forms, catalogue, panel layout

E.P. 97, V.P. 30; panel labels, draft layout

V.P. 24; includes checklists, captions

E.P. 79; includes checklist, correspondence, panel labels

E.P. 112; includes contents, order and requisition forms, caption text

E.P. 69A, 69B; includes checklist, order and requisition forms

E.P. 133; includes order and requisition forms

E.P. 113A, 113; includes order and requisition forms, slide list

E.P. 113; includes checklist, slide list, diagrams of layout, order and requisition forms

E.P. 63A; includes loan correspondence, catalogue to Good Design [MoMA Exh. #463, November 21, 1950-January 28, 1951]

E.P. 128B; includes edited caption text

E.P. 107; includes order and requisition forms

Includes exhibition checklist

E.P. 131A, 131B; includes checklist, order and requisition forms

Includes checklists, order and requisition forms

E.P. 88A, 88B, V.P. 29; includes checklist

E.P. 89; includes checklist, caption text, labels

Series III. Art Education at MoMA, 1920s-1982 (bulk 1944-1968)

This series documents the variety of art classes for families, children, seniors, and teachers held at MoMA during D'Amico's tenure. It includes predominantly photographs of class participants and their work, as well as announcements and programs of classes, text and images used for slide talks presented at MoMA and elsewhere, and recorded presentations.

Historical Note

In 1944, D'Amico initiated the Museum's War Veterans' Art Center, a project that became the People's Art Center in 1948. The Center's classes moved in 1951 to the second and third floors of 21 West 53rd Street. As part of architect Philip Johnson's redesign of the Museum, completed in 1964, D'Amico designed classrooms, furniture, and equipment for new spaces in the Museum's east wing.

In 1960, D'Amico became President and Director of the Institute of Modern Art, a separate non-profit organization that assumed responsibility for the Museum's school program and other educational activities until his retirement in 1969, when classes for individual students were discontinued.

Arrangement

Administrative material pertaining to the Department of Education has been moved to Series I. Department of Education Administrative. For classes taught at the Art Barge see Series V. Art Barge; for programs for New York City public high schools see Series II. New York City Public High Schools Program; for publications of the War Veterans' Art Center, see Series VII. MoMA Publications.

Images depicting student artwork, which do not either relate to specific programs or show students at work, have been transferred to the Department of Education for internal use.

The series is organized into three subseries:

Subseries III.A. War Veterans' Art Center, 1944-1949
Subseries III.B. Slide Talks, 1943-1960s
Subseries III.C. Art Classes General, 1920s-1982 (bulk 1941-1970)

Subseries III.A. War Veterans' Art Center, 1944-1949

Historical Note

The War Veterans' Art Center was established in 1944 at the suggestion of MoMA trustees Mrs. John D. (Abby Aldrich) Rockefeller, Jr., and Stephen Clark, who both supported it financially. Housed initially in a loft across from the Museum at 681 Fifth Avenue, the Center provided classes in painting, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, printing, and woodworking to almost 1,500 veterans in its four years of existence. The War Veterans' Art Center was succeeded by the People's Art Center in 1948.

Photographs of objects: mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

B/w prints

B/w prints

Includes proof prints by photographer Pat Terry, and images that may be from a film strip: b/w prints, 8x10 negative

B/w prints

Some images captioned in pencil: mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Includes D'Amico with a student: mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Both Boyer and Chorley were executives of the Rockefeller interests: original typescript

Final report on the project: five copies

Typed draft; correspondence including letters of thanks John D. Rockefeller, Jr.-D'Amico (3/10/1949), Nelson A. Rockefeller-D'Amico (10/7/1948, 3/3/1949), James Thrall Soby-D'Amico (3/6/1949)

Subseries III.B. Slide Talks, 1943-1960s

Typed "Notes on slide talk," to accompany 30 slides

Text "prepared for audiences such as teachers' colleges, colleges, parent-teacher associations, adult groups, clubs, etc.," to accompany 43 slides: two copies

Glass-mounted color and b/w slides, numbered 1-42 with some missing: two sets

Text "prepared for audiences such as teachers' colleges, colleges, parent-teacher associations, adult groups, clubs, etc.," to accompany 34 slides: four copies

Glass-mounted color and b/w slides, numbered 1-39

Different versions of slides, some incorporating text: color and b/w glass-mounted slides

Glass-mounted color slides

Text (original and carbon) and color slides

Glass-mounted color slides

Paper and glass-mounted slides

Subseries III.C. Art Classes General, 1920s-1982 (bulk 1941-1970)

Super 8 film

Note: This 7" Super 8 film reel has been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening it. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

Two Super 8 film reels

Note: These two 7" Super 8 film reels have been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening them. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the films' physical condition.

Super 8 film

Note: This 7" Super 8 film reel has been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening it. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

Super 8 film

Note: This 7" Super 8 film reel has been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening it. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

7" audio reel, unboxed

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Original drawings, whiteprints

"A sequence of art experiences for a fifth grade class," Mary Fagan (three copies); "Considerations concerning arts projects related to social studies or other work," Angiola Churchill (two copies); "Art course of study grades 7-12," Mabel D'Amico

B/w prints and negatives

B/w prints and negatives

Wallboard panels showing Calder sculptures, Noguchi aerial view

Unidentified panel collage, marked "S I" on reverse

B/w prints

Includes images used in Art in Progress: 15th Anniversary Exhibition [MoMA Exh. #258, May 24- October 8, 1944]: b/w prints

Photocopies: includes one completed by Arthur Drexler, age 16, while a student at High School of Art and Design

Photographs of items produced for distribution to USO centers

Mounted b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of individual objects: b/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

Photographs of materials used in classes, and completed constructions: b/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

Photographs of wire sculpture, other works: b/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

The works shown in these photographs may have been displayed in Children's Holiday Carnival exhibitions at MoMA (see Series IV.A.i): b/w prints mounted on album pages previously removed from post album

Photographs of students at work in studios, including weaving taught by Anni Albers: b/w prints

View PDF of folder III.C.22

Photographs include Anni Albers with students: mounted b/w prints removed from post album

View PDF of folder III.C.23

Photographs of kits used for art classes: mounted b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of constructions: b/w prints, edited 120 contacts

Classes for children, young people, and parents; includes MoMA Bulletin (fall 1947, vol. XV, no. 1) on "The Questioning Public"

Classes for children, young people, and parents. Includes first summer session at MoMA, June-July 1953

Classes for children, young people, and parents. Includes first summer session on eastern Long Island, July 1956

Classes for children, young people, and parents. Includes Summer Art Center program, 1962

Classes for children, young people, and parents

Classes for children, young people, and parents

B/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

Articles and photographs about the Department of Education and specific classes and programs

Articles and photographs about the Department of Education and specific classes and programs

Photographs of examples of materials designed for use by artists, culled by Teachers College: b/w prints

Photographs culled by Teachers College: b/w prints

Photographs culled by Teachers College: b/w prints

Photographs of paintings: b/w prints, transparencies

Photographs of paintings: b /w prints

Collage and sculpture, students working: b/w prints

Photographs of objects, students working; includes some images from Art for the Family (see Series VII. MoMA Publications): b/w prints

Photographs of families making art: b/w prints

Photographs of families, children, school groups: b/w prints (one mounted)

Photographs of exhibited works by students, adult students at work: b/w prints, reproductions

Photographs of Angiola Churchill, unidentified man and woman: b/w prints

Photographs of constructions by a group taught by Jean d'Autilia, age 6-7 years: mounted and captioned b/w prints removed from post album

Measurements of 249 children at the People's Art Center by Jean d'Autilia, arithmetic by Elinor Weis

Whiteprint with typed emendations showing storage areas

Photographs of paintings: mounted and captioned b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of collage: mounted and captioned b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of sculpture and construction: mounted and captioned b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of sculpture and construction: mounted and captioned b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of sculpture and construction: mounted and captioned b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of objects, children in classes: b/w prints

Photographs of children working, and objects made in class; some images were used for Art for the Family (see Series VII): b/w prints

B/w prints

Photographs of mobiles: b/w prints

Taught by Jane Cooper Bland: b/w prints

Includes handwritten note explaining use of the images in a collage project by Perry Gutman: b/w prints

Photographs of ceramic sculpture and pottery I, II objects: b/w prints

Photographs of individual objects: b/w prints

Photographs of individual objects, including some images from Art for the Family (see Series VII): b/w prints

Photographs of paintings from children's classes taught by Jean D'Autilia: b/w prints

Photographs of paintings from children's classes taught by Jean D'Autilia: b/w prints removed from post album

Motivations, questions for discussion, diagrams of materials used in training workshops

Photographs of wire sculpture objects: b/w prints

Photographs of students working: b/w contact prints

B/w prints

Photographs of objects from a class for children 6-9 years old, taught by Jean D'Autilia: b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of D'Amico and other art teachers: b/w prints

Photographs of students working: b/w prints

Photographs of objects from a class for children 8-9 years old, taught by Jean D'Autilia: b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of paintings: b/w prints

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Photographs of objects from classes taught by Jean D'Autilia; some works are identified by the age of the artist: b/w prints

Photographs of objects from classes taught by Jean D'Autilia; some works are identified by the age of the artist: b/w prints

Photographs of students working: color slides

B/w prints

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Photographs of paintings and collages: mounted and captioned b/w prints, previously removed from binder

Promotional photographs: b/w prints, 8x10 negatives

Tracings, whiteprints, photostats

Elevations and floor plans: whiteprints; oversize, see flat file

Elevations and floor plans: whiteprints

Includes relocation plan for equipment and furniture in No. 23 (second floor): tracings, whiteprints

Tracing, whiteprints, blueprint

Notes by teachers including Jane Bland, Hilde Sigal, Muriel Silberstein, Jean D'Autilia: photocopies

Comments by Jean d'Autilia: 7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Comments by Jean d'Autilia: 7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Comments by Jean d'Autilia: 7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

With D'Amico, Jean D'Autilia "on 4 year olds"; D'Amico, Betty Spiro "on the art of 3 and 4 year olds"; Jean D'Autilia on "3 year olds"; two pages on "Art Appreciation" by Jane Bland

Comments by Jean d'Autilia: 7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Comments by Jean d'Autilia: 7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Unidentified content: 7" audio reel

NOTE: In Spring, 2013, this recording was sent off-site for preservation. The preservation vendor concluded that the tape duplicated content on recordings III.C.90 and III.C.91 in this collection. The tape was not preserved.

Unidentified content: 7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Color paper-mounted and b/w glass-mounted slides

Photographs from an unidentified exhibition: color paper-mounted and b/w glass-mounted slides

Photographs include images of soldiers: color slides

10.5" film reel

Note: This 10.5" film reel has been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening it. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

Photographs of collages, drawings, prints: color slides from a carousel

Photographs includes one of D'Amico: color slides from a carousel

Presented to D'Amico by class participant "Julia": comb-bound pages removed from faux leather album

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

B/w photos: 8x10 prints of assemblages; mounted snapshots removed from mylar-encased album pages

Series IV. Children's Art Carnival and Caravan, 1940s-1979 (bulk 1942-1965)

The subseries documents, mostly in the form of photographs, the iterations of the Children's Art Carnival at MoMA and its various international locations; the television program "Through the Enchanted Gate," envisaged as a continuation of the Carnival for home use; and the Children's Art Caravan: a planned but never realized mobile version of the Carnival. It includes plans and blueprints for the Carnival and Caravan locations, furnishings, and educational materials.

Arrangement

The series is arranged in three subseries:

Subseries IV.A. Children's Art Carnival, 1940s-1979 (bulk 1942-1965)
Subseries IV.B. "Through the Enchanted Gate," 1952-[1953]
Subseries IV.C. Children's Art Caravan, 1960s-1974

Subseries IV.A. Children's Art Carnival, 1940s-1979 (bulk 1942-1965)

Historical Note

Among D'Amico's most widely known and experienced innovations was the creation of both the space and opportunity for children to create art, in a location and with equipment and supplies specifically designed by him and dedicated only to that end. Referred to here as the Children's Art Carnival, it was termed, at various times, the Children's Holiday Circus, Children's Holiday Carnival, Children's Festival of Modern Art, and Children's Art Carnival. The first Children's Holiday Carnival at MoMA opened in 1942, and was held annually at the Museum until 1952, and after 1955, often in conjunction with similarly themed exhibitions (see Series VI. MoMA Exhibitions).

Designed in two parts, the Children's Art Carnival consisted of an area with so-called motivations, followed by one in which art materials and teachers were available. According to D'Amico's Experiments in Creative Art Teaching, this would show "how children respond to art experiences under ideal teaching in a stimulating environment…" The Carnival accommodated children who could fit through a cut-out silhouette of their maximum sizes that formed the Carnival's entrance. The television program "Through the Enchanted Gate" (see Subseries IV.B) was conceived as the Children's Art Carnival for home consumption by families.

In 1957, the Children's Art Carnival traveled to Barcelona and Milan as a feature of the International Samples Fair. For six months in 1958, it was part of the American pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair. There, close to 17,000 children from around the world participated, as well as 2,000 teachers. In March 1962, at the invitation of Indira Gandhi, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy presented a version of the Carnival in New Delhi to the children of India, on behalf of the International Council of The Museum of Modern Art and the Asia Society. D'Amico attended its opening in October 1963. It traveled to the major cities of India, where it was visited by an estimated 38,000 children, before being returned to New Delhi as a training center for Indian teachers.

After D'Amico's retirement, the Children's Art Carnival opened in permanent form in Harlem in 1969, under the direction of Betty Blayton Taylor. Its first three years were funded through a committee chaired by Mrs. John D. (Blanchette) Rockefeller III.

Arrangement

The subseries is organized chronologically by locations of the Children's Art Carnival into seven subseries. Some original folders included photographs from multiple locations: these are included as the last subseries.

Subseries IV.A.i. MoMA and General, 1942-1979
Subseries IV.A.ii. Milan, 1956-1957
Subseries IV.A.iii. Barcelona, 1957
Subseries IV.A.iv. Brussels, 1958-1959
Subseries IV.A.v. Harlem, 1960-1975
Subseries IV.A.vi. India, 1960s-1964, 1969
Subseries IV.A.vii. Multiple Locations, 1940s-1960s

Subseries IV.A.i. MoMA and General, 1942-1979

Includes images from Art in Progress: 15th Anniversary Exhibition [MoMA Exh. #258]: b/w prints

Includes list of works in Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art [MoMA Exh. #496, December 4, 1951-January 6, 1952]

View PDF of folder IV.A.i.2

B/w prints

B/w prints

Original drawings, whiteprints; oversize, see flat file at MoMAQNS

View PDF of folder IV.A.i.6

B/w prints

View PDF of folder IV.A.i.7

B/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album; some pages have typed captions

B/w prints

Photographs by Aaron Haberfeld: b/w prints

Includes articles from Interiors, Florida Art Education Art News, The New York Times, unidentified publications

View PDF of folder IV.A.i.11

B/w prints

B/w prints

B/w prints

Drawing, tracings, whiteprints (some hand annotated)

B/w prints

Whiteprint floor plan with hand annotations

Expenses, location information, CBS press release, script for program aired on December 23, 1956

View PDF of folder IV.A.i.18

Continuous slide show for parents, demonstrating how to understand and respect children's art efforts and suggesting art materials and ideas for home use; arranged by instructor Jane Cooper Bland: positive and negative b/w transparencies

B/w prints, color transparencies

Tracings, whiteprints, photostats

Tracings, whiteprints, photostats

B/w prints

Tracings, whiteprints, photostats

Color slides, 4x5 color transparencies

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Standard audio cassette

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in June 2013. The original tape recording was rehoused in a new cassette tape shell. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" film reel

NOTE: This 7" film reel has been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening them. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

Includes 1960 MoMA publication "Today and Tomorrow"; "Children's Art Carnival Report: The Children's Art Carnival in India, 1963-1964"; and clipping from School Arts (October 1979)

View PDF of folder IV.A.i.30

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Color, b/w slides

Subseries IV.A.ii. Milan, 1956-1957

Original tracings and whiteprints; oversize, see flat file

B/w prints

B/w print, 8x10 negatives

Color and b/w slides, some glass-mounted

Includes letters to D'Amico from children who attended the fair

View PDF of folder IV.A.ii.5

Includes correspondence, sightseeing and hotel suggestions, shipping information for Carnival items

Includes clippings, brochure (in Italian), MoMA press release

View PDF of folder IV.A.ii.7

Color, b/w slides

Subseries IV.A.iii. Barcelona, 1957

Whiteprint; oversize, see flat file

Tracings, whiteprints, photostats

B/w prints

View PDF of folder IV.A.iii.3

B/w prints

Summary, observations, recommendations, diary of events: original typescript

Subseries IV.A.iv. Brussels, 1958-1959

Original drawings, tracings, and whiteprints; termed "Children's Creative Art Center" on drawings

MoMA press release, clipping

Clippings from American newspapers

Articles in French-language consumer magazines

Special issue of Paris Match on exposition; removed from folder IV.A.iv.4

Clippings from French-language newspapers

View PDF of folder IV.A.iv.6

D'Amico letters to and from teachers Lois Lord, Susan Lynn, and J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr.

View PDF of folder IV.A.iv.7

Letters to D'Amico from teachers Jane Cooper Bland, Charles Alston, and Margaret Stark during the fair. Some letters accompany reports on activities and attendance.

View PDF of folder IV.A.iv.8

Includes letters from Carnival attendees, in French (some with English translations)

Color, b/w slides

Color slides

B/w prints, 8x10 negatives, 35 mm negatives

Pages removed from album inscribed to D'Amico by Susie Lynn: b/w prints

Includes official guidebook to the Brussels World's Fair, summaries of press coverage, press releases

Carbon typescript of article by Jane Bland and Lois Lord; article by Eugene Grigsby in Pacific Arts Association Bulletin

Includes original artwork by Belgian children who attended the fair

Promotional items created for the fair

11" film reel

NOTE: This 11" film reel been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening it. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the film's physical condition.

Subseries IV.A.v. Harlem, 1960-1978

B/w prints, negatives

View PDF of folder IV.A.v.1

Includes proposals, agreement between MoMA and Harlem School of the Arts, correspondence

View PDF of folder IV.A.v.2

Includes correspondence, reports, requests for funding

View PDF of folder IV.A.v.3

View PDF of folder IV.A.v.4

Includes photocopied grant application to the New York State Council on the Arts

View PDF of folder IV.A.v.5

Includes list of Carnival contributors, 1969-1973

View PDF of folder IV.A.v.6

Color slides

Color slides, photographs

Color slides

Proposed promotional item, using images of children's art work

Includes planning material and proposal for television project: "a series of projects concerned with mass media education in creative thinking"

View PDF of folder IV.A.v.11

Subseries IV.A.vi. India, 1960s-1964, 1969

Extracts from the will and testament of Jawaharlal Nehru (6/21/1954) specifying disposal of his body after death: carbon typescript; 1896 correspondence from Caspar Purdon Clarke, Director of the South Kensington Museum, to Sir George C.M. Birdwood: photocopy. There is no explanation for the presence of these documents in the collection.

A similar portfolio was presented by Mrs. Kennedy to Mrs. Gandhi when the former donated the Children's Art Carnival to India in 1962

Tracings, whiteprints, photostats

Whiteprints

Tray I: color slides removed from a carousel

Tray II: color slides removed from a carousel

Tray IV: color slides removed from a carousel [no Tray III]

Tray V: color slides removed from a carousel

Tray VI: color slides removed from a carousel

Photo reproductions

B/w slides

Includes 12 frames of 16 mm moving image film of Jacqueline Kennedy and Mrs. Gandhi: b/w prints (one mounted) and negatives, 16 mm film, color transparencies

Includes 1969 clipping re: Arlette Buchman presentation on Art Carnival

Loose clippings and pages from an album; in English and Hindi

Loose clippings and pages from an album; in English and Hindi

Color slides

Color slides removed from a carousel

B/w prints

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Pencil sketch, list of drawings for the Carnival in India

Identified as being from Dutia Photo Service, New Delhi: b/w prints and negatives

B/w negatives, prints

Captioned b/w negative strips

Subseries IV.A.vii. Multiple Locations, 1940s-1960s

From a set of mounted, numbered variously, b/w prints that also include MoMA exhibitions and classes

From a set of mounted, numbered variously, b/w prints that also include MoMA exhibitions and classes

From a set of mounted, numbered variously, b/w prints that also include MoMA exhibitions and classes

From a set of mounted, numbered variously, b/w prints that also include MoMA exhibitions and classes

From a set of mounted, numbered variously, b/w prints that also include MoMA exhibitions and classes

From a set of mounted, numbered variously, b/w prints that also include MoMA exhibitions and classes

Photographs include views from Children's Art Carnival Milan, Children's Holiday Carnival MoMA: b/w prints

B/w and color prints and transparencies

Slide presentation: color and b/w slides

B/w prints

Mounted b/w prints

Mounted b/w prints

Photographs of children and parents making art; includes contact sheet of MoMA Carnival with D'Amico and print of Carnival construction in India: mounted and unmounted b/w prints

Photographs from an original envelope marked "Photos Carnivals & Caravan - model and article": b/w prints

Photographs of children working, finished works; from an unlabeled box: color slides

From an original slide carousel marked "incomplete": color slides

Photographs of finished works: color slides

Photographs of children at work, finished works: color slides

Photographs of children, teachers, finished works: color slides

Unidentified Carnival location: pencil sketch on paper

Photographs of children, teachers, finished works, models of Children's Caravan: color slides

Subseries IV.B. "Through the Enchanted Gate," 1952-[1953]

Images marked as having been used in "Through the Enchanted Gate": b/w prints

Typescript and photocopies

Original typescript, hand-edited

Carbon copy (1 of 2)

Carbon copy (2 of 2)

B/w print, mounted

Episodes from the program: four 12" film reels

Note: These films have been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center which has the proper facilities for storing and screening them. Researchers should contact the Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the films' physical condition.

Subseries IV.C. Children's Art Caravan, 1960s-1974

Historical Note

The Art Caravan was designed as a mobile version of the Children's Art Carnival, entirely designed by D'Amico and championed by him after his retirement as Director of the Department of Education. To be contained in a pair of trailers, it would incorporate both a motivations area and an area for children to work creatively under the supervision of trained teachers, similar to the Art Carnival. The project was initially supported by a grant from the John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, Fund in 1968. Subsequently, both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, Fund had promised additional grants, contingent on matching funding. By 1971 MoMA's funding priorities had changed and did not include further support of the Caravan, at which time D'Amico resigned from the project.

Whiteprints

Annotated whiteprint; oversize, see flat file at MoMAQNS

Color slides

Re: fundraising, grant applications; includes photocopied TLS D'Amico-Jean D'Autilia (1/19/1971) outlining potential of Caravan; undated extracts from "letters of interest in Art Caravan" by educational organizations

Proposed for five Georgia counties, submitted to John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, Foundation.

Color and b/w photographic prints (some mounted), color transparencies

Includes proposal, b/w and color photographs of Caravan model, clipping of D'Amico article "The Children's Art Caravan" (Arts and Activities, October 1970)

Color slides

Includes emended draft and final versions of "Promoting the Children's Art Caravan: A Report" (10/15/1970), prepared for Institute of Modern Art's Board of Trustees

Includes clippings, information on trailers, list of attendees at 9/26/1972 conference on Art Caravan (see folder IV.C.18)

Includes clippings, fundraising, letters of support for the project from Henry Allen Moe, Clark Foundation (and MoMA Trustee); and John Hightower, NY State Council on the Arts (later MoMA Director), among others

From original envelope labeled "Photos Carnivals & Caravan - model and article": b/w prints

Floor plans and specifications, proposed budgets

Includes some correspondence to potential funders

Correspondence

To the National Endowment for the Arts

From Avid Corporation; includes correspondence, explanation of specifications, whiteprints

Includes statements from Board of Education and other participants, sketches and plans, description of planned Caravan

Series V. Art Barge, 1950s-2011 (bulk 1955-1980s)

The subseries includes some administrative records (registration forms, expenses) and extensive photographic documentation of summer art programs, including students at work, exhibitions, and social events, held at the Art Barge during and after D'Amico's tenure at MoMA.

Historical Note

MoMA began summer painting classes for adults on eastern Long Island in 1955, at Ashawaugh Hall, East Hampton, near the summer home of Victor and Mabel D'Amico. The Institute of Modern Art, formed at MoMA in 1960, ran summer programs starting in 1962 on the decommissioned U.S. Navy coal barge Kearsarge, which had been towed from New Jersey to Napeague Harbor in Amagansett, Long Island. This location came to be called The Art Barge. In the off-seasons, D'Amico gathered interested adult students, into groups variously named Kearsarge or Napeague, in New York City for criticism and art review.

In 1971, The Napeague Institute of Art was founded as an independent organization under charter from the State of New York Board of Regents, with its own board of trustees and officers, dedicated to "the creative development of laymen, students, teachers, and professional artists, helping them to achieve a richer way of life and make a more meaningful contribution to society." It ran summer programs at the Art Barge (which it leased from MoMA until October 1982) for senior citizens, school teachers, adults, and children. Some teacher education classes there were offered for credit through New York University (1963-1966) and Southampton College of Long Island University (beginning in 1967). In 1982, The Napeague Institute of Art was renamed the Victor D'Amico Institute of Art. It continues to administer summer programs at The Art Barge under that name.

Arrangement

Many of the color slides in this series were originally housed unsorted in large boxes, unidentified as to content or date. They are now organized generally into groupings by apparent subject and year printed on the slide housing; researchers should note that these designations are approximate. Images of unidentified art works have been transferred to the Department of Education for internal use. Meeting minutes have been removed per the Museum Archives' Access Policy.

Two Super 8 film reels

NOTE: These Super 8 film reels have been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening them. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the films' physical condition.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

B/w prints and negatives, color prints

B/w prints, mounted

Acceptances for program's first year

Questionnaires re: summer painting classes, and responses. Includes completed forms and some personalized letters

Questionnaires re: summer painting classes sent to participants to determine interest for planned second year of classes

Re: administrative matters including tuition payments and petty cash

Color slides

Photographs of first location of MoMA summer classes: color slides

7" audio reel. Contents listed on box: roundtable discussion, summer classes Ashawagh Hall, Charlotte Park, Ralph Carpentier, Jack Ramsay, Mabel D'Amico, Ione Ulrich, Joe Lane, D'Amico.

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

B/w prints

B/w prints

By Hilde Sigal: original manuscript and typed transcript

B/w prints

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Color and b/w transparencies

Mounted b/w snapshots

B/w and color prints, b/w negatives, color stereo transparencies

Photos by Jay Hoops: b/w prints

Metal stamp with summer schedule at Art Barge

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Includes note D'Amico-members (9/19/1973) outlining history of Institute of Modern Art, Kearsarge Group, and Napeague Institute of Art

7" audio reel; D'Amico handwritten list of music excerpts included on tape.

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" audio reel

NOTE: In Spring, 2013, this recording was sent off-site for preservation. The preservation vendor concluded that the tape was blank.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Including D'Amico residence in Mt. Vernon, NY, and "Mabel's beach house": original tracings and whiteprints

B/w photographs

7" audio reel

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Carbon copies

Color and b/w prints; b/w negative

B/w prints, one mounted and marked for layout

B/w prints, one mounted for reproduction; b/w negatives

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Color slides

From The New York Times and other newspapers

Color slides

Color slides

Color slides

Color slides

From an unlabeled box: color paper-mounted and b/w glass-mounted slides

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Color slides

Color slides

Color slides

Materials from former MoMA art teacher Arlette Buchman originally collected in a folder marked "Victor's work." Includes agreement with MoMA (11/28/1973) re: rental of land and building for Art Barge

Forms, carbon correspondence

B/w prints on album pages previously removed

Enlarged views of some images in folder V.64: b/w mounted prints, with adhesive for hanging

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Color slides

Color slides

Color slides

Color slides

Color slides

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Contact sheets, b/w and color negatives

Color slides

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Color slides

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Workshops for teachers: recommendations, reports to funders, notices, clipping

Poems, ideas, sketches

Photographs of visual stimuli to creativity; exterior views: color slides

Written stimuli to creativity, for painting classes; some in D'Amico's hand

Written stimuli to creativity: poems and themes

Written stimuli to creativity

7" audio reel, unboxed

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Color slides

Photographs of students working on mural; finished piece: color slides

Color slides

Some are about MoMA in general

Original drawings and tracings, whiteprints; oversize, see flat file

Three Super 8 film reels

Note: These Super 8 film reels have been transferred to the Museum's Film Study Center, which has the proper facilities for storing and screening them. Researchers should contact the Study Center for further information. Access may be denied due to the films' physical condition.

From a slide carousel: color slides

Printed flyer

Color slides

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Photocopied typescript

Color slides

Color slides

Administrative correspondence, student recommendations, course descriptions; includes TLS President Harry A. Marmion-D'Amico (11/22/1974) terminating the summer classes

Includes D'Amico's 1969 Christmas letter to The Kearsarge Group, postcards of the Art Barge

Includes notices from D'Amico of meetings to discuss art teaching and works in progress

Includes D'Amico motivations, plans for painting classes. From sessions held in the off season at New York City artists' studios and at Ethical Culture School

B/w prints

From various summer classes

Photographs of finished works: color slides

re: Art Barge expenses

Includes photocopied TLS Jerome Hausman, Professor of Art Education-Wilder Green (1/6/1970) proposing establishment of professional relationship between New York University and MoMA

Scholarship programs for teachers: includes notices, grant-related correspondence, proposals

Documentation supporting grant application

Promotional materials and forms for classes, events, donations

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Mailing lists

Clippings, writings

Class register: pages removed from metal-post binder

Barge inventory

Lists of materials and slides

List of East Hampton guest houses, hotels, restaurants

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Color slides organized from unsorted materials

Correspondence, catalogue, agreement with D'Amico (6/21/1974) re: for-credit classes held at The Art Barge

Proof; letter to D'Amico accompanying notice of special New York Times Education supplement

Paid notices, feature articles on D'Amico, the Art Barge, summer classes, mostly from eastern Long Island papers

Memos re: financial arrangements between MoMA and the Napeague Institute of Art

Program, photographs, clipping

Photocopied information on the Napeague Institute of Art used for promotion; brochures; clippings

Correspondence and receipts re: funding for teacher education program

Application for funding, summer 1976. Includes photocopied application, brochures, poster from the Napeague Art Institute

Attendance list, letters of thanks

Photographs of student work; students at work on beach and in studio: color transparencies, b/w prints

Clippings, letter of thanks, envelope

Includes, correspondence, applications, recommended reading list, announcement

Photographs, letters of thanks from participants

Course descriptions and announcements, class presentation, Director's report

Photographic contact sheet

Applications and information on the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grants opportunities

Programs for benefit events held at the Art Barge and elsewhere

Completed grant application form

Form letters

Correspondence and supporting materials for grant received to fund summer programs

Re: donations, bills to be paid

Standard VHS cassette: "#1 Marcus screenwriting; beach, folk music (DiPirro), Weldon"

Standard VHS cassette: "#2 Petulia; Bettina's class; Arlette's class; Bernice's class"

Standard VHS cassette: "#3 Arlette's class; sand sculpture (Mabel, Chris), Bernice's class Coelho's class; beach"

Standard VHS cassette: "#4 Tyson, Bigar and Frankle; John Tobias; Arlette interview"

Standard VHS cassette: "#5 Marcus "Woman in the Dune"; Nicole's class; Mabel home; Teddy (studio)"

Standard VHS cassette: "#6 Music 1 hr.: Zooey and Albin; Music 1 hr: Victoria and Michael"

Standard VHS cassette: "#7 Victoria and Michael; Tyson birthday; artist and poetry"

Standard VHS cassette: "#8 Arlette 'Animals and art'; Carpentier's class and party"

Annual brochures

Annual brochures

B/w prints

Correspondence related to, and photographs of artists who participated in, an Amagansett television program that interviewed artists

Posters, clipping

Event at MoMA presented by the University Council for Art Education

Series VI. Exhibitions, 1938-1969

The series includes information on exhibitions, both at MoMA and some that circulated, organized by the Department of Education or with its significant collaboration. It includes both numbered MoMA exhibitions and those mounted in the Young People's Gallery and other spaces, which were not included in the Museum's chronological numbering system. The documentation is almost entirely in the form of photographs (installation views, exhibition panels, and individual items on view); there is minimal administrative or organizational information. For exhibitions that circulated to schools, see Series II. New York City High Schools Program. Some folders in Series IV. Children's Art Carnival, and Series III.A. War Veterans' Art Center, may also include exhibition-related information.

Historical Note

The Young People's Gallery opened at MoMA on November 1, 1939, as a "special exhibition space, designed to serve the needs of art students between the ages of 12 and 18." It was an outgrowth of the New York City High Schools Program (see Series II). All of its rotating exhibitions were "selected for, or by, pupils in the art classes of secondary schools. Occasionally a showing of their own work will be held. Demonstrations in various fields of art will be given by well-known artists and followed by discussion of techniques, media, and other matters of interest to young art students." (MoMA press release, "Young People's Gallery Opens at Museum of Modern Art with Unusual Exhibition," October 30, 1939). Special equipment used for display in the gallery was designed by D'Amico, including convertible easels and easily reconfigured chains of desks.

Arrangement

The subseries is organized chronologically by exhibition. For many exhibitions, there are two sets of images: one of mounted prints from various series of albums and one of unmounted prints. These have been combined into a single folder where space allows.

Installation views; from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions": mounted prints

Includes installation views from We Like Modern Art [MoMA Exh. #120, December 27, 1940-January 12, 1941]; Creative Growth, Childhood to Maturity [MoMA Exh. #92, November 1, 1939-January 5, 1940]; as well as images of a cantilevered easel designed by D'Amico: b/w prints

View PDF of folder VI.2

Press release, drafts of wall text; includes materials re: Work from Art Classes [MoMA Exh. #422, September 30-October 30, 1949]

Poster competition open to art students in Greater New York high schools. From an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery": mounted b/w prints

Installation views, photographs of objects in the exhibition; from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery": mounted b/w prints

View PDF of folder VI.5

Installation views, photographs of objects in the exhibition: b/w prints

View PDF of folder VI.6

Installation views; from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery": mounted b/w prints

Visitors in the gallery: b/w prints

Installation views, photographs of objects in the exhibition; from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery": mounted b/w prints

View PDF of folder VI.9

Installation views and photographs of objects in the exhibition: b/w prints

View PDF of folder VI.10

Photographs of objects in the exhibition: b/w prints

Installation views, photographs of objects in the exhibition: unmounted b/w prints and those from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Exhibition panels, photographs of individual objects; from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions": mounted b/w prints

Photographs of exhibition panels and individual objects from circulating exhibition: b/w prints

Exhibition planned by students from high schools in MoMA's educational program. Installation views, photographs of jury of students working with D'Amico to select items; from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery": mounted b/w prints

Exhibition planned by students from high schools in MoMA's educational program. Includes installation views, photographs of jury of students working with D'Amico to select items: b/w prints

Pencil-lettered, comb-bound volume with layout marked for photographs and text

Photographs of exhibition panels: unmounted b/w prints and those from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Photographs of exhibition panels: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Also identified here as "Young People's rotating exhibition #32." Photographs of exhibition panels: b/w prints

Photographs of exhibition panels: unmounted b/w prints and those from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Installation views, photographs of objects in the exhibition: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Installation views, photographs of objects in the exhibition: unmounted b/w prints and those from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Installation views: unmounted b/w prints and those from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Photographs of paintings in the exhibition: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery"

Installation views: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

From an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions": mounted b/w print

Photographs of exhibition panels: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Photographs of paintings in the exhibition, installation views: unmounted b/w prints and those from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery"

Photograph of exhibition opening panel from the first iteration of the Children's Art Carnival (see Series IV.A.i): mounted b/w print

Photographs of objects in the exhibition: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Photographs of objects in the exhibition: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Photographs of objects in the exhibition: b/w prints

Photographs of visitors attending the exhibition: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery"

Photographs of exhibition panels: unmounted b/w prints and mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Photographs of panels as installed at Fieldston School and of a student working on the exhibition: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Miscellaneous Circulating Exhibitions"

Photographs of paintings from the exhibition: unmounted b/w prints and those from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery"

Photographs of paintings from the exhibition: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery"

Photographs of exhibition panels: b/w prints

Photographs of exhibition panels: b/w prints

Photographs of exhibition panels: b/w prints

Made for the USO Division, National Board YWCA, by the Educational Program, MoMA, and the Committee on Art in American Education and Society: mounted b/w prints removed from post album

From an exhibition made for the USO division, National Board, YWCA, by the Educational Program of MoMA and the Committee on Art in American Education and Society Exhibition panels: b/w prints

Photographs of exhibition panels, objects in the exhibition: mounted b/w prints from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery"

Stills from motion picture created for the exhibition by D'Amico, Bernard Sanders, and Charles Cook: b/w prints

Installation views that include some exhibitions documented in folders VI.39-41: b/w prints

Photographs of objects in the exhibition, guests at exhibition opening including D'Amico: b/w prints

View PDF of folder VI.47

Color glass-mounted slides

Photographs of paintings in the exhibition: b/w prints

Photographs of exhibition panels, installation views at Board of Education headquarters: unmounted b/w prints and those from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery"

Photographs of exhibition panels; from an album "Educational Program Photographs - Exhibitions in the Young People's Gallery": mounted b/w prints

Photographs of individual art pieces, students at work, exhibition panels, installation views: mounted b/w prints removed from post-bound album labeled "Bk. II"

Installation views, photographs of exhibition panels: b/w prints

Photographs of objects in the exhibition: b/w prints

Photographs of exhibition panels: b/w prints

Includes photographs of students at work, objects from the exhibition, panels and installation views, visitors at the opening: mounted and unmounted b/w prints

Photographs of objects in the exhibition: b/w prints

Includes draft texts, draft and final press release, expense list, loan receipts, designs for cases and exhibition layout

Installation views: mounted b/w prints previously removed from album

Includes images from other design-related exhibitions, previously culled by Teachers College: b/w prints

Photographs of objects in the exhibition: photoreproductions

B/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

Photographs of children at work: b/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

Photographs of children at work: b/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

Installation views: b/w prints mounted on pages previously removed from album

Photographs of children at work, objects in the exhibition: b/w prints

Correspondence, labels

Photographs of paintings in the exhibition: b/w prints

Photographs of woodworking objects from the exhibition: b/w prints

Photographs of ceramics and jewelry from the exhibition: b/w prints

Photographs of panels and objects in the exhibition: photoreproductions

Photographs of panels and objects in the exhibition: photoreproductions pasted up on boards, photostats

Photographs of individual objects from the exhibition: b/w prints

Photographs of visitors at the opening of the exhibition: b/w prints

Photographs of panels from the exhibition: b/w prints

Photographs of paintings in the exhibition: b/w prints

"Exhibition for the Department of Education": b/w prints removed from post album

Includes images of staff selecting objects for exhibitions including The Art Teaching of Belle Boas [MoMA Exh. #553, March 17-May 2, 1954] and Children's Art Carnival; images previously culled by Teachers College: b/w prints

Exhibition of art work by adult students of the People's Art Center: drafts of text, press release, comments by students

Draft texts, loan receipts

Mock-up of exhibition layout

Draft text for panels: originals and carbons; installation views: b/w prints

Exhibition labels, keyed on back to parts of the exhibition

Later documentation from a traveling version of the exhibition: guide to installing the exhibition, including checklist of panels, installation photographs, suggestions for related art activities. Includes receipt from unnamed Atlantic City venue noting condition ("corners and titles somewhat worn")

Installation views, photographs of objects in the exhibition: b/w prints

Correspondence, checklist, reviews, wall text, MoMA press release

Photographs of exhibition panels: b/w prints

Photoreproductions of panels, mounted, with pin marks. These may have been with materials returned to Arlette Buchman from a 1995 loan exhibition in Japan (see also folder VIII.A.50).

Photographs of exhibition panels: color and b/w glass-mounted slides

From a traveling version of the exhibition: guide to installing the exhibition, including checklist of panels, installation photographs

Exhibition subtitle was "14 students from classes of the People's Art Center." Photographs of objects in the exhibition and installation views, adult students working: b/w prints

Exhibition held in conjunction with 18th annual meeting of National Committee on Art Education at MoMA (see also Series VIII.C). Installation views and photographs of exhibition panels: b/w prints

From original folder marked "xtra photos"; images of children making art, many with crop marks or other hand emendations: b/w prints

Includes wall labels, materials list, staff list, newspaper clippings. Material culled by Teachers College on People's Art Center

MoMA press release

Installation views, wall labels: b/w prints, transparencies

Installation views, photographs of objects in the exhibition: b/w prints, color slides

Installation views, press photographs from Hong Kong government: b/w prints

Installation views: mounted b/w prints

Installation views (two sets): b/w prints, color transparencies

Installation views: b/w prints

Installation views (two sets): b/w prints and negatives

Unnumbered exhibition in the Art Center; installation views and photographs of objects in the exhibition: b/w prints

Unnumbered People's Art Center exhibition; installation views: b/w prints

"Some statements on art education" prepared in connection with the exhibition by the Art Center: nine copies

Invitation; wall labels: transparencies and photocopies; installation views, from original box marked "Early Days": color slides

Images of D'Amico and MoMA programs: b/w prints, transparencies

Series VII. MoMA Publications, 1941-1972

The series includes documentation of MoMA publications both written and collaborated on by D'Amico, as well as others found in his files.

Historical Note

Various MoMA publications, including How to Make Pottery and Ceramic Sculpture: 20 Graded Projects; How to Make Modern Jewelry; and How to Make Objects of Wood, originated as pamphlets created by, and based on work done by students at, the War Veterans' Art Center (see Series III.A).

Arrangement

The series includes some visual materials once housed in MoMA's Photographic Archive, which had been placed there based on the earlier organization of documentation by material type rather than in context with items from similar sources.

"Modern Art for Children: The Educational Project" (MoMA Bulletin, vol IX); "The arts in therapy" (MoMA Bulletin 3, vol X); "The Department of Industrial Design" (MoMA Bulletin, vol. XIV, fall 1946); "Educating Artistic Vision" (clipping mentioning D'Amico's book, Creative Teaching in Art)

Includes "Making Your Own Art Materials" published by the Committee on Art in American Education and Society, with introduction by D'Amico

Educational Program copy; stamped "Do Not Take from People's Art Center"

Photographs of objects used in the book. Label notes that "much of the material in the book was made in the Veterans' Art Center - World War II": mounted b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of objects used in the book. Label notes that "much of the material in the book was made in the Veterans' Art Center - World War II": mounted b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of objects used in the book. Label notes that "much of the material in the book was made in the Veterans' Art Center - World War II": mounted b/w prints removed from post album

Photographs of objects, and students working: mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Photographs of objects, and students working: mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Photographs of objects, and students working: mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Photographs of objects, and students working: mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Photographs from the pamphlet: mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Photographs from the pamphlet: mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Photographs from "War Veterans Art Center World War II woodworking pamphlet": mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Photographs from "War Veterans Art Center World War II woodworking pamphlet": mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Photographs from "War Veterans Art Center World War II woodworking pamphlet": mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Photographs from "War Veterans Art Center World War II woodworking pamphlet": mounted b/w prints previously removed from post album

Published for the Committee on Art Education by MoMA: three copies

By Charles J. Martin, in collaboration with D'Amico

Captioned b/w prints with page numbers from book, removed from post album

Brochure from exhibition Timeless Aspects of Modern Art [MoMA Exh. #393, November 16, 1948-January 23, 1949]; "Creative Art" (2 copies); "A study of the crafts in general education"; Art and the intellect by Harold Taylor; "Clichés in Children's Paintings" by Jean D'Autilia; Art education and the creative process, by Archibald MacLeish (2 copies); Moral values and the experience of art, by Harold Taylor

Issued by MoMA as publisher of D'Amico's books

Third statement to come out of a study of crafts education "undertaken in 1951 under the joint sponsorship of the American Craftsmen's Educational Council and the Committee on Art Education of the Museum of Modern Art": three copies

Awarded to D'Amico for Creative Art for Children, Young People, Adults, Schools

Photographs of objects made by children and adults: b/w prints

B/w prints, including some not used in the publication

Captioned photographs for the book, identified by page number: b/w prints removed from post album

Captioned photographs for the book, identified by page number: b/w prints removed from post album

Captioned photographs for the book, identified by page number: b/w prints removed from post album

Copy inscribed by D'Amico

Includes installation views from Art of the Young Child [MoMA Exh. #593, December 6, 1955-January 15, 1956]: b/w prints, negatives

Typed list of publications by Department of Education staff members

Photographic prints from various eras, possibly collected for use in Art for the Family or Experiments in Creative Art Teaching

B/w photographs; possibly considered for publication in Assemblage: A New Dimension in Creative Teaching in Action

Three copies

Publication issued as part of the Museum's 30th anniversary events; includes summary of MoMA's educational activities from 1929 to 1960

A publication of MoMA's Film Library

Two copies

Essays by Stoddard, Edman, and Bettelheim: published by MoMA, edited by D'Amico

Four copies

Images of children at work that may have been considered for use in the book: color slides

Photographs of and by Arlette Buchman, presumably for use in the book: b/w prints, color slides

Flyer, order form, correspondence

Typed table of contents, hand-edited publishing agreement with D'Amico

Production photographs: b/w prints with notes re: enlargement for publication, some mounted

Production photographs: b/w prints with notes re: enlargement for publication, some mounted

Production photographs: b/w prints with notes re: enlargement for publication, some mounted

Production photographs: b/w prints with notes re: enlargement for publication, some mounted

Production photographs: b/w prints with notes re: enlargement for publication, some mounted

Production photographs: b/w prints with notes re: enlargement for publication, some mounted

Production photographs: b/w prints with notes re: enlargement for publication, some mounted

Duplicate photographs: b/w prints

Duplicate photographs: b/w prints

Duplicate photographs: b/w prints

Duplicate photographs: b/w prints

Duplicate photographs: b/w prints

"Reproductions used for motivations"; includes photographs of children at work, and art by artists in MoMA's collection: b/w prints and contact sheet, color prints and transparencies

Copy negatives

Identified by book chapter, with caption and artist information: color transparencies

Images originally labeled "Photographs by Kathryn Abbe Children at Barge" that may have been considered for use in the book: color slides

Production photographs, some labeled for layout and size: b/w prints

8 rolls exposed negatives: some images were used in the publication.

NOTE: Because of their fragile physical condition, these items are not available for viewing.

Promotional brochure, order form, three photocopies of chapter XI, section on machine assemblage

5" audio reel; possibly related to the publication Assemblage: A New Dimension in Creative Teaching in Action

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Series VIII. Professional Involvement, 1935-1980, 1985, 1996 (bulk 1948-1968)

The series documents D'Amico's work in education apart from MoMA, including his initial survey, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, that led to the establishment of the Educational Project at MoMA; consultation with other educational institutions; and his long involvement with the National Committee on Art Education, including audio tapes of some of the organization's conference sessions held at MoMA and elsewhere.

Arrangement

The series is organized into three subseries:

Subseries VIII.A. Education General, 1935-1980, 1985, 1996
Subseries VIII.B. Education-Related Correspondence, 1947-1969
Subseries VIII.C. National Committee on Art Education, 1943-1969

Subseries VIII.A. Education General, 1935-1980, 1985, 1996

Survey funded by the Rockefeller Foundation: pages disbound from album

Survey funded by the Rockefeller Foundation: pages disbound from album

Survey funded by the Rockefeller Foundation: pages disbound from album

Report to Commission on the Secondary School Curriculum

Report to Commission on the Secondary School Curriculum

Report to Commission on the Secondary School Curriculum

Photographs of art programs at MoMA and other New York City institutions: b/w prints

Prepared by staff members of the Art Department, Teachers College

Correspondence; includes carbon of D'Amico's report and recommendations to the Everson Fund trustee (First Trust & Deposit Co., Syracuse, NY) re: establishment of a memorial art museum in honor of Helen Everson

Mimeographed document summarizing provisions of Helen Everson's will and recommendations re: establishment of memorial art museum in her honor

Payment for service by D'Amico on professional panels for The New York Times, New York University

Address to the Ohio Art Education Association

Correspondence re: 8/27/1960 death of Charles Cook, who was a noted art educator, colleague of D'Amico's at Fieldston School, and previous executive director of University Settlement; includes letter D'Amico-Martin Fredericks (2/16/1962) proposing naming the Art Barge lounge in Cook's honor

Photographs, clipping; writings and conference presentations by Cook

Contributed chapters, correspondence

Includes correspondence of MoMA art teacher Jane Cooper Bland

Correspondence; typed, handwritten, and carbons of examination questions for high school art teachers

Correspondence; typed and carbons of examination questions for high school art teachers

Tabulated examination results

From professional colleagues, including reactions to published articles by D'Amico

Supporting information for planned art center including blueprint, outline specifications from local architecture firm, thesis on impact of the physical environment on children's art work, with transmittal note to D'Amico

Photographs of presentation of Citation of Honor to Hon. Thomas Hoving: b/w prints

7" audio reel: audio conference D'Amico held with Red Creek Central School

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

Clippings used as visual motivations; correspondence with New York University education professors Howard Conant and Prabha Sahasrabudhe

Includes bibliography of art teaching resources, Report on the Art Department of Michigan State University, English Catholic High School Course

Three otherwise unidentified standard audio cassettes

Hand-written notes by D'Amico, blank evaluation forms

5" audio reel, unboxed

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

5" audio reel, unboxed

NOTE: This sound recording was preserved in Spring, 2013. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

February 1970 newsletter; "A plague on all your houses" by Vincent Lanier, March 1974; "A dialogue" by D'Amico, undated

From friends and colleagues at various institutions; includes 1972 responses to D'Amico request for funds for Art Barge

Correspondence re: planning for Albany Mall

Study report #1: A brief perspective on museum education

Memo Director Richard E. Oldenburg-MoMA staff (6/3/1972) announcing $1 million education grant from the Edward John Noble Foundation; note Barbara Elliman (MoMA's Associate Director, Membership)-Victor and Mabel D'Amico (7/20/1982), thanking them for visit

Information pertaining to the license examination for Stanley I. Rose, Acting Assistant Director of Art, Board of Education of the City of New York

Correspondence, promotional materials re: National Conference (June 1974); Regional Conferences, Boston MA (January 1975) and New York/New Jersey (October 1975)

Handwritten notes by D'Amico; announcement includes class taught by D'Amico and Arlette Buchman

Motivations, questions for discussion, diagrams of materials used in training workshops

Color slides of participants at work

Registration forms, notices of events at SUNY Stony Brook, Syracuse University

Course evaluations from students; Christmas card to D'Amico

By Nancy R. Smith and Lois Lord; includes cover note Lord-D'Amico (10/10/19[75]) requesting recommendation for Smith. Lord taught at Bank Street School of Education and had been a People's Art Center instructor with D'Amico.

Re: her pamphlet on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's education workshops, in which he claims that she takes credit for their invention rather than crediting MoMA and her experience as a teacher there.

Standard VHS cassette: audio only

Two U-matic tapes: copy 1; copy 2 "dubbing master." See VIII.A.45 for VHS copies.

NOTE: The Museum Archives does not have a compatible media player for this recording at this time.

Standard VHS cassettes: copies 3, 4

U-matic tape. See VIII.A.47 for VHS copies.

NOTE: The Museum Archives does not have a compatible media player for this recording at this time.

Standard VHS cassettes: three copies

Betacam tape. See VIII.A.47 for VHS copies.

NOTE: The Museum Archives does not have a compatible media player for this recording at this time.

By August L. Freundlich, University of South Florida College of Fine Arts

TLS National Children's Castle of Japan-Arlette Buchman (2/9/1996) returning to and thanking her for items sent for an exhibition there

Subseries VIII.B. Education-Related Correspondence, 1947-1969