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Around the library: Reference Section
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#TBT 1971
In 1971, Robert Indiana’s original LOVE sculpture traveled to New York City where it was on display in Central Park. Today, the sculpture is protected from the elements (like the massive amounts of rain that we have been getting in Indianapolis this week) at its new home in the Pulliam Great Hall.
The sculpture: Robert Indiana (American, b. 1928), LOVE, 1970, Cor-ten steel, 144 × 144 × 72 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Gift of the Friends of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in memory of Henry F. DeBoest. Restoration was made possible by Patricia J. and James E. LaCrosse, 75.174 © 2016 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
The clip: Robert Indiana Portrait. Directed by John Huszar. 1973. Film transferred to DVD. Chatham, New York: FilmAmerica, 2008.
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Travel the World Through Print: Berlin, Germany
Collection of Die Mode (The Fashion) magazine from WWII era Germany.
Die Mode, Berlin: Verlag Otto Beyer, 1941-1943, Magazines, Pamphlets, Adult collection, Stout Reference Library, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN.
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Collection Connection: Dining Designs
Just in time for the weekend, we bring you a colorful Collection Connection from the Miller House and Garden collections of both the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the IMA Archives.
The Items: In the 1970s, Alexander Girard created custom monogrammed dining chair cushion patterns for each member of the Miller Family, as well as a simpler pattern for guests. Instead of having the cushions manufactured for the Millers, Xenia S. Miller (XSM) requested the patterns and color samples so that she and her friends could make the cushions themselves!
The Collection: When the Miller House and Garden was given to the IMA, the the property and many interior design elements became part of the museum collection, while the extensive archives documenting the design, construction, decoration, and maintenance of the home went to the IMA Archives. Though separated into two collections, the cushion patterns and the actual dining chairs and cushions can now be brought back together online!
Alexander Hayden Girard, Designer (American, 1907-1993), JIM cushion and XSM cushion, ca. 1974, cloth. Copyright Alexander Hayden Girard, Gift of Margaret, Catherine, Elizabeth and Will Miller, MH2010.53.4B and MH2010.53.1B.
Alexander Hayden Girard cushion patterns and material samples, ca. 1974, FF061, Miller House and Garden Collection (M003), IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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Indianapolis Museum of Art gift brochure, 1976, Ephemera Collection, IMA Archives.
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Collection Connection: Easter Addition
The Items: In 1916, Hoosier quilt designer Marie Daugherty Webster created this blueprint and tissue paper placement guide for her “Bunnies” baby quilt pattern kit. The bunny, basket, and brightly-colored egg motifs make this pattern and quilt an irresistible Tumblr share in the week leading up to Easter.
The Connection: The quilt pictured was created in 1939, and is currently on loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art from the collection of Rosalind Webster Perry. A collection connection couldn’t be more straight-forward than this!
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IMA at VRA
Last week, former IMA Library & Archives Ursula Kolmstetter Scholar, Rebecca Pattillo, presented a poster at the Visual Resources Association (VRA) conference in Louisville, KY.
In 2016, Rebecca returned to the IMA through the VRAF internship award program to work on a cross-departmental project with Conservation, Photography, and Archives at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). The primary purpose of her project was to establish a conservation image collection within the museum’s digital asset management system, Piction. As a test case, Rebecca worked with over 1,500 conservation treatment images of Old Masters paintings from the Clowes Collection–updating filenames to a new convention, adding embedded descriptive and technical metadata, creating a controlled keyword vocabulary, and establishing and documenting the workflow for adding those and all other conversation images to Piction. The result has been increased access and better organization and preservation of IMA Conservation Department photography–all stored in the same system as digital assets from around the IMA.
We asked Rebecca to take a picture with her poster while presenting at the conference so that we could share today on the Tumblr, along with details from the poster. Created by the IMA Design Department, the poster provides a lot of detailed information about the Clowes Collection Conservation Project.
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Around the Library: Serials Wall
The Stout Reference Library of the Indianapolis Museum of Art maintains subscriptions to many serial publications including auction catalogs, museum magazines, and art periodicals. The most recent are displayed on the serials wall in the Rick and Alice Johnson South Reading Room, and are available for browsing to all visitors.
Photo credit: Rebecca Pattillo, 2015
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Collection Connection: Queen Charlotte
The Item: Photograph of the painting Queen Charlotte by Allan Ramsey arriving at the John Herron Art Museum, November 1966. Historical Photography Collection (PHO002), IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art. Then-director, Carl Weinhardt, Jr., is photographed standing in front of the painting, pitching in on the efforts to get the artwork into its new home.
The Connection: Queen Charlotte has been in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art since it first arrived at the John Herron Art Museum in 1966. Since then, it has moved with the museum to our current campus location at 38th St. and Michigan Road in Indianapolis, where it is currently on view in our gallery alongside its partner painting, King George III.
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When curators clean out their offices, the Stout Reference Library and IMA Archives get gifts! Included in this transfer from the Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs were catalogue raisonnes, a scrapbook of collected book plates, gallery and other art-related publications and periodicals, collector research files, and photographs of artworks by Hoosier artist, Garo Antreasian.