Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, study materials, journals, address books, programs, memorabilia, teaching material, military documents and photographs and negatives documenting his personal, academic and professional life between 1930 and 1988, one item per year from 1848, 1856, 1859, 1898, 1901 and 1903, and a record book of personal finances contains entries from 1989 in someone else's handwriting.

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The Department of Asian Art records contain correspondence, reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous material. These records document the activities of the department from the 1930s to the 1990s.

Abstract These files are comprised of records and correspondence generated by the Director's Office of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (formerly called The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) during the tenure of Laurence Sickman (1953-1977), the second Director of the Museum. Also found intermittently are records reflecting his tenures as Curator of Oriental Art (later the Department of Asian Art) between 1935-1978, Assistant Director between 1946-1953, and...

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This collection is the records of the Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting Exhibition held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in November 7, 1980, through January 4, 1981. The collection dated 1974-1980, primarily consists of records related to exhibit planning and education, as well as the exhibition catalog.