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Finding Aid for the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center. Exhibition files. 1985-1996
Record Series 776
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Title: Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center. Exhibition files.,
Date (inclusive): 1985-1996
Collection number: Record Series 776
Creator: Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center. 1990-
Extent:
12 cartons
(12 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. UCLA University Archives
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: Exhibition files created by the curators of the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center (Hammer Museum) and by the
curators of the Frederic S. Wight Art Gallery (Wight Gallery). Included are materials documenting: exhibitions held at the
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, and the Frederic S. Wight Art Gallery; exhibiitions organized by the Armand
Hammer Museum, and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts (Grunwald Center); and traveling exhibits developed by other institutions.
Processing of Record Series 776 was partially funded by a grant from the Getty Research Institute.
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
Collection is open for research. Some materials in the following boxes are restricted:
Box 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Copyright of portions of this collection has been assigned to The Regents of the University of California. The UCLA University
Archives can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish
or quote must be submitted in writing to the UCLA University Archivist.
[Identification of item], Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center. Exhibition files., Record Series 776, UCLA University
Archives, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Elizabeth Spatz, 2007 Jan.
Processing of Record Series 776 was partially funded by a grant from the Getty Research Institute.
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center
Founded by Dr. Armand Hammer, former Chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture
Center opened to the public in November of 1990. After Hammer's death in December of that year, the museum began negotiations
with UCLA, resulting with the university assuming management and operations of the Hammer Museum in 1994. In 1995, the collections
and staff of UCLA's Frederic S. Wight Art Gallery and Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts were relocated to the Hammer and
Henry Hopkins, formerly the director of the Wight Gallery, became director of the Hammer Museum until his retirement in 1998.
Frederic S. Wight Art Gallery
Established in 1953 as the University Art Galleries for the display of fine art in UCLA's Art Building, the gallery was renamed
the Frederic S. Wight Art Gallery in 1973 in honor of Frederick S. Wight (1902-1986), chairman of the art department and director
of the original University Art Galleries. In 1965 the gallery moved from the Arts Building into the Dickson Art Center where
it was used for student shows and traveling exhibitions. In 1995 the gallery staff moved to the Armand Hammer Museum of Art
and Cultural Center, and the Wight Art Gallery became known as the New Wight Gallery, located on the UCLA campus in the Eli
and Edyth Broad Art Center (formerly known as the Dickson Art Center.)
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA
Established in 1956 as the Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation with a substantial gift of 5,000 prints and drawings from Fred
Grunwald, the center became a repository and primary research facility for the university's extensive collection of prints,
drawings, photographs, and artists' books. In 1965 the foundation was located in the upper level of the Frederic S. Wight
Art Gallery in the newly opened Dickson Art Center. In 1974 the Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation was renamed the Grunwald
Center for the Graphic Arts, and in 1992 became a public arts program of UCLA's School of the Arts. In 1994, the staff and
collection of the Grunwald Center were moved to the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.
The collection includes correspondence, slides, photographs, loan forms, press releases, reviews, and related research materials
documenting various art exhibitions held at: the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (Hammer Museum), 1992-1996;
the Frederic S. Wight Gallery of Art (Wight Gallery), 1985-1994; and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts (Grunwald Center),
1989-1994. Also included are brief biographies of artists represented in the exhibitions, as well as label text and essays
used in the exhibition catalogues.
Within each exhibition, file folders are organized alphabetically by function, such as Curatorial, Education, Membership,
Registration, etc. Dated materials within these folders are organized in chronological order. The materials within each of
these functional categories may include the following:
- Curatorial: artist biographies, brochures, catalogue essays, catalogues, checklists, comment books, contracts, correspondence, flyers, installation layouts and slides, insurance, label text, lender files and loan forms, lists of accepted and unaccepted art work, photographs, press releases, receipts, release agreements, research, and shipping documents.
- Development: budgets
- Director's Office: correspondence
- Education: budgets and projections, brochures, calendars and distribution lists, correspondence,"Dialogues on Art" programing, docent training, education packets, events, flyers, invitations, lectures, outreach, research materials, slides, survey results, symposia, teacher training, and visual productions.
- Media Relations: media reports, press clippings, press previews, and press releases.
- Membership: direct sales campaign, opening night invitations, invitation lists and related materials.
- Photography: photographs and slides.
- Publication: catalogue text and catalogues.
- Registration: budget files, condition reports and photographs, correspondence, framing, insurance, loan forms, memos, receipts, and shipping.