Rene shapshak sculpture gardens
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Voortrekker Monumentality: a digital archive
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- Creator:
- Juta, Jan
- Topic:
- Comparative Artworks and Death of Dingane
- Date:
- Genre:
- paintings, The Voortrekker Monument Frieze, Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, and Death of Dingane
- Repository:
- South Africa House, London
- Notes:
- Freschi, F. The politics as ornament. Modernity, identity, and nationalism in the decorative programmes of selected South African public and commercial buildings PhD thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, p. , fig. 27
- Collection:
- Voortrekker Monumentality: A Digital Archive
- Exhibit Tags:
- Death of DinganeComparative Art
- Creator:
- Mitford-Barberton, Ivan
- Topic:
- Comparative Relief Sculpture, Ivan Graham Mitford-Barberton, Photography, Light, Material, Form, and Surface
- Date:
- and
- Genre:
- friezes, The Voortrekker Monument Frieze, Comparative Material, Relief Sculpture, and Photography, Light, Material, Form, Surface
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Record Unit
Summary: These records document the planning, development, and installation of exhibitions by the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG). Included are biographical and bibliographical research files on artists; correspondence with museums, galleries, and artists concerning loan of artwork; loan reports; shipment records; installation notes and photographs; budget and fundraising files; checklists, photographs, slides, and transparencies of artwork; and label kopia and handouts for exhibitions. These records also contain catalog production files, including draft and sista versions of catalog text, as well as galley proofs. Openings of exhibitions are documented with press releases and other publicity, photographs, invitations to openings, and reviews of exhibitions in newspapers and magazines. Files concerning lectures and seminars related to exhibitions are also included.
Major exhibitions represented by these records inclu
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Bathing in the Venice Lido by John Lavery
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