and multicalenced man, pursued many interests and careers 

 during his very long and active life, including architect, 

 painter, printmaker, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. 



In FY 1998, the Archives unveiled its newly updated and 

 revised Web site, which encompasses various categories, in- 

 cluding the history of the Archives, its collections, member- 

 ship information, list of publications in print, and its ongoing 

 programs, as well as links to the online catalog and our refer- 

 ence desk. The site is copiously illustrated by images and con- 

 tains selected documents from the collections. 



In observance of Black History Month in February, the 

 Archives inaugurated online access to its guide The Papers of 

 African American Artists (1992), which includes photographs 

 and other illustrations describing the Archives' holdings. 



The Archives also presented on its Web site "A Guide to 

 Art Gallery- Records in the Archives of American Art." The 

 online guide contains the name and dates of each collection, 

 size, reel numbers (if microfilmed), and historical notes. 



Outreach: Exhibitions, Education, and Research Services 



An archival display from the papers of Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, 

 "Tomas Ybarra-Frausto and the Chicano Art Movement, 19S5- 

 1985," was on view in the American Art/Portrait Gallery Library, 

 in connection with Hispanic Heritage Month, September 18— 

 October 24, 1997. The show consisted of photographs of 

 works by leading Chicano artists, such as Malaquias Montoya 

 and Esther Hernandez; letters, including one signed by Cesar 

 Chavez; and many related objects. The exhibition illustrated 

 the major phases of the Chicano art movement from its incep- 

 tion in the 1960s to the present. The exhibition, organized by 

 Archives Technician Rosa Fernandez and Southeast Regional 

 Collector Liza Kirwin, was expanded and presented in the 

 Archives' New York Regional Center display space February- 

 May 1998. The Archives opened the exhibit "El Movimiento; 

 Selections from the Tomas Ybarra-Frausto Research Material 

 on Chicano Art" on February 6, 1998, with a reception 

 attended by more than 100 guests, including repre- 

 sentatives of the Latino community in New York from 

 cultural institutions such as El Museo del Barrio, the 

 Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos at Hunter College, 

 and the Museum of American Folk Art. The Atchives will 

 publish a finding aid to this important collection to 

 coincide with the exhibition. 



Dr. Ybarra-Frausto, Associate Director for Arts and 

 Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation, was former Chair 

 of the Smithsonian Council and Chair of the Latino Oversight 

 Committee. The documents donated by Dr. Ybarra-Frausto to 

 the Archives represent part of his research for the book Arte 

 Chicano: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Art, 

 1965-1981, which he coauthored with Shifra M. Goldman in 

 1985. The collection comprises letters, newspaper clippings, 

 exhibition catalogues and invitations, and rare printed 

 material concerning the Chicano art movement in the United 

 States and Latin America. The Ybarra-Frausto collection com- 

 plements the Archives' extensive resources on Latin American 



and Latino art and artists delineated in the Archives' publica- 

 tion The Papers of Latino & Latin American Artists (1996). 



Paul Karlstrom, West Coast Regional Center Direcror, 

 spoke at a conference, "El Suefio Americano/O sonho 

 amencano/The American Dream: The Reception of Latin 

 American Art in the United States and Europe," held at the 

 Los Angeles County Museum of Art in connection with the 

 exhibition "Mexican Masterpieces from the Bernard and Edith 

 Lewin Collection" on January 10, 1998. Dr. Karlstrom 's paper, 

 "Mexico, Muralism, and Modernism in Northern California," 

 concluded with a description of the Archives' Latino focus in 

 current collecting projects 



The Atchives completed its Interlibrary Loan Automation 

 Project at the Archives' Midwest Regional Center where staff 

 bar coded a set of microfilm, consisting of nearly 8,000 reels, 

 that is used to service interlibrary loan requests from re- 

 searchers throughout the world. The software used for this 

 project enables the user to track the movement of reels 

 throughout the Interlibrary Loan System with additional 

 speed and efficiency. The enhancements to the Interlibrary 

 Loan Program will enrich the level of services provided to re- 

 searchers worldwide 



Progress continues apace on various grant-funded projects. 

 The Judith Rothschild Foundation funded a project on the 

 Abraham Rattner Papers, including the processing and 

 microfilming of the collection. A descriptive finding aid has 

 also been written. 



Thanks to a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., 

 three collections have been processed, arranged, and 

 preserved, including the Rockwell Kent Papers, which was 

 also microfilmed. Also processed were the Downtown Gallery 

 records. Microfilming and the preparation of a finding aid are 

 in progress. The Luce Foundation also funded the processing 

 of the records of the American Federation of Arts, which date 

 from AFA's founding in 1909 through 1993. The collection is 

 particularly valuable for its documentation of twentieth-cen- 

 tury American an history and the wealth of information 

 about the numerous programs and exhibitions supported and 

 implemented by the AFA to promote and study contemporary 

 American art. 



Archives staff also processed the papers of Cuban art his- 

 torian Giulio V. Blanc (d. 1995), which dated from 1923 

 through 1995 and are particularly valuable for the extensive ar- 

 tists files of both major and lesser known contemporary 

 Cuban artists. 



Fund-raising 



Lundi Gras XXXVIII, "An Evening of Elegance," was held on 

 the evening of February 23, 199S, in Farmington Hills, Michigan. 

 Benefit chairpersons were Mr. and Mrs. Morton L. Scholnick. 

 Mrs. Kim K De, president of the Detroit Chapter of the Ar- 

 chives, welcomed more than 75 guests to this elegant affair, 

 which is the longest-running fund-raising event for the Archives. 



The Archives received a $2,000 grant from the Pasadena 

 Art Alliance toward the transcription, editing, and reproduc- 



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