Selected Acquisitions — 



October 1, 1 999-September 30, 2000 



Archives of American Art 



Papers of Florence Knoll Bassett, designer and design direc- 

 tor of Knoll Furniture, 1932-99. Gift of Florence Knoll 

 Bassett 



Fendrick Gallery Records and the Barbara Fendrick Gallery 

 Records, ca. 1960—95. Gift of Barbara Fendrick 



Papers of Helen Lundeberg, painter, addition to the Lorser 

 Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg papers, 1924—99. Gift of 

 the Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation 



Papers of Geoffrey Clements, photographer, ca. 1950-95. 

 Gift of Geoffrey Clements 



Papers of Gifford Beal, painter, 1902-53. Gift of Richard 

 Goff, Lewis Goff, Margaret Alexander Beal, and Telda A. 

 Beal 



Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 



Sheikh Mohammad Amir, A Horse and Groom, 1830—50, 

 pencil and watercolor with touches of white and gum 

 Arabic. Museum purchase 



Huseyin Fazil Beg, Man Dressed in European Costume from a 

 Copy of the "Hiibannama," ca. 1780, opaque watercolor, 

 gold, and ink on paper. Museum purchase 



Bronze bell (nao), Yangzi River Valley, China, Shang period 

 (1200— 1 100 B.C.). The Dr. Paul Singer Collection of 

 Chinese Art of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 

 Smithsonian Institution; a joint gift of the Arthur M. 

 Sackler Foundation, Paul Singer, the Arthur M. Sackler 

 Foundation for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, and 

 the Children of Arthur M. Sackler 



Cooper-Hewitt, National Design 

 Museum 



Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona chair, model no. 90, 

 1929, Germany, hand-forged steel and hemp. Museum 

 purchase from Smirhsonian Institution Collections 

 Acquisition Program; General Acquisitions Endowment; 

 Decorative Arts Association Fund through the gift of 

 Torsten Brohan; and through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Samuel A. Dix; Anne McDonnell Ford; Eleanor and Sarah 

 Hewitt; Mrs. John Innes Kane from the estate of and in 

 memory of her sister Mrs. Samuel W. Bridgeham; Mrs. 

 Paul Moore; Neil Sellin; unknown donor; and through 

 bequests of Mrs. John Innes Kane, Ruth Vollmer, and 

 Mary Hayward Weir 



Panoramic wallpaper, Views of Italy, printed by Joseph 

 Dufour Co., Paris, ca. 1825, block-printed on handmade 

 paper. Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt, 

 Pauline Cooper-Noyes, and General Acquisitions 

 Endowment Funds 



Wallpaper sidewall depicring George Washington, United 

 States, ca. 1800, block-printed on handmade paper. Gift 

 of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology 



Freer Gallery of Art 



Earthenware bowl, Abbasid dynasty (749—1252), 



Mesopotamia. Museum purchase 

 Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining), Portrait of the Qianlong 



Emperor (r. 1736-95) as the Bodhisattva Manjursi, China, 



mid-eighteenth century, color on silk. Museum purchase, 



anonymous donor, and museum funds 



