Art History Department

Collection

Identifier: BC13-04

Staff View

Collection Scope and Content Summary

The collection contains materials that document the history of the Art History Department at Barnard College. Included in this collection are flyers for lectures and film events, invitations to fundraisers, documents about the history of the department, a memorial memo, course information, event recordings, and exam questions. There is some material from the Fine Arts Department which became part of the Art History Department in 1960. Also included are materials documenting exhibitions held in the James Room from 1957-1969. which were organized by Julius Held of the Fine Arts (and later Art History Deparment). These materials include correspondence, loan documentation, exhibition checklists and brochures, programs for openings, and clippings. This collection includes digital event recordings as well.

Dates

Creation: 1937-2023, undated

Access

No restrictions apply to this collection.

Publication Rights

No permission is required for reproductions of materials in the public domain or uses that fall within fair use exemptions to copyright as defined under U.S. Copyright Law.

Barnard College retains copyright of materials created as part of its business operations. To request permission to reproduce these types of materials, please contact us at archives@barnard.edu.

This collection may also contain materials created by others, for which copyright is not held by the College. In order to reproduce these materials, permission from the Archives is not required, but it is researchers' responsibility to determine and obtain any necessary permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or other rights.

Please see our Reproductions, Copyright, and Citing Archives page for more information and contact us at archives@barnard.edu with any questions.

Reproduction Restrictions

Photocopies or scans may be made for research purposes.

Extent

0.42 Linear Feet (1 document box)

84.6 Gigabytes

Language

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection consists of materials from the Barnard College Art History Department.

Collection Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically. Additionally, the archivist completed high-level physical rearrangement to allow the digital materials to be easily integrated into a single system of arrangement. The archivist placed the digital documents, at the highest directory level, into a new folder with a new file name.

Physical Location

This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the Art History department and from Julius Held. Event recordings transferred from Instructional Media and Technology Services (IMATS) in 2025.

Accruals

Additions are expected.

Processing History

This collection was processed and the finding aid was written by Amy Lau in October 2015. In August 2025, Martha Tenney processed a digital accural of event recordings. In September 2025, Olivia Newsome intellectually re-arranged this collection and updated the finding aid.

Descriptive Rules Used: Finding aid adheres to the prescribed by Describing Archives: a Content Standard. Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.

Processing Note

An invitation card, "The Nature of American Art: A Symposium...," was originally in the folder with materials from the Fine Arts Department. It was moved into the folder with all of the other Art History Department materials.