We've moved!
We're pleased to announce the Smithsonian American Art Museum's extensive research resources are now open with extended reference hours at a new address. (The museum, housed at the Old Patent Office Building, is closed as a major renovation project gets underway).
Please make a note of our new telephone numbers and addresses listed below.
Our new building location:
750 Ninth Street, N.W., Suite 3100
Washington, D.C. 20001-4505
(We're just a block north of the American Art/Portrait Gallery museum building and are now located in the same building as the Archives of American Art and American Art/Portrait Gallery museum library).
Our new mailing address:
Art Information Resources
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C. 20560-0970
Inventories of American Painting & Sculpture:
Together, these online inventories reference over 360,000 art works in public and private collections nationwide and are complemented by a photographic study file (not yet digitized) of over 60,000 images. The Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 includes works done by artists active in this country by 1914. The companion sculpture database has no cut-off date and includes works from colonial to contemporary. New to the Inventory of American Sculpture database are records documenting over 32,000 outdoor sculptures surveyed through the museum's Save Outdoor Sculpture! program.
Telephone: 202.275-1932
Email: [log in to unmask]
Fax: 202.275-1707
Expanded Reference hours: Monday through Friday, 10 to 5 pm
Slide Library
The Slide Library holds over 50,000 color slides surveying American art from the colonial period to the present. The Slide Library also includes photographic documentation of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery exhibition installations from 1965 to the present. Slides of works from SAAM's permanent collection may be borrowed by local teachers and museum professionals for study or educational purposes. Please contact the slide librarian for additional information or to schedule an appointment.
Telephone: 202.275.1931
Fax: 202.275-1707
Email: [log in to unmask]
Photo Archives
Included in the Photo Archives are two especially significant collections. The Peter A. Juley & Son Collection is comprised of 127,000 images. Father and son, Peter A. and Paul Juley operated a commercial photography studio in New York City from 1896 to 1975. Located close to the famous Art Students League, their firm specialized in photographing American artists and their art. More than 11,000 artists are represented in the archives. Black and white copy prints of all images are for sale. Nicely complementing the Juley Collection is the Walter Rosenblum Collection which includes 7,500 negatives of this award-winning photographer, documenting the work of artists exhibiting in New York City throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Researchers are encouraged to schedule an appointment to use the collections.
Telephone: 202.275-1931
Fax: 202.275-1707
Email: [log in to unmask]
For online access to the Art Inventories and the Juley Collection and for more information on our research resources, see the Study Center section found on museum's website: AmericanArt.si.edu.
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