Interested in California art, artists, and/or architects?

The revised edition of the "Guide to the Baird Archive of California Art"
has finally been completed and is now ready for distribution.  The entire
collection has been examined, rearranged, refoldered, reboxed and is once
again available for research use.  Since the first guide to the collection
was published in 1979 and distributed to many art museum research departments
and art libraries throughout the United States, I wanted to take this
opportunity to let people know about this latest edition.  This newer,
expanded edition provides a more comprehensive index to this popular
collection which comprises forty six linear feet contained in forty five
archives boxes plus two folio boxes.

For those who are not familiar with this collection, it was assembled by
Dr. Joseph A. Baird, Jr. during his many years as a professor of fine
arts at the University of California at Davis.  Dr. Baird also owned and
operated the North Point Gallery in San Francisco, California and was an
art/architecture consultant and art appraiser to many art museums and
private collectors until his death in 1992.

This collection contains biographical information pertaining to primarily
northern California artists and architects of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries.  There are extensive files on individual
California artists along with copies of the file cards from the Ferdinand
Perret Research Library of the Arts and Affiliated Sciences which is now
owned by the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Insititution.
A large catalog collection documents the more important exhibitions of
California art.  The collection is lacking in materials on modern artists,
photographers, and sculptors.

If you wish to know more about the Baird Archive of California Art and/or
to obtain a copy of the guide, please contact me off the list.

Sincerely,

Pamela P. Wilson
Manuscripts Curator
Special Collections
General Library
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616

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