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Collection Creator:
Pomerantz, Louis  Search this
Extent:
13.8 Linear feet (Boxes 7-20)
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1950s-1987
Scope and Contents:
Project/Client Files document Pomerantz's conservation on artwork for individuals, museums, institutions, and private companies. Files typically include preliminary condition reports and recommendations for treatment; agreement and release forms authorizing treatment; receipts for financial transactions, related correspondence, and in some cases photographic material. Series includes files for clients for whom Pomerantz did a large volume of conservation work including Leigh Block, Chicago Board of Trade, Nathan Cummings, Edgar W. Garbisch, Nelson Harris, Jerome Hill, International Minerals and Chemical Corporation, Arnold H. Maremont, Milwaukee Art Museum, Ohio Historical Society, United States Postal Service, University of Iowa Museum of Art, and the Wichita Art Museum Ronald P. Murdock Collection. Art Institute of Chicago files are relatively extensive and include records documenting conservation department activities, committees and budgets, in addition to individual projects conducted by the Institute's conservation department. Also found here are extensive files documenting Pomerantz's work on the Gamelan collection at the Field Museum of Natural History, including condition reports, background and research material, sound recordings, photographs, and news clippings. A group of folders at the end of the series documents client projects that remained unfinished when Pomerantz died in 1988. The series includes 2 sound recordings related to an exhibition on 2 sound tape reels.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington D.C. research center. Use of audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Louis Pomerantz papers, 1937-1988, bulk 1950s-1988. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.pomeloui, Series 5
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Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
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EDAN-URL:
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