Cleveland Museum of Art.

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This small collections includes the earliest records of the Horace Kelley Art Foundation, originally incorporated as The Cleveland Museum of Art according to the terms of Horace Kelley's will fo 1890. The foundation changed its name in 1913 when the Cleveland Museum of Art was incorporated.

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This collection consists of photographic negatives, mostly 35mm, of museum staff and activities taken by Martin Linsey, who was a member of the museum education department. The images document both the museum campus and other Cleveland venues. The negatives date from 1964-1980. The archives has a second collection of Martin Linsey photographs of Cleveland monuments, cataloged separately.

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The Brudno collection consists of autographed photographs of performers who participated in the Cleveland Concert Course managed by Mollie Brudno and sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art. The images have been digitized and are available online at digitalarchives.clevelandart.org.

Scope and Contents note The records of Sherman Lee document his tenure as director from 1958 to1983. Because he was also chief curator of Oriental art during his directorship, these records document many of the activities in the Oriental art department, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s. During Lee's administration the museum grew in size and complexity, so the director's office records do not document all of the museum's activities as they did in previous administrations, but still serve as the central point...

Scope and Contents note The personal papers of Ruth and Sherman Lee are a donation from the Lee family. They document the history of both the Lee and Ward families in addition to the relationship between Ruth Ward and Sherman Lee.The collection is organized into six series. Series One, correspondence, is arranged by general and family correspondence. General correspondence is organized alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically thereunder.This small subseries includes letters that document the...

Scope and Contents note The records of the Director's Office are the primary source for understanding the decisions made and actions taken at the highest level of the museum's administration. In addition, they constitute one of the most valuable, unified resources for researching the early history of the museum and its art collection; initial construction and expansion of the museum building; changes in the museum's administrative hierarchy; personalities and activities of individual staff members; artistic and...

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This collection consists entirely of works on paper created by William E. Ward. It spans his work as a high school student through his career as an artist.

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The William Ward collection contains records of his work as museum designer and in the museum education department including correspondence, design project files, subject files, and records of the construction of the Breuer wing. The collection dates from 1946 through 1989.