Sara Harrington Art Librarian saraharr@rci.rutgers.edu May 6, 2008

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Art History:
Sources for Information about Exhibitions

Unless otherwise noted, all resources are located in the Art Library. Most of the sources on this list are valuable for a historical perspective. If looking for current exhibition information or publications, use the museum of gallery to look up the catalogues in IRIS, or use the bibliographic indexes to find criticism.

• British Exhibitions
• French Exhibitions
• American Exhibitions
• Canadian Exhibitions
• Latin American Exhibitions
• Twentieth-Century Exhibitions
• Criticism

British Institutions

Graves, Algernon. The British Institution 1806-1867
Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, 1969
Arranged alphabetically by artist. Valuations given for individual works of art, when known. Separate small portrait index.
ART N5055.B86G7 1969

Graves, Algernon. A Century of Loan Exhibitions
New York: Burt Franklin, 1913
Includes the most important public exhibitions for the years 1813-1912. List of owners and a small portrait index are included.
ART N5051.G7 1913a

Graves, Algernon. Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Works...1769-1904
New York: Burt Franklin, 1972
ART N5054.G72

Royal Society of British Artists. Comp. by Maurice Bradshaw. Leigh-on-Sea, Eng.: F. Lewis, 1973
Covers the period 1824-1962.
ART Folio ND467.B72

Works Exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists 1824-1893 and the New English Art Club 1888-1917. Comp. by Jane Johnson.
England: Antique Collectors Club, 1982
ART N6767.W67 1982

French Institutions

Marquet de Vasselot, J.J. Repertoire des catalogues du musee du louvre, 1793- 1917...
Paris: Hachette, reprinted by Burt Franklin, 1968.
ART N2030.A4 1917a

Paris Salon. Comp. by H.W. Janson.
New York: Garland, 1977
Facsimiles of catalogues from each salon, 1673-1881.
ART N5064.P3

Salon. (year).
Paris
Contemporary discussion of each salon, 1883-1904.
ART Folio N5065.A3

Fink, Lois Marie. American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons.
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1990
ART N6510.F57 1990

Modern Art in Paris.
New York: Garland, 1981. A series that includes the following titles:
- Salons of the Independants, 1884-1891 ART N6850.S17 1981
- Salons of the Independants, 1892-1895 ART N6850.S173 1981
- Salons of the Independants, 1896-1900 ART N6850.S175 1981
- Salons of the Refuses ART N6850.S2 1981
   Reprint of works originally published 1863-1886.
- National Fine Art Exhibitions ART N6847.N37 1981
   Reproduction of two exhibition catalogues from 1864 and one from 1883.

Wildenstein, Georges. "Table alphabetique des portraits, peints, sculptes, dessines et graves exposes a Paris du salon entre 1800 et 1826." Gazette des beaux-arts (January 1968): 9-60.

American Exhibitions

Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett. American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union, 1816-1852
New York: New-York Historical Society, 1953.
Long background essays. Volume 2 lists artists, works shown, and addresses at the time of exhibit.
ART N11.A283C6

National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1826-1860, 1861-1900. Comp. by Maria Naylor.

New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1973
ART N6510.N38

Exhibition catalogues from the National Academy of Design, beginning in 1905 and continuing to 1958--with some gaps in the collection
ART N5020.N5

Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874. Comp. by Robert F. Perkins Jr. and William J. Gavin, III.
Boston: Library of the Boston Athenaeum, 1980
Artists, subjects, and descriptive comments that accompanied the exhibited works.
ART Folio N7525.P472

Cumulative Record of Exhibition Catalogues: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Ed. by Anna Wells Rutledge.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1955. Arranged chronologically with artist, owner, and subject indexes.
ART Folio N680.A63

The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Madison, CT: Soundview Pres, 1988-1989.
Revision of the record compiled by Rutledge. Includes bibliography.
ART N6505.A64 1988

A History of the Brooklyn Art Association With an Index of Exhibitions. Comp. by Clark S. Marlor.
New York: James F. Carr, 1970
Artists and exhibits, 1859-1892.
ART N11.B783M3 1970

Archives of American Art. Collection of Exhibition Catalogues
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979
ART REF Z5939.A73 1979

National Museum of American Art's Index to American Art Exhibition Catalogues: From Beginning Through the 1876 Centennial Year. Comp. by James L. Yarnall and William H. Gerdts.
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986
Excludes listings from previously published collections, i.e., Brooklyn, Boston, etc. Extensive subject index.
ART REF N6505.N37 1986

Marlor, Clark S. The Society of Independent Artists: The Exhibition Record 1917-1944
Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1984
ART N6512.M326 1984

Canadian Exhibitions

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/Academie royale des arts du Canada: Exhibitions and Members, 1880-1979. Comp. by Evelyn de Rostaing McMann.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981
ART N12.M35

Latin American Exhibitions

Contemporary Latin American Artists Exhibitions at the Organization of American States 1965-1985
Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1993
ART REF N6502.5.C66 1993

Twentieth-Century Exhibitions

Worldwide Bibliography of Art Exhibition Catalogues 1963-1987
Millwood, NY: Kraus International; Ithaca, NY: Worldwide Books, 1992
ART REF N4396.W67 1992

Gordon, Donald. Modern Art Exhibitions 1900-1916
Munich: Prestel, 1974
ART REF N6490.G62

Criticism

Wildenstein, Georges. "Bibliographie des revues et periodiques d'art Parus en France." Gazette des beaux-arts (January 1951. Entire issue.

Bibliography of Salon Criticism in Paris From the Ancien Regime to the Restoration 1699-1827. Ed. by Neil McWilliam.
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1991
ART N5066.M39 1991

Bibliography of Salon Criticism in Paris From the July Monarchy to the Second Republic 1831-1851. Ed. by Neil McWilliam.
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1991
ART N5066.M395 1991

A Bibliography of Salon Criticism in Second Empire Paris. Comp. by Christopher Parsons and Martha Ward.
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1986
ART N5066.P37 1986