The U.S. participation at the Venice Biennale – state of the art

Folie 2 / Zürich, 17.04.2009 / © SIK-ISEA

Annika Hossain

•  Travel report (Research in the United States)

•  Native American Art at the 1932 Venice Biennale

Travel report (Research in the United States of America)

Archives in New York City

•  Museum of Modern Art •  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum •  Whitney Museum of American Art

•  Archives of American Art

Research results from the MoMA‘s Archives

Documents from the MoMA‘s Archives

Documents from the Grand Central Galleries Yearbooks at the Archives of American Art

Foundations & Interviews

•  Willem de Kooning Foundation •  Isamu Noguchi Foundation •  Nat Trotmann, Associate Curator at the Solomon

R. Guggenheim Museum •  Robert Gober, artist

Libraries

•  Library of the Museum of Modern Art

•  Library of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

•  Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library of Columbia University

Museums & galleries

•  Museum of Modern Art, NY •  Whitney Museum of American Art, NY •  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY •  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY •  The Cloisters, NY •  Frick Collection, NY •  New Museum, NY •  National Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, NY •  P.S. 1, NY •  Isamu Noguchi Museum, NY •  Pierpont Morgan Library, NY

•  Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA •  Barnes Foundation, PA

Museums & universities in the Northeast

•  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (holding the collection of Katherine Dreier)

•  Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT •  Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (oldest public art museum of the United

States, founded in 1842) •  Vanderbilt Mansion, Newport, RI (Mansion of the Vanderbilt family) •  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA •  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (first American art museum

founded by a woman) •  Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (cradle of US star

curators: e.g. Nancy Spector) •  Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA •  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA •  Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA (American alternative community

life) •  DIA Art Foundation, Beacon, NY

Interview with Patricia Hills, Boston University

Between Cult and Contempt – Native American Art at the Venice Biennale 1932

U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 1932

Applied art in a dedicated room at the first floor of the Hungarian Pavilion (1909)

Padiglione delle arti decorative Veneziane (1932)

Installation of historic Pueblo art at the MoMA‘s exhibition Indian Art of the United States (1941)

Eleanor Roosevelt and Fred Kabotie at the MoMA‘s exhibition Indian Art of the United States (1941)

Awa Tsireh, Green Corn Ceremony (1922)

Max Weber, Chinese Restaurant (1915) at the Venice Biennale in 1934