Susan Cary

Susan Cary is the registrar and collections manager at the Archives of American Art.

Stories from this author

Baseball cards with faces of artists superimposed on them fanned out on a desk above a blue box with text that reads ARTBALL, an image of a batter, catcher, and umpire, with a red circle that says set 1.

What If Major League Baseball Fielded a Team and the Players Were Duchamp, Calder, Marisol, O’Keeffe and Pollock?

A collection of artist baseball cards, “Artball, from the artist Don Celender, arrive in the collections just in time for the World Series

Stock books with marbled covers and leather bindings in various color fanned out.

Conserved H. Wunderlich & Company Stock Books Return to Their Former Splendor

The Archives of American Art recently received funding to conserve the H. Wunderlich & Company and Kennedy & Company stock books, which are now fully digitized.

Walter Shirlaw watercolor of two turkeys, ca. 1903-1919. Dorothea A. Dreier papers, 1881-1941, bulk 1887-1923. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

The Bird is the Word: Turkeys in the Archives