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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.

Vernita N'Cognita introducing gallerist Holly Solomon and curator Robert Costa with her famous line,

Nearly 1,000 Panels with 6,000 Artists: Highlights from the Artists Talk on Art Records

Installation photograph of Chris Burden's All the Submarines of the United States of America at Christine Burgin Gallery, 1987 (detail) / unidentified photographer. Christine Burgin Gallery records, 1980-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Acquisitions: Christine Burgin Gallery Records

Macbeth Gallery, ca. 1896 / unidentified photographer. Macbeth Gallery records, 1838-1968, bulk 1892-1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Fifty Ways to Use an Archive

Detail from Roberto Matta letter to Allan Frumkin, circa 1952. Allan Frumkin Gallery records, 1880-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Acquisitions: Allan Frumkin Gallery Records

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