Yale Center for British Art. Reference Library and Archives, Jack Brown scrapbook, January 1, 1964 - December 31, 1969
- Call Number:
- A005
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Yale Center for British Art. Reference Library and Archives
- Title(s):
- Jack Brown scrapbook
- Date:
- January 1, 1964 - December 31, 1969
- Extent:
- 1 linear feet
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Conditions Governing Access:
- This collection is open for research.
- Biographical/Historical:
- Jack Brown served as the first Librarian at the Yale Center for British Art from February 1973 to September 1976. He was responsible for the creation of the photo library, which provided photographic reference for works of art, as well as the early computer databases used for the library collection. Following his time at the Yale Center for British Art, Brown worked at the Cleveland Museum and then the Art Institute of Chicago. The Reference Library contains over 30,000 titles and 80 periodicals about British art, artists, and culture from the fifteenth through twenty-first centuries. Formats include periodicals and auction catalogues, catalogues raisonnés, biographies, architectural surveys, ephemera, microfilm, and recorded lectures.
- Scope and Content:
- This collection consists of one scrapbook compiled by Jack Brown, the first Librarian at the Yale Center for British Art. The scrapbook includes chronologically arranged newspaper articles, press releases, and correspondence from 1964-1969. Also included are articles about the exhibition of Paul Mellon’s British art collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (1965), his gift of artwork to Yale (1966), the appointment of Jules Prown as Director of the Yale Center for British Art (1968), and the selection of Louis Kahn as the Center’s architect (1969).
- Subject Terms:
- Art museumsArt, British
- Associated Places:
- United States
- Associated People/Groups:
- Brown, JackMellon, Paul
- Finding Aid Title:
- Jack Brown scrapbook
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/10718.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/resources/10718
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/resources/10718?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1