The AA/PG Library maintains an extensive collection of auction catalogs from American houses or sales containing works primarily by American artists. Currently numbering over 600 volumes, this growing collection has a strong focus on the works by American artists - the oldest dating to the Civil War period. The AA/PG Library has a large number of Cartoon and Caricature books, which includes general collections and rare titles, many still with their original book jackets. The AA/PG Library has materials from the Harmon Foundation, including many rare original exhibition catalogs from the 1920s prizes for African American artists, numerous books as well as Art & Artist Files for the Foundation and many of the Harmon winners, in addition to archival material donated to the library when the Foundation closed. The AA/PG Library owns the source material for Daniel Turney Mallett’s Index of Artists and its Supplement. The Theodore Bolton collection consists of research drawings and clippings relating to the art historian's published and unpublished works on American art. clipping collection includes research material and clippings related to American and California artists. The Ferdinand Perret collection includes notebooks on California artists, art activities, history and geography from 1769 to 1942. The AA/PG Library owns several individual ephemeral collections from various art historians and organizations. Browse the AA/PG Artists' Books collection.
They are primarily by American artists and include a variety of formats such as handmade and limited-edition books, autobiographical stories, and mass-market or conceptual works. The artists’ books are collected within a general theme of the “American Story” to fit within the American Art and Portrait/Biography aims of the museums’ collections. Artists’ books are works of art, like paintings or sculptures, but in book form, and the AA/PG Library maintains a collection of several hundred. The Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books Collection includes artists' books from many branches of the Smithsonian Libraries. This is a non-circulating collection and must be used on site. Individual artists’ names and museums, galleries, and associations can be searched using the Smithsonian Libraries’ online database for the Art and Artist Files. In addition, the “Living Portrait Artists File” is incorporated into the collection, which contains biographical information and examples of work from recently active portrait artists.
Moore, the Allentown Art Museum, the Art Students League of New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Numerous notable individuals and institutions have donated their ephemera files to supplement the AA/PG Art and Artist Files collection, including Col. These collections have been maintained for over 50 years and include the type of materials that is often difficult to obtain in traditional library collections. There are over 150,000 files of ephemeral materials on art, artists, art institutions, collectors, and special subjects. The Art and Artist Files of the AA/PG Library are a particularly rich resource. Specific information for using AA/PG Library resources can be found on the Using the AA/PG Library page. All can be located through the Smithsonian Libraries’ online catalog ( ). The Library also contains artists’ books, ephemeral materials, auction catalogs, scrapbooks, microforms, and A/V material. To support the research of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art, the AA/PG Library collection of 180,000 books, exhibition catalogs, catalogues raisonnes, serials and dissertations is concentrated in the area of American art, history, and biography with supportive materials on European art.
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