In 1949, the University's department of art began hiring visiting artists as instructors. Today, the artists Paul Burlin, Ralston Crawford, Arnold Blanch, Cameron Booth, and Philip Guston are all represented in the museum's permanent collection whether through their own works or works done of them - no doubt related to their contributions to American art but also likely related to the time they spent with the University in the initial years of the visiting artist teaching program. Each artist was also featured in a Gallery exhibition which served, "both as a reception...

On a typical shift in the archives processing room, I often sit across the room from another intern who is working on a different project sorting through handwritten letters - one type of archival material.

The title of the 1948 exhibition, "Tools, Materials, and the Artist" sounds strikingly similar to the 1947 exhibition titled, "Materials and Tools of Art." Further, the folders t

"Too nice a day. Everybody at beach." This was one of the comments recorded in 1966 by a University Gallery guard on a lazy Sunday in June. I found a stack of these comment cards in the files, giving a little window into the thoughts of those silent sentries. The guards were asked to fill out cards evaluating the events of their shift, on Sundays and during Friday night concerts in Northrup Auditorium, downstairs from the gallery. (These were presumably times when other gallery workers were not present).

The short-titled folder, "Art I" merely contains a few black and white photographs...