What is in an Artist File?
The Library’s Artist Files, numbering over 80,000, may contain exhibition announcements, press releases, clippings, brochures, small exhibition catalogues, or checklists, as well as invitations or other ephemera. Most artist exhibition catalogues are not in the artist files; rather, they are catalogued individually in DADABASE. To see if an artist has a file, search DADABASE by subject for the artist’s name. Artist Files are paper files not currently in digital form, however a microfiche copy (as of approximately 1984) is available at the Manhattan Library, at several research libraries, or through the publisher, Chadwyck-Healey. The Library also has other types of files on artists, all catalogued individually in DADABASE: Photo Bio Files, Archives Pamphlet Files, Franklin Furnace Artist Files, PAD/D Files, Artists’ Space Artist Files, and (coming soon) Drawing Center Artist Files. Most files are located at QNS.
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