Contemporary Art Society of Australia (N.S.W.) - records, 1943-1970
Contemporary Art Society of Australia (N.S.W.) - records, 1943-1970
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1943 - 1970
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts, Clippings, Pictures and Posters
Physical Description
Contents
2.79 metres of textual material (19 boxes) - manuscript, typescript, typescript (carbon), typescript (processed), typescript (with manuscript annotations and corrections), and printed
Clippings
Posters
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
This collection comprises 7 record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Minutes of Committee meetings, 1945-1946, 1960, 1967, with related papers, 1944-1945, 1967-1968
Correspondence, 1944-1968
Papers concerning exhibitions, 1956-1968
Financial records, 1945-1969
Miscellaneous records, 195--1969
Membership records, 1943-1967
Printed material, including exhibition catalogues, 1945-1970
Posters, 1968...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Contemporary Art Society of Australia (N.S.W.) - records, 1943-1970
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
This collection underwent further arrangement and description, and re-boxing, in Nov. 1996. The present listing supersedes the original contents list which had 'Y' and later 'K' location numbers.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society of Australia (N.S.W.) in 1972 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in July 2004.
Administrative / Biographical history
The N.S.W. Branch was founded in 1939, a year after the establishment of the Contemporary Art Society in Melbourne. A Federal Council was formed in 1961. The Branch promoted the unfettered creative and progressive expression of the visual arts. This was achieved through a program of exhibitions, lectures and talks, and through its publication, Broa...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Record Identifier
YolEXzv9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YolEXzv9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
131196
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