Archives
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Overview
The Collection Archives are available by appointment only. Please contact curatorial@mam.org for more information.
Highlights
Brooks Stevens
As one of the country’s first industrial designers, Brooks Stevens—acutely aware of his own place in history—began documenting the activities of his design firm in 1935. The Milwaukee Art Museum acquired the Brooks Stevens Archive in 1997, as a gift from the designer’s family and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. The archive is composed of nearly 20,000 audio visual materials spanning Stevens’ entire career.
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George Mann Niedecken
The collections of the George Mann Niedecken Archives consist primarily of the design drawings for interior furnishings, including furniture, rugs, window treatments, lighting, and murals, executed by George Mann Niedecken. The collections contain office records, documents, furniture catalogs, and ephemera of the Niedecken-Walbridge Company, as well as vintage photographs of Niedecken-designed interiors. The collection also includes drawings and paintings of various subjects completed by Niedecken while he was an art student and throughout his life.
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Landfall Press
The Landfall Press Archive, acquired by the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1992, includes etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts by artists of national and international renown. The collection consists of more than six hundred prints, as well as supplementary materials. Among the nearly five thousand pieces in the archive are more than 600 editioned prints as well as supplementary materials, including; proofs, plates, negatives, and color separations.
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The Anthony Petullo Collection
The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught and Outsider Art is one of the premier collections of its kind in the country. Comprised of nearly five hundred pieces, two-thirds of which are European, the collection consists of works ranging from the early twentieth-century to the present, and includes many of the most renowned American artists in the field such as Bill Traylor, Henry Darger, and Minnie Evans. In 2010, Petullo gave the bulk of his collection to the Milwaukee Art Museum, comprising more than 300 drawings, paintings and sculptures. Along with artwork, Petullo donated his personal papers for this manuscript collection.
The records of the Anthony Petullo Manuscript Collection include correspondence, photographs of the artists and Mr. Petullo, his personal research, artwork, articles, general ephemera, etc., relating largely to his collecting activities.
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