Smithsonian American Art Museum
Focusing on Art: Peter A. Juley & Son
November 22, 1985 – September 30, 1986
On view are 30 photographs selected from the 127,000 photographic negatives comprising the NMAA Juley Collection. Believed to be the largest single photographic record of American art, the collection is particularly valuable because it often contains the only surviving visual record of the original state of many works of art. Included in the exhibition are photographs of William Blackens' Lenna with Rabbits, destroyed in a 1929 train wreck; Robert Henri's portrait of Bernard Baruch, and Edward Hopper's Corn Belt City, both lost in fires.
