The Archives of American Art is the world's pre-eminent resource dedicated to collecting and preserving the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America.

Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America.

This Flickr profile primarily includes photographs from events and activities sponsored by the Archives, but also includes some images from our collections. To see a greater number of documents from our collections, visit www.aaa.si.edu.

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