Subseries III: Exhibition Files, 1933-1985, undated

This subseries documents the exhibition program at the University of Pittsburgh's Fine Arts Department, which was overseen by Virginia Lewis and Walter Read Hovey. Folder contents vary from one exhibition to another, but may contain correspondence, loan documentation, checklists, photographs, notes, catalogs, and clippings. Information given about the exhibition may include the exhibition title, dates, names of organizers and lenders, events in connection with the exhibition, and attendance. Exhibitions vary widely in subject matter from ancient Chinese art to Western contemporary art, as well as decorative arts and crafts. Artists of note include Andrey Avinoff, Paul Klee, Charles-Alexander Lesueur, Jozsef Domjan, and Marc Chagall. Some exhibitions were organized locally and showed items from area collectors, while others were traveling exhibitions loaned by galleries or arts organizations, especially the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Exhibitions were held at the Cathedral of Learning until the completion of the Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building in 1965. Virginia Lewis and Walter Read Hovey ended their involvement in the exhibition program in 1967, though a 1977 exhibition honored Hovey as the Department's chairman emeritus. Filed at the end of this subseries are two folders concerning loans of works from Virginia Lewis' personal art collection to museums in Washington, D.C. and Cleveland, Ohio, and two folders documenting a wrought iron stand for the Book of Kells commissioned by Helen Clay Frick in 1981 for the Irish Room at the University's Cathedral of Learning.