Katz, Lois
Biography
Lois Katz began her career at the Brooklyn Museum in 1953 as an instructor in the Education Division. Asisan Art Department Assistant Curator in Charge March 1962 - July 1965; Associate Curator in Charge July 1965 - July 1970.
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, undated
Letters regarding recommendations; loans out; photographs; inquiry; objects. Bequest regarding Elizabeth Archer Baekeland. Invitation. Note.
Correspondence: employment, 1963-1965
Correspondence regarding employment inquiries. Memos regarding staff; job qualifications and description; vacation. Invoice. Notes.
Correspondence: Katz, Lois, 1962
Letters, memos regarding loans, including requests, agreement form; objects, including offers, returns, transportation, gifts; accession numbers; photographs, including permission to publish; installations; lectures; inquiries regarding objects, appraisals; publications; exhibitions; department and gallery maintenance. Letters to Ernest Erickson, memo regarding possible removal of loaned objects.
Correspondence: Katz, Lois, 1962
Letters; memos regarding inquiries, including Kaiho Yusho "Drying Fishnets" screens; exhibitions; loans, including request for Chang Ssu-kung painting; photographs; objects, including offers, receipt, evaluations, damage, transportation, exchange; collection maintenance; publications; theft; lecture; to lenders, including Ernest Erickson, Marian Ariowitsch. Examination report of triptych by Sadahid. Accession list (1961).
Correspondence: Katz, Lois, 1963
Letters, memos regarding exhibitions; photographs; conservation; loans, including requests for "Asian Art from the Collections of Ernest Erickson" exhibition, damage to Ernest Erickson loans; objects, including offers, examination, research; response to inquiries regarding objects, employment; installation; administration.
Correspondence: Katz, Lois, 1963-1964
Letters, memos regarding inquiries; exhibitions; objects, including research, offers, examinations; administration; loans; photographs; installations; professional meetings. List: "Iranian Objects in Oriental Art Department."
Correspondence: Skelton, Robert, 1967-1970
Correspondence with Robert Skelton regarding objects; proposed exhibitions, including Goenka collection; trip to India. Postcard.
Dealers and collectors, 1958-1962
Correspondence regarding objects offered, rejected, purchased, including Imari blue and white bottle from J. J. Klejman. Registrar's forms. Object descriptions. Lists.
Dealers and collectors, 1963-1964
Correspondence regarding objects offered, rejected; exhibitions. Object descriptions. Memos regarding loans offered; auction.
Dealers and collectors: Whytock & Reid, 1967-1968
Correspondence with T. Campbell Reid regarding rugs; purchase of Ming painted deerskin panel, including provenance, invoice.