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:
Memos: Director, 1958-1962
Memos, letters regarding objects, including gifts, loans (including Ernest Erickson), deaccessions, purchases (Indian stone sculpture from Geisse Fuguet); lectures; exhibition offer; administration; installations; Louis E. Stern collection; inquiries; exchange of Brooklyn Museum objects for materials excavated from Thai site; dealer; curator position; trustees. Jain Rest House information. Assistant curator's European trip report.
Memos: Director, 1963-1964
Memos regarding objects offered; installations; loans; administration; meetings; proposed and offered exhibitions; photography; lectures and symposium; purchase of Ike-no-Taiga landscape; Iranian objects in department collection; resignation; Kevorkian estate. Notes.
Memos: Director, 1966-1967
Memos regarding staff; meetings; procedures; grant proposal; insurance; objects, including Ukiyo-e screen; objects offered from Mrs. J. M. Kaplan, Paul E. Manheim, Melvin Safran, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiesenberger, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilkinson, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Dickes, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wang, John Chang. Reports. Letters regarding endowment, donation, object authenticity of Shih T'ao painting. Lists: donors; departmental holdings (1962).
Memos: Director, 1968
Memos regarding procedures; meetings; expenses; projects; budget; objects; staff; exhibitions; loans. Letters. Report regarding work on Islamic exhibition.
Memos: Director, 1969-1970
Memos regarding exhibitions; loans; Kevorkian estate; objects; budget; meetings; procedures; objects offered from Paul E. Manheim, Arthur Sackler; authenticity of Cambodian reliefs; damages to objects; appraisals; resignation; curriculum vitae. Letters regarding gifts; staff; travel; objects (1968). Lists: gifts; objects on loan; objects needing repair; special projects; donors and their donations. Job description.
Memos: Registrar, 1958-1962
Correspondence, memos regarding objects, including gifts, loans, sale, missing, valuation, transfer; accession numbers; release requests; acquisitions; bills; deinstallation; exhibition; Tani Buncho painting; Korean paintings; disposition of Clayton L. Moak collection. Donors: James Hays; Philip Weisberg. Registrar's forms. Lists: withdrawn Ernest Erickson objects; Clayton L. Moak objects.
Memos: Registrar, 1963-1964
Letters, memos regarding objects, including transportation, loans, missing, valuation, transfers; insurance; deed of gift from Cordelia P. Bookwalter; catalog sheets; accessions numbers; release requests; Louis Stern collection; Ernest Erickson objects; procedures. Insurance report (1962). Registrar's forms. Loan forms for Art Students League of N.Y. (1935, 1936).
Memos: Registrar, 1965-1968
Memos regarding donors, including Arthur Wiesenberger, Paul E. Manheim, Arthur Sackler, Ernest Erickson; import tariffs; procedures; accession records; minutes; objects, including insurance claims, appraisals, transportation, purchases. Letters regarding insurance; application for license by Treasury Department; shipments. Invoice. Registrar's forms. Lists: objects for delivery; insurance valuation; loan material returned to lender.
Memos: Registrar, 1969
Memos regarding procedures; donors, including Paul E. Manheim, Ernest Erickson; objects, including loans, insurance, transportation, valuation, accessions, deaccessions, fumigation, labeling. Letters regarding shipment of objects. Lists: object condition reports. Registrar's forms.