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Katz, Lois

 Person

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

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_082
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1958-1962

Memos: Director, 1963-1964

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_083
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1963-1964

Memos: Director, 1966-1967

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_084
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1966-1967

Memos: Director, 1968

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_085
Scope and Contents

Memos regarding procedures; meetings; expenses; projects; budget; objects; staff; exhibitions; loans. Letters. Report regarding work on Islamic exhibition.

Dates: 1968

Memos: Director, 1969-1970

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_086
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1969-1970

Memos: Registrar, 1958-1962

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_104
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1958-1962

Memos: Registrar, 1963-1964

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_105
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1963-1964

Memos: Registrar, 1965-1968

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_106
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1965-1968

Memos: Registrar, 1969

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_107
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1969

Memos: Registrar, 1970

 File
Identifier: ASI_01_108
Scope and Contents Memos regarding objects, including identification, loans, long term loans to donors, appraisals, catalog descriptions, insurance, condition, transportation, accessions, damages, transfers to other departments, authentication; grant approval; billing; donors, including Paul E. Manheim, Bertram Schaffner, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiesenberger, Mr. and Mrs. Marinos Costeletos, Arthur Sackler. Lists of objects: released, receipt of delivery, missing catalog information. Letters regarding insurance;...
Dates: 1970