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Print History in 1892: Exhibition Catalogue
This is an ongoing effort to create an illustrated version of Sylvester Koehler’s 1892 exhibition. For the first time ever, this archival document is…
Selected List of Exhibitions Organized by Sylvester Koehler
1881, April 11–May 9, “Exhibition of American Etchings,” MFA Boston. 1882, “Louis Prang and Co. Lithographic Prints and Tools,” United States National…
Selected Bibliography of Sylvester Koehler
Bezold, Wilhelm von. The Theory of Color in Its Relation to Art and Art-Industry . Translated by Sylvester Rosa Koehler. Boston: Louis Prang & Co…
Black Power in Print
Examining the Black Power movement’s legacy in visual culture and its resonance today
Institutional Critique Now: A Conversation between Dr. Kelli Morgan and Chenoa Baker
What dialogue comes forth when a document resurfaces in an archive? In 2021, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, rediscovered Dana C. Chandler’s “A…
A Manifesto, a Door: A Conversation between Dana Chandler, Dahna Chandler, and Liz Munsell
On January 15, 1970, Boston-based artist and activist Dana C. Chandler Jr. submitted a document he titled “A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional…
A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
In 1970, the artist and activist Dana Chandler wrote “A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,” a manifesto…
A Black Power in Print Annotated Bibliography
In his “Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,” Dana Chandler writes, “One of the black museum’s greatest…
Introduction to “Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston” Exhibition Catalogue
In 1970, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts mounted the exhibition “Afro‐American Artists: New York and Boston,”…
The dictionary definition of an archive is a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group…