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Harris Fine Arts Center

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1965-

Administrative History

The Harris Fine Arts Center (dedicated 1965) is a multipurpose building at Brigham Young University. The building includes performance halls, gallery space, classrooms, and practice rooms.

Citation:
nuc88-126319: Fairbanks, A.T. Avard T. Fairbanks, 1987? (usage on UPB rept.: Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University)

Paintings by Julian Alden Weir, 1972: t.p. verso (Brigham Young University Art Gallery, Provo, Utah)

LC database, 11/28/1994 (hdg.: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Art Gallery; usage: Brigham Young University Art Gallery)

Amer. art directory, 1967 (under Utah, Provo: Brigham Young University, Harris Fine Arts Center, B.F. Larsen Gallery; estab. 1963)

Amer. art directory, 1993/94 (under Utah, Provo: Brigham Young University, B.F. Larsen Gallery, Harris Fine Arts Center; estab. 1965; Gallery 303 is large room within atrium-shaped space)

Intern. dir. of arts, 1993/94: v. 1, p. 825 (Harris Fine Arts Center Galleries, Brigham Young University; F-303 Harris Fine Arts Center)

Official mus. dir., 1992 (under Utah, Provo: Museum of Fine Arts at Brigham Young University, Harris Fine Arts Center; founded 1965; formerly Brigham Young University Museum of Fine Arts; temporarily closed for construction of new facility)

The American image, 1830-1940, 1985: cover (selections from the Brigham Young University art museum collection) pref. (Gallery 303; in Harris Fine Arts Center) added jacket (BYU Museum of Fine Arts)

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Image of Photograph of technician installing a pipe organ in the Madsen Recital Hall
Image of Photograph of technician installi...

Physical Plant Department records on the Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center, 1955-1974

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 1330 Series 3 Sub-Series 20
Scope and Contents

Contains program requirements, specifications, remodeling and addition records, and the keying schedule and contracts for the unfinished area. Also includes records from those responsible for the construction of the Harris Fine Arts Center, including Paul S. Veneklasen and Associates, Ford Foundation, William Pereira, Alfred Brown Company, Lewis E. Sandstrom, Jr., and Layton Construction, 1955-1974.

Dates: 1955-1974
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Physical Plant Department records / Physical Plant Department records on campus buildings

Physical Plant Department renderings

 Collection — Oversize 1: [Barcode: 31197225511713]
Identifier: UA 1240
Scope and Contents

Contains colored renderings of the Harris Fine Arts Center, the Caroline Hemenway Harman Building, the Museum of Art, and the N. Eldon Tanner Building.

Dates: 2006
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

John Homer Wakefield photographs

 Collection
Identifier: UA 948
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs of various buildings, faculty members, students, and activities of Brigham Young University during the years of 1913-1978.

Dates: 1913-1978
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

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