Department of Art records
Scope and Contents
Contains negatives and photographs of art work from various artists. It also contains correspondence to and from B.F. Larsen.
Dates
- Creation: 1924-1966
Creator
- Brigham Young University. Department of Art (creator, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Restricted. Closed for 35 years from the date of creation of the records, and thereafter open to the public in accordance with the University Archives Policy.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Please direct any questions to Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.
Administrative History
The Art Department, a department in the College of Fine Arts, featured Bent L. Larsen, Elbert Eastmond, Verla L. Birrell, Lynn Taylor, and J. Roman Andrus as instructors. The Department of Art was its own department until the Departments of Art and Design merged in 1995 to become the Department of Visual Arts.
Extent
4 boxes (2 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/UA1243.xml
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Found in the stacks, February 2006.
Appraisal
Department records (University Archives collecting policy, July 2003).
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Register of Department of Art records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jennifer Kim
- Date
- 2011 September 9
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Revision Statements
- 2023 March 8: Updated file-level inventory from XML finding aid; Cory Nimer.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo UT 84602 US