Records from the Office of Communication, 1951-

This collection contains materials created and collected by the Office of Communications. The bulk of the material is comprised of press clippings and ephemera related to exhibitions and events associated with the Clark. Of note are materials from other institutions on travelling exhibitions from the Clark, such as ephemera on the exhibition “Impressionism: Paintings from the Clark” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Italian language clippings on “Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris” at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, Italy.

The media included in the collection covers events and individuals associated with the Clark. Candid photographs of events, staff, and meetings form the bulk of the graphic materials. CDs and DVDs in the collection contain digital photographs, alongside working files and videos.

The 2024 accrual contains graphic materials, the bulk of which are slides depicting people, places, exhibitions, and events at the Clark Art during the years 1995-2008. Some events within this accrual include exhibitions like Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, Impressions: Painting Quickly, and Millet: Then and Now, among others. Many public events are included within the slides and other photographic material, family days, concerts, the French Country Fair in 1996, and other members events such as a pancake breakfast for the Sugaring Off exhibition are included as slide images as well. The bulk of the slides collected in the 2024 accrual are unspecified in the folder title, however a list of events depicted is recorded on the front of the folder in chronological order.

Some slides within the collection are of staff members from around the year 2002. These slide sheets were removed and made into their own subseries as Staff Slides. Staff slides identify many individual staff and groups of staff and have been made into their own subseries to ease access to just staff slides.

CD’s within the collection also contain staff photos from parties and other internal Clark events and functions.

The Photographs included within the accrual contain more broad categories and each folder contains a mix of years and events. Some of the printed photographs were labeled stock images and span multiple events, mostly Clark symposia, lectures, and family days. Any transparencies and negatives within the 2024 accrual are organized with the Photographs.

The Series XI, Subsries E: Multimedia section of this collection contains DVD's as well as Mini DV's and Audio Cassettes that have been rehoused from where they would stand in the chronology of the subseries for the safety of the material. DVD's can be found in Box 35, Folder 2. All Audio Cassettes and Mini DV's were rehoused in a smaller better suited box, Box 37. Please refernce these boxes for a full chronology of the collected multimedia footage.