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Scope and Contents
The papers of curator, art historian, and museum director Joseph D. Ketner II date from circa 1967-2020 and measure 20.2 linear feet. Correspondence is mostly professional in nature and with people and on topics not covered under the project files series, in which much correspondence is located. The project files series contains wide overarching topics of research that in many cases spanned most of Ketner's career, including African American artists, particularly Robert S. Duncanson, and Group Zero including Otto Piene and others, Andy Warhol, and Charles Ferdinand Wimar (Carl, Karl). Within project files related correspondence, exhibitions, writings, interviews and research material occur. As Ketner worked in Germany intermittently and focused on many German artists and topics, there is a good amount of German language material throughout.
Writings include essays and publications not covered under the project files series. Writing files including manuscript drafts and correspondence regarding writing assignments and commissions are found throughout the project files. Exhibition files includes exhibition planning documents for exhibitions not covered under the project files series. Exhibition files are found throughout the project files. Teaching files series includes course planning documents and lecture notes not covered under the project files series. Teaching files are found throughout the project files. The artist files series includes research material and correspondence on various artists who largely are not represented in the project files series. Subject files contain primarily research material on topics in art history, which have not been covered in the project files series.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated in 2022 by Patricia Ketner, Joseph Ketner's widow.
Related Materials
The Archives of American Art holds on microfilm "Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872): the Late Literary Landscape Paintings" by Joseph D. Ketner, II, 1980 Sept. Master's Thesis donated by Ketner, Faculty of Fine Arts, Indiana University, 1980.
Processing Information
The collection was processed in 2022 by Ryan Evans.
