Correct citation format for SFMOMA Exhibition Records
[Item description including date], folder title including exhibition dates, Exhibition Records, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives.
Exhibition:
- Mark Rothko
August 13–September 8, 1946
- Mark Rothko to Grace L. McCann Morley, August 20, 1946; Mark Rothko, August 13–September 8; Exhibition Records, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives
Citation format for SFMOMA Administrative Records
[Item description including date], box year and folder title, series title, Administrative Records, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives.
Example (correspondence) from the Director’s Office series of the Administrative records:
- Ansel Adams to Grace McCann Morley, 11 July 1943, 1943 Artist’s Correspondence, Office of the
- Director 1935–1956, Administrative Records, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives.
Citation format for Unprocessed Materials
[Item description including date], Unprocessed Material, [series title if known], Administrative Records, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives.
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[Item description including date], Unprocessed Material, [exhibition title and exhibition dates], Exhibition Records, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives.
Examples of item descriptions:
- Correspondence – please identify specifically as in examples above. You do not need to specify format for letters, but please specify other forms of correspondence (e.g. telegrams, memoranda).
- Check-list, date
- Press release, date
- Shipping document–[to/from whom] shipping document, date
- Loan document–[to/from whom] loan document, date
- Exhibition poster–[name of exhibition] poster, date
- Exhibition brochure–[name of exhibition] brochure, date
Citation format for Photographs Collection
Title including description, date, Call number, Photographs Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives.
Example:
- Folk Arts of the Far East, Installation, 1949, ARCH.PIC.1949.01.012.002, Photographs Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives.
- Symphony Luncheon, December 14, 1958, ARCH.PIC.1958.03.004.001, Photographs Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives.
* Bibliographic citation only — not to be used for credit line. Credit line should include photographer as copyright holder and/or creator.