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Guide to the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) Records,
1978.80 Guide to the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) Records, 1966-1968 Processed by Katherine Burger Johnson; machine-readable finding aid created by Carrie Daniels University Archives and Records Center 2005 University Archives and Records Center University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA Phone: (502) 852-6674 Fax: (502) 852-6673 Email: archives@louisville.edu URL: http://louisville.edu/library/uarc/ University of Louisville. All rights reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word.. Date of source: 2007 Description is in English. Guide to the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) Records, 1966-1968 ukseal Contact Information University Archives and Records Center University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA Phone: (502) 852-6674 Fax: (502) 852-6673 Email: archives@louisville.edu URL: http://library.louisville.edu/uarc/ Processed by: Katherine Burger Johnson Finding aid completed by: 2007 Encoded by: Carrie Daniels Copyright 2007 University of Louisville. All rights reserved. Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) Records, 1966-1968 1978-80 Covi, Dario A. .5 linear feet The materials are in English. University of Louisville Archives and Records Center. Louisville, Kentucky 40292 This collection is open to researchers. Copyright has not been transferred to the University of Louisville [identification of item], Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) Records, University of Louisville University Archives and Records Center. Covi, Dario A. Allen R. Hite Art Institute. Committee to Rescue Italian Art. Florence (Italy) --Flood, 1966. Venice (Italy) --Flood, 1966. Administrative History The Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) was organized in response to the devastating floods which swept across North and Central Italy on November 4, 1966. On November 8, CRIA sent two experts to examine the situation in Florence and Venice. They made their report to the group and its honorary president, Mrs. John F. Kennedy, on the same day which it incorporated, November 14. At the same time, CRIA moved into offices in New York City and principal committees were formed. CRIA began immediately its work of restoring and repairing works of art damaged by the flooding with an initial goal of raising $2,500,000 for the rescue work. By early December, CRIA was able to announce its first grants and more allocations were made later that month and in January. Within a month there were fifty branches of CRIA across the country. Most of the national and regional committee work was done by art historians, collectors, and graduate students. Dario Covi, professor of art history at the University of Louisville, served as the Kentucky Area Chair for CRIA. This .5 linear foot collection of the records of the Kentucky Area Committee for the Rescue of Italian Art consists of correspondence (national, regional, and local); newsletters (national); financial information (local contributions and pledges); newsclippings; and miscellaneous notes and reports. Container List 1 General Information and Reports, 1966-1967 2 Acknowledgments, 1966-1968 3 Private correspondence (in Italian), 1966 4 Regional and local correspondence, 1966-1967 5 Correspondence with the national and other regions, 1966-1968 6 Memorandums from the national office, 1966-67 7 Financial: contributions and pledges, 1967 8 Benefit Concert, 1967 9 Newsletters, 1966-1967 10 Press Releases from the national office, 1966-1968 11 Local office notes and miscellaneous, no date 12 Newsclippings, 1966-1968