NEW ENGLAND.

The article reports on the acquisitions made by the New England office of the Archives of American Art compiled as of September 2000. The Archives has acquired the papers of Eve Peri, a pioneer in the interface between the traditional arts of needlework and modern abstract art in the U.S. The papers of art historian Brucia Witthoft, who spent decades of careful and patient research on the lives and works of the Smillie family of painters, engravers, jewelers and writers, were also acquired by the Archives.