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| Creator: | Anthony Caro | |
| Title: | Anthony Caro Papers in The Museum of Modern Art Archives | |
| Dates: | 1949-1974 | |
| Quantity: | One 5" document box | |
Sir Anthony Caro was born on March 8, 1924 in New Malden, Surrey. After attending Christ's College in Cambridge for two years, Caro earned a M.A. degree in engineering. From 1944 to 1946, Caro was in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.
While studying at the Royal Academy Schools (1947 - 1952), Caro became a part-time assistant to sculptor Henry Moore in 1951, leaving Moore's studio in 1953 to teach at St. Martin's School of Art in London. Caro's first solo exhibition was in 1956; three years later he won the sculpture prize at the Paris Biennale, and he met the theorist and critic Clement Greenberg. Thereafter, Caro traveled for the first time to the United States where he met the artists Kenneth Noland, David Smith, Robert Motherwell, and Helen Frankenthaler, among others. From 1963 to 1965, he taught at Bennington College in Vermont where he met Paul Feeley and renewed contact with Noland and Smith.
Caro began to exhibit regularly over the next decade. In 1975 The Museum of Modern Art organized a retrospective exhibition, Anthony Caro [MoMA Exh. # 1096, April 30 - July 6, 1975] co-directed by William S. Rubin. The following year Caro was presented with the Key to the City of New York. He was awarded knighthood in 1987.
The Papers include photocopies of sketches and specifications for sculptures from Caro's original workbooks, essays, articles, and reviews.
The records are open for research and contain no restricted materials.
The Anthony Caro Papers in The Museum of Modern Art Archives are the physical property of The Museum of Modern Art. Literary rights, including copyright belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with The Museum of Modern Art. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archivist.
Further information on the exhibition may be found in the Registrar and Curatorial Exhibition files in the Museum Archives. Also, clippings are included in the Department of Public Information Records. [Anthony Caro [MoMA Exh. #1096, April 30 - July 6, 1975]]. The Museum Archives also includes audio recordings of the lecture series that accompanied the exhibition: Sound Recordings of Museum-Related Events: numbers 75.13, 75.15, 75.16, 75.19. The Museum's Departments of Painting and Sculpture, Prints and Illustrated Books, and Drawings include object files on works by Caro in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art; they may be consulted by appointment.
The Papers were compiled by members of the Department of Painting and Sculpture where they were used by William S. Rubin in connection with the 1975 exhibition and monograph that the Museum published in conjunction with the retrospective. Initially, in September 1977, the Papers were transferred to the Library. The Papers became part of the Museum Archives when The Museum of Modern Art Archives was founded in 1989.
Published citations should take the following form:
Anthony Caro Papers in The Museum of Modern Art Archives, [series.file unit], The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.