Bates Lowry (b. 1923) was Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture (January 1968-July 1969) and Director of the
Museum (July 1968-May 1969).
The Papers concern many aspects of the Museum's operation, both administrative and curatorial, between the years 1965 and
1969.
Symposia, Jazz in the Garden concerts, the Children's Art Caravan, the Children's Art Carnival, exhibitions, and publications
are among the subjects documented. Lowry's Papers include files maintained by René d'Harnoncourt, under whose direction he
worked in 1968.
The records are open for research and contain few restricted materials.
The Bates Lowry Papers 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.
The Papers were transferred to the Museum Library from the Director's Office; ownership was transferred to the Archives in
June 1992.
| Folder Descriptions
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.1 |
“Admissions” 31 items
Incl. 1968 and 1969 Sales and Admissions Reports
|
1968-69 |
| I.2 |
“Architecture and Design” 0.5"
Incl. clipping and announcement re: symposium on architects' role in protecting the natural environment
Installation estimate sheets for
Function Without Form: Two Models for and Undesignable City (Waddell) [MoMA Exh. #883, 1969 March 1-April 30],
Memorial to 6 Million Jewish Martyrs [MoMA Exh. #870, 1978 October 17-November 17],
James Stirling: Three University Buildings [MoMA Exh. #859, 1968 June 11-August 4]
Corresp. re: sales offers and proposed exhibitions such as “Architecture in Chicago and Mid-America”
Corresp. re: trip to London, Glasgow, Paris for
Hector Guimard [MoMA Exh. #921, 1970 March 11-May 10]
Memoranda re: establishment of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Archive, 1968
1 TLS Robert F. Kennedy (U.S. Senate)-AD, 1968
|
1968-69 |
| I.3 |
“Mies van der Rohe Tribute” 2 items
|
1969 |
| I.4 |
“Bookstore 1968-69” 0.25"
|
1968-1969 |
| I.5 |
“Building Operations” 31 items
incl. memoranda re: Matthew Donepp's appointment as Building Manager, 1969 March 10
|
1967-69 |
| I.6 |
“Children's Art Caravan” 7 items
incl. press release No. 57, 1969 May 1; memoranda and corresp. re: grant from the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund
|
1968-69 |
| I.7 |
“Children's Art Carnival” 49 items
Incl. press release No. 41, 1969 March 27
Clipping, memoranda and corresp. re: funding and budgeting of the Children's Art Carnival
Sample letters of invitation to MoMA Trustees
Betty Blayton exhibition announcement
See also I.1.13 “Harlem”
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1968-69 |
| I.8.a |
“Circulating Exhibitions” 7/8"
Incl. report from Emilio Ambasz re: trip to Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela
Memorandum re: revised program of the Department of Circulating Exhibitions, 1948
memoranda re:
Yugoslavia: A Report (C/E 68-21)
Pamphlet,
Circulating Exhibitions 1968-1969; The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork
Memoranda re:
Tony Smith (C/E 68-9),
Willem de Kooning (ICE-F-109-66) and
Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers (C/E 64-12)
Corresp. re: proposed Richard Tuttle exhibition
exhibition brochure for
Wall Hangings (C/E 66-25)
Memorandum re: fund-raising for program
|
1968-[69] |
| I.8.b |
“Circulating Exhibitions” 14 items
“C/E Letter to Subscribers and Replies Jan. 1969”
incl. subscribers poll and corresp.
summary of
Yugoslavia: A Report (C/E 68-21)
|
n.d. |
| I.8.c |
“Circulating Exhibitions” 6 items
“Art in Embassies Program,”
Incl. memoranda re: policies and status of program
|
1969 |
| I.8.d |
“Circulating Exhibitions” 4 items
“C/E Report, Inez Garson, Spring 1968”
incl. report on status of program (“Ten Years After Porter McCray Report”) with appendices
|
n.d. |
| I.8.e |
“Circulating Exhibitions” Report 0.5"
1 item
|
April 1957 |
| I.9.a |
Committee on Acquisitions, Curatorial Committee 1 item
Incl. statement of Museum's purpose and policies
|
1970 |
| I.9.b |
“Development Committee 1963-68” 10 items
Incl. memoranda and corresp. from René d'Harnoncourt's files
|
n.d. |
| I.9.c |
“House Committee” 1 item
|
1969 |
| I.9.d |
“Committee on Painting and Sculpture (Trustee) Corresp.” 0.125″
|
1967-69 |
| I.9.e |
“Trustee Personnel Committee” 7 items
|
n.d. |
| I.9.f |
“Planning Committee” 1 item
|
n.d. |
| I.9.g |
“Program Committee” 0.125″
|
1967/8 |
| I.9.h |
“Trustee Program Committee” 5 items
Incl. lists of circulating and international circulating exhibitions
|
1966 |
| I.9.i |
“Special Events Committee” 3 items
|
1968-69 |
| I.9.j |
“Staff Executive Committee 1969” 18 items
Incl. memoranda; announcements re: meeting dates
Agenda for May 5, meeting
Flyer produced by the Artists Coalition re: “Free Day at the Modern”
|
1969 |
| I.9.k |
“Visiting Committees” 4 items
|
1969 |
| I.10 |
“Conservation” 22 items
|
1968-[69] |
| I.11.a |
“Film Dept.” 0.5″
Incl. press releases Nos. 88, 77, 76, 75, 6, and 2, 1969
Corresp. re: proposed exhibition “Diamond Jubilee Anniversary of American Motion Picture Industry” organized by the Motion
Picture Association of America, Inc.
Corresp. re: exhibition
Tribute to Anita Loos
Installation estimate sheet for
Stills from Lost Films [MoMA Exh. #880, 1969 February 3-June 15]
|
1969 |
| I.11.b |
“Film Dept.” Incl. memoranda re: MoMA's Cineprobe film series
Exhibition catalog,
2nd International Festival of Short Films (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968)
Installation estimate sheet for
Career of an Actor: Anthony Quinn [MoMA Exh. #874, November 7, 1968-January 12, 1969]
Clippings re: retrospective of films from the 1930s and “Cinema Nôovo”
Corresp. re: Garbo Film Festival
1 TLS Hans Richter (copy)-Marguerite Akermark, 1968
press release Nos. 9 and 4, 1968
Exhibition brochure,
Godard on Film
|
1968 |
| I.11.c |
“Film Dept./Lincoln Center” 0.5″
Incl. clippings; memorandum re: Garbo Film Festival
Memoranda re: proposed Lincoln Center - Museum of Modern Art Film Institute, collaboration between MoMA and Lincoln Center
Film Departments
Press release re: formation of Lincoln Center Film Committee, 1967 August 31
Report to the MoMA Board of Trustees on meeting re: relations between Lincoln Center and MoMA, 1967
Proposed budget for Czechoslavak Film Festival
|
1966-69 |
| I.11.d |
“Film Department
Newsletter” 7 items
incl. March-May MoMA
Newsletters
3 memoranda
|
1968-69 |
| I.11.e |
“International Federation of Film Archives (F.I.A.F.)” 20 items
Incl. letters re: contributions towards 25th Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives fund
|
1969 |
| I.12 |
“General Services” 0.5″
Incl. memoranda re: office services
|
1968-69 |
| I.13 |
“Graphics Dept.” 7 items
Incl. 2 invitations, 2 exhibition announcements
|
1969 |
| I.14 |
“Harlem” 4 items
Incl. memorandum re: art carnival in Harlem and announcements re: the Harlem Cultural Festival
|
1968 |
| I.15 |
“Insurance” 5 items
|
1968-69 |
| I.16.a |
“Latin-American Acquisitions Meeting -- February 9, 1970” 12 items
incl. letter to members of the Committee for Latin-American Acquisitions re: meeting dates
1 clipping
2 TLS
1 ALS
|
n.d. |
| I.16.b |
“Latin-American Program - Elaine Johnson,” 0.25″
Incl. proposal for program establishment
Plan of work
|
1968-69 |
| I.17.a |
General 0.75″
Incl. MoMA
Members Newsletter, October 1968
Memoranda
Membership counts
|
1967-69 |
| I.17.b |
“Corporate Membership” 0.5″
Corresp. and memoranda
|
1966-69 |
| I.18.a |
General 0.5″
See also I.28.d
Incl. clippings, corresp. and memoranda re: computer network for cataloging information re: museum collections (consortium
included 15 New York museums)
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| I.18.b |
General 0.75″
Incl. press release No. 125, 1967 Dec. 8
Summary of meeting held at the Whitney Museum, 1967 February 8
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| I.19 |
“Operations” 1 item
|
1969 |
| I.20 |
“Personnel Office” 0.375″
Incl. memoranda
|
1967-69 |
| I.21 |
Personnel: “For Interview - Peter Schwartz October 23, 1968 - 4:00 P.M.” 2 items
|
n.d. |
| I.22 |
“Photography” 22 items
Incl. installation estimate sheet for
August Sander [MoMA Exh. #885, March 14-June 30, 1969]
1 TLS Jean Lipman (
Art in America)-Peter Bunnell, 1968
Proposal re: “Project One,” a file of photographs concerning the life of American people in 1960, originally presented by
Dorothea Lange
Press releases No. 20, 1968 and No. 105, 1966 re: Peter C. Bunnell's appointment as Curatorial Associate in the Dept. of Photography
|
1968 |
| I.23 |
“Photography Lab” 5 items
Incl. memoranda
|
1965-68 |
| I.24 |
“Photography - Edward Steichen Archive” 10 items
incl. clipping
transcript of Dr. Henry Allen Moe's tribute
|
1967-68 |
| I.25 |
“Exhibition Production” 19 items
|
1968-69 |
| I.26 |
“Public Information” 0.25″
Incl. press release No. 4, February 5, (1968) re: acquisition of space at Port Authority Terminal
Press release No. 4, January 21, 1969 re: Gertrude Stein bequest
“Publicity Archive - Outline”
2 memoranda re: WNYC Radio Special Program on Museums, 1968
1 TLS Richard F. Carr-René d'Harnoncourt re: WNEW radio series on MoMA, 1968
|
1968-69 |
| I.27.a |
General 0.5″
Incl. memorandum and floor plans for Publications Dept. in “23” Building
1 TLS Françoise Boas-BL, 1968
MoMA brochures, “Fall 1968 Books” and “Spring 1968 Books” with checklists of MoMA books in print
1 TLS Ethel Shein-Nettle Cohen (Solow-Wexton, Inc.) re: Christmas brochure and book ads, 1968
Checklist and typescript of catalog for
Manhattan Observed by William S. Lieberman [MoMA Exh. #854, March 22-May 12, 1968]
Corresp. re: various individual MoMA publications
corresp. re: the Federal Support for the Visual Arts: the New Deal and Now
A Research Project
Corresp. re: publication of a “Journal of the International Study Center of The Museum of Modern Art”
|
1968 |
| I.27.b |
“Publications ” 0.5″
Incl. memorandum re: new organization of Publications Dept., 1969
|
1969 |
| I.27.c |
“Publications - Weekly Progress Reports” 18 items
|
1969 |
| I.27.d |
“Publications - Budnick Book” 7 items
incl. memoranda and corresp. re:
Introduction to The Museum of Modern Art by Dan Budnick
|
1967-68 |
| I.27.e |
“Publications - d'Harnoncourt Installations Book” 11 items
Memoranda and corresp. re: installations by René d'Harnoncourt edited by Mordechai Omer and Helen Franc
Incl. 1 TLS James Thrall Soby-Monroe Wheeler, 1969 incl. quote by Arp
|
1968-69 |
| I.27.f |
“Picadilly Press (CODEX)” 13 items
Incl. memoranda and corresp. re: book on MoMA for El Mundo de los Museos (“Museums of the World”) series
|
1968-69 |
| I.27.g |
“MACO - Family of Man book” 17 items
|
1969, 1962, 1959, 1958 |
| I.27.h |
“David Smith Monograph ” 32 items
Incl. press release from The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum re: Smith retrospective
Memoranda and corresp. re: essays by Hilton Kramer and Clement Greenberg for monograph
|
1966-67 |
| I.27.i |
“Publications - PASITMOMA” 3 items
|
1967-69 |
| I.27.j |
“Publications - Rights & Reproductions 1966-” 0.5″
Incl. corresp. re: permission to reproduce works of art in MoMA collection
|
1966-69 |
| I.28 |
“Registrar's Office” |
n.d. |
| I.28.a |
“Registrar's Office , Atmospheric Conditions in Bldgs.” 0.75″
Incl. temperature and humidity graphs 1965-69
Corresp. and memoranda
|
1968-[69] |
| I.28.b |
“Registrar's Office ” 0.5″
Incl. typescript of “Proposed Standard Exhibition and Collection Insurance Policy for Museums” by David Vance for
Art Journal
Corresp. and memoranda re: procedural matters
|
1965-[68] |
| I.28.c |
“Registrar's Office ” 22 items
Incl. memoranda re: procedural matters
|
1969 |
| I.28.d |
“Computerized Catalog of Collections, David Vance” 0.5″
See also I.18.a and b
incl. corresp. with the Museum Computer Network
report, “An Information System for American Museums” by the Museum Computer Network
|
1967-69 |
| I.28.e |
Registrar: “Storeroom X” 11 items
|
1969 |
| I.29 |
“Restaurants ” 18 items
Incl. memoranda and corresp. re: Museum restaurants
|
1963-[69] |
| I.30 |
Retreat Staff and Director's retreat to discuss Museum programs
|
n.d. |
| I.30.a |
“Retreat - Agenda” 0.75″
Incl. proposal for departmental archives
proposed circulating exhibition schedule, 1968-1970
|
1968 |
| I.30.b |
“Retreat - Arrangements” 11 items
Incl. memoranda re; Director's Program Meeting
|
1968 |
| I.31.a |
Security: “Safety (Fire) Precautions” 14 items
Incl. memoranda
|
1968-69 |
| I.31.b |
“Security” 0.5″
|
1965-69 |
| I.31.c |
“Guard Strike” 9 items
|
1968 |
| I.32 |
“Slide Program” 5 items
Incl. corresp. with the Courtauld Institute of Art, London
|
1969 |
| I.33.a |
“Corporate Dinner - Feb. 4, 1969 Charles Hesse” 19 items
Incl. corresp. re:
The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age [MoMA Exh. #877, November 27-1969 February 9, 1968]
|
1968-69 |
| I.33.b |
“Special Events” 40 items
Incl. brochure for Conference on Museum Climatology, London, 1967
corresp. re: Artists Against the Lower Manhattan Expressway
Corresp. with the International Society of Hematology
|
1966-69 |
| I.33.c |
“Special Events - Sarah Hoge” 5 items
Incl. memoranda
|
1968-69 |
| I.33.d |
“Group Visits - Gallery Talks” 10 items
Incl. attendance tabulations of group visits during July 1967-June 1968 and July-August 1968
|
1968-69 |
| I.33.e |
“Jazz in the Garden Concerts” 12 items
Incl. poster for 1969 concerts
Clippings
Memoranda re: policies and procedures
|
1967-69 |
| I.33.f |
“Proposed Lecture Series Dec. 1964[-]68” 12 items
Incl. registration leaflets for lecture series on “An Approach to the History of Film” by Standish D. Lawder of Yale University
at MoMA and “American Art Since World War II”
List of proposed lectures and symposia, 1966-67
Foundation for the Arts, Religion and Culture Program Plans, 1965
1 TL (copy) Robert Motherwell-Mrs. Dwight J. Bradley (Elizabeth), 1965
|
n.d. |
| I.33.g |
“Student Evenings 1968” 14 items
Incl. results from attendance poll taken, 1968
Press release Nos. 95 and 113, 1968 re: schedule of exhibitions and events
Clippings and leaflet re: “Four Special Evenings for College Students” sponsored by the Junior Council
|
1968-69 |
| I.33.h |
“Summer Student Project 1968” 9 items
|
n.d. |
| I.33.i |
“Tribute to René d'Harnoncourt” |
n.d. |
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| Restricted Material
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The following restricted and confidential material was separated from the collection by the Museum Archivist in 1992. Access
to these materials by researchers will be considered on a folder by folder basis.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| 1 |
Recommendations Charles Hesse
Peter Schwartz
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1966, 1968 |
| 2 |
Fund Raising: Individuals and Group, General Avnet, Lester
Bartos, Celeste and Armand P.
Gilman Foundation (Charles Gilman, Jr.)
Mayer, Joseph G. Foundation , Inc.
de Menil, Dominique and John
Old Dominion Foundation
Paley, William S.
Parkinson, Mrs. Bliss
Staempfli, Mrs. George W.
Rockefeller, David
|
1968-69 |
| 3 |
Fund Raising: Children's Art Carnival van Ameringen Foundation, Inc. (Mrs. Douglas Auchincloss)
The Ford Foundation (McGeorge Bundy)
The Heckscher Foundation (Mrs. Arthur Smadbeck)
Hochschild Fund, Inc. (Walter Hochschild)
New York Fund for Children, Inc. (Marion R. Ascoli)
New York Times Foundation
Rockefeller, Mrs. John D., 3rd
Rockefeller, Mary
Rockefeller Family Fund (Stephen Benedict)
Stern, M/M A. R.
|
1968-69 |
| 4 |
Fund Raising: International Federation of Film Archives Bartos, Celeste and Armand P.
H. J. Heinz Company
Loeb, John
|
1969 |
| 5 |
Membership The Bank of New York
The C.I.T. Foundation, Inc.
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation)
Lever Brothers Company, Inc.
Rockefeller Center, Inc.
United States Steel Foundation
|
1968-69 |
| 6 |
Sales and Insurance Values Schwartz, Anne Scheinmann, contribution to general fund
Calder (Foundation Maeght), 3 sculptures
van Doesburg,
Cow, The Rhythm of a Russian Dance, Color Composition, Project for a Private House
Lehmbruck,
Kneeling Woman
Mondrian,
Pier and Ocean
Lachaise,
Knees
Pevsner,
Torso
Léger,
Still-life: Composition for a Dining Room (2 works)
Seurat,
Port-en-Bessin
Checklist of sales from C/E exhibitions
|
1968-69 |
| 7 |
Budgets, Purchase Funds, Staff Salaries .25"
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1963-69 |
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