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The William C. Seitz 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.
See also exhibition files and Department of Public Information Records. For Series III. William C. Seitz Interview with Marcel
Duchamp, see also,
Sound Recordings of Museum-Related Events;
Duchamp Lecture Series and
Studies in Modern Art 2.
William C. Seitz Papers, [series.folder]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
| Series I. Claude Monet
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1 [5"] document box, 1 [4x5x12"] file card box, 1 [16x20x3"] oversized photograph print box, 1 [8x10x4"] photograph print
box.
Photographs of paintings and sights, clippings, correspondence, announcements
and notes collected and used by William C. Seitz in connection with the Museum's
exhibition and catalog,
Monet: Seasons and Moments (exh. # 660, 9 March - May 15, 1960; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 14 June - Aug. 7, 1960).
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.1.a |
Monet, Claude: Photos 40 items
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1893-1895 |
| I.1.b |
Monet, Claude: Photos 50 items
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1896-1904 |
| I.1.c |
Monet, Claude: Photos 41 items
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1905-1917 |
| I.1.d |
Monet, Claude: Photos 26 items
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1918-1925 |
| I.2.a |
Photographs: photos of paintings |
ca. 1874-1925, 1959 |
| I.2.b |
Photographs: photos of paintings |
ca. 1874-1925, 1959 |
| I.2.c |
Photographs: photos of paintings |
ca. 1874-1925, 1959 |
| I.2.d |
Photographs: "Portraits" |
ca. 1874-1925, 1959 |
| I.2.e |
Photographs: "Drawings" |
ca. 1874-1925, 1959 |
| I.3 |
News clippings and articles |
1960 |
| I.4 |
Correspondence Incl. notes from visitors
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1960 |
| I.5 |
Exhibition invitations and announcements |
1960 |
| I.6 |
Photographs of Monet 29 items
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ca. 1877 - 1926 |
| I.7 |
Helen M. Franc: Claude Monet Waterlilies. NY: MoMA Incl. brochure, photos of paintings and sites, some of the latter by Wm. Seitz
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ca. 1970 |
| I.[8] |
Postcards and other reproductions of Monet 3x5x12" paintings
Arranged by location
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n.d. |
| I.[9] |
Photographs of sites painted by the artist 201 items
8x10x3"
Most photos taken by Seitz
3 photos by H. Cartier Bresson
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n.d. |
| I.[10] |
Oversized photographs 47 items
16x20x3"
Photos of paintings
Artist's studio
Also incl. 3 oversized articles with some Seitz annotations
1 hotel brochure
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n.d. |
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| Series II. Assemblage and Collage
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The Art of Assemblage, MoMA exh. # 695, Oct. 2 - Nov. 12, 1961, organized and directed by Wm. Seitz. For related material, please see records
from the Department of Public Information. (8/91)
2 document boxes [5"; 2.5"]
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| II.1.i |
A - D Incl. photographs, gallery announcements, ephemera, some corresp; arranged
alphabetically by artist
Aeschbacher
Arman
Baxter
Bernstein
Bolomey
Bona
Brecht
Bumgardner
Carnero
Cardot
Carlos
Colla
Cooper
Cornell
Crippa
Dahmen
Dine
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ca. 1958 - 1961, n.d. |
| II.1.ii |
H - L Hamilton
Hirscher
Horiuchi
Hunt
Irwin
Jacobsen
Jean
Kalinowski
Kapera
Kaufmann
Landau
Laquay-Ihm
Latham
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ca. 1958 - 1961, n.d. |
| II.1.iii |
M - S Mallary
McHale
Mesens
Michaels
Ohashi
Pera
Porter
Ray, ca. 1954
Rotella
Saint-Phalle
Schwitters ca. 1954-52
Spoerri
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ca. 1958 - 1961, n.d. |
| II.1.iv |
T - W
Tajiri
Tumarkin
Vostell
Wagemaker
Westermann
Wise
Witschi
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ca. 1958 - 1961, n.d. |
| II.2 |
Watts Tower |
ca. 1951, 1959, n.d. |
| II.3 |
"Collage Articles" etc. |
ca. 1959 - 1960, n.d. |
| II.4 |
"Assemblage" |
ca. 1959 - 1960, n.d. |
| II.5 |
"Surrealism" |
ca. 1938, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1960 - 61 |
| II.6 |
Tinguely |
ca. 1960 |
| II.7 |
Bibliographical Material 5 envelopes of lists by either Wm. Seitz and/or Lucy Lippard
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n.d. |
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| Series III. William C. Seitz Interview with Marcel Duchamp
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This collection contains two transcriptions of an interview conducted by William C. Seitz with Marcel Duchamp on December
6, 1962. One is annotated by the interviewee. The interview, in an edited and reduced version, was published in the May 1963
issue of
Vogue.
Material in III.I was a gift to the Library on August 12, 1963 by William C. Seitz. According to a note by Library staff,
four additional pages labeled with counter numbers 0000-050, were added in September 1967.
Material in III.II was a gift to the Library on September 1, 1967 by William S. Rubin.
The interviews and letter were transferred from the Library to the Museum Archives on May 3, 1999 and re-housed according
to archival principles.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| III.I |
Typescript of interview 69 pages
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1962 |
| III.II.A |
Carbon copy of interview with annotations by Marcel Duchamp 69 pages
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1962 |
| III.II.B |
ALS Marcel Duchamp-William C. Seitz Copy; with corrections and edits [5 pages]
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1/5/63 |
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