Calvin Tomkins was born December 17, 1925, in Orange, NJ. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in
1948 and entered into a career in journalism, working first with Radio Free Europe from 1953 to 1957 and then, as a writer
and editor, for Newsweek from 1957 to 1961. His first contributions to The New Yorker were published in 1958 and in 1961 he became a regular staff writer while only occasionally writing for other outlets. In
1980, in addition to continuing his longer pieces for the magazine, Tomkins was appointed the official art critic and wrote
art reviews and other content on an almost weekly basis. That position terminated in 1986 but Tomkins continued as a staff
writer at The New Yorker until the present.
For more than five years Tomkins published art reviews on an almost weekly basis. The frequency of his major articles dropped
during this time but did not cease. During his time as critic Tomkins was able to witness and chronicle the astonishing growth
of the art market, the development of SoHo as a center of art and commerce, the revitalization of painting, and a host of
new art movements. After this position ended, he resumed his former production of larger articles. During this time, The New Yorker itself changed, including more photographs and pictures, often as full- or double-page spreads. Tomkins often wrote paragraphs
and captions to accompany these images; in many cases the writings were unattributed in the publication.
In recent years, Tomkins' pace of article publication may have slowed, but he continues to regularly contribute to The New Yorker; his most recent articles appeared in 2007.
During this same period, the first book that reprinted and collected Tomkins' articles from The New Yorker appeared. The Bride and the Bachelors: The Heretical Courtship in Modern Art (New York: Viking, 1965) reprinted Profiles on Marcel Duchamp, Jean Tinguely, John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg; later editions
also included a fifth Profile on Merce Cunningham. In 1976, The Scene: Reports on Post-Modern Art, (New York: Viking Press, 1976) reprinted articles on Andy Warhol, E.A.T., Henry Geldzahler, Tatyana Grossman, Earth Art,
Jonas Mekas, Nam Jun Paik, and Robert Wilson. In 1980, Tomkins published Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (New York: Doubleday, 1980). While the book centered on the career of Rauschenberg, it also depicted the activities of the
New York art community in the 1960s and 1970s and drew heavily on all of Tomkins' research, interviews, and writings of the
preceding twenty years. In 1988, Post- to Neo-: The Art World of the 1980's (New York, Henry Holt, 1988) included reprints of twenty-seven Art World reviews and one Profile originally published between
1980 and 1986.
Aside from major books and collections of articles, Tomkins also contributed original or reprinted essays to artists' monographs
and co-wrote books with his spouses. Monographs include Andy Warhol by John Coplans, (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society,1970); Christo: Running Fence, with David Bourdon (New York: Abrams, 1979); Jennifer Bartlett, with Marge Goldwater and Roberta Smith (Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1985); and Roy Lichtenstein: Mural with Blue Brushstroke, with Bob Adelman (New York: Abrams, 1987). With Judy Tomkins, he wrote The Other Hampton (New York: Viking-Grossman, 1974) and with Dodie Kazanjian, Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman (New York: Knopf, 1993). In 2001, Tomkins contributed an original essay on R. Buckminster Fuller to Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium, Thomas T.K. Zung ed., (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001).
Tomkins had developed a long friendship with R. Buckminster Fuller beginning when Tomkins wrote his 1966 Profile on the scientist
and inventor. For years, plans were discussed for Tomkins to write a biography of Fuller and in 1980 a contract for the book
was signed with Doubleday. In 1984, after numerous extensions, the project was abandoned. Three years later, Tomkins chose
as his next project a biography of Marcel Duchamp and Duchamp: A Biography was published in 1996 by Henry Holt. It is his most recent major work and a capstone to a decades-long fascination with the
artist.
Calvin Tomkins has been married four times: to Grace Lloyd Tomkins, to Judy Tomkins, to Susan Cheever, and finally to Dodie
Kazanjian. Tomkins has three children by his first wife: Anne, Susan, and Spencer; and a daughter, Sarah, by Susan Cheever.
Calvin Tomkins currently resides in New York and continues writing.
The Calvin Tomkins Papers document multiple aspects of the author's life and work including his social and personal life and
his long professional writing career. The records begin in 1962 after Tomkins was hired as a full-time staff writer for The New Yorker. No records of his prior work are extant, nor does this collection contain any record of Tomkins' youth or college years.
And while the documentation of Tomkins' major articles is comprehensive, there are no files for any of the shorter articles
or fiction and humor pieces he wrote for The New Yorker until 1980 when the records present begin to document his entire output, including the unattributed captions for images and
other squibs.
Otherwise, Tomkins' life and activity are well captured here. Series I, Tomkins' correspondence, begins in 1964. Professional
correspondence includes regular material received from The New Yorker. There is correspondence here from Tomkins' long-time agent, Robert Lescher, and his later agent, Andrew Wylie. Tomkins'
most frequent publisher was Doubleday and there is material present from his editor, Kate Medina. There are some contracts
present as well.
Beginning in 1969 the files contain an increasing amount of personal correspondence. Tomkins received letters from his children
and his ex-spouses as well as an extended network of aunts and uncles and other family members. The series contains large
quantities of correspondence from friends and acquaintances. Numerous friends seemed to have carried on decades-long epistolary
relationships with Tomkins. Many of these were people he first met through his writing and work.
Series II represents materials produced and acquired for the writing of major articles for The New Yorker between 1962 and 2007. While the majority of these articles were published under the rubric "Profiles," articles were also
published under other departmental names. The materials in each folder are consistent and Tomkins grouped these folders separately
from those of his other writings.
Tomkins organized these materials into two groups. In Subseries II.A, the materials include news clippings, magazine articles,
gallery and exhibition catalogs and ephemera, correspondence with the article subject(s) and correspondence from readers.
Handwritten research notes are scattered throughout, mostly consisting of lists of interview contacts and biographical and
interview notes. Additionally, most files include tear sheets of the published article and a typescript draft of the article
with hand edits and amendments.
Subseries II.B comprises the research and interview binders that Tomkins prepared for nearly every major article. The binders
are composed of tabbed and paginated sections including contact lists of interviewees and additional resources, occasional
topical indexes, chronologies and other biographical summaries, and interviews with the subject followed by interviews with
other people. Complete or partial transcripts of interviews are rare and occur more frequently in later binders. Most often,
Tomkins would summarize the content of interviews interspersed with extended direct quotes from the subjects. Tomkins also
occasionally recorded thoughts and observations on his journey or visit to the interviewees; these notes are referred to as
the "log." Final materials in the binders include bibliographies, extracts from published material such as reviews and news
clippings, and miscellaneous items.
Series III is composed of reviews and smaller pieces of writing Tomkins wrote for The New Yorker between 1980 and 2004. These pieces were published under various rubrics; the most common department represented here is
"The Art World," used for reviews and commentary about the arts. Other departments include "The Talk of the Town," "Portfolio,"
"At the Galleries," "Artist's Easel," "Books," and others. Frequently, these pieces were not whole articles but sidebars or
captions to full-page photographs or double-page picture spreads. Tomkins also wrote occasional pieces for other publications
including essays for books (such as exhibition and auction catalogs and artist monographs) and contributions to seminars and
conferences, some of those materials are represented here. The materials present in this series are generally of the same
composition and character as those in Series II.A, including news clippings, exhibition material, handwritten and typescript
notes, interview summaries and quotes, contact lists, chronologies, and some received correspondence. Many folders include
a typescript draft of the article and almost every article has a tear sheet of the published article or a photocopy of a galley
proof.
Series IV addresses Tomkins' book publishing and contains material primarily from 1968 to 1996. The book, Eric Hoffer: an American Odyssey (New York: Dutton, 1968), is represented by only one file, as it was largely an expansion of the original article. Material
on the other three books is much more comprehensive. Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Dutton, 1970) required extensive access to the archives of the museum as well as historical research. Consequently,
there are some century-old materials here (mainly news clippings and small publications) and copies of internal museum documents.
The files also contain copious photocopies of external museum documents including bulletin articles, book chapters and other
material, handwritten and typewritten notes, and research materials and resources gathered after original publication, in
many cases used for additions included in the 1989 reprint of the book.
Subseries IV.E contains a large quantity of photographs collected and used in the books on Rauschenberg, Duchamp, and Gerald
and Sara Murphy, though many additional photographs can be found in the preceding series. Most photographs are duplicate prints
received from photographers or owners of the images and the book files contain numerous folders of the correspondence and
negotiations for rights and permissions necessary to publish the images.
Finally, Series V is composed of 494 audio cassettes and four open reel tapes, all the extant audio recordings made by Tomkins
during the course of his research and writing. Tomkins did not start regularly taping his interviews until well into the 1980s
but was prescient in preserving the spoken words of Jean Tinguely (1962), Marcel Duchamp (1964) and R. Buckminster Fuller
(1965). The next recordings in the collection date from 1988 and by 1990 Tomkins was recording most, if not all, of his interviews
up until the present. Regardless of whether Tomkins recorded his interviews or not, there is no change in the nature or composition
of materials in the research files. The audio recordings are perhaps the most important primary source material to be found
in the Tomkins Papers and will remain key original testaments to the activities and careers of many of the most important
art world luminaries of the last five decades.
The records are open for research and contain few restricted materials.
The Calvin Tomkins 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.
Calvin Tomkins retains the right to grant or deny all requests to publish excerpts from, commercially exploit, or otherwise
disseminate copies of any materials from the collection through the year 2022. For further information, and to obtain permission
to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archivist.
Further materials relating to the subjects of many of Tomkins' writings may be found throughout other collections in the Museum
Archives. Tomkins' books and back issues of The New Yorker can be found in the Museum Library.
Five folders of material originally located in Series III contained research materials for articles officially attributed
solely to Dodie Kazanjian. Tomkins and Kazanjian rarely shared authorship of works although after their marriage they worked
closely together on the research and interviews for articles. Because of Kazanjian's sole attribution, these articles have
been transferred to the Archives of American Art to be included in the Dodie Kazanjian Papers. These files compose Kazanjian's complete contribution to The New Yorker up to the date of processing.
Long version: Calvin Tomkins Papers, [series.folder]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
Short version: Tomkins, [series.folder]. MoMA Archives, NY.
The collection was given to the Museum Archives by Calvin Tomkins in 2004. Additional accruals to the collection were received
in 2005 and 2007.
The processing of the Calvin Tomkins Papers was funded by a generous grant from The Henry Luce Foundation.
The materials in the Calvin Tomkins Papers are largely of recent origin, in good condition, and physically stable. Processing
the materials primarily involved removing paperclips and staples, flattening materials, and rehousing them in archival boxes
and acid-free folders. Acidic published materials such as newspapers were photocopied and the originals discarded. If acidic
materials were deemed to be of particular value they were isolated with acid-free paper or Mylar sleeves. Photographs, transparencies,
and negatives were rehoused, individually or in groups, in Mylar sleeves. Facsimiles printed on thermographic paper were photocopied
and discarded.
Since the original donation of the collection to The Museum in 2004, Tomkins has continued to donate more current materials
up through 2007. These files have been added to each series without particular note.
| Series I: Correspondence
1964-2006
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This series was received from Tomkins arranged in folders according to year. The folders were all marked variously as "Contracts-Correspondence",
"Correspondence", "Contracts-Publisher", followed by a year; some folders were marked just with a year. Professional correspondence
from The New Yorker is slight. Tomkins received annual letters updating the system of fees and earnings for Profiles and other articles Tomkins
produced; many of these came with a cover note signed by William Shawn and it is unclear whether these constituted official
contracts. Tomkins also regularly received copies of responses to requests for reproduction and quotation received by The New Yorker. The magazine occasionally forwarded fan mail, excerpted or whole, and there is occasional correspondence from the magazine
regarding pension funds and other payments. There are also some letters from fellow writers at the magazine, mainly Roger
Angell, and mainly in response to Tomkins' writings or of a purely social nature.
As to other professional correspondence, until the early 1980s, Tomkins' literary agent was Robert Lescher, of the firm Lescher
& Lescher. Frequent correspondence from him includes updates and news of reprinting titles, paperback rights, foreign translations,
and letters concerning concepts for new books. Tomkins most frequent publishing house was Doubleday and there is scattered
correspondence here from their editor Kate Medina. Following Lescher's termination, Tomkins' agent was Andrew Wylie, of the
Wylie Agency. Very little correspondence from him is present. Relatively few contracts are extant; those present include contracts
for the NBC television documentary "The Journals of Lewis and Clark", the biography Eric Hoffer: An American Odyssey, and the books Merchants and Masterpieces and Living Well is the Best Revenge.
As to other professional activities, Tomkins was a long-time member of the Century Club; there is frequent correspondence
here from other members. Most commonly the letters are requests to second the nominations of individuals for membership and
to write recommendations for them. Tomkins also served for years on the board of directors of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Apart from annual updates from the director, Tomkins was somewhat active in fundraising for the Foundation. Notes and letters
here testify to those activities. Merce Cunningham also wrote occasional letters to Tomkins recounting the latest doings of
the troupe.
A large percentage of material is unsolicited mail from readers (essentially fan mail.) Tomkins also received ongoing unsolicited
mail from artists and writers seeking to find outlet and support for their work; journal and book editors and publishers suggesting
book or article topics, or inviting Tomkins to produce work for them. He received many invitations to give lectures, participate
in seminars, to act as judge in various contests or to contribute in other ways to cultural causes and events. Other correspondence
includes occasional inquiries from researchers to examine Tomkins' files, requests from students for interviews and requests
for confidential recommendation letters by the MacArthur Foundation.
Beginning in 1969 the files contain an increasing amount of personal correspondence. Tomkins received frequent letters from
his two daughters, Anne (Trippy) Tomkins and Susan (Sue) Tomkins, and son, Spencer. The only correspondence from his first
and second wives, Pat and Judy Tomkins, comes from periods following the demise of those relationships. Other family members,
or long-time family friends, found in the correspondence files include his brother Frederick Tomkins, Jr., aunt and uncle
Anne and T. Meade Baker, Laura Barclay, Roy C. Barker, and others.
Other significant personal correspondents include Clare L. Spark, Kazuko Oshima, Nancy Rosen, Janie C. Lee, Lynn Hershman,
Nancy Gillespie, Ren Weschler, Dona Guimaraes, Michael Neff, Robert Snyder, Grace Knowlton, Mary Allen, Ted Summer, Lucy Gray,
and Sylvia and Edmund Morris, among others. Many of these people were fellow writers or artists and some were involved with
Tomkins professionally. There are occasional notes and letters from people Tomkins wrote about or grew acquainted with during
his work. These include Honoria Donnelly, Rosamond Bernier, Fanny Brennan, Christo and Jean-Claude, Michael Murphy (of the
Esalen Institute), Siah Armajani, Victor and Sally Ganz, Philip Johnson, Paul and Julia Child, Hazel and Paul Strand, Jean
and Dominique de Menil, and others. Few of these letters concern the actual research for the articles or seriously discuss
Tomkins' work. Evidence also suggests that Tomkins developed a close acquaintance with R. Buckminster Fuller and planned to
write Fuller's biography.
Within each folder, materials are in loose reverse chronological order as Tomkins filed them. Typically the earliest materials
for each year are letters received in mid-December of the previous year. It seems that a new folder was begun upon receipt
of a new contract from The New Yorker.
The folder descriptions below are not complete itemizations, but only highlight select items of significance.
|
| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| I.1 |
Correspondence Contracts and correspondence concerning "The Lewis and Clark Trail" (later retitled "The Journals of Lewis and Clark") and
The Bride and The Bachelors, 1966.
1 TLS Don Congdon-CT (3/30/1964)
1 TL CT-Don Congdon (3/27/1964) [both re: termination of his services as CT literary agent].
|
1964-1966 |
| I.2 |
Correspondence Two unsigned letters, by "David Jones," to the Sunday Herald Tribune, disparaging the writings of Tom Wolfe.
1 ALS William Shawn-CT (2/18/1965) and other correspondence regarding TNY pay and fees.
1 TLS John Leggett (Harper & Row)-CT (12/10/1965) [re: CT's inquiry of possible book on George Kaufman].
|
1964-1965 |
| I.3 |
Correspondence Contract for article on Hugh Hefner
1 TL CT-unknown (n.d.) [re: observations on Leo Castelli]
1 TL CT-Helen K. Taylor, Viking Press (10/14/1966) [re: payments and mention of CT's activities]
1 TLS Hugh Hefner-CT (5/16/1966)
1 TL CT-The New York Times Magazine re: article on Leo Castelli (5/10/1966).
|
1966 |
| I.4 |
Correspondence 1 TL R. Buckminster Fuller-John Huston (9/27/1967) [re: joint film proposal with CT]
1 TL CT-John Huston (10/9/1967)
1 TLS John (Jack) Macrae-George Trescher (12/21/1967) [re: Merchants and Masterpieces promotion]
1 TLS R. Buckminster Fuller-CT (9/27/1967)
1 TLS Lewis Allen-CT (7/24/1967) [re: response to CT film script]
1 TLS George Trescher-CT (8/25/1967) [re: initial suggestion of a book "project of significance" on the history of The Metropolitan
Museum of Art].
|
1966-1967 |
| I.5 |
Correspondence Contract for the publication of Eric Hoffer: An American Odyssey by C.P. Dutton (3/27/1968)
1 TL R. Buckminster Fuller-Milton Sperling (12/25/1968)
1 TL CT-The Century Club (3/22/1968) [re: recommendation of Jack Macrae for membership]
Draft of contract from The Metropolitan Museum of Art for Merchants and Masterpieces
TLS Paul M. Eisele-CT (11/1/1968) [re: appointment of CT as a director of stockholders for E.P. Dutton].
|
1967-1968 |
| I.6 |
Correspondence Incl. Final contracts and correspondence for Merchants and Masterpieces.
|
1968-1969 |
| I.7 |
Correspondence First references to Gerald and Sarah Murphy and CT's research and writing on their life as well as contract with Viking for
the book.
2 TLS Andre Deutsch-CT [re: British printing of Living Well…]
1 TL R. Buckminster Fuller-CT (10/20/1970)
Request for and draft of a recommendation letter endorsing R. Buckminster Fuller for a Nobel Prize (6/19/1970)
1 TLS Jean de Menil-CT (7/28/1970)
1 TLS Frank Kermode-CT (2/19/1970)
1 ALS Eric Hoffer-CT (1/22/1970).
|
1969-1970 |
| I.8 |
Correspondence 1 TL CT-Cass Canfield, Harper & Row (11/3/1971) [re: interest in writing a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay]
1 ALS Jean de Menil-CT (10/17/1971)
1 TLS Jann Wenner (ed. Rolling Stone Magazine)-CT (7/29/1971)
1 ALS Betty Dos Passos-CT (4/5/1971)
1 TLS Thomas Hoving-CT (1/14/1971)
1 ALS Jean de Menil-CT (10/17/1971)
Contract with Andre Deutsch for British edition of Living Well….
|
1970-1971 |
| I.9 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Roger Angell-CT (3/7/n.y.)
Contract for Brazilian edition of Living Well…
Contract with Grossman Publishers for The Other Hamptons.
|
1971-1972 |
| I.10 |
Correspondence Correspondence with various individuals concerning Fuller biography
1 TLS R. Buckminster Fuller-CT (9/25/1973)
1 TLS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (7/13/1973) and correspondence with her assistant proposing TNY Profile
1 TLS Jacob Javits-CT (5/28/1973)
1 TLS Senator Edward Kennedy-CT (11/9/1973).
|
1972-1973 |
| I.11 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (12/3/1974)
2 TL CT-Georgia O'Keeffe (3/19, 4/20/1974)
2 ALS Hazel and Paul Strand-CT (3/7/1974, n.d.)
1 ALS Margaret Barr (Mrs. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.)-CT (4/22/1974)
1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (1/19/1974).
|
1973-1974 |
| I.12 |
Correspondence Various correspondence regarding The Scene…
4 TLS Michael (Mike) Murphy (The Esalen Institute)-CT (6/25, 5/5, 4/15, 12/1/n.y.)
1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (1/20/1975)
1 TLS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (2/7/1975)
1 TCS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (3/11/1975)
1 TLS Philip Johnson-CT (1/8/1975)
1 TLS Julia Child-CT (1/2/1972).
|
1974-1975 |
| I.13 |
Correspondence 3 TLS Mike Murphy-CT (12/26, 6/28, 4/2, 1/14/1976)
1 TL CT-R. Buckminster Fuller re: possible biography (1/5/1977)
1 TLS Tatyana Grossman-CT (6/9/1976)
Contract for contribution to Casuals, story entitled "The Master of Mill House".
|
1976-1977 |
| I.14 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Mike Murphy-CT (12/3/n.y.)
Family correspondence, note sheet of expenses, sympathy notes on the death of father (incl. Roger Angell)
2 ACS Claes Oldenburg-CT (4/27, 8/5/1977)
1 TLS Margaret Barr (Mrs. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.)-CT (n.d.)
1 TLS Christopher Buckley-CT (5/31/1977)
1 ALS Paul Goldberger-CT (5/26/1977)
1 ALS Philip Johnson-CT (n.d.) [re: congratulations on Profile].
|
1977 |
| I.15 |
Correspondence Correspondence and fan mail concerning article on Running Fence and the follow-up book on the same subject
Note from agent indicating signing of contract with Doubleday for two unnamed works
1 TLS Dominique de Menil-CT (1/27/1977)
1 TLS Janie C. Lee-CT (1/6/1977) [on Jasper Johns' personal stationery, re: her stay on St. Martin with Johns].
|
1976-1977 |
| I.16 |
Correspondence Correspondence concerning book on Rauschenberg
1 ACS Christo-CT (n.d.)
1 ALS Pauline Kael-CT (3/10/n.y.)
1 ACS ["Note-o-gram"] John Cage-CT (7/9/1978) [re: Tomkin's possible interest in writing Cage biography].
|
1978 |
| I.17 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Julia and Paul Child-CT (1/11/1978).
|
1977-1978 |
| I.18 |
Correspondence 2 TLS Roger Angell-CT (11/26, 12/13/1979)
1 TLS R. Buckminster Fuller-CT (8/27/1979).
|
1979 |
| I.19 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Robert Rauschenberg-CT (6/15/n.y.)
1 TLS Michael Murphy-CT (12/29/1978)
1 TLS Jean-Claude and Christo-CT (n.d).
|
1978-1979 |
| I.20 |
Correspondence |
1980 |
| I.21 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (6/10/n.y.)
Many congratulatory notes on CT being appointed regular art reviewer at TNY.
|
1980 |
| I.22 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Nam Jun Paik-CT (n.d.)
2 ACS Robert Arneson-CT (8/5, 9/16/1980).
|
1980 |
| I.23 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Margaret Barr (Mrs. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.) (11/15/1981) [re: CT's commemoration of Barr]
1 ALS Hans Namuth-CT (8/11/1981)
1 TCS Paul and Julia Child-CT (8/2/1981)
1 ALS Holly Solomon-CT 7/28/1981)
1 TLS Robert Venturi-CT (7/20/1981) [re: membership in the Princeton Club].
|
1981 |
| I.24 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Mike Murphy-CT (4/13/1981)
1 TLS Clare Boothe Luce-CT (4/4/1981) [re: correspondence with R. Buckminster Fuller].
|
1981 |
| I.25 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (1/17/1981)
1 TLS Hans Namuth-CT (11/28/1980).
|
1980-1981 |
| I.26 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Siah Armajani-CT (n.d.)
1 TLS Richard Bellamy-CT (n.d.)
1 ACS Merce Cunningham-CT (10/4/1982).
|
1982 |
| I.27 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (6/29/1982)
1 TLS Victor Ganz-CT (6/10/1982).
|
1982 |
| I.28 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Margaret Barr (Mrs. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.)-CT (n.d.) [re: creation of book of Alfred Barr's writings].
|
1981-1982 |
| I.29 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Romare Bearden-CT (12/7/n.y.)
Various correspondence regarding abandonment of Fuller biography.
|
1983 |
| I.30 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (8/15/1983).
|
1983 |
| I.31 |
Correspondence |
1983 |
| I.32 |
Correspondence |
1982-1983 |
| I.33 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Romare Bearden-CT (12/4/n.y.)
1 TLS, et al. Pare Lorentz-TNY (1/10/1984) [re: inaccuracies in CT's Paul Strand Profile a decade previous].
|
1984 |
| I.34 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (7/29/1984).
|
1984 |
| I.35 |
Correspondence 1 TC Julia Child-CT (2/17/1984)
1 TLS Siah Armajani-CT (/22/1984).
|
1983-1984 |
| I.36 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Siah Armajani (11/10/1985).
|
1985 |
| I.37 |
Correspondence |
1985 |
| I.38 |
Correspondence 1 TL CT-Jacqueline Onassis (4/3/1985) [re: possible Profile]
1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (3/2/1985)
1 ALS Nam Jun Paik-CT (n.d.)
1 TLS Mike Wallace-CT (1/14/1984).
|
1984-1985 |
| I.39 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Clement Greenberg-CT (11/11/1986) [incl. reference to David Smith's painted sculptures]
1 TLS Peter Halley-CT (10/10/1986).
|
1986 |
| I.40 |
Correspondence 2 TLS Louis Auchincloss-CT (8/1, 8/11/1986) [re: preparation of will]
1 ALS Merce Cunnningham-CT (8/8/n.y).
|
1986 |
| I.41 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Siah Armajani-CT (2/28/1986)
1 TL CT-Robert Lescher re: termination of agency (2/7/1986)
Program for literary evening at the NYPL
Brochure of employer contribution plan and trust from TNY, 1985.
|
1985-1986 |
| I.42 |
Correspondence Beginning of references in correspondence to work on the Duchamp biography
1 ALS, 1 ACS Sally Ganz-CT (n.d., 11/29/1987) [re: memorial to Victor Ganz]
1 ACS Agnes Gund-CT (11/24/1987)
1 ACS Merce Cunningham-CT (9/15/1987).
|
1987 |
| I.43 |
Correspondence 1 ACS Siah Armajani-CT (7/26/1987)
Correspondence regarding lending of CT's Donald Sultan work to the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art (and for retail sale
of its reproduction)
1 ACS, 1 ALS DK-CT addressed from "Paola" to "Francesca" (8/12, 8/24/1987)
1 TL CT-Jacqueline Onassis (5/27/1987) [re: particulars of new edition of Merchants and Masterpieces.]
|
1987 |
| I.44 |
Correspondence 1 ACS Carl Andre(?)-CT (1/17/1987).
|
1986-1987 |
| I.45 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Henry Geldzahler-CT re: Century Assoc. membership (n.d.)
1 TL CT-Jack Macrae [re: schedule of Duchamp research indicating final draft to be ready late summer of 1989]
1 TLS Walter Annenberg-CT (5/31/1988) [re: CT's article on The Irises by van Gogh].
|
1988 |
| I.46 |
Correspondence 1 ALS (photocopy) CT-Walter Keep (headmaster professor, Berkshire School) (n.d.) from CT's freshman year at Princeton.
|
1988 |
| I.47 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Jerome Gold-CT (9/26/1989) [re: arranging interview with Madame Juliette Man Ray for Duchamp biography].
|
1989 |
| I.48 |
Correspondence |
1989 |
| I.49 |
Correspondence 1 ALS, 2 TCS Sally Ganz-CT (n.d., 1/16/1989, n.d.)
1 ACS Jeanne-Claude and Christo-CT (1/2/1989).
|
1989 |
| I.50 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Philip Johnson-CT (10/31/1990).
|
1990 |
| I.51 |
Correspondence 1 TCS Clement Greenberg-CT (6/19/1990)
1 ALS Siah Armajani-CT (5/10/1990).
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1990 |
| I.52 |
Correspondence |
1991 |
| I.53 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Sally Ganz-CT (n.d.)
1 TLS Daniel J. Boorstin-CT (12/14/1990).
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1990-1991 |
| I.54 |
Correspondence 1 TL CT-Matta re: request to do Profile (7/10/1992)
Unsigned, undated letter to "Anne and Meade" (aunt and uncle) consisting of memories of CT at six years old.
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1992 |
| I.55 |
Correspondence 2 ACS Jeanne-Claude and Christo-DK and CT (n.d).
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1991-1992 |
| I.56 |
Correspondence 1 ACS Jeanne-Claude and Christo-CT and DK (9/15/1993)
1 TLS Siah Armajani-CT and DK (9/19/1993)
1 ALS Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis-CT and DK (8/7/n.y.) [re: galleys of Liberman book].
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1993 |
| I.57 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Richard Avedon-CT (6/17/1993)
1 ACS Siah Armajani-CT and DK (1993).
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1992-1993 |
| I.58 |
Correspondence |
1993-1994 |
| I.59 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Siam Armajani-CT and DK (11/25/1995).
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1994-1995 |
| I.60 |
Correspondence Large amount of responses to the publication of Duchamp: A Biography
1 TLS Leonard Lauder-CT and DK (12/16/1996)
1 TLS Richard Avedon-CT (12/10/1996).
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1996 |
| I.61 |
Correspondence |
1996 |
| I.62 |
Correspondence Packet of drawings and letter from illustrator Jon Sarkin.
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1996 |
| I.63 |
Correspondence Handmade booklet and other drawings by Jon Sarkin.
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1997 |
| I.64 |
Correspondence 1 TL CT-"Ms. Johnson" re: recollection of first meeting and continued association with Marcel Duchamp (3/26/1997)
2 TLS Patterson Sims-CT re: formation of MoMA archives, library and research committee (2/10, 2/28/1997)
1 TLS Agnes Gund-CT re: support for arts oriented television channel (2/13/1997)
Correspondence regarding interview on Duchamp for the BBC.
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1997 |
| I.65 |
Correspondence 1 TL CT-Chris Granlund re: BBC Duchamp research (1/27/1997) and further correspondence on the subject
1 ACS David Salle-CT (n.d.)
Undated drawing from Jon Sarkin
Articles and correspondence from sculptor Casimer Michalczyk detailing his life and career.
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1996-1997 |
| I.66 |
Correspondence Corr. from the MoMA and the Getty each discussing possibility of receiving CT's papers.
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1997 |
| I.67 |
Correspondence Correspondence and agenda regarding MoMA library advisory committee, BBC documentary on Rauschenberg, BBC documentary on the
New Yorker
1 TLS CT-Rodrigo de Zayas re: research for Profile on Philippe de Montebello (7/20/1997)
Collage from Jon Sarkin.
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1997 |
| I.68 |
Correspondence |
1997 |
| I.69 |
Correspondence Correspondence regarding Modern Library edition of Living Well….
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1998-1999 |
| I.70 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Sylvie Boissonnas [sister of Dominique de Menil]-CT (5/15/1998).
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1998 |
| I.71 |
Correspondence Numerous copies of fax transmissions and letters from CT on various matters such as blurb copy for Francis Naumann's Duchamp
book, the paperback edition of CT's Duchamp book, requests for review copies of books, congratulations to Renzo Piano on the
Pritzker Prize, etc.
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1998 |
| I.72 |
Correspondence 1 TLS Edmund Morris-CT (11/24/1999)
1 TL CT-Edmund Morris (11/14/1999)
Request from the Hermitage, and CT's response, for his opinion of the twenty-five most important artworks of the 20th century.
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1999 |
| I.73 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Sydney Biddle-CT and DK (n.d.)
1 TL CT-Paul Auster (7/20/1999)
1 TLS CT-Damien Hirst re: arranging meetings with Hirst for Profile (4/16/1999).
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1999 |
| I.74 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Leonard Lauder-CT (n.d.)
1 ALS Glenn Lowry-CT (2/11/1999).
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1999 |
| I.75 |
Correspondence 1 TL (fax) Nam Jun Paik-Paula Cooper [re: missing CT's birthday]
1 TLS Jasper Johns-CT (12/15/2000) [re: regrets on missing CT's 75th birthday dinner].
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2000 |
| I.76 |
Correspondence 1 ACS Cindy Sherman (signed "Cindy and Frieda")-CT (n.d.)
Packet of material from Jean-Jacques Lebel, (2/8/2000) rebutting CT's Profile of Ileana Sonnabend (in which Lebel was mentioned).
|
2000 |
| I.77 |
Correspondence Exchange between Bob Rosen and CT [re: Duchamp, and the absence of a discussion of women in CT's book] (6/4, 7/12/201).
|
2001 |
| I.78 |
Correspondence 1 ALS Annette de la Renta-CT re: turning down his request for a Profile (4/23/n.y.)
1 TLS Glenn Lowry-CT [re: invitation to dinner at Century Club] (1/16/2001).
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2000-2001 |
| I.79 |
Correspondence Responses to article "Can Art be Taught?" and Profile on Richard Serra (including 1 TLS facsimile from Richard Avedon), correspondence
from the MoMA Library Council, inquiries from researchers and invitations to attend or participate in various events and projects.
|
2002 |
| I.80 |
Correspondence Further responses to "Can Art be Taught?", correspondence from MoMA Library Council and discussion of archive (including a
note from Glen Lowry).
|
2002 |
| I.81 |
Correspondence Includes correspondence regarding the small exhibition of CT's papers at MoMA, program from memorial tribute to Kirk Varnedoe.
|
2003-2004 |
| I.82 |
Correspondence Includes readers' responses to Profile on Matthew Barney and other articles.
|
2003 |
| I.83 |
Correspondence Reader's responses to the autobiographical sketch, "Summer Afternoon," and Profile on Maurizio Cattelan.
|
2004-2005 |
| I.84 |
Correspondence Includes series of correspondence between writer Edmund Morris and CT, featuring the trading of bawdy limericks, letters from
Hans Haacke, Jacqueline Matisse
Monnier, and a correspondence inviting CT to participate in Ric Burn's documentary on Andy Warhol.
|
2004 |
| I.85 |
Correspondence Includes 1 TLS Jeanne-Claude & Christo-CT (7/10/2005)
1 TLS facsimile James Turrell and Kyung-Lim Lee-CT and DK (7/28/2005).
|
2005 |
| I.86 |
Correspondence Includes 1 ACS Jeanne-Claude & Christo-CT (n.d).
|
2005 |
| I.87 |
Correspondence Includes 1 ACS Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gione-CT and DK (n.d).
|
2005 |
| I.88 |
Correspondence Reader responses to Profile on Jasper Johns and article on MoMA, including notes from Robert Storr, Jeanne-Claude & Christo,
Sylvia and Edmund Morris, Roger Angell, Sam Varnedoe, and others. Also includes signed contract for services between DK and
CT and TNY for 2006-2007.
|
2006 |
| I.89 |
Correspondence Includes 1 ALS Jeff Wall-CT (4/3/[2006]) [re: lack of interest from TNY for article on Wall]; also correspondence regarding
CT receiving the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, reciprocal correspondence between CT and Edmund Morris discussing
Duchamp and Rauschenberg, and materials related to CT's participation in events surrounding the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Combines at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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2005-2006 |
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| Series II: Major New Yorker Articles
1961-2006
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Tomkins segregated the files for his major articles apart from his other writing files. They were kept in rough chronological
order; that order has been refined here. The files were split into two parts. Subseries II.A contains the research files of
loose notes, published materials, correspondence, and ephemera relating to the subject. Subseries II.B contains the research
binders of original material and interview notes and transcripts Tomkins assembled for nearly every article. More detailed
descriptions of the contents are below.
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| Subseries II.A: Research Files
1961-2006
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These files represent materials produced and acquired for the writing of major articles for The New Yorker magazine between 1962 and 2004. While the majority of these articles were published under the rubric "Profiles," there are
articles published under other departments, including "A Reporter at Large," "Annals of Law," "Onward and Upward with the
Arts," "The Skyline," and "Department of Education." Which department an article was published under seems to have been a
decision reached after the article was written; many articles, such as the one on Frank Gehry, were labeled as Profiles in
manuscript form but published as another department. While most Profiles concern individuals there is one, "The Black People
of Bridgehampton," that concerns a community. Many of the articles published as "Onward and Upward…" concern individuals and
seem no different in content than Profiles. There is evidence in these files of the growth and change of articles from their
initial conception. "Irises," an article on the meteoric growth of the art market at auction, began as a Profile of David
Nash while the article on dyslexia, "The Last Skill Acquired," apparently went through many changes of focus on its way to
publication. But the articles resemble each other in their length and in the research process Tomkins used to write them.
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|
The materials in these folders are weighted toward previously published materials. They include extensive news clippings,
magazine articles, tear sheets, offprints and photocopies, pamphlets, brochures, gallery and exhibition catalogs and ephemera.
Almost every group of folders for an article includes tear sheets or photocopies of the printed article from The New Yorker. Many folders also contain materials postdating publication. Most often these are news clippings and articles such as obituaries.
Original materials include correspondence with the article subjects, both prior to and after publication, and correspondence
from readers, many of which dispute facts in the articles; the latter are often accompanied by official magazine responses.
Overall the correspondence present in this series is more substantive and relevant to Tomkins' research than that present
in the previous series. Handwritten research notes are scattered throughout, mostly consisting of lists of interview contacts
and biographical and interview notes. Most of the folder groups also include a typescript draft of the article with hand edits
and amendments; the date of these drafts is noted when present. The hand edits are minimal and are likely from copy editors
at the magazine although there is evidence that some interview subjects reviewed the articles before publication. A few folders
contain multiple typescript drafts of different dates.
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|
While the contents of the separately organized research binders are discussed below, some of their contents have filtered
into these folders or are duplicated here. Such materials include interview transcripts, summaries and glosses, notes of time
spent with the interview subjects (often referred to as the "log"), and index pages for the binders. These materials are described
more fully in the next series.
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These files represent all the major articles Tomkins wrote at The New Yorker with a few exceptions. Materials gathered for the Profiles on Robert Rauschenberg and Marcel Duchamp are scant and are likely
to have been moved to the research files for the books on those subjects. The research materials for Living Well is the Best Revenge, a book on Sara and Gerald Murphy, have been withheld by Tomkins; the research materials for the Profile that led to the
book are likewise absent.
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Folders are organized in chronological order by date of article publication. The length of time between the start of research
and publication varied from three months to two or more years. Within the folders, material has been left in original order.
Newsprint has been photocopied and discarded, acidic and fragile materials have been isolated, and extant photographs and
slides have been given special housing. The few computer disks that are present were left in the folders but their contents
were printed out (in all cases the disks only contained drafts of the articles sent to, or returned by, the magazine.) Original
folder titles have been noted where they differ from the article subject and the folders themselves photocopied when information
was inscribed on them.
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The folder titles below list the department under which the article was published, the article title, and the general subject.
The date noted in the right-most column is the date of article publication, not the date of the research materials.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| II.A.1 |
Profile: "Beyond the Machine," Jean Tinguely 1 ALS Jean Tinguely-CT (4/28/1961)
1 ACS Jean Tinguely-CT (n.d.)
1 TLS Julia Ris-CT (4/4/1961) [re: reminiscences of Tinguely when he was a student in art school and Ris was a teacher]
1 ALS Niki de Saint-Phalle-CT (n.d.) [re: Tinguely's preparations for an exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
in Denmark]
1 ALS Jean Tinguely-CT (n.d.)
1 TCS Peter Selz-CT (2/12/1962) [re: congratulations on Profile]
Invitation, press releases and other documents from first exhibition of Tinguely at the Staempfli Gallery, news clippings,
draft typescript with hand edits (n.d.)
One-sheet program for performance of The Tinguely Machine Mystery… by Kenneth Koch (Larry Rivers, John Ashberry, and Niki de Saint-Phalle are among the listed performers)
Transcript of taped interview (n.d).
|
2/10/1962 |
| II.A.2 |
Profile: "Beyond the Machine," Jean Tinguely Tear sheets of Profile and later materials on Tinguely including bound, photocopied book of recollections by Niki de Saint-Phalle
(after 1991).
|
2/10/1962 |
| II.A.3 |
Profile: "Beyond the Machine," Jean Tinguely [Original folder title "Homage à New York"]
1966 newspaper from the Modern Museet, Stockholm, printed tirade against Tinguely and Homage to New York.
|
2/10/1962 |
| II.A.4 |
Profile: "Beyond the Machine," Jean Tinguely [Original folder title "Kinetic Show Motion Show (Other Motion Artists)"]
Brochure for "Le Mouvement" exhibition, Galerie Deniserené (1955), brief typescript article, "Artists and Machines" by J.R.
Pierce
1 ALS Harry Bertoia-CT (3/27/1961) [re: making kinetic art].
|
2/10/1962 |
| II.A.5 |
Profile: "A Thing Among Things," Richard Lippold [Original folder title "Lippold-Philharmonic"]
1 TLS Walter Gropius-CT (12/4/1962) [re: thanks for Lippold Profile]
1 TL CT-Robert Lippold (4/28/1962) [re: suggesting Profile]Tear sheets of Profile; pamphlets on Lippold, newspaper and magazine
clippings on Lippold and contemporary sculpture; list of expenses for article; annual reports for Lincoln Center, 1962 and
1963, and invitation to Lippold sculpture dedication.
|
3/30/1963 |
| II.A.6 |
A Reporter at Large: "The Last Skill Acquired," Dyslexia Newspaper and magazine articles on Dyslexia; two unpublished articles by Norman Geschwind, then professor of neurology, Harvard
School of Medicine; transcript of CBS program, "Dyslexia: The Invisible Handicap" (5/18/1980).
|
9/14/1963 |
| II.A.7 |
A Reporter at Large: "The Last Skill Acquired," Dyslexia [Original folder title: "Orton"]
1 ALS June (Mrs. Samuel T.) Orton-CT (12/9/1962) [re: reminiscences of Dr. Orton]
Offprints, research notes and interview glosses and transcriptions of Sally B. Childs and Ann Gillingham.
|
9/14/1963 |
| II.A.8 |
A Reporter at Large: "The Last Skill Acquired," Dyslexia [Original folder title: "Orton"]
Correspondence exchange with Regine F. Wohlmann (1/14/1963) [re: billing and payment for unsuccessful collaboration on article]
1 TLS Albert J. Harris-CT (4/14/1962) [re: reading education]
Research notes, expenses, typescript article, Arthur I. Gates, "What We Know And Can Do About the Poor Reader".
|
9/14/1963 |
| II.A.9 |
A Reporter at Large: "The Last Skill Acquired," Dyslexia Offprints of article, draft typescript with autograph edits and suggested edits by Claude B. Dufault.
|
9/14/1963 |
| II.A.10 |
Profile: "Woomera has It!," John R. Pierce [Original folder title "Echo"]
Chronology of Echo program (a satellite program preceding Telstar), note sheets, clippings, press releases and fact sheets
from Bell and NASA.
|
9/21/1963 |
| II.A.11 |
Profile: "Woomera has It!," John R. Pierce [Original folder title "Telstar"]
Expense notes, biographical notes on scientists and officials, articles and clippings
1 TLS W.H. Pickering-CT (4/2/1963) [re: Profile on Pierce].
|
9/21/1963 |
| II.A.12 |
Profile: "Woomera has It!," John R. Pierce 1 TLS John Pierce-CT (7/5/1963) [re: revisions to Profile]
1 TLS John Pierce-CT 10/4/1963) [re: responses to publishing]
Tear sheet of Profile.
|
9/21/1963 |
| II.A.13 |
Profile: "Moving Out," Robert Rauschenberg Tear sheet of Profile only.
Interview notes and other materials gathered for this article were later dispersed by CT among the files of Series IV.C.
|
2/29/1964 |
| II.A.14 |
Profile: "Figure in an Imaginary Landscape," John Cage Tear sheet of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits, expense report, more recent articles and clippings.
|
11/28/1964 |
| II.A.15 |
Profile: "Figure in an Imaginary Landscape," John Cage 1 TLS Aaron Copland-CT (1/1/1964) [re: request for interview for Cage Profile]
1 ALS Crete Cage (John's mother)-CT (2/6/1964)
News clippings, programs and offprints, list of contacts and bibliography.
|
11/28/1964 |
| II.A.16 |
Profile: "Not Seen And/Or Less Seen," Marcel Duchamp Tear sheet of Profile only.
Materials gathered for this article were later dispersed by CT among the files of Series IV.D. A 44-page transcript of an
interview between CT and Duchamp in 1964 is located in folder IV.D.29.
|
2/6/1965 |
| II.A.17 |
Profile: "In the Outlaw Area," R. Buckminster Fuller Tear sheets of Profile, draft typescript (12/12/1965), CT's tear sheets from reprint of article on Fuller in another magazine
(Saturday Evening Post?).
|
1/8/1966 |
| II.A.18 |
Annals of Law: "The Lewis and Clark Case" Tear sheets of article, draft typescript with hand edits (2/9/1965).
|
10/29/1966 |
| II.A.19 |
Annals of Law: "The Lewis and Clark Case" 1 ALS, TL copy Mrs. Vaclav Vytlacil-TNY (11/15/1966) [re: correcting factual errors in published article]
1 ALS Mary Hyde-CT (11/4/1966)
1 TCS "Kinkead"-CT (4/28/1964) [re: note of approval to CT from TNY to go ahead with article ]
Research notes, interview glosses and transcripts, and summaries of court transcripts.
|
10/29/1966 |
| II.A.20 |
Profile: "The Creative Situation," Eric Hoffer 8 ALS Eric Hoffer-CT (9/9/1966-9/29/1967)
1 photocopy ALS Eric Hoffer-Jack Macrae (4/17/1966)
1 photocopy ALS Eric Hoffer-William Shawn (1/11/1967) [incl. attached note to CT from Shawn]
1 TLS Selden Osborne-CT (1/12/1967) [re: publication of Profile, the Osborne family is discussed in the article]
2 ALS Lili Fabilli Osborne-CT (1/17/1967, 4/17/1968) [re: publication of Profile, suggestion of compensation from later book]
Transcripts of CBS News Special with Eric Sevareid "Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind" (9/19/1967) and KQED program,
"Conversations With Eric Hoffer" (n.d.), list of Hoffer's book sales from Harper & Row.
|
1/7/1967 |
| II.A.21 |
Profile: "The Creative Situation," Eric Hoffer 1 ALS Lili Osborne-CT (4/17/1968)
Tear sheets of Profile, press photo of Hoffer, Profile Description suggestion (3/28/1966), expenses.
|
1/7/1967 |
| II.A.22 |
Profile: "The Very Rich Hours of Joe Levine," Joseph E. Levine Tear sheets of Profile, photocopy draft typescript with hand edits (3/15/1967)
Calendar of MoMA Film Library, films donated by Levine, 1965, clippings articles and offprints, publicity photo still of Levine,
official Profile of Levine from Embassy Pictures Corp.
|
9/16/1967 |
| II.A.23 |
Profile: "A Certain Attitude Toward Change," Samuel B. Gould [Original folder title "Education, Misc."]
Various news clippings, press releases, and magazine articles on higher education, offprint of TNY article on Berkeley by
Calvin Trillin, research notes.
|
12/18/1967 |
| II.A.24 |
Profile: "A Certain Attitude Toward Change," Samuel B. Gould [Original folder title "State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook"]
Pamphlets, offprints, press releases, news clippings on the school.
|
12/18/1967 |
| II.A.25 |
Profile: "A Certain Attitude Toward Change," Samuel B. Gould [Original folder title "SUNY-General"]
Pamphlet and programming schedule of "New York Network"; news clippings, brochures, press releases and offprints relating
to the state university and advances in higher education. Many news clippings have hand annotations.
|
12/18/1967 |
| II.A.26 |
Profile: "A Certain Attitude Toward Change," Samuel B. Gould Typescript address, "Whose Goals for Higher Education," given by Gould (10/12/1967), correspondence with various officials
for article, expenses, research notes.
|
12/18/1967 |
| II.A.27 |
Profile: "A Certain Attitude Toward Change," Samuel B. Gould Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits(11/28/1966).
|
12/18/1967 |
| II.A.28 |
Profile: "A Certain Attitude Toward Change," Samuel B. Gould [Original folder title "Internatl. Studies Center" and "Mr. Calvin Tomkins"]
Two reports on the development of international studies at the state university, one titled, "Unity in Diversity," by Dr.
Glenn A. Olds.
|
12/18/1967 |
| II.A.29 |
Profile: "An Appetite for Motion," Merce Cunningham Pamphlets, programs, tear sheets of other articles, clippings (up to 1996) and expenses.
|
5/4/1968 |
| II.A.30 |
Profile: "An Appetite for Motion," Merce Cunningham Negative filmstrips, 1 photograph, 2 contact sheets, all of Cunningham troupe in practice; tear sheets of Profile, typescript
draft (10/9/1967).
|
5/4/1968 |
| II.A.31 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "E.A.T." Draft typescript with hand edits (n.d.), copyright assignment document, erratum slip.
|
10/3/1970 |
| II.A.32 |
Profile: "Moving with the Flow," Henry Geldzahler [Original folder title "Henry Geldzahler and the Sixties"]
List of Met American Painting and Sculpture purchases of 20th c. art from 1967-1970; typescript of NEA first five years report,
correspondence from Shirley Woodward, George Heard Hamilton and Sydney J. Freedberg in response to interview requests from
CT; offprints, news clippings, tear sheets, press releases and research notes.
|
11/6/1971 |
| II.A.33 |
Profile: "Moving with the Flow," Henry Geldzahler Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft (3/18/1971).
|
11/6/1971 |
| II.A.34 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Maybe a Quantum Leap" Earth Art 1 ACS Robert Smithson-CT (9/8/1971) [re: Spiral Jetty]
Articles, news clippings, press release, reader correspondence, gallery pamphlets and brochure, draft typescript with hand
edits (n.d).
|
2/5/1972 |
| II.A.35 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Maybe a Quantum Leap" Earth Art [Original folder title: "Christo Valley Curtain"]
1 ACS Howard Junker-CT (n.d.) [re: earthworks]
2 ACS Jeanne-Claude and Christo-CT (12/28/1970, 1/3/1970?) [re: holiday greetings]
3 ALS Christo-CT (n.d., 11/19/1970, 6/17/1970) [re: Valley Curtain planning and specifications]
Research notes of interviews with Jan Van der Marck and Christo, press releases from the Valley Curtain Corporation, news
clippings, exhibition pamphlet of Valley Curtain documentation, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, expenses
Photographs of preparatory drawings and final installation.
|
2/5/1972 |
| II.A.36 |
Profile: "All Pockets Open," Jonas Mekas 1 TLS Jonas Mekas-CT (4/21/1972)
Contacts list, film brochures, news clippings by and about Mekas, research notes, photocopies of correspondence received by
Mekas, expenses.
|
1/6/1973 |
| II.A.37 |
Profile: "All Pockets Open," Jonas Mekas Tear sheets of Profile, typescript with hand edits.
|
1/6/1973 |
| II.A.38 |
Profile: "The Black People of Bridgehampton," Bridgehampton, Long Island Correspondence from residents, report of concerned parents committee, various notes on contacts and questions, news clippings.
|
9/10/1973 |
| II.A.39 |
Profile: "The Black People of Bridgehampton," Bridgehampton, Long Island Typescript draft with hand edits (11/30/1972).
|
9/10/1973 |
| II.A.40 |
Profile: "The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine," Georgia O'Keeffe 1 ACS Georgia O'Keeffe-Unknown (n.d.)
3 TLS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (8/9, 9/7, and 12/10/1973, 5/7/1974) [re: arrangements for CT visit, response to draft of article,
and various other thoughts]
1 TLS Virginia F. Robertson [assistant to O'Keeffe]-CT (8/29/1973) [re: arrangements for visit]
Biographical notes, bibliographies, photocopies of secondary materials, photocopy of two-page typescript of O'Keeffe recollections,
some letters in response to Profile.
|
3/4/1974 |
| II.A.41 |
Profile: "The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine," Georgia O'Keeffe Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (n.d.), full-page advertisement for TNY using O'Keeffe Profile, expenses,
news clippings and magazine article from after O'Keeffe's death.
|
3/4/1974 |
| II.A.42 |
A Reporter at Large: "Thinking in Time" Alexander Marshack 1 photocopy TLS Alexander Marshack-CT (n.d.) [re: pre-publication history of Marshack's book The Roots of Civilization]
News clippings, articles, magazines on archeology and cave art; reader and research correspondence.
|
4/22/1974 |
| II.A.43 |
A Reporter at Large: "Thinking in Time" Alexander Marshack 4 TLS Alexander Marshack-CT (4/16, 5/5, 5/26/1973, 3/31/1974) [re: contacts, research information, etc.]
Correspondence from professors and academics regarding CT's research
Interview summaries and transcripts, portions of manuscript draft; contact list and bibliographic notes; copies of correspondence
received by Marshack; news clippings, articles, book excerpts; copy of paper by Marshack, "Olmec Mosaic Pendant," (1973).
|
4/22/1974 |
| II.A.44 |
A Reporter at Large: "Thinking in Time" Alexander Marshack Articles, news clippings, promotional pages and other materials regarding The Roots of Civilization, list of contacts, expenses, tear sheets of article.
|
4/22/1974 |
| II.A.45 |
Profile: "Look to the Things Around You," Paul Strand 1 TLS John Dunn-CT (n.d.) [re: factual inaccuracies in Profile concerning Elmer Davis and Pare Lorentz, see folder I.33 for
correspondence from Lorentz on subject]
1 TLS Henwar Rodakiewicz-CT (10/17/1974) [re: same as above]
2 TLS Ralph Steiner-CT (7/28/1973, n.d.) [re: interview for Profile, earlier letter typed on same leaf as CT letter to Steiner]
1 ALS Hazel Strand-CT (09/14/1974)
8 ALS Paul Strand-CT (8/21/1973-1/24/1974, 2 n.d.) [re: CT's visits, reviews of article draft, other matters]
[Note: letters from the Strands are signed variously Hazel and Paul, Paul and Hazel, P., etc., but the individual authors
can be distinguished by their hands]
Obituary, news clippings, articles, research notes, photocopy of typescript report Strand gave at the International Congress
of Cinema (9/49), gloss of interview with Ralph Steiner and page of recollections in Steiner's hand, contacts list.
|
9/16/1974 |
| II.A.46 |
Profile: "Look to the Things Around You," Paul Strand Full-page advertisement for TNY using Strand Profile, typescript draft with hand edits, expenses, assignment of copyright
for Profile.
|
9/16/1974 |
| II.A.47 |
Profile: "Good Cooking," Julia Child 1 ALS Rosemary Manell-TNY (9/14/1974)
1 ALS Julia Child-CT (4/20/n.y.)
Contact lists, business cards, book of recipes by Child produced for the benefit of the Presbyterian Hospital Medical Center,
San Francisco, interview and bibliographical notes, articles, photocopy of speech given by Child and of letters sent to WGBH
.
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12/23/1974 |
| II.A.48 |
Profile: "Good Cooking," Julia Child Summaries of television episodes, press releases on live cooking demonstrations, news clippings, correspondence from Alfred
A. Knopf regarding Child's book sales, carbon copy of typescript draft from …Art of French Cooking, copies of Child's fan mail.
|
12/23/1974 |
| II.A.49 |
Profile: "Good Cooking," Julia Child Photocopy of tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (5/17/1974), expenses, full-page advertisement for TNY
using Child Profile.
|
12/23/1974 |
| II.A.50 |
Profile: "Time to Think," Robert Wilson Tear sheets, photocopies, performance and festival programs and brochures, correspondence from the Byrd Hoffman Foundation,
index to research binder, restaurant menu with doodles (possibly by Wilson?).
|
1/13/1975 |
| II.A.51 |
Profile: "Time to Think," Robert Wilson Tear sheets, interview glosses with Seth S. Faison, Harvey Lichtenstein, Law Lloyd, Robert Wilson and Richard Foreman; expense
notes, research notes, programs to Foreman's productions with notes.
|
1/13/1975 |
| II.A.52 |
Profile: "Time to Think," Robert Wilson [Original folder title: "Einstein on the Beach"]
News clippings, programs, interview notes with Jan Herman, Golbert Helmsley, Robert Wilson, Philip Glass and notes from visit
to the Metropolitan Opera during the staging of Einstein….
|
1/13/1975 |
| II.A.53 |
Profile: "Time to Think," Robert Wilson News clippings and later materials, tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (1/31/1975).
|
1/13/1975 |
| II.A.54 |
Profile: "Video Visionary," Nam June Paik 2 ACS Nam June Paik-CT (8/12, 12/18/1975)
1 TLS Ann Sperry-CT (6/8/1975) [re: correction to Profile]
1 TLS Douglas Davis-CT (8/20/1974) [incl. Davis article on Paik in Artforum]
MoMA press release from Barbara London on Projects: Peter Campus [MoMA Exh. # 1159, December 10, 1976-January 18, 1977], contacts list, various materials regarding video artists Ture Sjõlander
and Bror Wikstrõm, pamphlets and programs on video art, typed corrections by Paik to Profile post-publication, interleaved
with annotated tear sheets photocopied typescript by Paik, "Media Planning for the Post Industrial Age" (n.d.), produced for
the Rockefeller Foundation [see Paik correspondence in folder II.A.55].
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5/5/1975 |
| II.A.55 |
Profile: "Video Visionary," Nam June Paik 1 TLS Nam June Paik-CT (5/29/1974) [re: Rockefeller Foundation report]
1 ALS Nam June Paik-CT (n.d.)
Gallery pamphlets, catalogs and ephemera, press releases, news clippings, tear sheets, offprints, document of arts grants
to television from the Rockefeller Foundation and other documents pertaining to video art on television, chronology notes.
|
5/5/1975 |
| II.A.56 |
Profile: "Video Visionary," Nam June Paik Later articles and gallery pamphlet, tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (8/2/1974), expenses.
|
5/5/1975 |
| II.A.57 |
Profile: "A Keeper of the Treasure," Betty Parsons 1 TLS Sidney Janis-CT (10/4/1974) [re: Parsons' tenancy and legal history]
Contacts list, Parsons Gallery 30th anniversary brochure, two pamphlets on the practice of "Subud", photostats of settlement
of lawsuit and other court documents concerning Parsons and Sidney Janis, exhibition catalogue of Parsons' private art collection
(Finch College Museum of Art, 1968), typescript draft with hand edits (10/20/1974), drawing of duck signed "Betty Parsons/1972",
expenses.
|
6/9/1975 |
| II.A.58 |
Profile: "New Paradigms," Michael Murphy 1 TLS Nancy Williams-CT (1/12/1976) [re: refutation of some claims in Profile]
Interview notes, index to interview notes, list of questions, articles, news clippings.
|
1/5/1976 |
| II.A.59 |
Profile: "New Paradigms," Michael Murphy News clippings and articles, Esalen press releases, grant proposal from the Esalen Institute for "American Society in Transition"
(9/1974), photocopy of typescript article by Michael Murphy, "Athletes in the Games of Philosophy: Mystical States and Extraordinary
Powers in the Practice of Sport" (n.d.), research notes.
|
1/5/1976 |
| II.A.60 |
Profile: "New Paradigms," Michael Murphy Later news clipping, tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (1/13/1975).
|
1/5/1976 |
| II.A.61 |
Profile: "The Moods of a Stone," Tatyana Grossman 1 TLS Tatyana Grossman-CT [corrections to draft of Profile]
Booklet from Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., tabloid-sized newsprint catalogue to Jasper Johns Lithographs [MoMA Exh. # 951, December 22, 1970-May 3, 1971], interview notes, draft of manuscript, lists of artists and dates from Universal
Limited Art Editions (ULAE), photocopy of Barnett Newman's preface to his 18 Cantos, unsigned corrections and emendations to draft of Profile on Grossman's letterhead, research notes, typescript article on
Grossman by Laura B. Thurston (1/9/1974).
|
6/7/1976 |
| II.A.62 |
Profile: "The Moods of a Stone," Tatyana Grossman [Original folder title: "Prints"]
Responses to Profile from other printers (one with specific rebuttal of assertions,) obituary and news clippings, typescript
draft by CT of memorial tribute to Grossman (7/8/1982), interview notes, press releases, photocopy of recollections of Grossman
by Robert Motherwell.
|
6/7/1976 |
| II.A.63 |
Profile: "Ridiculous," Charles Ludlam Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits, research notes, theater programs, news clippings, The Drama Review 18:2 (June, 1974) with articles by Charles Ludlam and Richard Foreman.
|
11/15/1976 |
| II.A.64 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Running Fence," Christo News clippings, curriculum vitae of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, official photographs of Wrapped Reichstag and fact sheet of project, research notes, typescript draft with hand edits (10/12/1976).
|
3/28/1977 |
| II.A.65 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Running Fence," Christo 1 TLS CT-The New York Times (10/20/1980) [re: rebuttal to editorial opposition to Christo's gates project for Central Park]
1 TLS Jeanne-Claude and Christo-CT (n.d.) [on forwarded letter form the California Coastal Zone Conservation Commission re:
Running Fence]
1 TLS Christo-CT (4/22/1976)
News clippings, fact sheets and Christo project descriptions, press releases, photographs of preparatory drawings.
|
3/28/1977 |
| II.A.66 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Running Fence," Christo 1 TLS Mary McChesney-CT (11/8/1976)
1 ALS Lynn Hershman (Associate Project Director)-CT (9/9/1976) [re: unveiling of the project]
News clippings, documents, correspondence relating to the project and its opposition, biographical materials and other documents
of Mary Fuller McChesney, expenses, official photographs of the project.
|
3/28/1977 |
| II.A.67 |
Profile: "Forms Under Light," Philip Johnson 1 TLS Marga Barr-CT (6/2/1976) [re: her personal recollections of Johnson]
1 ALS Ada Louise Huxtable-CT (n.d.)
The Architectural Forum 138:1 (January-February 1973), issue devoted to Johnson, news clippings, offprints and articles, contacts lists, biographical
details on MoMA letterhead, research notes and chronology, materials on the Rothko Chapel and from other Johnson churches.
|
5/23/1977 |
| II.A.68 |
Profile: "Forms Under Light," Philip Johnson 1 TLS Robert A.M. Stern-CT (6/22/1976) [re: Johnson's writing]
2 TLS Jane Blaffer Owen-CT (5/19, 6/4/1976) [re: New Harmony Open Church]
Four 8x10 photographs of the John F. Kennedy Memorial, Dallas
Articles, news clippings, brochures, contacts list, research and bibliographic notes, press packets and brochures on Johnson
buildings.
|
5/23/1977 |
| II.A.69 |
Profile: "Forms Under Light," Philip Johnson Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (7/26/1976).
|
5/23/1977 |
| II.A.70 |
Profile: "Putting Something Over Something Else," Romare Bearden Possible topical index to interview binder
1 ALS Romare Bearden-CT (n.d.) [re: research materials]
Contacts list, lists of questions, news clippings, press releases, transcript of interview of Bearden for Essence magazine
Large hand-drawn map of Harlem (area bounded by Lenox and 8th Aves. and 130th and 145th Sts.) showing businesses and individuals'
residences
3 photographs of Paris with descriptions on the reverse (possibly by Bearden).
|
11/28/1977 |
| II.A.71 |
Profile: "Putting Something Over Something Else," Romare Bearden Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (January 1969), two exhibition catalogs of Bearden and two on Horace Pippin and Jacob
Lawrence.
|
11/28/1977 |
| II.A.72 |
Profile: "Putting Something Over Something Else," Romare Bearden Exhibition catalogs, news clippings, typescript draft with hand edits ("author's original") (5/27/1975).
|
11/28/1977 |
| II.A.73 |
Profile: "Look What I've Got Here," Claes Oldenburg News clippings, articles, press releases, installation program, ephemera, mostly related to purchase and unveiling of Bat Column, bibliographic and research notes, photocopy of translation of catalogue text for Oldenburg show at the Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam, sheet of reminiscences by Oldenburg's father.
|
12/12/1977 |
| II.A.74 |
Profile: "Look What I've Got Here," Claes Oldenburg Photocopy of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (5/9/1977), reader correspondence.
|
12/12/1977 |
| II.A.75 |
Profile: "A Good Monster," Pontus Hulten Two booklets on the Pompidou Center [one with annotations], typescript draft with hand edits (9/6/1977).
|
1/16/1978 |
| II.A.76 |
Profile: "A Good Eye and a Good Ear," Leo Castelli 1 TLS Dr. Bernard Brodsky-TNY (10/26/1975) [re: response to article on Castelli]
1 TLS Constance Trimble-CT (2/12/n.y.) [re: Abstract Expressionists response to Jasper Johns and younger generation of artists]
Contact lists, research notes, articles, news clippings, photocopy of New York City cultural award certificate presented to
Castelli, unsigned reminiscences of Castelli on Sperone Westwater Fischer letterhead, small sheet of quotes from Sperone,
typescript draft of Profile (3/5/1976).
|
5/26/1980 |
| II.A.77 |
Profile: "A Good Eye and a Good Ear," Leo Castelli Research notes, article, tear sheets of Profile.
|
5/26/1980 |
| II.A.78 |
Profile: "The Space Around Real Things," Frank Stella News clippings, articles, tear sheets, press release, research, bibliographic and chronological notes, photocopies of notes
by Stella [probably from Norton Lectures] and interview with Stella by Henry Geldzahler, proposal to TNY for Profile on Stella
(8/18/1983), exhibition invitations, pamphlets and catalogs, typescript article by unknown author.
|
9/10/1984 |
| II.A.79 |
Profile: "The Space Around Real Things," Frank Stella Tear sheets of Profile, correspondence in response to publication, magazine article, typescript draft with hand edits.
|
9/10/1984 |
| II.A.80 |
Profile: "Getting Everything In," Jennifer Bartlett Interview notes with Bartlett, news clippings, exhibition catalogs, typescript draft, with hand edits, of Bartlett article
as composed for catalogue of exhibition at the Walker Art Center and reprinted as a Profile.
|
4/15/1985 |
| II.A.81 |
Profile: "Sharpening the Eye," William S. Rubin Tear sheets of Profile, research and interview notes, contacts lists, news clippings, articles, MoMA brochures, press releases,
fact sheets and other materials, most describing effects of 1984 museum expansion .
|
11/4/1985 |
| II.A.82 |
Profile: "Sharpening the Eye," William S. Rubin Photocopies of drafts and final texts of Rubin's and Kirk Varnedoe's replies to negative review of Primitivism in 20th Century Art by Thomas McEvilley in Artforum and draft of later Rubin rebuttal to McEvilley's response, articles, news clippings, MoMA press releases relating to Rubin's
career.
|
11/4/1985 |
| II.A.83 |
Profile: "Stage Pictures," Rosamond Bernier 1 ALS "John"-CT (6/20/1985) [re: Jennifer Bartlett, Richard Schulman and Bernier]
Tear sheets of Profile, catalogue of the exhibition Miró/Artigas: Terres de Grand Feu, at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, with essay by Bernier, contacts list.
|
1/19/1987 |
| II.A.84 |
Profile: "Colored Muds in a Sticky Substance," John M. Brealey Tear sheets of Profile, material on Alexander Eliot and the restoration of the Sistine Chapel, lecture, "Who Needs a Conservator,"
by Brealey (10/1/1983), news clippings, articles, photocopied character testaments regarding Brealy's possible move to the
Metropolitan Museum, research notes.
|
3/16/1987 |
| II.A.85 |
Profile: "Colored Muds in a Sticky Substance," John M. Brealey Press releases, news clippings, research notes (outline of Profile or binder index,) materials related to the International
Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Conservation of Cultural Properties (ICCROM), contacts list.
|
3/16/1987 |
| II.A.86 |
A Reporter at Large: "Irises," Art Auctions Typescript draft of unpublished Profile on David Nash (8/7/1987), news clippings, research notes.
|
4/4/1988 |
| II.A.87 |
A Reporter at Large: "Irises," Art Auctions [Original folder title: "Tanguy et al. (Doucet, Mirbeau, Fénéon, Poiet)"]
Copies of articles and book extracts.
|
4/4/1988 |
| II.A.88 |
A Reporter at Large: "Irises," Art Auctions [Original folder title: "Notes and Misc."]
1 TLS Gary Tinterow-CT (12/5/1987) [re: Tanguy and van Gogh collecting]
Contact lists, research notes and interview summaries, pamphlets and auction listings, news clippings, after sales reports
from Sotheby's, documents relating B. Gerald Cantor's history of collecting and philanthropic activities.
|
4/4/1988 |
| II.A.89 |
A Reporter at Large: "Irises," Art Auctions [Original folder title: "Sotheby's-Irises II"]
News clippings, articles, research notes, tear sheets of article.
|
4/4/1988 |
| II.A.90 |
A Reporter at Large: "Irises," Art Auctions [Original folder title: "Irises and Paysons and Maine"]
News clippings, articles, press releases for the sale of the painting, curriculum vitae of John Whitney Payson, official photographs
of Payson and Irises, catalogue of the Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art.
|
4/4/1988 |
| II.A.91 |
A Reporter at Large: "Irises," Art Auctions [Original folder title: "Prices at Auction"]
News clippings, articles and pamphlets on auction prices.
|
4/4/1988 |
| II.A.92 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Hear," Max Neuhaus Tear sheets of article, pamphlets, exhibition ephemera, articles, Neuhaus curriculum vitae, artist statements, contact and
research notes, transcripts of interviews between Neuhaus and other individuals.
|
10/24/1988 |
| II.A.93 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Hear," Max Neuhaus Articles, news clippings, artist statements, pamphlets, typescript draft of article with hand edits (n.d).
|
10/24/1988 |
| II.A.94 |
Profile: "A Sense of Urgency," Marian Wright Edelman Edelman family photograph, tear sheets of Profile, news clippings, articles, press releases, research notes, expenses.
|
3/27/1989 |
| II.A.95 |
Profile: "Open, Available, Useful," Siah Armajani Photocopy of Profile, press releases, news clippings, postcards, articles, five slides of Armajani works, contact lists, materials
on related artists such as Isamu Noguchi, Scott Burton and James Turrell, photocopies of TNY Art World articles by CT on public
and outdoor art.
|
3/19/1990 |
| II.A.96 |
Profile: "Open, Available, Useful," Siah Armajani 1 ALS Siah Armajani-CT (n.d.)
Research and interview notes, news clippings, articles, including materials on Tilted Arc by Richard Serra, photocopy of typescript Profile draft (n.d).
|
3/19/1990 |
| II.A.97 |
Profile: "For the Nation," J. Carter Brown [Original folder title: "Natl. Gallery-History of"]
Press releases, news clippings, articles, book chapters, research notes on Andrew Mellon, the history of the National Gallery
and specific artworks in the museum.
|
9/3/1990 |
| II.A.98 |
Profile: "For the Nation," J. Carter Brown Photocopy of Profile, news clippings, articles, chronology of major events at the museum.
|
9/3/1990 |
| II.A.99 |
Profile: "For the Nation," J. Carter Brown News clippings, articles on art collectors, museum brochure, press releases, correspondence with museum, contact lists, transcript
of National Press Club speech by Brown.
|
9/3/1990 |
| II.A.100 |
Profile: "A Single Person Making a Single Thing," Richard Benson 1 TLS Lincoln Kirstein-CT (9/23/1990)
Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, news clippings, gallery brochures, press releases, research notes.
|
12/17/1990 |
| II.A.101 |
Profile: "A Single Person Making a Single Thing," Richard Benson Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand annotations (9/10/1990), reader correspondence.
|
12/17/1990 |
| II.A.102 |
Profile: "A Touch for the Now," Walter Hopps Photocopy of Profile, research and interview notes, 1 3.5" computer floppy disk, labeled "Walter Hopps Profile text, Calvin
Tomkins 3/18/1991," contents of disk include draft Profile (3/18/1991) and two separate title pages labeled "revised" (2/21,
3/15/1991), all documents printed out.
|
7/29/1991 |
| II.A.103 |
Profile: "A Touch for the Now," Walter Hopps 1 TLS Eleanor Dickinson-TNY (11/26/n.y.) [re: correcting fact in Profile]
Contacts list, news clippings, articles, photocopy of large portion of The Last Time I Saw Farus, a history of the Farus Gallery, expenses, research and interview notes.
|
7/29/1991 |
| II.A.104 |
Profile: "A Touch for the Now," Walter Hopps Typescript draft of Profile (3/18/1991).
|
7/29/1991 |
| II.A.105 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Piano Principle," Renzo Piano 1 TLS CT-Tina [i.e. Tina Brown] (3/21/1994) [re: possible publication dates for Piano article]
Photocopy of article, 1 3.5" computer floppy disk, labeled "Profile: Renzo Piano by Calvin Tomkins," contents of disk includes
draft (n.d., but document last modifed 5/25/1993) document printed out, research notes, contact information, correspondence,
articles, news clippings, typescript draft of article.
|
8/22/1994 |
| II.A.106 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Piano Principle," Renzo Piano 2 TLS CT-Renzo Piano (9/12/1992, 2/22/1993) [re: proposing article and arranging interviews]
News clipppings, articles, exhibition pamphlet, research correspondence, contact information, notes.
|
8/22/1994 |
| II.A.107 |
Profile: "The World of Carmel Snow," Carmel Snow Tear sheets of Profile, news clippings, articles, press release, 1 3.5" computer floppy disk, labeled "Carmel Snow (Calvin
Tomkins)(WordPerfect 5.1)," contents of disk includes draft Profile (n.d.), document printed out.
|
12/7/1994 |
| II.A.108 |
Profile: "The World of Carmel Snow," Carmel Snow Interview notes and transcripts, many interviews conducted by DK, many notes possibly in her hand.
|
12/7/1994 |
| II.A.109 |
Profile: "The World of Carmel Snow," Carmel Snow Interview notes and transcripts, photocopies of book excerpts, entire legal notepad of chronology and other notes, many interviews
conducted by DK, many notes possibly in her hand.
|
12/7/1994 |
| II.A.110 |
Profile: "Artist Unknown," Albert York Tear sheets of Profile, articles, gallery pamphlets and announcements, 1 3.5" computer floppy disk, labeled "Albert York Profile
(Tomkins)(WordPerfect 5.1)," contents of disk includes draft Profile (n.d.), document printed out, interview notes and transcripts,
press releases.
|
6/19/1995 |
| II.A.111 |
Profile: "Artist Unknown," Albert York Interview notes and transcripts, press releases, news clippings, photocopy of draft typescript with hand annotations (4/24/1995),
earlier undated typescript of Profile, blank note cards of York's artwork.
|
6/19/1995 |
| II.A.112 |
Profile: "Artist Unknown," Albert York 1 TLS Tina Brown-CT (4/5/1995) [re: suggested edits to Profile]
Expenses, correspondence from Virginia York concerning interviews, blank note cards of York's artwork, gallery catalogue of
group show, two spiral notepads detailing specific York works, size, date and material, purchase date, sale price and purchaser,
notepads found in following folder on Dan Kiley.
|
6/19/1995 |
| II.A.113 |
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley 1 TL facsimile Tina Brown-CT (9/25/1995) [re: edits to Profile]
Photocopy of Profile, typescript draft with hand annotations, memos relating to fact checking of Profile, reproductions of
Kiley works and sketches.
|
10/16/1995 |
| II.A.114 |
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley Twenty-one 3x5 color photographs of Kiley-designed landscape, some images with Kiley, many labeled "Kiley/Salisbury," news
clippings, articles, photocopies of book passages, contact lists, issue of Inland Architect, photocopy of site inspection and initial design suggestions, from the office of Dan Kiley to Edgar and Clarissa Bronfman
(8/14/1995), regarding their property Hammersley Hill.
|
10/16/1995 |
| II.A.115 |
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley 1 ALS Dan Kiley-CT and DK (7/22/1995) [re: recent interview, more meetings for Profile and progress on the Bronfman estate]
Articles, news clippings, photocopy of report on progress of research and documentation for biography of Kiley by Jane Amidon
(7/1995), contacts lists, bibliographical notes.
|
10/16/1995 |
| II.A.116 |
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley Articles, news clippings and spiral-bound company curriculum vitae of Martha Schwartz, Inc. landscape architects.
|
10/16/1995 |
| II.A.117 |
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley Process: Architecture 108 (February 1983), Japanese periodical, issue title: "Dan Kiley: Landscape Design II," curriculum vitae of the Office of
Dan Kiley.
|
10/16/1995 |
| II.A.118 |
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry Tear sheets of article, articles, news clippings.
|
7/7/1997 |
| II.A.119 |
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry 1 TLS CT-Frank Gehry (9/30/1996) [re: proposal for Profile]
1 facsimile TLS Frank Gehry-CT (3/27/1997)
1 TLS CT-Claes Oldenburg (4/9/1997) [re: experiences with Gehry]
Contact lists, research notes and correspondence, articles, news clippings, book excerpts, pamphlets, biographical materials
from Frank O. Gehry & Associates.
|
7/7/1997 |
| II.A.120 |
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry [Original folder title: "Most recent"]
Facsimile correspondence from Frank O. Gehry & Associates regarding client Eli Broad and final fact checking of article, interview
summary with Broad and Gehry, research notes and correspondence regarding Disney Hall.
|
7/7/1997 |
| II.A.121 |
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry [Original folder title: "Disney Hall"]
Booklet of Disney Hall design from Frank O. Gehry & Associates (5/1/1998), news clippings, press releases, research notes.
|
7/7/1997 |
| II.A.122 |
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry [Original folder title: "Gehry-Bilbao"]
Pamphlet of the museum, press release, map of Bilbao, news clippings, articles, research correspondence.
|
7/7/1997 |
| II.A.123 |
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry [Original folder title: "Other architects"]
News clippings, articles, press releases.
|
7/7/1997 |
| II.A.124 |
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry Three typescript drafts of article (5/26/1997 with hand edits, n.d., 4/28/1997).
|
7/7/1997 |
| II.A.125 |
Profile: "The Importance of Being Elitist," Philippe de Montebello 1 TLS Arthur Rosenblatt-Tina Brown (11/24/1997) [re: corrections to Profile, includes memo detailing de Montebello's rebuttal]
Photocopy of Profile, news clippings, articles, five typescript drafts of Profile, each with various hand edits (10/20/1997,
and the rest undated).
|
11/24/1997 |
| II.A.126 |
Profile: "The Importance of Being Elitist," Philippe de Montebello News clippings, brochures, articles, press releases, research and biographical notes, interview correspondence, interview
glosses and summaries, contact lists.
|
11/24/1997 |
| II.A.127 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil Newspaper and magazine articles, press releases relating to de Menil and the Menil Collection.
|
6/8/1998 |
| II.A.128 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil [Original folder title: "Remarks made by others about Dominique de Menil"]
Photocopies of historical and contemporary reflections on de Menil, two pamphlets from the Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize
Awards.
|
6/8/1998 |
| II.A.129 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil Tear sheets of article, typescript draft of article (n.d).
|
6/8/1998 |
| II.A.130 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil News clippings, articles, press releases, fact checking correspondence to Susan Sontag and others, programs from de Menil's
memorial services, research notes, index to research binder, contact list.
|
6/8/1998 |
| II.A.131 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil 1 ACS Sylvie Boissonnas (sister to de Menil)-CT (2/28/1998)
1 ALS Jim Love-CT (n.d.) [re: personal recollections of de Menil]
News clippings, articles, interview appointment schedule and contact list, research notes and correspondence, photograph and
transparency of portraits of de Menil by Max Ernst and Andy Warhol.
|
6/8/1998 |
| II.A.132 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil [Original folder titles: "catalogue introductions by Dominique de Menil" and "Quotations enjoyed by Dominique de Menil"]
Photocopies of her writings and favorite passages.
|
6/8/1998 |
| II.A.133 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Man Who Walks on Air," Philippe Petit Tear sheets of article, typescript draft of article with hand edits (n.d.), research notes, official pamphlets and material
on Petit's projects Canyon Walk and Tour et Fil, news clippings.
|
4/5/1999 |
| II.A.134 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Man Who Walks on Air," Philippe Petit 2 facsimile ALS Philippe Petit-CT (9/16, 10/6/1998)
Two bound transcripts of talks and film of Petit, articles and news clippings, research notes.
|
4/5/1999 |
| II.A.135 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Man Who Walks on Air," Philippe Petit Guide book to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, guide book to the Grand Canyon.
|
4/5/1999 |
| II.A.136 |
Profile: "After Shock," Damien Hirst Photocopy of Profile, typescript draft of Profile with hand edits (n.d.), contact lists, research correspondence, notes biographical
materials, news clippings, articles.
|
9/20/1999 |
| II.A.137 |
Profile: "After Shock," Damien Hirst News clippings, articles, some small notes and research correspondence, exhibition booklet and ephemera.
|
9/20/1999 |
| II.A.138 |
Profile: "An Eye for the New," Ileana Sonnabend Photocopy of Profile, news clippings, articles, gallery ephemera, interview summary and transcript, notes, correspondence.
|
1/17/2000 |
| II.A.139 |
Profile: "An Eye for the New," Ileana Sonnabend Research binder index, partial typescript draft of Profile (n.d.), research and interview notes.
Additional typescript draft of Profile is located in folder III.129, Postscript: "The Lion," 9/6/1999.
|
1/17/2000 |
| II.A.140 |
Profile: "Her Secret Identities," Cindy Sherman Photocopy of Profile, typescript draft of Profile with hand edits and cover letter from editor (4/4/n.y.), typescript draft
of Profile (3/30/2000), research and interview notes.
|
5/15/2000 |
| II.A.141 |
Profile: "Her Secret Identities," Cindy Sherman News clippings, articles, press releases.
|
5/15/2000 |
| II.A.142 |
Profile: "The Tennis Artist," John McEnroe 1 facsimile TLS David Remnick-CT (7/17/2000)
Photocopy of Profile, typescript draft of Profile with hand edits (7/28/2000), news clippings, articles, book extracts, official
transcripts of interviews with McEnroe, contact list.
|
9/4/2000 |
| II.A.143 |
Profile: "The Big Picture," Andreas Gursky Photocopy of Profile, tear sheet of Profile reprint in Modern Painters, curriculum vitae of Gursky, research notes, correspondence, interview transcripts from other sources, expense receipts,
news clippings, articles.
|
1/22/2001 |
| II.A.144 |
Profile: "Schnabel in Lights," Julian Schnabel 1 ALS CT and DK-Damien Hirst (2/15/2001) [re: Schnabel]
Photocopy of Profile, typescript draft of Profile (n.d.), news clippings, articles, research and bibliographical notes, interview
extracts, correspondence.
|
3/19/2001 |
| II.A.145 |
Profile: "The Modernist," Kirk Varnedoe Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (n.d.), press releases, news clippings, articles, brochures, lecture
notes from Varnedoe, copies of emails concerning his cancer, research notes, typescript draft review of Modern Starts: Things [MoMA Exh. #1838, November 17(21), 1999-March 14, 2000] by Frank Stella.
|
11/5/2001 |
| II.A.146 |
Profile: "The Modernist," Kirk Varnedoe News clippings, articles, research correspondence, interview quotes and summary of William Rubin (2/16/1973).
|
11/5/2001 |
| II.A.147 |
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan Photocopy of article, typescript draft of article (n.d.), internal correspondence and documents from Harvard University and
the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), news clippings, articles, Phelan curriculum vitae.
|
4/15/2002 |
| II.A.148 |
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan News clippings and articles, internal Harvard correspondence and documents and correspondence from Phelan to CT and DK.
|
4/15/2002 |
| II.A.149 |
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan Biographical notes and materials, articles, news clippings, brochures from VES.
|
4/15/2002 |
| II.A.150 |
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan Photocopy of Report of the Committee on the Visual Arts at Harvard University (Cambridge: The University) 1956.
|
4/15/2002 |
| II.A.151 |
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan News articles and clippings, press releases, department and facilities descriptions, information on various graduate art schools.
|
4/15/2002 |
| II.A.152 |
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan Brochures, pamphlets, and event calendars from Harvard.
|
4/15/2002 |
| II.A.153 |
Profile: "Man of Steel," Richard Serra 1 TLS Nancy Holt-CT (n.d.) [re: friendship with Serra]
Photocopy of Profile, typescript draft of Profile with hand edits (4/30/2002), four color slides of earthwork by Nancy Holt,
notes of Serra lecture at Princeton University (10/2001), news clippings, press releases, articles, research correspondence.
|
8/5/2002 |
| II.A.154 |
Profile: "Flying Into the Light," James Turrell Photocopy of Profile, research correspondence and notes, news clippings, articles, press releases, pamphlets and brochures,
typescript draft of Profile with hand edits (n.d.) Also includes interview notes and other materials on Dia Art Foundation
from the later Profile.
|
1/13/2003 |
| II.A.155 |
Profile: "His Body, Himself," Matthew Barney Photocopy of Profile, one page of notes, article.
|
1/27/2003 |
| II.A.156 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Mission," Dia Art Foundation Photocopy of article, typescript draft of article with hand edits (4/14/2003).
|
5/19/2003 |
| II.A.157 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Mission," Dia Art Foundation Dia pamphlets, press releases and ephemera, news clippings and magazine articles.
|
5/19/2003 |
| II.A.158 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Mission," Dia Art Foundation News clippings and magazine articles.
|
5/19/2003 |
| II.A.159 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Mission," Dia Art Foundation News clippings and magazine articles.
|
5/19/2003 |
| II.A.160 |
Profile: "Missing in Action," Lee Bontecou Photocopy of article, typescript draft of article with hand edits (n.d.), news clippings, articles, lecture notes from Ann
Philbin on Bontecou, research correspondence and interview notes, documents of art by Wilhelmina Van Ness, email correspondence
between CT, Anne Philbin and William Giles (Bontecou's husband,) concerning Giles' negative reaction to the Profile and to
the exhibition catalogue essay by Robert Storr, Bontecou's artist's statement (9/12/2003).
|
8/4/2003 |
| II.A.161 |
Profile: "Missing in Action," Lee Bontecou Photographic reprint of portrait of Bontecou and Giles, news clippings, reproductions of artworks and portraits of Bontecou,
exhibition brochures.
|
8/4/2003 |
| II.A.162 |
Profile: "Missing in Action," Lee Bontecou Includes interview notes with Klaus Kertess and Irving Blum, correspondence (primarily email) with Lee Bontecou and Billy
Giles, the curators of Bontecou exhibit and catalogue authors, among others.
|
8/4/2003 |
| II.A.163 |
Profile: "Missing in Action," Lee Bontecou Articles, book extracts, news clippings, manuscript copies of catalogue essays by Mona Hadler, Elizabeth Smith, and Robert
Storr.
|
8/4/2003 |
| II.A.164 |
Profile: "Missing in Action," Lee Bontecou Article, book extracts, and news clippings.
|
8/4/2003 |
| II.A.165 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Gates to the City," Jeanne-Claude and Christo 1 TLS DK-Evelyn Lauder (1/24/2003) [re: accidents during previous installations of Christo's works]
Photocopy of article, typescript draft of article with hand edits (n.d.), photocopies and documents of chronology of Christo's
works, financial statements of the CVJ Corporation along with sum of funds spent on realized and unrealized projects, correspondence
between the artists and others regarding plans for The Gates, press releases, ten color slides of preparatory drawings of The Gates.
|
3/29/2004 |
| II.A.166 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Gates to the City," Jeanne-Claude and Christo 1 facsimile ALS Jeanne-Claude and Christo-CT and DK (1/23/2004) [re: contact information]
Brochures, news clippings, exhibition lists, fourteen installation photographs of exhibitions on The Gates and The Umbrellas, research correspondence and notes.
|
3/29/2004 |
| II.A.167 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Gates to the City," Jeanne-Claude and Christo Brochures, news clippings, articles, copy of complete installation agreement for The Gates between the CVJ Corporation and the City of New York (1/17/2003), New York Parks Department report on the project (2/1981),
introductory lecture notes by CT from New Yorker Festival.
|
3/29/2004 |
| II.A.168 |
Recollections: "Summer Afternoon," Calvin Tomkins Essay on CT's youth, includes photocopy of article, articles on the Adirondacks, and typescript draft of essay, titled "Plaisir
d'Amour" and marked "#2".
|
9/13/2004 |
| II.A.169 |
Profile: "The Prankster," Maurizio Cattelan Photocopy of Profile, typescript draft of Profile with hand edits (n/d/), interview notes and quotes, news clippings, articles,
many related to the Wrong Gallery.
|
10/4/2004 |
| II.A.170 |
Profile: "The Prankster," Maurizio Cattelan News clippings, articles, pamphlets and brochures.
|
10/4/2004 |
| II.A.171 |
Profile: "Everything in Sight," Robert Rauschenberg Photocopy of article, sheet of color reproductions of Irving Penn's photographs for article, five 8x10 color prints of recent
Rauschenberg works.
|
5/23/2005 |
| II.A.172 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Missing Madonna," Madonna and Child by Duccio di Buoninsegna Photocopy of article, typescript draft of article, interview extracts and summaries with Keith Christiansen, Philippe de Montebello,
and others, interview notes and summaries (apparently the entire contents of research binder that otherwise would be in Subseries
II.B,) unpublished materials on the provenance of the painting, news clippings, magazine articles.
|
7/11/2005 |
| II.A.173 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Missing Madonna," Madonna and Child by Duccio di Buoninsegna News clippings, press releases, book extracts, research notes.
|
7/11/2005 |
| II.A.174 |
Profile: "Shall We Dance?" Rirkrit Tiravanija Photocopy of article, typescript draft of article, biographical material and copy of the Guggenheim members magazine.
|
10/17/2005 |
| II.A.175 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "How American is It?" The Whitney Museum Photocopy of article, two typescript drafts of article titled, "Profile: Adam Weinberg" ("revised 12/21/2005", "revised 1/11/2006"),
interview notes, research correspondence, news clippings, press releases, ephemera.
1 ALS facsimile Renzo Piano-CT (2/10/2006).
|
3/13/2006 |
| II.A.176 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "How American is It?" The Whitney Museum Typescript draft of article (n.d.), book photocopies, news clippings.
|
3/13/2006 |
| II.A.177 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "How American is It?" The Whitney Museum [Original folder title: "Tom Armstrong"]
Material collected for an unpublished Profile on Armstrong, to have run 10/25/1983. Includes interview quotations and summaries
with Tom Armstrong, Victor Ganz, Philip Johnson, and others, all dated 1983, magazine articles, news clippings, and galley
proofs of original untitled article.
|
3/13/2006 |
| II.A.178 |
Profile: "The Mind's Eye," Jasper Johns Photocopy of article, interview notes, photocopies of research binder material, some material from earlier interviews, typescript
draft of article.
|
12/11/2006 |
| II.A.179 |
Profile: "The Mind's Eye," Jasper Johns News clippings, press releases, interview notes from 1999 featuring Johns' thoughts on Leo Castelli, typescript draft of Art
World essay titled, "The Shadow Knows" (10/28/1996), and published as "The Changing Picture," 11/11/1996.
|
12/11/2006 |
| Subseries II.B: Research and Interview Binders
1963-2006
|
|
Much more than the research folders, the research and interview binders consist of original material generated by Tomkins
and used in the composition of his major articles for The New Yorker. The binders are all organized in a similar fashion and are mostly composed of typescript pages, tabbed and paginated sections,
and page headers. Contact lists of interviewees and additional resources are usually first. If an index exists it is also
at front. Often the binders have chronologies and other biographical summaries at the front as well. The second major section
is interviews with the major article subject followed by interviews with other people. Complete or partial transcripts of
interviews are rare and occur more frequently in later binders. Most often, Tomkins (and later Kazanjian) would summarize
the content of interviews interspersed with extended direct quotes from the subjects. Included in these pages are observations
by the author on the setting of the interview and descriptions of the subjects and their attitude or composure. Tomkins also
occasionally recorded thoughts and observations on his journey or visit to the interviewees; these notes are referred to as
the "log." Supporting and secondary interviews follow the format of the main interviews and are typically arranged alphabetically
by last name. "Off the record" comments are distinctly labeled; in many cases it is noted that entire interviews are off the
record though specific quotes from those interviews may later be approved for publication. Final materials in the binders
include bibliographies, extracts from published material such as reviews and news clippings, and miscellaneous items. In those
instances when loose material is present it has been noted. Many of the binders included tear sheets or photocopies of the
published articles; those have been removed to the research files.
|
|
There are fewer binders than research folders. Materials from the binder on the Marcel Duchamp Profile are likely to be in
the research files for the book on that subject as a binder is not present here. The interview and research binders have been
organized chronologically according to the article's publication date. Materials have been removed from the binders and placed
in archival folders. Tabbed dividers have been retained. In some cases the binder was divided into two or more folders due
to size. The materials are all in good condition with little or no fragile materials. The folder title shows the department
the article was published under, the article title, and the general subject. The right-most column displays the date of publication.
|
|
Research files in the previous series should be consulted for additional material originally prepared for or included in these
binders.
|
| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| II.B.1 |
Profile: "A Thing Among Things," Richard Lippold |
3/30/1963 |
| II.B.2 |
A Reporter at Large: "The Last Skill Acquired" |
9/14/1963 |
| II.B.3 |
Profile: "Woomera has It!," John R. Pierce |
9/21/1963 |
| II.B.4 |
Profile: "Moving Out," Robert Rauschenberg |
2/29/1964 |
| II.B.5 |
Profile: "Figure in an Imaginary Landscape," John Cage |
11/28/1964 |
| II.B.6 |
Profile: "In the Outlaw Area," R. Buckminster Fuller |
1/8/1966 |
| II.B.7 |
Profile: "The Creative Situation," Eric Hoffer Includes correspondence concerning photographs of Hoffer.
|
1/7/1967 |
| II.B.8 |
Profile: "The Very Rich Hours of Joe Levine," Joseph E. Levine |
9/16/1967 |
| II.B.9 |
Profile: "A Certain Attitude Toward Change," Samuel B. Gould |
12/18/1967 |
| II.B.10 |
Profile: "An Appetite for Motion," Merce Cunningham |
5/4/1968 |
| II.B.11 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "E.A.T." |
10/3/1970 |
| II.B.12 |
Profile: "Moving with the Flow," Henry Geldzahler |
11/6/1971 |
| II.B.13 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Maybe a Quantum Leap" Earth Art |
2/5/1972 |
| II.B.14 |
Profile: "All Pockets Open," Jonas Mekas |
1/6/1973 |
| II.B.15 |
Profile: "The Black People of Bridgehampton" |
9/10/1973 |
| II.B.16 |
Profile: "The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine," Georgia O'Keeffe |
3/4/1974 |
| II.B.17 |
Profile: "Look to the Things Around You," Paul Strand |
9/16/1974 |
| II.B.18 |
Profile: "Good Cooking," Julia Child |
12/23/1974 |
| II.B.19 |
Profile: "Time to Think," Robert Wilson Includes tear sheets of Profile, theater program.
|
1/13/1975 |
| II.B.20 |
Profile: "Video Visionary," Nam June Paik |
5/5/1975 |
| II.B.21 |
Profile: "A Keeper of the Treasure," Betty Parsons |
6/9/1975 |
| II.B.22 |
Profile: "New Paradigms," Michael Murphy |
1/5/1976 |
| II.B.23 |
Profile: "The Moods of a Stone," Tatyana Grossman |
6/7/1976 |
| II.B.24 |
Profile: "Ridiculous," Charles Ludlam |
11/15/1976 |
| II.B.25 |
Profile: "Forms Under Light," Philip Johnson |
5/23/1977 |
| II.B.26 |
Profile: "Putting Something Over Something Else," Romare Bearden |
11/28/1977 |
| II.B.27 |
Profile: "Look What I've Got Here," Claes Oldenburg |
12/12/1977 |
| II.B.28 |
Profile: "A Good Monster," Pontus Hulten |
1/16/1978 |
| II.B.29 |
Profile: "A Good Eye and a Good Ear," Leo Castelli |
5/26/1980 |
| II.B.30 |
Profile: "The Space Around Real Things," Frank Stella |
9/10/1984 |
| II.B.31 |
Profile: "Sharpening the Eye," William S. Rubin |
11/4/1985 |
| II.B.32 |
Profile: "Stage Pictures," Rosamond Bernier |
1/19/1987 |
| II.B.33 |
Profile: "Colored Muds in a Sticky Substance," John M. Brealey |
3/16/1987 |
| II.B.34 |
A Reporter at Large: "Irises" [Original binder title: "David Nash Sotheby's"].
|
4/4/1988 |
| II.B.35 |
Profile: "A Sense of Urgency," Marian Wright Edelman |
3/27/1989 |
| II.B.36 |
Profile: "Open, Available, Useful," Siah Armajani |
3/19/1990 |
| II.B.37 |
Profile: "For the Nation," J. Carter Brown |
9/3/1990 |
| II.B.38 |
Profile: "A Single Person Making a Single Thing," Richard Benson |
12/17/1990 |
| II.B.39 |
Profile: "A Touch for the Now," Walter Hopps |
7/29/1991 |
| II.B.40 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Piano Principle," Renzo Piano |
8/22/1994 |
| II.B.41 |
Profile: "Artist Unknown," Albert York |
6/19/1995 |
| II.B.42 |
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley Includes entire interview transcripts.
|
10/16/1995 |
| II.B.43 |
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley Includes entire interview transcripts.
|
10/16/1995 |
| II.B.44 |
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry |
7/7/1997 |
| II.B.45 |
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry |
7/7/1997 |
| II.B.46 |
Profile: "The Importance of Being Elitist," Philippe de Montebello |
11/24/1997 |
| II.B.47 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil |
6/8/1998 |
| II.B.48 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil |
6/8/1998 |
| II.B.49 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil [Original binder title: "Remarks of Dominique de Menil October 1972-February 1997"]
Photocopies of writings and talks by de Menil.
|
1/17/2000 |
| II.B.50 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Man Who Walks on Air," Philippe Petit |
4/5/1999 |
| II.B.51 |
Profile: "After Shock," Damien Hirst |
9/20/1999 |
| II.B.52 |
Profile: "An Eye for the New," Ileana Sonnabend |
1/17/2000 |
| II.B.53 |
Profile: "An Eye for the New," Ileana Sonnabend |
1/17/2000 |
| II.B.54 |
Profile: "Her Secret Identities," Cindy Sherman |
5/15/2000 |
| II.B.55 |
Profile: "The Tennis Artist," John McEnroe |
9/4/2000 |
| II.B.56 |
Profile: "The Big Picture," Andreas Gursky |
1/22/2001 |
| II.B.57 |
Profile: "Schnabel in Lights," Julian Schnabel |
3/19/2001 |
| II.B.58 |
Profile: "The Modernist," Kirk Varnedoe |
11/5/2001 |
| II.B.59 |
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan |
4/15/2002 |
| II.B.60 |
Profile: "Man of Steel," Richard Serra |
8/5/2002 |
| II.B.61 |
Profile: "Flying Into the Light," James Turrell |
1/13/2003 |
| II.B.62 |
Profile: "His Body, Himself," Matthew Barney |
1/27/2003 |
| II.B.63 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Mission," Dia Art Foundation |
5/19/2003 |
| II.B.64 |
Profile: "Missing in Action," Lee Bontecou |
8/4/2003 |
| II.B.65 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Gates to the City," Jeanne-Claude and Christo |
3/29/2004 |
| II.B.66 |
Profile: "The Prankster," Maurizio Cattelan |
10/4/2004 |
| II.B.67 |
Profile: "Everything in Sight," Robert Rauschenberg |
5/23/2005 |
| II.B.68 |
Profile: "Shall We Dance?" Rirkrit Tiravanija |
10/17/2005 |
| II.B.69 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "How American is It?" The Whitney Museum |
3/13/2006 |
| II.B.70 |
Profile: "The Mind's Eye," Jasper Johns |
12/11/2006 |
|
| Series III: Art World Reviews and Other Writings
1970-2006
|
|
|
|
Throughout his career with The New Yorker, Tomkins wrote occasional pieces for other publications including essays for books (such as exhibition and auction catalogs
and artist monographs) and contributions to seminars and conferences. Included here are pieces on Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg,
Roy Lichtenstein and Buckminster Fuller. But the following series comprises mostly reviews and smaller pieces of writing Tomkins
composed for The New Yorker between 1980 and 2004. These pieces were published under various rubrics; the most common department represented here is
"The Art World," used for reviews and commentary about the arts. Other departments present include "The Talk of the Town,"
"Portfolio," "At the Galleries," "Artist's Easel," "Books," and others. Frequently, these pieces were not whole articles but
sidebars or captions to full-page photographs or double-page picture spreads. The folder descriptions below record when these
texts were given department titles and attributions; otherwise, the folder descriptions identify the pieces simply as "Captions."
There are also files here of two articles written for the magazine but never published.
Tomkins began writing short pieces for the magazine in 1958, four years before his first published Profile. However, the first
short pieces in this series originate only from 1980, the year Tomkins was appointed official art critic of the magazine.
Short pieces other than The Art World are not consistently represented in this collection until after 1987.
The materials in this series are generally of the same composition and character as the research files for major articles.
Standard material appearing in a majority of the folders includes magazine and newspaper articles and clippings, gallery and
exhibition catalogs and ephemera, press releases, newsletters, and other published material. Manuscript material includes
handwritten and typescript notes, interview summaries and quotes, contact lists, chronologies, and some received correspondence.
Some material post-dating the article's publication is occasionally present. Many folders include a typescript draft of the
article and almost every article has a tear sheet of the published article or a photocopy of a galley proof.
Material has been preserved in its original chronological order, though errors and aberrations have been corrected. Because
of their recent origin, most materials are in excellent physical condition. Newspaper has been photocopied and discarded and
other acidic materials have been isolated. The folder title shows the department the article was published under, the article
title, and the general subject. The right-most column displays the date of publication.
|
| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| III.1 |
"Raggedy Andy," Andy Warhol Essay published in exhibition catalogue by John Coplans, Andy Warhol (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1970).
|
1970 |
| III.2 |
The Art World: "Matisse's Armchair," Pattern Painting Includes typescript notes and quotes of interview with Holly Solomon and Daniel Templeton.
|
2/25/1980 |
| III.3 |
The Art World: "Matisse's Armchair," Pattern Painting Exhibition catalogs only.
|
2/25/1980 |
| III.4 |
The Art World: "Matisse's Armchair," Pattern Painting [Original folder title: "Pattern/Decoration"]
Exhibition catalogs
.
|
2/25/1980 |
| III.5 |
The Art World: "Rocks," Isamu Noguchi Includes typescript draft and interview notes.
|
2/25/1980 |
| III.6 |
The Art World: "The Art Incarnate," Andy Warhol Handwritten notes only.
.
|
5/5/1980 |
| III.7 |
The Art World: "A Thousand Flowers," The SoHo Art World Typescript impressions of SoHo, interview notes with Ivan Karp
.
|
5/19/1980 |
| III.8 |
The Art World: "Autobiography," Pablo Picasso On Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective [MoMA Exh. #1290, May 16-September 30, 1980]
Typescript quotes from artists (including Johns, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Lichtenstein, Segal and Christo) in response to
MoMA Picasso retrospective
.
|
6/30/1980 |
| III.9 |
The Art World: "Erasing the Line," The Modern Craft Movement |
7/28/1980 |
| III.10 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Pottery" Unpublished Galley copy of article and research binder (entitled "Modern Crafts") on the modern craft movement. This material was found
with the previous article research on the status of the craft movement five years later.
.
|
9/8/1975 |
| III.11 |
The Art World: "Elitism vs. Mobocracy," Expansion of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
9/15/1980 |
| III.12 |
The Art World: "Sun in an Empty Room," Edward Hopper |
11/10/1980 |
| III.13 |
The Art World: "Boom," Growth of Art Market |
12/22/1980 |
| III.14 |
The Art World: "Communications from Within," German Expressionism [Original folder title: "Expressionism"].
|
1/5/1981 |
| III.15 |
The Art World: "Gloss," Recent Art Books |
1/12/1981 |
| III.16 |
The Art World: "The Camel in the Tent," The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art |
3/2/1981 |
| III.17 |
The Art World: "Three Salons," Shows at The Whitney and Guggenheim Museums and the Third Annual International Art Exposition |
4/13/1981 |
| III.18 |
The Art World: "To Watch or Not Watch," Video Art |
5/22/1981 |
| III.19 |
The Art World: "$$$$," Record Art Auctions |
6/22/1981 |
| III.20 |
The Art World: "The Antic Muse," Comedy in Art |
8/17/1981 |
| III.21 |
The Art World: "Alfred Barr" Written on Barr's death, includes typescript notes of interview with Philip Johnson and Leo Castelli on their memories of
Barr.
|
11/16/1981 |
| III.22 |
The Art World: "An End to Chauvinism," The Geographic Spread of Contemporary Art Activity |
12/7/1981 |
| III.23 |
The Art World: "Artists' Books, Art Books, and Books on Art" |
1/25/1982 |
| III.24 |
The Art World: "The Natural Problem," Robert Smithson |
3/29/1982 |
| III.25 |
The Art World: "The Urban Capacity," Public Art |
4/5/1982 |
| III.26 |
The Art World: "Seminar," Public Panel of Contemporary Artists |
6/7/1982 |
| III.27 |
The Art World: "Tatyana Grossman" Includes 1 TLS (photocopy) Helen Frankenthaler-William Shawn and CT 8/13/1982 [re: clarification of dates for first editions
by various artists at ULAE].
|
8/9/1982 |
| III.28 |
The Art World: "The Truth of Appearances," Thomas Eakins |
9/13/1982 |
| III.29 |
The Art World: "Skowhegan," Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
9/20/1982 |
| III.30 |
The Art World: "Looking for the Zeitgeist," Trends in Contemporary Art Includes interview notes with Ivan Karp and Richard Bellamy.
|
12/6/1982 |
| III.31 |
The Art World: "The Void," Yves Klein |
1/3/1983 |
| III.32 |
The Art World: "Museums Without Walls," Recent Art Books |
1/17/1983 |
| III.33 |
The Art World: "A Winner?" "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art" Exhibition Includes copy of contract between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Governatorio dello Stato della Citta del Vaticano
concerning the terms of condition for the loan and exhibition of works of art from the Vatican for the exhibition The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art.
|
2/28/1983 |
| III.34 |
The Art World: "Like Water in a Glass," The Confluence of Art and Architecture |
3/21/1983 |
| III.35 |
The Art World: "What the Hand Knows," Craftsmanship in Art Photocopy of tear sheet only.
|
5/2/1983 |
| III.36 |
The Art World: "Dallas," The Dallas Museum of Art Includes a "collection development plan" for the Dallas Museum of Art.
|
6/13/1983 |
| III.37 |
The Art World: "Dallas," The Dallas Museum of Art |
6/13/1983 |
| III.38 |
The Art World: "Season's End," Spring Art World Activities |
7/18/1983 |
| III.39 |
The Art World: "'Jazz,' Etc.," Recent Art Books Includes handwritten interview notes from Riva Castleman regarding Matisse's Jazz.
|
12/19/1983 |
| III.40 |
The Art World: "Alternatives," Alternative Art Spaces Typescript interview notes with Marcia Tucker of The New Museum.
|
12/26/1983 |
| III.41 |
The Art World: "Manet and de Kooning," Two Current Retrospectives |
2/6/84 |
| III.42 |
The Art World: "Up from the I.R.T.," Graffiti Art |
3/26/1984 |
| III.43 |
The Art World: "Up from the I.R.T.," Graffiti Art Exhibition catalogs of Post-Graffiti, at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1983, and Champions, at the Tony Shafrazzi Gallery in 1983.
|
3/26/1984 |
| III.44 |
The Art World: "Late Picasso," "Picasso: The Last Years" Exhibition |
4/16/1984 |
| III.45 |
The Art World: "Agora," MoMA Expansion |
10/15/1984 |
| III.46 |
The Art World: "Talismans," "'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art" Exhibition On the MoMA exhibition "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity
of the Tribal and the Modern [MoMA Exh. # 1382, September 19, 1984-January 15, 1985].
|
10/29/1984 |
| III.47 |
The Art World: "Perception at All Levels," Public Art |
12/3/1984 |
| III.48 |
The Art World: "Perception at All Levels," Public Art Includes complete galley proof of Stacy Paleologos Harris ed., Insights/On Sites: Perspectives on Art in Public Places (Washington D.C.: Partners for Livable Places, 1984).
|
12/3/1984 |
| III.49 |
The Art World: "Heavyweights," Recent Art Books |
2/11/1985 |
| III.50 |
The Art World: "Tilted Arc" Includes a bound copy of a brief filed by Richard Serra in the U.S. Court of Appeals regarding the fate of Tilted Arc.
|
5/20/1985 |
| III.51 |
The Art World: "Clear Painting," Donald Sultan Includes typescript interview notes with Sultan.
|
6/3/1985 |
| III.52 |
The Art World: "Disco," Artists and Clubs of the East Village Includes typescript draft of article.
|
7/22/1985 |
| III.53 |
The Art World: "The One Who Makes Pictures," Karl Bodmer |
8/26/1985 |
| III.54 |
The Art World: "Knowing in Action," Abstract Art |
11/11/1985 |
| III.55 |
The Art World: "Ingres in Love," Jean Auguste Ingres and The Frick Collection |
12/2/1985 |
| III.56 |
The Art World: "Pleasure," Recent Art Books Includes photocopy of typescript draft.
|
12/23/1985 |
| III.57 |
The Art World: "Modern vs. Postmodern," Proposed Whitney Museum Expansion |
2/17/1986 |
| III.58 |
The Art World: "Modern vs. Postmodern," Proposed Whitney Museum Expansion Includes a copy of a petition against the expansion of The Whitney Museum designed by Michael Graves, with a list of all signatories,
from the Ad Hoc Committee To Save The Whitney.
|
2/17/1986 |
| III.59 |
The Art World: "Medicis, Inc.," Corporate Art Collecting |
4/14/1986 |
| III.60 |
The Art World: "Medicis, Inc.," Corporate Art Collecting |
4/14/1986 |
| III.61 |
The Art World: "Real and Unreal," Eric Fischl and Alex Katz |
5/12/1986 |
| III.62 |
The Art World: "Out of Town," Artists in Minneapolis Includes forty-two color slides of the artists' works.
|
6/23/1986 |
| III.63 |
The Art World: "Passage," Jasper Johns On the exhibition Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective [MoMA Exh. #1423, May 19 - August 19, 1986].
|
8/4/1986 |
| III.64 |
The Art World: "Gods and Heroes," Plaster Casts at The Queens Museum |
9/15/1986 |
| III.65 |
The Art World: "Making It New," Winslow Homer |
10/6/1986 |
| III.66 |
The Art World: "Between Neo- and Post-," Neo-geo |
11/24/1986 |
| III.67 |
The Art World: "Between Neo- and Post-," Neo-geo Includes eight color slides of work by Philip Taafe and Peter Schuyff.
|
11/24/1986 |
| III.68 |
The Art World: "Between Neo- and Post-," Neo-geo Includes 1988 confirmation of CT's copyright to TNY articles written between 1980 and 1987, and a separate list of articles
with editorial marks indicating which pieces were selected for the compilation Post- to Neo-: The Art World of the 1980's, published in 1988.
|
11/24/1986, 1988 |
| III.69 |
The Art World: "Prodigies," Recent Art Books Tear sheets of article only.
|
12/15/1986 |
| III.70 |
"Brushstrokes," Roy Lichtenstein Essay published in book, Calvin Tomkins and Bob Adelman, Roy Lichtenstein: Mural with Blue Brushstroke (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1987)
Includes interview notes and summaries with Lichtenstein and other individuals, many of the summaries are from interviews
conducted in the 1970s.
|
1987 |
| III.71 |
"Brushstrokes," Roy Lichtenstein Interview transcript with Lichtenstein.
|
1987 |
| III.72 |
The Art World: "Peaks and Valleys," Metropolitan Museum of Art Expansion |
2/23/1987 |
| III.73 |
The Art World: "Peaks and Valleys," Metropolitan Museum of Art Expansion |
2/23/1987 |
| III.74 |
Department of Advance Warning: "Madonna's Anticlimax," The Book Sex Includes typescript draft and galley proof of article.
|
10/26/1992 |
| III.75 |
Books: "The Art Market: Going...Going...Gone," From Manet to Manhattan: The Rise the Modern Art Market Includes typescript draft of article.
|
12/14/1992 |
| III.76 |
Books: "More and Less True Confessions," Making the Mummies Dance Includes typescript draft of article.
|
2/8/1993 |
| III.77 |
The Art World: "St. Marcel," Marcel Duchamp Includes typescript draft of article.
|
6/21/1993 |
| III.78 |
Anniversary: "Merce at Seventy-Five," Merce Cunningham |
3/7/1994 |
| III.79 |
The Talk of the Town: "Remembering Jackie," Jacqueline Onassis Tear sheets only.
|
5/30/1994 |
| III.80 |
Portfolio: "Standup Artist," Claes Oldenburg Evidence here suggests, through an editorial mix up, that DK was asked to compose the article and only after submitting the
draft was the decision made to have CT compose it instead.
Includes tear sheets, typescript drafts of article by both CT and DK, interview transcript between Oldenburg and DK and interview
notes.
1 TL (with autograph annotations) Françoise Mouly-Claes Oldenburg (8/31/1995)[re: invitation to contribute to TNY]
1 TLS (photocopy) Françoise Mouly-Claes Oldenburg and David Platzker (9/20/1995) [re: confirmation of terms and conditions
of publication]
1 TL (facsimile) Tina Brown-DK (9/25/1995) [re: apology for editorial confusion]
1 TLS (photocopy) Claes Oldenburg-Françoise Mouly (10/8/1995) [re: compliments on article].
|
10/2/1995 |
| III.81 |
The Art World: "Flight Itself," Constantin Brancusi Includes typescript draft, extensive interview transcript between CT, DK and Margit Rowell and Ann Temkin on Brancusi.
|
10/23/1995 |
| III.82 |
The Art World: "London Calling," The Exhibition "Brilliant!" Includes typescript draft and interview transcript.
|
12/11/1995 |
| III.83 |
The Talk of the Town: "Children of a Lesser Country," Marian Wright Edelman Includes typescript draft and interview transcript.
|
1/15/1996 |
| III.84 |
The Art World: "Dada and Mama," Teeny Duchamp Typescript draft and tear sheets only.
|
1/15/1996 |
| III.85 |
The Art World: "Jackie's Things," Jacqueline Onassis Estate Auction 1 TL (facsimile) Tina Brown-CT (2/26/1996) [re: revisions to article].
|
3/11/1996 |
| III.86 |
The Art World: "Total Abstraction," Retrospective of Abstract Art at the Guggenheim Typescript draft and tear sheets only.
|
3/25/1996 |
| III.87 |
The Art World: "Picasso's True Lies," Pablo Picasso On Picasso and Portraiture [MoMA Exh. #1743, April 24(28)-September 17, 1996]
Includes typescript draft, notes, and interview transcript with William Rubin.
Various facsimile letters and drafts from Andrew Wylie to William Rubin outlining the possible joint sale as a movie property
of Living Well... and Rubin's article "The Pipes of Pan: Picasso's Aborted Love Song to Sara Murphy," ARTNews 93, (5) (May): 138-147.
.
|
5/13/1996 |
| III.88 |
The Art World: "The Time of His Life," Keith Haring |
7/8/1996 |
| III.89 |
Showcase: "Merce's Ocean," Merce Cunningham Typescript draft and tear sheets only.
|
7/15/1996 |
| III.90 |
The Art World: "Found Generation," Gerald Murphy Includes 1 AL (photocopy) Gerald Murphy-CT (n.d.) [re: reflections on modern art]
Typescript draft of article.
|
7/22/1996 |
| III.91 |
Caption: "Ray in Love," Man Ray Tear sheets only.
|
9/30/1996 |
| III.92 |
At the Galleries: "The Good China," Roy Lichtenstein Includes typescript draft of article and interview transcripts.
|
9/30/1996 |
| III.93 |
The Art World: "On the Edge," Yayoi Kusama |
10/7/1996 |
| III.94 |
Caption: "Artaud Head On," Antonin Artaud On Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper [MoMA Exh. #1753, October 1(3), 1996-January 7, 1997]
Tear sheets only.
|
10/7/1996 |
| III.95 |
Caption: "Cabaret Arensberg," Dada in New York City Tear sheets only.
|
11/11/1996 |
| III.96 |
The Art World: "The Changing Picture," Jasper Johns On Jasper Johns: A Retrospective [MoMA Exh. #1754, October 15(20), 1996-January 21, 1997]
Tear sheets only.
|
11/11/1996 |
| III.97 |
At the Galleries: "Different Strokes," Gerhard Richter |
11/25/1996 |
| III.98 |
The Art World: "Duchamp and New York," Marcel Duchamp Includes two typescript drafts.
|
11/25/1996 |
| III.99 |
Showcase: "Le Closeup," Francois-Marie Ranier |
12/2/1996 |
| III.100 |
Caption: "Top Hat and Tail," Sir Edwin Landseer Tear sheets only.
|
1/13/1997 |
| III.101 |
At the Museums: "Kiss and Tell," Edvard Munch |
1/20/1997 |
| III.102 |
The Art World: "De Kooning as Melodrama," Willem de Kooning On Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, The 1980s [MoMA Exh. #1759, January 22(23)-April 29, 1997].
|
2/10/1997 |
| III.103 |
Artist's Easel" "Paint it Black," Robert Colescott Includes typescript draft and twelve color slides of Colescott's work.
|
5/19/1997 |
| III.104 |
The Art World: "A Question of Human Presence," Still Lifes On Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life [MoMA Exh. #1772, May 21(25)-August 26, 1997]
Includes typescript draft of separate article on the show by DK including reflections by numerous prominent artists and interview
notes with them
Also includes eight color slides of artwork.
|
6/9/1997 |
| III.105 |
The Art World: "Love for Sale," Estate Auction of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor |
8/11/1997 |
| III.106 |
At the Museums: "Urbane Decadent," Christian Schad |
9/29/1997 |
| III.107 |
The Art World: "Master of Invention," Robert Rauschenberg Includes complete checklist of the Rauschenberg retrospective at the Whitney.
|
10/13/1997 |
| III.108 |
At the Galleries: "Finely Tooned," Christian Schumann |
10/20/1997 |
| III.109 |
The Art World: "Accidental Affair," Victor and Sally Ganz Multiple typescript drafts, extensive interview transcript between DK and Sally Ganz, and program to the memorial service
for Ganz held at MoMA at which CT spoke.
|
11/10/1997 |
| III.110 |
Caption: "Haute Cartoon," Isaac Mizrahi |
11/10/1997 |
| III.111 |
The Art World: "The Fame Factory," Andy Warhol |
12/1/1997 |
| III.112 |
At the Museums: "Sunbaked Klee," Paul Klee |
12/8/1997 |
| III.113 |
At the Galleries: "Moving Pictures," David Hockney |
1/12/1998 |
| III.114 |
At the Museums: "Broken Window," Robert Delaunay |
2/2/1998 |
| III.115 |
Caption: "High Styles," George Condo |
2/9/1998 |
| III.116 |
The Talk of the Town: "The Creative Life," Richard Bellamy |
7/6/1998 |
| III.117 |
The Art World: "Mind Games," Charles Ray and Andrew Wyeth |
7/20/1998 |
| III.118 |
Artist's Easel: "Russian Blue," Alexei von Jawlensky |
7/27/1998 |
| III.119 |
At the Museums: "Late Light," Claude Monet |
9/7/1998 |
| III.120 |
Art: "East to West," Asian Art |
9/14/1998 |
| III.121 |
The Art World: "The Escape Artist," Mark Rothko Includes 1 TLS Ben Heller-CT (9/28/1998) [re: clarification of Rothko's use of the term "mishegas"].
|
9/29/1998 |
| III.122 |
Caption: "Hall of Studies," "Master Drawings from the Hermitage and Pushkin Museums" |
10/12/1998 |
| III.123 |
Showcase: "Nature Poet," Susan Hartnett |
11/9/1998 |
| III.124 |
Caption: "Art in the Family," Kiki Smith and Family |
1/25/1999 |
| III.125 |
The Talk of the Town: "At the Museums," The Merger Between P.S.1 and MoMA |
2/15/1999 |
| III.126 |
Artist's Easel: "Object Lessons," Donald Sultan |
4/5/1999 |
| III.127 |
The Art World: "Out of the Attic," New Greek Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Includes interview notes with Phillippe de Montebello and Carlos Picon and packet of six color slides of Greek artwork.
|
4/19/1999 |
| III.128 |
The Art World: "New Orleans Interlude," Edgar Degas |
5/31/1999 |
| III.129 |
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Measuring Up to Nature," David Smith |
7/19/1999 |
| III.130 |
At the Museums: "Dynamo," |
Unpublished |
| III.131 |
Postscript: "The Lion," Leo Castelli Includes photocopies of profiles on Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend (see Series II.A) and typescript draft of Profile on Sonnabend
as well as articles and material on Castelli from the 1960s and 1970s.
|
9/6/1999 |
| III.132 |
Postscript: "The Lion," Leo Castelli |
9/6/1998 |
| III.133 |
The Talk of the Town: "Table Talk," Julia Child |
11/8/1999 |
| III.134 |
Postscript: "Balancing Act," Alexander Liberman |
12/6/1999 |
| III.135 |
Takes: [Excerpt from Profile: "Living Well is the Best Revenge" (7/28/1962)] |
4/10/2000 |
| III.136 |
Essay on Robert Rauschenberg Short essay written for a symposium in honor of Rauschenberg's acceptance of the 8th Wexner Prize at the Wexner center for
the Arts, the Ohio State University.
|
5/19/2000 |
| III.137 |
The Talk of the Town: "Looking Up: Birds of America Make a Manhattan Pit Stop," David Allen Sibley |
6/12/2000 |
| III.138 |
The Talk of the Town: "At the Museums: How New York Got Full of Itself," "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861" Exhibition |
10/2/2000 |
| III.139 |
"Bear Island," R. Buckminster Fuller Written for and published in the book Thomas T.K. Zung ed., Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001).
|
2001 |
| III.140 |
The Talk of the Town: "Horizon Dept.: Towers of Light," The World Trade Center Memorial Installation Includes glossy reproductions of Towers of Light concept renderings.
|
10/1/2001 |
| III.141 |
The Talk of the Town: "The Creative Life: A Troupe Turns Fifty," Merce Cunningham |
7/8/2002 |
| III.142 |
Portfolio: "After the Towers," Artists Concepts for World Trade Center Memorials |
7/15/2002 |
| III.143 |
The Talk of the Town: "Collaboration Tempted," Robert Wilson |
8/19/2006 |
| III.144 |
"An Object in Nature," Robert Rauschenberg A brief essay on the combine, Minutiae, by Robert Rauschenberg, written for a Sotheby's sales catalogue when the work was up for auction.
Includes photograph of work.
|
May 2003 |
| III.145 |
The Talk of the Town: "At the Museums: First Cities," "Art of the First Cities" Exhibition |
5/5/2003 |
| III.146 |
The Talk of the Town: "Light Show: Rockets' Red Glare," Cai Guo-Qiang |
9/15/2003 |
| III.147 |
The Talk of the Town: "Checking In: Clean Gene," Eugene McCarthy |
1/19/2004 |
| III.148 |
The Talk of the Town: "At the Museums: A Picasso Facelift," Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
5/24/2004 |
| III.149 |
The Talk of the Town: "At the Galleries: Unzipped," Timothy Greenfield Sanders |
11/22/2004 |
| III.150 |
Briefly Noted: Art and the Power of Placement by Victoria Newhouse |
5/23/2005 |
| III.151 |
The Talk of the Town: "Dynasties: Modern at Ninety," MoMA and David Rockefeller Includes interview notes with David Rockefeller, Glenn Lowry.
|
5/30/2005 |
| III.152 |
The Talk of the Town: "Dept. of Precocity: Artists in Their Youth," Group Show of Art Students |
2/27/2006 |
| III.153 |
The Talk of the Town: "The Creative Life: The Pour," Barnaby Furnas |
3/13/2006 |
| III.154 |
The Talk of the Town: "Studio Visit: The Queen, Continued," George Condo |
10/23/2006 |
| III.155 |
Caption: Unpublished Caption About Art Posters |
ca. 12/11/2006 |
| III.156 |
Unpublished Article on Renzo Piano and Expansion of the Whitney [Original folder title: "The Building - Renzo"]
News clippings leaflets.
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n.d. |
|
| Series IV: Books
1968-1998
|
|
|
|
This series comprises material gathered and created for the various original books Tomkins published throughout his career.
Many of the books began their life as articles in The New Yorker or drew heavily on research conducted in the course of that writing. Specific descriptions of materials for each book follow
below.
|
| Subseries IV.A: Eric Hoffer: an American Odyssey
|
|
Eric Hoffer: an American Odyssey (New York: Dutton, 1968) was an expansion of the Profile Tomkins wrote for The New Yorker published in January, 1967. The one file in this subseries was found among the files for the article and moved here. But
other materials concerning this book can be found elsewhere in the collection. The book contract can be found in folder I.5
among Tomkins' correspondence and materials from the original article can be found in folders II.A.20, II.A.21 and II.B.7.
Correspondence with Hoffer, most regarding the article and following book, can be found in numerous folders of Series I.
|
| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| IV.A.1 |
Eric Hoffer [Original folder title: "Book Shop"]
Photocopy of "master manuscript," typescript of book with numerous hand edits and an introduction by Eric Sevareid.
|
n.d. |
| Subseries IV.B: Merchants and Masterpieces 1860-1989
|
|
Tomkins was contacted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1968 to write the history of the institution coincident with their
centennial celebrations, and Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Dutton) appeared in 1970. The first twenty-four folders in this subseries are in order of the book chapters to
which they pertain and concern succeeding eras of the museum's history and key trustees, directors and curators. Materials
include copious photocopies of museum documents such as letters and manuscript material from the museum archives as well as
copies of museum bulletin articles, book chapters and other published material. Large quantities of handwritten and typewritten
notes are present as well. Folders 25-33 contain correspondence concerning the book, financial summaries of gifts and acquisitions
by the museum, and the contents of a series of binders dedicated, respectively, to trustees and benefactors, curatorial departments,
and presidents, directors, and staff of the museum. Two additional folders contain photographs used in the book and pamphlets
and gallery guides from across the museum's history. Folders 34-47 are research materials and resources gathered after original
publication, in many cases used for additions included in the 1989 reprint by Henry Holt. In these last files there is a particular
focus on the "scandals" of the museum in the 1970s and Thomas Hoving's tenure as director
|
|
For correspondence regarding initial discussions and the eventual contract for the book see folders I.4-I.6
|
| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| IV.B.1 |
Reports of the President Photocopies of published annual reports of the president and director of the museum.
|
1970-1977 |
| IV.B.2 |
Reports of the President Photocopies of published annual reports of the president and director of the museum.
|
1977-1986 |
| IV.B.3 |
Museum-U.S. News clippings, unpublished manuscripts, articles, and notes on the founding of various museums and collections.
|
|
| IV.B.4 |
Founding-Early Years Corrections and errata memos, letters and correspondence from before and after publication, material detailing New York in
the nineteenth century and the museum's founding including period book pages, newspapers, and magazines.
|
|
| IV.B.5 |
Founding-Early Years Material detailing New York in the nineteenth century and the museum's founding including handwritten and typescript notes
and source transcriptions.
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|
| IV.B.6 |
Founding-Early Years Includes a detailed chronology of events in 1870.
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|
| IV.B.7 |
Cesnola, Rogers, Marquand, etc. Handwritten notes, photocopies, articles, and other material on Louis Palma di Cesnola and the museum's early years.
|
|
| IV.B.8 |
Cesnola, Rogers, Marquand, etc. |
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| IV.B.9 |
Cesnola, Rogers, Marquand, etc. |
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| IV.B.10 |
9 & 10 - Morgan, Fry, Robinson, Kent |
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| IV.B.11 |
11 & 12 - Classical & Egyptian Includes material on the growth of the museum, on forgeries within the classical collection.
|
|
| IV.B.12 |
11 & 12 - Classical & Egyptian Includes typescript draft of chapter 11.
|
|
| IV.B.13 |
12 & 13 - Riggs, Dean, Altman, Morgan Photocopy of typescript draft.
|
|
| IV.B.14 |
1920-1940, Amer. Wing Includes pamphlet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: What It Is and What It Does (New York: The Merrymount Press, 1927).
|
|
| IV.B.15 |
1920-1940, Amer. Wing |
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| IV.B.16 |
19 - Cloisters Includes typescript draft of chapter.
|
|
| IV.B.17 |
Chapters 20 & 21 - F.H. Taylor Includes guides to the museum from 1944 and 1947, materials on the activities of the museum during WWII and of the fate of
art in Europe.
|
|
| IV.B.18 |
Chapters 20 & 21 - F.H. Taylor 50-page unsigned typescript, and two partial photocopied typescripts, summarizing the museum's activity from the 1940s to
the 1960s by a staff member of the museum (possibly Roland Redmond, president of the board of trustees of the museum during
F.H. Taylor's tenure as director.)
Detailed contemporary chronology of museum activities from 1940-1950.
|
|
| IV.B.19 |
22 - Three-Museum Agreement Materials relating to the short-lived agreement between The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the
Whitney Museum of American Art to prevent overlapping collection policies and enable the sharing and transfer of artworks
among the museums.
1 TLS Alfred H. Barr-CT (4/10/1968) [re: MoMA materials regarding relations between the two museums.].
|
|
| IV.B.20 |
22 - Three-Museum Agreement Includes printed copy of original legal agreement, 9/15/47.
|
|
| IV.B.21 |
23 - Hoving, Harlem, Dendur, etc. |
|
| IV.B.22 |
23 - Hoving, Harlem, Dendur, etc. |
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| IV.B.23 |
24 - Rorimer - Aristotle |
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| IV.B.24 |
Financial Photocopies of lists and charts detailing acquisition expenditures by, and gifts and bequests to, the museum from 1919 to
1961.
|
|
| IV.B.25 |
Correspondence - M.M.A. Correspondence regarding factual corrections to the manuscript (including a 19-page typescript of corrections from Dorothy
Shaver of the Costume Institute,) research topics, contact lists.
1 TLS Robert Moses-CT (11/22/1968).
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1968-1969 |
| IV.B.26 |
Trustees and Benefactors Research Binder Binder of alphabetically organized, tabbed, handwritten and typewritten notes and research on individual trustees and benefactors
of the museum.
General notes
Benjamin Altman-Sam A. Lewisohn.
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| IV.B.27 |
Trustees and Benefactors Research Binder Clarence H. MacKay-Catharine Lorillard Wolfe.
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| IV.B.28 |
Department Research Binder Tabbed binder, of research and notes on individual curatorial and administrative departments of the museum arranged alphabetically
by department. Includes handwritten and typewritten notes, magazine articles and book extracts.
American Art, American Wing, Arms and Armor, Ancient Near East and Islamic, Contemporary Art and Costumes, Egyptian.
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| IV.B.29 |
Department Research Binder European Painting, Far Eastern Art, Greek & Roman.
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| IV.B.30 |
Department Research Binder Medieval, Musical Instruments & Concerts, Prints - Drawings, Western European Arts, Conservation, Education, The Building,
Membership and Attendance, Casts, Misc.
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| IV.B.31 |
Presidents, Directors, and Staff Research Binder Binder of handwritten and typewritten research on all presidents and directors and important staff, organized chronologically
by tenure.
33-page chronology of the museum
Presidents .
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| IV.B.32 |
Presidents, Directors, and Staff Research Binder Directors, Staff, Current Administration.
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| IV.B.33 |
Museum Pamphlets Five pamphlets and booklets including:
Biography of museum co-founder George Fisk Comfort, 1934
Theodore L. Low, The Museum as a Social Instrument (American Association of Museums, 1942)
Address by H.W. Kent, 1944
2 versions of the museum's charter, constitution and by-laws, 1952, 1963
History of the museum's Publications and Reproductions Program, 1981.
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1934-1981 |
| IV.B.34 |
Book Photographs for 1989 Reprint Thirty-one 8x10 black and white photographs labeled and with editorial markings.
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| IV.B.35 |
Margaret A. Mazer, A History of Education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1987 to 1985 Unpublished master's thesis, July 1987.
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1987 |
| IV.B.36 |
Linda Sipress, The History of the Centennial Celebration of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Printed typescript of the museum's activities.
Folder includes correspondence regarding legal issue of Henry Holt 1989 reprint.
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1972 |
| IV.B.37 |
Hoving - Pro & Con - The Troubles - Harlem Research and interview notes for the 1989 reprint including information on Thomas Hoving's tenure as director, Arthur A. Houghton's
tenure as president, and the centennial celebration of 1970. Includes official program of the centennial celebrations and
The Second century: The Comprehensive Architectural Plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971.
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| IV.B.38 |
Juan de Pareja - Duccio Materials on the purchase of Juan de Pareja by Diego Velázquez and the cancelled purchase of a painting by Duccio; includes interview notes with John Pope-Hennessy and
others.
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| IV.B.39 |
Dillon - Macomber - Luers... Includes interview notes with Douglas Dillon on his tenure as president and material on later trustees and officials.
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| IV.B.40 |
Chronology 1987-1986; Bldgs Includes documents detailing the 1972 master expansion plan.
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| IV.B.41 |
Corrections, Etc. Corrections, alterations, and rebuttals to the original edition and additions for the 1989 reprint including corrected typescripts
of new chapters 26 through 29.
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| IV.B.42 |
Original MS Typescript with hand edits of new book chapters.
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| IV.B.43 |
20th Century Dept. Materials documenting the growth of the department.
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| IV.B.44 |
Asian Art |
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| IV.B.45 |
Met - The Scandals (
1972-1973) Includes: "Report on Art Transactions," 1963, a public report written by a special committee of museum trustees, and other
materials relating to the furor over deaccessioning, "The Euphronios Krater: A Report to the Members of the Corporation,"
1974, and other materials on the debated provenance of that artwork, interview notes with Hoving and others from 1973.
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| IV.B.46 |
Met - The Scandals (
1972-1973) Includes "off the record" correspondence and documents passed to CT from Ashton Hawkins, Secretary and Counsel at the museum,
in 1973, interview notes and extensive news clippings.
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| IV.B.47 |
Met - The Scandals (
1972-1973) Extensive news clippings, typescript copy of "The Euphronios Krater at the Metropolitan Museum: A Question of Provenance,"
article by Ashton Hawkins for The Hastings Law Journal, 1976, recapitulating the full extent of the incident
1 TLS Clement Greenberg-CT (3/12/1973) [re: appraisal of David Smith artwork acquired by the museum].
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| Subseries IV.C: Off the Wall 1963-1991
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In many ways, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (New York: Doubleday, 1980), summarizes and organizes all the writing on modern and contemporary art Tomkins had published
to that moment. Scattered throughout these folders are interview notes and partial transcripts from twenty years of The New Yorker articles. The first group of files, 1-47, is in rough chronological order by topic, event and period of Rauschenberg's life.
These files mostly comprise those extensive interview notes and quotations. Most of the interviews are labeled with name and
date and are copies of materials found in the files of the original articles. There are scattered news clippings, magazine
articles, press releases, ephemera, and other published material. Many folders have been photocopied to preserve extensive
label information and cross reference notes or when labels were illegible. Folders 48-61 duplicate some of the topics and
materials from the earlier folders and also include material gathered after the book's publication. Apart from the small amount
of material found in folder 55 (acknowledgements, endnotes, and photograph captions,) no portions of the manuscript in draft
or galley form are present. Likewise, although material exists here that was gathered for Tomkins' original Profile on Rauschenberg,
"Moving Out," 2/29/1964, no manuscript of that article is present and it is likely that materials gathered for that article
were thoroughly dispersed throughout these folders.
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For the original research binder assembled for the Rauschenberg Profile, see folder II.B.4; for photographs used in the book,
see Series IV.E.
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| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| IV.C.1 |
Venice Biennale 1964; World Tour - Break with Merce Includes tear sheets and manuscript of article by CT on the Biennale, "The Big Show in Venice," from Harper's Magazine (April, 1965), interview notes with Rauschenberg and others about this period, complete issue of the magazine Tropic (December 20, 1979), featuring wraparound cover by Rauschenberg and article by CT, "The Man Who Created the Most Public Work
of Private Art in History.".
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1964-1979 |
| IV.C.2 |
Early Life - Navy - School, etc. Typescript biographical notes interspersed with quotes.
1 TLS Janet Begneaud (Rauschenberg's sister)-CT (7/22/1963)[recollections for TNY Profile of 2/29/1964].
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| IV.C.3 |
Black Mountain - 1949... Interview notes with various individuals including Susan Weil (Kirschenbaum).
1 ALS Josef Albers [signature illegible, on Albers' stationery]-CT (7/9/1963) [re: general reflections on student-teacher
relationships].
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| IV.C.4 |
The Club - Ab-Ex Scene - "Irascible Eighteen" - Peggy Guggenheim - Pollock & de Kooning Interview notes and materials on various aspects and personalities of the New York School, much culled from previous CT writings.
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| IV.C.5 |
The Club - Ab-Ex Scene - "Irascible Eighteen" - Peggy Guggenheim - Pollock & de Kooning |
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| IV.C.6 |
Betty Parsons - Her Career - Barney Newman... Interview notes and quotes from Parsons, Tony Smith, Richard Tuttle, and others.
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| IV.C.7 |
Ninth Street Show (1951) - Leo Castelli - Tenth Street Scene - Barr One page of interview quotes from Philip Johnson on Alfred H. Barr, the MoMA and Abstract Expressionism.
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| IV.C.8 |
Black Mountain (1952) - Cage & Cunningham... |
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| IV.C.9 |
Europe - N. Africa - Cy T. |
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| IV.C.10 |
Fulton Street - Stable Show... |
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| IV.C.11 |
Dance Work - Cunningham - Paul Taylor |
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| IV.C.12 |
Cage - Boza mansion, etc. - His Influence Includes original typescript program of the Pocket Theater's performance of Vexations by Erik Satie, an eighteen-hour piano composition performed by numerous musicians including John Cage and John Cale, begun
September 9, 1963. .
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| IV.C.13 |
Egan: The Red Show |
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| IV.C.14 |
Jasper Johns - Sari Dienes - Window Displays... |
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| IV.C.15 |
Duchamp |
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| IV.C.16 |
Castelli - Visit to Front Street... |
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| IV.C.17 |
Late Ab-Ex, etc. |
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| IV.C.18 |
Happenings, etc.... Includes manuscript of article on happenings by CT, apparently from the early 1960s.
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| IV.C.19 |
Dante Drawings |
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| IV.C.20 |
Tinguely Includes interview notes and quotations with Billy Klüver, dated 1/18/1961; contemporary photocopy of manuscript by Klüver,
with hand edits, "The Garden Party," relating his firsthand experience of the development and execution of Homage to New York: A self-constructing & self-destroying work of art conceived and built by Jean Tinguely [MoMA Exh. #661, March 17, 1960]; extensive interview and biographical notes on Tinguely; five-page typescript of recollections
by one of Tinguely's art teachers, Julia Ris; original program, with annotations, for Homage to New York.
1 TLA Pontus Hulten-CT (3/17/1961) [recollections of Tinguely]
1 empty airmail envelope, decorated and with notes by either Niki de Saint-Phalle or Jean Tinguely, (9/1/1963).
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| IV.C.21 |
Bellamy, Scull & Green Gallery; Emergence of Pop; "The Store" |
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| IV.C.22 |
Janis Pop Show; Europe... |
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| IV.C.23 |
Paris Event, Tinguely Construction of Boston; Dylaby (Amsterdam) 1 ALS Sandberg-CT (n.d.) [re: on the conception of Dylaby]
1 TL K.G. (Pontus) Hulten-CT (8/2/1963) [re: Rauschenberg's experience in Stockholm].
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| IV.C.24 |
Break With Johns... |
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| IV.C.25 |
Tanya Grossman & ULAE |
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| IV.C.26 |
Alan Solomon - Jewish museum Show (March 1963) |
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| IV.C.27 |
Europe - Crisis 1965 1 TLS Ileana Sonnabend-CT (8/6/1963).
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| IV.C.28 |
Duchamp - Pasadena - Hopps; West Coast Art Scene |
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| IV.C.29 |
Judson - Dance Theater, etc. Includes original programs from the Judson Dance Theater, 1963, and from the Surplus Dance Theater, 2/10/1964, including the
dance Shotput by Rauschenberg and all featuring works or performances by Robert Morris and Yvonne Rainier, among others.
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| IV.C.30 |
Judson - Dance Theater, etc. Complete issue of Ballet Review 1:6 (1967), entirely dedicated to the Judson Dance Theater
Annette Kuhn, ed. A Voice in the Village, Howard Moody: Twenty Years on Washington Square (New York: Judson Memorial Church, 1977).
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| IV.C.31 |
First Theater Rally... Includes program for the Rally listing participation and pieces of numerous art world notables, extensive notes of CT's observations
of rehearsals and performances, programs and ephemera from other arts festivals and performances.
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| IV.C.32 |
Nine Evenings - E.A.T. Includes transcriptions of numerous Nine Evenings documents.
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| IV.C.33 |
E.A.T. (Post - Nine Evenings) Includes photocopy of 36-page typescript, "Rainforest" by Billy Klüver, a history of E.A.T., dated 1/30/1970, E.A.T. ephemera,
photocopies of correspondence between E.A.T. and Pepsi-Cola (Japan) regarding the Pepsi-Cola pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka,
Japan.
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| IV.C.34 |
Greenberg - Post-Painterly Abstraction |
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| IV.C.35 |
"Primary Structures" - Minimal - Op (Responsive Eye at MoMA) |
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| IV.C.36 |
The Scene - Circa 1967 |
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| IV.C.37 |
Warhol Includes undated 20-page photocopied typescript, "The Shooting of Andy Warhol (A Historical Poem in the Manner of William
McGonagall)," authored by "the eel" and inscribed to CT.
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| IV.C.38 |
Dude Period - Soundings... |
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| IV.C.39 |
"Henry's Show" at Met - Oldenburg, Lichtenstein Retrospectives |
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| IV.C.40 |
Castelli - New Developments - SoHo - Satellites |
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| IV.C.41 |
Stoned Moon - Bob Peterson - Carnal Clocks Includes copy of previous folder with label but no contents.
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| IV.C.42 |
Politics - Angry Art... |
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| IV.C.43 |
Currents... |
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| IV.C.44 |
Cardboards - "Change" - Captiva |
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| IV.C.45 |
Israel - India... |
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| IV.C.46 |
Scull Auction - "Blue Poles" $2 Million... |
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| IV.C.47 |
Smithsonian Retrospective Includes interview notes with Walter Hopps and Kynaston McShine on the retrospective Robert Rauschenberg [MoMA Exh. #1170, March 25-May 17, 1977].
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| IV.C.48 |
Allan Kaprow - Happenings Programs and ephemera of happenings and events by Kaprow.
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| IV.C.49 |
Happenings, etc. |
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| IV.C.50 |
Nine Evenings - E.A.T. Photocopies of writings and original documents of the event.
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| IV.C.51 |
Nine Evenings - E.A.T. Issue of E.A.T. Clippings 1:1 (April 1960-July 1969).
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1969 |
| IV.C.52 |
R.O.C.I. Includes two drafts of brochure text by CT for the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange.
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1987-1991 |
| IV.C.53 |
Abstract Expressionists |
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| IV.C.54 |
Abstract Expressionists Issue of Arts Magazine 50:7 (March 1976) devoted entirely to Arshille Gorky.
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| IV.C.55 |
Manuscript Materials Endnotes for book and copy of acknowledgement text, typescript with hand edits of photograph captions, list of individuals
to whom complimentary copies of the book were sent.
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| IV.C.56 |
Sixties, General |
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| IV.C.57 |
Book Release Party Materials Manuscript and typescript list of invitees, invitation for party hosted by Leo Castelli.
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|
| IV.C.58 |
Pre-War - Wartime - Europeans - Surrealism |
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| IV.C.59 |
Rauschenberg - 1960s & 1970s Includes chapter descriptions and cover letter for book proposal by CT on American art since 1945, 3/13/1976.
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| IV.C.60 |
MoMA Press releases, news clippings, and mailings from the museum, many concerning John B. Hightower and the labor unrest of the
period.
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1968-1977 |
| IV.C.61 |
Photos - RR Book Bills, costs and documentation of book photography.
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| Subseries IV.D: Duchamp: A Biography 1953-1998
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Tomkins' biography of Duchamp, titled Duchamp: A Biography (New York: Henry Holt, 1996) required more historical research than any of his previous books. There are large quantities
of photocopies, hand transcriptions, and translations of significant original documents (such as correspondence and personal
journals) pertaining to Duchamp and his social circle. Much of this archival material was viewed in collections at the Beinecke
Library of Yale University, the Archives of American Art, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University
of Texas at Austin. The first group of folders, 1-29, is arranged in chronological order by decade, and corresponds to eventual
book chapters. Groups of folders are dedicated to published and unpublished interview transcripts with Duchamp, reader responses,
photographs and reproduction rights and permissions, post-mortem critical evaluations of Duchamp, and extensive correspondence.
Much of the correspondence is with Duchamp's surviving family: his stepdaughter Jacqueline Matisse Monnier and his widow,
Alexina "Teeny" Duchamp. Teeny Duchamp was herself able to review Tomkins' book in manuscript form before her death in 1995.
There is also extensive correspondence with other Duchamp scholars, particularly Francis Naumann. Finally, there are five
bound volumes of photocopies from two collections at the Beinecke Library. They seem to be the complete extent of correspondence
between Duchamp, Katherine Dreier, and Katharine Kuh, taken from those women's personal papers. The volumes are in folders
IV.D.68-69.
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Of particular note in these files are folders IV.D.29 and IV.D.63 that contain complete transcripts of Tomkins' 1964 interviews
with Duchamp. Also, see folder I.64 for a copy of a 1997 letter written by Tomkins in which he describes his initial meeting
with Duchamp and his ensuing personal interest and relationship with the artist.
|
| Folder |
Title |
Date |
| IV.D.1 |
Blainville - Family - Childhood |
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| IV.D.2 |
Loose Materials These materials were found between folders.
Spiral notebook of research contacts and biographical notes, list of corrections to book.
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|
| IV.D.3 |
1904-1914 |
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| IV.D.4 |
1904-1914 |
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| IV.D.5 |
1904-1914 Includes photocopied typescript, Thomas Edward Lippy, Jr., "The Influence of Max Steiner's Philosophy on the Art and Thought
of Marcel Duchamp," 5/3/1987.
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|
| IV.D.6 |
1904-1914 |
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| IV.D.7 |
Ettie Stettheimer - Journals & Letters |
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| IV.D.8 |
Hubachek - Mary Reynolds File |
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| IV.D.9 |
Duchamp - Alice Roullier |
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| IV.D.10 |
M.D. & Chess |
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| IV.D.11 |
Maria Martins Bound photocopy of catalogue Maria: The Surrealist Sculpture of Maria Martins (New York: André Emmerich gallery, 3/19-4/18/1998).
|
1998 |
| IV.D.12 |
Maria Martins Includes interview notes and quotations with Maria Martins' daughter, Nora Martins Lobo, 1989-90.
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|
| IV.D.13 |
Maria Martins Restricted material, please see Museum Archivist.
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|
| IV.D.14 |
New York 1915-1918 Arensbergs - Argentina Includes detailed, day-by-day chronologies of H.P. Roche and Beatrice Wood.
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| IV.D.15 |
New York 1915-1918 Arensbergs - Argentina |
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| IV.D.16 |
New York 1915-1918 Arensbergs - Argentina |
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| IV.D.17 |
1920s |
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| IV.D.18 |
1930s |
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| IV.D.19 |
1940s |
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| IV.D.20 |
1940s |
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| IV.D.21 |
1940s |
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| IV.D.22 |
1950s |
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| IV.D.23 |
1950s Includes photocopy of article by CT on Duchamp from Newsweek, 11/7/1957, 8-page typescript of recollections of Marcel and Teeny Duchamp in New York by Jacqueline Monnier.
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|
| IV.D.24 |
1960s |
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| IV.D.25 |
1960s Includes photocopied transcript of the Art of Assemblage symposium, held at MoMA 10/19/1961, with Rauschenberg and Duchamp among the panel members.
|
|
| IV.D.26 |
Large Glass |
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| IV.D.27 |
M.D. - Interviews (1960s) Photocopies of published and unpublished interviews with Duchamp by other authors.
|
|
| IV.D.28 |
M.D. - Interviews (1960s) |
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| IV.D.29 |
M.D. - Interviews (1960s) Two copies of 44-page typescript transcript of CT's interview with Duchamp on 3/23 and 3/26/1964 and notes on later, unrecorded,
interviews.
|
1964-1965 |
| IV.D.30 |
Etant donnés Includes photocopies of correspondence between The Philadelphia Museum of Art and Teeny Duchamp regarding the museum's acquisition
of Etant donnés.
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|
| IV.D.31 |
Duchamp Miscellaneous Numerous typescript pages of extracts and quotations from CT's interviews with Duchamp, extensive handwritten notes on Duchamp's
early life.
|
|
| IV.D.32 |
Duchamp Miscellaneous Includes various chronologies of Duchamp's life, list of addresses from throughout his life, and other research materials.
|
|
| IV.D.33 |
Duchamp Miscellaneous Bibliographies and bibliographical notes on Duchamp from various sources, expense report and receipts from 1964, eight-page
book proposal for the biography.
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|
| IV.D.34 |
Marcel Duchamp at the Palazzo Grassi Press kit, reviews of catalogue and exhibit held in Venice, 1993.
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| IV.D.35 |
Duchamp - Interviews (Unpublished) Photocopy of unpublished interview transcript between Duchamp, Sydney Janis, and others. .
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1953 |
| IV.D.36 |
Photos Photographs, transparencies, and negatives of Duchamp and his artworks, postcards and ephemera from the book publication,
drafts of cover design. Most photographs are labeled and attributed, some appear to be original or contemporary duplicate
prints.
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|
| IV.D.37 |
Photos Photographs, transparencies, photocopies of Duchamp and his artworks (particularly early drawings), some photographs unlabeled
and unattributed and may be original.
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| IV.D.38 |
Duchamp Post-Mortem Exhibition reviews, essays, news clippings and articles on Duchamp, ephemera.
|
1972-2000 |
| IV.D.39 |
Duchamp Post-Mortem News clippings, ephemera, articles.
|
1973-1991 |
| IV.D.40 |
Duchamp Post-Mortem Includes photocopy of entire catalogue to exhibition The Marcel Duchamp Exhibition, 9/20-10/16/1985, The Art Museum at Florida International University.
|
1985-1993 |
| IV.D.41 |
Duchamp - Articles About Articles, news clippings, and ephemera.
|
1960-1995 |
| IV.D.42 |
Duchamp - Articles About |
1968-1989 |
| IV.D.43 |
Duchamp - Articles About |
1966-1997 |
| IV.D.44 |
Naumann - Walter Pach (Letters) - Draft Photocopy of draft typescript, by Francis Naumann, on the correspondence between Pach and Duchamp, includes photocopies of
original letters from the Archives of American Art.
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|
| IV.D.45 |
Bessie Breuer, Unpublished Autobiographical MS Photocopy of 56-page typescript.
|
|
| IV.D.46 |
Duchamp Interview Questions & Book List Lists of book party invitees and recipients of complimentary copies, documents regarding the authentication of an early Duchamp
drawing, questions for CT from book talk at the Whitney Museum.
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|
| IV.D.47 |
Brancusi - Letters from MD Photocopies of correspondence between Constantin Brancusi and Duchamp.
|
|
| IV.D.48 |
The Supermale by Alfred Jarry Photocopies of original French text and English translation.
|
|
| IV.D.49 |
Duchamp Photos - World Rights Permission forms, invoices, receipts and correspondence regarding images.
|
1998 |
| IV.D.50 |
Duchamp - Permissions Permission forms, invoices, receipts and correspondence regarding images.
|
1996 |
| IV.D.51 |
Loose Book Photographs Photographs, transparencies and photocopies of images, most labeled, many with editorial comments.
Items in this and the following folders were loose in the original Duchamp files.
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|
| IV.D.52 |
Loose Book Photographs |
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| IV.D.53 |
Loose Book Photographs |
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| IV.D.54 |
Loose Book Photographs |
|
| IV.D.55 |
Loose Book Photographs |
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| IV.D.56 |
MD Photos - Correspondence Correspondence from and to CT and DK concerning rights and reproductions, list of captions and credits for images included
in book.
|
1996 |
| IV.D.57 |
Duchamp - Correspondence Reader responses, communications involving critical responses, sent and received research correspondence and letters from
other writers and researchers, correspondence between CT, Jacqueline Matisse Monnier and Francis Naumann, CT's suggested changes
to book layout, correspondence between CT's agent Andrew Wylie and the book's editor, Jack MacRae of Henry Holt
1 TLS facsimile Claes Oldenburg-CT (7/29/1996) [re: Duchamp influence]
1 ALS facsimile Pontus Hulten-CT (4/26/1996) [re: Etant donnés].
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1995-1996 |
| IV.D.58 |
Duchamp - Correspondence Multiple correspondence among Teeny Duchamp, Jacqueline Matisse Monnier, Francis Naumann, and CT and DK, general research
correspondence.
1 TLS facsimile Jacqueline Matisse Monnier-CT (12/20/1995) [re: announcement of the passing of Teeny Duchamp at "6:25 p.m."].
|
1993-1995 |
| IV.D.59 |
Duchamp - Correspondence Correspondence from Teeny Duchamp, Jacqueline Matisse Monnier, Francis Naumann, general research correspondence.
|
1989-1993 |
| IV.D.60 |
Duchamp - Correspondence Correspondence from research for CT's original Profile on Duchamp including two photocopies of letters from Duchamp to CT
(12/8/1964 and 5/10/1966), general research correspondence.
1 TLS Richard Hamilton-CT [4/5/1964) [re: agreement to be interviewed for Profile]
1 TLS Richard Hamilton-CT (2/19/1989) [re: refusal to be interviewed for book].
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1964-1989 |
| IV.D.61 |
Loose Photocopies Photocopies of pictures and photographs collected for research or for consideration for use in book. Many from an unknown
archival collection, images are paired with printouts of their catalogue records.
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|
| IV.D.62 |
Loose Photocopies |
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| IV.D.63 |
"MD Vox" Research Binder Transcripts and photocopies of published and unpublished interviews with Duchamp, includes complete transcript of CT's 1964
interview.
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|
| IV.D.64 |
"MD Vox" Research Binder |
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| IV.D.65 |
"Chromo" Research Binder Chronological notes on Duchamp's life with month-by-month entries during critical periods.
|
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| IV.D.66 |
Untitled Research Binder Binder of notes and transcript extracts of interviews conducted specifically for the book and for past articles, in tabbed
sections by decade of Duchamp's life.
|
|
| IV.D.67 |
Untitled Research Binder Further notes and transcript extracts, includes draft typescript of the New York Times obituary for Teeny Duchamp and correspondence from Paul Matisse enclosing the text of his eulogy for his mother given at
her memorial, 1995.
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|
| IV.D.68* |
Marcel Duchamp - Katherine Dreier Correspondence Four bound volumes (labeled #1-#4) of photocopies of the entire collection of Duchamp-Dreier correspondence and related material
from the Katherine S. Dreier Papers, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Correspondence dates
from 1917-1952.
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| IV.D.69* |
Marcel Duchamp - Katharine Kuh Correspondence One bound volume (labeled #5) of photocopies of the Duchamp-Kuh correspondence from the Katharine Kuh Papers, Yale University
Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Correspondence dates from 1948-1961.
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| Subseries IV.E: Book Photographs
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This series contains photographs, negatives, and transparencies collected and used in the books Living Well is the Best Revenge, The Scene: Reports on Post-Modern Art, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time, and Duchamp: A Biography. The individual folders note if the images are labeled or unlabeled and other particular features.
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For more photographs and images from the biography of Duchamp, see folders IV.D.51-55, 61-62, for information on the provenance
and subject of the images of Duchamp and Rauschenberg, see folders IV.D.5-51, IV.D.56 and IV.C.61
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| IV.E.1* |
8x10" and 9x12" Photographs 30 images of Rauschenberg, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and numerous other luminaries of the art world including Leo
Castelli and his stable of artists and the European "Artists in Exile" of World War II, with some exhibition photos.
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| IV.E.2* |
12x16" Photographs 17 images, all by Ugo Mules and obtained from him, of Rauschenberg, Duchamp, and other artists and artworks of the 1960s including
Andy Warhol, George Segal, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, and others. Photographs are unlabeled.
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| IV.E.3* |
Photographs and Negatives from The Scene Includes two-page photocopied summary of interview with James Rosenquist, 6/23/1978, 8x10" color transparency of Rauschenberg
painting, 13 4x5" negatives of same images found in IV.E.1, 11x15" author photograph of CT, 30 8x10" and smaller images, most
with editing marks, and 14 8x10" and smaller negatives.
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| IV.E.4* |
Negatives from Living Well Is the Best Revenge Label on original box stated that these are negatives of "all" the photographs used in the book.
Approximately 71 images of various sizes and most with black paper and red tape cropping. The tape has caused many images
to become stuck to one another.
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