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Creator: | Potter, Margaret, 1931-1992 | |
Title: | Margaret Potter Papers | |
Inclusive Dates: | 1896-1974 | |
Quantity: | 0 linear feet Three 5″ document boxes |
Arrangement |
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In processing these papers original order was maintained wherever possible. Loan correspondence is chronologically arranged, as is correspondence and research concerning works of art and photographs. The Papers are processed to the folder level. |
Margaret ("Meg") Potter was Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art between September 1, 1968 and September 10, 1971. Prior to this, from 1959 to 1968, she was Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art in New York. She graduated from Barnard College (1952) and received her M.A. in medieval art from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1959). Born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 21, 1931, Miss Potter also worked for the Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums and did extensive research on the collections of Huntington Hartford and David Rockefeller. She served a one-year term as director of the Vassar College Art Gallery in 1978-79 and collaborated with Douglas Cooper in 1977 on the catalogue raisonné of Juan Gris. Miss Potter died in New York on May 6, 1992.
This record group includes correspondence, photographs and clippings related to the exhibition Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and her Family, [MoMA Exh. #950, December 19, 1970 to March 1, 1971], directed by Margaret Potter. Modified versions of the exhibition were shown at The Baltimore Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1971. The papers also include information on the 1971 Museum of Modern Art strike.
The papers are open for research and contain no restricted materials.
The Margaret Potter Papers are the physical property of The Museum of Modern Art. Literary rights, including copyright belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with The Museum of Modern Art. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archivist.
Index Terms |
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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the library catalog of The Museum of Modern Art. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings. | ||
Subjects: | ||
Art museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Archives | ||
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees -- Archives | ||
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Exhibitions -- Archives | ||
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Strike, 1971 | ||
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Strike, 1971 -- Archives | ||
Potter, Margaret -- Archives | ||
Document Types: | ||
Correspondence | ||
Photographs |
See also, Registrar and Curatorial exhibition files and instalation photographs in the Museum Archives; for individual works now in the Museum's collection, see, Painting and Sculpture Department records. Papers not related to Miss Potter's work at the Museum are on deposit at the Archives of American Art.
The Potter Papers were transferred to the Museum Archives on May 29, 1992 by the authority of Barbara Troyer of Omaha, Nebraska, Margaret Potter's sister who was also the executor of her estate. Five boxes of materials not related to The Museum of Modern Art were transferred to the Archives of American Art and one box relating to the Rockefeller Collection to David Rockefeller. Miss Potter bequeathed her library to Barnard College.
Margaret Potter Papers, [folder]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
Explanation of Abbreviations
ALS is an Autographed Letter Signed.
TLS is a Typed Letter Signed.
TL stands for Typed Letter.
MoMA is The Museum of Modern Art.
n.d. stands for no date.
re: stands for regarding.
Folder Descriptions |
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Folder | Title | Date |
1 | Installation photographs 27 items |
1970-71 |
2 | Loan correspondence: general 1.0″ |
Oct. 1969-Nov. 1970, Feb. 1971 |
3.a | Loan correspondence: Soviet Union 0.5″ |
Aug. 1969 - Sept. 1970 |
3.b | Loan correspondence: Soviet Union 0.75″ |
Oct. 1970 - Ap. 1971, Mar. 1974 |
4 | Loan correspondence: San Francisco 0.75″ |
1969-70 |
5 | Photographs of Gertrude Stein, Leo Stein, Michael and Sarah Stein and their collections 1″ |
n.d. |
6 | Research 1.5″ |
1970-71 |
7 | Research 0.5″ |
n.d. |
8 | Photographs, of Stein paintings 0.5″ |
n.d. |
9.a | Research Picasso: Works 1′ |
1900-1905 |
9.b | Research Picasso: Works 1.25″ |
1906-1922 |
9.c | Research Picasso: Works 0.75″ |
n.d. |
9.d | Research Picasso: Picasso: 1954 Berggruen & Cie., Paris, sale 0.5″ |
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10.a | Research: Matisse: Works 1″ |
1896-1906 |
10.b | Research: Matisse: Works 0.75″ |
1907-1927 |
10.c | Research: Matisse: Works 1.25″ |
undated |
11 | Research: Renoir 0.5″ |
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12 | Works not exhibited: Picasso and Matisse 7 items |
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13 | Photo negatives 0.75″ |
n.d. |
14 | Printed matter 0.75″ |
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15 | 1971/Museum staff strike/Potter's dismissal from MoMA 0.25″ |
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16 | Slides 62 items |
n.d. |
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Box | Folder | |
1 | 1-5 | |
2 | 6-9 | |
3 | 10-16 |