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The Museum of Modern Art Archives
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New York, NY 10019-5497
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© 2007
The Museum of Modern Art Archives
Finding aid prepared by Jonathan Lill, 2007.

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Tomkins, Calvin, 1925-
Title: Calvin Tomkins Papers
Bulk Dates: 1962-2006
Inclusive Dates: 1860-2006
Quantity: 32 linear feet
61 5" manuscript boxes, 28 5.5" audiocassette boxes, 1 16.25x20.25" and 1 11.75x17.5" oversized flat boxes
Abstract: Professional papers of Calvin Tomkins, author, journalist, and contributor to the The New Yorker magazine.

Arrangement

Materials were received from Tomkins in distinct groups of correspondence, major writings, other writings, books, and audio recordings. This organization was preserved in the series structure. That division was less distinct in more recent files so processing required some minor rearrangement of folders. Files in Series I, II, and III are in chronological order as they were found. Series II and III files have been rearranged slightly to correct the found chronological order. Files in Series IV were arranged as found. Usually the book files were arranged in two loose groups, one corresponding to the chapter structure of the book and one in a more thematic grouping. Particulars have been noted in the content notes for those subseries. The audio recordings of Series V were in no discernible order and so were filed chronologically to mirror the writing and research files they are associated with.
The five series are as follows:
Series I: Correspondence 1961-2006
Series II: Major New Yorker Articles 1961-2006
Subseries II.A: Research Files 1961-2006
Subseries II.B: Research and Interview Binders 1963-2006
Series III: Art World reviews and Other Writings 1970-2006
Series IV: Books 1968-1998
Subseries IV.A: Eric Hoffer: An American Odyssey
Subseries IV.B: Merchants and Masterpieces 1860-1989
Subseries IV.C: Off the Wall 1963-1991
Subseries IV.D: Duchamp: A Biography 1953-1998
Subseries IV.E: Book Photographs
Series V: Audio Recordings 1962-2006


Biographical Note

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.

Tomkins' initial contributions to The New Yorker were short humor pieces (now known under the rubric Shouts and Murmurs.) He contributed six of these pieces between 1958 and 1960 before publishing his first Profile, on Jean Tinguely, in 1962. Tomkins' career at the magazine coincided with a new burgeoning of talent in the New York art world and his first two decades of writing traced the origins and rise to establishment of Pop Art, Earth Art, Minimalism, Video Art, Happenings and Installation Art; as well as profiling the curators, collectors, and gallery owners who helped popularize those artists and movements. Tomkins continued publishing longer articles two or three times a year interspersed with light humor pieces, The Talk of the Town articles and other shorter pieces, through 1980, when he became official art critic for the magazine.

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.

Tomkins' first published book was Intermission: A Novel (New York: Viking Press, 1951), but his ensuing books flowed directly from his work at The New Yorker. The Lewis and Clark Trail (New York: Harper & Row, 1965) was written at the same time that Tomkins participated in an NBC documentary on the subject; an article concerning Lewis and Clark appeared in The New Yorker in 1966. Also in 1966, Time-Life published a volume by Tomkins in its series Time-Life Library of Art; The World of Marcel Duchamp (Time, Inc.: New York, 1966) drew on interviews and materials gathered for Tomkins' 1965 Profile. Eric Hoffer: An American Odyssey (New York: Dutton, 1969) was likewise an expansion of a 1967 Profile on the famed autodidact and philosopher. In 1968, Tomkins was contracted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to write a history of that institution coincident with its centennial. Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970) to this day remains a key reference work for the museum. Finally, Living Well is the Best Revenge (New York: Viking Press, 1971), a book on Gerald and Sara Murphy and the American Expatriate community in France between the world wars, was enlarged from a Profile of the same name published in 1962. It has proven to be Tomkins' most popular and enduring work, reprinted numerous times and published in a Modern Library edition in 1998.

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.


Scope and Content

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.

The files for Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (New York: Doubleday, 1980) contain extensive interview notes and quotations, most culled from research conducted by Tomkins when writing articles for The New Yorker during the preceding two decades. There are scattered news clippings, magazine articles, press releases, ephemera, and other published material. No portions of the manuscript in draft or galley form are present. Material also exists here, dispersed throughout these folders, that was gathered for Tomkins' original Profile on Rauschenberg, "Moving Out," published in 1964.

The research files for Duchamp: A Biography (New York: Henry Holt, 1996) are more extensive than for any of Tomkins' other books. There are large quantities of photocopies or hand transcriptions and translations of significant original documents pertaining to Duchamp and his social circle. The files also contain extensive correspondence with other Duchamp scholars and Duchamp's surviving family, including his widow, Alexina "Teeny" Duchamp and Jacqueline Matisse Monnier. As with the other book files, there is also an extensive presence of published materials and ephemera.

The collection contains no files for The Lewis and Clark Trail (New York: Harper & Row, 1965) or The World of Marcel Duchamp (Time, Inc.: New York, 1966), although files for the latter book may have been integrated into the records of the later biography. Neither are any files present for any of the reprint collections. Research and record files for Living Well is the Best Revenge (New York: Viking Press, 1971) do exist but were withheld by Tomkins and remain in the author's possession. Finally, any extant files for the contributions to books by other authors are filed in Series III, in their original order, as Tomkins organized them.

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.


Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

The records are open for research and contain few restricted materials.

Ownership and Literary Rights

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 2027. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archivist.


Index Terms

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.
Persons and Organizations:
Art critics -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources
Art, American -- 20th century -- Sources
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources
Biographers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Archives
Journalists -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources
Kazanjian, Dodie, 1952-
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Archives
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Archives
New Yorker -- History -- Sources
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008 -- Archives
Tomkins, Calvin, 1925- -- Archives
Subjects:
Art critics -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources
Art, American -- 20th century -- Sources
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources
Biographers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Archives
Journalists -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Archives
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Archives
New Yorker -- History -- Sources
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008 -- Archives
Tomkins, Calvin, 1925- -- Archives
Document Types:
Correspondence
Interviews
Personal papers


Related Material

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.

The Archives of American Art holds the Dodie Kazanjian Papers which contain contributions by Tomkins.


Separated Material

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.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Long version: Calvin Tomkins Papers, [series.folder]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.

Short version: Tomkins, [series.folder]. MoMA Archives, NY.

Provenance

The collection was given to the Museum Archives by Calvin Tomkins in 2004. Additional accruals to the collection were received in 2005 and 2007.

Processing and Condition Information

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.

Accruals

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.


Additional Descriptive Data

Explanation of Abbreviations

CT is Calvin Tomkins.
DK is Dodie Kazanjian.
TNY is The New Yorker magazine.
MoMA is The Museum of Modern Art.
ALS is an Autograph Letter Signed.
ALS is an Autograph Letter Signed.
ACS is an Autograph Card Signed.
TC is a Typed Card.
TCS is a Typed Card Signed.
TL is a Typed Letter.
TLS is a Typed Letter Signed.
n.d. stands for no date.
re: stands for regarding.


Container List

Series I: Correspondence 1964-2006

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).

View PDF of folder I.10

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).

View PDF of folder I.11

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).

View PDF of folder I.12

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).

1990
I.52 Correspondence 1991
I.53 Correspondence

1 ALS Sally Ganz-CT (n.d.)
1 TLS Daniel J. Boorstin-CT (12/14/1990).

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.

1992
I.55 Correspondence

2 ACS Jeanne-Claude and Christo-DK and CT (n.d).

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].

1993
I.57 Correspondence

1 TLS Richard Avedon-CT (6/17/1993)
1 ACS Siah Armajani-CT and DK (1993).

1992-1993
I.58 Correspondence 1993-1994
I.59 Correspondence

1 TLS Siam Armajani-CT and DK (11/25/1995).

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).

1996
I.61 Correspondence 1996
I.62 Correspondence

Packet of drawings and letter from illustrator Jon Sarkin.

1996
I.63 Correspondence

Handmade booklet and other drawings by Jon Sarkin.

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.

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.

1996-1997
I.66 Correspondence

Corr. from the MoMA and the Getty each discussing possibility of receiving CT's papers.

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.

1997
I.68 Correspondence 1997
I.69 Correspondence

Correspondence regarding Modern Library edition of Living Well….

1998-1999
I.70 Correspondence

1 TLS Sylvie Boissonnas [sister of Dominique de Menil]-CT (5/15/1998).

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.

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.

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).

1999
I.74 Correspondence

1 ALS Leonard Lauder-CT (n.d.)
1 ALS Glenn Lowry-CT (2/11/1999).

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].

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).

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.

2005-2006

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Series II: Major New Yorker Articles 1961-2006

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.

Subseries II.A: Research Files 1961-2006

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

View PDF of folder II.A.34

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.

View PDF of folder II.A.35

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.

View PDF of folder II.A.38

9/10/1973
II.A.39 Profile: "The Black People of Bridgehampton," Bridgehampton, Long Island

Typescript draft with hand edits (11/30/1972).

View PDF of folder II.A.39

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.

View PDF of folder II.A.40

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.

View PDF of folder II.A.41

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 .

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].

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.

View PDF of folder II.A.174

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

View PDF of folder II.B.13

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

View PDF of folder II.B.16

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

View PDF of folder II.B.60

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

View PDF of folder II.B.68

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

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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

View PDF of folder III.57

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.

View PDF of folder III.58

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 Brâncuși

Includes typescript draft, extensive interview transcript between CT, DK and Margit Rowell and Ann Temkin on Brâncuși.

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.

View PDF of folder III.156

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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.

1962-2006
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.

1962-2006
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.

IV.B.6 Founding-Early Years

Includes a detailed chronology of events in 1870.

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.

1962-2006
IV.B.8 Cesnola, Rogers, Marquand, etc.
IV.B.9 Cesnola, Rogers, Marquand, etc.
IV.B.10 9 & 10 - Morgan, Fry, Robinson, Kent
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
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.

View PDF of folder IV.B.18

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.
IV.B.23 24 - Rorimer - Aristotle
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).

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.

IV.B.27 Trustees and Benefactors Research Binder

Clarence H. MacKay-Catharine Lorillard Wolfe.

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.

IV.B.29 Department Research Binder

European Painting, Far Eastern Art, Greek & Roman.

IV.B.30 Department Research Binder

Medieval, Musical Instruments & Concerts, Prints - Drawings, Western European Arts, Conservation, Education, The Building, Membership and Attendance, Casts, Misc.

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 .

IV.B.32 Presidents, Directors, and Staff Research Binder

Directors, Staff, Current Administration.

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.

1934-1981
IV.B.34 Book Photographs for 1989 Reprint

Thirty-one 8x10 black and white photographs labeled and with editorial markings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

IV.B.39 Dillon - Macomber - Luers...

Includes interview notes with Douglas Dillon on his tenure as president and material on later trustees and officials.

IV.B.40 Chronology 1987-1986; Bldgs

Includes documents detailing the 1972 master expansion plan.

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.

IV.B.42 Original MS

Typescript with hand edits of new book chapters.

IV.B.43 20th Century Dept.

Materials documenting the growth of the department.

IV.B.44 Asian Art
IV.B.45 Met - The Scandals ( )

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.

1972-1973
IV.B.46 Met - The Scandals ( )

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.

View PDF of folder IV.B.46

1972-1973
IV.B.47 Met - The Scandals ( )

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].

1972-1973

Subseries IV.C: Off the Wall 1963-1991

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.

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.

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.".

View PDF of folder IV.C.1

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].

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].

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.

View PDF of folder IV.C.4

IV.C.5 The Club - Ab-Ex Scene - "Irascible Eighteen" - Peggy Guggenheim - Pollock & de Kooning
IV.C.6 Betty Parsons - Her Career - Barney Newman...

Interview notes and quotes from Parsons, Tony Smith, Richard Tuttle, and others.

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.

IV.C.8 Black Mountain (1952) - Cage & Cunningham...
IV.C.9 Europe - N. Africa - Cy T.
IV.C.10 Fulton Street - Stable Show...
IV.C.11 Dance Work - Cunningham - Paul Taylor
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. .

1962-2006
IV.C.13 Egan: The Red Show
IV.C.14 Jasper Johns - Sari Dienes - Window Displays...
IV.C.15 Duchamp
IV.C.16 Castelli - Visit to Front Street...
IV.C.17 Late Ab-Ex, etc.
IV.C.18 Happenings, etc....

Includes manuscript of article on happenings by CT, apparently from the early 1960s.

IV.C.19 Dante Drawings
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).

IV.C.21 Bellamy, Scull & Green Gallery; Emergence of Pop; "The Store"
IV.C.22 Janis Pop Show; Europe...
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].

IV.C.24 Break With Johns...
IV.C.25 Tanya Grossman & ULAE
IV.C.26 Alan Solomon - Jewish museum Show (March 1963)
IV.C.27 Europe - Crisis 1965

1 TLS Ileana Sonnabend-CT (8/6/1963).

IV.C.28 Duchamp - Pasadena - Hopps; West Coast Art Scene
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.

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).

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.

IV.C.32 Nine Evenings - E.A.T.

Includes transcriptions of numerous Nine Evenings documents.

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.

IV.C.34 Greenberg - Post-Painterly Abstraction
IV.C.35 "Primary Structures" - Minimal - Op (Responsive Eye at MoMA)
IV.C.36 The Scene - Circa 1967
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.

IV.C.38 Dude Period - Soundings...
IV.C.39 "Henry's Show" at Met - Oldenburg, Lichtenstein Retrospectives
IV.C.40 Castelli - New Developments - SoHo - Satellites
IV.C.41 Stoned Moon - Bob Peterson - Carnal Clocks

Includes copy of previous folder with label but no contents.

IV.C.42 Politics - Angry Art...
IV.C.43 Currents...
IV.C.44 Cardboards - "Change" - Captiva
IV.C.45 Israel - India...
IV.C.46 Scull Auction - "Blue Poles" $2 Million...

View PDF of folder IV.C.46

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].

IV.C.48 Allan Kaprow - Happenings

Programs and ephemera of happenings and events by Kaprow.

IV.C.49 Happenings, etc. 1962-2006
IV.C.50 Nine Evenings - E.A.T.

Photocopies of writings and original documents of the event.

IV.C.51 Nine Evenings - E.A.T.

Issue of E.A.T. Clippings 1:1 (April 1960-July 1969).

1969
IV.C.52 R.O.C.I.

Includes two drafts of brochure text by CT for the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange.

1987-1991
IV.C.53 Abstract Expressionists
IV.C.54 Abstract Expressionists

Issue of Arts Magazine 50:7 (March 1976) devoted entirely to Arshille Gorky.

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.

IV.C.56 Sixties, General
IV.C.57 Book Release Party Materials

Manuscript and typescript list of invitees, invitation for party hosted by Leo Castelli.

IV.C.58 Pre-War - Wartime - Europeans - Surrealism
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.

1962-2006
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.

1968-1977
IV.C.61 Photos - RR Book

Bills, costs and documentation of book photography.

Subseries IV.D: Duchamp: A Biography 1953-1998

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.

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
IV.D.2 Loose Materials

These materials were found between folders.
Spiral notebook of research contacts and biographical notes, list of corrections to book.

IV.D.3 1904-1914
IV.D.4 1904-1914
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.

IV.D.6 1904-1914
IV.D.7 Ettie Stettheimer - Journals & Letters
IV.D.8 Hubachek - Mary Reynolds File
IV.D.9 Duchamp - Alice Roullier
IV.D.10 M.D. & Chess
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).

View PDF of folder IV.D.11

1998
IV.D.12 Maria Martins

Includes interview notes and quotations with Maria Martins' daughter, Nora Martins Lobo, 1989-90.

View PDF of folder IV.D.12

IV.D.13 Maria Martins

Restricted material, please see Museum Archivist.

IV.D.14 New York 1915-1918 Arensbergs - Argentina

Includes detailed, day-by-day chronologies of H.P. Roche and Beatrice Wood.

IV.D.15 New York 1915-1918 Arensbergs - Argentina
IV.D.16 New York 1915-1918 Arensbergs - Argentina
IV.D.17 1920s
IV.D.18 1930s
IV.D.19 1940s
IV.D.20 1940s
IV.D.21 1940s
IV.D.22 1950s
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.

IV.D.24 1960s
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
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)
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.

1962-2006
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.

IV.D.34 Marcel Duchamp at the Palazzo Grassi

Press kit, reviews of catalogue and exhibit held in Venice, 1993.

IV.D.35 Duchamp - Interviews (Unpublished)

Photocopy of unpublished interview transcript between Duchamp, Sydney Janis, and others. .

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.

IV.D.37 Photos

Photographs, transparencies, photocopies of Duchamp and his artworks (particularly early drawings), some photographs unlabeled and unattributed and may be original.

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.

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.

IV.D.47 Brâncuși - Letters from MD

Photocopies of correspondence between Constantin Brâncuși 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.

IV.D.52 Loose Book Photographs
IV.D.53 Loose Book Photographs
IV.D.54 Loose Book Photographs
IV.D.55 Loose Book Photographs
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].

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].

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.

IV.D.62 Loose Photocopies
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.

IV.D.64 "MD Vox" Research Binder
IV.D.65 "Chromo" Research Binder

Chronological notes on Duchamp's life with month-by-month entries during critical periods.

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.

1962-2006
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.

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.

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.

Subseries IV.E: Book Photographs

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.

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

Item Title
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.

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.

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.

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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Series V: Audio Recordings 1962-2006

The basis of all of Tomkins' major writings for The New Yorker was in-person interviews with his subjects. Therefore, the four open reels and 494 cassette audio recordings contained in this series constitute perhaps the most important original, unique materials of the entire collection. Nonetheless, until the late 1980s, Tomkins did not regularly record his interviews and instead trusted to his note-taking and memory for reconstruction of conversations. Yet the earliest recordings, of Jean Tinguely (1962), Marcel Duchamp (1964), and R. Buckminster Fuller (1965), testify to Tomkins' consciousness of the importance of those individuals. Even as Tomkins recorded the interviews, he rarely made complete transcripts of them, preferring to summarize the interviews in his research binders while quoting only key paragraphs and statements by his subjects. When, in later years, full transcripts do exist, they were usually written by Dodie Kazanjian, who accompanied and aided Tomkins in his research and interviews.

The audio recordings were received loosely grouped by subject and date. They have been rearranged here in strict chronological order. Interviews for different articles may overlap in time. The recordings are inconsistently labeled; many are missing dates, full names (some names have been added in brackets,) or reference to which particular person or article they were recorded for. Most tapes lack any indication also as to how long they are or how much of the tape they take up. Researchers should first consult the interview binders in Series II.B before asking to consult the actual audio recordings. Occasional tapes record interviews for Art World reviews or smaller articles.

The four open reel audio recordings in the collection are various brands and types but all are ¼" width on 7" reels. V.2 and V.3 have been digitally preserved and CD copies are available.

Reel Title Date
V.1 Jean Tinguely

Undated

ca. 1962
V.2 Marcel Duchamp

Undated

This recording has been preserved. In addition to the original, a CD-R use copy now exists.

ca. 1964
V.3 Marcel Duchamp

Complete transcripts for the March 1964 interviews and partial transcripts of other interviews can be found in folders IV.D.29 and IV.D.63

This recording has been preserved. In addition to the original, a CD-R use copy now exists.

3/23/1964, 3/26/1964
Cassette Title Date
V.4 "Duchamp 1"

Duplicate of reel
"Duchamp - Mar. 1964"
Side A: "-to 550 on tape 1, side A"
Side B: "-to end of side A"

3/1964
V.5 "Duchamp 2"

Duplicate of reel
"Duchamp - Mar. '64"
Side A: "-to 550 on Tape 1 side B"
Side B: "-to end of side B"

3/1964
V.6 "Marcel Duchamp 3"

Duplicate of reel
"Duchamp 2nd invu 1964"
Side A: "side one"
Side B: "side one (cont.)"

3/1964
V.7 "Duchamp 4"

Duplicate of reel.
"Duchamp - Mar. 1964 2nd invu"
Side A: "to end of side A"
Side B: "Side B"

3/1964
V.8 "Duchamp 5"

Possible duplicate of reel.

3/1964
Reel Title Date
V.9 R. Buckminster Fuller

Note in box reads "Bucky Fuller/Bear Island/Aug. 1965 (3¾)"

8/1965
Cassette Title Date
V.10 Duchamp - TV Interviews

"Duchamp - TV invus - J.M. Drot, J.J. Sweeney"

n.d.
V.11 Paul Matisse 8/1988
V.12 Beatrice Wood

"(Duchamp)"

8/20/1988
V.13 John Cage on Duchamp 2/17/1989
V.14 Yo Sermayer 9/1989
V.15 Kay Boyle

"(on Duchamp)"

1/11/1990
V.16 [Walter] Hopps Houston 1/6/1990
V.17 [Walter] Hopps (Bio Tape One)

"000-043 - end of 11/6/1990; invu in 20th Cent. Galleries; 045- Bio"

11/7/1990
V.18 [Walter] Hopps Bio tape Two 11/7/1990
V.19 [Walter] Hopps (Bio Tape Three) 11/8/1990
V.20 [Walter] Hopps (Bio Tape Four) 11/8/1990
V.21 [Walter] Hopps Bio Tape Five 11/9/1990
V.22 [Walter] Hopps (#1) 11/10/1990
V.23 [Walter] Hopps 11/10/1990
V.24 Hopps Invus - Demetrion - Frailin - Hopper

Side A: "Jim Demetrion"
Side B: "Frank Frailin (to 289); Saul Steinberg (to 265); Dennis Hopper (370-712)"

ca. 1990
V.25 Hopps Invus - Dennis Hopper - Tom Leavitt...

Side A: "Dennis Hopper (cont.) (000-112); Tom Leavitt (113-330)"
Side B: "Hopps - 11/4/1990 (at Carlyle) - MacAlys in Calif. & Texas"

ca. 1990
V.26 Irving Blum (on Hopps); Walter Hopps

Side A: Irving Blum
Side B: "Blum - to 170; (172) Walter Hopps on American Imagism"

ca. 1990
V.27 Henry Wolf

"Barbara & Leo" marked on cassette.

n.d.
V.28 Shirley Blum 12/13/1990
V.29 [Walter] Hopps (1) 12/15/1990
V.30 [Walter] Hopps (2) 12/15/1990
V.31 [Walter] Hopps #2 3/10/1991
V.32 [Walter] Hopps 3/10/1991
V.33 Jasper Johns 3/19/1991
V.34 Robert Motherwell

"Motherwell on Duchamp"

5/10/1991
V.35 [Walter] Hopps ca. 1990
V.36 [Walter] Hopps - Telephone invus (post-Houston) ca. 1990
V.37 Brenda Richardson n.d.
V.38 Richard Rogers 3/26/1993
V.39 Matta - I 3/29/1993
V.40 Matta - II 3/31/1993
V.41 Matta - III 4/1/1993
V.42 Renzo Piano - 1 ca. 1994
V.43 Renzo Piano ca. 1994
V.44 Charles Ray

Container unlabeled.

ca. 1995
V.45 Charles Ray

Container unlabeled.

ca. 1995
V.46 Charles Ray

Container unlabeled.

4/20/1995
V.47 [Albert] York ca. 1995
V.48 [Albert] York ca. 1995
V.49 [Albert] York II ca. 1995
V.50 [Albert] York III ca. 1995
V.51 Philip Johnson 8/18/1995
V.52 Oldenburg

Uncertain whether Claes or Richard Oldenburg

9/1995
V.53 [Dan] Kiley A

Cassette marked "Dan & Ann"

ca. 1995
V.54 [Dan] Kiley (B) ca. 1995
V.55 [Dan] Kiley C ca. 1995
V.56 [Dan] Kiley II

Cassette marked "Kiley III Kimn...el house"

ca. 1995
V.57 [Dan] Kiley 4

Cassette marked: "Kiley 4" struck out and replaced with "Schwartz"

ca. 1995
V.58 [Dan] Kiley 5

Cassette marked: "Kiley 5" struck out and replaced with "Richard Meier"

ca. 1995
V.59 [Dan] Kiley VI

Cassette marked: "Kiley VI" struck out and replaced with "Jack Robertson"

ca. 1995
V.60 [Jeff] Koons 3/22/1996
V.61 Bill Rubin on Picasso & Portraiture 3/22/1996
V.62 Nicole Eisenman 3/25/1996
V.63 Carter Brown 3/28/1996
V.64 Nicole Eisenman 4/15-4/16/1996
V.65 Kusama 10/1996
V.66 Si Newhouse

Side A: "Si Newhouse/Ben Heller"
Side B: "Kirk Varnedoe/Alana Heiss"

This recording was digitized in April 2024 into two .wav files with .mp3 access copies.

n.d.
V.67 Milton Wexeler/Gehry

Side B: "(Defective tape - slow); Ron Davis house; Norton Simon (110-"
Cassette marked: "Milton --Frank (B); Gehry 3/22 (Defective)"

3/22/1997
V.68 Frank Gehry

Side A: "On Norton Simon; On Disney Hall"
Side B: "Problem with IRS; Bio - grandparents & parents - Toronto - Timmens - back to Toronto - move to LA"

3/22/1997
V.69 [Frank] Gehry

Side A: "Lillian Hellman Story (0-168) (Blank)"
Side B: "(Blank)"

3/23/1997
V.70 [Frank] Gehry

Side A: "0-175 Bio; Early years in LA - meeting Anita - night school at USC; (tape ends at 175)"
Cassette marked "(background II)"

3/23/1997
V.71 [Frank] Gehry (Bio 1)

Side A: "Canada - Early years LA"
Side B: "School (night); USC"

3/24/1997
V.72 [Frank] Gehry (Bio 2)

Side A: "Army Service 0-200; Harvard 200-400; Gruen 400-630"
Side B: "Europe 0-; Office"

3/24/1997
V.73 [Frank] Gehry - 1 ca. 1997
V.74 [Frank] Gehry - 2 ca. 1997
V.75 [Frank] Gehry - 3 ca. 1997
V.76 [Frank] Gehry - 4 ca. 1997
V.77 Gehry Bilbao (1) ca. 1997
V.78 Gehry Bilbao (2) ca. 1997
V.79 Gehry Bilbao (3) ca. 1997
V.80 TELLUS, The Audio Cassette Magazine #21

"Audio by Visual Artists"

n.d.
V.81 Soundings - Robert Rauschenberg

BBC radio program including comments by CT

6/14/1998
V.82 Rauschenberg (1)

This recording was preserved in May 2023. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

n.d.
V.83 Rauschenberg (2)

This recording was preserved in May 2023. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

n.d.
V.84 Rauschenberg (3)

This recording was preserved in May 2023. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

n.d.
V.85 Philippe Petit (1) 9/27/1998
V.86 Philippe Petit (2) 9/27/1998
V.87 Susan Hartnett 9/30/1998
V.88 Philippe Petit (3) 10/5/1998
V.89 Philippe Petit (4) 10/5/1998
V.90 Philippe Petit (5) 10/18/1998
V.91 Philippe Petit (6) 10/18/1998
V.92 Terry Winters 11/21/1998
V.93 Ileana [Sonnabend] & Antonio 12/31/1998
V.94 PP Canyon (1) 2/13/1999
V.95 PP Canyon (2) ca. 1999
V.96 PP Canyon (3) 2/13/1999
V.97 PP Canyon (4) 2/14/1999
V.98 Candida Smith

Cassette marked: "Candida at Storm King 5/30" and "Candida on David Smith"

5/25/1999
V.99 Joo - Chiat

Side A: "Jay Chiat (to 430); Michael Joo"
Side B: "Michael Joo 5/26"

5/26/1999
V.100 Marco Piere White; Norman Rosenthal - Alex James

Side A: "Marco Piere White (to 320); Norman Rosenthal (to end)"
Side B: "Norman Rosenthal (to 070); Alex James at Mirabelle; On Damien's boat; warning notice re: fireworks"

6/8/1999
V.101 Jasper Johns

"On Leo Castelli"

8/29-8/30/1999
V.102 Jasper Johns n.d.
V.103 Damien [Hirst] ca. 1999
V.104 (1) Damien [Hirst], Jude ca. 1999
V.105 (2) Moynahan, Dunphy

"2" crossed out; A: Moynahan, B: Dunphy

ca. 1999
V.106 (3) [Rachel] Whiteread ca. 1999
V.107 (4) Craig - Martin ca. 1999
V.108 Damien [Hirst] ca. 1999
V.109 Damien - Train - Devon 1 ca. 1999
V.110 Sarah Lucas; Hugh Allen

Side A: "Sarah Lucas (to 410); Hugh Allen (410 to end)"
Side B: "Hugh Allen"

ca. 1999
V.111 Hugh Allen (cont.); Gordon Burns

Side A: "Hugh Allen (to 208); Gordon Burns (208-end)"
Side B: "Gordon Burns (to 325)"

ca. 1999
V.112 Joplins ca. 1999
V.113 Ileana Sonnabend

"Ileana S. at Da Silvano, with Antonio Homem."

This recording was digitized in April 2024 into two .wav files with .mp3 access copies.

9/30/1999
V.114 Cindy Sherman (1) 10/26/1999
V.115 Cindy Sherman (2) 11/2/1999
V.116 Peter Galassi

"@MoMA"

11/4/1999
V.117 Helene Winer 11/10/1999
V.118 Laurie Simmons 11/17/1999
V.119 Cindy Sherman (3) 11/19/1999
V.120 Robert Longo 11/29/1999
V.121 Susan Jennings 12/1/1999
V.122 Elizabeth Leite

"(Cindy Sherman's Sister)"

12/4/1999
V.123 Linda Cathcart 12/9/1999
V.124 Janelle Reiring 12/22/1999
V.125 Charles Clough 12/27/1999
V.126 Bob Shermand & John Sherman; Eric Bogosian 1/24-1/25/2000
V.127 Ingrid Sischy 1/26/2000
V.128 John McEnroe

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

2/9/2000
V.129 Cindy Sherman #4 2/10/2000
V.130 Cindy 5; Cindy 6

"Cindy 5 - to A175; Cindy 6 (A175 - end)"

2/13/2000
V.131 Bill T. Jones; Carol Kane; Nancy Dwyer 2/18-2/22/2000
V.132 John McEnroe, Sr.

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

2/23/2000
V.133 Cindy #6 3/8/2000
V.134 McEnroe (2)

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

3/15/2000
V.135 Tony Palafox

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

4/15/2000
V.136 Brian Hunt 4/19/2000
V.137 McEnroe (3)

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

4/24/2000
V.138 Eugene Scott 4/25/2000
V.139 McEnroe (4) Richmond

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

4/28-4/29/2000
V.140 McEnroe 4-B

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

4/30/2000
V.141 Eric Fischl/April Gornik 5/3/2000
V.142 Patty Smyth McEnroe

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

5/9/2000
V.143 McEnroe 5

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

5/25/2000
V.144 Mark McEnroe/Mary Carillo

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

5/30-6/13/2000
V.145 McEnroe - Tiebreaker

Cassette marked: "McEnroe 6"

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

6/23/2000
V.146 Larry Salander - NBC TV Wimbledon; Peter Fleming

Side A: "Larry Salander on JM - to 128; (130- ) NBC TV from Wimbledon, JM & Borg on 1980 final"
Side B: Peter Fleming

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7/2/2000
V.147 McEnroe (Santander)

This recording was preserved in September 2018. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

7/23/2000
V.148 Peter Galassi 9/15/2000
V.149 Andreas Gursky I 10/2000
V.150 Gursky I (cont.); Gursky I & II 10/2000
V.151 Gursky II & III ca. 2000
V.152 Gursky III ca. 2000
V.153 Bernd & Hilla Becker 10/6/2000
V.154 Bernd & Hilla Becker (2) 10/6/2000
V.155 Thomas Ruff 10/6/2000
V.156 Thomas Demand 10/9/2000
V.157 [Andreas] Gursky (1) 10/10/2000
V.158 Gursky (2) 10/10/2000
V.159 Gursky (3) 10/10/2000
V.160 Gursky (4) 11/2/2000
V.161 Gursky (5) 11/4/2000
V.162 Thomas Struth 11/15/2000
V.163 Thomas Demand 12/2/2000
V.164 Gursky

Cassette marked: "Gursky on Thomas Demand"

12/10/2000
V.165 Julian Schnabel (1)

Cassette marked: "Julian (1) Javier Bardem"

1/23/2001
V.166 Julian Schnabel (2) 1/23/2001
V.167 John Killick & JS (3) 1/25/2001
V.168 Julian (4) ca. 2001
V.169 Julian (5) ca. 2001
V.170 Julian (6)

Side A: "-103 JS 1/23/2001; 103-end JS 1/27/2001"

1/23-1/27/2001
V.171 Julian (7) ca. 2001
V.172 JS (8) ca. 2001
V.173 Van Gogh Press Preview 2/1/2001
V.174 J.S. (9) Albany Tapes

"Trip to Albany - 2/6-7/2001"

2/6-2/7/2001
V.175 Julian (10) Albany Tapes

"Albany to NY on train"

ca. 2/7/2001
V.176 JS (11) Albany Tapes

"Train to NY (to 169 only)"

ca. 2/7/2001
V.177 Julian (12) Montauk

"Car to Montauk"

2/8/2001
V.178 Julian (13) Montauk ca. 2/8/2001
V.179 Ingrid Sischy 2/16/2001
V.180 David Salle 2/28/2001
V.181 "Van Gogh's Portraits of Joseph Roulin"

Lecture by Kirk Varnedoe at MoMA

See also Sound Recordings, 2001.54, for additional copies of this recording.

3/6/2001
V.182 Kirk Varnedoe (1) 4/12/2001, 4/16/2001
V.183 Varnedoe (2) 4/16/2001, 4/24/2001
V.184 Varnedoe (3) n.d.
V.185 Frank Stella 4/19/2001
V.186 Deitch 4/20/2001
V.187 Rosenblum 4/20/2001
V.188 Glenn Lowry 4/24/2001
V.189 Peter Galassi 4/26/2001
V.190 Sam Varnedoe 4/30/2001
V.191 Aggie Gund 4/30/2001
V.192 Terry Riley 5/2001
V.193 Varnedoe (4) 5/2/2001
V.194 Kirk [Varnedoe] (5) n.d.
V.195 Varnedoe (6) n.d.
V.196 Jeffrey Weiss 5/3/2001
V.197 Robert Storr 5/4/2001
V.198 Elyn Z. [Zimmerman] 5/4/2001
V.199 Rusty Powell; Ronald Lauder 5/16/2001, 5/29/2001
V.200 Dick Oldenburg 5/16/2001
V.201 Adam Gopnik 5/29/2001
V.202 Ronald Lauder/Carolyn Lauchner 5/30/2001
V.203 Ann Umland; Chuck Close 5/31/2001, 6/6/2001
V.204 Jerry Neuner 6/6/2001
V.205 S. Lane Faison (1) 6/14/2001
V.206 Lane Faison (2) n.d.
V.207 Kirk Varnedoe 7 6/18/2001
V.208 John Elderfield; Mary Lee Bandy 6/19/2001
V.209 Mary Lee Bandy 6/19/2001
V.210 Patterson Sims 6/26/2001
V.211 Nan Rosenthal 6/28/2001
V.212 Ellen Phelan 7/25/2001
V.213 Charles Stuckey on Kirk [Varnedoe] 8/2/2001
V.214 Ellen Phelan 8/4/2001
V.215 Chuck Close 8/12/2001
V.216 Robert Storr on Ellen Phelan 8/14/2001
V.217 Chip Benson 8/16/2001
V.218 Jim Cuno 8/20/2001
V.219 Kirk Varnedoe (8) 9/5/2001
V.220 Ellen Phelan 9/22/2001
V.221 Varnedoe (10)

There is no extant cassette labeled Kirk Varnedoe (9)

9/24/2001
V.222 Robt. Brustein 9/27/2001
V.223 Jeremy Knowles; Matt Saunder 9/27/2001, 10/6/2001
V.224 Scott Rothkopf/James Cuno 9/28/2001
V.225 WTC interview w/Artists ca. 10/2001
V.226 Chris Killip 10/4/2001
V.227 Ellen Phelan 4 10/12/2001
V.228 Ellen Phelan (5) 10/14/2001
V.229 Rob Storr

Side A: "On Phelan/Harvard"
Side B: "115 - Eva Hesse"

10/15/2001
V.230 Phelan (5) Cont.

Cassette marked 10/14

10/16/2001
V.231 Sol Lewitt

This recording has been preserved. In addition to the original, a Broadcast Wave File (BWF) archival master, a DVD audio master, and a CD-R use copy now exist.

10/19/2001
V.232 Alfred Guzzetti 10/19/2001
V.233 Susan Fonter 12/5/2001
V.234 Davi Rosenheek 12/5/2001
V.235 Neil Rudenstine 12/5/2001
V.236 Susan Fonter II 12/11/2001
V.237 [Richard] Serra (1) 1/10/2002
V.238 Richard Koshalek; Matthew Barney 1/30/2002, 1/31/2002
V.239 Serra (2) 2/6/2002
V.240 Serra (3) 2/6/2002
V.241 Ashton Hawkins 2/6/2002
V.242 Brice Marden; Richard Gluckman 1/30, 2/7/2002
V.243 Serra (4) 2/8/2002
V.244 Serra (5) n.d.
V.245 Elizabeth Murray; Lynne Coate n.d., 2/13/2002
V.246 Emily Pulitzer 2/13/2002
V.247 Phil Glass; Chuck Close 2/14/2002, 2/27/2002
V.248 Kirk Varnedoe 2/14/2002
V.249 Frank Gehry 2/14/2002
V.250 Serra (6) 2/15/2002
V.251 Joe Helman 2/20/2002
V.252 Joan Jonas; Susan Brundage 2/21/2002
V.253 John Silberman; Nancy Holt 2/22/2002, 3/26/2002
V.254 Serra (7) 2/27/2002
V.255 Doug Christmas 2/27/2002
V.256 Joel Shapiro 2/28/2002
V.257 Trina McKeever; Clare Serra Weyergraf 3/6/2002
V.258 Ealan Wingate 3/7/2002
V.259 Serra (8) (Beacon) 3/8/2002
V.260 J. Johns - Serra (9) (cont.) 3/27/2002, n.d.
V.261 Serra (9) 4/5/2002
V.262 Carmen Gimenez 5/7/2002
V.263 [James] Turrell (1) 5/15/2002
V.264 Turrell (2) n.d.
V.265 Turell (3) n.d.
V.266 Turrell (4) n.d.
V.267 Turrell (5) n.d.
V.268 Richard Koshalek 5/26/2002
V.269 Walter Hopps; Turrell (6) 5/29/2002, n.d.
V.270 Turrell (6) @Mattress Factory 5/31/2002
V.271 Turrell @Mattress Factory 6/1/2002
V.272 Barbara Ludrowsky; Helen Winkler 6/1/2002, 6/19/2002
V.273 Merce Cunningham 6/7/2002
V.274 Michael Govan 6/12/2002
V.275 Kate Ganz/Elyn Zimmerman; John Coplans 6/13/2002, 6/14/2002
V.276 Lucy Shelton; Alana Heiss (1)

Separate recorded interviews of Lucy Shelton and Alana Heiss.

This recording was digitized in April 2024 into two .wav files with .mp3 access copies.

6/19/2002, 6/21/2002
V.277 Alana Heiss (2); Jane Livingston

Separate recorded interviews of Alana Heiss and Jane Livingston.

This recording was digitized in April 2024 into two .wav files with .mp3 access copies.

6/21/2002, 6/25/2002
V.278 Robt Wilson @Watermill 8/1/2002
V.279 Michael Govan 9/3/2002
V.280 Turrell 9/10/2002
V.281 Chelsea Romersa 9/16/2002
V.282 Nancy Spector; Robert Irwin (re: Turrell) 9/20/2002, 9/21/2002
V.283 Neville Wakefield 10/7/2002
V.284 Barbara Gladstone

A recorded interview with Barbara Gladstone over a dinner, where she talks about her work with various artists.

This recording was digitized in April 2024 into two .wav files with .mp3 access copies.

10/15/2002
V.285 Rob Storr re: MB 10/16/2002
V.286 Leo Villareal; Richard Flood 10/16/2002, 11/7/2002
V.287 Hilton Als; Shawn Caley 10/17/2002, 11/6/2002
V.288 Matthew Barney (1) 10/21/2002
V.289 Hans Ulrich; James Lingwood 10/21/2002, 10/23/2002
V.290 Barney (2) 10/23/2002
V.291 MB [Barney] (3) 10/23/2002
V.292 MB [Barney] (4) n.d.
V.293 MB [Barney] (5) 10/25/2002
V.294 Aimée Mullins 11/7/2002
V.295 Michael Govan (2) 11/12/2002
V.296 Robert Barney; Gabe Bartalos 11/13/2002, 11/14/2002
V.297 Gabe Bartalos (cont.); Keith Edmier 11/14/2002, 11/22/2002
V.298 Alice Aycock; Norman Mailer 11/15/2002, 11/21/2002
V.299 Jonathan Bepler 11/15/2002
V.300 Marcia Barney 11/17/2002
V.301 Michael Rees 11/18/2002
V.302 MB [Barney] (6) 11/19/2002
V.303 Matt Ryle 11/19/2002
V.304 MB [Barney] (7) 11/20/2002
V.305 Mark Gonzalez 11/22/2002
V.306 Govan (3) 1/9/2003
V.307 Virginia Devan 1/23/2003
V.308 Margaret Douglas Hamilton; Lynne Cooke 2/10/2003, 2/11/2003
V.309 Lois de Menil 2/11/2003
V.310 Bill & Patti Dilworth; Bob Irwin

Cassette marked: "Bill Dilworth (Earth Room); Patti Dilworth (Broken Kilo)"

2/14/2003, 2/16/2003
V.311 Govan (4) 2/15/2003
V.312 Govan (5) 2/15/2003
V.313 Bob Whitman; Patrick Lannan 2/19/2003, 4/4/2003
V.314 Richard Gluckman 2/25/2003
V.315 Charles Wright 2/25/2003
V.316 Fredrika Hunter n.d.
V.317 Heiner Friedrich 3/3/2003
V.318 Len Riggio 3/10/2003
V.319 Marfa 3/15/2003, 3/16/2003
V.320 Helen Winkler 3/16/2003, 3/17/2003
V.321 Govan (6); Fred Sandback 3/19/2003
V.322 Heiner Friedrich 3/20/2003
V.323 John Chamberlain 3/21/2003
V.324 Marukh Targsor 4/15/2003
V.325 Willy Van Ness n.d.
V.326 Fariha Friedrich 4/22/2003
V.327 Tom & Jane Doyle 5/8/2003
V.328 Elizabeth Smith 5/8/2003
V.329 Valerie Giles 5/15/2003
V.330 Mona Hadler 5/15/2003
V.331 [Lee] Bontecou (1) n.d.
V.332 Bontecou (2) n.d.
V.333 Bontecou (3) n.d.
V.334 Bontecou (4) 5/22/2003
V.335 Barbara Castelli 5/27/2003
V.336 Tony Ganz 6/1/2003
V.337 Lois Dodd

Cassette case marked "Judith Goldman/Anne Friedman" (n.d.), while the cassette itself is marked in Dodd's name.

6/3/2003
V.338 Bontecou (5) 6/6/2003
V.339 Bontecou (6); Bill Giles 6/6, 6/7/2003
V.340 Bill Giles and Lee Bontecou 6/7/2003
V.341 Anne Philbin 6/9/2003
V.342 Daniel Weinberg 6/10/2003
V.343 Michael Rosenfeld, Hallie Harrisburg 6/16/2003
V.344 Christos [Jeanne-Claude and Christo] (1) 8/12/2003
V.345 Cai Guo-Qiang 9/3/2003
V.346 Ted Kheel 11/3/2003
V.347 Christos (2) 11/9/2003
V.348 Vince Davenport 11/10/2003
V.349 Gordon Davis; Patricia Harris 11/12/2003, 12/5/2003
V.350 Al Maysles; Kate Levin

Cassette case marked only "Al Maysles 11/15/2003"

11/15/2003, 1/26/2004
V.351 Betsy Barlow Rogers; Richard Gilder 11/20/2003, 1/15/2004
V.352 Evelyn Lauder; Regine Peruggi 11/24/2003, 12/5/2003
V.353 Wolfgang Volz; Adrian Benepe 11/25/2003, 12/5/2003
V.354 Doug Blonsky; Henry Stern 12/11/2003, 1/15/2004
V.355 Aggie Gund; Scott Hodes 12/11/2003, 1/29/2004
V.356 [Philippe] de Montebello et al.; Mayor Bloomsberg @News Conference

Cassette actually marked "1/22/2003"
Side A: "de Montebello et al."
Side B: "Bloomberg, Benepe, Christos Press Conf."

12/19/2003, 1/22/2004
V.357 Eugene McCarthy (1) 12/30/2003
V.358 Eugene McCarthy (2) 12/30/2003
V.359 Christos (3) 1/11/2004
V.360 Christos (4) 1/11/2004
V.361 Christos (4) n.d.
V.362 Christos (4) 1/23/2004
V.363 Christos (5) 2/2/2004
V.364 Glenn Lowry 2/2/2004
V.365 James Coddington on "Demoiselles", MoMA 4/21/2004
V.366 John Elderfield on "Demoiselles" 4/23/2004
V.367 Altman (1) 4/27/2004
V.368 Massimiliano on Maurizio C. [Cattelan] 5/12/2004
V.369 Altman (2) 5/14/2004
V.370 Altman (1) 5/14/2004
V.371 Maurizio Cattelan (2) 5/24/2004
V.372 Maurizio Cattelan (2)

Cassette case marked "5/24/2005"

5/25/2004
V.373 Maurizio Cattelan (3) 5/25/2004
V.374 Emanuel Perrotin 5/29/2004
V.375 Ali Subotnik 5/31/2004
V.376 Jeffrey Deitch

Cassette marked "Laura Hoptman 6/8/2004"

6/2/2004
V.377 Jeffrey Deitch 6/2/2004
V.378 Marian Goodman 6/7/2004
V.379 Laura Hauptman; Elizabeth Peyton 6/10/2004, 6/21/2004
V.380 Maurizio, Paris 6/14/2004
V.381 Rirkrit (?) Tiraranga; Hans Obrist; MC - Paris 6/14/2004
V.382 Maurizio @Beaux Arts and @Cafe Flore 6/15/2004
V.383 Maurizio - Paris (Clichy) 6/15/2004, 6/16/2004
V.384 Catherine Ceremie; Gabriel Orozco 6/16/2004, 6/17/2004
V.385 Maurizio - on the Quai 6/16/2004, 6/17/2004
V.386 Hans Ulrich Obrist & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 6/17/2004
V.387 Massimo di Carlo; Massimiliano Gione 6/23/2004
V.388 Chrissie Isles 6/24/2004
V.389 Francesco Bonami 6/26/2004
V.390 Maurizio 7/10/2004
V.391 Maurizio (cont.) 7/10/2004
V.392 David White 11/4/2004
V.393 Paul Schimmel 11/14/2004
V.394 Bob Rauschenberg (1) 12/12/2004
V.395 Bob Rauschenberg (2) 12/12/2004, 12/13/2004
V.396 Bob Rauschenberg (3) 12/13/2004
V.397 Susan Davidson 12/21/2004
V.398 Jasper Johns 12/28/2004
V.399 Adam Weinberg (1) 12/30/2004
V.400 Adam Weinberg (2) 12/30/2004
V.401 Chris Rauschenberg; Trisha Brown 1/5/2005, 1/10/2005
V.402 John Elderfield 1/13/2005
V.403 Antonio Homem 1/13/2005
V.404 Michael Govan 1/14/2005
V.405 Darryl Pattorf 1/14/2005
V.406 Jim Rosenquist 1/19/2005
V.407 Jeff Koons; Jeffrey Deitch 1/21/2005, 1/22/2005
V.408 [Jeffrey] Deitch (2) 1/22/2005
V.409 Anne Glimcher 1/24/2005
V.410 Joachim Pissarro 1/26/2005
V.411 Leo Steinberg 2/9/2005
V.412 [Robert] Rauschenberg 2/22/2005
V.413 Rirkrit [Tiravanija] (1) 3/2/2005
V.414 Gavin Brown 3/9/2005
V.415 Rirkrit (2) 3/14/2005
V.416 Liz Linden 3/19/2005
V.417 Ann Temkin on Rikrit 3/21/2005
V.418 Laura Hoptman 3/22/2005
V.419 Keith Christiansen; Dorothy Mahon 3/22/2005, 4/6/2005
V.420 Rirkrit (3) 3/23/2005
V.421 Joan Young [on Rikrit] 3/24/2005
V.422 Elizabeth Peyton 3/24/2005
V.423 John Kessler 3/31/2005
V.424 Adam Weinberg (3) 4/4/2005
V.425 Philippe de Montebello; George Visacea 4/6/2005
V.426 Thelma Golden 4/7/2005
V.427 Philippe Perreno; Glenn Lowry re: David Rockefeller 4/7/2005, 5/17/2005
V.428 Nicholas Hall 4/11/2005
V.429 Keith Christiansen (2) 4/12/2005
V.430 Keith Christiansen (3) 5/2/2005
V.431 Rirkrit (4) 5/12/2005
V.432 David Rockefeller 5/13/2005
V.433 Bruce Ferguson 5/17/2005
V.434 Rirkrit (5) 5/18/2005
V.435 Amanda - Everett Fahy; Rochelle Steiner 5/19/2005
V.436 Nancy Spector 5/23/2005
V.437 Molly Nesbitt 6/6/2005
V.438 Antoinette Gurel 6/6/2005
V.439 Rirkrit (6) 6/8/2005
V.440 Rirkrit (6) [6/8/2005]
V.441 Liam Gillick 6/13/2005
V.442 Adam Weinberg (4) 6/20/2005
V.443 Eric Parker 6/22/2005
V.444 Rochelle Steiner; Francesca Grass 7/1/2005, 7/3/2005
V.445 Rirkrit (London) (7) 7/2/2005, 7/3/2005
V.446 Hans Ulrich Obrist 7/3/2005
V.447 Rirkrit (8); Gavin Brown 7/4/2005
V.448 David Ross; Richard Flood 7/22/2005
V.449 Rikrit 8/29/2005
V.450 Elisabeth Sussman 9/14/2005
V.451 B. Haskell 9/15/2005
V.452 Jennifer Russell 9/16/2005
V.453 Carol Mancusi-Ungaro 9/19/2005
V.454 Renzo Piano 9/21/2005
V.455 B. Haskell (2) 9/21/2005
V.456 Lorraine 9/26/2005
V.457 Donna di Salvo 9/27/2005
V.458 Tom Armstrong 9/27/2005
V.459 Milton & Mickey Freedman 10/3/2005
V.460 Max Anderson 10/4/2005
V.461 Chuck Close 10/5/2005
V.462 David Ross 10/7/2005
V.463 Chrissie Isles 10/11/2005
V.464 Leonard Lauder; Flora Biddle 10/19/2005
V.465 Weinbergs (Jim and Bunny) 10/20/2005
V.466 Philippe Vergne 10/22/2005
V.467 Adam [Weinberg] - Tuttle Installation at the Whitney 11/3/2005
V.468 Adam [Weinberg] (5) 11/10/2005
V.469 Adam [Weinberg] (6) 11/15/2005
V.470 Adam [Weinberg] (7) 11/22/2005
V.471 Adam [Weinberg] (8) 12/7/2005
V.472 Barnaby Furnas 2/6/2006
V.473 Jeffrey Weiss; Leo Steinberg 2/20/2006, 2/22/2006
V.474 School Days (2)

Tape likely made for Talk piece, "Dept. of Precocity: Artists in Their Youth," 2/27/2006

n.d.
V.475 J. Johns (1) 2/28/2006
V.476 Jasper Johns (2) 3/1/2006
V.477 J. Johns (3) 3/1/2006
V.478 J. Johns (4) 3/2/2006
V.479 Jeffrey Deitch 3/18/2006
V.480 Jeffrey Weiss 5/4/2006
V.481 Johns (5) 5/12/2006
V.482 Johns (6) 5/12/2006
V.483 Michael Fitzgerald; David Salle 5/17/2006, 7/22/2006
V.484 Terry Riley (2); George Condo 5/23/2006, 6/16/2006
V.485 Robert Menschel 6/15/2006
V.486 Kathy Halbreich 6/16/2006
V.487 Johns (6) 7/23/2006
V.488 Johns (7) 7/23/2006
V.489 Johns (8) 7/23/2006
V.490 John Currin 8/24/2006
V.491 George Condo 9/26/2006
V.492 Merce Cunningham on J.J. 9/27/2006
V.493 Roberta Bernstein 9/28/2006
V.494 Condo, Cattelan, Gioni 9/28/2006
V.495 Cattelman, Furnas, and Condo on Jasper Johns 10/26/2006
V.496 Jeffrey Deitch and Julian Lethbridge on Johns 11/1/2006
V.497 Francis Naumann on J.J. 11/3/2006
V.498 J. Johns (9) 11/5/2006

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Box and Folder List

File numbers marked by an asterisk (*) indicate oversize material that has been separated to the end of the collection.
Researchers should include the asterisk when issuing a request for such material.
Series Folder Range Box
I 1-13 1
I 14-22 2
I 23-30 3
I 31-37 4
I 38-44 5
I 45-54 6
I 55-63 7
I 64-71 8
I 72-78 9
I 79-85 10
I 86-89 11
II.A 1-16 12
II.A 17-28 13
II.A 29-41 14
II.A 42-51 15
II.A 52-62 16
II.A 63-71 17
II.A 72-81 18
II.A 82-91 19
II.A 92-99 20
II.A 100-108 21
II.A 109-117 22
II.A 118-127 23
II.A 128-137 24
II.A 138-146 25
II.A 147-154 26
II.A 155-164 27
II.A 165-173 28
II.A 174-179 29
II.B 1-14 30
II.B 15-28 31
II.B 29-39 32
II.B 40-46 33
II.B 47-53 34
II.B 54-59 35
II.B 60-66 36
II.B 67-70 37
III 1-10 38
III 11-22 39
III 23-37 40
III 38-51 41
III 52-65 42
III 66-81 43
III 82-104 44
III 105-130 45
III 131-156 46
IV.A 1 47
IV.B 1-9
IV.B 10-18 48
IV.B 19-29 49
IV.B 30-36 50
IV.B 37-47 51
IV.C 1-28 52
IV.C 29-49 53
IV.C 50-61 54
IV.D 1-11 55
IV.D 12-20 56
IV.D 21-29 57
IV.D 30-39 58
IV.D 40-50 59
IV.D 51-59 60
IV.D 60-67 61
IV.D 68-69* 92
IV.E 1-4* 91
V 1-3, 9 62
V 4-8, 10-22 63
V 23-40 64
V 41-59 65
V 60-79 66
V 80-99 67
V 100-117 68
V 118-135 69
V 136-153 70
V 154-171 71
V 172-189 72
V 190-207 73
V 208-226 74
V 227-245 75
V 246-263 76
V 264-281 77
V 282-299 78
V 300-317 79
V 318-335 80
V 336-353 81
V 354-371 82
V 372-391 83
V 392-408 84
V 409-426 85
V 427-444 86
V 445-464 87
V 465-484 88
V 485-498 89
IV.D 68-69* 90 (Oversized)
IV.E 1-4* 91 (Oversized)


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