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Tomkins, Calvin, 1925-
Calvin Tomkins Papers
1962-2006
1860-2006
32 linear feet
61 5" manuscript boxes
28 5.5" audiocassette boxes
1 16.25x20.25" and 1 11.75x17.5" oversized flat boxes
Professional papers of Calvin Tomkins, author, journalist, and contributor to theThe New Yorkermagazine.
The records are inEnglish.
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
Newsweekfrom 1957 to 1961. His first contributions toThe New Yorkerwere 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 atThe New Yorkeruntil the present.
Tomkins' initial contributions to
The New Yorkerwere 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 Yorkeritself 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 atThe 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 inThe New Yorkerin 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 Yorkerappeared.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 publishedOff 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 Warholby 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); andRoy Lichtenstein: Mural with Blue Brushstroke, with Bob Adelman (New York: Abrams, 1987). With Judy Tomkins, he wroteThe 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 toBuckminster 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 Biographywas 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 forThe New Yorkeruntil 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 Yorkerbetween 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 Yorkerbetween 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 forThe New Yorkerduring 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) orThe 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 forLiving 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.
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
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 Yorkercan be found in the Museum Library.
The Archives of American Art holds the
Dodie Kazanjian Paperswhich 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 toThe New Yorkerup to the date of processing.
Tomkins, Calvin, 1925- -- Archives.
Kazanjian, Dodie, 1952- -- Archives.
Art critics -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources.
Biographers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources.
Journalists -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography -- Sources.
Art, American -- 20th century -- Sources.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources.
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925- -- Archives.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y) -- History -- Archives.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Archives.
New Yorker -- History -- Sources.
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Archives.
Interviews.
Personal papers.
Correspondence.
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 2022. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archivist.
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
CTis Calvin Tomkins.
DKis Dodie Kazanjian.
TNYis
The New Yorkermagazine.
MoMAis The Museum of Modern Art.
ALSis an Autograph Letter Signed.
ALSis an Autograph Letter Signed.
ACSis an Autograph Card Signed.
TCis a Typed Card.
TCSis a Typed Card Signed.
TLis a Typed Letter.
TLSis 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 Yorkeris 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 byThe 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 booksMerchants and MasterpiecesandLiving 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.
1
I.1
Correspondence
Contracts and correspondence concerning "The Lewis and Clark Trail" (later retitled "The Journals of Lewis and Clark") andThe 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
1
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
1
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
1
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 Masterpiecespromotion]
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
1
I.5
Correspondence
Contract for the publication ofEric Hoffer: An American Odysseyby 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 forMerchants 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
1
I.6
Correspondence
Incl. Final contracts and correspondence forMerchants and Masterpieces.
1968-1969
1
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 ofLiving 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
1
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 ofLiving Well….
1970-1971
1
I.9
Correspondence
1 TLS Roger Angell-CT (3/7/n.y.)
Contract for Brazilian edition ofLiving Well…
Contract with Grossman Publishers forThe Other Hamptons.
1971-1972
1
I.10
Correspondence
Correspondence with various individuals concerning Fuller biography
1 TLS R. Buckminster Fuller-CT (9/25/1973)
1 TLS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (7/13/1973) and correspondence with her assistant proposing TNY Profile
1 TLS Jacob Javits-CT (5/28/1973)
1 TLS Senator Edward Kennedy-CT (11/9/1973).
1972-1973
1
I.11
Correspondence
1 TLS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (12/3/1974)
2 TL CT-Georgia O'Keeffe (3/19, 4/20/1974)
2 ALS Hazel and Paul Strand-CT (3/7/1974, n.d.)
1 ALS Margaret Barr (Mrs. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.)-CT (4/22/1974)
1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (1/19/1974).
1973-1974
1
I.12
Correspondence
Various correspondence regardingThe Scene…
4 TLS Michael (Mike) Murphy (The Esalen Institute)-CT (6/25, 5/5, 4/15, 12/1/n.y.)
1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (1/20/1975)
1 TLS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (2/7/1975)
1 TCS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (3/11/1975)
1 TLS Philip Johnson-CT (1/8/1975)
1 TLS Julia Child-CT (1/2/1972).
1974-1975
1
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 toCasuals, story entitled "The Master of Mill House".
1976-1977
2
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
2
I.15
Correspondence
Correspondence and fan mail concerning article onRunning Fenceand 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
2
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
2
I.17
Correspondence
1 TLS Julia and Paul Child-CT (1/11/1978).
1977-1978
2
I.18
Correspondence
2 TLS Roger Angell-CT (11/26, 12/13/1979)
1 TLS R. Buckminster Fuller-CT (8/27/1979).
1979
2
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
2
I.20
Correspondence
1980
2
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
2
I.22
Correspondence
1 ALS Nam Jun Paik-CT (n.d.)
2 ACS Robert Arneson-CT (8/5, 9/16/1980).
1980
3
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
3
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
3
I.25
Correspondence
1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (1/17/1981)
1 TLS Hans Namuth-CT (11/28/1980).
1980-1981
3
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
3
I.27
Correspondence
1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (6/29/1982)
1 TLS Victor Ganz-CT (6/10/1982).
1982
3
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
3
I.29
Correspondence
1 ALS Romare Bearden-CT (12/7/n.y.)
Various correspondence regarding abandonment of Fuller biography.
1983
3
I.30
Correspondence
1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (8/15/1983).
1983
4
I.31
Correspondence
1983
4
I.32
Correspondence
1982-1983
4
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
4
I.34
Correspondence
1 ALS Merce Cunningham-CT (7/29/1984).
1984
4
I.35
Correspondence
1 TC Julia Child-CT (2/17/1984)
1 TLS Siah Armajani-CT (/22/1984).
1983-1984
4
I.36
Correspondence
1 ALS Siah Armajani (11/10/1985).
1985
4
I.37
Correspondence
1985
5
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
5
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
5
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
5
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
5
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
5
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 ofMerchants and Masterpieces.]
1987
5
I.44
Correspondence
1 ACS Carl Andre(?)-CT (1/17/1987).
1986-1987
6
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 onThe Irisesby van Gogh].
1988
6
I.46
Correspondence
1 ALS (photocopy) CT-Walter Keep (headmaster professor, Berkshire School) (n.d.) from CT's freshman year at Princeton.
1988
6
I.47
Correspondence
1 TLS Jerome Gold-CT (9/26/1989) [re: arranging interview with Madame Juliette Man Ray for Duchamp biography].
1989
6
I.48
Correspondence
1989
6
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
6
I.50
Correspondence
1 TLS Philip Johnson-CT (10/31/1990).
1990
6
I.51
Correspondence
1 TCS Clement Greenberg-CT (6/19/1990)
1 ALS Siah Armajani-CT (5/10/1990).
1990
6
I.52
Correspondence
1991
6
I.53
Correspondence
1 ALS Sally Ganz-CT (n.d.)
1 TLS Daniel J. Boorstin-CT (12/14/1990).
1990-1991
6
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
7
I.55
Correspondence
2 ACS Jeanne-Claude and Christo-DK and CT (n.d).
1991-1992
7
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
7
I.57
Correspondence
1 TLS Richard Avedon-CT (6/17/1993)
1 ACS Siah Armajani-CT and DK (1993).
1992-1993
7
I.58
Correspondence
1993-1994
7
I.59
Correspondence
1 TLS Siam Armajani-CT and DK (11/25/1995).
1994-1995
7
I.60
Correspondence
Large amount of responses to the publication ofDuchamp: A Biography
1 TLS Leonard Lauder-CT and DK (12/16/1996)
1 TLS Richard Avedon-CT (12/10/1996).
1996
7
I.61
Correspondence
1996
7
I.62
Correspondence
Packet of drawings and letter from illustrator Jon Sarkin.
1996
7
I.63
Correspondence
Handmade booklet and other drawings by Jon Sarkin.
1997
8
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
8
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
8
I.66
Correspondence
Corr. from the MoMA and the Getty each discussing possibility of receiving CT's papers.
1997
8
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
8
I.68
Correspondence
1997
8
I.69
Correspondence
Correspondence regarding Modern Library edition ofLiving Well….
1998-1999
8
I.70
Correspondence
1 TLS Sylvie Boissonnas [sister of Dominique de Menil]-CT (5/15/1998).
1998
8
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
9
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
9
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
9
I.74
Correspondence
1 ALS Leonard Lauder-CT (n.d.)
1 ALS Glenn Lowry-CT (2/11/1999).
1999
9
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
9
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
9
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
9
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
10
I.79
Correspondence
2002
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.
10
I.80
Correspondence
2002
Further responses to "Can Art be Taught?", correspondence from MoMA Library Council and discussion of archive (including a note from Glen Lowry).
10
I.81
Correspondence
2003-2004
Includes correspondence regarding the small exhibition of CT's papers at MoMA, program from memorial tribute to Kirk Varnedoe.
10
I.82
Correspondence
2003
Includes readers' responses to Profile on Matthew Barney and other articles.
10
I.83
Correspondence
2004-2005
Reader's responses to the autobiographical sketch, "Summer Afternoon," and Profile on Maurizio Cattelan.
10
I.84
Correspondence
2004
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.
10
I.85
Correspondence
2005
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).
11
I.86
Correspondence
2005
Includes 1 ACS Jeanne-Claude & Christo-CT (n.d).
11
I.87
Correspondence
2005
Includes 1 ACS Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gione-CT and DK (n.d).
11
I.88
Correspondence
2006
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.
11
I.89
Correspondence
2005-2006
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 exhibitionRobert Rauschenberg: Combinesat The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Series II: MajorNew YorkerArticles
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 Yorkermagazine 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 Yorkerwith 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 forLiving 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.
12
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 ofThe 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
12
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
12
II.A.3
Profile: "Beyond the Machine," Jean Tinguely
[Original folder title "Homage New York"]
1966 newspaper from the Modern Museet, Stockholm, printed tirade against Tinguely andHomage to New York.
2/10/1962
12
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 Deniseren (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
12
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
12
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
12
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
12
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
12
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
12
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
12
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
12
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
12
II.A.13
Profile: "Moving Out," Robert Rauschenberg
Tear sheet of Profile only.
2/29/1964
Interview notes and other materials gathered for this article were later dispersed by CT among the files of Series IV.C.
12
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
12
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
12
II.A.16
Profile: "Not Seen And/Or Less Seen," Marcel Duchamp
Tear sheet of Profile only.
2/6/1965
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.
13
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
13
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
14
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
14
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
14
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
14
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
14
II.A.33
Profile: "Moving with the Flow," Henry Geldzahler
Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft (3/18/1971).
11/6/1971
14
II.A.34
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Maybe a Quantum Leap" Earth Art
1 ACS Robert Smithson-CT (9/8/1971) [re:Spiral Jetty]
Articles, news clippings, press release, reader correspondence, gallery pamphlets and brochure, draft typescript with hand edits (n.d).
2/5/1972
14
II.A.35
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Maybe a Quantum Leap" Earth Art
[Original folder title: "Christo Valley Curtain"]
1 ACS Howard Junker-CT (n.d.) [re: earthworks]
2 ACS Jeanne-Claude and Christo-CT (12/28/1970, 1/3/1970?) [re: holiday greetings]
3 ALS Christo-CT (n.d., 11/19/1970, 6/17/1970) [re: Valley Curtain planning and specifications]
Research notes of interviews with Jan Van der Marck and Christo, press releases from the Valley Curtain Corporation, news clippings, exhibition pamphlet of Valley Curtain documentation, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, expenses
Photographs of preparatory drawings and final installation.
2/5/1972
14
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
14
II.A.37
Profile: "All Pockets Open," Jonas Mekas
Tear sheets of Profile, typescript with hand edits.
1/6/1973
14
II.A.38
Profile: "The Black People of Bridgehampton," Bridgehampton, Long Island
Correspondence from residents, report of concerned parents committee, various notes on contacts and questions, news clippings.
9/10/1973
14
II.A.39
Profile: "The Black People of Bridgehampton," Bridgehampton, Long Island
Typescript draft with hand edits (11/30/1972).
9/10/1973
14
II.A.40
Profile: "The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine," Georgia O'Keeffe
1 ACS Georgia O'Keeffe-Unknown (n.d.)
3 TLS Georgia O'Keeffe-CT (8/9, 9/7, and 12/10/1973, 5/7/1974) [re: arrangements for CT visit, response to draft of article, and various other thoughts]
1 TLS Virginia F. Robertson [assistant to O'Keeffe]-CT (8/29/1973) [re: arrangements for visit]
Biographical notes, bibliographies, photocopies of secondary materials, photocopy of two-page typescript of O'Keeffe recollections, some letters in response to Profile.
3/4/1974
14
II.A.41
Profile: "The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine," Georgia O'Keeffe
Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (n.d.), full-page advertisement for TNY using O'Keeffe Profile, expenses, news clippings and magazine article from after O'Keeffe's death.
3/4/1974
15
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 bookThe Roots of Civilization]
News clippings, articles, magazines on archeology and cave art; reader and research correspondence.
4/22/1974
15
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
15
II.A.44
A Reporter at Large: "Thinking in Time" Alexander Marshack
Articles, news clippings, promotional pages and other materials regardingThe Roots of Civilization, list of contacts, expenses, tear sheets of article.
4/22/1974
15
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
15
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
15
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
15
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
15
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
15
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
15
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
16
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 ofEinstein….
1/13/1975
16
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
16
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 inArtforum]
MoMA press release from Barbara London onProjects: Peter Campus[MoMA Exh. # 1159, December 10, 1976-January 18, 1977], contacts list, various materials regarding video artists Ture Sjlander and Bror Wikstrm, 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
16
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
16
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
16
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
16
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
16
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
16
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
16
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 toJasper 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 his18 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
16
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
17
II.A.63
Profile: "Ridiculous," Charles Ludlam
Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits, research notes, theater programs, news clippings,The Drama Review18:2 (June, 1974) with articles by Charles Ludlam and Richard Foreman.
11/15/1976
17
II.A.64
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Running Fence," Christo
News clippings, curriculum vitae of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, official photographs ofWrapped Reichstagand fact sheet of project, research notes, typescript draft with hand edits (10/12/1976).
3/28/1977
17
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
17
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
17
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 Forum138:1 (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
17
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
17
II.A.69
Profile: "Forms Under Light," Philip Johnson
Tear sheets of Profile, typescript draft with hand edits (7/26/1976).
5/23/1977
17
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 forEssencemagazine
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
17
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
18
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
18
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 ofBat 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
18
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
18
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
18
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
18
II.A.77
Profile: "A Good Eye and a Good Ear," Leo Castelli
Research notes, article, tear sheets of Profile.
5/26/1980
18
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
18
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
18
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
18
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
19
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 ofPrimitivism in 20th Century Artby Thomas McEvilley inArtforumand draft of later Rubin rebuttal to McEvilley's response, articles, news clippings, MoMA press releases relating to Rubin's career.
11/4/1985
19
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 exhibitionMiró/Artigas: Terres de Grand Feu, at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, with essay by Bernier, contacts list.
1/19/1987
19
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
19
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
19
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
19
II.A.87
A Reporter at Large: "Irises," Art Auctions
[Original folder title: "Tanguy et al. (Doucet, Mirbeau, Fnon, Poiet)"]
Copies of articles and book extracts.
4/4/1988
19
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
19
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
19
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 andIrises, catalogue of the Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art.
4/4/1988
19
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
20
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
20
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
20
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
20
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
20
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 onTilted Arcby Richard Serra, photocopy of typescript Profile draft (n.d).
3/19/1990
20
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
20
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
20
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
21
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
21
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
21
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
21
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 ofThe Last Time I Saw Farus, a history of the Farus Gallery, expenses, research and interview notes.
7/29/1991
21
II.A.104
Profile: "A Touch for the Now," Walter Hopps
Typescript draft of Profile (3/18/1991).
7/29/1991
21
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
21
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
21
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
21
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
22
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
22
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
22
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
22
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
22
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
22
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 ofInland 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
22
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
22
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
22
II.A.117
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley
Process: Architecture108 (February 1983), Japanese periodical, issue title: "Dan Kiley: Landscape Design II," curriculum vitae of the Office of Dan Kiley.
10/16/1995
23
II.A.118
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry
Tear sheets of article, articles, news clippings.
7/7/1997
23
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
23
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
23
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
23
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
23
II.A.123
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry
[Original folder title: "Other architects"]
News clippings, articles, press releases.
7/7/1997
23
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
23
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
23
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
23
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
24
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
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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
24
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
24
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
24
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
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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 projectsCanyon WalkandTour et Fil, news clippings.
4/5/1999
24
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
24
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
24
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
24
II.A.137
Profile: "After Shock," Damien Hirst
News clippings, articles, some small notes and research correspondence, exhibition booklet and ephemera.
9/20/1999
25
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
25
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
25
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
25
II.A.141
Profile: "Her Secret Identities," Cindy Sherman
News clippings, articles, press releases.
5/15/2000
25
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
25
II.A.143
Profile: "The Big Picture," Andreas Gursky
Photocopy of Profile, tear sheet of Profile reprint inModern Painters, curriculum vitae of Gursky, research notes, correspondence, interview transcripts from other sources, expense receipts, news clippings, articles.
1/22/2001
25
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
25
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 ofModern Starts: Things[MoMA Exh. #1838, November 17(21), 1999-March 14, 2000] by Frank Stella.
11/5/2001
25
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
26
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
26
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
26
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
26
II.A.150
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan
Photocopy ofReport of the Committee on the Visual Arts at Harvard University(Cambridge: The University) 1956.
4/15/2002
26
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
26
II.A.152
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan
Brochures, pamphlets, and event calendars from Harvard.
4/15/2002
26
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
26
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
27
II.A.155
Profile: "His Body, Himself," Matthew Barney
Photocopy of Profile, one page of notes, article.
1/27/2003
27
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
27
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
27
II.A.158
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Mission," Dia Art Foundation
News clippings and magazine articles.
5/19/2003
27
II.A.159
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Mission," Dia Art Foundation
News clippings and magazine articles.
5/19/2003
27
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
27
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
27
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
27
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
27
II.A.164
Profile: "Missing in Action," Lee Bontecou
Article, book extracts, and news clippings.
8/4/2003
28
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 forThe Gates, press releases, ten color slides of preparatory drawings ofThe Gates.
3/29/2004
28
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 onThe GatesandThe Umbrellas, research correspondence and notes.
3/29/2004
28
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 forThe Gatesbetween 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
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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
28
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
28
II.A.170
Profile: "The Prankster," Maurizio Cattelan
News clippings, articles, pamphlets and brochures.
10/4/2004
28
II.A.171
Profile: "Everything in Sight," Robert Rauschenberg
5/23/2005
Photocopy of article, sheet of color reproductions of Irving Penn's photographs for article, five 8x10 color prints of recent Rauschenberg works.
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II.A.172
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Missing Madonna,"Madonna and Childby Duccio di Buoninsegna
7/11/2005
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.
28
II.A.173
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Missing Madonna,"Madonna and Childby Duccio di Buoninsegna
7/11/2005
News clippings, press releases, book extracts, research notes.
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II.A.174
Profile: "Shall We Dance?" Rirkrit Tiravanija
10/17/2005
Photocopy of article, typescript draft of article, biographical material and copy of the Guggenheim members magazine.
29
II.A.175
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "How American is It?" The Whitney Museum
3/13/2006
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).
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II.A.176
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "How American is It?" The Whitney Museum
3/13/2006
Typescript draft of article (n.d.), book photocopies, news clippings.
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II.A.177
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "How American is It?" The Whitney Museum
3/13/2006
[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.
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II.A.178
Profile: "The Mind's Eye," Jasper Johns
12/11/2006
Photocopy of article, interview notes, photocopies of research binder material, some material from earlier interviews, typescript draft of article.
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II.A.179
Profile: "The Mind's Eye," Jasper Johns
12/11/2006
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.
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.
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II.B.1
Profile: "A Thing Among Things," Richard Lippold
3/30/1963
30
II.B.2
A Reporter at Large: "The Last Skill Acquired"
9/14/1963
30
II.B.3
Profile: "Woomera has It!," John R. Pierce
9/21/1963
30
II.B.4
Profile: "Moving Out," Robert Rauschenberg
2/29/1964
30
II.B.5
Profile: "Figure in an Imaginary Landscape," John Cage
11/28/1964
30
II.B.6
Profile: "In the Outlaw Area," R. Buckminster Fuller
1/8/1966
30
II.B.7
Profile: "The Creative Situation," Eric Hoffer
Includes correspondence concerning photographs of Hoffer.
1/7/1967
30
II.B.8
Profile: "The Very Rich Hours of Joe Levine," Joseph E. Levine
9/16/1967
30
II.B.9
Profile: "A Certain Attitude Toward Change," Samuel B. Gould
12/18/1967
30
II.B.10
Profile: "An Appetite for Motion," Merce Cunningham
5/4/1968
30
II.B.11
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "E.A.T."
10/3/1970
30
II.B.12
Profile: "Moving with the Flow," Henry Geldzahler
11/6/1971
30
II.B.13
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Maybe a Quantum Leap" Earth Art
2/5/1972
30
II.B.14
Profile: "All Pockets Open," Jonas Mekas
1/6/1973
31
II.B.15
Profile: "The Black People of Bridgehampton"
9/10/1973
31
II.B.16
Profile: "The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine," Georgia O'Keeffe
3/4/1974
31
II.B.17
Profile: "Look to the Things Around You," Paul Strand
9/16/1974
31
II.B.18
Profile: "Good Cooking," Julia Child
12/23/1974
31
II.B.19
Profile: "Time to Think," Robert Wilson
Includes tear sheets of Profile, theater program.
1/13/1975
31
II.B.20
Profile: "Video Visionary," Nam June Paik
5/5/1975
31
II.B.21
Profile: "A Keeper of the Treasure," Betty Parsons
6/9/1975
31
II.B.22
Profile: "New Paradigms," Michael Murphy
1/5/1976
31
II.B.23
Profile: "The Moods of a Stone," Tatyana Grossman
6/7/1976
31
II.B.24
Profile: "Ridiculous," Charles Ludlam
11/15/1976
31
II.B.25
Profile: "Forms Under Light," Philip Johnson
5/23/1977
31
II.B.26
Profile: "Putting Something Over Something Else," Romare Bearden
11/28/1977
31
II.B.27
Profile: "Look What I've Got Here," Claes Oldenburg
12/12/1977
31
II.B.28
Profile: "A Good Monster," Pontus Hulten
1/16/1978
32
II.B.29
Profile: "A Good Eye and a Good Ear," Leo Castelli
5/26/1980
32
II.B.30
Profile: "The Space Around Real Things," Frank Stella
9/10/1984
32
II.B.31
Profile: "Sharpening the Eye," William S. Rubin
11/4/1985
32
II.B.32
Profile: "Stage Pictures," Rosamond Bernier
1/19/1987
32
II.B.33
Profile: "Colored Muds in a Sticky Substance," John M. Brealey
3/16/1987
32
II.B.34
A Reporter at Large: "Irises"
[Original binder title: "David Nash Sotheby's"].
4/4/1988
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II.B.35
Profile: "A Sense of Urgency," Marian Wright Edelman
3/27/1989
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II.B.36
Profile: "Open, Available, Useful," Siah Armajani
3/19/1990
32
II.B.37
Profile: "For the Nation," J. Carter Brown
9/3/1990
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II.B.38
Profile: "A Single Person Making a Single Thing," Richard Benson
12/17/1990
32
II.B.39
Profile: "A Touch for the Now," Walter Hopps
7/29/1991
33
II.B.40
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Piano Principle," Renzo Piano
8/22/1994
33
II.B.41
Profile: "Artist Unknown," Albert York
6/19/1995
33
II.B.42
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley
Includes entire interview transcripts.
10/16/1995
33
II.B.43
Profile: "The Garden Artist," Dan Kiley
Includes entire interview transcripts.
10/16/1995
33
II.B.44
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry
7/7/1997
33
II.B.45
The Sky Line: "The Maverick," Frank Gehry
7/7/1997
33
II.B.46
Profile: "The Importance of Being Elitist," Philippe de Montebello
11/24/1997
34
II.B.47
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil
6/8/1998
34
II.B.48
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Benefactor," Dominique de Menil
6/8/1998
34
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
34
II.B.50
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Man Who Walks on Air," Philippe Petit
4/5/1999
34
II.B.51
Profile: "After Shock," Damien Hirst
9/20/1999
34
II.B.52
Profile: "An Eye for the New," Ileana Sonnabend
1/17/2000
34
II.B.53
Profile: "An Eye for the New," Ileana Sonnabend
1/17/2000
35
II.B.54
Profile: "Her Secret Identities," Cindy Sherman
5/15/2000
35
II.B.55
Profile: "The Tennis Artist," John McEnroe
9/4/2000
35
II.B.56
Profile: "The Big Picture," Andreas Gursky
1/22/2001
35
II.B.57
Profile: "Schnabel in Lights," Julian Schnabel
3/19/2001
35
II.B.58
Profile: "The Modernist," Kirk Varnedoe
11/5/2001
35
II.B.59
Department of Education: "Can Art Be Taught?," Ellen Phelan
4/15/2002
36
II.B.60
Profile: "Man of Steel," Richard Serra
8/5/2002
36
II.B.61
Profile: "Flying Into the Light," James Turrell
1/13/2003
36
II.B.62
Profile: "His Body, Himself," Matthew Barney
1/27/2003
36
II.B.63
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Mission," Dia Art Foundation
5/19/2003
36
II.B.64
Profile: "Missing in Action," Lee Bontecou
8/4/2003
36
II.B.65
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "The Gates to the City," Jeanne-Claude and Christo
3/29/2004
36
II.B.66
Profile: "The Prankster," Maurizio Cattelan
10/4/2004
37
II.B.67
Profile: "Everything in Sight," Robert Rauschenberg
5/23/2005
37
II.B.68
Profile: "Shall We Dance?" Rirkrit Tiravanija
10/17/2005
37
II.B.69
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "How American is It?" The Whitney Museum
3/13/2006
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II.B.70
Profile: "The Mind's Eye," Jasper Johns
12/11/2006
Series III: Art World Reviews and Other Writings
1970-2006
Throughout his career with
The New Yorker, Tomkins wrote occasional pieces for other publications including essays for books (such as exhibition and auction catalogs and artist monographs) and contributions to seminars and conferences. Included here are pieces on Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Buckminster Fuller. But the following series comprises mostly reviews and smaller pieces of writing Tomkins composed forThe New Yorkerbetween 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.
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III.1
"Raggedy Andy," Andy Warhol
1970
Essay published in exhibition catalogue by John Coplans,Andy Warhol(Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1970).
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III.2
The Art World: "Matisse's Armchair," Pattern Painting
2/25/1980
Includes typescript notes and quotes of interview with Holly Solomon and Daniel Templeton.
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III.3
The Art World: "Matisse's Armchair," Pattern Painting
2/25/1980
Exhibition catalogs only.
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III.4
The Art World: "Matisse's Armchair," Pattern Painting
2/25/1980
[Original folder title: "Pattern/Decoration"]
Exhibition catalogs .
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III.5
The Art World: "Rocks," Isamu Noguchi
2/25/1980
Includes typescript draft and interview notes.
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III.6
The Art World: "The Art Incarnate," Andy Warhol
5/5/1980
Handwritten notes only. .
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III.7
The Art World: "A Thousand Flowers," The SoHo Art World
5/19/1980
Typescript impressions of SoHo, interview notes with Ivan Karp .
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III.8
The Art World: "Autobiography," Pablo Picasso
6/30/1980
OnPablo 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 .
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III.9
The Art World: "Erasing the Line," The Modern Craft Movement
7/28/1980
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III.10
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Pottery" Unpublished
9/8/1975
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. .
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III.11
The Art World: "Elitism vs. Mobocracy," Expansion of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
9/15/1980
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III.12
The Art World: "Sun in an Empty Room," Edward Hopper
11/10/1980
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III.13
The Art World: "Boom," Growth of Art Market
12/22/1980
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III.14
The Art World: "Communications from Within," German Expressionism
1/5/1981
[Original folder title: "Expressionism"].
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III.15
The Art World: "Gloss," Recent Art Books
1/12/1981
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III.16
The Art World: "The Camel in the Tent," The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
3/2/1981
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III.17
The Art World: "Three Salons," Shows at The Whitney and Guggenheim Museums and the Third Annual International Art Exposition
4/13/1981
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III.18
The Art World: "To Watch or Not Watch," Video Art
5/22/1981
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III.19
The Art World: "$$$$," Record Art Auctions
6/22/1981
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III.20
The Art World: "The Antic Muse," Comedy in Art
8/17/1981
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III.21
The Art World: "Alfred Barr"
11/16/1981
Written on Barr's death, includes typescript notes of interview with Philip Johnson and Leo Castelli on their memories of Barr.
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III.22
The Art World: "An End to Chauvinism," The Geographic Spread of Contemporary Art Activity
12/7/1981
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III.23
The Art World: "Artists' Books, Art Books, and Books on Art"
1/25/1982
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III.24
The Art World: "The Natural Problem," Robert Smithson
3/29/1982
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III.25
The Art World: "The Urban Capacity," Public Art
4/5/1982
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III.26
The Art World: "Seminar," Public Panel of Contemporary Artists
6/7/1982
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III.27
The Art World: "Tatyana Grossman"
8/9/1982
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].
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III.28
The Art World: "The Truth of Appearances," Thomas Eakins
9/13/1982
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III.29
The Art World: "Skowhegan," Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
9/20/1982
40
III.30
The Art World: "Looking for the Zeitgeist," Trends in Contemporary Art
12/6/1982
Includes interview notes with Ivan Karp and Richard Bellamy.
40
III.31
The Art World: "The Void," Yves Klein
1/3/1983
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III.32
The Art World: "Museums Without Walls," Recent Art Books
1/17/1983
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III.33
The Art World: "A Winner?" "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art" Exhibition
2/28/1983
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 exhibitionThe Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art.
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III.34
The Art World: "Like Water in a Glass," The Confluence of Art and Architecture
3/21/1983
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III.35
The Art World: "What the Hand Knows," Craftsmanship in Art
5/2/1983
Photocopy of tear sheet only.
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III.36
The Art World: "Dallas," The Dallas Museum of Art
6/13/1983
Includes a "collection development plan" for the Dallas Museum of Art.
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III.37
The Art World: "Dallas," The Dallas Museum of Art
6/13/1983
41
III.38
The Art World: "Season's End," Spring Art World Activities
7/18/1983
41
III.39
The Art World: "'Jazz,' Etc.," Recent Art Books
12/19/1983
Includes handwritten interview notes from Riva Castleman regarding Matisse'sJazz.
41
III.40
The Art World: "Alternatives," Alternative Art Spaces
12/26/1983
Typescript interview notes with Marcia Tucker of The New Museum.
41
III.41
The Art World: "Manet and de Kooning," Two Current Retrospectives
2/6/84
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III.42
The Art World: "Up from the I.R.T.," Graffiti Art
3/26/1984
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III.43
The Art World: "Up from the I.R.T.," Graffiti Art
3/26/1984
Exhibition catalogs ofPost-Graffiti, at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1983, andChampions, at the Tony Shafrazzi Gallery in 1983.
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III.44
The Art World: "Late Picasso," "Picasso: The Last Years" Exhibition
4/16/1984
41
III.45
The Art World: "Agora," MoMA Expansion
10/15/1984
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III.46
The Art World: "Talismans," "'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art" Exhibition
10/29/1984
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].
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III.47
The Art World: "Perception at All Levels," Public Art
12/3/1984
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III.48
The Art World: "Perception at All Levels," Public Art
12/3/1984
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).
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III.49
The Art World: "Heavyweights," Recent Art Books
2/11/1985
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III.50
The Art World: "Tilted Arc"
5/20/1985
Includes a bound copy of a brief filed by Richard Serra in the U.S. Court of Appeals regarding the fate ofTilted Arc.
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III.51
The Art World: "Clear Painting," Donald Sultan
6/3/1985
Includes typescript interview notes with Sultan.
42
III.52
The Art World: "Disco," Artists and Clubs of the East Village
7/22/1985
Includes typescript draft of article.
42
III.53
The Art World: "The One Who Makes Pictures," Karl Bodmer
8/26/1985
42
III.54
The Art World: "Knowing in Action," Abstract Art
11/11/1985
42
III.55
The Art World: "Ingres in Love," Jean Auguste Ingres and The Frick Collection
12/2/1985
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III.56
The Art World: "Pleasure," Recent Art Books
12/23/1985
Includes photocopy of typescript draft.
42
III.57
The Art World: "Modern vs. Postmodern," Proposed Whitney Museum Expansion
2/17/1986
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III.58
The Art World: "Modern vs. Postmodern," Proposed Whitney Museum Expansion
2/17/1986
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.
42
III.59
The Art World: "Medicis, Inc.," Corporate Art Collecting
4/14/1986
42
III.60
The Art World: "Medicis, Inc.," Corporate Art Collecting
4/14/1986
42
III.61
The Art World: "Real and Unreal," Eric Fischl and Alex Katz
5/12/1986
42
III.62
The Art World: "Out of Town," Artists in Minneapolis
6/23/1986
Includes forty-two color slides of the artists' works.
42
III.63
The Art World: "Passage," Jasper Johns
8/4/1986
On the exhibitionJasper Johns: A Print Retrospective[MoMA Exh. #1423, May 19 - August 19, 1986].
42
III.64
The Art World: "Gods and Heroes," Plaster Casts at The Queens Museum
9/15/1986
42
III.65
The Art World: "Making It New," Winslow Homer
10/6/1986
43
III.66
The Art World: "Between Neo- and Post-," Neo-geo
11/24/1986
43
III.67
The Art World: "Between Neo- and Post-," Neo-geo
11/24/1986
Includes eight color slides of work by Philip Taafe and Peter Schuyff.
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III.68
The Art World: "Between Neo- and Post-," Neo-geo
11/24/1986, 1988
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 compilationPost- to Neo-: The Art World of the 1980's, published in 1988.
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III.69
The Art World: "Prodigies," Recent Art Books
12/15/1986
Tear sheets of article only.
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III.70
"Brushstrokes," Roy Lichtenstein
1987
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.
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III.71
"Brushstrokes," Roy Lichtenstein
1987
Interview transcript with Lichtenstein.
43
III.72
The Art World: "Peaks and Valleys," Metropolitan Museum of Art Expansion
2/23/1987
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III.73
The Art World: "Peaks and Valleys," Metropolitan Museum of Art Expansion
2/23/1987
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III.74
Department of Advance Warning: "Madonna's Anticlimax," The BookSex
10/26/1992
Includes typescript draft and galley proof of article.
43
III.75
Books: "The Art Market: Going...Going...Gone,"From Manet to Manhattan: The Rise the Modern Art Market
12/14/1992
Includes typescript draft of article.
43
III.76
Books: "More and Less True Confessions,"Making the Mummies Dance
2/8/1993
Includes typescript draft of article.
43
III.77
The Art World: "St. Marcel," Marcel Duchamp
6/21/1993
Includes typescript draft of article.
43
III.78
Anniversary: "Merce at Seventy-Five," Merce Cunningham
3/7/1994
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III.79
The Talk of the Town: "Remembering Jackie," Jacqueline Onassis
5/30/1994
Tear sheets only.
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III.80
Portfolio: "Standup Artist," Claes Oldenburg
10/2/1995
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) Franoise Mouly-Claes Oldenburg (8/31/1995)[re: invitation to contribute to TNY]
1 TLS (photocopy) Franoise 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-Franoise Mouly (10/8/1995) [re: compliments on article].
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III.81
The Art World: "Flight Itself," Constantin Brancusi
10/23/1995
Includes typescript draft, extensive interview transcript between CT, DK and Margit Rowell and Ann Temkin on Brancusi.
44
III.82
The Art World: "London Calling," The Exhibition "Brilliant!"
12/11/1995
Includes typescript draft and interview transcript.
44
III.83
The Talk of the Town: "Children of a Lesser Country," Marian Wright Edelman
1/15/1996
Includes typescript draft and interview transcript.
44
III.84
The Art World: "Dada and Mama," Teeny Duchamp
1/15/1996
Typescript draft and tear sheets only.
44
III.85
The Art World: "Jackie's Things," Jacqueline Onassis Estate Auction
3/11/1996
1 TL (facsimile) Tina Brown-CT (2/26/1996) [re: revisions to article].
44
III.86
The Art World: "Total Abstraction," Retrospective of Abstract Art at the Guggenheim
3/25/1996
Typescript draft and tear sheets only.
44
III.87
The Art World: "Picasso's True Lies," Pablo Picasso
5/13/1996
OnPicasso 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 ofLiving Well...and Rubin's article "The Pipes of Pan: Picasso's Aborted Love Song to Sara Murphy,"ARTNews93, (5) (May): 138-147. .
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III.88
The Art World: "The Time of His Life," Keith Haring
7/8/1996
44
III.89
Showcase: "Merce's Ocean," Merce Cunningham
7/15/1996
Typescript draft and tear sheets only.
44
III.90
The Art World: "Found Generation," Gerald Murphy
7/22/1996
Includes 1 AL (photocopy) Gerald Murphy-CT (n.d.) [re: reflections on modern art]
Typescript draft of article.
44
III.91
Caption: "Ray in Love," Man Ray
9/30/1996
Tear sheets only.
44
III.92
At the Galleries: "The Good China," Roy Lichtenstein
9/30/1996
Includes typescript draft of article and interview transcripts.
44
III.93
The Art World: "On the Edge," Yayoi Kusama
10/7/1996
44
III.94
Caption: "Artaud Head On," Antonin Artaud
10/7/1996
OnAntonin Artaud: Works on Paper[MoMA Exh. #1753, October 1(3), 1996-January 7, 1997]
Tear sheets only.
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III.95
Caption: "Cabaret Arensberg," Dada in New York City
11/11/1996
Tear sheets only.
44
III.96
The Art World: "The Changing Picture," Jasper Johns
11/11/1996
OnJasper Johns: A Retrospective[MoMA Exh. #1754, October 15(20), 1996-January 21, 1997]
Tear sheets only.
44
III.97
At the Galleries: "Different Strokes," Gerhard Richter
11/25/1996
44
III.98
The Art World: "Duchamp and New York," Marcel Duchamp
11/25/1996
Includes two typescript drafts.
44
III.99
Showcase: "Le Closeup," Francois-Marie Ranier
12/2/1996
44
III.100
Caption: "Top Hat and Tail," Sir Edwin Landseer
1/13/1997
Tear sheets only.
44
III.101
At the Museums: "Kiss and Tell," Edvard Munch
1/20/1997
44
III.102
The Art World: "De Kooning as Melodrama," Willem de Kooning
2/10/1997
OnWillem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, The 1980s[MoMA Exh. #1759, January 22(23)-April 29, 1997].
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III.103
Artist's Easel" "Paint it Black," Robert Colescott
5/19/1997
Includes typescript draft and twelve color slides of Colescott's work.
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III.104
The Art World: "A Question of Human Presence," Still Lifes
6/9/1997
OnObjects 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.
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III.105
The Art World: "Love for Sale," Estate Auction of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
8/11/1997
45
III.106
At the Museums: "Urbane Decadent," Christian Schad
9/29/1997
45
III.107
The Art World: "Master of Invention," Robert Rauschenberg
10/13/1997
Includes complete checklist of the Rauschenberg retrospective at the Whitney.
45
III.108
At the Galleries: "Finely Tooned," Christian Schumann
10/20/1997
45
III.109
The Art World: "Accidental Affair," Victor and Sally Ganz
11/10/1997
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.
45
III.110
Caption: "Haute Cartoon," Isaac Mizrahi
11/10/1997
45
III.111
The Art World: "The Fame Factory," Andy Warhol
12/1/1997
45
III.112
At the Museums: "Sunbaked Klee," Paul Klee
12/8/1997
45
III.113
At the Galleries: "Moving Pictures," David Hockney
1/12/1998
45
III.114
At the Museums: "Broken Window," Robert Delaunay
2/2/1998
45
III.115
Caption: "High Styles," George Condo
2/9/1998
45
III.116
The Talk of the Town: "The Creative Life," Richard Bellamy
7/6/1998
45
III.117
The Art World: "Mind Games," Charles Ray and Andrew Wyeth
7/20/1998
45
III.118
Artist's Easel: "Russian Blue," Alexei von Jawlensky
7/27/1998
45
III.119
At the Museums: "Late Light," Claude Monet
9/7/1998
45
III.120
Art: "East to West," Asian Art
9/14/1998
45
III.121
The Art World: "The Escape Artist," Mark Rothko
9/29/1998
Includes 1 TLS Ben Heller-CT (9/28/1998) [re: clarification of Rothko's use of the term "mishegas"].
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III.122
Caption: "Hall of Studies," "Master Drawings from the Hermitage and Pushkin Museums"
10/12/1998
45
III.123
Showcase: "Nature Poet," Susan Hartnett
11/9/1998
45
III.124
Caption: "Art in the Family," Kiki Smith and Family
1/25/1999
45
III.125
The Talk of the Town: "At the Museums," The Merger Between P.S.1 and MoMA
2/15/1999
45
III.126
Artist's Easel: "Object Lessons," Donald Sultan
4/5/1999
45
III.127
The Art World: "Out of the Attic," New Greek Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
4/19/1999
Includes interview notes with Phillippe de Montebello and Carlos Picon and packet of six color slides of Greek artwork.
45
III.128
The Art World: "New Orleans Interlude," Edgar Degas
5/31/1999
45
III.129
Onward and Upward with the Arts: "Measuring Up to Nature," David Smith
7/19/1999
45
III.130
At the Museums: "Dynamo,"
Unpublished
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III.131
Postscript: "The Lion," Leo Castelli
9/6/1999
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.
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III.132
Postscript: "The Lion," Leo Castelli
9/6/1998
46
III.133
The Talk of the Town: "Table Talk," Julia Child
11/8/1999
46
III.134
Postscript: "Balancing Act," Alexander Liberman
12/6/1999
46
III.135
Takes: [Excerpt from Profile: "Living Well is the Best Revenge" (7/28/1962)]
4/10/2000
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III.136
Essay on Robert Rauschenberg
5/19/2000
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.
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III.137
The Talk of the Town: "Looking Up: Birds of America Make a Manhattan Pit Stop," David Allen Sibley
6/12/2000
46
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
46
III.139
"Bear Island," R. Buckminster Fuller
2001
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).
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III.140
The Talk of the Town: "Horizon Dept.: Towers of Light," The World Trade Center Memorial Installation
10/1/2001
Includes glossy reproductions ofTowers of Lightconcept renderings.
46
III.141
The Talk of the Town: "The Creative Life: A Troupe Turns Fifty," Merce Cunningham
7/8/2002
46
III.142
Portfolio: "After the Towers," Artists Concepts for World Trade Center Memorials
7/15/2002
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III.143
The Talk of the Town: "Collaboration Tempted," Robert Wilson
8/19/2006
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III.144
"An Object in Nature," Robert Rauschenberg
May 2003
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.
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III.145
The Talk of the Town: "At the Museums: First Cities," "Art of the First Cities" Exhibition
5/5/2003
46
III.146
The Talk of the Town: "Light Show: Rockets' Red Glare," Cai Guo-Qiang
9/15/2003
46
III.147
The Talk of the Town: "Checking In: Clean Gene," Eugene McCarthy
1/19/2004
46
III.148
The Talk of the Town: "At the Museums: A Picasso Facelift,"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
5/24/2004
46
III.149
The Talk of the Town: "At the Galleries: Unzipped," Timothy Greenfield Sanders
11/22/2004
46
III.150
Briefly Noted:Art and the Power of Placementby Victoria Newhouse
5/23/2005
46
III.151
The Talk of the Town: "Dynasties: Modern at Ninety," MoMA and David Rockefeller
5/30/2005
Includes interview notes with David Rockefeller, Glenn Lowry.
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III.152
The Talk of the Town: "Dept. of Precocity: Artists in Their Youth," Group Show of Art Students
2/27/2006
46
III.153
The Talk of the Town: "The Creative Life: The Pour," Barnaby Furnas
3/13/2006
46
III.154
The Talk of the Town: "Studio Visit: The Queen, Continued," George Condo
10/23/2006
46
III.155
Caption: Unpublished Caption About Art Posters
ca. 12/11/2006
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III.156
Unpublished Article on Renzo Piano and Expansion of the Whitney
n.d.
[Original folder title: "The Building - Renzo"]
News clippings leaflets.
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 Yorkeror 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 forThe New Yorkerpublished 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.
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IV.A.1
Eric Hoffer
n.d.
[Original folder title: "Book Shop"]
Photocopy of "master manuscript," typescript of book with numerous hand edits and an introduction by Eric Sevareid.
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
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IV.B.1
Reports of the President
1970-1977
Photocopies of published annual reports of the president and director of the museum.
47
IV.B.2
Reports of the President
1977-1986
Photocopies of published annual reports of the president and director of the museum.
47
IV.B.3
Museum-U.S.
News clippings, unpublished manuscripts, articles, and notes on the founding of various museums and collections.
47
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.
47
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.
47
IV.B.6
Founding-Early Years
Includes a detailed chronology of events in 1870.
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IV.B.7
Cesnola, Rogers, Marquand, etc.
Handwritten notes, photocopies, articles, and other material on Louis Palma di Cesnola and the museum's early years.
47
IV.B.8
Cesnola, Rogers, Marquand, etc.
47
IV.B.9
Cesnola, Rogers, Marquand, etc.
48
IV.B.10
9 & 10 - Morgan, Fry, Robinson, Kent
48
IV.B.11
11 & 12 - Classical & Egyptian
Includes material on the growth of the museum, on forgeries within the classical collection.
48
IV.B.12
11 & 12 - Classical & Egyptian
Includes typescript draft of chapter 11.
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IV.B.13
12 & 13 - Riggs, Dean, Altman, Morgan
Photocopy of typescript draft.
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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).
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IV.B.15
1920-1940, Amer. Wing
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IV.B.16
19 - Cloisters
Includes typescript draft of chapter.
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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.
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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.
49
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.].
49
IV.B.20
22 - Three-Museum Agreement
Includes printed copy of original legal agreement, 9/15/47.
49
IV.B.21
23 - Hoving, Harlem, Dendur, etc.
49
IV.B.22
23 - Hoving, Harlem, Dendur, etc.
49
IV.B.23
24 - Rorimer - Aristotle
49
IV.B.24
Financial
Photocopies of lists and charts detailing acquisition expenditures by, and gifts and bequests to, the museum from 1919 to 1961.
49
IV.B.25
Correspondence - M.M.A.
1968-1969
Correspondence regarding factual corrections to the manuscript (including a 19-page typescript of corrections from Dorothy Shaver of the Costume Institute,) research topics, contact lists.
1 TLS Robert Moses-CT (11/22/1968).
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IV.B.26
Trustees and Benefactors Research Binder
Binder of alphabetically organized, tabbed, handwritten and typewritten notes and research on individual trustees and benefactors of the museum.
General notes
Benjamin Altman-Sam A. Lewisohn.
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IV.B.27
Trustees and Benefactors Research Binder
Clarence H. MacKay-Catharine Lorillard Wolfe.
49
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.
49
IV.B.29
Department Research Binder
European Painting, Far Eastern Art, Greek & Roman.
50
IV.B.30
Department Research Binder
Medieval, Musical Instruments & Concerts, Prints - Drawings, Western European Arts, Conservation, Education, The Building, Membership and Attendance, Casts, Misc.
50
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 .
50
IV.B.32
Presidents, Directors, and Staff Research Binder
Directors, Staff, Current Administration.
50
IV.B.33
Museum Pamphlets
1934-1981
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.
50
IV.B.34
Book Photographs for 1989 Reprint
Thirty-one 8x10 black and white photographs labeled and with editorial markings.
50
IV.B.35
Margaret A. Mazer,A History of Education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1987 to 1985
1987
Unpublished master's thesis, July 1987.
50
IV.B.36
Linda Sipress,The History of the Centennial Celebration of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1972
Printed typescript of the museum's activities.
Folder includes correspondence regarding legal issue of Henry Holt 1989 reprint.
51
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 andThe Second century: The Comprehensive Architectural Plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971.
51
IV.B.38
Juan de Pareja- Duccio
Materials on the purchase ofJuan de Parejaby Diego Velzquez and the cancelled purchase of a painting by Duccio; includes interview notes with John Pope-Hennessy and others.
51
IV.B.39
Dillon - Macomber - Luers...
Includes interview notes with Douglas Dillon on his tenure as president and material on later trustees and officials.
51
IV.B.40
Chronology 1987-1986; Bldgs
Includes documents detailing the 1972 master expansion plan.
51
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.
51
IV.B.42
Original MS
Typescript with hand edits of new book chapters.
51
IV.B.43
20thCentury Dept.
Materials documenting the growth of the department.
51
IV.B.44
Asian Art
51
IV.B.45
Met - The Scandals ()
1972-1973
Includes: "Report on Art Transactions," 1963, a public report written by a special committee of museum trustees, and other materials relating to the furor over deaccessioning, "The Euphronios Krater: A Report to the Members of the Corporation," 1974, and other materials on the debated provenance of that artwork, interview notes with Hoving and others from 1973.
51
IV.B.46
Met - The Scandals ()
1972-1973
Includes "off the record" correspondence and documents passed to CT from Ashton Hawkins, Secretary and Counsel at the museum, in 1973, interview notes and extensive news clippings.
51
IV.B.47
Met - The Scandals ()
1972-1973
Extensive news clippings, typescript copy of "The Euphronios Krater at the Metropolitan Museum: A Question of Provenance," article by Ashton Hawkins forThe 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].
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 ofThe New Yorkerarticles. 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.
52
IV.C.1
Venice Biennale 1964; World Tour - Break with Merce
1964-1979
Includes tear sheets and manuscript of article by CT on the Biennale, "The Big Show in Venice," fromHarper's Magazine(April, 1965), interview notes with Rauschenberg and others about this period, complete issue of the magazineTropic(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.".
52
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].
52
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].
52
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.
52
IV.C.5
The Club - Ab-Ex Scene - "Irascible Eighteen" - Peggy Guggenheim - Pollock & de Kooning
52
IV.C.6
Betty Parsons - Her Career - Barney Newman...
Interview notes and quotes from Parsons, Tony Smith, Richard Tuttle, and others.
52
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.
52
IV.C.8
Black Mountain (1952) - Cage & Cunningham...
52
IV.C.9
Europe - N. Africa - Cy T.
52
IV.C.10
Fulton Street - Stable Show...
52
IV.C.11
Dance Work - Cunningham - Paul Taylor
52
IV.C.12
Cage - Boza mansion, etc. - His Influence
Includes original typescript program of the Pocket Theater's performance ofVexationsby Erik Satie, an eighteen-hour piano composition performed by numerous musicians including John Cage and John Cale, begun September 9, 1963. .
52
IV.C.13
Egan: The Red Show
52
IV.C.14
Jasper Johns - Sari Dienes - Window Displays...
52
IV.C.15
Duchamp
52
IV.C.16
Castelli - Visit to Front Street...
52
IV.C.17
Late Ab-Ex, etc.
52
IV.C.18
Happenings, etc....
Includes manuscript of article on happenings by CT, apparently from the early 1960s.
52
IV.C.19
Dante Drawings
52
IV.C.20
Tinguely
Includes interview notes and quotations with Billy Klver, dated 1/18/1961; contemporary photocopy of manuscript by Klver, with hand edits, "The Garden Party," relating his firsthand experience of the development and execution ofHomage 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, forHomage 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).
52
IV.C.21
Bellamy, Scull & Green Gallery; Emergence of Pop; "The Store"
52
IV.C.22
Janis Pop Show; Europe...
52
IV.C.23
Paris Event, TinguelyConstruction of Boston; Dylaby(Amsterdam)
1 ALS Sandberg-CT (n.d.) [re: on the conception ofDylaby]
1 TL K.G. (Pontus) Hulten-CT (8/2/1963) [re: Rauschenberg's experience in Stockholm].
52
IV.C.24
Break With Johns...
52
IV.C.25
Tanya Grossman & ULAE
52
IV.C.26
Alan Solomon - Jewish museum Show (March 1963)
52
IV.C.27
Europe - Crisis 1965
1 TLS Ileana Sonnabend-CT (8/6/1963).
52
IV.C.28
Duchamp - Pasadena - Hopps; West Coast Art Scene
53
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 danceShotputby Rauschenberg and all featuring works or performances by Robert Morris and Yvonne Rainier, among others.
53
IV.C.30
Judson - Dance Theater, etc.
Complete issue ofBallet Review1:6 (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).
53
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.
53
IV.C.32
Nine Evenings - E.A.T.
Includes transcriptions of numerousNine Eveningsdocuments.
53
IV.C.33
E.A.T. (Post - Nine Evenings)
Includes photocopy of 36-page typescript, "Rainforest" by Billy Klver, 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.
53
IV.C.34
Greenberg - Post-Painterly Abstraction
53
IV.C.35
"Primary Structures" - Minimal - Op (Responsive Eye at MoMA)
53
IV.C.36
The Scene - Circa 1967
53
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.
53
IV.C.38
Dude Period - Soundings...
53
IV.C.39
"Henry's Show" at Met - Oldenburg, Lichtenstein Retrospectives
53
IV.C.40
Castelli - New Developments - SoHo - Satellites
53
IV.C.41
Stoned Moon - Bob Peterson - Carnal Clocks
Includes copy of previous folder with label but no contents.
53
IV.C.42
Politics - Angry Art...
53
IV.C.43
Currents...
53
IV.C.44
Cardboards - "Change" - Captiva
53
IV.C.45
Israel - India...
53
IV.C.46
Scull Auction - "Blue Poles" $2 Million...
53
IV.C.47
Smithsonian Retrospective
Includes interview notes with Walter Hopps and Kynaston McShine on the retrospectiveRobert Rauschenberg[MoMA Exh. #1170, March 25-May 17, 1977].
53
IV.C.48
Allan Kaprow - Happenings
Programs and ephemera of happenings and events by Kaprow.
53
IV.C.49
Happenings, etc.
54
IV.C.50
Nine Evenings - E.A.T.
Photocopies of writings and original documents of the event.
54
IV.C.51
Nine Evenings - E.A.T.
1969
Issue ofE.A.T. Clippings1:1 (April 1960-July 1969).
54
IV.C.52
R.O.C.I.
1987-1991
Includes two drafts of brochure text by CT for the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange.
54
IV.C.53
Abstract Expressionists
54
IV.C.54
Abstract Expressionists
Issue ofArts Magazine50:7 (March 1976) devoted entirely to Arshille Gorky.
54
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.
54
IV.C.56
Sixties, General
54
IV.C.57
Book Release Party Materials
Manuscript and typescript list of invitees, invitation for party hosted by Leo Castelli.
54
IV.C.58
Pre-War - Wartime - Europeans - Surrealism
54
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.
54
IV.C.60
MoMA
1968-1977
Press releases, news clippings, and mailings from the museum, many concerning John B. Hightower and the labor unrest of the period.
54
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.
55
IV.D.1
Blainville - Family - Childhood
55
IV.D.2
Loose Materials
These materials were found between folders.
Spiral notebook of research contacts and biographical notes, list of corrections to book.
55
IV.D.3
1904-1914
55
IV.D.4
1904-1914
55
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.
55
IV.D.6
1904-1914
55
IV.D.7
Ettie Stettheimer - Journals & Letters
55
IV.D.8
Hubachek - Mary Reynolds File
55
IV.D.9
Duchamp - Alice Roullier
55
IV.D.10
M.D. & Chess
55
IV.D.11
Maria Martins
1998
Bound photocopy of catalogueMaria: The Surrealist Sculpture of Maria Martins(New York: Andr Emmerich gallery, 3/19-4/18/1998).
56
IV.D.12
Maria Martins
Includes interview notes and quotations with Maria Martins' daughter, Nora Martins Lobo, 1989-90.
56
IV.D.13
Maria Martins
Restricted material, please see Museum Archivist.
56
IV.D.14
New York 1915-1918 Arensbergs - Argentina
Includes detailed, day-by-day chronologies of H.P. Roche and Beatrice Wood.
56
IV.D.15
New York 1915-1918 Arensbergs - Argentina
56
IV.D.16
New York 1915-1918 Arensbergs - Argentina
56
IV.D.17
1920s
56
IV.D.18
1930s
56
IV.D.19
1940s
56
IV.D.20
1940s
57
IV.D.21
1940s
57
IV.D.22
1950s
57
IV.D.23
1950s
Includes photocopy of article by CT on Duchamp fromNewsweek, 11/7/1957, 8-page typescript of recollections of Marcel and Teeny Duchamp in New York by Jacqueline Monnier.
57
IV.D.24
1960s
57
IV.D.25
1960s
Includes photocopied transcript of theArt of Assemblagesymposium, held at MoMA 10/19/1961, with Rauschenberg and Duchamp among the panel members.
57
IV.D.26
Large Glass
57
IV.D.27
M.D. - Interviews (1960s)
Photocopies of published and unpublished interviews with Duchamp by other authors.
57
IV.D.28
M.D. - Interviews (1960s)
57
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
58
IV.D.30
Etant donns
Includes photocopies of correspondence between The Philadelphia Museum of Art and Teeny Duchamp regarding the museum's acquisition ofEtant donns.
58
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.
58
IV.D.32
Duchamp Miscellaneous
Includes various chronologies of Duchamp's life, list of addresses from throughout his life, and other research materials.
58
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.
58
IV.D.34
Marcel Duchampat the Palazzo Grassi
Press kit, reviews of catalogue and exhibit held in Venice, 1993.
58
IV.D.35
Duchamp - Interviews (Unpublished)
1953
Photocopy of unpublished interview transcript between Duchamp, Sydney Janis, and others. .
58
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.
58
IV.D.37
Photos
Photographs, transparencies, photocopies of Duchamp and his artworks (particularly early drawings), some photographs unlabeled and unattributed and may be original.
58
IV.D.38
Duchamp Post-Mortem
1972-2000
Exhibition reviews, essays, news clippings and articles on Duchamp, ephemera.
58
IV.D.39
Duchamp Post-Mortem
1973-1991
News clippings, ephemera, articles.
59
IV.D.40
Duchamp Post-Mortem
1985-1993
Includes photocopy of entire catalogue to exhibitionThe Marcel Duchamp Exhibition, 9/20-10/16/1985, The Art Museum at Florida International University.
59
IV.D.41
Duchamp - Articles About
1960-1995
Articles, news clippings, and ephemera.
59
IV.D.42
Duchamp - Articles About
1968-1989
59
IV.D.43
Duchamp - Articles About
1966-1997
59
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.
59
IV.D.45
Bessie Breuer, Unpublished Autobiographical MS
Photocopy of 56-page typescript.
59
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.
59
IV.D.47
Brancusi - Letters from MD
Photocopies of correspondence between Constantin Brancusi and Duchamp.
59
IV.D.48
The Supermaleby Alfred Jarry
Photocopies of original French text and English translation.
59
IV.D.49
Duchamp Photos - World Rights
1998
Permission forms, invoices, receipts and correspondence regarding images.
59
IV.D.50
Duchamp - Permissions
1996
Permission forms, invoices, receipts and correspondence regarding images.
60
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.
60
IV.D.52
Loose Book Photographs
60
IV.D.53
Loose Book Photographs
60
IV.D.54
Loose Book Photographs
60
IV.D.55
Loose Book Photographs
60
IV.D.56
MD Photos - Correspondence
1996
Correspondence from and to CT and DK concerning rights and reproductions, list of captions and credits for images included in book.
60
IV.D.57
Duchamp - Correspondence
1995-1996
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 donns].
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IV.D.58
Duchamp - Correspondence
1993-1995
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."].
60
IV.D.59
Duchamp - Correspondence
1989-1993
Correspondence from Teeny Duchamp, Jacqueline Matisse Monnier, Francis Naumann, general research correspondence.
61
IV.D.60
Duchamp - Correspondence
1964-1989
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].
61
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.
61
IV.D.62
Loose Photocopies
61
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.
61
IV.D.64
"MD Vox" Research Binder
61
IV.D.65
"Chromo" Research Binder
Chronological notes on Duchamp's life with month-by-month entries during critical periods.
61
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.
61
IV.D.67
Untitled Research Binder
Further notes and transcript extracts, includes draft typescript of theNew York Timesobituary for Teeny Duchamp and correspondence from Paul Matisse enclosing the text of his eulogy for his mother given at her memorial, 1995.
91
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.
91
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, andDuchamp: 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
92
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.
92
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.
92
IV.E.3*
Photographs and Negatives fromThe 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.
92
IV.E.4*
Negatives fromLiving 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.
Series V: Audio Recordings
1962-2006
The basis of all of Tomkins' major writings for
The New Yorkerwas 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 " width on 7" reels. V.2 and V.3 have been digitally preserved and CD copies are available.
63
V.1
Jean Tinguely
ca. 1962
Undated
3 rpm, Scotch brand no. 111-12, 1200 feet.
63
V.2
Marcel Duchamp
ca. 1964
Undated
This recording has been preserved. In addition to the original, a CD-R use copy now exists.
Speed unknown, Scotch Brand "Tartan Series" no. 144-2400, 2400 feet. This recording has been preserved. In addition to the original, a CD-R use copy now exists.
63
V.3
Marcel Duchamp
3/23/1964
, 3/26/1964
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.
Monophonic, 3 rpm, Audio devices, Inc. Audiotape brand Type 1251, 1200 feet.
64
V.4
"Duchamp 1"
3/1964
Duplicate of reel
"Duchamp - Mar. 1964"
Side A: "-to 550 on tape 1, side A"
Side B: "-to end of side A"
Denon DX1/1990
64
V.5
"Duchamp 2"
3/1964
Duplicate of reel
"Duchamp - Mar. '64"
Side A: "-to 550 on Tape 1 side B"
Side B: "-to end of side B"
Denon DX1/1990
64
V.6
"Marcel Duchamp 3"
3/1964
Duplicate of reel
"Duchamp 2nd invu 1964"
Side A: "side one"
Side B: "side one (cont.)"
Denon DX1/1990
64
V.7
"Duchamp 4"
3/1964
Duplicate of reel.
"Duchamp - Mar. 1964 2nd invu"
Side A: "to end of side A"
Side B: "Side B"
Denon DX1/1990
64
V.8
"Duchamp 5"
3/1964
Possible duplicate of reel.
Sony HF90
63
V.9
R. Buckminster Fuller
8/1965
Note in box reads "Bucky Fuller/Bear Island/Aug. 1965 (3)"
3 rpm, Soundcraft brand no. S-12, 1200 feet.
64
V.10
Duchamp - TV Interviews
n.d.
"Duchamp - TV invus - J.M. Drot, J.J. Sweeney"
Supertape HD-90
64
V.11
Paul Matisse
8/1988
Maxell UR90
64
V.12
Beatrice Wood
8/20/1988
"(Duchamp)"
Maxell UR90
64
V.13
John Cage on Duchamp
2/17/1989
Sony HF90
64
V.14
Yo Sermayer
9/1989
Sony HF90
64
V.15
Kay Boyle
1/11/1990
"(on Duchamp)"
Sony HF90
64
V.16
[Walter] Hopps Houston
1/6/1990
Sony HF90
64
V.17
[Walter] Hopps (Bio Tape One)
11/7/1990
"000-043 - end of 11/6/1990; invu in 20th Cent. Galleries; 045- Bio"
Sony HF90
64
V.18
[Walter] Hopps Bio tape Two
11/7/1990
Sony HF90
64
V.19
[Walter] Hopps (Bio Tape Three)
11/8/1990
Sony HF90
64
V.20
[Walter] Hopps (Bio Tape Four)
11/8/1990
Sony HF90
64
V.21
[Walter] Hopps Bio Tape Five
11/9/1990
Sony HF90
64
V.22
[Walter] Hopps (#1)
11/10/1990
Sony HF90
65
V.23
[Walter] Hopps
11/10/1990
Sony HF90
65
V.24
Hopps Invus - Demetrion - Frailin - Hopper
ca. 1990
Side A: "Jim Demetrion"
Side B: "Frank Frailin (to 289); Saul Steinberg (to 265); Dennis Hopper (370-712)"
Denon HD8/1990
65
V.25
Hopps Invus - Dennis Hopper - Tom Leavitt...
ca. 1990
Side A: "Dennis Hopper (cont.) (000-112); Tom Leavitt (113-330)"
Side B: "Hopps - 11/4/1990 (at Carlyle) - MacAlys in Calif. & Texas"
Fuji DR90
65
V.26
Irving Blum (on Hopps); Walter Hopps
ca. 1990
Side A: Irving Blum
Side B: "Blum - to 170; (172) Walter Hopps on American Imagism"
Denon HD8/1990
65
V.27
Henry Wolf
n.d.
"Barbara & Leo" marked on cassette.
Fuji DR-I 90
65
V.28
Shirley Blum
12/13/1990
Maxell UDS-II 90
65
V.29
[Walter] Hopps (1)
12/15/1990
Sony HF90
65
V.30
[Walter] Hopps (2)
12/15/1990
Sony HF90
65
V.31
[Walter] Hopps #2
3/10/1991
Sony HF90
65
V.32
[Walter] Hopps
3/10/1991
Sony HF90
65
V.33
Jasper Johns
3/19/1991
Sony HF90
65
V.34
Robert Motherwell
5/10/1991
"Motherwell on Duchamp"
Sony Metal-SR (90 minutes)
65
V.35
[Walter] Hopps
ca. 1990
Sony HF90
65
V.36
[Walter] Hopps - Telephone invus (post-Houston)
ca. 1990
Sony HF90
65
V.37
Brenda Richardson
n.d.
Fuji DR-I 90
65
V.38
Richard Rogers
3/26/1993
TDK HF90
65
V.39
Matta - I
3/29/1993
TDK D90
65
V.40
Matta - II
3/31/1993
TDK D90
66
V.41
Matta - III
4/1/1993
TDK D90
66
V.42
Renzo Piano - 1
ca. 1994
TDK D90
66
V.43
Renzo Piano
ca. 1994
TDK D90
66
V.44
Charles Ray
ca. 1995
Container unlabeled.
Sony HF 90
66
V.45
Charles Ray
ca. 1995
Container unlabeled.
Sony HF 90
66
V.46
Charles Ray
4/20/1995
Container unlabeled.
Fuji DR-I 90
66
V.47
[Albert] York
ca. 1995
Fuji DR-I 90
66
V.48
[Albert] York
ca. 1995
Sony HF 90
66
V.49
[Albert] York II
ca. 1995
Sony HF 90
66
V.50
[Albert] York III
ca. 1995
Sony HF 90
66
V.51
Philip Johnson
8/18/1995
Sony HF90
66
V.52
Oldenburg
9/1995
Uncertain whether Claes or Richard Oldenburg
Fuji DR-I 90
66
V.53
[Dan] Kiley A
ca. 1995
Cassette marked "Dan & Ann"
Fuji DR-I 90
66
V.54
[Dan] Kiley (B)
ca. 1995
Sony HF 90
66
V.55
[Dan] Kiley C
ca. 1995
Fuji DR-I 90
66
V.56
[Dan] Kiley II
ca. 1995
Cassette marked "Kiley III Kimn...el house"
Fuji DR-I 90
66
V.57
[Dan] Kiley 4
ca. 1995
Cassette marked: "Kiley 4" struck out and replaced with "Schwartz"
Fuji DR-I 90
66
V.58
[Dan] Kiley 5
ca. 1995
Cassette marked: "Kiley 5" struck out and replaced with "Richard Meier"
Fuji DR-I 90
66
V.59
[Dan] Kiley VI
ca. 1995
Cassette marked: "Kiley VI" struck out and replaced with "Jack Robertson"
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.60
[Jeff] Koons
3/22/1996
TDK SA90
67
V.61
Bill Rubin on Picasso & Portraiture
3/22/1996
TDK D90
67
V.62
Nicole Eisenman
3/25/1996
TDK D90
67
V.63
Carter Brown
3/28/1996
TDK D90
67
V.64
Nicole Eisenman
4/15-4/16/1996
TDK D90
67
V.65
Kusama
10/1996
Supertape HD-90
67
V.66
Si Newhouse
n.d.
Side A: "Si Newhouse/Ben Heller"
Side B: "Kirk Varnedoe/Alana Heiss"
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.67
Milton Wexeler/Gehry
3/22/1997
Side B: "(Defective tape - slow); Ron Davis house; Norton Simon (110-"
Cassette marked: "Milton --Frank (B); Gehry 3/22 (Defective)"
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.68
Frank Gehry
3/22/1997
Side A: "On Norton Simon; On Disney Hall"
Side B: "Problem with IRS; Bio - grandparents & parents - Toronto - Timmens - back to Toronto - move to LA"
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.69
[Frank] Gehry
3/23/1997
Side A: "Lillian Hellman Story (0-168) (Blank)"
Side B: "(Blank)"
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.70
[Frank] Gehry
3/23/1997
Side A: "0-175 Bio; Early years in LA - meeting Anita - night school at USC; (tape ends at 175)"
Cassette marked "(background II)"
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.71
[Frank] Gehry (Bio 1)
3/24/1997
Side A: "Canada - Early years LA"
Side B: "School (night); USC"
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.72
[Frank] Gehry (Bio 2)
3/24/1997
Side A: "Army Service 0-200; Harvard 200-400; Gruen 400-630"
Side B: "Europe 0-; Office"
Maxell XL II-S 90
67
V.73
[Frank] Gehry - 1
ca. 1997
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.74
[Frank] Gehry - 2
ca. 1997
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.75
[Frank] Gehry - 3
ca. 1997
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.76
[Frank] Gehry - 4
ca. 1997
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.77
Gehry Bilbao (1)
ca. 1997
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.78
Gehry Bilbao (2)
ca. 1997
Fuji DR-I 90
67
V.79
Gehry Bilbao (3)
ca. 1997
Fuji DR-I 90
68
V.80
TELLUS, The Audio Cassette Magazine #21
n.d.
"Audio by Visual Artists"
68
V.81
Soundings - Robert Rauschenberg
6/14/1998
BBC radio program including comments by CT
TDK AR100
68
V.82
Rauschenberg (1)
n.d.
Fuji DR-I 90
68
V.83
Rauschenberg (2)
n.d.
Fuji DR-I 90
68
V.84
Rauschenberg (3)
n.d.
Fuji DR-I 90
68
V.85
Philippe Petit (1)
9/27/1998
Fuji DR-I 90
68
V.86
Philippe Petit (2)
9/27/1998
Fuji DR-I 90
68
V.87
Susan Hartnett
9/30/1998
Fuji DR-I 60
68
V.88
Philippe Petit (3)
10/5/1998
Fuji DR-I 90
68
V.89
Philippe Petit (4)
10/5/1998
TDK D90
68
V.90
Philippe Petit (5)
10/18/1998
Fuji DR-I 60
68
V.91
Philippe Petit (6)
10/18/1998
Fuji DR-I 60
68
V.92
Terry Winters
11/21/1998
Fuji DR-I 90
68
V.93
Ileana [Sonnabend] & Antonio
12/31/1998
Fuji DR-I 90
68
V.94
PP Canyon (1)
2/13/1999
TDK D90
68
V.95
PP Canyon (2)
ca. 1999
TDK D90
68
V.96
PP Canyon (3)
2/13/1999
TDK D90
68
V.97
PP Canyon (4)
2/14/1999
TDK D90
68
V.98
Candida Smith
5/25/1999
Cassette marked: "Candida at Storm King 5/30" and "Candida on David Smith"
TDK D90
68
V.99
Joo - Chiat
5/26/1999
Side A: "Jay Chiat (to 430); Michael Joo"
Side B: "Michael Joo 5/26"
Sony CD-IT 90
69
V.100
Marco Piere White; Norman Rosenthal - Alex James
6/8/1999
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"
Sony UX 90
69
V.101
Jasper Johns
8/29-8/30/1999
"On Leo Castelli"
TDK D90
69
V.102
Jasper Johns
n.d.
TDK D90
69
V.103
Damien [Hirst]
ca. 1999
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.104
(1) Damien [Hirst], Jude
ca. 1999
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.105
(2) Moynahan, Dunphy
ca. 1999
"2" crossed out; A: Moynahan, B: Dunphy
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.106
(3) [Rachel] Whiteread
ca. 1999
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.107
(4) Craig - Martin
ca. 1999
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.108
Damien [Hirst]
ca. 1999
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.109
Damien - Train - Devon 1
ca. 1999
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.110
Sarah Lucas; Hugh Allen
ca. 1999
Side A: "Sarah Lucas (to 410); Hugh Allen (410 to end)"
Side B: "Hugh Allen"
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.111
Hugh Allen (cont.); Gordon Burns
ca. 1999
Side A: "Hugh Allen (to 208); Gordon Burns (208-end)"
Side B: "Gordon Burns (to 325)"
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.112
Joplins
ca. 1999
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.113
Ileana Sonnabend
9/30/1999
"Ileana S. at Da Silvano, with Antonio Homem."
TDK D90
69
V.114
Cindy Sherman (1)
10/26/1999
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.115
Cindy Sherman (2)
11/2/1999
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.116
Peter Galassi
11/4/1999
"@MoMA"
Sony HiFi 90
69
V.117
Helene Winer
11/10/1999
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.118
Laurie Simmons
11/17/1999
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.119
Cindy Sherman (3)
11/19/1999
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.120
Robert Longo
11/29/1999
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.121
Susan Jennings
12/1/1999
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.122
Elizabeth Leite
12/4/1999
"(Cindy Sherman's Sister)"
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.123
Linda Cathcart
12/9/1999
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.124
Janelle Reiring
12/22/1999
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.125
Charles Clough
12/27/1999
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.126
Bob Shermand & John Sherman; Eric Bogosian
1/24-1/25/2000
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.127
Ingrid Sischy
1/26/2000
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.128
John McEnroe
2/9/2000
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.129
Cindy Sherman #4
2/10/2000
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.130
Cindy 5; Cindy 6
2/13/2000
"Cindy 5 - to A175; Cindy 6 (A175 - end)"
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.131
Bill T. Jones; Carol Kane; Nancy Dwyer
2/18-2/22/2000
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.132
John McEnroe, Sr.
2/23/2000
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.133
Cindy #6
3/8/2000
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.134
McEnroe (2)
3/15/2000
Sony HiFi 90
70
V.135
Tony Palafox
4/15/2000
Sony CD-IT 90
71
V.136
Brian Hunt
4/19/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.137
McEnroe (3)
4/24/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.138
Eugene Scott
4/25/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.139
McEnroe (4)Richmond
4/28-4/29/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.140
McEnroe 4-B
4/30/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.141
Eric Fischl/April Gornik
5/3/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.142
Patty Smyth McEnroe
5/9/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.143
McEnroe 5
5/25/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.144
Mark McEnroe/Mary Carillo
5/30-6/13/2000
Fuji DR-I 60
71
V.145
McEnroe - Tiebreaker
6/23/2000
Cassette marked: "McEnroe 6"
Sony CD-IT 90
71
V.146
Larry Salander - NBC TV Wimbledon; Peter Fleming
7/2/2000
Side A: "Larry Salander on JM - to 128; (130- ) NBC TV from Wimbledon, JM & Borg on 1980 final"
Side B: Peter Fleming
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.147
McEnroe (Santander)
7/23/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.148
Peter Galassi
9/15/2000
Sony HiFi 90
71
V.149
Andreas Gursky I
10/2000
Sony HF 90
71
V.150
Gursky I (cont.); Gursky I & II
10/2000
Sony HF 90
71
V.151
Gursky II & III
ca. 2000
Sony HF 90
71
V.152
Gursky III
ca. 2000
Sony HF 90
71
V.153
Bernd & Hilla Becker
10/6/2000
Sony HF 90
72
V.154
Bernd & Hilla Becker (2)
10/6/2000
Sony HF 90
72
V.155
Thomas Ruff
10/6/2000
Sony HF 90
72
V.156
Thomas Demand
10/9/2000
Sony HF 90
72
V.157
[Andreas] Gursky (1)
10/10/2000
Sony HF 90
72
V.158
Gursky (2)
10/10/2000
Sony HF 90
72
V.159
Gursky (3)
10/10/2000
Sony HF 90
72
V.160
Gursky (4)
11/2/2000
RadioShack XR 90
72
V.161
Gursky (5)
11/4/2000
RadioShack XR 90
72
V.162
Thomas Struth
11/15/2000
Sony HF 90
72
V.163
Thomas Demand
12/2/2000
Sony HF 90
72
V.164
Gursky
12/10/2000
Cassette marked: "Gursky on Thomas Demand"
Sony HF 90
72
V.165
Julian Schnabel (1)
1/23/2001
Cassette marked: "Julian (1) Javier Bardem"
Sony HF 90
72
V.166
Julian Schnabel (2)
1/23/2001
Sony HF 90
72
V.167
John Killick & JS (3)
1/25/2001
Sony CD-IT 90
72
V.168
Julian (4)
ca. 2001
Sony HiFi 90
72
V.169
Julian (5)
ca. 2001
Sony UX 90
72
V.170
Julian (6)
1/23-1/27/2001
Side A: "-103 JS 1/23/2001; 103-end JS 1/27/2001"
Sony HF 90
72
V.171
Julian (7)
ca. 2001
Sony HiFi 90
73
V.172
JS (8)
ca. 2001
Sony HF 90
73
V.173
Van Gogh Press Preview
2/1/2001
Maxell Instant Start Series C30
73
V.174
J.S. (9) Albany Tapes
2/6-2/7/2001
"Trip to Albany - 2/6-7/2001"
Sony HF 90
73
V.175
Julian (10) Albany Tapes
ca. 2/7/2001
"Albany to NY on train"
Sony HF 90
73
V.176
JS (11) Albany Tapes
ca. 2/7/2001
"Train to NY (to 169 only)"
Sony HF 90
73
V.177
Julian (12) Montauk
2/8/2001
"Car to Montauk"
Sony HF 90
73
V.178
Julian (13) Montauk
ca. 2/8/2001
Sony HF 90
73
V.179
Ingrid Sischy
2/16/2001
Sony HF 90
73
V.180
David Salle
2/28/2001
Sony HF 90
73
V.181
"Van Gogh's Portraits of Joseph Roulin"
3/6/2001
Lecture by Kirk Varnedoe at MoMA
See also Sound Recordings of Museum-Related Events, 2001.54, for additional copies of this recording.
Maxell UR 90
73
V.182
Kirk Varnedoe (1)
4/12/2001
, 4/16/2001
RadioShack XR-90
73
V.183
Varnedoe (2)
4/16/2001
, 4/24/2001
RadioShack XR-90
73
V.184
Varnedoe (3)
n.d.
Sony HF 90
73
V.185
Frank Stella
4/19/2001
RadioShack XR-90
73
V.186
Deitch
4/20/2001
RadioShack XR-90
73
V.187
Rosenblum
4/20/2001
RadioShack XR-90
73
V.188
Glenn Lowry
4/24/2001
RadioShack XR-90
73
V.189
Peter Galassi
4/26/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.190
Sam Varnedoe
4/30/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.191
Aggie Gund
4/30/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.192
Terry Riley
5/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.193
Varnedoe (4)
5/2/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.194
Kirk [Varnedoe] (5)
n.d.
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.195
Varnedoe (6)
n.d.
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.196
Jeffrey Weiss
5/3/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.197
Robert Storr
5/4/2001
RadioShack XR-0
74
V.198
Elyn Z. [Zimmerman]
5/4/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.199
Rusty Powell; Ronald Lauder
5/16/2001
, 5/29/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.200
Dick Oldenburg
5/16/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.201
Adam Gopnik
5/29/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.202
Ronald Lauder/Carolyn Lauchner
5/30/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.203
Ann Umland; Chuck Close
5/31/2001
, 6/6/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.204
Jerry Neuner
6/6/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.205
S. Lane Faison (1)
6/14/2001
RadioShack XR-90
74
V.206
Lane Faison (2)
n.d.
Sony HF 90
74
V.207
Kirk Varnedoe 7
6/18/2001
Sony HF 90
75
V.208
John Elderfield; Mary Lee Bandy
6/19/2001
Sony HF 90
75
V.209
Mary Lee Bandy
6/19/2001
Sony HF 90
75
V.210
Patterson Sims
6/26/2001
Sony HF 90
75
V.211
Nan Rosenthal
6/28/2001
Sony HF 90
75
V.212
Ellen Phelan
7/25/2001
Sony HF 90
75
V.213
Charles Stuckey on Kirk [Varnedoe]
8/2/2001
Sony HF 90
75
V.214
Ellen Phelan
8/4/2001
TDK D90
75
V.215
Chuck Close
8/12/2001
TDK D90
75
V.216
Robert Storr on Ellen Phelan
8/14/2001
TDK D90
75
V.217
Chip Benson
8/16/2001
TDK D90
75
V.218
Jim Cuno
8/20/2001
TDK D90
75
V.219
Kirk Varnedoe (8)
9/5/2001
TDK D90
75
V.220
Ellen Phelan
9/22/2001
TDK D90
75
V.221
Varnedoe (10)
9/24/2001
There is no extant cassette labeled Kirk Varnedoe (9)
TDK D90
75
V.222
Robt. Brustein
9/27/2001
TDK D90
75
V.223
Jeremy Knowles; Matt Saunder
9/27/2001
, 10/6/2001
TDK D90
75
V.224
Scott Rothkopf/James Cuno
9/28/2001
TDK D90
75
V.225
WTC interview w/Artists
ca. 10/2001
75
V.226
Chris Killip
10/4/2001
TDK D90
76
V.227
Ellen Phelan 4
10/12/2001
TDK D90
76
V.228
Ellen Phelan (5)
10/14/2001
TDK D90
76
V.229
Rob Storr
10/15/2001
Side A: "On Phelan/Harvard"
Side B: "115 - Eva Hesse"
TDK D90
76
V.230
Phelan (5) Cont.
10/16/2001
Cassette marked 10/14
TDK D90
76
V.231
Sol Lewitt
10/19/2001
TDK D90
76
V.232
Alfred Guzzetti
10/19/2001
TDK D90
76
V.233
Susan Fonter
12/5/2001
TDK D90
76
V.234
Davi Rosenheek
12/5/2001
RadioShack XR-90
76
V.235
Neil Rudenstine
12/5/2001
TDK D90
76
V.236
Susan Fonter II
12/11/2001
RadioShack XR-90
76
V.237
[Richard] Serra (1)
1/10/2002
TDK D90
76
V.238
Richard Koshalek; Matthew Barney
1/30/2002
, 1/31/2002
RadioShack XR-120
76
V.239
Serra (2)
2/6/2002
RadioShack XR-90
76
V.240
Serra (3)
2/6/2002
RadioShack XR-90
76
V.241
Ashton Hawkins
2/6/2002
RadioShack HC-90
76
V.242
Brice Marden; Richard Gluckman
1/30, 2/7/2002
RadioShack XR-90
76
V.243
Serra (4)
2/8/2002
RadioShack XR-90
76
V.244
Serra (5)
n.d.
TDK D90
76
V.245
Elizabeth Murray; Lynne Coate
n.d.
, 2/13/2002
RadioShack XR-120
77
V.246
Emily Pulitzer
2/13/2002
TDK D90
77
V.247
Phil Glass; Chuck Close
2/14/2002
, 2/27/2002
TDK D90
77
V.248
Kirk Varnedoe
2/14/2002
TDK D90
77
V.249
Frank Gehry
2/14/2002
TDK D90
77
V.250
Serra (6)
2/15/2002
TDK D90
77
V.251
Joe Helman
2/20/2002
TDK D90
77
V.252
Joan Jonas; Susan Brundage
2/21/2002
RadioShack XR-90
77
V.253
John Silberman; Nancy Holt
2/22/2002
, 3/26/2002
RadioShack XR-90
77
V.254
Serra (7)
2/27/2002
RadioShack XR-90
77
V.255
Doug Christmas
2/27/2002
RadioShack XR-90
77
V.256
Joel Shapiro
2/28/2002
RadioShack XR-90
77
V.257
Trina McKeever; Clare Serra Weyergraf
3/6/2002
RadioShack XR-90
77
V.258
Ealan Wingate
3/7/2002
TDK D90
77
V.259
Serra (8) (Beacon)
3/8/2002
TDK D90
77
V.260
J. Johns - Serra (9) (cont.)
3/27/2002
, n.d.
TDK D90
77
V.261
Serra (9)
4/5/2002
RadioShack XR-90
77
V.262
Carmen Gimenez
5/7/2002
RadioShack XR-60
77
V.263
[James] Turrell (1)
5/15/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.264
Turrell (2)
n.d.
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.265
Turell (3)
n.d.
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.266
Turrell (4)
n.d.
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.267
Turrell (5)
n.d.
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.268
Richard Koshalek
5/26/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.269
Walter Hopps; Turrell (6)
5/29/2002
, n.d.
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.270
Turrell (6) @Mattress Factory
5/31/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.271
Turrell @Mattress Factory
6/1/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.272
Barbara Ludrowsky; Helen Winkler
6/1/2002
, 6/19/2002
Fuji DR-I 90
78
V.273
Merce Cunningham
6/7/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.274
Michael Govan
6/12/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.275
Kate Ganz/Elyn Zimmerman; John Coplans
6/13/2002
, 6/14/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.276
Lucy Shelton; Alana Heiss (1)
6/19/2002
, 6/21/2002
RadioShack
78
V.277
Alana Heiss (2); Jane Livingston
6/21/2002
, 6/25/2002
Fuji DR-I 90
78
V.278
Robt Wilson @Watermill
8/1/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.279
Michael Govan
9/3/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.280
Turrell
9/10/2002
RadioShack XR-90
78
V.281
Chelsea Romersa
9/16/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.282
Nancy Spector; Robert Irwin (re: Turrell)
9/20/2002
, 9/21/2002
RadioShack XR-90
79
V.283
Neville Wakefield
10/7/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.284
Barbara Gladstone
10/15/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.285
Rob Storr re: MB
10/16/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.286
Leo Villareal; Richard Flood
10/16/2002
, 11/7/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.287
Hilton Als; Shawn Caley
10/17/2002
, 11/6/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.288
Matthew Barney (1)
10/21/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.289
Hans Ulrich; James Lingwood
10/21/2002
, 10/23/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.290
Barney (2)
10/23/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.291
MB [Barney] (3)
10/23/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.292
MB [Barney] (4)
n.d.
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.293
MB [Barney] (5)
10/25/2002
RadioShack XR-90
79
V.294
Aime Mullins
11/7/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.295
Michael Govan (2)
11/12/2002
RadioShack HC090
79
V.296
Robert Barney; Gabe Bartalos
11/13/2002
, 11/14/2002
RadioShack HC-90
79
V.297
Gabe Bartalos (cont.); Keith Edmier
11/14/2002
, 11/22/2002
RadioShack XR-90
79
V.298
Alice Aycock; Norman Mailer
11/15/2002
, 11/21/2002
RadioShack XR-90
79
V.299
Jonathan Bepler
11/15/2002
RadioShack XR-90
80
V.300
Marcia Barney
11/17/2002
RadioShack XR-90
80
V.301
Michael Rees
11/18/2002
RadioShack XR-90
80
V.302
MB [Barney] (6)
11/19/2002
RadioShack XR-90
80
V.303
Matt Ryle
11/19/2002
RadioShack HC-90
80
V.304
MB [Barney] (7)
11/20/2002
RadioShack HD-90
80
V.305
Mark Gonzalez
11/22/2002
RadioShack HD-90
80
V.306
Govan (3)
1/9/2003
RadioShack HC-90
80
V.307
Virginia Devan
1/23/2003
RadioShack HC-90
80
V.308
Margaret Douglas Hamilton; Lynne Cooke
2/10/2003
, 2/11/2003
RadioShack HC-90
80
V.309
Lois de Menil
2/11/2003
RadioShack HC-90
80
V.310
Bill & Patti Dilworth; Bob Irwin
2/14/2003
, 2/16/2003
Cassette marked: "Bill Dilworth (Earth Room); Patti Dilworth (Broken Kilo)"
RadioShack HD-90
80
V.311
Govan (4)
2/15/2003
RadioShack HD-90
80
V.312
Govan (5)
2/15/2003
RadioShack HD-90
80
V.313
Bob Whitman; Patrick Lannan
2/19/2003
, 4/4/2003
RadioShack HD-90
80
V.314
Richard Gluckman
2/25/2003
RadioShack HC-90
80
V.315
Charles Wright
2/25/2003
RadioShack HC-90
80
V.316
Fredrika Hunter
n.d.
Fuji DR-I 90
80
V.317
Heiner Friedrich
3/3/2003
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.318
Len Riggio
3/10/2003
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.319
Marfa
3/15/2003
, 3/16/2003
Fuji DR-I 90
81
V.320
Helen Winkler
3/16/2003
, 3/17/2003
Fuji DR-I 90
81
V.321
Govan (6); Fred Sandback
3/19/2003
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.322
Heiner Friedrich
3/20/2003
Fuji DR-I 90
81
V.323
John Chamberlain
3/21/2003
Fuji DR-I 90
81
V.324
Marukh Targsor
4/15/2003
TDK DR-I 90
81
V.325
Willy Van Ness
n.d.
RadioShack XR-90
81
V.326
Fariha Friedrich
4/22/2003
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.327
Tom & Jane Doyle
5/8/2003
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.328
Elizabeth Smith
5/8/2003
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.329
Valerie Giles
5/15/2003
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.330
Mona Hadler
5/15/2003
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.331
[Lee] Bontecou (1)
n.d.
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.332
Bontecou (2)
n.d.
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.333
Bontecou (3)
n.d.
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.334
Bontecou (4)
5/22/2003
RadioShack HC-90
81
V.335
Barbara Castelli
5/27/2003
RadioShack XR-90
82
V.336
Tony Ganz
6/1/2003
RadioShack XR-90
82
V.337
Lois Dodd
6/3/2003
Cassette case marked "Judith Goldman/Anne Friedman" (n.d.), while the cassette itself is marked in Dodd's name.
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.338
Bontecou (5)
6/6/2003
TDK D90
82
V.339
Bontecou (6); Bill Giles
6/6, 6/7/2003
TDK D90
82
V.340
Bill Giles and Lee Bontecou
6/7/2003
TDK D90
82
V.341
Anne Philbin
6/9/2003
TDK D90
82
V.342
Daniel Weinberg
6/10/2003
TDK D90
82
V.343
Michael Rosenfeld, Hallie Harrisburg
6/16/2003
RadioShack XR-90
82
V.344
Christos [Jeanne-Claude and Christo] (1)
8/12/2003
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.345
Cai Guo-Qiang
9/3/2003
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.346
Ted Kheel
11/3/2003
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.347
Christos (2)
11/9/2003
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.348
Vince Davenport
11/10/2003
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.349
Gordon Davis; Patricia Harris
11/12/2003
, 12/5/2003
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.350
Al Maysles; Kate Levin
11/15/2003
, 1/26/2004
Cassette case marked only "Al Maysles 11/15/2003"
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.351
Betsy Barlow Rogers; Richard Gilder
11/20/2003
, 1/15/2004
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.352
Evelyn Lauder; Regine Peruggi
11/24/2003
, 12/5/2003
RadioShack HC-90
82
V.353
Wolfgang Volz; Adrian Benepe
11/25/2003
, 12/5/2003
RadioShack HC-90
83
V.354
Doug Blonsky; Henry Stern
12/11/2003
, 1/15/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.355
Aggie Gund; Scott Hodes
12/11/2003
, 1/29/2004
Sony HF 60
83
V.356
[Philippe] de Montebello et al.; Mayor Bloomsberg @News Conference
12/19/2003
, 1/22/2004
Cassette actually marked "1/22/2003"
Side A: "de Montebello et al."
Side B: "Bloomberg, Benepe, Christos Press Conf."
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.357
Eugene McCarthy (1)
12/30/2003
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.358
Eugene McCarthy (2)
12/30/2003
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.359
Christos (3)
1/11/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.360
Christos (4)
1/11/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.361
Christos (4)
n.d.
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.362
Christos (4)
1/23/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.363
Christos (5)
2/2/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.364
Glenn Lowry
2/2/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.365
James Coddington on "Demoiselles", MoMA
4/21/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.366
John Elderfield on "Demoiselles"
4/23/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.367
Altman (1)
4/27/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.368
Massimiliano on Maurizio C. [Cattelan]
5/12/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.369
Altman (2)
5/14/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.370
Altman (1)
5/14/2004
RadioShack XR-90
83
V.371
Maurizio Cattelan (2)
5/24/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.372
Maurizio Cattelan (2)
5/25/2004
Cassette case marked "5/24/2005"
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.373
Maurizio Cattelan (3)
5/25/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.374
Emanuel Perrotin
5/29/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.375
Ali Subotnik
5/31/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.376
Jeffrey Deitch
6/2/2004
Cassette marked "Laura Hoptman 6/8/2004"
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.377
Jeffrey Deitch
6/2/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.378
Marian Goodman
6/7/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.379
Laura Hauptman; Elizabeth Peyton
6/10/2004
, 6/21/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.380
Maurizio, Paris
6/14/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.381
Rirkrit (?) Tiraranga; Hans Obrist; MC - Paris
6/14/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.382
Maurizio @Beaux Arts and @Cafe Flore
6/15/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.383
Maurizio - Paris (Clichy)
6/15/2004
, 6/16/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.384
Catherine Ceremie; Gabriel Orozco
6/16/2004
, 6/17/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.385
Maurizio - on the Quai
6/16/2004
, 6/17/2004
RadioShack XR-90
84
V.386
Hans Ulrich Obrist & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
6/17/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.387
Massimo di Carlo; Massimiliano Gione
6/23/2004
RadioShack XR-90
84
V.388
Chrissie Isles
6/24/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.389
Francesco Bonami
6/26/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.390
Maurizio
7/10/2004
RadioShack LN-90
84
V.391
Maurizio (cont.)
7/10/2004
RadioShack LN-90
85
V.392
David White
11/4/2004
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.393
Paul Schimmel
11/14/2004
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.394
Bob Rauschenberg (1)
12/12/2004
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.395
Bob Rauschenberg (2)
12/12/2004
, 12/13/2004
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.396
Bob Rauschenberg (3)
12/13/2004
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.397
Susan Davidson
12/21/2004
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.398
Jasper Johns
12/28/2004
RadioShack XR-90
85
V.399
Adam Weinberg (1)
12/30/2004
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.400
Adam Weinberg (2)
12/30/2004
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.401
Chris Rauschenberg; Trisha Brown
1/5/2005
, 1/10/2005
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.402
John Elderfield
1/13/2005
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.403
Antonio Homem
1/13/2005
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.404
Michael Govan
1/14/2005
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.405
Darryl Pattorf
1/14/2005
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.406
Jim Rosenquist
1/19/2005
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.407
Jeff Koons; Jeffrey Deitch
1/21/2005
, 1/22/2005
RadioShack HC-90
85
V.408
[Jeffrey] Deitch (2)
1/22/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.409
Anne Glimcher
1/24/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.410
Joachim Pissarro
1/26/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.411
Leo Steinberg
2/9/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.412
[Robert] Rauschenberg
2/22/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.413
Rirkrit [Tiravanija] (1)
3/2/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.414
Gavin Brown
3/9/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.415
Rirkrit (2)
3/14/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.416
Liz Linden
3/19/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.417
Ann Temkin on Rikrit
3/21/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.418
Laura Hoptman
3/22/2005
RadioShack HC-90
86
V.419
Keith Christiansen; Dorothy Mahon
3/22/2005
, 4/6/2005
RadioShack XR-90
86
V.420
Rirkrit (3)
3/23/2005
RadioShack XR-90
86
V.421
Joan Young [on Rikrit]
3/24/2005
RadioShack XR-90
86
V.422
Elizabeth Peyton
3/24/2005
RadioShack XR-90
86
V.423
John Kessler
3/31/2005
RadioShack XR-90
86
V.424
Adam Weinberg (3)
4/4/2005
RadioShack XR-90
86
V.425
Philippe de Montebello; George Visacea
4/6/2005
RadioShack XR-90
86
V.426
Thelma Golden
4/7/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.427
Philippe Perreno; Glenn Lowry re: David Rockefeller
4/7/2005
, 5/17/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.428
Nicholas Hall
4/11/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.429
Keith Christiansen (2)
4/12/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.430
Keith Christiansen (3)
5/2/2005
RadioShack HC-90
87
V.431
Rirkrit (4)
5/12/2005
RadioShack HC-90
87
V.432
David Rockefeller
5/13/2005
RadioShack HC-90
87
V.433
Bruce Ferguson
5/17/2005
RadioShack HC-90
87
V.434
Rirkrit (5)
5/18/2005
RadioShack HC-90
87
V.435
Amanda - Everett Fahy; Rochelle Steiner
5/19/2005
RadioShack HC-90
87
V.436
Nancy Spector
5/23/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.437
Molly Nesbitt
6/6/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.438
Antoinette Gurel
6/6/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.439
Rirkrit (6)
6/8/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.440
Rirkrit (6)
[6/8/2005]
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.441
Liam Gillick
6/13/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.442
Adam Weinberg (4)
6/20/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.443
Eric Parker
6/22/2005
RadioShack XR-90
87
V.444
Rochelle Steiner; Francesca Grass
7/1/2005
, 7/3/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.445
Rirkrit (London) (7)
7/2/2005
, 7/3/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.446
Hans Ulrich Obrist
7/3/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.447
Rirkrit (8); Gavin Brown
7/4/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.448
David Ross; Richard Flood
7/22/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.449
Rikrit
8/29/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.450
Elisabeth Sussman
9/14/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.451
B. Haskell
9/15/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.452
Jennifer Russell
9/16/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.453
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro
9/19/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.454
Renzo Piano
9/21/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.455
B. Haskell (2)
9/21/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.456
Lorraine
9/26/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.457
Donna di Salvo
9/27/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.458
Tom Armstrong
9/27/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.459
Milton & Mickey Freedman
10/3/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.460
Max Anderson
10/4/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.461
Chuck Close
10/5/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.462
David Ross
10/7/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.463
Chrissie Isles
10/11/2005
RadioShack XR-90
88
V.464
Leonard Lauder; Flora Biddle
10/19/2005
RadioShack HC-90
89
V.465
Weinbergs (Jim and Bunny)
10/20/2005
RadioShack HC-90
89
V.466
Philippe Vergne
10/22/2005
RadioShack HC-90
89
V.467
Adam [Weinberg] - Tuttle Installation at the Whitney
11/3/2005
RadioShack HC-90
89
V.468
Adam [Weinberg] (5)
11/10/2005
RadioShack HC-90
89
V.469
Adam [Weinberg] (6)
11/15/2005
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.470
Adam [Weinberg] (7)
11/22/2005
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.471
Adam [Weinberg] (8)
12/7/2005
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.472
Barnaby Furnas
2/6/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.473
Jeffrey Weiss; Leo Steinberg
2/20/2006
, 2/22/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.474
School Days (2)
n.d.
Tape likely made for Talk piece, "Dept. of Precocity: Artists in Their Youth," 2/27/2006
RadioShack HC-90
89
V.475
J. Johns (1)
2/28/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.476
Jasper Johns (2)
3/1/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.477
J. Johns (3)
3/1/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.478
J. Johns (4)
3/2/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.479
Jeffrey Deitch
3/18/2006
RadioShack LN-90
89
V.480
Jeffrey Weiss
5/4/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.481
Johns (5)
5/12/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.482
Johns (6)
5/12/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.483
Michael Fitzgerald; David Salle
5/17/2006
, 7/22/2006
RadioShack XR-90
89
V.484
Terry Riley (2); George Condo
5/23/2006
, 6/16/2006
RadioShack XR-90
90
V.485
Robert Menschel
6/15/2006
RadioShack XR-90
90
V.486
Kathy Halbreich
6/16/2006
RadioShack XR-90
90
V.487
Johns (6)
7/23/2006
RadioShack XR-90
90
V.488
Johns (7)
7/23/2006
RadioShack XR-90
90
V.489
Johns (8)
7/23/2006
RadioShack XR-90
90
V.490
John Currin
8/24/2006
RadioShack LN-90
90
V.491
George Condo
9/26/2006
RadioShack XR-90
90
V.492
Merce Cunningham on J.J.
9/27/2006
RadioShack XR-90
90
V.493
Roberta Bernstein
9/28/2006
RadioShack XR-90
90
V.494
Condo, Cattelan, Gioni
9/28/2006
RadioShack LN-90
90
V.495
Cattelman, Furnas, and Condo on Jasper Johns
10/26/2006
RadioShack LN-90
90
V.496
Jeffrey Deitch and Julian Lethbridge on Johns
11/1/2006
RadioShack HC-90
90
V.497
Francis Naumann on J.J.
11/3/2006
RadioShack LN-90
90
V.498
J. Johns (9)
11/5/2006
RadioShack XR-90
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)