Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.) Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Place of publication, production, or execution:
United States
Physical Description:
3 Items, microfilm reels and 3 sound cassettes
Access Note / Rights:
Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of untranscribed interviews requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility.
Summary:
Records relating to the Pasadena Museum of Art's exhibition "Marcel Duchamp", held 1963 Oct.8 -Nov. 3. Records include correspondence with Duchamp, work sheets, texts and layouts, catalog raisonne, loan agreements, printed matter, guest lists, shipping file, photographs, fact sheets, clippings, and untranscribed interviews.
The untranscribed interviews of Duchamp are recorded on three cassettes. The first cassette consists of interviews conducted in N.Y. and London for the British Broadcasting Corporation's "Art/Anti-Art Program" by George Heard Hamilton and Richard Hamilton in 1959; the second cassette, also for the BBC, is undated and contains excerpts of an interview conducted by Richard Hamilton; the third cassette is an interview of Duchamp conducted by Earl Carter of the Pasadena Museum of Art, October 1963.
Citation:
Marcel Duchamp Retrospective Exhibition records, 1959-1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reels 4388-4390 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Originals in Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA.
Biography Note:
Pasadena Art Museum (founded 1924) is an art museum in Pasadena, Calif. Renamed Norton Simon Museum of Art in 1974 and later renamed the Norton Simon Museum. Held Duchamp retrospective in 1963.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming in 1990 by the Pasadena Museum of Art, interviews were duplicated from the original reel to reel tapes onto three cassettes.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Art -- Exhibitions -- California -- Pasadena Search this
