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Gregory Battcock Papers, 1952-circa 1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Bourdon assembled extensive research/subject files on a wide variety of art topics and artists, such as American art, art prices and collecting, forgeries, photography, sculpture, Gregory Battcock, Nam June Paik, Ray Johnson, and Pop art, among many other topics. There are extensive files on Andy Warhol and earth art in support of his books. Contents of folders vary, but typically include printed materials, contract agreements, correspondence, draft writings, interview transcripts, memos to editors, newsletters, notes, photographs, and press releases.
Arrangement:
Series 3 is arranged in 9 subseries.
Missing Title
Location, 1945-1996
Period, 1949-1997
Style, 1953-1997
Artist, 1945-1997
Architecture & Design, 1955-1993
Sculpture, 1959-1996
Various Subjects, 1949-1997
Andy Warhol, 1960-1998
Designing the Earth: the Human Impulse to Shape Nature -- , 1955-1997
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Research subjects include earth art, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson, moats, temples, and tombs.
Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by subject
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Scattered biographical materials include school notebooks, files on topics of interest, family events, and family history. There is one folder of miscellaneous correspondence and one folder of two items from Ray Johnson (additional Johnson correspondence can be found in Series 3, subseries 4.)
Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Writings include essays, stories, articles, and research materials and manuscript drafts of Bourdon's books Calder and Designing the Earth (early drafts are titled "Earthbound".) There are also drafts of his "Collected Writings," some contracts, and a file marked current projects. Some files also include correspondence, press releases, brochures, clippings, and notes. Additonal writings are found among the research files, and published versions of Bourdon's writings are filed with Printed Materials.
Arrangement:
Arranged chronologically, except book materials which are arranged alphabetically by subject.
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Locations include the United States, Asia, England, France, Germany, international, Italy, Russia etc.
Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by location
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
From abstract, Art Deco, Dada, Pop to realism/figurative.
Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by style type
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Includes artists such as Diane Burko, Joseph Cornell, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson (includes some correspondence, including mail art), Carlo Maria Mariani, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by Artist's name
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Oversized material housed in Box 38, Folders 1 and 2
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Includes the United States, divided by time periods from pre-1960 through 1980 forward, and International.
Arrangement:
Arranged in original order with United States first and chronologically by time period, then International
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Books - on Andy Warhol, Annotated - Star Gazer by Stephen Koch, Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s by Robert Rosenblum, Andy Warhol, Transcript of David Bailey's ATV Documentary
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Includes United States abstract, 1950s through 1990s and figurative, 1960s through 1990s; international 1900 through 1990s.
Arrangement:
Arranged in original order with United States first, chronologically by time period, then International, chronologically by time period
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Includes collectors, crafts, critics, dancers, dealers and galleries, films, happenings, horses (for proposed book), museums, music, photography, tribal, and video art, among many others.
Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by subject
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Collection Citation:
David Bourdon papers, 1941-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
