Curatorial Records
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a selection of records from fifteen Whitney Museum curators. The material includes correspondence, exhibition records, meeting minutes, administrative planning documents, and research materials that provide documentation of the activities each individual curator, within the greater scope of Museum programming.
Dates
- 1927-1999
Access to Collection
Collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
Extent
100 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A selection of original records from fifteen Whitney Museum curators: Paul Cummings, Robert Doty, Ella Foshay, Lloyd Goodrich, John Gordon, Barbara Haskell, Richard Marshall, James K. Monte, Lisa Philips, Patterson Simms, Elisabeth Sussman, Beth Venn, Adam Weinberg, and Thelma Golden. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, exhibition planning records, itineraries, meeting minutes, notes, and administrative documents.
Organization of the Collection
This collection is organized into fifteen series as follows:
Series I: Cummings, Paul, 1975-1987, undated
- Subseries A: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1975-1987, undated
- Subseries B: Permanent Collection, 1977-1987, undated
- Subseries C: Exhibitions, 1975-1981, undated
- Subseries D: Willem de Kooning, December 7, 1983 - February 26, 1984, 1980-1984, undated
- Subseries E: Miscellaneous, 1979-1986, undated
Series II: Doty, Robert M., 1959-1974
- Subseries A: Correspondence, 1966-1973
- Subseries B: Permanent Collection, 1959-1973
- Subseries C: Exhibitions and Research, 1966-1973
- Subseries D: Writings and Publications, 1966-1973
- Subseries E: Professional Activities, 1967-1973, undated
Series III: Foshay, Ella, 1981-1984, undated
- Subseries A: Reflections of Nature: Flowers in American Art, March 1 - May 20, 1984, 1981-1984, undated
Series IV: Goodrich, Lloyd, 1927-1981, undated
- Subseries A: Correspondence, 1939-1959
- Subseries B: Winslow Homer, 1935-1977
- Subseries C: Research, 1950
- Subseries D: Writings and Publications, 1927-1981, undated
Series V: Gordon, John, 1959-1968
Series VI: Haskell, Barbara, 1949-1993, undated
- Subseries A: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1974-1984
- Subseries B: Subject Files, 1976-1990, undated
- Subseries C: H.C. Westermann, 1959-1979, undated
- Subseries D: American Artists: A New Decade, 1976-1977
- Subseries E: 1981 Biennial, 1977-1979
- Subseries F: Forrest Bess, 1949-1982, undated
- Subseries G: Red Grooms, 1986-1988
- Subseries H: Agnes Martin, 1990-1993
Series VII: Marshall, Richard, 1960-1992
- Subseries A: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1974-1984
- Subseries B: Subject Files, 1976-1990, undated
- Subseries C: H.C. Westermann, 1959-1979, undated
- Subseries D: American Artists: A New Decade, 1976-1977
- Subseries E: 1981 Biennial, 1977-1979
- Subseries F: Forrest Bess, 1949-1982, undated
- Subseries G: Red Grooms, 1986-1988
- Subseries H: Agnes Martin, 1990-1993
Series VIII: Monte, James K., 1968-1993, undated
- Subseries A: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1968-1974, undated
- Subseries B: Installation Photographs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968, undated
- Subseries C: Writings and Publications, 1968-1969, undated
Series IX: Phillips, Lisa, 1977-1999, undated
- Subseries A: Correspondence, 1977-1999, undated
- Subseries B: Permanent Collection, 1995-1997
- Subseries C: Committees, 1981-1998, undated
- Subseries D: Research, 1981-1998, undated
- Subseries E: Beat Culture and the New America, November 9, 1995 - February 4, 1996, 1994-1995, undated
- Subseries F: Barbara Kruger, July 13 - October 23, 2000, 1994-1995, undated
- Subseries G: Canceled Exhibitions and Miscellanous, 1983-1997, undated
Series X: Russell, Jennifer, 1975-1986
Series XI: Sims, Patterson, 1973-1995
- Subseries A: Correspondence, 1974-1987
- Subseries B: Memoranda, 1975-1985
- Subseries C: Permanent Collection, 1976-1983, undated
- Subseries D: Research Files, 1990-1995
- Subseries E: Exhibitions, 1973-1982, undated
- Subseries F: Writings and Publications, 1977-1982
- Subseries G: Miscellaneous, 1976-1983
Series XII: Sussman, Elisabeth, 1991-1997, undated
- Subseries A: 1993 Biennial, March 4 - June 30, 1993, 1991-1993, undated
- Subseries B: Mike Kelley, November 5, 1993 - February 20, 1994, undated
- Subseries C: Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica, July 13 - November 5, 1995, 1994, undated
- Subseries D: Writings and Publications, 1996-1997
- Subseries E: Miscellaneous, 1991-1992, undated
Series XIII: Venn, Beth, 1990-1996, undated
Series XIV: Weinberg, Adam, 1986-1999, undated
- Subseries A: Miscellaneous, 1995
- Subseries B: Permanent Collection, 1986-1997, undated
- Subseries C: Permanent Collection Galleries - Calder, 1996-1998, undated
- Subseries D: Permanent Collection Galleries, 1996-1998, undated
- Subseries E: Grants, 1993-1994
- Subseries F: Research, 1993, undated
- Subseries G: San Jose Museum of Art, 1990-1994
- Subseries H: Exhibitions, 1993-1999, undated
- Subseries I: Writings and Publications, 1996-1997, undated
Series XV: Golden, Thelma, 1997-1998
- Status
- Completed
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Whitney Museum of American Art Archives, New York, NY Repository
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St.
New York, NY 10014 United States
archives@whitney.org
