Finding aid for the Robert Irwin papers, circa 1940-2011
Lynda Bunting, J. Gibbs, and Teresa Soleau.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Robert Irwin papers
Date (inclusive): circa 1940-2011, bulk
1970-2011
Number: 940081
Creator/Collector:
Irwin, Robert, 1928-
Physical Description:
346 Linear Feet
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
Business Number: (310) 440-7390
Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Robert Irwin is a California artist
associated with the Light and Space movement. His papers document many of Irwin's
site-specific, primarily public artworks from the 1980s with correspondence, writings,
clippings, drawings, photographs, models, and sound and video recordings. Additions
(1999-2011) to the archive include papers, photographs, and drawings relating to the Getty
central garden and other projects (ca. 1992-2011).
Language: Collection material is in
English.
Biographical/Historical Note
Robert Irwin is a Southern California artist and a founder of the Light and Space
movement.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers. Boxes 121-124 contain legal documents and are sealed
pending review in 2032.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Robert Irwin papers, ca. 1940-2011, bulk 1970-2011, Getty Research Institute, Research
Library, Accession no. 940081.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa940081
Acquisition Information
The papers were acquired in 1994. Additions to the archive were received in 1994, 1995,
1996, and 1997. Subsequent additions were received in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007,
2008, 2010, and 2011.
Processing History
Lynda Bunting unpacked and minimally processed the collection in the Fall of 1994. From
July 1995 to March 1996, the oversize material was processed. Kelly Nipper helped identify
and organize the photographs.
In July 1997 a supplement consisting of correspondence and project files dating from the
1990s was interfiled.
In 2012 Teresa Soleau incorporated additions into the finding aid but kept the materials
housed separately.
The 1999 addition includes boxes 76-86, flatfiles 5-7 and 23, boxed rolls 1, 2, 4, 6, 7,
18, 21-25, video item number V23, audio item number C22, and digital item number D2.
The 2001 addition includes boxes 87-98, flatfiles 24-26, boxed rolls 5, 8, 10-12, 16, 19,
video item numbers V24 and V25, and audio item number C23.
The 2003 addition includes boxes 99-101, flatfile 28, model 133, and video item number
V26.
The 2004 addition includes boxes 102-106, flatfiles 8-22 and 29, boxed rolls 3, 9, 13-15,
17, 20, 26, 29, and digital item number D3.
The first addition from 2005 includes boxes 107-110, flatfile 30, and digital item number
D4.
The second addition from 2005 includes boxes 111-112, and flatfiles 31-38.
The 2007 addition includes boxes 113-118, flatfiles 39-44, rolls 45-46, and digital item
numbers D5-D6.
The 2008 addition includes boxes 119-126, flatfiles 45 and 53-56, and digital item numbers
D1 and D7.
The 2010 addition includes boxes 127-130, flatfiles 46 and 48, and digital item number
D8.
The 2011 addition includes box 131-132, flatfile 47, and digital item number D9.
Digitized Material
Related Materials
For additional material related to Robert Irwin's design for the Central Garden at the
Getty Center, see the related collection in the Institutional Archives of the J. Paul Getty
Trust:
Getty Center Central Garden design
plans
, Robert Irwin. The Getty Research Institute (IA40020).
Separated Material
75 titles were separated to the library 1995 June 27. Some were duplicates.
Five titles were separated July 1997 from the supplement.
85 titles were separated February 2012 from additions 1999-2011.
Materials can be found by searching the library catalog for "Robert Irwin Papers" as the
source collection.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Robert Irwin papers are comprised of correspondence, personal writings, clippings, and
audiovisual and digital materials, as well as project files, photographs, drawings, and
models pertaining to his environmental works. The material dates from 1970, the year he sold
the contents of his Venice, California studio, to 2011. The project files, photographs, and
drawings present a comprehensive view of his site-specific, primarily public, artworks, both
executed and unrealized, from the 1980s. Particularly well documented are
48 Shadow Planes, 1983, Old Post Office, Washington, D.C.; Arts
Enrichment Master Plan, proposed 1986, Miami International Airport;
Two Architectural Towers, proposed 1989, City Front Plaza, Chicago; Dia:Beacon,
1996-2003, New York; and the Getty central garden, 1992-ca. 2008, Los Angeles.
Arrangement note
The papers are organized in nine series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1975-2010;
Series
II. Personal writings, ca. 1940-1999, undated;
Series III. Project files, 1970-2009,
undated;
Series IV. Clippings and ephemera, ca. 1960-2011, undated;
Series V. Photographs, ca. 1969-2003, undated;
Series VI. Audiovisual and digital
material, 1971-2010, undated;
Series VII. Project drawings, ca. 1970-2007, undated;
Series VIII. Project models, ca. 1979-ca. 1993;
Series IX. Miscellaneous, undated
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
City Front Plaza (Chicago, Ill.)
Dia:Beacon (Art
museum)
Getty Center (Los Angeles,
Calif.)
Miami International
Airport
Old Post Office and Clock Tower (Washington, D.C.)
Subjects - Topics
Exhibitions
Landscape architecture
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century
Building sites -- Planning -- United States
Public sculpture -- United States
Environment (Art)
Public art -- United States
Light in art
Subjects - Places
Getty Center Gardens (Los Angeles,
Calif.)
Genres and Forms of Material
Video recordings
Printed ephemera
Safety film
Manuscripts
DVDs
Clippings (information artifacts)
Study models
Correspondence
CD-ROMs
Photographs, Original
Photographic prints
Hard disks
Color photographs
Color slides
Color negatives
Compact discs
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Sound recordings
Videotapes
Contributors
Irwin, Robert, 1928-
City Front Plaza (Chicago, Ill.)
Dia:Beacon (Art
museum)
J. Paul Getty Trust
Miami
International Airport
Old Post Office and Clock Tower (Washington,
D.C.)
Series I.
Correspondence,
1975-2010
Physical Description:
13 Linear
Feet
(31 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with critics, curators, directors of museums, and other arts
organizations, universities, students, and collectors concern the creation, acquisition,
and installation of projects, exhibitions, lectures, and symposia. Some ephemera and
clippings may also be found here.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically with some (from collection additions) arranged alphabetically
by correspondent and topic at the end.
box 14b-14d, 109
Appointment calendars,
1976, 1978-1992,
1995-1999, 2002
Scope and Content Note
These calendars have many pieces of ephemera, notes, and receipts attached to the
pages.
box 87, folder 3
College and university lectures,
1989-1993
box 87, folder 2
Panza, Giuseppe,
1975-2000
box 121-124
Plutzer vs. The J. Paul Getty Trust, et al.,
2005-2007
Scope and Content Note
Sealed pending review in 2032.
box 127, folder 6
Other Getty correspondence,
2004-2007
box 86, folder 1
With color photographs,
1998
Series II.
Personal writings and lectures,
ca. 1940-2000,
undated
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear
Feet
(3.5 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Beginning around 1974, Irwin began to read philosophy (Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard,
Einstein, Wittgenstein and others) for ideas with which to defend his art against
criticism. The small early notebooks contain excerpts from Irwin's readings with his
notes. The larger notebooks contain commentaries on his readings, and the later
notebooks are compilations of ancillary information for his own writings. This series
also contains a separate notebook used in preparation for his 1977 Whitney Museum
project. Published writings, lecture notes, and related materials are also included.
Arrangement
Arranged by format.
box 83, folder 1
The Green and the White (an original
screenplay),
1940s
Scope and Content Note
Screenplay by Irwin and Joan Tewkesbury.
box 15-17
Notebooks,
1976-1977,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes the notebook for the Whitney Museum project, 1977.
box 87, folder 4
Published writings,
1999-2000
box 87, folder 5-8
Lecture notes and related material,
1998-2000,
undated
Series III.
Project files,
1970-2009,
undated
Physical Description:
9.2 Linear
Feet
(27 boxes, 1 flat file
folder)
Scope and Content Note
Material generated during the preparation and building of many installations,
exhibitions, and site-specific works. Files include proposals and correspondence with
project coordinators, engineers, and materials manufacturers. Other documentation
includes color and black-and-white photographs and negatives taken by Irwin during site
surveys and construction, drawings, notes, cost estimates, receipts, and some clippings.
Also included are materials related to projects about Irwin in which he participated.
See Series IV. Project drawings for oversize drawings.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
box 18, folder 4
Ohio State University,
1978
box 18, folder 5-6
Carpenter Park, Dallas,
1980
box 19, folder 5
San Francisco freeway,
ca. 1980
box 19, folder 6
Cincinnati Fountain Square,
1981
box 19, folder 7
University of California, San Diego (UCSD),
Two
Running Violet V Forms
,
1981
box 20, folder 1
Battery Park, New York, Competition,
1982
box 20, folder 2
San Francisco airport,
1982
box 20, folder 3
Chicago O'Hare airport,
1982
box 20, folder 4-5
University of Minnesota,
1983
box 21, folder 1-3
Old Post Office, Washington D.C. (
48 Shadow
Planes
),
1983
box 21, folder 4
Seattle (
9 Spaces, 9 Trees),
1983
box 21, folder 5
MacArthur Foundation,
1984
box 21, folder 6
Sackler Gallery, Harvard,
1985
box 22, folder 1
California Center, San Francisco,
1985
box 22, folder 2
San Francisco Exhibition,
1985
box 22, folder 3
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA] (Grand Avenue
Meridian),
1986
box 23
Miami International Airport (
Two Architectural
Towers
),
1986
box 23, folder 1-9
Correspondence, proposals, strategy, notes.
box 25, folder 1-7
Exhibition, exhibition space, expenses/receipts
box 24, folder 1-10
Research, theme parks, GTI background, contracts, meeting minutes,
critique committee
box 26, folder 1-10
Photographs, tranparencies, and negatives of architectural drawings;
articles, press releases, addresses, misc.
box 27, folder 1
Rice University Lecture Series,
1988
box 27, folder 3-6
Cityfront Center, Chicago,
1989
box 29, folder 3
Koll Plaza, San Diego,
1990
box 28, folder 4-5
Rhône-Alpes Olympics,
1990
box 29, folder 5
Renos Xippas, Paris,
1991
Pace Gallery exhibition,
1992
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA],
1992-1995
box 30, folder 11
Kölnischer Kunstverein,
1994
Musée d'art de la ville de Paris,
box 101, folder 7
Exhibition catalog for
Robert
Irwin
,
1994
box 30, folder 14
Millikin Foundation,
1994
box 30, folder 16
Los Angeles Cathedral,
1995
box 30, folder 17-19
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,
1995
box 83, folder 3
Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one
sees
by Lawrence Weschler,
1996
box 30, folder 22
Del Mar Bridge Project,
1996
box 83, folder 6
Documentary film by Leonard Feinstein,
1991-1997
Scope and Content Note
This film
The Beauty of Questions was released in 1997. It was
originally titled
In Response.
Getty central garden, Los Angeles,
1992-ca.
2008
Scope and Content Note
Files relating to books about the Getty central garden are also included. See
Series V. Photographs for color photography of the Getty central garden project, as
well as Series VII. Project drawings for additional material related to the project.
For additional material, see also the Getty Center Central Garden design plans
in the Institutional Archives of the J. Paul Getty Trust (IA40020).
Getty central garden book,
ca.
2001
Scope and Content Note
Weschler, Lawrence,
Robert Irwin Getty garden. Los
Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.
box 116
Getty central garden book,
2003
Scope and Content Note
Duggan, Jim,
Plants in the Getty's central garden.
Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2003.
flatfile 45**
Getty central garden book,
ca.
2008
Scope and Content Note
Hackman, William, and Mark Greenberg, eds.
Inside the
Getty
. Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Trust ; Hove : Roundhouse
[distributor], 2008.
box 83, folder 2
Ohio State University,
1996
Dia:Beacon, New York,
1996-2003
box 83, folder 7
Pace Wildenstein, New York (Retrospective),
1998
Scope and Content Note
Guest book.
Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (
Double
Diamond
),
1993-1999
box 89, folder 3
University of California, Irvine,
1999
box 89, folder 2
Howard Rachofsky project,
1998-1999
box 101, folder 2
San Diego State University,
1998-2001
box 89, folder 4
Lyon Parc Auto,
2000-2001
box 89, folder 5
Pace Gallery, Chelsea, New York,
2000-2001
box 105, folder 1
Guggenheim, New York (Scrim installation),
2003-2004
box 105, folder 2
Carmel Valley Community Park South,
ca.
2003-2004
box 105, folder 3
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA,
2003
box 111, folder 5
Pasadena Arts Cultural Affairs,
2003-2005
box 111, folder 6
Leona Drive, Los Angeles (Ortiz residence),
2005
box 114, folder 1-4
Desert Botanical Garden, Pheonix, AZ,
2002-2006
box 114, folder 5-6
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA (
Translucence),
2006
box 124, folder 9
Pace Wildenstein, New York (
Who's Afraid of Red,
Yellow and Blue
),
2006
Scope and Content Note
Guest book.
box 128, folder 7
Pace Wildenstein, New York (
Red Drawing, White
Drawing, Black Painting
),
2009
Scope and Content Note
Guest book.
Series IV.
Clippings and ephemera,
ca. 1960-2011,
undated
Physical Description:
5.2 Linear
Feet
(10 boxes, 8 flat file
folders)
Scope and Content Note
Reviews, invitations, posters, and announcements as well as personal items such as
awards and honorary degrees. Some ephemera may also be included in Series I.
Correspondence and Series III. Project files.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically with awards and oversize material at the end.
box 115, folder 2-6
2006-2007
Scope and Content Note
Also includes one folder of clippings related to the Getty dated 2004-2009.
box 34b
Skowhegan medal and Otis honorary degree,
1980-1992
box 105, folder 7
Art Center honorary degree,
2003
box 116
Certificate of Recognition from City of Los Angeles,
2006
flatfile 48**
San Francisco Art Institute honorary degree,
1978
flatfile 53**
Certificate of membership in American Academy of Arts and
Letters,
2007
flatfile 54**
Building team of the year award,
2008
flatfile 5**-6**, 26**, 28**, 44**, 46**
Posters,
1988-2002
Scope and Content Note
Includes posters for: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Symposium at the Chinati
Foundation; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris; SciArc 25th birthday
celebration; Presence symposium in Virginia; Ed Bereal show (Portland, OR);
Translucence: Southern California art from the 1960s &
1970s
;
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue;
Invisible Might: Words from 1965 to 1971;
New Music America Miami (1988).
Series V.
Photographs, slides, and negatives,
ca. 1969-2003,
undated
Physical Description:
20.8 Linear
Feet
(46 boxes, 5 flat file folders, 1
frame)
Scope and Content Note
An extensive quantity of black-and-white and color photographs, slides, and negatives
of many of Irwin's light and space installations and site-specific projects. There are
many duplicate color images, enlarged and mounted for exhibitions, such as his 1993
traveling retrospective. Some photographs of Irwin as a youth and of his early abstract
paintings can also be found here.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically with undated material at the end.
Personal and early work,
1969-1970,
undated
box 35
Personal photographs and portraits,
undated
box 35
Museum of Modern Art, New York [MOMA],
1970
box 35
Irwin's Venice Studio (
Skylights-Column),
1970
box 37
Walker Art Center (
Slant Light
Volume
),
1971
box 37
Ace Gallery (
Room Angle Light
Volume
),
1972
box 37
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles,
1972
box 37
Sonnabend, Paris (
Split Room Slant
Scrim
),
1972
box 37
Pace Gallery (
Eye Level Wall
Division
),
1973
box 37
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles,
1973
box 37
Panza, Varese, Italy,
1973
box 37
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles (
Wall
Division
),
1974
box 37
New South Wales/Sidney, Australia (
Scrim/Light
Volume
),
1974
box 37
Boehm Gallery, Palomar College,
1975
box 37
California State University, Long Beach,
1975
box 37
Museum of Contemporary Art [MOCA], Chicago (
Black
Line Volume
),
1975
box 37, 57*
Walker Art Center (
Four Corners Room; Window
Indication, Repeat Slant Light Volume
),
1976
box 37
University of Massachussets, Amherst (
Stairwell
Slant Volume
),
1976
box 38
Whitney Museum (
Scrim Veil-Black Rectangle-Natural
Light
),
1977
box 38, 58*
Berkeley (
Three-Light
Triangulation
),
1978
box 38, 52
Ohio State University, Columbus (
Tilted
Planes
),
1978
box 38
San Diego State University (
Scrim Room
Division
),
1979
box 38, 52
Lincoln, Nebraska Model,
1979
box 39, 51-52, 54*-55*, 57*
Carpenter Park, Dallas,
1980
box 39, 48
San Francisco freeway,
ca. 1980
box 58*, 62*
University of California, San Diego [UCSD],
ca. 1981
box 51-52, 57*
Chicago O'Hare airport,
ca. 1982
box 52
San Francisco airport,
ca. 1982
University of Minnesota,
1983
box 64**
Old Post Office, Washington, D.C. (
48 Shadow
Planes
),
ca. 1983
Seattle (
9 Spaces, 9 Trees),
ca. 1983
box 39, 55*
San Francisco (
A Single Plane: 324
Parts
),
1985
box 86, 91-98
Getty central garden,
1992-1998
Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (
Double
Diamond
),
1993-1999
box 89, folder 8-9
Black-and-white photographs,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA] (Retrospective),
1993
box 86
Dia Center for the Arts, New York,
1998
box 91, folder 4
Lyon Parc Auto,
2000-2001
box 91, folder 5
Pace Gallery, Chelsea,
2000-2001
box 105, folder 6
Robert Irwin and Ellsworth Kelly,
2003
Scope and Content Note
Photograph taken by Sydney B. Felsen.
American Academy of Arts and Letters
box 71
Rolls of negatives
Scope and Content Note
Photographs taken every 30 seconds.
box 59*
Mounted photos used in Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA]
retrospective
box 56*
NASA satellite photographs
box 57*
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
box 66**
Berkeley, Washington, D.C., and other projects
Scope and Content Note
Six mounted photographs.
box 49-50
Miscellaneous mounted photos
Series VI.
Audiovisual and digital material,
1971-2010,
undated
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear
Feet
(60 items)
Scope and Content Note
Audiovisual and digital materials document Irwin's art, and Irwin lecturing and
attending symposia. Only those items that have been reformatted may be used. Reformats
are described below but housed separately. Online access to
selected digitized video recordings is available to on-site
readers and Getty staff.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically within each format with undated and unidentified material at
the end of each format.
box 69, item F1
Drugs and Beyond,
1971
Drugs and Beyond: 1971
Scope and Content Note
Film sent to Irwin by Ed Wortz. Film was part of a series funded by both the National
Institute for Mental Health and UCLA in 1971 as part of the "Social Seminar"
series.
1 film reel : 16 mm. Original.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP). Archival master.
Audiotapes,
1975-1998,
undated
box 67, item C1
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
1975 Nov.
8
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 67, item C2
10th International Sculpture Conference
1978 May 31-June
3
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 67, item C3-C4
Irwin Seminar,
1979 Nov.
21
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes. Both marked "dupe".
box 67, item C5-C6
Irwin,
1980 Apr.
30
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes. Both marked "dupe".
box 67, item C7
The Territory of Art with Pia Lindstrom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, KCRW,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 67, item C8-C12
Irwin lectures,
1988 Mar 7, 14,
21
Scope and Content Note
5 sound cassettes.
box 68, item C13-C14
Broadcast,
1993 Sept.
15
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes.
box 68, item C15
The Thoroughbred Connection: Irwin/Andy Beyer,
1993 Dec.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 68, item C22
These Days with Dick Sutro,
1998 August
10
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 68, item C23
Roger Shattuck, for the Garden of Our Perceptions,
1998
Scope and Content Note
This sound cassette accompanies material in preparation for a symposium at the
Huntington Library that Irwin spoke at in 1998.
box 68, item C16
Astrology no. 1,
undated
Astrology no. 1: undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 68, item C17
Astrology no. 2,
undated
Astrology no. 2: undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 68, item C18
Yassan (?) lecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
box 68, item C19-C21
Sally Yard,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 sound cassettes.
Videotapes,
1973-2001,
undated
box 69, item V1-V5
Lecture,
1973 Feb.
28
Lecture,
Scope and Content Note
Originals - 5 videoreels : 1/2 in.
V1 is blank. Not reformatted. V3 is a duplicate of V2 and was therefore not
digitized. V2 is 63 minutes long. V5 is a duplicate of V4 and was therefore not
digitized. V4 is 31 minutes long.
box 69, item R1-R2
Wright State lectures,
ca. 1973
Wright State lectures: 1973
Scope and Content Note
2 videotape reels.
box 69, item V6
Lecture,
1976 Aug.
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic : 50 min.).
box 70, item V8
"PAC, Irwin airport master plan",
21 September
1987
"PAC, Irwin airport master plan" (digital version available on-site only): 21
September 1987
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 4 (VHS) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. Title transcribed
from label.
box 70, item V9
"PAC, Irwin master plan",
21 September
1987
"PAC, Irwin master plan" (digital version available on-site only): 21
September 1987
Scope and Content Note
2 videocassette of 4 (VHS) (124 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. Title transcribed
from label.
box 70, item V10
"Irwin presentation - Trust",
23 September
1987
"Irwin presentation - Trust" (digital version available on-site only): 23
September 1987
Scope and Content Note
3 videocassette of 4 (VHS) (75 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. Title transcribed
from label.
box 70, item V11
"PAC, Irwin master plan",
22 September
1987
"PAC, Irwin master plan" (digital version available on-site only): 22
September 1987
Scope and Content Note
4 videocassette of 4 (VHS) (5 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. Title transcribed
from label.
box 70, item V12
"Coy Howard; Denes presentation; Vertical access proposal",
23 February
1988
"Coy Howard; Denes presentation; Vertical access proposal" (digital version
available on-site only): 23 February 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 2 (VHS) (114 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. Title transcribed
from label. The first half of this video documents Beverly Buchanan installing
Blue Station Stones in Miami, Florida, as part of
Miami-Dade County Art In Public Places.
box 70, item V13
"Coy Howard - Vertical access; R. Irwin - MIA garden
proposal",
23 February
1988
"Coy Howard - Vertical access; R. Irwin - MIA garden proposal" (digital
version available on-site only): 23 February 1988
Scope and Content Note
2 videocassette of 2 (VHS) (64 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. Title transcribed
from label.
box 70, item V14
The Doors of Perception, Smithsonian
World,
1991 June
5
The Doors of Perception, Smithsonian World: 1991 June 5
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS ; 58 min.).
box 70, item V15
Robert Irwin in Response, Pace,
1992
Robert Irwin in Response, Pace: 1992
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS ; 8 min.).
box 70, item V16
Documenta '92: West Coast
Artists
,
1992
Documenta '92: West Coast Artists: 1992
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 70, item V17
Robert Irwin: From Point Zero,
1993
Robert Irwin: From Point Zero: 1993
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 70, item V18
Irwin - Paris,
1994 Oct.
Irwin - Paris: 1994 Oct.
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
box 70, item V23
MOCA & Tribute Celebration,
1997 June
6
MOCA & Tribute Celebration: 1997 June 6
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS)
box 70, item V24
Rice President's lecture series,
2000 March
3
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS)
box 70, item V25
Eye on L.A.: The Getty,
2001 May
19
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS ; 30 min.)
box 70, item V19
The Artist's Voice,
undated
The Artist's Voice: undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS ; 30 min.).
box 69, item V20
Interview,
undated
Interview: undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic ; 30 min.). The end title card says "One of a series on
living artists by Andy Eason & Gerry Rosen, c.1975"
box 69, item V21
Unedited interview, tape 1,
undated
Unedited interview, tape 1,: undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic ; 62 min.).
box 69, item V22
Unedited interview, tape 2,
undated
Unedited interview, tape 2: undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic ; 28 min. ).
box 70, item V26
Advanced Placement: The Stuart Collection at
UCSD
undated
Advanced Placement: The Stuart Collection at UCSD: undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS)
box 70, item V27
Unidentified,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Digital material,
1998-2010,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Digital material is unavailable until reformatted.
box 85, item D2
Masterworks for learning: A College collection catalogue. Allen Memorial
Art Museum, Oberlin College,
1998
Scope and Content Note
1 CD-ROM. Music performed by students and faculty.
box 110, item D4
Art Gallery of Western Australia,
ca. 2003
Scope and Content Note
1 CD-ROM containing PDF and JPEG files.
box 117, item D5
Art Gallery of Western Australia,
2005
Scope and Content Note
1 CD-ROM containing JPEG files.
box 118, item D6
Brazil (Allan),
ca. 2005
Scope and Content Note
1 CD-ROM containing JPEG files. Sleeve was marked "Brazil - Allan" and was housed
with print-outs of color photographs. See Correspondence from 2005 (b. 113, f.
10).
box 125, item D1
Interview of Robert Irwin by Mike Bianco,
2007
Scope and Content Note
2 audio CDs (85 min).
box 126, item D7
An Afternoon with Robert Irwin a film by
Hunter Moskowitz (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego),
ca. 2008
Scope and Content Note
1 DVD (8 min) : sd., col. A documentary on
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and
Blue
.
box 130, item D8
California's Gold #10006:
Getty Garden,
2008
Scope and Content Note
1 DVD.
box 132, item D9
Primary Atmospheres: Works from California
1960-1970
,
2010
Scope and Content Note
1 CD-ROM containing JPEG and TIF files.
box 106, item D3
Cognitive Tool Company (John Baez),
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 zip disk. Originally filed with Dia:Beacon miscellaneous project files.
Series VII.
Project drawings,
ca. 1970-2007,
undated
Physical Description:
228 Linear
Feet
(44 rolls, 37 flat file folders, and 2
frames)
Scope and Content Note
Many original drawings in pencil and colored pencil, and some printed mechanical
drawings, for many of Irwin's projects.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically with undated and unidentified material at the end.
roll 17**
Pace Gallery,
1973-1992
Scope and Content Note
Three sections and elevations with colored pencil for 1992 installation; one
photostat of 1973 and 1974 installations; and one installation photo.
Boxed-roll 1**
Ohio State University,
1978
roll 2**
Carpenter Park, Dallas,
1978
Scope and Content Note
Sixteen blueprints and one pencil drawing.
flatfile 3**
Flatfile
Scope and Content Note
Twenty-six original and mechanical drawings.
flatfile 4**
Rock Garden Sitting Room, Rhode Island,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Three drawings.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA] (
Grand Avenue Meridian),
1983-1986
roll 20**
1983
Scope and Content Note
Thirteen foot long negative and positive, two smaller positives and one smaller
print. Also called
Grand Avenue Viaduct.
frame 1**-2**
1983?
Scope and Content Note
Framed print, positive. Made from negatives on Roll 20? Also called
Grand Avenue Viaduct.
roll 4**
1986
Scope and Content Note
Seven blueprints.
roll 5**
1986
Scope and Content Note
Five sheets of elevations and diagrams (see also Roll 20).
roll 13**
Sackler Gallery, Harvard,
1985
roll 3**
Tower 45,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Sixteen blueprints.
roll 6**-7**
Miami,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Seven drawings, some colored. Nineteen original drawings.
Boxed-roll 2**
Miami International Airport (
Two Architectural
Towers
),
ca.1986
roll 8**
Falling Water,
1988
Scope and Content Note
Three colored drawings for
Site Lines.
roll 9**
Pasadena,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Two colored drawings of plan and elevation.
Des Moines, Iowa,
ca.1990
roll 14**,18**
Renos Xippas, Paris,
1991
Getty central garden, Los Angeles,
ca.1992-ca.1998
flatfile 7**, 14**, 23**, 45**
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA] (Retrospective),
ca. 1993
roll 10**
Köln,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Fifteen original drawings.
Boxed-roll 6**, 7**
Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain,
1995
Lyon Parc Auto,
1995,
2000
Boxed-roll 9**
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (
Double
Diamond
),
ca.1998-ca.1999
Pace Gallery, Chelsea, New York,
1998-1999
Boxed-roll 11**
Howard Rachovsky project,
ca.
1998-1999
Dia:Beacon, New York,
ca.1999-ca.2001
Flatfiles,
ca. 2000-ca.
2004
flatfile 8**
Planting plan, two drawings,
ca.
2004
flatfile 9**
Administration building, three drawings,
2001
Mar
Scope and Content Note
North facade, west-east elevation, window and doors.
flatfile 10**
Two drawings,
ca.
2002
Scope and Content Note
Irwin label (not on drawing), "Bosch."
flatfile 11**
Windows, three drawings,
ca.
2000
flatfile 12**
Entrance building backup, seven drawings,
ca.
2000
flatfile 13**
Excurses[?] Homage to the Square, four
drawings,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Potentially or Irwin installation at Dia:Beacon.
flatfile 15**
Administration building, ten drawings,
ca.
2001
flatfile 17**
Entry building construction drawings, three drawings,
ca.
2000
flatfile 18**
Miscellanous and stairs, three drawings,
undated
flatfile 20**
Gate front, two drawings,
2001
Boxed-roll 14**
Parking lot
Scope and Content Note
Drawings on vellum and trace of plantings and parking plan.
Boxed-roll 15**
Building drawings
Scope and Content Note
Irwin's label (not on drawings): "BASE [or "BASC?"] bldg drawings." Plans of
various levels.
Seattle (
9 Spaces, 9 Trees),
ca. 2000
roll 19**
Roll
Scope and Content Note
2 negatives, 2 photostats and 1 drawing.
Desert Botanical Garden, Pheonix, AZ,
ca.
2001-2006
flatfile 30**
Art Gallery of Western Australia,
2003
ARCO Plaza,
1970, ca.
2003-2004
box 112
Oversize,
ca. 2003-ca.
2004
flatfile 31**, 37**
University of California, San Diego,
ca. 2003-ca.
2004
box 103, folder 1
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA,
ca. 2003
flatfile 22**
Carmel Valley Community Park South,
ca.
2003-2004
Guggenheim, New York (Scrim installation),
2003-2004
flatfile 30**
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PDSI Project),
2004
St. Alban's School, Washington,
2004-2005
flatfile 36**
Leona Drive, Los Angeles (Ortiz residence),
ca. 2005
Sidney Frank Hall, Brown University,
2005
roll 27**
LACMA, Los Angeles (
Soft Wall),
2007
roll 1**
Early Installation Projects
Scope and Content Note
Thirty-one drawings, many with colored pen, of scrims and wall pieces at the
Walker, Museum of Modern Art, NY [MOMA], Whitney Museum, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Castelli Gallery, and other places.
roll 12**, 19**
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Boxed-roll 19**
Public Safety Building, Seattle
Boxed-roll 20**
Boxed roll
Scope and Content Note
3rd level, backup. Drawings on vellum.
Series VIII.
Project models,
ca. 1979-ca.
1993
Physical Description:
65.4 Linear
Feet
(6 models)
Scope and Content Note
Models of Irwin's Las Vegas, Lincoln (Nebraska), Cincinnati, Minnesota, San Francisco
Freeway, and San Francisco Airport projects.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
box 72**
Lincoln, Nebraska,
ca. 1979
box 74**
San Francisco Freeway,
ca. 1980
box 133**
San Francisco Airport,
ca. 1982
Series IX.
Miscellaneous,
1993-2009,
undated
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear
Feet
(1 box)
Scope and Content Note
This series was created because some material in the additions could not be linked with
any particular file.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
box 124, folder 10-11
2007 addition,
2006-2008
Scope and Content Note
Thesis on the Getty central garden by student from California Polytechnic State
University (2007), and small publications from four arts institutions (2007-2008).
box 129, folder 6
2010 addition,
1993-2009
Scope and Content Note
A photograph of Irwin with two other unidentified people, an unidentified exhibition
checklist, and receipt.