INVENTORY OF THE ROBERT IRWIN PAPERS,
1970-2004
Inventory prepared by Lynda Bunting and J. Gibbs.
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© 1998
J. Paul Getty Trust.
INVENTORY OF THE ROBERT IRWIN PAPERS,
1970-2004
Accession no. 940081
Inventory prepared by Lynda Bunting and J. Gibbs
Getty Research Institute
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- Research Library
- Special Collections and Visual Resources
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- Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
- Phone: (310) 440-7390
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- Processed by:
- Lynda Bunting
- Date Completed:
-
July 1997,
rev. July 2004
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- Philip Curtis
© 1998 J. Paul Getty Trust.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Robert Irwin papers
Date (inclusive): 1970-2004
Collection number: 940081
Creator:
Irwin, Robert, 1928-
Extent:
ca. 45 linear ft. + Additions (1999,
2001, 2003, 2004)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: Robert Irwin is a California artist, known for
his space and light, and environmental works. His papers (1970-1996) document
with correspondence, writings, clippings, drawings, photographs, models, and
sound and video recordings about 46 of Irwin's site-specific, primarily public,
artworks. Additions (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004) to the archive include papers,
photographs and drawings relating to the Getty garden, and other projects (ca.
1992-2003).
Language: Collection material in
English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Robert Irwin papers, 1970-2004, Getty Research Institute, Research
Library, Accession no. 940081.
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, and 2004.
Processing History
Lynda Bunting unpacked and minimally processed the collection in the
Fall of 1994. Sporadically, 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.
Additions to the archive in 1999, 2001, 2004 have not been
interfiled, but have been added to the end of the collection in order of
receipt.
Separated Material
75 titles were separated to the library 1995 June 27. Some were
duplicates.
UCLA Oral History.
Los Angeles Art Community: Group
Portrait.
Robert Stiner. "Meditations on a Site-Conditioned Art: the
Landscape Architecture" (Master's Thesis).
Jan Butterfield.
The Art of Light and Space.
Wechsler.
Seeing is Forgetting.
Immaterial Objects.
Maurice Tuchman.
A Report on the Art and Technology Program
of the LACMA 1967-71
1st National Symposium: Habitability. 2 vols. +
pamphlet with yellow cover (Irwin created the space in which these meetings
took place, and five auxiliary spaces)
Marc Treib.
Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical
Review.
Transformation in Sculpture.
200 Years of American Sculpture.
San Diego Museum of Art: Selections from the
Permanent Collection.
Perception of the Spirit.
DifferenteS NatureS.
Wave Hill Pictured: Celebration of a
Garden.
Philadelphia College of Art.
Projects for PCA.〹
Venice Biennale 1976. U.S. Pavilion.
Walker Art Center.
Works for New Spaces.
California Perceptions, Light and Space:
Selections from the Wortz Collection.
〹
Jennifer Licht.
Some Recent American Art.
(MOMA)
Castelli.
Important Post War and Contemporary
Art.
Auction cat.
LACMA 1966 exhibit.
Robert Irwin-Kenneth Price.
20th Century Art from Fort Worth Dallas
Collections.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Robert Irwin.
Pasadena Art Museum.
West Coast Artists. unbound
Southern California Artists
1940-80.
〹
Aspects of the 70s Sitework.
Philadelphia.
FAF:PFPAFP.〹
The last time I saw Ferus.
1976
Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space: Four
Artists.
Polaroid Portraits.
Urban Encounters: Art Architecture
Audience.
Fort Worth Art Museum.
Painting and Sculpture.〹
Jewish Museum.
Gene Davis Robert Irwin Richard
Smith.
UCLA.
20th Century Sculpture from Southern
California Collections
. 1972
The Maximal Implications of the Minimal
Line.
〹
Sculptors International.
Dialogue 1984.
20th Century American Drawings.
Twenty-five years of American Painting
1948-1973.
Site.
Sculptors and Landscape
Architects.
39th Venice Biennale 1980.
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Univ. of PA.
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade.
Andre Buren Irwin Nordman: Space as
Support.
UC Irvine.
Faculty '68.
The Vice-President's
House.
〹
Sculpture Today, 1978.
King's Square Show.
Profile: Robert Irwin
1982.
〹
Places. Quarterly journal of
Environmental Design.
Museum as Site: Sixteen
Projects.
〹
Issue 5. A Journal for
Artists.
Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the
Sixties.
Freedman Gallery.
Sites and Solutions: Recent Public
Art.
NEA.
Art in Public Places.
Finish Fetish: LA's Cool School.
Jack Broghan: Projects.
High Museum, Atlanta.
Contemporary Art in Southern
California.
Pittura Ambiente. 1979
Perceiving the Garden: Robert Irwin at Wave
Hill.
Insights/On Sites: Perspectives on Art in
Public Places.
CSULB.
A View Through.
Allen Memorial Art Museum.
Bulletin. vol. 39, no. 1.
University of California, Irvine,
1965-75.
〹
Robert Perine.
Chouinard: An Art Vision Betrayed.
L'umana avventura. Autunno
'87.
Detroit Institute of the Arts.
Art in Space: Some Turning Points.
Journal. Southern California Art
Magazine. 6-7 1979.
Laica Journal. July-August 1977.
UCSD.
Stuart Collection.
Art Now 74: A Celebration of the American
Arts.
Musée d'Art de la Ville de Paris.
Robert Irwin.
Kölnischer Kunstverein.
Robert Irwin.
Fort Worth Art Center Museum.
Robert Irwin-Doug Wheeler.〹
University of Massachusetts/Amherst.
Critical Perspectives in American
Art.
〹
Art and Public Space.〹
5 titles were separated July 1997 from the recently recieved
supplement:
La Jolla Museum of Art.
Portraits of artists: Photographs by John
Waggaman.
Fort Worth Art Center Museum.
Robert Irwin -Doug Wheeler.
VIII Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 1965.
Estados Unidos da America.〹
Rhode Island School of Design.
About time.〹
Grieder, Terence.
Artist and Audience.〹
Biographical/Historical Note
Robert Irwin is a Southern California artist and a founder of the
light and space, and environmental art movements.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Robert Irwin papers are composed of correspondence, personal
writings, clippings, and audio and visual tapes, as well as project files,
photographs, drawings and models pertaining to his light and space, and
environmental works. The material dates from 1970, the year he sold the
contents of his Venice, California studio, to 2001. The project files,
photographs, and drawings present a comprehensive view of his site-specific,
primarily public, artworks, executed and unrealized, from the 1980s.
Particularly well documented are "Portal Park Slice," 1980, John W. Carpenter
Park, Dallas; "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; and Sentinel
Plaza, 1990, Pasadena.
Additions to the archive (Series IX) include materials relating to
the Getty garden and other projects.
Arrangement
The papers are organized in nine series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1975-1996;
Series II. Personal writings, ca. 1976-1977, n.d.;
Series III. Projects, 1970-1996;
Series IV. Clippings and ephemera, ca. 1960-1992;
Series V. Photographs, ca. 1969-ca. 1993;
Series VI. Audiotapes, videotapes, and film, 1971-1994,
n.d.
;
Series VII. Project drawings, ca. 1970-1993;
Series VIII. Project models, n.d.
Series IX. Addenda, ca. 1992-2004.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Irwin, Robert, 1928-
—Exhibitions
Light in art
Public art--United
States
Art Center College of
Design (Pasadena, Calif.)
Dia:Beacon (Art
Museum)
Miami International
Airport
Old Post Office and Clock
Tower (Washington, D.C.)
City Front Plaza
(Chicago, Ill.)
John W. Carpenter Park
(Dallas, Tx.)
Sentinel Plaza (Pasadena,
Calif.)
Public sculpture—United
States
Building
sites—Planning—United States
Sculpture, Modern—20th
century
Art, Modern—20th
century
Environment (Art)
Getty Center Gardens (Los
Angeles, Calif.)
Forms and Genres of Material
Architectural
drawings
Audiotapes
Motion pictures (visual
works)
Photographic
prints
Photographs,
Original
Sound
recordings
Videotapes
Contributors
Irwin, Robert,
1928-
Dia:Beacon (Art
museum)
Miami International
Airport
Old Post Office and Clock
Tower (Washington, D.C.)
City Front Plaza
(Chicago, Ill.)
John W. Carpenter Park
(Dallas, Tx.)
Sentinel Plaza (Pasadena,
Calif.)
Getty Center (Los
Angeles, Calif.)
Series I.
Correspondence,
1975-1996
Physical Description:
7 lin. ft. 14 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. Filed chronologically. Also included are calendars for the years
1976, 1978-1992.
Series II.
Personal writings,
ca.
1976-1977,
n.d.
Physical Description:
1.5 lin. ft.
3 boxes
Scope and Content Note
The series II comprises 38 notebooks. 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.
Box 15
17 notebooks,
1976-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes the notebook for the Whitney Museum project, 1977.
Box 16
10 notebooks,
1977 and later,
n.d.
Series III.
Projects,
1970-1996
Physical Description:
6.5 lin. ft.
13 boxes
Scope and Content Note
The projects series contains material generated during the
preparation and building of roughly 46 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 and
receipts.
Box 18, Folder 4
Ohio State University,
1978
Box 18, Folder 5-6
Dallas Carpenter Park,
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] 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
Three Proposals for University of Minnesota,
1983
Box 21, Folder 1-3
Washington D.C. Old Post Office,
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
Scope and Content Note
See also Rolls 4, 5 and 20, and Frames 1 and 2 for more
material on this project. Project dates seem to be 1983, 1986.
Box 23, Folder 1-9
Miami International Airport; correspondence,
proposals, strategy, notes.
Box 24, Folder 1-10
Research, theme parks, GTI background, contracts,
meeting minutes, critique committee
Box 25, Folder 1-7
Exhibition, exhibition space,
expenses/receipts
Box 26, Folder 1-10
Photographs, tranparencies, and negatives of
architectural drawings; articles, press releases, addresses,
miscell
Box 27, Folder 1
Rice University Lecture Series,
1988
Box 27, Folder 3-6
Cityfront Center, Chicago,
1989
Box 28, Folder 4-5
Rhone-Alpes Olympics,
1990
Box 29, Folder 3
Koll Plaza, San Diego,
1990
Box 29, Folder 5
Paris, Renos Xippas,
1991
Box 30, Folder 1
Pace Gallery exhibition,
1992
Box 30, Folder 8-10
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA]
1993
Scope and Content Note
(see also flat file folder 4**)
Box 30, Folder 11
Kölnischer Kunstverein,
1994
Box 30, Folder 12-13
Musée d'Art de la Ville de Paris,
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 30, Folder 22
Del Mar Bridge Project,
1996
Series IV.
Clippings and ephemera,
ca.
1960-1992
Physical Description:
2 lin. ft.
4 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series IV. contains reviews, but also some invitations,
announcements, and a guest book (1992). Filed chronologically.
Box 34b
Medal and honorary degree
Series V.
Photographs,
ca.
1969-ca. 1993
Physical Description:
ca. 12 lin. ft.
32 boxes, 2
flat file folders
Scope and Content Note
The series contains an extensive quantity of black-and-white and
color photographs of more than 35 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.
Box 35
Personal and early work,
1969-1970
Box 35
Personal photographs and portraits
Box 35
Museum of Modern Art, New York [MOMA],
1970
Box 35
Irwin's Venice Studio (Skylights-Column),
1970
Box 36
Walker Art Center (Slant Light Volume),
1971
Box 36
Ace Gallery (Room Angle Light Volume),
1972
Box 36
Rico Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles,
1972
Box 36
Sonnabend, Paris (Split Room Slant Scrim),
1972
Box 36
Pace Gallery (Eye Level Wall Division),
1973
Box 36
Rico Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles,
1973
Box 37
Panza, Varese, Italy,
1973
Box 37
Rico 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
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
Berkeley (Three-Light Triangulation),
1978
Box 38
Ohio State University, Columbus (Tilted Planes),
1978
Box 38
San Diego State University, (Scrim Room Division),
1979
Box 38
Model for Lincoln, Nebraska,
1979
Box 39
Dallas Sculpture Project,
1980
Box 39
San Francisco Freeway, ca.
1980
Box 39
University of Minnesota,
1983
Box 39
San Francisco (A Single Plane: 324 Parts),
1985
Box 46-47
Mounted photographs of Venice, Calif. project
Scope and Content Note
(see box 71 in cold storage for 3 rolls of negatives that were
taken every 30 seconds)
Box 48
Mounted photos of Venice, Calif. and San Francisco
Freeway
Box 49-50
Miscellaneous mounted photos
Box 51
Mounted photographs of Dallas and Chicago
O'Hare
Box 52
Miscellaneous images
Scope and Content Note
Includes parts of exhibition and working photographs for Chicago
O'Hare, Chicago, Lincoln Nebraska, San Francisco airport, Cincinnati, Dallas,
Pasadena, Ohio State.
Box 54*
Mounted photographs of Pasadena and Dallas
Box 55*
Includes San Fransisco, Dallas, Wellesley, some
mounted
Box 56*
6 mounted NASA satellite photographs
Box 57*
Miscellaneous oversize
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of Dallas, Chicago O'Hare, Louisiana, Denmark
poster, and Walker projects. Some mounted.
Box 58*
Mounted photographs of University of California, San
Diego [UCSD] and Berkeley projects
Box 59*
Mounted photos of Irwin's Venice, Calif. Project, used
in Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA] retrospective
Box 60*
Mounted photos of various projects, used in Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA] retrospective
Box 61**
Mounted collage photos of Chicago Tower
Box 62**
University of California, San Diego
Box 63**
Mounted photos of various projects, from Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA] retrospective
Box 64**
Washington, D.C. and Wave Hill, some mounted
Box 65**
Mounted photographs of Wellesley project
Box 66**
6 mounted photographs of Berkeley, Washington, D.C., and
other projects
Frame 3**
Framed print of Minnesota
project
Flat file folder **1
Mounted photos of Las Vegas and
Wellesley projects
Flat file folder **2
Mounted photographs of Seattle
project, and University of Minnesota photo collage
Series VI.
Audiotapes, videotapes and film,
1971-1994,
n.d.
Physical Description:
3 lin. ft.
44 items
Scope and Content Note
Audiotapes, videotapes and a film 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.
Box 67
C1 - Astrology no. 1,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 67
C2 - Astrology no. 2,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 67
C3 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
1975 Nov. 8
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 67
C4 - 10th International Sculpture Conference
1978 May 31-June 3
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 67
C5 - Irwin Seminar,
1979 Nov. 21
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2. Marked "dupe."
Box 67
C6 - Irwin Seminar,
1979 Nov. 21
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2. Marked "dupe" - same as above?
Box 67
C7 - Irwin,
1980 Apr. 30
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2. Marked "dupe."
Box 67
C8 - Irwin,
1980 Apr. 30
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2. Marked "dupe" - same as above?
Box 67
C9 - The Territory of Art with Pia Lindstrom, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, KCRW,
1982
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 68
C10 - Yassan (?) lecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 68
C11 - Sally Yard,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 3.
Box 68
C12 - Sally Yard,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 3.
Box 68
C13 - Sally Yard,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 3.
Box 68
C14 - Irwin lectures,
1988 Mar. 7 14, 21, 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 5.
Box 68
C15 - Irwin lectures, Mar. 7, 14, 21, 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 5.
Box 68
C16 - Irwin lectures, Mar. 7, 14, 21, 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 5.
Box 68
C17 - Irwin lectures, Mar. 7, 14, 21, 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 5.
Box 68
C18 - Irwin lectures, Mar. 7, 14, 21, 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 5.
Box 68
C19 - Broadcast,
1993 Sept. 15
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2.
Box 68
C20 - Broadcast,
1993 Sept. 15
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2.
Box 68
C21 - The Thoroughbred Connection: Irwin/Andy Beyer,
1993 Dec.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 69
Reel-to-reel sound tapes and videotapes
Box 69
R1 - Wright State lectures,
ca.
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel of 2.
Box 69
R2 - Wright State lectures,
ca.
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel of 2.
Box 69
V1 - Lecture,
1973 Feb. 28
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel of 5 : 1/2 in.
Tape is blank. Not reformatted.
Box 69
V2 - Lecture,
1973 Feb. 28
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel of 5 : sd. ; 1/2 in. Original.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) : sd. Archival master.
Box 69
V3 - Lecture,
1973 Feb. 28
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel of 5 : sd. ; 1/2 in. Original.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) : sd. Archival master.
Box 69
V4 - Lecture,
1973 Feb. 28
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel of 5 : sd ; 1/2 in. Original.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) : sd. Archival master.
Box 69
V5 - Lecture,
1973 Feb. 28
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel of 5 : sd. ; 1/2 in. Original.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) : sd. Archival master.
Box 69
V6 - Lecture,
1976 Aug.
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
Box 69
F1 - Film sent by Ed Wortz,
ca.
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel : 16 mm. Original.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP). Archival master.
Box 70
V8 - Miami Project,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 5
Box 70
V9 - Miami Project,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 5.
Box 70
V10 - Miami Project,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 5.
Box 70
V11 - Miami Project,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 5
Box 70
V12 - Miami Project,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette of 5.
Box 70
V13 - "The Doors of Perception," Smithsonian World,
1991 June 5
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
Box 70
V14 - "Robert Irwin in Response," Pace,
1992
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
Box 70
V15 - "Documenta '92: West Coast Artists,"
1992
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette
Box 70
V16 - "Robert Irwin: From Point Zero,"
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
Box 70
V17 - Irwin - Paris,
1994 Oct.
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
Box 70
V18 - "The Artist's Voice,"
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
Box 70
V19 - Interview,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
Box 70
V20 - Unidentified,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
Box 70
V21 - Unidentified,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette
Box 70
V22 - Unidentified,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette.
Series VII.
Project drawings,
ca.
1970-1993
Physical Description:
20 rolls and 2 flat file folders
Scope and Content Note
Series consists of many original drawings in pencil and colored
pencil, and some printed mechanical drawings, for approximately 45 of Irwin's
projects.
Roll **1
Early Installation Projects
Scope and Content Note
31 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 **2
Dallas Carpenter Park,
1978
Scope and Content Note
16 blueprints and 1 pencil drawing.
Roll **3
Tower 45,
1986
Scope and Content Note
16 blueprints.
Roll **4
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA], Grand
Avenue Meridian,
1986
Scope and Content Note
7 blueprints.
Roll **5
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA], Grand
Avenue Meridian,
1986
Scope and Content Note
5 sheets of elevations and diagrams (see also Roll 20).
Roll **6
Miami,
1986
Scope and Content Note
7 drawings, some colored.
Roll **7
Miami,
1986
Scope and Content Note
19 original drawings.
Roll **8
Falling Water,
1988
Scope and Content Note
3 colored drawings for "Site Lines."
Roll **9
Pasadena,
1989
Scope and Content Note
2 colored drawings of plan and elevation.
Roll **10
Köln,
1994
Scope and Content Note
15 original drawings.
Roll **11
Chicago
Scope and Content Note
11 original drawings, plans and site plans.
Flat file folder **3
Chicago
Scope and Content Note
26 original and mechanical drawings.
Roll **12
PS 1, New York City; and Louisiana, Denmark
Scope and Content Note
1 original drawing each project.
Roll **13
Harvard, Sackler Gallery; Berkeley; Minnesota,
1985,
1978,
1983
Scope and Content Note
15 pencil drawings and prints.
Flat file folder **4
Berkeley
Scope and Content Note
Print on cardboard with overlay; Rhode Island, Rock Garden
Sitting Room, 1982: 3 drawings; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
[MOCA] retrospective: mechanical drawing with notations in pencil on recto and
pen on verso.
Roll **14
Paris
Scope and Content Note
29 original drawings and blueprints.
Roll **15
Las Vegas
Scope and Content Note
11 colored drawings of whole site and 2 small pencil
drawings.
Roll **16
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA]
retrospective
Scope and Content Note
12 original drawings and plans.
Roll **17
Pace Gallery,
1973-1974,
1992
Scope and Content Note
3 sections and elevations with colored pencil for 1992
installation; 1 photostat of 1973 and 1974 installations; and 1 installation
photo.
Roll **18
Des Moines; Renos Xippas; Wave Hill,
1990,
1991,
1986
Scope and Content Note
15 drawings and prints.
Roll **19
Seattle (9 Spaces, 9 Trees)
Scope and Content Note
2 negatives, 2 photostats and 1 drawing; Chicago (same as
above): 1 negative; P.S. 1: 1 negative and 1 print; Louisiana Museum, Denmark:
1 negative
Roll **20
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA], Grand
Avenue Meridian,
1983
Scope and Content Note
13 ft. long neg. and positive, 2 smaller positives and 1 smaller
print. Also called Grand Avenue Viaduct.
Frame **1
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA], Grand
Avenue Meridian,
1983?
Scope and Content Note
Framed print, positive. Made from negatives on Roll 20? Also
called Grand Avenue Viaduct.
Frame **2
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA], Grand
Avenue Meridian,
1983?
Scope and Content Note
Framed print, negative. Made from negatives on Roll 20? Also
called Grand Avenue Viaduct.
Series VIII.
Project models
Physical Description:
5 models
Scope and Content Note
Models of Irwin's Las Vegas, Lincoln (Nebraska), Cincinnati,
Minnesota, and San Francisco Freeway projects.
Series IX.
Addenda,
ca.
1992-2004
Physical Description:
26 boxes, 23 rolls, 18 flat file folders
Scope and Content Note
Additions made to the papers, from Robert Irwin, and not
interfiled with the portion of the archive that was processed and described in
1997. Some of these materials are unprocessed. Note that the added rolls of
drawings continue the numbering from above.
1999 Addition,
ca.
1992-1998 ,
Physical Description:
14 boxes, 3 flat file folders, 9 rolls
Scope and Content Note
Papers relating to the Getty garden (ca. 1992-1998) and other
projects (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA] retrospective, the DIA
Center, Miami International Airport, Ohio State University, Centro de Arte
Reina Sofia, Madrid, Las Vegas, Guggenheim, and others) include project files,
and drawings and plans. General correspondence dates from ca. 1996-1998. Also
included are sound and video recordings, and a screenplay by Irwin and Joan
Tewkesbury.
Box ADDS 1
Project files: Getty garden,
1992-1998
Box ADDS 2
Project files: Getty garden,
1992-1998
Box ADDS 3
Project files: Getty garden,
1992-1998
Box ADDS 4
Project files: Getty garden, and ephemera
Box ADDS 5
Project files: Getty garden,
1995-1998
Box ADDS 6
Project files: Getty garden,
1995-1998
Box ADDS 7
Correspondence, clippings, ephemera
Box ADDS 8
Correspondence,
1996-1997
Box ADDS 11
Audiovisual materials,
1997-1998
Box ADDS 11
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [MOCA] gala,
Beverly Hills Hotel,
1997 June 6
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box ADDS 11
"These Days" with Dirk Sutro,
1998 Aug. 10
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box ADDS 11
A College collection catalogue: Allen Memorial Art
Museum, Oberlin College
Scope and Content Note
1 CD-ROM. Music performed by students and faculty.
Box ADDS 13-14
Publications
Scope and Content Note
34 items, monographs and periodicals.
Flat file folder ADDS
1**
Flat file folder ADDS
2**
Flat file folder ADDS
3**
Roll ADDS 21
Getty garden
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 22
Getty garden
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 23
Getty garden
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 24
Getty garden
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 25
Ohio State University project
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 26
Miami International Airport project
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 27
Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
project
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 28
Las Vegas project
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 29
Guggenheim project
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
2001 Addition,
ca.
1994-2001,
Physical Description:
4 boxes, 5 rolls
Scope and Content Note
Papers relating to the Getty central garden design and other
projects. Includes slides, 4x5 transparencies, photographic prints,
computer-generated images, contracts, and layouts for the Getty publication on
the Getty garden. Also contains records (including drawings and posters)
relating to other projects, such as Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
[MOCA], Dia installation, Dia:Beacon drawings, and the Pace Gallery project.
Two VHS videocassettes included.
Box ADDS 15
Assorted project files
Scope and Content Note
Includes files on assorted projects and 1 videocassette (VHS),
Rice University President's lecture series: Robert Irwin,
2000 Mar.
23; 1 videocassette (VHS) (30 min.), The Getty: Eye on LA, KABC-TV, Los
Angeles, 2001 May 19. Dubbed 2001 May 22.
Box ADDS 18*
Getty garden book, layouts.
Roll ADDS 30
Public Safety Building, Seattle, Washington
proposal
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 31
Dia: Beacon, stairs
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and maps.
Roll ADDS 32
MOCA / Dia installation
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 33
Pace Gallery (Chelsea) project / Rachovsky
project
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
Roll ADDS 34
Pace Gallery project
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans.
2003 Addition,
ca.
1993-ca. 2001,
Physical Description:
3 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Papers relating to the Getty central garden, and other projects.
Correspondence, clippings, slides and photographs document the Getty garden,
San Diego State installation, and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
exhibit (1994). Includes 1 VHS videocassette.
Box ADDS 19
Ephemera, publications, photographs, framed
certificate
Box ADDS 20
Project files
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, ephemera, clippings, photographs,
slides, and 1 videocassette (VHS), "Advanced placement: the Stuart collection
at UCSD."
Box ADDS 21
Model: San Francisco airport project
2004 Addition,
ca.
1998-2004,
Physical Description:
5 boxes, 15 flat file folders, 10 rolls
Scope and Content Note
Unprocessed papers: books, exhibition catalogs, reviews and
clippings related to Robert Irwin. Guggenheim 2004 project file with scrim
installation plans, correspondence, fabric specification. Art Center College of
Design (Pasadena, Calif) honorary doctorate file; Correspondece 2002 file.
Files regarding Getty garden publication, including correspondence with Becky
Cohen. Carmel Valley park project file. Files and numerous rolled plans from
the Dia:Beacon (art museum) project.
Box ADDS 22, Folder 8-9
Correspondence regarding Getty Central Garden book,
ca.
2002
Box ADDS 22, Folder 8
Correspondence with Becky Cohen (photographer for
book)
Box ADDS 22, Folder 9
Additional correspondence, printed matter
Box ADDS 23, Folder 1-2
Dia:Beacon landscape: letters, printed matter,
notes
Box ADDS 23, Folder 3
Dia:Beacon landscape: photographs and computer
images
Box ADDS 23, Folder 4
Dia:Beacon miscellaneous: notes, drawings,
letters
Box ADDS 23, Folder 5
Dia:Beacon Open Office: drawings and correspondence,
1998-2003
Box ADDS 23, Folder 6-7
Dia:Beacon correspondence,
1998-2003
Box ADDS 23, Folder 8-9
Dia:Beacon Press: press releases, clippings,
photographs
Box ADDS 24, Folder 1
Guggenheim scrim installation piece,
2004
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding installation, scrim sample.
Box ADDS 24, Folder 1
Carmel Valley Community Park South,
ca.
2003-2004
Scope and Content Note
Corrrespondence, images, clippings, drawings. See also ADDS
box 26; ADDS ff 17**.
Box ADDS 24, Folder 2
Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.),
2003
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, most regarding Irwin's honorary degree at Art
Center 2003 commencement, some letters and images regarding Irwin's proposed
collaborative project with Art Center. See also ADDS box 26 for computer images
of proposed project.
Box ADDS 24, Folder 3-4
Press
Scope and Content Note
Clippings about Irwin, various projects.
Box ADDS 24, Folder 5
Printed materials: Art Center honorary degree,
catalogue, book
Box ADDS 25
Printed materials
Scope and Content Note
4 books, Otis art school promotional brochure.
Box ADDS 26, Folder 1
Page proofs for Getty Central Garden book
Box ADDS 26, Folder 2
Guggenheim scrim piece installation:
drawings
Scope and Content Note
See ADDS box 24, f. 1 and ADDS ff 17**.
Box ADDS 26, Folder 3
Computer images related to proposed collaboration with
Art Center College of Design
Scope and Content Note
See ADDS box 24, f. 2.
Flat file folder ADDS
4**
Dia:Beacon, planting plan, 2 drawings
Flat file folder ADDS
5**
Dia:Beacon administration bldg, 3 drawings,
2001 Mar
Scope and Content Note
North facade, west-east elevation, window and doors.
Flat file folder ADDS
6**
Dia:Beacon, 2 drawings
Scope and Content Note
Irwin label (not on drawing), "Bosch."
Flat file folder ADDS
7**
Dia:Beacon windows, 3 drawings
Flat file folder ADDS
8**
Dia:Beacon entrance building backup, 7
drawings
Flat file folder ADDS
9**
Dia:Beacon, "Excurses[?} Homage to the Square," 4
drawings
Scope and Content Note
For Irwin installation at Dia:Beacon?
Flat file folder ADDS
10**
Getty garden plant plans, 8 drawings
Flat file folder ADDS
11**
Dia:Beacon administration bldg, 10
drawings
Flat file folder ADDS
12**
Scrim Passage art project, 7 drawings
Scope and Content Note
For Dia:Beacon? Guggenheim? installation?
Flat file folder ADDS
13**
Dia:Beacon entry building construction drawings, 3
drawings
Flat file folder ADDS
14**
Dia:Beacon miscellanous and stairs, 3
drawings
Flat file folder ADDS
15**
MARFA backup 2nd level, 8 drawings
Scope and Content Note
Dia:Beacon? Marfa, Texas?
Flat file folder ADDS
16**
Dia:Beacon gate front, 2 drawings
Flat file folder ADDS
17**
Guggenheim scrim piece,
2004
Flat file folder ADDS 18
**
Carmel Valley Community Park South
Roll ADDS 35
MARFA backup 3rd level
Scope and Content Note
Drawings on vellum.
Roll ADDS 36
Getty Central garden drawings
Scope and Content Note
Drawings of terraces, granite wall.
Roll ADDS 37
Dia:Beacon staircases
Scope and Content Note
Drawings on vellum.
Roll ADDS 38
Dia:Beacon miscellaneous
Scope and Content Note
Drawings on vellum.
Roll ADDS 39
Dia:Beacon miscellaneous
Scope and Content Note
Drawings on vellum.
Roll ADDS 40
Dia: Beacon: Parking lot
Scope and Content Note
Drawings on vellum and trace of plantings and parking
plan.
Roll ADDS 41
Dia:Beacon building drawings
Scope and Content Note
Irwin's label (not on drawings): "BASE [or "BASC?"] bldg
drawings." Plans of various levels.
Roll ADDS 42
Des Moines
Scope and Content Note
Drawings.
Roll ADDS 43
no label
Scope and Content Note
1 unidentified drawing on vellum.
Roll ADDS 44
Double Diamond, Lyon, France,
ca.
1998-1999
Scope and Content Note
Drawings relate to Irwin's installation, "Double Diamond" at
the Musée Saint-Pierre art contemporain, Lyon, 1998-1999.
