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Title: Barbara Rose papers
Date (inclusive): 1940-1993 (bulk
1960-1985)
Number: 930100
Creator/Collector:
Rose, Barbara
Physical Description:
11 Linear Feet
(40 boxes)
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: The Barbara Rose papers represent a
selection from her archive and document her research in post-war and contemporary American
art. The bulk of the papers date from 1960 through 1985. Included are sound recordings and
videos, most of which are interviews by Rose of American artists active in the
1960s.
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Barbara Rose is an American art historian and critic, born in 1938 and educated at Smith
College, Barnard College and Columbia University. She is known primarily for her writings on
20th-century American art. She has taught (at Hunter College, the Universtiy of California
at San Diego and Irvine, and Sarah Lawrence College), curated exhibitions and made
films.
Through her marriage to Frank Stella and friendships with many other New York artists, she
was a well-positioned observer of the American art world, particularly in the active New
York scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Her first book,
American Art Since
1900
, published 1967, was followed by more than twenty monographs on artists, many
more exhibition catalogue essays and hundreds of pieces of art journalism.
Open for use by qualified researchers, except unreformatted audio visual materials. Most
audio visual materials have been reformatted.
Barbara Rose papers, 1940-1993 (bulk 1960-1985), Getty Research Institute, Research
Library, Accession no. 930100.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa930100
This collection comprises selected papers acquired from Barbara Rose in 1993.
The collection was processed, arranged and described by Jocelyn Gibbs, October 1994.
Published books within the papers have been separated to the core collection of the Getty
Research Institute Library.
Series V.A. Interviews and lectures on cassette tapes, ca. 1968-1991 has been digitized.
Click here to access digitized material from Series V.A.:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/930100s5a
Interviews on 1/4" audio tape, 1968 1980 has been digitized. Click here to access digitized
material from Series V.B.:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/930100s5b
Scope and Content of Collection
The Barbara Rose Papers represent a selection from her archive and document her research in
post-war and contemporary American art. The bulk of the papers date from 1960 through
1985.
Manuscript and research files on American artists, primarily of the post war era, and
especially rich for the New York art world contain Rose's research notes, some
correspondence (primarily from others), photographs and slides, and drafts of manuscripts
for articles, catalogues and books, some unpublished. The most extensive files concern
research (1978-1979) for an exhibition and catalogue on the artist Patrick Henry Bruce for the Museum
of Modern Art, New York, 1979, and files about collaborations between science and art,
including the Experiments in Art and Technology
(Organization) project to build the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at the 1970 Exposition
in Osaka, and the related art and technology program at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967-1971.
Much of Rose's research consists of interviews with artists, and a few dealers, curators
and printmakers. These date from ca. 1960 through ca. 1990. More than 100 interviews are
here in transcriptions, some partial and heavily edited, and on cassette tapes and 1/4 inch
audio tape reels. The Claes
Oldenburg interviews are the most extensive with ca. 50 transcript pages and 21
cassette tapes. Six videotapes document exhibits, symposia and lectures.
Correspondence with artists, curators and historians is scattered throughout the research
files. In addition there are several concentrated files (ca. .5 linear ft.) of
correspondence from Avigdor
Arikha and his wife Anne, 1962-1977, and Mark Di Suvero, 1972-1973, 1975. Two letters from Robert Motherwell, 1966, discuss the
post-war New York art scene. There are 4 letters from Frank Stella, with 2 short manuscripts about painting, and
photographs of Islamic decoration taken during a trip to Iran.
Complementing these files are ca. 200 black & white photographs of artists dating from
ca. 1940 through 1992. Oldenburg's "Ray Gun" poster, signed and dated 1971, is an artifact
from The Store
The collection is organized in 5 series:
Series I. Correspondence received,
1941-1977;
Series II. Transcripts of interviews with artists, critics,
dealers, ca. 1960-1990;
Series III. Manuscript and research files, ca. 1967-ca. 1991;
Series IV. Photographs of artists, ca. 1940-1993;
Series V. Interviews, lectures and
symposia on audio and video tapes, ca. 1960-1991.
Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-
O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
Dehner, Dorothy,
1901-1994
Bruce, Patrick Henry, 1881-1936
Judd, Donald, 1928-1994
Johns, Jasper, 1930-
Irwin, Robert, 1928-
Bolotowsky, Ilya, 1907-1981
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010
Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987
Vijande, Fernando,
1931-1986
Stella, Frank
Smith, David, 1906-1965
Experiments in Art and
Technology (Organization)
Galeria Vijande
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Art, Modern -- 20th century
New York school of art
Art and technology
Artists -- United States -- Interviews
Abstract expressionism -- New York (State)
Videotapes
Photographic prints -- 20th century
Photographs, Original
Audiotapes
Motherwell, Robert
Merton, Thomas,
1915-1968
Stella, Frank
Arikha, Avigdor,
1929-2010
Rose, Barbara
Reinhardt, Ad,
1913-1967