Finding aid for the Clement Greenberg papers, 1928-1995
Annette Leddy
Descriptive Summary
Title: Clement Greenberg papers
Date (inclusive): 1928-1995
Number: 950085
Creator/Collector:
Greenberg, Clement,
1909-1994
Physical Description:
25 Linear Feet
(50 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The Clement Greenberg Papers document
the professional and personal life of the art critic known for championing American Abstract
Expressionist painters.
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Biographical/Historical Note
Clement Greenberg, born in 1909 to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, was raised in New York
City, Norfolk, Virginia, and Brooklyn. As a child, Greenberg drew from nature with unusual
accuracy, and as a teenager he joined the Art Students League, but by the time he attended
Syracuse University his interests had shifted to languages and literature, and upon
graduation he set out to become a writer. For nearly a decade Greenberg wrote poetry, short
stories, and a novel (never finished) while also reading extensively in English, German and
French. To earn a living, he worked in his father's businesses, which gave him opportunity
to travel and live in various parts of the U.S. During this period he published two stories,
one poem, and two book-length translations. He was also briefly married, fathered a son, and
divorced.
He returned to New York City in 1936 and found employment as a clerk, first for the Civil
Service Comission, then for the Veteran's Administration, and finally for the Customs
Service, Department of Wines and Liquors. His interest in art re-emerged as he began taking
drawing classes at a WPA studio and consorting with Greenwich Village artists, including
Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, and Jackson Pollock. At the same time, Greenberg met the circle
of writers around
Partisan Review, with whom he shared an
interest in socialist politics on the one hand, and aesthetics on the other. In 1939
Partisan Review published Greenberg's "Avant-garde and Kitsch," to
great acclaim.
Soon thereafter, Greenberg joined the editorial staff of
Partisan
Review
, and was employed primarily as a literary reviewer. In 1941 he wrote his
first art review for
The Nation and, resigning from
Partisan Review, served as
The Nation's
regular art reviewer from 1942 to 1949. He was also the associate editor of
Commentary from 1944 to 1957. Greenberg wrote four books:
Miró (1948),
Matisse (1953),
Hans Hofmann (1961), and
Art and
Culture
(1961). The latter, a classic of American art criticism, has influenced
artists and critics alike.
Greenberg is most remembered for having recognized the achievements of Pollock, Barnett
Newman, Mark Rothko, and other abstract expressionists at a time when few others could
perceive them, and still fewer could explain them. Greenberg offered clear, concise
explanations in formalist terms, situating these painters squarely within the Western
tradition. These painters' unprecedented success assured Greenberg's success; he became
America's leading art expert.
In his personal life, Greenberg carried on numerous amorous relationships with women, among
whom were intellectuals and painters known in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. From
1950-1955, Greenberg was romantically involved with the much younger Helen Frankenthaler,
with whom he remained friends for the rest of his life. In 1955, as that relationship ended,
Greenberg began his lengthy psychoanalysis. He married Jenny Van Horne, an actress, in 1956,
and they had a daughter in 1963. The marriage floundered soon thereafter, and the couple
eventually divorced but then remarried in the decade before Greenberg's death.
In the 1950s Greenberg abandoned regular reviewing in favor of occasional articles for
major reviews and catalog essays. He also began organizing exhibitions on such painters as
Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb, Newman and Hofmann. He gave lectures at museums and universities,
served as a consultant for galleries and museums, and from 1958 to 1960 was employed by
French and Company. Greenberg's ties to artists, critics, dealers and curators gave him
unequalled influence in a booming American art market, influence that endured through the
1960s and 1970s, even though others did not always endorse the artists he championed, such
as Ken Noland and Jules Olitski.
Greenberg's reputation began to decline in the late 1970s after it was discovered that,
while serving as the executor of David Smith's estate, he had had the paint stripped from
six Smith sculptures. The resulting scandal fueled a kind of revolt against what some saw as
Greenberg's tyranny over the New York art world. A new generation of critics emerged who
questioned Greenberg's connoisseurship, his view of art history, and his character. Magazine
articles referred to him as "the most hated man in the art world."
Despite this growing opposition, Greenberg continued to publish articles, though less
frequently, to give talks in the US and abroad, and to advise certain artists, dealers and
curators until his death in 1994. His
Collected Essays,
published in 1986 and 1993 was highly praised, offsetting to some degree the years of
disrepute.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, with the following exceptions:
- Letters from Helen Frankenthaler (Box 5, f.1) are sealed until 13 September 2030;
- 2 travel diaries written with Helen Frankenthaler (1952-1954, Box 20) are sealed until 13
September 2030.
The following items were sealed for a period of time and are now open for use by qualified
researchers:
- 18 Journals (1928-1991, Boxes 14-15) were opened 13 September 2005;
- 32 Diaries (1952-1993, Boxes 21-22) were opened 13 September 2010;
- 14 Journals (1943-1993, Boxes 16-17) were opened 13 September 2015;
- Letters from John and Vera Russell (1966-1968, Box 4, f. 5) were opened 13 September
2015.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Clement Greenberg Papers, 1928-1995, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession
no. 950085.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa950085
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1995 from Clement Greenberg's widow, Janice Van Horne. 5 boxes of additions
were received 2004: papers (2.5 lin. ft., unprocessed), a videotape and 2 audio cassette
tapes (processed and reformatted).
Processing History
The Clement Greenberg Papers were processed and cataloged in 1996 by Annette Leddy.
Audiotapes and videotapes re-processed and individually cataloged in Oct 2003 and July 2004.
Audiotapes, videotapes and film (including 1 videotape and 2 audiotapes received in 2004)
were reformatted 2003-2004. Four boxes of additions received in 2004 remain unprocessed.
Digitized Audio Recordings
Scope and Content of Collection
The Clement Greenberg Papers document the life of America's most influential art critic
from the age of nineteen until his death. They reveal, in extraordinary depth and detail,
his personal and intellectual development, and the intertwining of the two. Greenberg's
letters to Harold Lazarus, together with his Journals
(sealed), tell the inner
story of the critic's outward success: his artistic and literary ambitions, his family
relationships, his attraction and resistance to women, his obsession with
Partisan Review colleagues, his friendship with Pollock and other
artists, and his fascination with aesthetics. Numerous manuscripts, often handwritten and in
several drafts, reveal Greenberg's writing process and the evolution of his ideas from the
late 1920s until the year before his death. The compilation of clippings spanning several
decades portray the shifting public view of Greenberg, while photographs and tapes preserve
a visual and audio record of him lecturing and otherwise interacting in the art world.
Missing from these papers is a collection of Greenberg correspondence with art world
figures held at the Archives of American Art.
Various media comprise the Papers, including manuscripts, personal journals and diaries,
clippings, photographs, slides, videotapes, audiotapes, and film.
Additions to the collection have been placed at the end.
Arrangement note
The Papers are arranged in 8 series: Series I: Correspondence, 1928-1994; Series II:
Personal, 1928-1994; Series III: Manuscripts, 1928-1993; Series IV: Work files:
clippings and manuscripts, 1939-1994; Series V: Writings by others: clippings and
manuscripts, 1950-1994; Series VI: Photographs and Art Images, 1943-1992; Series
VII: Printed Matter, 1966-1992; Series VIII: Videotapes, Audiotapes and Film,
1970-1995; Series IX. Additions to Collection, ca. 1933-1993.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
Lazarus, Harold,
1909-1983
Louis, Morris, 1912-1962
Noland, Kenneth, 1924-2010
Bush, Jack, 1909-1977
Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
Russell, John, 1919-2008
Russell, Vera
Smith, David, 1906-1965
Subjects - Topics
Art criticism -- History -- 20th century -- United States
Art, Abstract -- United States
New York school of art
Abstract expressionism
Art critics -- United States -- Correspondence
Subjects - Titles
Nation
Partisan Review
Genres and Forms of Material
Photographic prints
Motion pictures (visual works)
Diaries
Videotapes
Audiotapes
Photographs, Original
Contributors
Lazarus, Harold,
1909-1983
Frankenthaler, Helen,
1928-2011
Russell, John,
1919-2008
Russell, Vera
Greenberg, Clement,
1909-1994
Series I.
Correspondence,
1928-1994
Physical Description:
5.5 Linear
Feet
13 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series I is organized in chronological order. It includes 295 letters and 20 postcards
from Greenberg to his college friend Harold Lazarus. The letters to Lazarus, which begin
when the two are still in college and continue for 20 years (1928-1947), offer a rich and detailed record of Greenberg's personal
and intellectual development. They include descriptions of his struggles to become a
writer, his difficult relationships with women, his extensive reading, and culminate
with his triumphant acceptance into the
Partisan Review
circle. Other correspondence consists of letters from significant individuals in
Greenberg's life, such as Marjorie Ferguson, a friend (37 items), John O'Brian, editor
of Greenberg's
Collected Essays (ca. 50 items), and Helen
Frankenthaler, girlfriend and life-long friend (50 items, sealed).
Greenberg's correspondence files ( 1984-1994), consisting of letters from artists, colleagues and friends, give a
sense of the critic's last decade (ca. 2500 items).
box 1, folder 1-7
Letters to college friend Harold Lazarus,
1928-1932
Container Summary: 99
items
box 1, folder 1
Jun-Sep
1928
Scope and Content Note
12 handwritten letters. Discusses summer reading, including ancient Greek lit.,
Hazlitt, T.S. Eliot, Tennyson, Pope, Browning, Arnold. Complains of work as camp
counselor; recounts adventures at neighboring girls' camp.
box 1, folder 2
Jun-Sep.
1929
Scope and Content Note
12 handwritten letters. Discusses summer reading, including Thackeray, Conan Doyle,
Proust, Rimbaud, Laforgue, Herbert, Milton's
Paradise
Lost
, Eliot's
The Wasteland. Works at law
firm for $12/day; has affair with stenographer; writes poems (enclosed); attends
classical music concerts; dreams of a female wolf.
box 1, folder 3
Apr 1930 Jun-Nov
1930
Scope and Content Note
16 handwritten letters. Discusses reading, including
Jane
Eyre
,
Crime and Punishment,
Magic Mountain,
The Education of Henry
Adams
, Emily Dickinson, Conrad, Trollope, Gide, Huxley, Nietzche, Valery,
Henry James. Visits Far Rockaway; works briefly at Credit Clearing House (is fired);
moves with father and stepmother to Brooklyn; visits Modern Art Gallery; sees
Daumier-Corot show at "Modern Museum;" searches for job and finally gets one in ad
department of "Brooklyn's Atlas;" writes poetry and critiques Lazarus' poetry.
box 1, folder 4
Jan-May
1931
Scope and Content Note
16 handwritten letters. Discusses reading, including Goethe, Gide, Stramm, Kleist,
Faulkner. Is fired from ad job end of Jan.; gets job writing news pieces for
Brooklyn Eagle; is fired from
Eagle end of Feb; sees Rousseau exhibit; is writing long fiction piece
("Sweet"); writes poetry; sees Klee, Nash, Hartman, Mohr paintings; travels to
Virginia with father; sees Toulouse-Lautrec show, African sculpture, the Met's
Egyptian room, and "a great show" of Cezannes, Gauguins, Picassos.
box 1, folder 5
Jun-Dec
1931
Scope and Content Note
20 handwritten letters. Discusses reading, including Joyce, Proust, Spengler,
Faulkner, Stefan George, Empson, Melville, Montaigne, Richard Burton, Brecht, Rilke.
Writes poetry and fiction; falls in love with Amy ___?; travels to Virginia; sees
Marin's watercolors at gallery and sends prices; visits Whitney Museum and doesn't
like it; learns Portuguese.
box 1, folder 6
Jan-Sep 1932
Scope and Content Note
16 handwritten letters. Discusses reading, including Dante, Camões and other
Portuguese poets, Doughty, Faust, Hermann Hesse. Sees Diego Rivera show at MAM; sees
exhibit of 15th, 16th and 17th c. Italian painting; still writing "Sweet;" sketches
African sculpture (incl.); sees movies and comments on their form; visits Virginia
with father. 1 clipping regarding Hart Crane's suicide. Note: Jan 14 1932 envelope
but no letter.
box 1, folder 7
Sep-Dec
1932
Scope and Content Note
7 handwritten letters. Discusses reading, including Gide, E.T.A. Hoffman stories,
Joyce, a book on ancient scripts. Through Danny Fuchs meets
New
Republic
writers; votes Socialist; sees paintings by Alexander Smith and
Coleman; writes article on Brecht; asks why Lazarus keeps his letters and complains
he'll never be able to live them down. Note: 1st letter missing page.
box 2, folder 1-5
Letters to Harold Lazarus,
1933-1937
Container Summary: 94
items
box 2, folder 1
Jan-Dec
1933
Scope and Content Note
28 handwritten letters and 1 postcard. Discusses reading, including Isaac Babel,
Corneille's
Cid,
Brothers
Karamozov
,
Vita Nuova,
The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein, Perse, J. Collier's
His Monkey's Wife, the German translation of
Gilgamesh. Sees Maillot and Pisarro exhibit; continues
writing "Sweet;" finishes Brecht piece; sees Karfiol show; complains about the
Whitney; moves to St. Louis to manage one of his father's wholesale necktie stores;
writes very detailed descriptions of St. Louis, including the museum and zoo; looks
at pictures of Epstein's sculpture; moves to Cleveland to manage another of his
father's stores; does very well in the tie business but feels lonely and alienated;
explains sex to Lazarus; stops in Ogden, Utah on way to Calif. (includes drawing);
lives in SF and describes its scenery; sees
Potemkin;
sees Langston Hughes reading. Note: envelope dated 1933 Jan 9 has no letter.
box 2, folder 2
Jan-Dec
1934
Scope and Content Note
21 handwritten and typewritten letters and 1 postcard. Discusses reading, including
Beowulf, Stephen Spender,
Martin
Chuzzlewit
, Auden, Washington Irving, Svevo, Malraux, Communist pamphlets,
Henry James. Is unhappy in SF; goes to concerts; goes to Chinese theater; falls in
love with "Toady" Ewing and marries her; moves with wife to LA, which he describes
at length; visits Huntington Library; moves with wife to Carmel, where they live
with wife's mother and he writes short stories; wife gets pregnant and he leaves for
East; gets story accepted at
Esquire; moves to St.
Louis (for business).
box 2, folder 3
Jan-Dec
1935
Scope and Content Note
12 handwritten and typewritten letters and 2 postcards. Discusses reading,
including Celine,
Passage to India, German translations
of Greek classics. Goes to Washington D.C. to look for job; son Danny is born; edits
textbook for money; gets second story accepted at
Esquire; gets poem accepted at
New Masses;
returns to Carmel for 6 days in Aug.; seeks divorce; misses son.
box 2, folder 4
Jan-Dec
1936
Scope and Content Note
22 handwritten and typewritten letters and 4 postcards. Gets civil service job;
translates anti-Nazi book and Goya book; misses son Danny; sees Odets play; goes
horseback riding frequently.
box 2, folder 5
Jan-Dec
1937
Scope and Content Note
11 handwritten letters. Discusses reading, including Spengler, German authors. Sees
Orson Welles'
Dr. Faustus; kills a rattlesnake in the
country; writes poetry and short stories.
box 3, folder 1-6
Letters to Lazarus,
1938-1947
Container Summary: 102
items
box 3, folder 1
Feb-Nov
1938
Scope and Content Note
13 handwritten letters and 1 postcard. Discusses reading, including Kafka's
Amerika, Kierkegaard, Rilke. Moves out of father's house and
into NYC apt; writes stories and poems; works for customs service; meets abstract
artists; publishes Brecht piece in
Partisan Review;
corresponds with H. Rosenberg; paints his first picture; takes drawing class;
ex-wife (Toady) re-marries; hears Orson Welles' Invaders from Mars broadcast.
box 3, folder 2
Jan-Dec
1939
Scope and Content Note
19 handwritten letters and 8 postcards. Discusses reading, including
Cahiers d'Arts double issue with Picasso's work in it, Pope
and Dryden, Auden, Nietzche, Kafka's short stories, Kierkegaard, Lorca, Yeats.
Writes poems and a play; re-writes Brecht piece; sees Paul Owen Carroll play;
associates with H. Rosenberg and Lionel Abel; continues in customs job; maneuvers
within
Partisan Review circle; submits poems to
Partisan Review (rejected); travels to Europe, where he
meets Arp, Eluard, Man Ray, et al; interviews Silone for
Partisan Review; sends
Finnegan's Wake to
Lazarus and H. Rosenberg; publishes "Avant-garde and Kitsch" in
Partisan Review, to great acclaim.
box 3, folder 3
Mar-Dec
1940
Scope and Content Note
18 handwritten letters. Discusses reading, including Forster's
Where Angels Fear to Tread, Elizabeth Bowen. Listens to Bach; gets T.S.
Eliot piece accepted at
Partisan Review; seeks "a good
woman;" has affair with Jeanie, wife of Cyril Connolly, through whom he meets Auden
and others; develops ambition to be a great (powerful) man; meets Margaret Marshall,
Nation editor; finishes piece on Brecht's poetry;
persistently exorts Lazarus to write a novel; publishes in
Horizon; sees World's Fair art show; writes piece on Klee; becomes
Partisan Review editor; develops passion for Vlamnick's
work.
box 3, folder 4
Jan-Dec
1941
Scope and Content Note
18 handwritten letters and 2 postcards. Reads Kenneth Burke; is denounced by H.
Rosenberg to other
Partisan Review editors; writes book
review for
Nation; writes Goethe piece; meets
frequently with M. Marshall; has dinner with the Edmund Wilson and Auden; Rahv and
Dupee quit
Partisan Review; writes editorial on
politics; has party with
Partisan Review circle, Carson
McCullers, Nigel Dennis, et al; Lazarus writes lit. reviews, which Greenberg
praises; has further encounters with Auden, "a petty dictator;" reviews
Wheelwright's poems for
Nation; reviews a bio of Rosa
Luxembourg for
Partisan Review; wants to live with
Jeanie; meets Isherwood; reviews Marianne Moore and other poets; asks Lazarus to
review D. Schwartz for
Partisan Review.
box 3, folder 5
Jan-Dec
1942
Scope and Content Note
13 handwritten letters and 1 postcard. Discusses reading, including Dryden, Poe,
Goncourts' journal,
New Testament, St. Augustine,
Spender. Tries to convince Jeanie "he's the boss;" writes Jeffers review; translates
Kafka; does short art reviews for
Nation; is disturbed
that he writes only reviews; quits his customs service job (Oct).
box 3, folder 6
Jan 1943-Aug
1947
Scope and Content Note
21 handwritten and typewritten letters. Reads
The
American
and
Anna Karenina; worries he'll be
drafted; his art reviews are well-received; is drafted and stationed at Miami, where
he is miserable but adjusting; corresponds with Brodsky; works on George review; is
assigned to Oklahoma for clerical training; is sent to Michigan, awaiting
assignment; has nervous breakdown (1943 Nov 8); is discharged from Army; Margaret
recommends him for managing editorship of
Contemporary Jewish
Record
; returns to NYC to find Jeanie involved with Laurence Vail; Lazarus
is drafted; tells Lazarus he didn't reject him (1947 July 7).
box 4, folder 1-6
Correspondence,
1932-1993
Container Summary: 158
items
box 4, folder 1
1932-1936
Scope and Content Note
14 letters and 1 postcard. Several letters addressed to an August Trombley (pseud.
of Greenberg?) from FDR, expressing gratitude for tokens of support; several more
addressed to R.H. Torres (pseud. of Greenberg), author of "Jalisco Mutiny," story
published in
Esquire, regarding story syndication and
requests for more material of the same sort; 1 draft of letter to poet who submitted
to
Partisan Review.
box 4, folder 2
1939
Scope and Content Note
5 letters and 9 postcards to family from Europe, including descriptions of England,
France and Italy, and of the cruise ship. Note: 1939 Apr 23 letter has missing
page.
box 4, folder 3
1933-1984
Scope and Content Note
46 items. Includes Greenberg's transcript from Syracuse; a letter from Greenberg to
his first wife (Toady); a letter from Cyril Connolly regarding his wife Jeanie, with
whom Greenberg had affair; letter from Greenberg to Clyfford Still, several letters
from Frank Hamilton; letter from William Phillips and response; correspondence with
Eugene Victor Thaw.
box 4, folder 4
1949-1983
Scope and Content Note
37 items. Primarily love letters from Marjorie Ferguson, who was working in
Florence and then in Israel for USIS.
box 4, folder 5
1966-1968
Scope and Content Note
9 items. Letters from John and Vera Russell discussing the dissolution of their
marriage.
box 4, folder 6
1982-1984
Scope and Content Note
20 items. Letters and other materials from John O'Brian regarding his efforts to
publish Greenberg's collected writings. Includes draft of book introduction with
Greenberg's corrections.
box 4, folder 7
1985-1993
Scope and Content Note
26 items. Letters from John O'Brian, including one expressing dismay that Greenberg
agrees with Kramer's attack on the Intro to
Collected
Essays
.
box 5, folder 1
Correspondence,
1950-1959
Scope and Content Note
(Sealed)
box 5, folder 1
Letters from Helen Frankenthaler,
1950-1969
Scope and Content Note
Sealed until 13 September 2030. 50 items. Love letters from Helen
Frankenthaler to Clement Greenberg, sent from Provincetown in summer 1950, and from
Europe in summer 1953. Few later letters.
box 6-13
Greenberg's correspondence files,
1984-1994
Scope and Content Note
These files are arranged alphabetically by the correspondent's last name. They are
comprised of letters from artists asking Greenberg for advice and help, or thanking
him for having already given it. There are numerous requests for essays, commentary,
interviews or lectures, including those from scholars writing about the 1950s
Partisan Review or The New York School. Greeting cards or
postcards from friends are included. The most prolific and/or important correspondents
are noted below. Approximately 2500 items.
box 6, folder 1
ABC
Scope and Content Note
Peter Blaine photographs; David Carrier letters; Tony Caro cards; items from
Canadian galleries and artists.
box 6, folder 2
DEF
Scope and Content Note
Interview with Clement Greenberg by Virginia Dorazio with Greenberg's
corrections; items regarding Jack Bush exhibition.
box 6, folder 3
GHI
Scope and Content Note
Several long letters from Charles Harrison; several from Inge Hoesterey, art
historian.
box 6, folder 4
JKL
Scope and Content Note
Robert Jensen lecture with Greenberg's corrections; items from Victor
Koshkin-Youritzen; invitation to memorium for Lee Krasner with interesting photo
of her; letters from Mark Krupnik regarding Trilling book; letters from the
Lansdales, friends; letters from John Link, Chair of Kalamazoo Art Dept.
box 6, folder 5
MNO
Scope and Content Note
Letters from artists Barbara McKay, Yvonne Muller, Mali Morris.
box 6, folder 6
PQR
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and ms. from Susan Noyes Platt, art historian.
box 6, folder 7
STU
Scope and Content Note
Richard Shiff, Deborah Soloman, Derek Southall, Francine Tint, Anne Truitt.
box 6, folder 8
VW
Scope and Content Note
2 items from Cora Ward; several letters from Karen Wilkin, artist.
box 6, folder 9
XYZ
Scope and Content Note
Letters regarding interviews.
box 7, folder 1
ABC
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Greenberg and Alexander Bloom, author of
Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World;
letters from David Carrier; postcards from Tony Caro.
box 7, folder 2
DEF
Scope and Content Note
Postcard from H. Frankenthaler thanking Greenberg for his comments on her work;
several letters from Piero Dorazio, artist; cards from Dominique Fourcade.
box 7, folder 3
GHI
Scope and Content Note
Letters from Prof. Ann Gibson; letter from Marty Greenberg, brother; letters from
Inge Hoesterey; Andrew Hudson.
box 7, folder 4
JKL
Scope and Content Note
John Link essay and letters; letters from Mrs. Jacob Kainen and Phil
Lansdale.
box 7, folder 5
MNO
Scope and Content Note
Items from Maria Manning, Ken Moffett; Yvonne Muller; Jules Olitski.
box 7, folder 6
PQR
Scope and Content Note
Letters from Sidney Phillips and William Phillips.
box 7, folder 7
STU
Scope and Content Note
Graham Burke interview of Tim Scott; letters from Ann and Mary Truitt.
box 7, folder 8
VWXYZ
Scope and Content Note
Cards from Cora Ward; Paul Williams book proposal.
box 8, folder 1
ABC
Scope and Content Note
Walter Darby Bannard letters regarding current art critics and thanking Greenberg
for criticism; Tom Barron, artist, discussing his work and thanking Greenberg for
his criticism; Esmé Berman, South African art historian; Frank Bowling, artist;
Tony Caro, artist, letter from Greece about his travels and his work; Ann Clarke,
artist, discussing problems with her job; Frances Colpitt, art historian.
box 8, folder 2
DEF
Scope and Content Note
Theirry de Duve, art historian; Jim Dinerstein, artist; Piero Dorazio; Friedl
Dzubas; The Edwards; Lawrence Eisler, artist, requesting studio visit; Gabriele
Ellertson, artist; Andre Emmerich; Nel Erasmus, painter; Terry Fenton, curator; H.
Frankenthaler; Peter Fuller, artist, regarding derogatory remarks he heard
Greenberg made about him.
box 8, folder 3
GHI
Scope and Content Note
Marty Greenberg, regarding publication of his Kleist translations; Piri Halasz,
scholar; Inge Hoesterey, regarding art criticism; Jay Hutchinson, artist, thanking
Greenberg for criticism.
box 8, folder 4
JKL
Scope and Content Note
Harold Jonas, college friend getting back in touch; Neil Jumonville, Harvard
instructor writing on
Partisan Review circle, writing
in response to Greenberg's corrections; Tim Kelly, artist; Hilton Kramer; Mark
Krupnick; John Link, regarding his paintings and writings.
box 8, folder 5
MN
Scope and Content Note
Charles Millard, curator, about changes in his life; Ken Moffett; Mali Morris,
artist; Yvonne Muller, regarding her work.
box 8, folder 6
OPQ
Scope and Content Note
John Ogburn, regarding his work and art world; Larry Poons.
box 8, folder 7
RST
Scope and Content Note
Tim Scott, regarding his work, his father; Richard Shiff; Derreck Southall,
artist and writer; Pat Sutton, artist; Anne Truitt, artist, about her family and
her work.
box 8, folder 8
UVW
Scope and Content Note
Von Wentzel, gallery owner; Karen Wilken; Arthur Count Yanoff, artist; Victor
Youritzen.
box 9, folder 1
ABC
Scope and Content Note
Walter Darby Bannard, with reviews of Greenberg's book of essays and questions
about his own work; Esmé Berman, regarding efforts to relocate in LA; Thomas
Barron, thanking Greenberg for critique; Tony Caro, regarding Triangle Workshop
and Greenberg's impression there; David Cast, regarding his father, Giotto,
Vasari.
box 9, folder 2
DEF
Scope and Content Note
De Duve, Diebenkorn; Dorazio, regarding his life in Italy; Edwards, regarding
Greenberg's essays and health; Erasmus, regarding Greenberg's essays; Terry
Fenton, regarding Greenberg's essays, his work, Canadian art scene; Frankenthaler,
regarding dinner date.
box 9, folder 3
GHI
Scope and Content Note
Inge Hoesterey, her essays, etc.; Tim Hilton regarding Emma Lake.
box 9, folder 4
JKL
Scope and Content Note
Mark Krupnik, regarding reviews of Greenberg's essays; Jim Link, regarding
Olitski, Susan Roth; Richard Love, thanking Greenberg for his interview.
box 9, folder 5
MN
Scope and Content Note
McChesney regarding art shows, requests for crits; Charles Millard, regarding
reviews of Greenberg's essays; Ken Moffett, regarding Greenberg's essays; R.
Motherwell, regarding Greenberg's essays; Y. Muller, regarding recomendations,
gratitude.
box 9, folder 6
OPQ
Scope and Content Note
Larry Poons.
box 9, folder 7
RST
Scope and Content Note
Rosalie Rossi, regarding her work; David Shapiro, artist, with photo of piece;
Derreck Southall, regarding his novel, novels he's reading, Bacon, Caro, his
paintings; Anne Truitt, regarding her financial issues.
box 9, folder 8
UVW
Scope and Content Note
Von Wentzel, regarding Triangle, Bannard.
box 9, folder 9
XYZ
Scope and Content Note
Arthur Yanoff, regarding his work, Greenberg's criticism; Victor Youritzin.
box 10, folder 1
ABC
Scope and Content Note
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, letter announcing Greenberg had been
elected fellow; Greenberg's angry reply to Dore Ashton's article on Guston that
cites him; Walter Darby Bannard, copy of letter to editor defending Greenberg;
Betsy Brown, Director of Nat'l Museum of American Art; David Carrier, inquiring
how Greenberg liked his book
Artwriting; Caro, about
his work and vacation; color photographs of possible Pollock.
box 10, folder 2
DEF
Scope and Content Note
H. Frankenthaler, affectionate postcards; Gary Fountain, regarding information
for his biography of Elizabeth Bishop; Thiery de Duve, regarding Clement Greenberg
talk; Darozio postcards; Jennifer Durrant, artist, regarding her work; André
Emmerich, Peter Fuller regarding
Modern Painters, his
magazine.
box 10, folder 3
GHI
Scope and Content Note
Clive Getty, Prof. at Miami Univ.; Marty Greenberg, announcing he won 2
translation awards; Paul Hart, letter and review of
Collected
Essays
; Janet Heath, proposing telephone interview; Inge Hoesterey,
regarding her articles, book dedication, with photo of her; Richard Howard, letter
about mutual friends.
box 10, folder 4
JKL
Scope and Content Note
Ruth Kainen regarding Adorno and Greenberg; Jacob Kainen regarding his work and
Noland's show; Mark Krupnik regarding Irvin Howe with bibliography; Jim Link
regarding writings and paintings, mss. enclosed.
box 11, folder 1
MNO
Scope and Content Note
Clif McChesney regarding his work, the art scene; Barbara McKay, color slides;
Charles Millard; Colette Morey de Morand, London art scene; Barrie Mowatt
regarding Greenberg's contribution to Olitski catalog; Yvonne Muller, asking for
recommendations; Colette Nilsen, thanking Greenberg for the critique; Jules
Olitski, asking Greenberg to check catalog for his show.
box 11, folder 2
PQR
Scope and Content Note
Sidney Phillips, asking Greenberg to look at slides of his paintings; Wm.
Phillips, asking if Greenberg would be willing to have Elizabeth Frank interview
him for
Partisan Review; Joachim Pisarro, regarding
his book on Pisarro; Poons, wanting response to his show; Katharina von Rohden
regarding her thesis on Frankenthaler; Rubenfeld regarding interviews with
Greenberg for book; Robert Storr, regarding Greenberg's conflict of interest
(financial interest in artists he supported); Catherine Tatge, thanking Greenberg
for PBS interview on Motherwell; Anne Truitt, regarding losing her job, family
illness; Adam Stein, letter with abstract painting "score" (piece included).
box 11, folder 3
STU
Scope and Content Note
Tim Scott, regarding his new studio and work; Richard Shiff, regarding essay for
Art Journal on Greenberg's "Modernist Painting"
(essay included); Derreck Southall regarding his work, his life; Gail Stavitsky,
interview with Greenberg regarding Gallatin.
box 11, folder 4
VWXYZ
Scope and Content Note
Nora Wainer, regarding bio about her grandfather, Dr. Cahim Zhitlowsky, Yiddish
philosopher; Norman Wasserman regarding
New York
Times
story on Pollock fraud with copy of clipping citing Greenberg;
Wentzel regarding advice for Greenberg's daughter on becoming art dealer; Jeanne
Wilkinson, thanking Greenbert for critique; Susan Wadsworth regarding Greenberg's
work on Stella and Smith; Yanoff regarding his work; Youritzen regarding his
writings.
box 12, folder 1
ABC
Scope and Content Note
K. Agena, letters to Wm. Phillips (cc: Greenberg) regarding PBS documentary on NY
intellectuals; D. Bentham, letter regarding teaching position with slide of recent
work; Debra Balken regarding George L.K. Morris and his rivalry with Greenberg at
Partisan Review; Robert Belton with question
regarding William Ronald; Douglas Carnegie color photographs; Tony Caro regarding
exhibition in Rome.
box 12, folder 2
DEF
Scope and Content Note
Dallas Museum, invitation to speak; Arthur Danto, regarding Hume; Thierry de
Duve, regarding his new art school and writings; Piero Dorazio, regarding his
work; Frankenthaler postcard; Univ. of Iowa regarding Weldon Kees.
box 12, folder 3
GHI
Scope and Content Note
Andrea Gabor, regarding Lee Krasner for book on gifted women and their marriages;
Iqbal Geoffrey, collage and bio from Pakistani writer/artist/activist. J. P.
George with ms. on Watteau and Greenberg's comments; Tom Grimsy postcards of work;
Andrew Hudson.
box 12, folder 4
JKL
Scope and Content Note
Barbara Jaffee, regarding Julien Benda; Arthur Jones, regarding Greenberg's talk
at Pollock/Krasner house; Ruth Kainen, regarding her husband's career and
retrospective; Gertrude Kasday, color photographs; invitation to Lee Krasner show
with reproduction of a work; Harold Lehman, friend and collaborator with Pollock;
Laurel Lyman, letters and copy of thesis on pottery.
box 12, folder 5
MNO
Scope and Content Note
Charles Millard, postcards from travels; Kim Morgan, regarding interview with
copy of 1963 article on Emma Lake Artist's workshop; Colette Nilsen with color
photographs of her work; Ken Noland, requesting money to oppose S. Africa
apartheid; Elizabeth O'Neil, regarding Marcia Nardi.
box 12, folder 6
PQR
Scope and Content Note
Pollock/Krasner house and study center regarding Greenberg's visit and talk; Anne
Poor's color photographs; Anee Purcell, color photographs; J. Reidel regarding
Weldon Kees.
box 12, folder 7
STU
Scope and Content Note
Richard Schem; Pat Service; Will South, regarding Stanton McDonald-Wright; Pat
Sutton; Anne Truitt, thanking Greenberg for all his help.
box 12, folder 8
VWXYZ
Scope and Content Note
Norman Wasserman, letters and clippings regarding the authenticity of his Pollock
and Greenberg's opinions; Wentzel; Jeanne Wilkinson; Toss Woollaston,
autobiographical ms; Yale Univ. Press regarding opinion on Bernard Smith's work on
Modernism and Postmodernism, with ms; Arthur Yanoff.
box 13, folder 1
ABCD
Scope and Content Note
Doug Bentham regarding Canadian art scene; Frank Bowling regarding immigration
issues and catalog of a show; Mary Busch, cards and poems; Martin Bush, ACA
Galleries president; Tony Caro postcards from travels; David Cateforis regarding
dissertation on De Kooning's women; many comments about
Collected Essays.
box 13, folder 2
EFGH
Scope and Content Note
Paul Georges' daughter asking advice; Terry Fenton regarding Noland and L. Freud;
Gary Fountain, announcing his book on Elizabeth Bishop will be published; David
Goldstein, asking Greenberg for crit; Piri Halasz; Andrew Hudson regarding his
book on Morris Louis and other projects.
box 13, folder 3
IJKL
Scope and Content Note
Jacob Kainen regarding Greenberg's comments on his work, his upcoming show,
asking more criticism on new slides, etc; Mark Krupnik regarding Mary
McCarthy.
box 13, folder 4
MNOP
Scope and Content Note
Colette Nilsen, regarding her visit, her work; Bill Noland, thanks; Jules Olitski
regarding Robert Hughes; Sidney Phillips, returning the $12,000.00 Greenberg lent
him many years before; Peter Plagens, enclosing interview.
box 13, folder 5
QRST
Scope and Content Note
Nora Ransenberg slides; Derrick Southall, regarding family and work; Anne Truitt,
with citation from Greenberg's encouraging letter to her many years before.
box 13, folder 6
UVWXYZ
Scope and Content Note
Norman Wasserman, regarding his Pollock; Emyr Wyn Williams, with color
photographs of her work; Univ. of Chicago Press regarding
Collected Essays.
Series II.
Personal,
1928-1994
Physical Description:
4 Linear
Feet
9 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series II consists of Greenberg's journals (1928-1993), Diaries (1952-1993),
Appointment Books and Address Books and occupies 4.5 linear feet. These 124 volumes, to
which Greenberg devoted a great deal of attention, document his experience at various
levels, from the most simple record of who he met where, to more detailed accounts of
his daily habits, to extraordinarily intimate revelations about relationships,
obsessions, aspirations, and convictions. Due to the intimate nature of the journals and
diaries, some have been sealed for the time periods indicated.
box 14-15
Journals,
1928-1991
Scope and Content Note
These boxes contain 18 journals, with varying, often overlapping date ranges. Early
notebooks feature quotations, drawings, and drafts of poems and stories. Beginning
around 1940, entries are often provocative reflections on art and literature,
including comparisons between specific artists and writers. Increasingly, these
aesthetic concerns become intertwined with personal ones, especially after Greenberg
begins psychoanalysis in the mid-1950s. Greenberg's relationships with members of the
Partisan Review circle occupy a great deal of his
attention, even long after he has broken with them or they have died. Clippings,
drawings and writings found loose in the journals have been either organized in the
file folders along with journals or, where there is a generous amount of material,
stored in a separate file folder.
box 16-17
Journals,
1943-1993
Scope and Content Note
These boxes contain 14 journals, with varying, often overlapping date ranges. Of a
much more private character than the journals in Boxes 14-15, these record many
obsessive thoughts and raw emotional responses to events in Greenberg's life and
psychoanalysis. Two are poetry journals, containing personal, even confessional poems.
One is in part an army journal. In the later journals, entries about women and
colleagues are interspersed with intellectual and political material, but the balance
of entries remain highly personal. Many of these journals include critical comments
about well-known people and other sensitive material.
box 18
Appointment, Address and Bank Books,
1945-1950, 1943-1955, 1938-1939
Scope and Content Note
This box contains 6 Appointment Books (1945-1950), containing relatively few entries,
1 Address Book (1943, 1944 & 1955) and 1 Bank Deposit Book (1938-1939).
box 19
Clement Greenberg's Appointment Books and Address Books,
1950-1993
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically. This box contains 44 small leather appointment books
featuring entries of varying detail. Entries in books from 1950-1957 are just a few
lines long. Books from 1958-1964 contain daily entries occupying a full page and
record books read, work done, people met with, openings attended, and so on. These
were apparently employed as both date keeping and record keeping tools, as some
entries are retrospective. After 1965 entries are more spare, with detail reserved for
the diaries. While appointment books generally contain some addresses in the front
section, there are separate thin, black address books for the following years:
1970-1971, 1972, 1973, 1974-1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985. One
black book, probably from 1964, contains a few daily entries plus addresses in South
America, with calling cards inserted.
box 20, folder 1-2
2 Travel diaries,
1952-1954
Scope and Content Note
Sealed until 13 September 2030.
box 20, folder 1
Nova Scotia diary,
1952
Scope and Content Note
Sealed until 13 September 2030. This is a photocopy of the diary kept
by Helen Frankenthaler and Greenberg during their four week vacation in Nova Scotia.
They take turns describing meals and how they prepared them, landscape paintings
they worked on, locals they consorted with, car troubles, their moods and other
features of the vacation.
box 20, folder 2
Italy diary,
1954
Scope and Content Note
Sealed until 13 September 2030. This is a photocopy of the diary
Greenberg and Helen Frankenthaler kept during their three month trip to Italy, Paris
and London. It contains daily entries detailing where they ate, how they slept, art
seen, people met, car repairs and some general impressions.
box 21-22
Diaries,
1965-1993
Scope and Content Note
These boxes contain 29 diaries which, like the Appointment Books from 1958-1964, and
like the travel diaries, offer a detailed daily record of activities. Each entry
includes what time Greenberg got up and went to bed, books and journals read, articles
or talks worked on, galleries visited, people met with, opening or parties attended,
restaurants frequented, and quantity of drink and medication consumed. These diaries
do not describe responses, thoughts or reflections, though they occasionally include
comments such as "sat and mused," or "brooded." Greenberg's state of mind is,
nonetheless, surprisingly discernible through these simple objective records.
Series III.
Manuscripts,
1928-1993
Physical Description:
4 Linear
Feet
9 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series III consists of essays, lectures and talk notes. The manuscripts are organized
in chronological order, and demonstrate the evolution of Greenberg's ideas from
left-wing avant-gardism to formalist avant-gardism, to anti-avant-gardism. They begin
with Greenberg's college papers, his early poetry and fiction, and his drawings, which
often decorate the pages of his creative writing. There are handwritten notes and drafts
of early
Partisan Review articles, including the letter to
Dwight MacDonald that with MacDonald's encouragement evolved into "Avant-garde and
Kitsch." There are also various drafts of "Towards a Newer Laocoon," and "Bertolt
Brecht's Poetry." There are a number of pieces written during this period which were not
published. There are notes and drafts of seminars, including the Princeton Gauss
Seminars (1958-1959), and the Bennington Seminars (1971) that Greenberg revised
throughout the seventies; these are also present in published form. There are notes and
drafts of the many lectures and talks Greenberg gave beginning in the 1960s and
continuing through the 1980s, some of which served as the basis for articles, including
the prescient "Avant-garde Attitudes" (1968-1970).
box 23, folder 1-11
Early writings: poetry and fiction, ca.
1928-1940s
box 23, folder 1
late
1920s
Scope and Content Note
69 pp. poetry in 1 notebook, 2 bluebooks, 2 loose pp.; 3 college papers on The
Dionysian Cult, Neo-Platonism, and Byron's letters, 30 pp. total. Drawings.
box 23, folder 2
late
1920s-1930s
Scope and Content Note
27 pp. poetry. Poems about love, death, nature, sin, etc., translations of Eluard
poems. Drawings.
box 23, folder 3
late
1920s-1930s
Scope and Content Note
31 pp. poetry. College poems, poems about the West and California, poems in
Portuguese, translations of Stefan George. Drawings throughout.
box 23, folder 4
late
1920s-1930s
Scope and Content Note
64 pp. poetry. College poems, poems about his wife (Toady) and son, 3 versions of
"The Progress of Poetry." Drawings throughout.
box 23, folder 5
late
1920s-1930s
Scope and Content Note
22 pp. poetry. Poems about the West and California.
box 23, folder 6
late
1920s-1930s
Scope and Content Note
31 pp. poetry. Translations and poems in foreign languages, by Stefan George,
Camões, Rilke, Eluard, and others.
box 23, folder 7
1930s
Scope and Content Note
73 pp. poetry. Poems about love, lust, the seasons, George Washington, youth and
age, etc. Drawings.
box 23, folder 8
1930s-1940s
Scope and Content Note
41 pp. poetry. "Ode to Trotsky," "Homage to Picasso," poem about natives, Eluard
translations.
box 23, folder 9
1940s
Scope and Content Note
40 pp. poetry. Poems about Hitler, nature, bachelorhood, the gods, etc.
box 23, folder 10
1930s
Scope and Content Note
80 pp. (2 sides) of unfinished novel featuring a character named "Sweet."
box 23, folder 11
1930s?
Scope and Content Note
66 pp. Drawings in either pencil or pen, generally of figures, with a few landscape
or architectural drawings. An occasional poem on the reverse.
box 24, folder 1-15
Early writings,
1920s-1940s
Scope and Content Note
Short stories, correspondence, early
Partisan Review
essays, 1920s-1940s. John O'Brian's notes on some pieces.
box 24, folder 1
1920s-1930s
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 pp. short stories and story fragments.
box 24, folder 2
1920s-1930s
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 pp. short stories and story fragments, including a travel essay/story about
California and one play, 14 pp.
box 24, folder 3
1930s
Scope and Content Note
ca. 55 pp. stories and story drafts about Mexico and Pancho Villa.
box 24, folder 4
1930s
Scope and Content Note
ca. 55 pp. stories and story drafts about Mexico and Pancho Villa.
box 24, folder 5
1930s?
Scope and Content Note
35 pp. notes and drafts of essays about fiction and poetry, with a longer, more
complete essay about rhetoric; 1 clipping; drawings.
box 24, folder 6
1930s?
Scope and Content Note
22 pp. typewritten corrected draft of essay on Brecht, apparently an early version
of "Bertolt Brecht's Poetry" (pub. 1941); 2 typewritten pp., "Attention to Bert
Brecht," 1932?; 18 handwritten and typewritten draft pp. on Brecht, n.d.
box 24, folder 7
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
8 handwritten pp. on Breton.
box 24, folder 8
1939
Scope and Content Note
8 typewritten, corrected pp., letter to Dwight MacDonald regarding MacDonald's
article on Soviet Society and the Cinema. This letter, with MacDonald's
encouragement, evolved into "Avant-garde and Kitsch."
box 24, folder 9
1939
Scope and Content Note
17 handwritten pp., notes for "Avant-garde and Kitsch," with a few unrelated pp. on
war, Ralph Burton, etc.
box 24, folder 10
1940s?
Scope and Content Note
3 handwritten pp. on Kafka and the issue of time.
box 24, folder 11
1940s?
Scope and Content Note
3 handwritten pp., notes on the history of easel painting.
box 24, folder 12
1940-1941
Scope and Content Note
12 typewritten and handwritten pp. essay on "common sense" in world politics, with
reference to Harold Laski's position.
box 24, folder 13
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
14 typewritten pp. essay, "The Last of the Fathers," on Thomas Mann's
Joseph.
box 24, folder 14
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pp., essay on Goethe, "Lass uns doch vielseitig sein"; 4 handwritten
pp., draft of above.
box 24, folder 15
1935-1950
Scope and Content Note
25 handwritten and typewritten pp. Drawings and poems. Notes on Spengler, Picasso
and Joyce, Surrealism, and other topics.
box 25, folder 1-7
Essays on art and aesthetics,
1940-1959
Scope and Content Note
Some manuscripts have identifying notes by John O'Brian.
box 25, folder 1
1940
Scope and Content Note
91 corrected typewritten pp. 3 drafts of "Towards a Newer Laocoon."
box 25, folder 2
1940
Scope and Content Note
29 handwritten and typewritten pp. Notes and early drafts of "Towards a Newer
Laocoon."
box 25, folder 3
July-August
1940
Scope and Content Note
Partisan Review, Vol. III, No. 4., with "Towards a
Newer Laocoon."
box 25, folder 4
1956?
Scope and Content Note
96 handwritten and typewritten pp. Several drafts of an unpublished essay, "Why the
Old Masters Have So Little To Say Directly To The Practice of Ambitious Contemporary
Painting," parts of which appear in various published pieces, 1950s-1960s.
box 25, folder 5
1958-1959?
Scope and Content Note
30 handwritten and typewritten pp. Two drafts of an unpublished essay, "The Newness
of Color."
box 25, folder 6
1958-1959
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 handwritten and typewritten pp. First three Gauss seminars given at
Princeton on The Origins of Modernism, unpublished. Seminar One: "Beginnings of
Modernism;" Seminar Two: "Impressionism;" Seminar Three: "The Sculptural Norm."
box 25, folder 7
1958-1959
Scope and Content Note
ca. 80 handwritten and typewritten pp. Second three Gauss seminars given at
Princeton on The Origins of Modernism, unpublished. Seminar Four: "Color;" Seminar
Five: "Fauvism;" Seminar Six: "Cubism and Beyond."
box 26, folder 1-18
Essays and lectures,
1949-1960s
box 26, folder 1
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
12 typewritten pp. "The Decline of Art," unpublished essay.
box 26, folder 2
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
27 typewritten pp. "The Agony of Painting," unpublished essay.
box 26, folder 3
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
39 handwritten and typewritten pp. Notes and drafts of various unpublished short
pieces, including "Art Criticism and American Art," "The Old Masters Revisited,"
pieces on nationalism, homosexuality, modernism, etc. 2 clippings.
box 26, folder 4
1949
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pp., responding to the Ezra Pound Award announcement, pub. in
Partisan Review?
box 26, folder 5
1950
Scope and Content Note
11 corrected typewritten pp. "Paul Klee," final draft, published in
Five Essays on Klee (Merle Armitage).
box 26, folder 6
1953
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. "American Art," essay about abstract expressionism for
People's Encyclopedia.
box 26, folder 7
1953
Scope and Content Note
150 typewritten and handwritten pp. 3+ drafts of "The Plight of Our Culture" pub.
in
Commentary.
box 26, folder 8
1955
Scope and Content Note
11 typewritten pp. ms. of "American-Type Painting," including 2 extra first pages,
with letter and handwritten bibliography.
box 26, folder 9
1958
Scope and Content Note
12 typewritten pp., 2 copies of "Collage," 1 with Greenberg's corrections.
box 26, folder 10
1959
Scope and Content Note
8 corrected typewritten pp. "Hans Hofmann," draft of 1959 essay for
Art News; 2 typewritten pp. "Hofmann's Early Abstract
Paintings," 1959 essay for Kootz show catalog; 8 handwritten pp. Lists of Hofmann
paintings compiled by Greenberg, Jenny Greenberg, and Ms. Hofmann in preparation for
Hofmann book and exhibitions curated by Greenberg; 53 typewritten pp. transcript of
six lectures given by Hans Hofmann, 1938-1939; 1 p. clipping. Biography of Hans
Hofmann from
Current Biography.
box 26, folder 11
1960
Scope and Content Note
27 handwritten and typewritten pp., 3 drafts of ms. "The Abstract Movement" pub. as
"Modernist Painting."
box 26, folder 12
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
14 typewritten pp. "American Art in the Twentieth Century," unpublished essay.
box 26, folder 13
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
34 typewritten pp., 7 unpublished lectures or lecture notes on the following
topics: Aesthetics in Art Criticism, The Present State of NY Painting, History of
Bohemia, Crisis of Independence, Arnold Friedman, Abstract Expressionism, Aesthetic
Considerations in Politics.
box 26, folder 14
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
14 corrected typewritten pp., 3 unpublished mss. on the following topics: "Manet,"
"Leger," "Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin."
box 26, folder 15
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
3 corrected typewritten pp. Unpublished essay concerning Herbert Read's
distinctions between visual artists and poets.
box 26, folder 16
1950s-1960s
Scope and Content Note
12 pp. Drawings, card, clipping, watercolor.
box 26, folder 17
May-June
1950
Scope and Content Note
issue of
Partisan Review containing 3 pp. piece by
Greenberg on Intellectuals and Religion.
box 26, folder 18
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
2 small notebooks containing lists of books reviewed and to be reviewed; list of
galleries.
box 27, folder 1-26
Essays, lectures, etc.,
1961-1990
box 27, folder 1
1961
Scope and Content Note
14 typewritten pp. and 1 clipping. Correspondence between Greenberg, Lloyd Goodrich
and Robert Goldwater concerning the International Association of Art Critics'
censure of John Canaday of
The New York Times.
box 27, folder 2
1963
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pp. Correspondence with editor of
Country
Beautiful
, who requested description of Greenberg's favorite scenic view,
which Greenberg supplied. Unpublished.
box 27, folder 3
1963
Scope and Content Note
6 typewritten pp. Ford Foundation Fellowship Application for series of essays on
the Old Masters; 1 p. fellowship announcement.
box 27, folder 4
1965
Scope and Content Note
7 corrected typewritten and handwritten pp. "Anthony Caro's Sculpture in Steel,"
pub. in
Arts Yearbook and Studio International.
box 27, folder 5
1966
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. "Matisse in 1966," essay published in
Boston
Museum Bulletin
; 9 typewritten and handwritten pp. early draft.
box 27, folder 6
1967
Scope and Content Note
20 typewritten pp., photocopied. "Recentness of Sculpture," 2 versions, one
published in
Art International, the other, heavily
corrected, unpublished.
box 27, folder 7
1968-1970
Scope and Content Note
32 typewritten pp. "Avant-garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties," 2 drafts of
lecture delivered at University of Sydney, later published in
Art International.
box 27, folder 8
1962-1979
Scope and Content Note
35 typewritten pp. 2 essays, French translations of "After Abstract Expressionism"
and "Post-Painterly Abstraction;" correspondence with Robert Lapoussière (3
letters); photocopy of "La réflexion sur l'art," by Bernard Teyssèdre; letter in
French from unidentified correspondent, n.d.
box 27, folder 9
1960s-1990s
Scope and Content Note
16 typewritten pp. and clippings. File of various short statements and memorials
published in periodicals, including one for
Partisan
Review
's 50th anniversary, 1984.
box 27, folder 10
1974
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. List of artists that Greenberg would include in proposed 1974
Paris exhibition of American artists.
box 27, folder 11
1976
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pp. List of books about art history that Greenberg commented on
briefly during a videotaped discussion of the Mid NY Library's books. Comments
included.
box 27, folder 12
1977
Scope and Content Note
6 typewritten pp. "Peinture Surrealiste," French translation of Greenberg article
from
The Nation (1944); 6 pp. correspondence regarding
above article.
box 27, folder 13
1973-1990
Scope and Content Note
28 typewritten pp. and clippings. File of Greenberg's letters to the editors of
various periodicals, generally defending himself. Includes exchange with Robert
Hughes.
box 27, folder 14
1970s
Scope and Content Note
5 pp. sketches by Greenberg; signed menu from Buenos Aires restaurant.
box 27, folder 15
1970s-1990s
Scope and Content Note
8 corrected typewritten pp., "Photography as Art," talk given at Metropolitan
Museum, 1972; 16 corrected typewritten pp., "Photo Realism," essay, n.d; 21
typewritten pp., fragmentary drafts; 2 handwritten pp., notes on photography; 11 pp.
MOMA press releases regarding photography; 10 clippings, articles about photography
by Sontag, Gombrich, et al.
box 27, folder 16
1970s?
Scope and Content Note
6 typewritten and handwritten pp. Outline for television program explaining
modernist painting as a logical development of Western art.
box 27, folder 17
1951-1979
Scope and Content Note
9 typewritten pp. File of Curriculum Vitae; 1 clipping, a brief biography of
Greenberg from
20th Century Authors.
box 27, folder 18
1980?
Scope and Content Note
33 typewritten pp. 3 drafts of "Art Criticism as Criticism of Art," with
corrections and revisions.
box 27, folder 19
1980-1981
Scope and Content Note
6 typewritten pp., photocopied, "Intermedia," essay based on talk given in Buenos
Aires, 1980.
box 27, folder 20
1982
Scope and Content Note
3 printed pp. "Decadence," essay in galleys for
Arts,
corrections by Greenberg.
box 27, folder 21
1982
Scope and Content Note
3 handwritten and 2 typewritten pp. "Hasegawa Tohaku," 2 drafts of essay; 15 pp.
clippings and notes on the subject.
box 27, folder 22
1983
Scope and Content Note
6 typewritten pp., "Sotatsu, His Sumiyoshi Screen," article published in
Vanity Fair; 2 clippings of article, 1 corrected by
Greenberg.
box 27, folder 23
1984
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten and 8 handwritten pp. "Taste, Demoralization of," essay published in
New York Times, with 2 photocopies of typewritten
version.
box 27, folder 24
1985
Scope and Content Note
13 typewritten pp. Correspondence, essay and list of paintings for "Six From
Syracuse" show at Skidmore, curated by Greenberg.
box 27, folder 25
1986
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. Essay for the Symposium on New York, published in
New Criterion; clipping of article; letter to editor.
box 27, folder 26
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
19 typewritten pp. "Detached Observations," article published in
Arts; 5 pp. corrected galleys.
box 28, folder 1-9
The Bennington Seminars,
1971-1974
Scope and Content Note
The Seminars, given by Greenberg in 1971, and revised for publication throughout
1970s, constitute his most elaborate statement about taste and connoisseurship. He
intended to publish them in book form with an additional two chapters, never
written.
box 28, folder 1
1971
Scope and Content Note
52 pp. notes and drafts of Seminar One; 2 reference clippings; 42 pp. transcript of
question/answer period.
box 28, folder 2
1971?
Scope and Content Note
48 typewritten pp. 3 drafts of revised version of Seminar One; 4 pp. galley of
published article version.
box 28, folder 3
1971
Scope and Content Note
75 typewritten pp. Several drafts of Seminar Two; 41 pp. transcript of
question/answer period.
box 28, folder 4
1974
Scope and Content Note
54 typewritten pp. 2 drafts of Seminar Two, revised for publication.
box 28, folder 5
1971
Scope and Content Note
33 typewritten pp. 2+ drafts of Seminar Three; 35 pp. transcript of question/answer
period.
box 28, folder 6
1971
Scope and Content Note
12 handwritten and typewritten pp. Notes and drafts of Seminar Four; 32 typewritten
pp. 3 copies of Seminar Four, revised for publication; 3 clippings; 37 pp.
transcript of question/answer period.
box 28, folder 7
1971
Scope and Content Note
18 handwritten and typewritten pp. Drafts of Seminar Five; 1 clippings; 25 pp.
transcript of question/answer period.
box 28, folder 8
1971
Scope and Content Note
56 handwritten and typewritten pp. Drafts of Seminar Six; 38 pp. transcript of
question/answer period.
box 28, folder 9
1971
Scope and Content Note
19 typewritten pp. Seminar Six; 5 pp. galley of Seminar Six.
box 29, folder 1-8
Bennington Seminars,
1968-1979
box 29, folder 1
1971
Scope and Content Note
38 handwritten and typewritten pp. Drafts of Seminar Seven; 3 pp. galley of Seminar
Seven; 40 pp. transcript of question/answer period.
box 29, folder 2
1971
Scope and Content Note
14 typewritten pp. Notes and drafts of Seminar Eight; 4 pp. galley of Seminar
Eight; 3 clippings; 35 pp. transcript of question/answer period.
box 29, folder 3
1971
Scope and Content Note
9 typewritten pp. 2 drafts of Seminar Nine; 2 clippings; 27 pp. transcript of
Seminar Nine.
box 29, folder 4
1971
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 handwritten and typewritten pp. Drafts of Seminar Ten (and Nine); 1
clipping.
box 29, folder 5
1973-1979
Scope and Content Note
8 clippings and photocopies of clippings of published Seminars.
box 29, folder 6
1969
Scope and Content Note
Photo and negative of drawing by Greenberg used in article made from Seminar.
box 29, folder 7
1968 -?
Scope and Content Note
16 pp. handwritten pp; 6 clippings.
box 29, folder 8
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
clipping, Susan Unger, "Clement Greenberg's Bennington Seminars."
box 30, folder 1-33
Lectures,
1961-1979,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Heavily corrected, unpublished.
box 30, folder 1
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
37 handwritten and typewritten pp., 2 versions of the same talk with different
titles, "How Art is Acquired" and "Contemporary Collecting." Chicago?
box 30, folder 2
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
24 typewritten pp. "Painting in a One-City Culture," Washington. 20 typewritten pp.
"Art Outside Metropolises," Grinnell version of above lecture. 32 typewritten pp.,
preliminary drafts of above lecture.
box 30, folder 3
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
12 typewritten pp. "State of Art Right Now."
box 30, folder 4
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
16 typewritten pp. "Contemporary American Painting."
box 30, folder 5
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
6 typewritten pp. Commencement Talk on "the life of art," Chicago Institute of Art;
4 handwritten pp., rough draft.
box 30, folder 6
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
17 typewritten pp. "Beginnings of Painterly Abstraction," Dayton Art Institute.
box 30, folder 7
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
11 typewritten and handwritten pp. "Matisse," Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
box 30, folder 8
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
10 typewritten pp. "After Pop Art," Guggenheim.
box 30, folder 9
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
18 typewritten pp. "Banners," YMHA, Philadelphia.
box 30, folder 10
1968 Mar
26
Scope and Content Note
21 typewritten and handwritten pp. "Art in the Sixties," University of Wisconsin,
Madison(?)
box 30, folder 11
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
7 typewritten pp. "Contemporary Art Situation."
box 30, folder 12
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pp. "Pop Art."
box 30, folder 13
1961
Scope and Content Note
10 typewritten pp. 2 copies of "Post-Christian Technicalities," WFMT, Chicago.
box 30, folder 14
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
16 typewritten pp. on experiencing art, Wilmington, Ohio; 20 typewritten and
handwritten pp., another version of above talk, Penn State; 4 pp. brochure on how to
invest in the art market.
box 30, folder 15
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
6 handwritten and typewritten pp. on the current art scene, Brandeis.
box 30, folder 16
1964
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pp. on "formless" art,
Preuves
symposium; 7 typewritten pp. "The Crisis of Abstract Art," about
Preuves symposium, published in
Arts
Yearbook
, 1964.
box 30, folder 17
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
27 typewritten pp. "Revolution in Sculpture," New School.
box 30, folder 18
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
24 typewritten and handwritten pp. "How Contemporary Art Gets Evaluated."
box 30, folder 19
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
7 typewritten and handwritten pp. on Canadian art, Saskatchewan.
box 30, folder 20
1965
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. "Anthony Caro," in Spanish, Barcelona.
box 30, folder 21
1973 Apr
12
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. and 1 handwritten draft p. "Matisse and the Fauves," National
Gallery.
box 30, folder 22
1972
Scope and Content Note
14 typewritten pp. and 9 handwritten draft pp., "Artistic Freedom: Uses and
Abuses," Chicago; 17 typewritten pp. revised version of above talk, University of
Washington.
box 30, folder 23
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
6 typewritten pp. on art history, Blacksburg.
box 30, folder 24
1972 Apr
19
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. "Criticism," notes for talk at Western Washington University.
box 30, folder 25
1977
Scope and Content Note
6 typewritten pp. and 9 handwritten draft pp. "Cezanne and Twentieth Century Art,"
Museum of Modern Art.
box 30, folder 26
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
4 handwritten pp. "Symposium Statement," London; 4 pp. and outline, "Art Today,"
London?
box 30, folder 27
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
8 typewritten pp. and 4 pp. handwritten notes. "NY Painting in the Fifties;"
offprint of Millard article.
box 30, folder 28
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
8 typewritten pp. "NY School," Ft. Lauderdale.
box 30, folder 29
1978
Scope and Content Note
11 typewritten pp. and 3 pp. notes on elitism and culture, given at Salzburg
Seminar in American Studies.
box 30, folder 30
1979
Scope and Content Note
15 printed bound pp. "The Notion of Post-Modern," Sir William Dobell Memorial
Lecture, Sydney, Australia. Limited Edition no. 8, signed; 43 typewritten pp. 3
drafts of above lecture; 11 typewritten and handwritten pp. notes and drafts; 1
reference clipping.
box 30, folder 31
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
14 typewritten pp. 2 drafts of "The Importance of Good Faith."
box 30, folder 32
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pp. "Drawing."
box 30, folder 33
1972
Scope and Content Note
11 typewritten pp. "The Place of Taste."
box 31, folder 1-47
Lectures and "talk-notes,"
1980-1993
box 31, folder 1
1980-1983
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. "Decline of Taste," talk notes, School of Visual Arts, NYC, and
West Michigan; 9 typewritten and handwritten pp. "Contemporary Taste," talk notes,
West Michigan; 4 typewritten and handwritten pp. talk notes on the centralization of
visual arts, Kalamazoo.
box 31, folder 2
1980
Scope and Content Note
7 handwritten and typewritten pp. "Autonomies of Art," talk notes, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute; 4 copies of 9 typewritten pp. essay version of above talk; 2
pp. notes, 7 typewritten pp. transcript of lecture; spell checker analysis of the
text; 2 clippings from German newspapers.
box 31, folder 3
1980
Scope and Content Note
9 typewritten and handwritten pp. "International vs. Regional," with 2 pp.
transcript of talk, Dublin; 7 typewritten pp., "Modern Art Exhausted?" and 6 pp.
German translation, Vienna; 14 typewritten pp., 2 versions of "To Cope With
Decadence," Vancouver.
box 31, folder 4
1981
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten and 8 handwritten pp. talk given at International Colloquium in
Lausanne about relationship between American and European Art Scenes; various
colloquim materials.
box 31, folder 5
1981
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pp. talk on Abstract Expressionism, Nassau County Museum.
box 31, folder 6
1982
Scope and Content Note
26 typewritten pp. 3 drafts of "David Smith," Metropolitan Museum; 7 typewritten
pp. "David Smith," published
Connaissance des Arts; 6
typewritten pp. 2 drafts of "David Smith," Hirshhorn Museum; 4 typewritten pp.
"David Smith Tradition," Oklahoma City; 1 p. notes.
box 31, folder 7
1982
Scope and Content Note
52 handwritten and typewritten pp. multiple drafts and notes for "Beginnings of
Modernism," talk given at conference on modernism, Claremont; 17 pp. conference
correspondence and materials; 1 conference brochure; 7 clippings, including 1 review
of conference and Greenberg.
box 31, folder 8
1983
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. talk notes on current art scene, Studio School.
box 31, folder 9
1983
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. "Fallacies regarding Abstract Expressionism," talk notes, Duke
University; 15 typewritten pp. transcript of talk.
box 31, folder 10
1983
Scope and Content Note
11 typewritten pp. on taste, Western Michigan U.; 19 pp. question/answer period
transcript and introduction.
box 31, folder 11
1984
Scope and Content Note
8 typewritten pp. 2 drafts "Life of Art," RISD commencement.
box 31, folder 12
1979-1984
Scope and Content Note
9 typewritten pp. 3 drafts of "Glass Art," Corning Glass Art Conference; 15
typewritten pp. 2 drafts of "Status of Clay," Syracuse; 18 typewritten pp. 2 copies
of transcript of above talk.
box 31, folder 13
1984
Scope and Content Note
4 handwritten pp. "Collecting," talk notes, Edmonton.
box 31, folder 14
1984
Scope and Content Note
8 handwritten and typewritten pp. 2 drafts "Figurative Expressionism," San
Francisco and Seattle.
box 31, folder 15
1984
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pp. "Trendiness," Wadsworth Atheneum.
box 31, folder 16
1984
Scope and Content Note
7 handwritten and typewritten pp. 2 drafts of "State of Contemporary Art," Carnegie
Mellon.
box 31, folder 17
1984
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pp. talk notes on art criticism, Western Michigan U., on occasion of
receiving honorary doctorate; program and investiture citation.
box 31, folder 18
1984
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. "Taste in Contemporary Art," talk notes, NYU.
box 31, folder 19
1984
Scope and Content Note
7 typewritten pp. "Abstract painting and Sculpture 1927-1944," Whitney Museum; 19
handwritten pp. transcript; note on Vasari, clipping.
box 31, folder 20
1984
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. talk notes on quality in the current art scene, Butler Institute
of American Art.
box 31, folder 21
1985
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pp. talk notes on collecting, Utica.
box 31, folder 22
1985
Scope and Content Note
10 typewritten pp. talk notes on the function of the art critic, YMHA New York.
box 31, folder 23
1985
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. talk notes on evolution of modern art, Ohio U.
box 31, folder 24
1985-1986
Scope and Content Note
5 handwritten and typewritten pp. 2 sets of talk notes on relation of new art to
the old, Studio School, NY.
box 31, folder 25
1986
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. talk notes about emphasis on contemporary art, Scripps College;
symposium program.
box 31, folder 26
1986
Scope and Content Note
5 handwritten and typewritten pp. "Hans Hofmann," Berkeley.
box 31, folder 27
1986
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. talk notes on controversy in art, Canastota.
box 31, folder 28
1986
Scope and Content Note
13 handwritten and typewritten pp. notes and drafts of "Morris Louis," MOMA; 8
clippings on Louis and Greenberg.
box 31, folder 29
1987
Scope and Content Note
3 handwritten and typewritten pp. "Critic as Educator," Florida State U.
box 31, folder 30
1987
Scope and Content Note
4 handwritten and typewritten pp. "Friedl Dzubas," Nassau County Museum.
box 31, folder 31
1987
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. talk notes on museum collecting of contemporary art, Israel
Museum for Contemporary Art.
box 31, folder 32
1987
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. talk notes on negative criticism, Aldrich Museum.
box 31, folder 33
1987
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten and handwritten pp. "Grand Style in 20th Century British Art," for
London Weekend TV; 5 typewritten pp. "The English Art," 36 handwritten and
typewritten pp. on related material, unpublished.
box 31, folder 34
1987
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. talk notes on the current art scene, Lowe Museum, Florida.
box 31, folder 35
1988
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pp. talk notes on current art scene, Univ. of Ottowa and Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago.
box 31, folder 36
1989
Scope and Content Note
4 handwritten and typewritten pp. talk notes on the 1960s art scene, Chapel Hill; 1
clipping.
box 31, folder 37
1990
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. "Hans Hofmann," Whitney Museum.
box 31, folder 38
1991
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. talk notes on art and theory, Canastota.
box 31, folder 39
1991
Scope and Content Note
4 handwritten and typewritten pp. on the young artist, Miami Univ.
box 31, folder 40
1991
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p. on the young artist, Visual Arts College?
box 31, folder 41
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. "What is an Art Scene?" Wayne State Univ. and Roger Smith
Hotel.
box 31, folder 42
1991
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. on quality in the current art scene, Old Dominion?
box 31, folder 43
1983, 1992
Scope and Content Note
8 typewritten pp. 2 talks on the state of criticism, Syracuse and Hunter
College.
box 31, folder 44
1992
Scope and Content Note
3 handwritten and typewritten pp. on high and low art, Dallas Museum.
box 31, folder 45
1992
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pp. "Craft Art and Criticism," New York Univ.
box 31, folder 46
1992
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p. on esthetic criteria, Thread Waxing Gallery.
box 31, folder 47
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten p. on contemporary art, Yale.
Series IV.
Work Files: clippings and manuscripts,
1939-1994
Physical Description:
3 Linear
Feet
7 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series IV consists of clippings by or about Greenberg, sometimes grouped with related
manuscripts. There are clippings of virtually all reviews published in
The Nation in the 1940s (ca. 150 items), but only a few of those
published in
Partisan Review or
Commentary. There are also Greenberg clippings (ca. 100) from art magazines
and
New York Times in the 1950s and 1960s and 26 catalogs
and programs containing Greenberg contributions. Files on Pollock, Morris Louis, David
Smith, and Jack Bush contain assorted materials, including photographs and slides of art
work, transcripts of interviews, and estate papers. Pollock material includes drafts of
an intended introduction to a book on Pollock that Greenberg never completed. David
Smith material includes clippings and correspondence (ca. 50 pp.) about the Smith paint
stripping controversy. There are clippings and manuscripts of interviews with Greenberg,
some never published, clippings of articles about Greenberg, and reviews of books about
him.
box 32, folder 1-11
Clippings of pieces by Greenberg,
1939-1949
Scope and Content Note
Many of these were taped or glued onto paper, making the sequence of pages somewhat
idiosyncratic.
box 32, folder 1
1939-1940
Scope and Content Note
Uncorrected galley of "Avant-garde and Kitsch;" offprint of "Toward a Newer
Laocoon."
box 32, folder 2
1941
Scope and Content Note
5 clippings: reviews of art book, exhibition, poetry, for
The
Nation
(and other publications?)
box 32, folder 3
1942
Scope and Content Note
16 clippings: reviews of poetry and an art book for
New
Republic
; "Art Notes" and longer reviews of exhibitions (include Joseph
Cornell), art books and poetry for
The Nation; one
clipping fragment.
box 32, folder 4
1943
Scope and Content Note
17 clippings: reviews of art exhibitions, art books, poetry and fiction for
The Nation; 2 clippings from
The
Nation
and
Common Sense dealing with
Greenberg's army experience.
box 32, folder 5
1944
Scope and Content Note
27 clippings: letter to editor of
Politics; reviews of
art exhibitions and books for
The Nation; 1 poetry
review.
box 32, folder 6
1945
Scope and Content Note
20 clippings: reviews of art exhibitions and books for
The
Nation
.
box 32, folder 7
1946
Scope and Content Note
19 clippings and 1 photocopy duplicate: 1 letter to the editor regarding
Greenberg's Edward Weston review; reviews of art exhibitions and books for
The Nation.
box 32, folder 8
1946
Scope and Content Note
22 offprints of "At the Building of the Great Wall of China,"
Commentary, 1946.
box 32, folder 9
1947
Scope and Content Note
24 clippings: reviews of art exhibitions and books for
The
Nation
and
New York Times; piece on the
American Jewish writer for
Contemporary Jewish
Record
.
box 32, folder 10
1948
Scope and Content Note
30 clippings: 1 photocopy of French translation of Pollock review for
The Nation; 1 review of Valery translation for
New York Times; 1 article from
Combat, Paris, not by Greenberg; reviews of art exhibitions and books for
The Nation and
New York
Times
.
box 32, folder 11
1949
Scope and Content Note
19 clippings: reviews of art exhibitions and books for
The
Nation
,
Partisan Review,
Magazine of Art.
box 33, folder 1-7
Clippings of pieces by Greenberg,
1950-1989
Scope and Content Note
Including articles and exhibition catalog essays.
box 33, folder 1
1950
Scope and Content Note
12 clippings: reviews of art exhibitions and books for
Partisan Review,
The Nation,
New York Times; 2 letter exchanges with reader's critical of
Greenberg's views.
box 33, folder 2
1951-1954
Scope and Content Note
8 clippings, 2 photocopies, 1 galley: articles about art and reviews of art books
published in
Harper's Bazaar,
American Mercury,
Art News,
Arts Digest,
New York Times,
Arts Magazine. French translation of
Partisan Review article, in ms.
box 33, folder 3
1955-1959
Scope and Content Note
10 clippings, 4 offprints, 2 photocopies: articles on art published in
Art News,
New York Times,
Arts,
Perspective,
New Leader,
Saturday Evening
Post
. Photocopy of "American-type Painting" and French translation of it
in ms.
box 33, folder 4
1942-1957
Scope and Content Note
34 clippings: articles from
The Nation,
Partisan Review,
Art News,
Art Digest,
The New
Leader
,
Art in America,
Arts,
Commentary, assembled for inclusion in
Art and Culture.
box 33, folder 5
1960-1964
Scope and Content Note
15 clippings, 3 photocopies: articles on art published in
Art
International
,
Arts,
Voice of America Forum Lectures,
New York
Times
,
Country Beautiful,
Encounter,
Second Coming,
Art and Literature,
New York
Review of Books
,
Preuves.
box 33, folder 6
1965-1869
Scope and Content Note
16 clippings, 1 photocopy: articles published in
Vogue,
Artforum,
Arts
Yearbook
,
Art International,
Art in America,
BookWeek,
New York Times. Monograph of
Avant-garde attitudes, 1968; photocopy of French translation of Pollock
article from
Vogue.
box 33, folder 7
1947-1989
Scope and Content Note
26 catalogs or programs. Many catalogs contain essays by Greenberg and/or describe
exhibitions he curated. Typewritten drafts of 5 essays.
box 34, folder 1-7
Jackson Pollock and Morris Louis files,
1952-1984
Scope and Content Note
Including book and article mss., background materials, clippings.
box 34, folder 1
1952-1967
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 pp. clippings, mss. and notes by Greenberg on Pollock. Catalog note for
first Pollock retrospective; "Jackson Pollock's New Style,"
Harper's Bazaar; "Jackson Pollock,"
Evergreen
Review
; "Jackson Pollock Market Soar,"
New York Times
Magazine
; Pollock memories dictated to Francine and Cleve Gray; bio.
notes; de Kooning interview.
box 34, folder 2
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
ca. 40 pp. mss. drafts of book introduction and articles, including an 18 pp.
autobiographical essay about Greenberg's friendship with Pollock.
box 34, folder 3
1957-1984
Scope and Content Note
ca. 60 pp. clippings, interviews, and correspondence about Pollock and others,
including copies of letters from Pollock to his family; transcript of Greenberg's
interview of Pollock's brother; H. Rosenberg article on Pollock; and account of
Pollock's last weeks by his former lover,
New York,
1973.
box 34, folder 4
1964-?
Scope and Content Note
36 reproductions, mostly black and white photographs, with several color
transparencies and 1 color print. Paintings by Pollock, with a few by Kline and
others. Some related correspondence.
box 34, folder 5
1958, 1964
Scope and Content Note
Pollock catalogs from Whitechapel Gallery and Marlborough-Gerson; program from
Griffin Gallery.
box 34, folder 6
1960-1964
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 pp. Morris Louis material, including correspondence, lists of paintings,
programs. Letters between Marcella Bernstein (Louis' widow) and Greenberg regarding
estate matters, and between Greenberg and dealers or curators, chronologically
organized.
box 34, folder 7
1964-1967
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 pp. More of the above Morris Louis material, along with clippings of
obituaries and reviews. Deteriorated photocopies.
box 35, folder 1-7
David Smith, Kenneth Noland and Freidl Dzubas files,
1965-1991
Scope and Content Note
Including correspondence, brief manuscripts, photographs, and clippings.
box 35, folder 1
1966, 1969
Scope and Content Note
36 pp. photographs and photocopied photographs of David Smith's work with
accompanying 1 p. comments by Greenberg, published as "David Smith: Comments on His
Latest Works," in
Art in America, 1966. 8 clippings
about Smith, not by Greenberg, 1969.
box 35, folder 2
1965-1972
Scope and Content Note
ca. 100 pp. Estate papers and correspondence between Greenberg (an executor) and
others, i.e., Archives of American Art, Marlborough Gallery, Museum of Modern Art.
Lists of Smith's work. Marlborough catalogue, 1968.
box 35, folder 3
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
28 photographs of Smith's work at Bolton Landing; 1 postcard of Smith's work in the
Spoleto Roman Theater.
box 35, folder 4
1970
Scope and Content Note
100+ pp. transcript of estate appeal before tax court, bound. pp. 63a-71a
Greenberg's testimony.
box 35, folder 5
1974-1978
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 pp. correspondence and clippings. Articles about the stripping of primer
from some Smith pieces, including Krauss article from
Art in
America
and Kramer piece from
New York Times.
Letters to the Editors of publications regarding the controversy. Interesting
feature article ms. about Greenberg for
Art News, never
published.
box 35, folder 6
1971
Scope and Content Note
50 pp. transcript of interview with Kenneth Noland; 10 photographs of Noland's
early works.
box 35, folder 7
1982, 1991
Scope and Content Note
30 pp. transcript of interview with Friedl Dzubas; 18 pp. ms. of article on Dzubas
in German.
box 36, folder 1-10
Jack Bush estate related papers; Slides and photographs,
1963-1979
box 36, folder 1
1963, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
18 small photographs of Jack Bush paintings; 14 8 1/2 x 11 photographs of 1963 Bush
exhibition.
box 36, folder 2
1966
Scope and Content Note
Clipping about Bush and Greenberg in Toronto magazine.
box 36, folder 3
1975
Scope and Content Note
Jack Bush Trust Agreement
box 36, folder 4
1977
Jan-Sep
Scope and Content Note
ca. 100 pp. correspondence regarding Bush estate with attorneys and galleries.
Includes lists of paintings, financial statements.
box 36, folder 5
1977
Oct-Dec
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 pp. correspondence regarding Bush estate with attorneys and galleries.
Includes 26 color photographs and 12 pp. proposal for film about Bush.
box 36, folder 6
1978
Scope and Content Note
ca. 100 pp. correspondence regarding Bush estate. Includes 8 color slides.
box 36, folder 7
1978, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 announcement for film about Bush with color photo; 1 poster; 16 color slides of
Bush paintings, 1975-1977; catalog of Bush exhibition, 1978.
box 36, folder 8
1979
Scope and Content Note
ca. 100 pp. correspondence regarding Bush estate, including Greenberg's letter of
resignation as trustee.
box 36, folder 9
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
16 slides, some bordered with tape (in small box).
box 36, folder 10
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
9 glass transparencies (in small box).
box 37, folder 1-20
Clippings and mss. of interviews or panel discussions with
Greenberg,
1948-1994
box 37, folder 1
1956
Scope and Content Note
49 typewritten pp. with correspondence. Transcript of panel discussion on Plastic
Arts and Film with Rudolf Arnheim, Meyer Schapiro, Maya Deren, Greenberg, et.
al.
box 37, folder 2
1970-1972
Scope and Content Note
8 pp. transcript of interview with John Gruen for book on The Fifties; 2 pp.
statement by Greenberg; 2 pp. correspondence, including angry letter by
Greenberg.
box 37, folder 3
1979
Scope and Content Note
6 pp. interview with Ann Stubbs for
Flash Art; 1
letter.
box 37, folder 4
1984
Scope and Content Note
9 printed pp. with copies. "A conversation with Greenberg," a three part interview
published in
Art Monthly.
box 37, folder 5
1984
Scope and Content Note
2 copies of
Art Monthly, April 1984, containing third
interview.
box 37, folder 6
1985
Scope and Content Note
4 printed pp. interview with Greenberg in
Il giornale
dell'arte
box 37, folder 7
1984-1985
Scope and Content Note
Glass Art Society Journal, containing 6 pp. interview
with Greenberg and brief essay by him.
box 37, folder 8
1988
Scope and Content Note
3 printed pp. "L'Ecole de New York," reprint of interview with Greenberg published
in catalog
Les Annees 50.
box 37, folder 9
1984, 1988
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. interview with Ann Hindry for de Kooning catalog; 2 pp. interview
with Ann Hindry, edited by Greenberg, published in
Art
Studio
. Clipping included.
box 37, folder 10
1990
Scope and Content Note
36 pp. transcript of interview with Marc Israel, edited by Greenberg; 39 pp.
corrected version (?). For TV documentary.
box 37, folder 11
1990
Scope and Content Note
25 typewritten pp. Transcript of interview with Florence Rubenfeld regarding
Partisan Review circle, Jackson Pollock, Greenberg's family,
etc. With Greenberg's corrections. Personal material.
box 37, folder 12
1990
Scope and Content Note
Vogue magazine issue containing 8 pp. interview-based
feature with photographs about Greenberg and his art collection.
box 37, folder 13
1981-1991
Scope and Content Note
5 clippings. Interview-based articles about Greenberg in
New
York Times
,
Village Voice and other
newspapers.
box 37, folder 14
1991
Scope and Content Note
6 pp. clipping with correspondence. Interview with Peter Fuller for
Modern Painters, with Greenberg's corrections.
box 37, folder 15
1992
Scope and Content Note
5 typewritten pp. "Memories of Jackson Pollock," an interview with Teruo Fujieda. 3
Japanese journals.
box 37, folder 16
1992
Scope and Content Note
3 pp. photocopy of interview published in Icelandic journal. 1 letter.
box 37, folder 17
1989, 1993
Scope and Content Note
17 typewritten pp. "The Last interview with Clement Greenberg," with Saul Ostrow,
1993; 3 printed pp., "Avant-Garde and Kitsch, Fifty Years Later," interview with
Saul Ostrow, pub.
Arts magazine.
box 37, folder 18
1993
Scope and Content Note
11 typewritten pp. interview with Peter Plagens for
Newsweek; 2 clippings of published interview.
box 37, folder 19
1994
Scope and Content Note
6 printed pp. interview in
Kunstforum International; 1
letter.
box 37, folder 20
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
8 typewritten pp. "Wohin Geht Die Avantgarde?" seminar in Germany, Christian Gneuss
moderator.
Note:
LIFE Magazine, 1948, "A Round Table on Modern
Art." Article about discussion at Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) among art experts,
including Greenberg, stored for reasons of size in Box 43.
box 38, folder 1-16
Reviews of books by or about Greenberg; other articles about
Greenberg,
1961-1992
box 38, folder 1
1961-1962
Scope and Content Note
11 clippings with some duplicates. Reviews of
Art and
Culture
.
box 38, folder 2
1962,
198?
Scope and Content Note
2 clippings. Reviews of
Art and Culture from a
Japanese? journal (1962) and a French one.
box 38, folder 3
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
8 typewritten pp. translation of Soviet review of
Art and
Culture
, primarily a denunciation of "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." with
photocopy of Russian original.
box 38, folder 4
1964
Scope and Content Note
10 pp. clippings and photographs glued to blue tissue paper. Greenberg's South
American appearances reviewed in newspapers.
box 38, folder 5
1975, 1980
Scope and Content Note
2 clippings. Reviews of books about Greenberg:
New York Review
of Books
review of Wolfe's
The Painted Word;
Village Voice review of Kuspit's
Clement Greenberg, Art Critic.
box 38, folder 6
1976
Scope and Content Note
ca. 100 pp. ms. and clippings. Charles Millard's file of material for book on
Greenberg, including correspondence, book proposal, photocopies of his and
Greenberg's articles.
box 38, folder 7
1961-1982
Scope and Content Note
6 clippings. brief articles about Greenberg, primarily regarding his appearances
around the country.
box 38, folder 8
1973, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
2 posters advertising Greenberg's appearances.
box 38, folder 9
1983
Scope and Content Note
3 clippings. 3 part article by Piri Halasz, "Art Criticism (and Art History) in New
York,"
Arts Magazine, with letter from the author.
box 38, folder 10
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 offprint essay comparing Habermas' and Greenberg's aesthetics. Ingeborg
Hoesterey, "Die Moderne am ende?"
box 38, folder 11
1988
Scope and Content Note
9 clippings (photocopies). Reviews of
Collected Essays and
Criticism
, Vol I and II.
box 38, folder 12
1990
Scope and Content Note
1 photocopied article. John O'Brian, "Greenberg's Matisse and the Problem of
Avant-garde Hedonism."
box 38, folder 13
1991
Scope and Content Note
New York Woman containing 1 p. photo and article about
Greenberg.
box 38, folder 14
1993
Scope and Content Note
4 clippings. Reviews of
Collected Essays and
Criticism
, Vols I-IV.
box 38, folder 15
1993
Scope and Content Note
24 pp. program for Colloque Clement Greenberg, including photocopied clips of
interviews and articles.
box 38, folder 16
1994
Scope and Content Note
2 clippings.
New York Times obituaries.
Series V.
Writings by Others: clippings and manuscripts,
1950-1994
Physical Description:
1 Linear
Feet
2 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series V consists of manuscripts by friends or colleagues, apparently given to
Greenberg by the authors. They are generally on art historical topics, though one file
consists of essays on Derrida. There are also ca. 100 clippings from
TLS,
New York Times,
New York Review of Books, and various art magazines, on topics
of interest to Greenberg.
box 39, folder 1-12
Writings by others,
1950-1994
Scope and Content Note
Generally in manuscript form, arranged in alphabetical order by author's last
name.
box 39, folder 1
1966
Scope and Content Note
13 typewritten pp. "Color, Paint and Present-Day Painting," by Darby Bannard.
box 39, folder 2
1977
Scope and Content Note
63 typewritten pp. 2 mss, Painting by Convention" and "American-Type Formalism," by
David Carrier. Correspondence with Greenberg.
box 39, folder 3
198?
Scope and Content Note
36 typewritten pp. "Kant After Duchamp," by Thierry de Duve.
box 39, folder 4
1977-1979
Scope and Content Note
ca. 100 typewritten and printed pp. Various articles on Roger Fry and other modern
critics by Jacqueline V. Falkenheim.
box 39, folder 5
1981
Scope and Content Note
7 typewritten pp. "Darryl Hughto: Shape and Expression," and 6 typewritten pp.
"Larry Poons," both by Terry Fenton.
box 39, folder 6
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
18 typewritten pp. "Seven Fang-Yi Poems and After," version in French and English,
by Dominique Fourcade.
box 39, folder 7
198?
Scope and Content Note
70 printed photocopied pp. "Realism, Writing and Disfiguration in Thomas Eakin's
Gross Clinic, with a Postscript on Stephen Crane's Upturned Faces," by Michael
Fried.
box 39, folder 8
ca. 1980
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 typewritten pp. 4 articles on Modernism, Greenberg and Habermas, Broch,
etc., by Ingeborg Hoesterey.
box 39, folder 9
1979-1983
Scope and Content Note
ca. 50 pp. of published articles and catalog essays on contemporary art by Matthew
Kangar.
box 39, folder 10
ca. 1975 or 1980
Scope and Content Note
130 typewritten pp. "Seeing Cezanne" and "Performing an Appearance: On the Surface
of Abstract Expressionism," both by Richard Schiff.
box 39, folder 11
1994
Scope and Content Note
12 typewritten pp. Catalog essay on Noland, Caro and Olitski by Karen Wilkins.
box 39, folder 12
1970s
Scope and Content Note
6 essays on Derrida, by Paul de Man, Krupnik, Ulmer, Handelman; 1 essay by Derrida,
"Title."
box 40, folder 1-7
Writings by others,
1950-1990
Scope and Content Note
Primarily in the form of clippings.
box 40, folder 1
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
ca. 125 typewritten pp. Articles on Gauguin by unidentified author.
box 40, folder 2
1950-1969
Scope and Content Note
27 articles from art or humanities journals, including
New
Yorker
profile of Sidney Janis, and pieces on David Smith, Clyfford Still,
Frank Stella, and the New York School.
box 40, folder 3
1970s
Scope and Content Note
30 articles from
TLS,
New York
Times
,
New York Review of Books on art,
literature, music, and history, reflecting Greenberg's range of interests.
box 40, folder 4
1970-1975
Scope and Content Note
10 articles from
Artforum,
Arts
Guardian
,
Commentary and other journals.
Includes an interview with Henry Roth and Kramer review of
The
Painted Word
.
box 40, folder 5
1976-1979
Scope and Content Note
16 articles from
Artforum,
Partisan Review,
Art in America and other
journals. Includes H. Rosenberg's
New Yorker review of
Kenneth Noland, and Tumin interview with Rosenberg.
box 40, folder 6
1980-1990
Scope and Content Note
12 articles from
Flash Art,
Arts,
The Nation and other journals.
Includes interviews with Harold Bloom, Fredric Jameson, articles by Habermas and
Arthur Danto (on Greenberg's critical legacy).
box 40, folder 7
1960-1986
Scope and Content Note
14 miscellaneous items, including museum press releases, catalogs, lists, etc.
Series VI.
Photographs and Art Images,
1943-1992
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear
Feet
3 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Series VI consists of portraits of Greenberg, photographs of him in studios and at
openings, and snapshots of him with family and friends or on his travels. There are also
ca. 150 photographs and slides of art work, generally sent to Greenberg by the
artists.
box 41, folder 1
1943-1989
Scope and Content Note
Portraits of Greenberg. (9)
box 41, folder 2
1943-1985
Scope and Content Note
Greenberg in studios and at openings (9).
box 41, folder 3
1950-1959
Scope and Content Note
Greenberg with family and friends (7).
box 41, folder 4
1965-1988
Scope and Content Note
Greenberg's travels (7).
box 41, folder 5
1967
Scope and Content Note
Greenberg in Bombay, India (18 with clippings).
box 41, folder 6
1962-1987
Scope and Content Note
Greenberg teaching (6).
box 41, folder 7
1951-1992
Scope and Content Note
Color photographs of travel and teaching (18); 1 with family, 1978.
box 42, folder 1-8
Photographs and slides of paintings and sculpture; Items sent to Greenberg,
often with correspondence,
1961-1990
box 42, folder 1
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
39 art postcards that Greenberg collected from museums around the world. 1
pamphlet.
box 42, folder 2
1976
Scope and Content Note
5 color slides; paintings by Helen Frankenthaler.
box 42, folder 3
1961-1962
Scope and Content Note
10 b&w photographs; sculpture by Gerald Gladstone.
box 42, folder 4
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
22 photographs, b&w and color; sculpture by Yvonne Muller(?)
box 42, folder 5
1990
Scope and Content Note
34 color photographs; watercolors by Colette Nilsen.
box 42, folder 6
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
6 b&w photographs; 4 color slides; sculpture by Quinguereme.
box 42, folder 7
1964-1975
Scope and Content Note
16 b&w photographs; sculpture and drawings by Robert White.
box 42, folder 8
1961-1978, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
13 slides; painting and sculpture by various artists.
box 43, folder 1-3
Larger items: photographs, painting, magazine
box 43, folder 1
1950s-1980s
Scope and Content Note
3 portrait photographs; 1 view of Greenberg at opening(?)
box 43, folder 2
1948
Scope and Content Note
LIFE Magazine, "A Round Table on Modern Art." Article
about discussion at MOMA among art experts, including Clement Greenberg.
box 43, folder 3
1962, 1976
Scope and Content Note
4 paintings on paper by Gerald Gladstone; 1 painted New Year's card by
(unidentified), 1976.
Series VII.
Printed Matter,
1966-1992
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear
Feet
1 box
Scope and Content Note
Series VII consists of materials regarding travels to foreign countries where Greenberg
was invited to speak, including itineraries, brochures, and maps.
box 44, folder 1-10
Materials regarding travels to foreign countries where Greenberg was invited
to speak,
1966-1992
Scope and Content Note
Including correspondence with host institutions, itineraries, programs, brochures,
catalogs, maps. Talks and lectures are not included, although in some cases there are
notes.
box 44, folder 1
1966
Scope and Content Note
Japan.
box 44, folder 2
1967
Scope and Content Note
India.
box 44, folder 3
1975
Scope and Content Note
South Africa: correspondence and itineraries.
box 44, folder 4
1975
Scope and Content Note
South Africa: brochures and maps.
box 44, folder 5
1978
Scope and Content Note
Salzburg.
box 44, folder 6
1979
Scope and Content Note
Australia.
box 44, folder 7
1987
Scope and Content Note
Spain.
box 44, folder 8
1988
Scope and Content Note
Canada.
box 44, folder 9
1992
Scope and Content Note
Japan.
box 44, folder 10
1968-1973
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous travel materials.
Series VIII.
Videotapes, audiotapes, and film,
1970-1995
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear
Feet
1 box
Scope and Content Note
Series VIII contains audiovisual materials. There are 13 videotapes of Greenberg being
interviewed or participating in panel discussions; some of these are more than an hour
long while others feature Greenberg for only a few minutes. There are eight audiotapes,
two of which record interviews with Greenberg, the others of which record Greenberg
lectures followed by question and answer periods. There is one film of Greenberg with
his daughter Sarah.
Audiovisual materials have been numbered by the repository as: videotapes - V1-V13,
audiotapes - C1-C8, film - F1. Reformatted versions are described below but shelved
separately. Online access to
digitized audio
recordings
is available to on-site readers and Getty staff.
Reformatting notes in the repository's Research file.
V1: Late Show: Henri Matisse,
n.d.
V1: Late Show: Henri Matisse, n.d. (digitized version available on-site
only)
Scope and Content Note
BBC documentary on Matisse, with a few minutes of interview with Greenberg.
1 videocassette (VHS) (38 min., 3 sec): sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (38 min., 3 sec) : sd., Copy master. (Tape also
contains copy master for V2.)
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (38 min., 3 sec) : sd., Archival master. (Tape also
contains archival master for V2.)
V2: Late Show: The De Kooning Affair,
1991 Jan
13
Scope and Content Note
BBC documentary on Willem De Kooning, with few minutes of interview with
Greenberg.
1 videocassette (VHS) (46 min., 32 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (46 min., 32 sec) : sd., Copy master. (Tape also
contains copy master for V1.)
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (46 min., 32 sec) : sd., Archival master (Tape also
contains archival master for V1.)
V3: Moral and Art: Clement Greenberg,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Greenberg giving paper at Virginia Tech Art Department symposium.
1 videocassette (VHS) (1 hr, 35 min., 50 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original
1 videodisc (DVD) (1 hr., 35 min., 50 sec.) : sd., Use Copy.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (1 hr, 35 min., 50 sec.) : sd., Copy master.
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (1 hr., 35 min., 50 sec) : sd., Archival master.
V4: Moral and Art: Panel Discussion 1 &2
1980
Scope and Content Note
Panal discussion moderated by Donald Kuspit at Virginia Tech Art Department
symposium.
1 videocassette of 2 (VHS) (1 hr., 56 min.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original
1 videodisc (DVD) (1 hr., 56 min.) : sd., Use Copy.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (1 hr, 56 min.) : sd., Copy master. (Continues
onto V5 copy master tape.)
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (1 hr., 56 min.) : sd., Archival master. (Continues
onto V5 archival master tape.)
V5: Moral and Art: Panel Discussion 3,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Panel discussion moderated by Donald Kuspit at Virginia Tech Art Department
symposium, continuation.
2nd videocassette of 2 (VHS) (55 min., 26 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 videodisc (DVD) (55 min., 26 sec.) : sd., Use Copy.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (55 min., 26 sec.) : sd., Copy master. (Tape
contains last part of V4 copy master as well.)
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (55 min., 26 sec) : sd., Archival master. (Tape
contains last part of V4 archival master as well.)
V6: A Conversation with Clement Greenberg, taped by William Warmus in
Norwich, NY,
Nov 1988
Scope and Content Note
Long interview on a broad range of topics.
1 vidocassette (VHS) (1 hr., 19 min., 25 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 vidodisc (DVD) (1 hr., 19 min., 25 sec.) : sd., Use copy.
1 vidocassette (digital betacam) (1 hr., 19 min., 25 sec.) : sd., Copy master.
1 vidocassette (betacam SP) (1 hr., 19 min., 25 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Archival
master.
V7:
Art Today: the New Sculpture,
1965-1975,
1990
Scope and Content Note
Art Today is a subscription based monthly video
magazine. V7 is one complete issue, with 2 minutes of Greenberg interview by Molly
Barnes.
1 videocassette of 2 (VHS) (1 hr., 1 min., 21 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape.
1 videodisc (DVD) (1 hr., 1 min., 21 sec.) : sd., Use Copy.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (1 hr., 1 min., 21 sec.) : sd., Copy Master.
(Tape also contains Copy master for V8.)
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (1 hr., 1 min., 21 sec.) : sd., Archival Master. (Tape
also contains Archival master for V8.)
V8:
Art Today, with interview by Molly
Barnes,
1990
Scope and Content Note
Art Today is a subscription based monthly video
magazine. V8 is a short teaser video advertisement for the magazine, with part of
Molly Barnes interview with Greenberg.
2nd videocassette of 2 (VHS) (15 min., 22 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 videodisc (DVD) (15 min., 22 sec.) : sd., Use Copy.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (15 min., 22 sec.) : sd., Copy master. (Tape also
contains copy master for V7.)
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (15 min., 22 sec.) : sd., Archival master (Tape also
contains archival master for V7.)
V9: The Late Show: Monet Exhibition,
1990 Sep
13
Scope and Content Note
BBC documentary on Monet with several minutes long interview with Greenberg about
Monet.
1 videocassette (VHS) (17 min., 21 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 videodisc (DVD) (17 min., 21 sec.) : sd., Use Copy.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (17 min., 21 sec.) : sd., Copy Master. (Tape also
contains copy master for V11.)
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (17 min., 21 sec.) : sd., Archival master. (Tape also
contains archival master for V11.)
V10: Clement Greenberg at the Pollock-Krasner House,
1991
Scope and Content Note
Q&A with Greenberg about Pollock.
1 videocassette (VHS) (1 hr., 41 min., 47 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 videodisc (DVD) (1 hr., 41 min., 47 sec.) : sd., Use Copy.
2 videocassettes of 2 (digital betacam) (1 hr., 41 min., 47 sec.) : sd., Copy
master (V10 pt. 1 and pt.2).
2 videocassettes of 2 (betacam SP) (1 hr., 41 min., 47 sec.) : sd., Archival master
(V10 pt. 1 and pt. 2)
V11: Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou: Clement
Greenberg 1 et 2,
1993
Scope and Content Note
2 lengthy interviews with Greenberg by Ann Hindry, in English.
1 videocassette (VHS) (58 min., 4 sec.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 videodisc (DVD) (58 min., 4 sec.) : sd., Use Copy.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (58 min., 4 sec.) : sd., Copy master. (Tape also
contains Copy master for V9.)
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (58 min., 4 sec.) : sd., Archival master. (Tape also
contains Archival master for V9).
V12: Clement Greenberg Memorial Service,
1995
Scope and Content Note
Memorial held at Emmerich's with speeches about Greenberg by wife and daughter,
Hilton Kramer, Jules Olitski, and Karen Wilkin.
1 videocassette (VHS) (2 hr., 1 min.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 videodisc (DVD) (2 hr., 1 min.) : sd., Use Copy.
2 videocassettes of 2 (digital betacam) (2 hr., 1 min.) : sd., Copy master (V12,
pt. 1 and pt.2).
2 videocassettes of 2 (betacam SP) (2 hr., 1 min.) : sd., Archival master (V12 pt.
1 and pt.2).
V13: Documentary on the painter Susan Roth [?] [Rothenberg?],
1988
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (20 min.) : sd., 3/4" tape. Original.
1 videodisc (DVD) (20 min.) : sd., Use Copy.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (20 min.) : sd., Copy master.
1 videocassette (betacam SP) (20 min.) : sd., Archival master.
C1: Clement Greenberg at Hunter College,
1982 Mar
31
Scope and Content Note
Talk about the current art scene, including the emphasis on innovation and lack of
taste on the part of collectors and curators. Some sound drop-outs at beginning of
side 2.
1 sound cassette (1 hr., 27 min. 46 sec.) : analog. Original.
2 sound discs of 2 (CD) (1 hr., 27 min., 46 sec.) : digital. Use copy (C1 pt. 1 and
pt. 2).
2 sound discs of 2 (CD) (1 hr., 27 min., 46 sec.) : digital. Copy master (C1 pt. 1
and Pt. 2)
1 sound tape reel (1 hr., 27 min., 46 sec.) : analog. Archival master.
C2: Lecture on David Smith by Clement Greenberg at Metropolitan Museum,
NYC,
1982 Apr
27
Scope and Content Note
Includes Q&A.
1 sound cassette (1 hr., 15 min., 4 sec.): analog. Original.
2 sound discs of 2 (CD) (1 hr., 15 min., 4 sec.) : digital. Use Copy (C2 pt. 1 and
pt. 2).
2 sound discs of 2 (CD) (1 hr., 15 min., 4 sec.) : digital. Copy master (C2 pt. 1
and pt. 2).
1 sound tape reel (1 hr., 15 min., 4 sec.) : analog. Archival master.
C3: Robert Kehlmann interview with Clement Greenberg,
1984 May
19
Scope and Content Note
Greenberg talks with Kehlmann about art for the
Glass Art
Society Journal
.
1 sound cassette (1 hr., 2 min., 30 sec.) : analog. Original.
1 sound disc (CD) (1 hr., 2 min., 30 sec.) : digital. Use copy.
1 sound disc (CD) (1 hr., 2 min., 30 sec.) : digital. Copy master.
1 sound tape reel (1 hr., 2 min., 30 sec.) : analog. Archival master.
C4: Clement Greenberg Studio School talk,
1986 Oct.
Scope and Content Note
Lecture about difficulties facing the new artist today, such as avant-garde
complicity and pluralism. With Q&A.
1 sound cassette (1 hr., 29 min., 8 sec.) : analog. Original.
2 sound discs of 2 (CDs) (1 hr., 29 min., 8 sec.) : digital. Use copy (C4 pt. 1 and
pt.2).
2 sound discs of 2 (CDs) (1 hr., 29 min., 8 sec.) : digital. Copy master (C4 pt. 1
and pt.2).
1 sound tape reel (1 hr., 29 min., 8 sec.) : analog. Archival master.
C5: British painter John Ogburn speaks about painting on three separate
occasions, , ,
1984 1987 May
1988
Scope and Content Note
Greenberg does not appear on the tape. Tape label contains all 3 dates (May 1988,
'87, '84). Last half of side 2 contains New Orleans jazz music, which is not
transcribed to reformatted copies.
1 sound cassette (1 hr., 9 min., 9 sec.) : analog. Original.
1 sound disc (CD) (1 hr., 9 min., 9 sec.) : digital. Use Copy.
1 sound disc (CD) (1 hr., 9 min., 9 sec.) : digital. Copy master.
1 sound tape reel (1 hr., 9 min., 9 sec.) : analog. Archival master.
C6: Molly Barnes interviews with Clement Greenberg and Leo Castelli for
KPFK,
1990 Apr 13
Scope and Content Note
Side 1: interview with Greenberg, 1990 Apr 13; Side 2: interview with Leo Castelli,
[date?].
1 sound cassette (52 min., 59 sec.): analog. Original.
1 sound disc (CD) (52 min., 59 sec.) : digital. Use Copy.
1 sound disc (CD) (52 min., 59 sec.) : digital. Copy master.
1 sound tape reel (52 min., 59 sec.) : analog. Archival master.
C7: Anita Faatz and Clement Greenberg (?),
1970 Nov
18
Scope and Content Note
Tape is a mess; inteview has been taped over, first 20 min. replaced with distorted
interview with Ann Petersen about the National Science Federation (dated 1995 Nov
20). Greenberg portion of tape has been dubbed from older recording and poorly
mixed. Reformatting unable to unscramble the tracks.
1 sound cassette (58 min., 32 sec.): analog. Original.
1 sound disc (CD) (58 min., 32 sec.) : digital. Use Copy.
1 sound disc (CD) (58 min., 32 sec.) : digital. Copy master.
1 sound tape reel (58 min., 32 sec.) : analog. Archival master.
C8: Discussion between Clement Greenberg and Hilton Kramer at Syracuse
University,
1983
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (1 hr., 21 min., 40 sec.): analog. Original.
1 sound disc (CD) (1 hr., 21 min., 40 sec.) : digital. Use Copy.
1 sound disc (CD) (1 hr., 21 min., 40 sec.) : digital. Copy master.
1 sound tape reel (1 hr., 21 min., 40 sec.) : analog. Archival master.
F1: Clement Greenberg and daughter,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Silent film of Greenberg in his apartment with his daughter.
1 film reel, (13 min., 38 sec.) : si., 16 mm., Original.
1 videodisc (DVD) (13 min., 38 sec.) : si., Use copy.
1 videocassette (VHS) (13 min., 38 sec.) : si., Use copy.
1 videocassette (digital betacam) (13 min. 38 sec.): si., Copy master.
1 videocassette (betacamSP) (13 min. 38 sec.): si., Archival master.
1 film reel (16 mm.), negative. Archival master.
Series IX.
Additions to Collection,
ca. 1933-1993
Container Summary: 2.5 lin.
ft.
Scope and Content Note
Papers received in Oct 2004, unprocessed at this date.
box ADDS 1-4
2004 Additions,
ca. 1933-1993
Scope and Content Note
Unprocessed papers. Videotape and audiotapes formerly in Adds Box 5 have been
processed and reformatted, see Series VIII.