Cassette Tapes

Sub-Series

Staff Only

Digitized Young-Mallin Archive Audiovisual Material

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Young-Mallin Archive contains a variety of materials that relate to artists of the Surrealist movement and those who have been influenced by their work. Young-Mallin collected and assembled her research files, third-party correspondence, photographs, and ephemera to document the artistic milieu in New York from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, especially among expatriates fleeing Europe during wartime. She was personally acquainted with some of these individuals -- such as Carol Janeway, Leonora Carrington, and Dorothea Tanning -- and Young-Mallin's interactions with them are highlighted in interviews and direct correspondence. The Young-Mallin Archive has been consulted by scholars conducting archival research into this artistic circle; their social lives are particularly well illuminated. Friendships, marriages, and love affairs are frequently highlighted in Judith's interviews.

Dates

Majority of material found within 1940-2005

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English with some French.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 30 linear feet

Additional Description

Existence and Location of Originals

The interviews with Nicolas Calas on 1974 August 28, Pierre Matisse on 1978 May 5, Dorothea Tanning on 1979 July 21, and James Thrall Soby on 1972 August 16 were conducted by Stephen Robeson-Miller. The originals and transcripts are to be cited as part of the copyrighted collection "The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage" at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, microfilm reel nos. 2886-2888 (created in 1983). The microfilmed collection also includes a 100 page chronology of Sage's life, which Robeson-Miller compiled from his interviews and correspondence and Sage's correspondence which he collected. An abridged version of this chronology appears in the publication, "Kay Sage: the Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One Act Plays" (Gallery of Surrealism, 2011).