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Marcel Duchamp Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MDR
 

Marcel Duchamp Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MDR

The Marcel Duchamp Research Collection contains a variety of material related to Duchamp, his life, work, and legacy. The material was collected from various sources by the staff of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art (formerly the Twentieth Century Art Department), Philadelphia Museum of Art, and compiled as the Marcel Duchamp Research Collection to support the curatorial and scholarly work of Museum staff and outside researchers. The collection includes subject files concerning portraits of Duchamp in various media ("Portraits"); artists whose work refers to or is otherwise influenced or inspired by Duchamp ("Artists Inspired by Duchamp"); and exhibitions, films, seminars, symposia, and other events about or related to Duchamp ("Exhibitions and Events"). The collection also includes copies and originals of Duchamp's correspondence ("Correspondence"); photographs of Duchamp, his works of art, and related subjects ("Photographs"); and published and unpublished writings about Duchamp ("Writings"). The "Kiesler research material" series contains Frederick Kiesler's research notes, interviews, layouts, photographs, and other preparatory material related to his two published articles on Marcel Duchamp, "Design-Correlation" (Architectural Record) and "Les Larves d'Image" (View VI).

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. The "Unpublished Writings" subseries may only be consulted with permission of the Archivist.

Dates
1933-2003, undated
Extent
9 linear feet
Related Names
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Language of Materials
English
Script
Latin
Language of Materials
French
Script
Latin

This series contains published and unpublished scholarly articles related to Marcel Duchamp, his life and works.

Dates
1945-2008

Clippings and photocopies of published scholarly articles related to Marcel Duchamp, his life and works. Also includes a small amount of correspondence with departmental staff and typescripts and manuscripts of articles prior to their publication. Of particular note are several articles published by Anne d'Harnoncourt during her tenure as Curator in the Department of Twentieth Century Art and as Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Dates
1945-2008, undated

Philadelphia Inquirer. "3 Duchamp works stolen at exposition", 1984 May 17

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MDR_B001_F001_001

Philadelphia Inquirer. "3 Duchamp works stolen at exposition" [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1984 May 17
Extent
1 page
Related Names
Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm)

Art Journal. "Conventionalism in Henri Poincaré and Marcel Duchamp", 1984 Fall

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MDR_B001_F002_001

Art Journal, vol. 44, no. 3. "Conventionalism in Henri Poincaré and Marcel Duchamp" by Craig AdCock [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1984 Fall
Extent
10 pages
Related Names
Adcock, Craig E.
Art Journal

Arts Magazine. "Geometrical complication in the art of Marcel Duchamp", 1984 January

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MDR_B001_F003_001

Arts Magazine. "Geometrical complication in the art of Marcel Duchamp" by Craig AdCock [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1984 January
Extent
6 pages
Related Names
Adcock, Craig E.
Arts Magazine

Arts Magazine. "Why Marcel Duchamp's old hat still addresses the situation to the nines" by Craig AdCock [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1985 March
Extent
6 pages
Related Names
Adcock, Craig E.
Arts Magazine

Archives of American Art journal, volume 28, number 3. "Walter Pach and modernism: a sampler from New York, Paris, and Mexico City" by William C. Agee [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1988
Extent
10 pages
Related Names
Agee, William C.
Archives of American Art Journal

Unidentified publication. "Duchamp Correspondence: Artist's letters found here", circa 1974

 Object — Box: 18, Folder: 1
Identifier: MDR_B018_F001_001

Unidentified publication. "Duchamp Correspondence: Artist's letters found here" by Ronald Yates.

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
circa 1974
Extent
1 page
Related Names
Yates, Ronald E.

The New Art Examiner. "Duchamp Letters Found", 1974 March

 Object — Box: 18, Folder: 1
Identifier: MDR_B018_F001_002

The New Art Examiner, volume 1, number 6. "Duchamp Letters Found" by Jane Allen and Derek Guthrie.

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1974 March
Extent
1 page
Related Names
Allen, Jane Addams
Guthrie, Derek A., 1936-
New Art Examiner

On a journey to Philadelphia and consecutive matters, 1962

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: MDR_B001_F006_001

"On a journey to Philadelphia and consecutive matters," excerpt from "Carl Andre Hollis Frampton 12 Dialogues 1962-1963." Photographs by Hollis Frampton. Edited and Annotated by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh [copy].

Dates
1962
Extent
8 pages
Related Names
Andre, Carl, 1935-
Frampton, Hollis, 1936-1984
Buchloh, B. H. D.
NYU Press
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Harvard Magazine. "Capturing the green flash", 1983 September-October

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: MDR_B001_F007_001

Harvard Magazine. "Capturing the green flash" by Roger Archibald [copy]. Includes note from Anne Schuster.

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1983 September-October
Extent
3 pages
Related Names
Archibald, Roger
Schuster, Anne
Harvard Magazine
 

Newsday. "The great (you-call-that-art?) Duchamp", 1984 March 25

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: MDR_B001_F008_001

Newsday. "The great (you-call-that-art?) Duchamp" by Robert Atkins [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1984 March 25
Extent
1 page
Related Names
Atkins, Robert, 1952-
Newsday
Dates
1991

Esquire. "I was a naked pawn for art", 1991

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: MDR_B001_F009_001

Esquire, volume 116, number 3. "I was a naked pawn for art" by Eve Babitz.

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1991
Extent
8 pages
Related Names
Babitz, Eve
Esquire, inc.

The New Criterion. "Alfred Barr Jr., and the Museum of Modern Art: a biographical chronicle of the years 1930-1944" by Margaret Scolari Barr [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1987
Extent
5 pages
Related Names
Barr, Margaret Scolari, 1901-1987
The New Criterion

The New Republic. Review of "Marcel Duchamp: appearance stripped bare" by Octavio Paz, 1978

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: MDR_B001_F011_001

The New Republic. Review by Calvin Bedient of "Marcel Duchamp: appearance stripped bare" by Octavio Paz.

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1978
Extent
3 pages
Related Names
Bedient, Calvin
The New Republic

New York Observer. "A pseudo, all in all' a long, happy, peculiar life", 1996 November 18

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: MDR_B001_F012_001

New York Observer. "A pseudo, all in all' a long, happy, peculiar life" by Adam Begley, a review of "Duchamp: a biography" by Calvin Tomkins [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1996 November 18
Extent
2 pages
Related Names
Begley, Adam
New York Observer

Canadian Art. "A conversation with Marcel Duchamp", 1987 Winter

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: MDR_B001_F013_001

Canadian Art. "A conversation with Marcel Duchamp," interview by Don Bell. Includes correspondence from Don Bell to Anne d'Harnoncourt, George D. Widener Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1987 Winter
Extent
8 pages
Related Names
Bell, Don, 1936-2003
Bell, Don, 1936-2003
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Canadian Art

Correspondence from Anne d'Harnoncourt to Don Bell, 1988 February 24

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: MDR_B001_F013_002

Correspondence from Anne d'Harnoncourt, George D. Widener Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Don Bell.

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1988 February 24
Extent
1 page
Related Names
d'Harnoncourt, Anne, 1943-2008

Archives of American Art Journal. "An interview with Katharine Kuh", 1987

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: MDR_B001_F014_001

Archives of American Art journal. "An interview with Katharine Kuh" conducted by Avis Berman and edited by William McNaught [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1987
Extent
35 pages
Related Names
Berman, Avis
McNaught, William
Archives of American Art Journal

Excerpt from Endgame. "Painting: The Task of Mourning", 1986

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: MDR_B001_F015_001

Except from Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture. "Painting: the task of mourning" by Yves Alain Bois [copy].

Conditions Governing Access

This item is accessible onsite at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Please contact archives@philamuseum.org to make an appointment.

Dates
1986
Extent
15 pages
Related Names
Bois, Yve Alain
M.I.T. Press

Chess Life. "Duchamp, art and chess", 1961 June

 Object — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: MDR_B001_F016_001

Chess Life, volume XVI, number 6. "Duchamp, art and chess" by Frank R. Brady [copy].

Dates
1961 June
Extent
3 pages
Related Names
Brady, Frank, 1934-
Chess Life