Marcel Duchamp Exhibition Records

The Twentieth Century Art Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, now called the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, was established in 1971. Museum Director Evan Turner appointed Anne d'Harnoncourt, a Marcel Duchamp scholar and curator, as the first department head. In this capacity, d'Harnoncourt oversaw the development of the new department's acquisitions, installation and other programs, and, in conjunction with Kynaston McShine and others from The Museum of Modern Art, organized its first exhibition, the seminal 1973 retrospective "Marcel Duchamp." This was a fitting inaugural exhibition for the Department given the Museum's unparalleled collection of Duchamp's work, most of which was acquired through the 1950 gift of the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection. Following her appointment as the Museum's Director in 1982, d'Harnoncourt continued to work with the staff of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art to produce original Duchamp scholarship and exhibitions, most significantly the Museum's 1987 "A propos of Duchamp" exhibition, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Duchamp's birth, in which virtually everything by Duchamp which the Museum owned at that time was displayed.

In addition to organizing exhibitions internally, the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art supports outside institutions in their preparation of Duchamp exhibitions, most commonly through loans and advice. In the past thirty years, the Museum has lent works to several important shows, including those at the Musee national d'art Moderne (France), the Seibu Bijutsukan, the Fundacio Joan Miro, and the Palazzo Grassi. In addition, d'Harnoncourt and other department curators have contributed scholarship and advice. For example, d'Harnoncourt's essay "Before the Glass: reflections on Marcel Duchamp before 1915" was published in the Seibu Bijutsukan "Exhibition of Marcel Duchamp" catalog, and she traveled to Japan to present a slide lecture.

The Marcel Duchamp Exhibition Records contain correspondence, planning and installation records, clippings, ephemera, photographs, reference material, and other institutional records generated by the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art (formerly the Twentieth Century Art Department), during the course of organizing and/or participating in seven exhibitions concerning Marcel Duchamp: "Marcel Duchamp" (Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973-1974); "Marcel Duchamp" (Musee National d'Art Moderne (France), 1977); "Exhibition of Marcel Duchamp" (Seibu Bijutsukan, 1981); "Marcel Duchamp" (Fundacio Joan Miró, 1984); "A propos of Duchamp" (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987); "Marcel Duchamp at Blainville" (Blainville-Crevon, 1991); and "Marcel Duchamp" (Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1993). The collection also inlcudes limited and primarily registrarial information concerning the loan of two paintings to the "Duchamp Memorial Exhibition" (American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1970).

Documentation related to each exhibition comprises a series. The title of each series is based upon the name of the primary organizing institution, the official name of the exhibition and its year. Series are arranged chronologically in ascending order.

2003. The following items related to the 1987 "Apropos of Marcel Duchamp" exhibition were given by Conrad C. M. Arensberg on Feb. 18, 2003. Photocopies of one ALS from Anne d'Harnoncourt to CCMA dated Oct. 5, [1987], an invitation to the opening, a clipping regarding the Duchamp shower curtain from the Wall Street Journal dated Oct. 9, 1987, an article regarding Walter and Louise Arensbergs' art collection from the Philadelphia Inquirer dated Oct. 4, 1987, and an undated clipping of an exhibition review.

Transferred from the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives, July 2001.

These materials were arranged and described by Katherine Stefko, Katy Rawdon, Adrianna Del Collo and Vicky Rodner. Funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Important collection including interviews; exhibition ephemera; corr.; photos; publications; and documentation of Duchamp's work. Contact: Jacqueline Matisse Monnier, 23 rue du Buisson, Villiers sous Grez, France 77760 or jackiekite@libertysurf.fr. Marcel Duchamp Archives, Villiers sous Grez, France.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers.

Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Administrative records.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. Marcel Duchamp Research Collection.

Use

The Marcel Duchamp Exhibition Records are the physical property of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. The Museum holds literary rights only for material created by Museum personnel or given to the Museum with such rights specifically assigned. For all other material, literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for obtaining permission from rights holders for publication and for other purposes as stated.

Preferred Citation

[Item identification and date], [Series info.], Marcel Duchamp Exhibition Records, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives.

Publisher

Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives

Sponsor

Funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Finding aids author

Finding aid prepared by Katherine Stefko, Katy Rawdon, Adrianna Del Collo and Vicky Rodner.

Date

©2006

Creator

Philadelphia Museum of Art

People

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968

Armbruster, John

Brown, Jean (Mrs. Leonard)

Bry, Doris

Burnett, David

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976

Copley, William Nelson, 1919-

Cornell, Joseph

Davis, Curtis

Davis, Julie

Duchamp, Alexina, 1906-1995

Edmiston, Edward

Geist, Sidney

Golding, John

Hamilton, George Heard

Hanks, Nancy, 1927-1983

James, David E.

Janci, Edward

Janis, Carroll

Johnson, Ray

Levitt, Alfred

Levy, Julien

Mercie, Jean Luc

Meyer, Ira

Molinari, Fernanda Saint-Martin

O'Hara, Mary

Roth, Moira

Russell, John

Salus, Herbert W.

Soby, James Thrall

Solomon, Joseph

Wilson, William

Wood, Beatrice

Woodward, Hiram W.

Antin, David

Ashbery, John

Avedon, Richard

Hamilton, Richard, 1922-

Hopps, Walter

Iliopoulos, Mrs. Nicholas

Karpel, Bernard, 1911-

Lebel, Robert

Lippard, Lucy R.

McShine, Kynaston

Paz, Octavio, 1914-

Peterson, Elmer

Phillips, Rachel

Ray, Man, 1890-1976

Sanouillet, Michel

Schwarz, Arturo, 1924-

Seitz, William Chapin

Steefel, Lawrence D.

Tancock, John L.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918

Arakawa, Shusaku

Arman, Armand P.

Brecht, George

Breton, André, 1896-1966

Cage, John

Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-

Cunningham, Merce

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-

De Maria, Walter, 1935-

Dibbets, Jan, 1941-

Ernst, Max, 1891-1976

Ferrer, Raphael

Flavin, Dan, 1933-

Hare, David, 1947-

Janis, Sidney, 1896-

Jean, Marcel, 1937-

Johns, Jasper, 1930-

Kaprow, Allan

Matta (Roberto Sebastian Antonio Echaurren Matta)

Miró, Joan, 1893-

Motherwell, Robert

O'Hara, Frank

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986

Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-

Ono, Yoko

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-

Reutersward, Carl Fredrik, 1934-

Richter, Hans, 1888-1976

Spoerri, Daniel, 1930-

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

Sweeney, James Johnson, 1900-

Takiguchi, Shuzo, 1903-

Varese, Louise, 1890-

Warhol, Andy, 1928-

Weiner, Lawrence, 1932-

Wiley, William

d'Harnoncourt, Anne, 1943-2008

Quinn, John

Hahn, Otto

Leiris, Michel, 1901-

Winter, Julie

Ukeles, Mierle

Unidentified

Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959

Bizot, Irene

Craig, Libby

Jolles, Arnold H., 1940-

Kotik, Petr

Raffray, Andre

Varon, Malcolm

Roeder, Marguerite

Moure, Gloria

Adcock, Craig E.

Ardle, David

Arensberg, Conrad Maynadier

Baldwin, Neil

Baum, Timothy

Blanken, Tamara

Bohan, Ruth L.

Bonk, Ecke

Camfield, William A.

Cizek, Judith

Clemente, Francesco, 1952-

Doepel, Rory T.

Donati, Enrico, 1909-

Dube, M Jean

Ekstrom, Arne

Feigen, Richard L., 1930-

Gough-Cooper, Jennifer

Howard, Seymour, 1928-

Kirsh, Andrea

Kolodny, Frank

Koshalek, Richard

Krewal, John

Lavine, Dorothy

Lippy, Thomas Edward Jr.

Luhring, Augustine

Martin, Julie

Miller, Allen

Moran, Robert, 1937-

Mosakowski, Susan

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Paut, M. Boris

Rosenblum, Robert

Saligman, Robert

Sawelson-Gorse, Naomi

Sawyer, Jack

Stein, Jonathan

Stein, Judy

Tono, Yoshiaki, 1930-

Toole, Barbara

Van Hooven, Jorg

Watkins, Margery H.

Duve, Thierry de

Organization

Philadelphia Museum of Art

American Academy of Arts and Letters

Eliel & Loeb & Margraff Insurance Company

REA Transport Company

United States. Dept. of Justice. Criminal Division. Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. Washington Staff

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Stedelijk Museum

Artforum

Artservices

Associazione amici torinesi dell'arte contemporanea

British Broadcasting Corporation

Colorado College

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Earl Rowland Foundation

Feingarten Galleries

Francis Bacon Foundation

GQ (Graphics Quarterly)

Group W

Multiples, Inc.

Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Austria)

Organization of American States

Pasadena Art Institute

Robert Elkon Gallery

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Springfield Museum of Art

St. Louis Art Museum

Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim

University of California, Irvine. School of Fine Arts

Yale University. Art Gallery

New York Free Circulating Library

State University of New York at Buffalo

Art & Language Press

Art Institute of Chicago

Duncan & Huggins

Rothschild Plastics Corp.

Wayne State University

Galleria Schwarz

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Philadelphia Museum of Art. Division of Education

Zachary Waller Gallery

Bain News Service

Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia, Pa)

Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News (Firm)

France. Ambassade (U.S.)

Huntington T. Block Insurance

Musee National d'Art Moderne (France)

Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle

Experiments in Art and Technology (Organization)

S.E.M. Ensemble

Nihon Koku

Seibu Bijutsukan

Seibu Group of Retail Enterprises

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Galerie Watari

Takanawa Prince Hotel

Fundacio Joan Miró (Barcelona, Spain)

Sala de Exposiciones de la Caja de Pensiones (Madrid, Spain)

Spain. Direccion General de Bellas Artes y Archivos

W.R. Keating and Company

Barcelona (Spain). Ayuntamiento

Cunningham Dance Foundation

Daniel Dietrich Foundation

Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo

Hobbyhorse Project

J.N. Pew, Jr. Charitable Trust

Hodes Gallery

Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden)

Noesis

Painted Bride Art Center

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Rubberwunderz

Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

la Societe de Conservation du Present

University of the Arts (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Arts League (Philadelphia, P.A.)

Franklin Furnace

Galerie Charles Sablon

Lightworks

Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)

Moore College of Art and Design

Musee 047259

Museum Ludwig

Readymades Belong to Everyone

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Temple University

Tyler School of Art

Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastiques

Palazzo Grassi

Language

English