Barbara Rose papers
name: label: Creator
content: Rose, Barbara
label: Names
content: Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
label: Names
content: Andre, Carl, 1935-
label: Names
content: Bannard, Walter Darby, 1934-
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content: Bellamy, Richard
label: Names
content: Bierman, A. K., 1923- (Arthur Kalme)
label: Names
content: Bladen, Ronald, 1918-1988
label: Names
content: Bowles, John
label: Names
content: Castelli, Leo
label: Names
content: Davis, Jim, 1901-1974
label: Names
content: Davis, Ron, 1937-
label: Names
content: De Forest, Roy, 1930-2007
label: Names
content: Di Suvero, Mark, 1933-
label: Names
content: Dzubas, Friedel, 1915-
label: Names
content: Flavin, Dan, 1933-
label: Names
content: Frazier, Charles
label: Names
content: Geldzahler, Henry
label: Names
content: Hare, David, 1917-1992
label: Names
content: Hopps, Walter
label: Names
content: Judd, Donald, 1928-
label: Names
content: Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012
label: Names
content: Kauffman, Craig, 1932-2010
label: Names
content: Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984
label: Names
content: LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
label: Names
content: Lefebre, John
label: Names
content: Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997
label: Names
content: Locks, Seymour, 1919-
label: Names
content: Lye, Len, 1901-1980
label: Names
content: Mack, Heinz, 1931-
label: Names
content: McCracken, John, 1934-2011
label: Names
content: McShine, Kynaston
label: Names
content: Meier, Richard, 1934-
label: Names
content: Morris, Robert, 1931-2018
label: Names
content: Motherwell, Robert
label: Names
content: Mundt, Ernest Karl, 1905-
label: Names
content: Murray, Robert, 1936-
label: Names
content: Myers, John Bernard
label: Names
content: Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-
label: Names
content: Padovano, Anthony
label: Names
content: Piene, Otto, 1928-
label: Names
content: Poons, Larry
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982
label: Names
content: Rose, Barbara
label: Names
content: Rudolph, Paul, 1918-
label: Names
content: Sandler, Irving, 1925-
label: Names
content: Segal, George, 1924-2000
label: Names
content: Stella, Frank
label: Names
content: Taylor, Edward Silverstone
label: Names
content: Wasserman, Tamara E.
label: Names
content: Wesselmann, Tom, 1931-2004
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1971-1977 by Barbara Rose.
creator: label: Creator
content: Rose, Barbara
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content: Barbara Rose papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Barbara Rose papers date from 1962 to circa 1969 and measure 1.4 linear feet. Papers include letters, writings, printed material, interviews with artists, panel discussions, and lectures relating to Barbara Rose's research as an art historian.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Barbara Rose is an American art historian and critic who has published widely in the field of modern American art. Born in 1938 in Washington, DC, Rose studied at the Sorbonne, Smith College, Barnard, and finally, Columbia University under Meyer Shapiro. Rose became immersed in the New York-based circle of modernist artists and curators in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and made her substantial contribution to the discourse on contemporary art with the insider's perspective this afforded her. In 1961, she married the painter Frank Stella and they had two children before their divorce in 1969.

Rose taught at Yale University, Sarah Lawrence, University of California at Irvine and San Diego, and the American University Art in Italy program, and was senior curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from 1981-1985. A prolific writer, Rose is the author of American Art Since 1900 (1967), The Golden Age of Dutch Painting (1969), American Painting: The 20th Century (Skira, 1969), and monographs on the artists Magdalena Abankawicz, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, Alexander Liberman, Larry Rivers, and others, as well as dozens of exhibition catalog essays. She held editorial positions at Art in America, Vogue, Artforum, Partisan Review, and Journal of Art, and her writing has also appeared in Art International, Studio International, Arts Magazine, and ARTnews, among many others.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962-circa 1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rosebarb
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Transcripts
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Lectures
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This collection is arranged as 4 series.

Series 1: Letters (0.2 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Interviews (0.6 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 3: Panel Discussions and Lectures (0.5 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)

Series 4: Writings and Printed Material (0.1 linear feet; Box 2)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This collection was processed in 2016 by Megan McShea.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: All of the sound recordings in this collection were digitized for research access in 2013 and are available at the Archives of American Art offices.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Transcripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Lectures
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Barbara Rose papers date from 1962 to circa 1969 and measure 1.4 linear feet. Papers include letters, interviews with artists, panel discussions, lectures, writings, and printed material relating to Barbara Rose's work as an art historian and critic.

Letters consist of responses to queries and questionnaires Rose and Irving Sandler sent to contemporary artists as research for writing projects. Questionnaires were sesnt in preparation for an article in Art in America on artists' sensibility of the 1960s, with responses from Robert Motherwell, Robert Craig Kauffman, Len Lye, Robert Morris, George Segal, David Hare, and others. A separate query asked sculptors for their assessment of contemporary sculptor's needs and the potential for patronage, and responses are found from Carl Andre, Charles Frazier, Robert Murray, Anthony Padovano, Ron Bladen, Roy Lichtenstein, Len Lye, Sol LeWitt, Heinz Mack, Otto Peine, Dan Flavin, and Donald Judd. 

Interviews conducted by Rose between 1965 and circa 1969 are found with Richard Bellamy, Leo Castelli, James E. Davis, Henry Geldzahler, Ivan Karp, Lee Krasner, John Lefebre, John Myers, Donald Judd with Frank Stella, and Tom Wesselmann. All interviews include original sound recordings, and the Judd and Stella, Krasner, and Myers interviews include transcripts. Panel discussions and lectures include sound recordings and transcripts of seven events on a variety of contemporary art and architecture subjects held between 1962 and 1968. Sound recordings are present for five of the events on 10 sound tape reels, and transcripts are present for all events. Participants in the panel discussions and lectures include Barbara Rose, Ronald Davis, Dan Flavin, Robert Kauffman, John Harvey McCracken, Friedel Dzubas, Ansel Adams, Arthur Bierman, Kenneth Rexroth,  Edward Taylor, Ernst Karl Mundt, John Bowles, Roy Dean De Forest,  Seymour Locks, Walter Hopps, Mark Di Suvero, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Kynaston McShine, Walter Darby Bannard, Donald Judd, Larry Poons, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Meier, Paul Rudolph, Claes Oldenburg, and Robert Murray.

Writings include photocopied typescripts of "Myth, Symbol, or Me," by Emily Wasserman and "Excerpts from a Work Journal on Flying Sculpture," by Charles Frazier. Printed material consists of two copies of the premiere issue of the 57th Street Review, from Nov. 15, 1966.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Barbara Rose papers, 1940-1993 (bulk 1960-1985) are located at The Getty Research Institute Special Collections.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: Additional papers of Barbara Rose are held by The Getty Research Institute.