Marcel and Teeny Duchamp
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Wood, Beatrice
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content: Beatrice Wood papers
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content: Beatrice Wood papers / Series 2: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930-1989
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.woodbeat, Subseries 2.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Material is arranged chronologically by date.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This subseries has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Duchamp (also known as Totor) and Wood met in 1918. At some point they were lovers and they remained friends until his death in 1968. This subseries contains correspondence from the years when Wood lived in California and Duchamp was in New York and Europe. The letters from 1940-1942 contain references to the war and occupation of France by the Germans. The letters from Duchamp are written in French.