Professional Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pincus-Witten, Robert, 1935-2018
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content: Robert Pincus-Witten papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.5 Linear Feet (Box 7-8)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959-2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pincrobe, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Professional files document different aspects of Pincus-Witten's career from 1973-2009. The Gagosian Gallery files date from 1989-1993 and include daily logs in memorandum format and addressed to Larry Gagosian, correspondence, lists of catalogs published by the gallery, invoices, facsimiles, transcribed journal entries, clippings, exhibition catalogs, draft essays, press releases, meeting notes, Yves Klein litigation regarding a possible fake, and a faxed photograph of Pincus-Witten and Leon Hecht. Other materials include documentation related to Pincus-Witten's travels to the 11th Annual International Sculpture Conference in 1980; a 2007 Adi Foundation Symposium in Jerusalem; the 1997 Cunard Cruise to Hamburg where Pincus-Witten gave a series of lectures; a 1995 Paris flight itinerary; an International Art Press Group to Israel in 1986; and color photographs of a trip to Washington, D.C. in circa 1990 and photographs from Israel trips taken between 1975 and 1977. There is a folder from Omni Art Co. that includes correspondence, invoices, email printouts, exhibition announcements, invitations, and a photocopied group photo; correspondence related to a post-minimalism exhibition Pincus-Witten wanted to curate at MoMA that includes correspondence between himself and Bill (William) Rubin from 1973, where they politely discuss a disagreement regarding what defines modern art; and a draft MoMA PS1 Deputy Director contract from 2003. Audiovisual materials in this series include audio recordings on sound cassettes of lectures and panel discussions featuring Pincus-Witten, a Marcel Duchamp interview by Richard Hamilton; and two sound reels of panel discussions with Pincus-Witten including "Disintegration of Minimalism" at the High Museum in 1973. Also included are photographs of Iris Clert artwork, Ray Johnson collages, Jeff Koon's "Pink Panther" in a crate, and 12 folders of reference photographs depicting artist artworks and installations including artists such as Albert Ryder, George Segal, Henry O. Tanner, Joshua Neustein, Eva Hesse, Hector Guimard, Rachel Lalique, Giorgio de Chirico, Bruce D. Kurt, Margaret Wharton, and others.