Interview with Jacques Lipchitz conducted by Deborah Stott
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973
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content: Jacques Lipchitz papers and Bruce Bassett papers concerning Jacques Lipchitz
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content: Jacques Lipchitz papers and Bruce Bassett papers concerning Jacques Lipchitz / Series 2: Bruce Bassett papers concerning Jacques Lipchitz
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Linear feet (Boxes 14-22 )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lipcjacq2, Subseries 2.4
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Some of the sound recordings have been digitized for research access.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Deborah Stott, at the time a graduate student in Art History at Columbia University, recorded roughly 200 hours of conversation with the artist between 1968 and 1970 in Pietrasanta, Italy. The series contains a near-complete run of the sound recordings on 209 sound tape reels (1/4"), as well as detailed typewritten summaries of the subject content for each reel are available at the beginning of the series, and a 32 page transcript of the first reel. 183 of the reels are marked "first dub" and are presumably copies made from the original tape. 26 of the original sound reels are also found, for tape numbers 112-135 and 184-185, and are interfiled with their dubbed copies. Reels 137 and 165 are not extant, but typewritten summaries do exist for those reels. Also found are photographs that document Lipchitz's acquired collection of primitive and ancient art, which are often referred to by number in the interviews. Included are contact sheets, negatives, prints, and photocopies of prints.

This interview was carried out under the auspices of the Jacques Lipchitz Art Foundation and largely funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation.