Joann and Gifford Phillips papers
name: label: Creator
content: Phillips, Joann
label: Creator
content: Phillips, Gifford
label: Names
content: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993 -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Heon, Laura Steward
label: Interviewer
content: Moorhus, Donita
label: Names
content: Motherwell, Robert -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Reynolds, Jock
label: Names
content: Woelffer, Emerson, 1914- -- Photographs
topic: label: Topic
content: Collectors and collecting -- New Mexico -- Sante Fe -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women art critics
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2003- 2011 by Joann and Gifford Phillips.
creator: label: Creator
content: Phillips, Joann
label: Creator
content: Phillips, Gifford
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joann and Gifford Phillips are art patrons and collectors from Santa Fe, N.M. Gifford Phillips is the nephew of Duncan Phillips and a collector and founder of the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950-2011
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.philjoan
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Reproduction Note
content: Interview transcript: is a photocopy.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Interview transcript: Original located at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, photographs, writings, interview transcripts, a sound recording, printed material and miscellany concerning the careers of art collectors Joann and Gifford Phillips.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence is both professional and personal. Photographs are of Richard Diebenkorn, Emerson Woelffer and Robert Motherwell.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Writings are by Gifford Phillips and include a 122 p. manuscript, undated, and an updated version (May 2007) describing his forty-year term as a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; a 23 p. manuscript "Notes on Frontier Magazine, A Memoir," 2009 in which Phillips writes about his experience starting Frontier magazine in California during the 1950s; "Collecting," 2009, a discussion about collecting art based on Phillips' personal experience; and a 16 p. typescript (with copy on CD), 2011, in which Phillip's writes about his involvement with the Pasadena Museum of Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The interview transcript is of a March 2004 interview with Joann and Gifford Phillips conducted by Donita Moorhus for the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. The sound recording is a conversation on CD recorded at a public event at SITE, a contemporary arts organization in Santa Fe, N.M., regarding the topic My Life in Art with SITE director Laura Heon, artist Jock Reynolds, and Joann and Gifford Phillips. Printed material includes scrapbooks and newspaper clippings. Miscellany includes appointment books.