Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: De Ferrari, Gabriella
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content: Gabriella De Ferrari papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 3-6)
label: Extent
content: 0.011 Gigabytes (ER03-ER10)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950-2010
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.defemari, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
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arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: This series is arranged as two subseries.

4.1: Writings and Notes by Gabriella De Ferrari, 1950-2010

4.2: Writings and Notes by Others, 1991, 1997
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The bulk of the writings by Gabriella De Ferrari consist of drafts, annotated manuscript versions, and page proofs of De Ferrari's A Cloud on Sand (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990) and Gringa Latina: A Woman of Two Worlds (Houghton Mifflin, 1994). Files include editors' query letters, memoranda, a letter of intent and a publishing agreement, publicity-related material, an outline for a film adaptation, and photographic reproduction of dust cover jacket. Many of the documents are also in digital format. Found is an audiobook on cassette of A Cloud on Sand. Drafts of articles written for major publications, such as Connoisseur, Mirabella, and Travel + Leisure include De Ferrari's profiles on artists and other art world figures, such as Georg Baselitz, Sol Lewitt, and Vera List, as well as articles on travel, fashion, and book reviews.

There is a sound recording of De Ferrari reading at the New York Public Library and one videocassette of a lecture at an unidentified venue. Thirty-one notebooks contain De Ferrari's notes for books, interviews, and articles. Twenty-nine appointment books record personal and professional engagements from 1969-2005. 

Writings by others consist of a screenplay of A Cloud On Sand by Arthur Hopcraft and a talk, "The Curator's Moment: A Commentary on the Bellagio Conference on International Exhibitions" by Michael Brenson.