Research and Writing Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Seitz, William C. (William Chapin)
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content: William C. Seitz papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 4-26)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940s-1970s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.seitwill, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The series is arranged as 6 subseries:

4.1: Notebooks, 1957-1968

4.2: Subject and People Files, 1940s-1970s

4.3: Thesis Writings and Research, 1950s

4.4: General Research, 1950s-1970s

4.5: Card Files, 1940s-1960s

4.6: Interview and Lecture Recordings, 1960s-1970s
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Seitz's research and writing files comprise the bulk of the collection and span the 1940s-1970s. Files are found for artists, art movements, museums, art historians, and others. Contents of the files vary but typically include correspondence, notes, writings, printed materials, photographs, and sound recordings of lectures and interviews. Research files are found for Dore Ashton, Alfred H. Barr Jr., William Baziotes, Bruce Conner, Rene D'Haroncourt, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Rockne Krebs, George Segal, James Rosati, and Frank Stella among many others. Also found are research materials on Claude Monet, some of which are written in French.