Teaching files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Moore, John McDonald, 1919-1999
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content: John McDonald Moore papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 20.3 Linear Feet (Box 2-12, 22-25)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1967-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.moorjohn, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The sound recordings of lectures are arranged by semester and course name and can be cross referenced with the lecture notebooks and some of the notecards.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The bulk of the collection, teaching files document John McDonald Moore's career as an art historian and educator at the New School for Social Research from 1968-1999, and Elaine R. (Bobbie) Werblud's career as Moore's teaching assistant beginning in 1970. Materials include correspondence, course descriptions, enrollment lists, and bibliographies from the New School and one folder from NYU's Liberal Arts Extension; clippings; flyers; pamphlets; a 1967 annual meeting address from the National Science Teachers Association; exams; discussion questions; typed and handwritten lectures; color and black and white photographs and slides depicting Moore giving lectures in the classroom, on exhibition tours with students, and with study abroad groups; a sample of sound recordings of Moore's New School lectures from circa 1969-1998; Moore's lecture and research notebooks that document research for lectures and scholarly publications; lecture notebooks logged by Werblud that document Moore's lectures beginning in 1970; and Moore's notecards that document Moore's lecture research from 1968-1999, including a small group of handwritten lectures. The handwritten lectures were written by Moore and transcribed more legibly by Werblud, and housed in small wooden notecard boxes that were inscribed on the bottom with Moore's full name and the date ranges for the lectures. Lecture sound recordings and notebooks are arranged chronologically, and the notecards are arranged by subject. Also included with the notecards are photographs and snapshots from Moore's U.S. and European travels. These images show physical environments that have changed over time. Moore never gave the same lecture twice. His extensive research was compiled in notecards which comprised of ideas that were inspired by readings and visits to museums, galleries, and artist studios. Moore would pull notecards to create his lectures along with accompanying slides that provided visual documentation to support the lectures. Topics included periods, movements, styles, geographic locations, artists and authors.