The Painter's World: Changing Constants of Art from the Renaissance to the Present Production Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Wechsler, Judith
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content: Judith Wechsler papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.5 Linear feet (Boxes 1-6, 15, 20)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1985-1989
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wechjudi, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Production material in this series are from episodes of Wechsler's documentary series The Painter's World: Changing Constants of Art from the Renaissance to the Present. Episodes that are represented in this series include "Part 1: The Training of Painters," "Part 2: The Arrested Moment," featuring David Hockney; "Part 4: Portraits," featuring Philip Pearlstein and Joel Meyerowitz; "Part 5: Abstraction," featuring Frank Stella; and "Part 6: Painting and the Public," featuring the de Menil Gallery. A few elements for which the episode is unidentified are arranged at the end of the series. 

The generation or type of production material found is different for each episode, and could include original sound recordings, work print picture and soundtrack, outtakes, trims, A and B roll, negative, and/or video copies. In addition, film lab records are found for "Abstraction," and photographs of original film containers, discarded during processing, are included for reference. A video copy of the edited work is found for each of the episodes except "The Training of Painters." No material appears to be present in the collection for episode 3 of the series, "The Artist and the Nude."

Notable content includes interviews with David Hockney, Philip Pearlstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Frank Stella, Jo Spench, Yolanda Sonnabend, Dominique de Menil, and Walter Hopps, found on the original sound recordings, as well as studio footage of Hockney, Pearlstein, and Yolanda Sonnabend. Digital photographs of original film containers, which were replaced during processing of the collection, have been included with the paper records.