Judith Zilczer papers
name: label: Creator
content: Zilczer, Judith (1948)
label: Names
content: Armory Show (1913: New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
label: Names
content: Whitney Museum of American Art
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content: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
label: Names
content: Coady, Robert J., 1881-1921
label: Names
content: Dasburg, Andrew, 1887-1979
label: Names
content: Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969
label: Names
content: Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943
label: Names
content: Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944
label: Names
content: Linder, Richard
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content: Munson, Gorham Bert, 1896-1969
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content: Quinn, John, 1870-1924
label: Names
content: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Curators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Art, Abstract
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Synchromism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Creator Judith Zilczer donated her papers to the Archives of American Art in 2014.
creator: label: Creator
content: Zilczer, Judith (1948)
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content: Judith Zilczer papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of curator, art historian, and author Judith Zilczer measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1910-1995, with the bulk of material dated 1973-1995.  The papers contain project files and related correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and printed material documenting her research as an independent art historian.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Judith Zilczer (1948-) was an art historian, author, and Curator Emerita of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. She organized more than two dozen exhibitions in her twenty-nine years at the museum, where she served as Historian, Curator of Paintings, and Acting Chief Curator.  Her exhibition publications include Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection (1993), Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors, 1948-1977 (1996), and Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900 (2005). A 1975 graduate of the doctoral program of the University of Delaware, she wrote her thesis on The Aftermath of the Armory Show 1913-1918. She has received numerous awards, including the 2006 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award of the Art Libraries Society of North America.  Dr. Zilczer has written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art and is a leading authority on the art of Willem de Kooning.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1910-1995
label: Date
content: bulk 1973-1995
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.zilcjudt
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 2 series.

Series 1:  Project Files, 1910-1995 (Box 1; 21 folders)

Series 2:  Writings, circa 1980s (Box 1; 3 folders)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Kristina Meltvedt in 2017.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of curator, art historian, and author Judith Zilczer measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1910-1995, with the bulk of material dated 1973-1995.  The papers contain project files and related correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and printed material documenting her research as an independent art historian. 

This collection documents the correspondence and research of Judith Zilczer pertaining to her doctoral dissertation, The Aftermath of the Armory Show, 1913-1918, where she examines the arguments of both artists and critics over the question of abstraction in art during the early period of the twentieth century. Research files include information on Sadakichi Hartmann, Thomas H. Benton, Manierre Dawson, Andrew Dasburg, John Quinn, Alfred Stieglitz, Michael Brenner, Robert J. Coady and Gorham Munson.  Project files document Synchromism, the Forum Exhibit and the Hartley Symposium at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Richard Lindner Exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum.  Written transcripts include "Robert J. Cody, Man of the Soil" and "Musical Analogy".  Researchers should note that this collection does not include a copy of her doctoral thesis.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Paul Allen Reed conducted by Judith Zilczer, April 29, 1994.

Additionally, Papers relating to art commissioned for the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1992-1998, donated by Judith Zilczer, can be found at Archives of American Art.

The Smithsonian Institution Archives in Washington, D.C. holds a large collection of Judith K. Zilczer Papers, 1975-2003.