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Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1887-07-28 - 1968-10-02

Biography

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), French artist and author

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Elizabeth Fuller Chapman papers and films

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 442
Abstract: The papers and films document the friendships between Elizabeth Fuller Chapman (1893-1980) and several writers and artists, most notably Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Letters in Box 1 date from 1932-1976. Printed material in Box 1 includes theater programs, clippings on Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and interview notes and transcripts from the filming of the 1970 documentary by Perry Miller Adato, "Gertrude Stein: When You See, Remember Me." The films in Box 2...
Dates: 1932-1976

Katherine S. Dreier papers / Société Anonyme archive

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 101
Abstract: The Katherine S. Dreier portion of the collection contains correspondence between Dreier and artists and friends (including Constantin Alajalov, David Burli︠u︡k, Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Man Ray, and Ted Shawn); and art-related organizations (including the Arts Club of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art).There is some correspondence regarding art purchases and the packaging and shipping of art, such as that...
Dates: 1818-1952, bulk 1920-1951

George Heard Hamilton Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1145
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, course materials, writings, and newspaper clippings relating to George Heard Hamilton's career as a professor of art history, art gallery curator and administrator, and author. Correspondents include curators of U.S. and European art museums and galleries, colleagues at Yale and at other universities, and members of the international art community.

Dates: 1937-1966

Katharine Kuh papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 15
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence and art on greeting cards by artists whose works she exhibited.

Dates: 1937-1964 (inclusive)

Letter : Paris, to Mrs. Clara Binswanger, New York, 1934 Oct 17

 Part of Collection — Box 6: [Barcode: 39002137224821], Folder: GROUP 125, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS with envelope, regarding his activities.

Dates: 1934 Oct 17

Letters : to George Heard Hamilton, 1945-62

 Part of Collection — Box 11: [Barcode: 39002137170206], Folder: GROUP 221, F-1-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Forty-two ALS, one TLS, one manuscript postcard, signed, and one telegram concerning Duchamp's publication projects with Hamilton, Mary Dreier, and the Societe Anonyme affairs.

Letter of 1953 Jun 4 accompanied by typed and manuscript notes in Duchamp's hand regarding a literary work.

With one typed postcard, signed [Terry?], and a cancelled check dated 1961 Jan 19, from Hamilton to Duchamp, endorsed by Duchamp on the verso.

In English and French.

Dates: 1945-62

Lydia Winston Malbin papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 280
Abstract: The collection consists primarily of files relating to individual works of art in the Malbin art collection, in addition to correspondence with artists, curators, dealers, museums and galleries; photographs; documentation regarding gifts and loans; material relating to Lydia Winston Malbin's collecting activities and related projects; a small amount of papers of Malbin's father, Albert Kahn; scrapbooks; and card files. The papers provide extensive documentation of a major twentieth-century...
Dates: 1891-1997, bulk 1938-1997

Piet Mondrian papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1102
Abstract: The collection consists of the writings and personal papers of Piet Mondrian, in addition to writings about him and the DeStijl movement. Most of Mondrian's writings were arranged and annotated by Harry Holtzman and Martin S. James for their volume The New Art, the New Life: the Complete Writings of Piet Mondrian (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986). Some of the writings also were annotated by Mondrian's colleagues Michel Seuphor and Georges Vantongerloo. Personal papers include items such as...
Dates: 1881-1945

Francis Steegmuller collection of Jacques Villon

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 388
Abstract:

Collection contains letters by Louis Carré, Marcel Duchamp,Walter Pach, Gaby Villon, Jacques Villon, and others to Francis Steegmuller and his wife, Beatrice Stein Steegmuller, generally concerning Jacques Villon. Also included is a typescript about Villon by Lionello Venturi, several photographs of Jacques and Gaby Villon and others, and drawings done by Beatrice Stein when she was a student of Villon.

Dates: 1927-1968

Florine and Ettie Stettheimer papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 20
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence, diaries, writings, materials related to the production of Four Saints in Three Acts and the paintings of Florine Stettheimer, and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1898-1974 (inclusive), bulk 1906-1953