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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

TITLE

Robert Motherwell Archive: Audio/Visual Recordings

CREATOR

Robert Motherwell and his studio, and the Dedalus Foundation

DATE

1972-2004

EXTENT

6.25 linear feet of records.

REPOSITORY

Dedalus Foundation, Inc.
555 W. 57th Street, Suite 1222
New York, NY 10019

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

PROCESSING INFORMATION

Processed 2004 by Gretchen Opie.
Digitized 2007.

OWNERSHIP AND LITERARY RIGHTS

Written permission must be obtained in order to reproduce any item from the Dedalus Foundation Archives. Additionally, permission to reproduce materials for which the Dedalus Foundation does not own copyright must be obtained from the copyright holder.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection contains more than 70 recordings of interviews, conferences, lectures, documentary films and television programs that relate to Motherwell.

ARRANGEMENT

The group is arranged in 2 series:
I: Audio Recordings
II: Visual Recordings

CONTAINER LIST

I: AUDIO RECORDINGS

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I.01 Mass Culture and Modern Art #5
S. Hunter, W. Seitz, P. Guston, Museum of Modern Art
1 Stenorette magnetic tape, 1 copy
1946
I.02 Mass Culture and Modern Art #6
P. Guston, T. Hess, H. Rosenberg, Museum of Modern Art
1 Stenorette magnetic tape, 1 copy
1946
I.03 A Conversation with Students, an adaptation for radio from an afternoon at the William Benton Museum of Art
3 audiocassettes
April 6, 1979
I.04 Interview with RM about materials used in work
Betty Fiske and Rita Albertson
1 audiocassette
December 11, 1980
I.05 Sweet Surrender After Motherwell: 1965
David John Olsen [music created in response to the Lyric Suite]
1 audiocassette
1982
I.06 Interview: Robert Motherwell and Jack Flam
2 audiocassettes
October 9, 1982
I.07 Interview: Robert Motherwell and Jack Flam
2 audiocassettes
October 22, 1982
I.08 Interview: Robert Motherwell and Jack Flam
3 audiocassettes
November 5, 1982
I.09 Motherwell Lecture at the Albright-Knox Gallery, with Jack Flam
1 audiocassette
November 16, 1983
I.10 Motherwell Lecture at the Guggenheim Museum, with Jack Flam
1 audiocassette
January 28, 1985
I.11 Side A: MacDowell Medal Acceptance Speech; Side B: Interview: Robert Motherwell and Robert Enright
1 audiocassette
August 16, 1985
I.12 Conversation on Motherwell with Jack Flam, Catherine Tatge and Megan Calloway
1 audiocassette
1986
I.13 Trio: Shining Forth
Andrew Toovey [music created in response to RM's work]
1 audiocassette
1988
I.14 Robert Motherwell and Dore Ashton in conversation at Cooper Union
2 audiocassettes
1988
I.15 92nd Street Y “Artists’ Visions at the Guggenheim Museum
1 audiocassette
November 8, 1989
I.16 Beyond Print
1 audiocassette
1996
I.17 March 5 1993
I.18 Francis George Scott: A Centenary Song Recital
1 audiocassette
n.d.
I.19 Songs of Robert Burns, Lowlands, Jean Redpath
1 audiocassette
n.d.
I.20 Ollendorf Warehouse / tape 1,
1 audiocassette
n.d.
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I: VISUAL RECORDINGS

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II.01 Painter's Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970
Emile de Antonio, Mystic Fire Video
1 VHS tape
1972
II.02 Motherwell
Michael Blackwood Productions
1 VHS tape
Emile de Antonio, Mystic Fire Video
1 VHS tape
1973
II.03 Two broadcasts from CBS-TV's Sunday Morning
"Robert Motherwell"
"Tyler Graphics Printing", 1985
2 VHS copies and 1 master broadcast videocassette
Emile de Antonio, Mystic Fire Video
1 VHS tape
1981
II.04 "Robert Motherwell at the Boston Atheneum"
WGBH
1 VHS tape
1987
II.05 Conversations with Robert Motherwell" (Tapes 2B, 3A, 3B)
with Jack Flam, Sigmund Koch at the Boston University Aesthetics Research Archive
2 VHS tapes (1 original, 1 copy)
Emile de Antonio, Mystic Fire Video
1 VHS tape
1987
II.06 Conversations with Robert Motherwell" (Tapes 4A, 4B)
with Jack Flam, Sigmund Koch at the Boston University Aesthetics Research Archive
2 VHS tapes (1 original, 1 copy)
1987
II.07 Conversations with Robert Motherwell" (Tape 3A)
with Jack Flam, Sigmund Koch at the Boston University Aesthetics Research Archive
2 VHS tapes (1 original, 1 copy)
1987
II.08 Conversations with Robert Motherwell" (Tapes 4A, 4B)
with Jack Flam, Sigmund Koch at the Boston University Aesthetics Research Archive
2 VHS tapes (1 original, 1 copy)
1987
II.09 A Dialogue on the Subject of Modernishm: Robert Motherwell and Arthur C. Danto" part 1 of
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
1 VHS tape
1988
II.10 A Dialogue on the Subject of Modernishm: Robert Motherwell and Arthur C. Danto"
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
1 VHS tape
1987
II.11 Excerpts from "A Dialogue on the Subject of Modernishm: Robert Motherwell and Arthur C. Danto"
1 VHS tape
1987
II.12 L'Atelier de Robert Motherwell
Benoit Jacquot, I.N.A.
3 VHS tapes
1988
II.13 Motherwell/Alberti: A la Pintura
Michael Blackwood Productions
4 VHS tapes and 1 35mm film (with note on canister that says it is on the reel backwards)
1989
II.14 Robert Motherwell and the New York School: Storming the Citadel
International Cultural Programming
6 VHS tapes
1990
II.15 The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
1 VHS tape
1991
II.16 The Exiles
1 VHS tape
1993
II.17 Robert Motherwell, Summer of 1971
Michael Blackwood Productions
2 VHS tapes
1991
II.18 New York School
Michael Blackwood Productions
1 VHS tape
2000
II.19 Rothko and Repetition
Briony Fer, Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture
1 VHS tape
2001
II.20 Rothko and the Critics
Michael, Leja, Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture
1 VHS tape
2001
II.21 Coming to Light: Avery, Gottlieb, Rothko, Provincetown Summers
Keith Rodan, Knoedler & Co.
1 VHS tape
2002
II.22 Ollendorf and RM Studio
1 VHS tape
n.d.
II.23 Artitude II - Ken Tyler Episode 15: Printmakingbr> LaSalle College of the Arts
1 VHS tape
n.d.