Files on the artists or topics Varnedoe wrote on or curated exhibitions about, with
ample visual material, historical scholarship in the form of photocopied articles and
books, and often including correspondence with artists or the sponsoring institutions,
and occasionally also exhibition installation photographs and checklists.
Arrangement
Arranged in three subseries.
Series VI.A. Artists, 1890-2006, undated
28 Linear
Feet
(67 boxes)
Files contain notes, readings, drafts of essays, study photographs and slides, with
occasional audiotaped interviews of living artists.
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the artist.
box
34A, 35-42, 121
Gustave Caillebotte, 1972-2001
box
43
Edgar Degas, 1899-1998
box
43, 137
Duane Hanson, 1974-1985
box
43-49
Jasper Johns, circa 1960-1996
box
50-51
Matisse/Picasso, 1959-2003
box
52-58
Jackson Pollock, 1926-2006
box
59-82, 122-125, 133
Auguste Rodin, 1892-2003
Including numerous authentication files, and research dating from Varnedoe's
Stanford years through the 1990s when he wrote A Fine Regard.
box
83-86, 133
Scandinavian artists, circa 1950- circa 1988
Research on various artists for Varnedoe's Northern Lights
exhibition in 1982, and book published in 1988.
C1: Lecture 1 of 3 from MOMA's Cy Twombly exhibit. October 4, 1994. Speakers are
Richard Serra, Francesco Clemente, and Brice Marden.
C5: Lecture 3 of 3 from MOMA, titled "The Latin Class," October 25, 1994.
Rosalind Krauss is the lecturer.
C8: Lecture 2 of 3 lectures from MOMA, titled "Rethinking Cy Twombly," October
11, 1994. Kirk Varnedoe is the lecturer.
C11: Kirk Varnedoe lectures on Cy Twombly at the National Gallery on May 17,
2001.
C2-C4 are duplicates of C1. C6, C7, and C10 are duplicates of C5. C9 is a
duplicate of C8.
box
91-93
Vincent Van Gogh, circa 1890-2003
box
94-95
Andy Warhol, 1987-1999
Series VI.B. Topics, 1911-2002, undated
2.5 Linear
Feet
(7 boxes)
A selection of topics Varnedoe pursued during his lifetime.
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by topic.
box
96
Abstraction, 1963-2002
96
Aviation, 1911-1970
box
97
High and Low, 1962-1992
Including reviews of the landmark show and numerous installation shots.
box
98-99, 126-127
Ruins, 1968-2001
Box 99 contains eleven notebooks with Varnedoe's reflections on ruins and other
themes, mainly from his 1977 research trip.
box
100
Primitivism. 1984
100
Propellers, 1944-1992
100
Vienna, 1985-1986
Series VI.C. Assorted, 1944-2003, undated
4.09 Linear
Feet
(12 boxes)
Including articles about critical theory, clippings of general interest, and research
possibly related to other curatorial and writing interests. Includes card catalog of
Varnedoe's upstate New York library and audio visual material relating to topics other
than the artists listed in subseries VI.A.
Arrangement
Arranged in chronological order by year.
box
101-106
Articles by others, 1944-2003
box
128-133
Slides, undated
Including views of monuments in Europe and commercially available slides of the
work of various artists.
box
folder
134
F1-F4
Films, undated
Including four reels, 3 unidentified, 1 about the artist Krogh.
box
folder
137
C32-C33
Audiotapes, circa 1995
Including a Varnedoe interview with Jeff Koons.
box
folder
138
D1-D19
Digital media, circa 1980 - circa 2003
Media generally pertains to lectures and includes one recording of the card catalog
of Varnadoe's library. 14 computer discs (floppy disk) : 3 1/2 in. 3 computer disc
(floppy disk) : 5 1/4 in. 2 computer disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
