Collection documents the Italian
businessman's activities in collecting works by some of the seminal American artists
involved with abstract expressionist, pop, minimal, conceptual, environmental, and light and
space art. The archive contains material dating from 1956, when Panza began collecting. up
to the sale of the second part of his collection to the Guggenheim Museum in 1990. Panza's
art collection is documented by correspondence with artists and galleries, photographs,
small drawings, invoices, loan requests, announcements, and invitations. The archive also
includes a substantial quantity of Panza's writings on art; papers and ephemera related to
Panza's associations with museums, galleries, and cultural institutions; clippings and
photocopies of articles about the collection; and an extensive group of architectural
drawings of potential sites for the collection, many with Panza's installation
designs.
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Language:
Collection material is in English
and Italian.
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 reference@getty.edu URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390
