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Jeanne Siegel Papers

Abstract


Jeanne Siegel was the influential chair of SVA’s BFA Fine Arts Department from 1976-2005. A writer, essayist, art critic, curator, and educator, she left a profound mark on a generation of artists who studied at SVA. She organized and moderated countless panel discussions on contemporary art issues, curated exhibitions, edited and contributed to numerous art journals, and was the author of Artwords: Discourse on the 60s and 70s, Artwords 2: Discourse on the Early 80s, and Painting After Pollock: Structures of Influence. Siegel passed away in 2013.






 
General Physical Description

 

Four boxes.


 

Scope and Contents

 

The Jeanne Siegel Collection consists of materials documenting the activities of the SVA Fine Arts department, as well as books, journal articles, and exhibition publications related to Siegel’s work as an essayist and art critic.


 

Restrictions

 

This collection is open for research.


 

Citation

 

Jeanne Siegel Collection, [series. item]. School of Visual Arts Archives, Visual Arts Foundation, New York.


 

Acquisition Information

 

The Jeanne Siegel Collection (personal) was acquired as a gift of Beth Carpenter.

Container List

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 1. SVA-Related Materials (SVA.JSP.S01)

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 1. SVA-Related Materials (SVA.JSP.S01)  >  Subseries A. SVA BFA Fine Arts Department Materials (SVA.JSP.S01.S01)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B1 F15
Miscellaneous departmental memos
B2 F7
SVA BFA Fine Arts - Jeanne Siegel's course syllabi and exams
1971 – 1999
B2 F8
SVA BFA Fine Arts - photographs

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 1. SVA-Related Materials (SVA.JSP.S01)  >  Subseries B. SVA Events (SVA.JSP.S01.S02)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
D47
Abstract Painting's Possibilities poster
1974
B1 F13
Abstract Painting's Possibilities press release
April 18 1974
B1 F13
Action and Reaction: Jackson Pollock’s Influence invitation
1991
B1 F13
Action and Reaction: Jackson Pollock’s Influence press release
February 19 1991
B1 F13
America's Pop Collector: Robert C. Scull press release
1975
B3
Art After the End of Art audio recording
February 18 1993
B1 F13
Art and Telecommunications: Three Evenings press release
1983
B1 F13
Art From the '80s and '90s: Have the Ideas and the Art Changed? press release
1998
B1 F13
Art of the 60s, 70s, 80s: A Lecture Series: The 1960s: Irving Sandler press release
1982
B1 F13
Art of the 60s, 70s, 80s: A Lecture Series: The 70s: Lucy Lippard and Kim Levin press release
1982
B1 F13
Art of the 60s, 70s, 80s: A Lecture Series: The 80s: Donald Kuspit and Douglas Davis press release
1982
B1 F13
Clement Greenberg: Answers & Questions press coverage - article from Washington Times
December 1 1991
B1 F13
Clement Greenberg: Answers & Questions press release
October 22 1991
B1 F13
Deconstructing the Impossible: Matthew Barney's Videos Cremaster I and Cremaster 4
1996
B1 F13
Faith in Painting press release
November 21 1991
B1 F13
Piet Mondrian: Two Views press release
November 3 1994
B3
Pluralism: Purity and Eclecticism in Art and Criticism audio recording
March 19 1981
B1 F13
The Politics of Culture press release
2005
B1 F13
Recent Sculpture press release
1973
B1 F13
Robert Longo: Strong in Love press release
November 10 1983
B1 F13
Sexual Difference/Art Without Men: A Talk With Nancy Spero press release
March 1 1984
B1 F13
The State of American Art Today: Donald Kuspit and Jan Avgikos press release
2003
When Art Became Ideas: Rethinking the Late ‘60s and Early ‘70s press release
1998

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 1. SVA-Related Materials (SVA.JSP.S01)  >  Subseries C. SVA Exhibitions (SVA.JSP.S01.S03)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B1 F9
8 Artists/ 8 Years artwork slides
1985
8 Artists/8 Years press release
1985
B1 F2
American Color announcement
1976
B1 F2
American Color brochure
1976
DOS
D47
American Color poster
1976
B1 F2
American Color press coverage
1976
B1 F2
American Color press release
1976
D47
Big American Figure Drawings poster
1983
B1 F7
Big American Figure Drawings press coverage
B1 F7
Big American Figure Drawings press release
1983
B1 F11
Body Modifications / Architectural Spaces / Sculputure (2007) press release
2007
B1 F8
Collage Expanded announcement
1984
B1 F8
Collage Expanded catalog
1984
B1 F8
Collage Expanded press release
1984
B1 F11
Diversity + Self-Identity press release
2004
B1 F10
Diversity Plus: Emerging Artists in a Rapid World catalog
2001
B1 F10
Diversity Plus: Emerging Artists in a Rapid World press release
2001
B1 F11
Emerging Artists in Fine Arts Made in New York at SVA press release
2006
B1 F11
Individuality/Diversity press release
2008
B1 F1
Kenneth Noland: Early Circle Paintings announcement
1975
B1 F1
Kenneth Noland: Early Circle Paintings brochure
1975
B1 F1
Kenneth Noland: Early Circle Paintings list of Circle Paintings in or around New York City
1975
B1 F1
Kenneth Noland: Early Circle Paintings press coverage (photo in SVA Alumni Chronicle)
1975
B1 F1
Kenneth Noland: Early Circle Paintings press coverage (review in Air, SVA publication)
1975
B1 F1
Kenneth Noland: Early Circle Paintings press release
1975
B1 F11
New Art Inside New York note from the curator (Jeanne Siegel)
2008
B1 F6
The New Reliefs checklist
1982
B1 F6
The New Reliefs poster
1982
B1 F6
The New Reliefs press release
1982
B1 F3
New Talent announcement
1979
B1 F4
Shaped Paintings artist quotes "On Shaped Paintings..."
1979
B1 F4
Shaped Paintings installation and artwork photos
1979
B1 F4
Shaped Paintings poster
1979
B1 F4
Shaped Paintings press coverage (SoHo Weekly)
1979
B1 F4
Shaped Paintings press release
1979
B1 F12
Visual Arts Gallery (137 Wooster Street) 1994-1995 Exhibition Calender
1994 – 1995
B1 F12
Visual Arts Gallery Exhibition History 1979-1995
1979 – 1995

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 1. SVA-Related Materials (SVA.JSP.S01)  >  Subseries D. SVA Fine Arts Newsletter (SVA.JSP.S01.S04)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B1 F16
Undergraduate Fine Arts Department Newsletter
2002
B1 F16
Undergraduate Fine Arts Department Newsletter
2001
B1 F16
Undergraduate Fine Arts Department Newsletter
2000

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 1. SVA-Related Materials (SVA.JSP.S01)  >  Subseries E. SVA Publications - Miscellaneous (SVA.JSP.S01.S05)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B2 F1
AIR Presents the Very Last Creativity Test of the School of Visual Arts (insert from AIR vol 2 no 4, 1976)
1976
B2 F2
BFA Fine Arts advertisements
1976 – 1990
B2 F1
Memoranda: An Administrative Publication of the School of Visual Arts Summer 1975
1975
B2 F1
Memoranda: An Administrative Publication of the School of Visual Arts Summer 1981
1981
B2 F1
One: The Student Magazine of the School of Visual Arts - Students, Teachers, and Professionals Discuss Their Art, Their Work, and SVA
1976 – 1977
B1 F14
Press releases and clippings related to Jeanne Siegel's career at SVA and books published
B2 F6
School of Visual Arts Class of 1989 Commencement - Jeanne Siegel's introduction for Vito Acconci
1989
B1 F18
School of Visual Arts Fourteenth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists program
2000
B1 F18
School of Visual Arts Fourth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists - 1990 Conference Proceedings
1990
B1 F18
School of Visual Arts Thirteenth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists program
1999
B2 F4
SVA 50th Anniversary Clip Book
1997 – 1998
B2 F5
SVA Clip Book - Keith Haring obituaries
1990
B2 F3
SVA International Studies - Morocco press folder, related publications
1980 – 1982
B1 F17
Take Note(s) 2! Foundation Painting
1990
B1 F17
Take Note(s) 3! Foundation Painting
1992
B2 F1
Visual Opinion, vol. 1, issue 5, May 1995
May 1995
B2 F1
Words 6
B2 F1
Words 7

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 2. Non-SVA-Related (SVA.JSP.S02)

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 2. Non-SVA-Related (SVA.JSP.S02)  >  Subseries A. Books by Jeanne Siegel (SVA.JSP.S02.S01)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
Art Talk: The Early 80s. New York: Da Capo Press, 1988
1988
Artwords 2: Discourse on the Early 80s. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988
1988
Artwords: Discourse on the 60s and 70. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985
1985
Artwords: Discourse on the 60s and 70. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992
1992
B4 F2
Book News UMI Research - listings for Artwords 2
1989
B4 F2
Miscellaneous clippings and reviews of Artwords 2
1988
Painting After Pollock: Structures of Influence. Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1999
1999

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 2. Non-SVA-Related (SVA.JSP.S02)  >  Subseries B. Journal Articles (SVA.JSP.S02.S02)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B2 F9
Art Annual 1969 - "Reflections on Documenta" (typescript)
1969
B3
Art Journal Summer 1999 - review of Jackson Pollock exhibition
1999
B3
Art Journal Summer 2004 - "Eva Hesse's Influence Today? Conversations With Three Contemporary Artists"
2004
B3
Art Press 183, September 1993 - "Unveiling the Male Body" by Jeanne Siegel
1993
B2 F11
Art Spectrum February 1975 - "Stanley Boxer"
February 1975
B2 F11
Artforum June 1972 - "An Interview with James Rosenquist"
June 1972
B2 F11
Arti International 1995 - "Jutta Koether" (typescript)
1990
B2 F11
Arti International May-June 1997 - "Lynda Benglis, Jackson Pollock"
1997
B3
Arti International September-October 1995 - "Brice Marden: Art and Place Presentation - Analysis"
1995
B2 F11
Artnet 2002 - "Still Searching for Eva Hesse"
2002
B2 F11
ARTnews December 1973 - "Adolph Gottlieb at 70"
December 1973
B3
Artnews October 1971 - "Around Barnett Newman" by Jeanne Siegel
1971
B2 F10
Arts Magazine - Matisse article
B2 F10
Arts Magazine April 1981 - "David Salle: Interpretation of Image"
April 1981
B2 F10
Arts Magazine April 1982 - "The New Reliefs"
April 1982
B2 F10
Arts Magazine April 1984 - "Leon Golub/Hans Haacke: What Makes Art Political?"
April 1984
B2 F10
Arts Magazine April 1988 - "John Baldessari: Recalling Ideas"
April 1988
B3
Arts Magazine December-January 1969 - "Some Late Thoughts of Marcel Duchamp: from an interview with Jeanne Siegel"
1969
B2 F9
Arts Magazine February 1968 - "Adolph Gottlieb: Two Views"
February 1968
B2 F10
Arts Magazine February 1982 - "The Image of the Eye in Surrealist Art and Its Psychoanalytic Sources, Part One: The Mythic Eye"
February 1982
B2 F10
Arts Magazine February 1988 - "Paul Waldman: Fantastical Minimalist"
February 1988
B2 F10
Arts Magazine May 1971 - "An Interview with Hans Haacke"
May 1971
B2 F9
Arts Magazine November 1968 - "The 1930s: Painting and Sculpture in America"
November 1968
B2 F10
Arts Magazine November 1990 - "Erotic/Fragment: Ariane Lopez-Huici's Tactile Photographs"
November 1990
B3
Arts Magazine October 1988 - review of "The Image of Abstraction"
1988
B2 F10
Arts Magazine September 1987 - "Nancy Spero: Woman as Protagonist"
September 1987
B2 F10
Arts Magazine September 1989 - "Joe Andoe"
September 1989
B2 F9
Arts Magazine September-October 1968 - "Documenta IV"
1968
B2 F9
Arts Magazine September-October 1969 - "How to Keep Sculpture Alive In and Out of a Museum: An Interview with Claes Oldenburg on His Retrospective Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art"
1969
B3
Arts Magazine Summer 1969 - "An Art of Transmission: John Clem Clarke at Kornblee"
1969
B3
Arts Magazine Summer 1987 - "Barbara Kruger: Pictures and Words"
1987
B3
Arts Magazine Summer 1988 - review of Moira Dryer exhibition
1988
B2 F11
College Art Journal Summer 1978 - letter to the editor re: Philip Pearlstein's article "Critics and Artists"
1978
B3
Communiculture: A Journal of the Human Arts
1975 – 1976
B2 F11
Flash Art May-June 1989 - "Ronald Jones"
1989
B3
Harvard Art Review, winter issue 1967 - "Robert Thompson and the Old Masters"
1967
B3
New Observations Art and Culture June 25, 1981 - excerpts from "My Art World Series"
1981
B2 F11
Studio International November 1970 - "Carl Andre: artworker"
November 1970
B3
Tema Celeste, April-May 1992 - review of Suzanne McClelland exhibition
1992
B3
Tema Celeste, January-February 1991 - review of John Baldessari exhibition
January 1 – February 1 1991
B3
Tema Celeste, March-April 1991 - review of Herbert Hamak exhibition
1991
B2 F11
Zing Magazine January 2000 - "Curatorial Conundrum: Unveiling Pollock"
January 2000

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 2. Non-SVA-Related (SVA.JSP.S02)  >  Subseries C. Exhibition publications (SVA.JSP.S02.S03)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B4 F1
Bob Thompson, Wollman Hall, New School Art Center
1968
B4 F1
Bob Thompson: Important Works in New York Collections 1960-1966, Martha Jackson Gallery catalog and press release
1968
B4
Re-Presenting the 80s, Simon Watson Gallery - essay on Peter Halley
1989
B4 F1
Women Artists Here and Now, Ashawagh Hall, Springs, NY
circa 1975

School of Visual Arts Archives  >  Jeanne Siegel Papers  >  Series 2. Non-SVA-Related (SVA.JSP.S02)  >  Subseries D. Other Professional Activity (SVA.JSP.S02.S04)

LOC
TITLE
DATE
B4 F3
AICA and College Art Association
1981 – 1995
B3
Arts Magazine February 1969
1969
B4
Four American Negro Painters: 1940-1965: Their Choice and Treatment of Themes - Jeanne Siegel's thesis for MA degree from Columbia
1964
B4 F7
Jeanne Siegel C.V. (through 2000)
1956 – 2000
B4 F4
Miscellaneous clippings and programs
1975 – 1997
B4 F5
New School For Social Research - events, course materials
1971 – 1973
B3
Pictures on Exhibit magazine
1965 – 1966
B3
Untitled II, Inc. Catalogue 28
1988
B4 F6
WBAI program schedules, November and December 1966; list of programs directed and produced by Jeanne Siegel 1966-1970
1966 – 1970