Robert Pincus-Witten papers, 1942-2017, bulk 1962-2005

Included are Pincus-Witten's personal journals he kept from 1959-1961 while he was living or visiting abroad during graduate school, and from 1971 through 2015. These journals document the daily activities of Pincus-Witten's personal and professional life, most notably his visits to galleries, museums and studios, and encounters with significant figures in the art world. They are filled with annotated scraps of papers noting topics and artists, photographic material, notes, letters, invitations, business cards, clippings, postcards, drawings, event tickets, receipts, annotated cocktail napkins, greeting cards, exhibition announcements and other print material. Excerpts, or entries, from the journals are also found among Pincus-Witten's writings as he published them in a recurring column in Arts magazine from 1976 to 1990.