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Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994 print view role Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert dates 1909-1994 city New York City state NY other cities Syracuse, NY; Carmel, CA; sex M historical notes Clement Greenberg was an art collector, critic and author. Greenberg owned work by Helen Frankenthaler, Friedel Dzubas, Kenneth Noland, Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, Wolfgang Hollegha, Ina Meares, Barnett Newman, Robert Jacobsen, David Smith, Kenneth Noland, Julues Olitski, Robert Motherwell, Milton Avery, Arnold Friedman, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Paul Granlund, Sidney Laufman, Edwin Dickinson, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, John Chumly, Lennart Anderson, and Goodridge Roberts. His non-western collection included an African totem staff, small archaic Chinese bronze of the Chou dynasty, and an Egyptian terra-cotta figure of the sixth dynasty. Greenberg gave works by Frankenthaler, Dzubas and Noland to his Alma mater, Syracuse University (http://suart.syr.edu/collections/donor_collections.html). With funds provided by Tom and Gretchen Holce of Portland, The Portland Art Museum purchased the Clement Greenberg Collection from his widow, Janice van Horn. The collection consisted of 159 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture by American artists of the mid-20th century including work by Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, Sir Anthony Caro, Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, David Smith, Friedel Dzubas, Walter Darby Bannard, Darryl Hughto, Larry Poons, and others. Additionally Ms. van Horn donated Greenberg’s annotated library of exhibition catalogues and publications on artists in his collection. decades of activity 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:31 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Clement Greenberg papers, 1937-1984 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Norman Carton papers, 1949-1980. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers, 1937-2001. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Gene Davis papers, 1925-1992. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Alan R. Solomon papers, 1930-1972. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Ethel Schwabacher papers, 1940-1975. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Museum without walls. Cubism : transcript, [ca. 1971]. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Robert Taylor papers, 1952-1990. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Ludwig Sander papers, 1910-1975. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Erle Loran papers, 1912-1999. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 David Smith papers, 1926-1965. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Ary Stillman papers, 1924-1979. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Anita Faatz interviews, 1970-1971. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Mitch Tuchman papers related to the book Painters Painting, 1980-1989. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Pat Lipsky papers, 1995. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 John Held papers relating to Mail Art, [circa 1960-2006]. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Clement Greenberg letters to David Cast, 1981-1987. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Paul Jenkins papers, 1940-2007. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, circa 1905-1984. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 William and Ethel Baziotes papers, 1916-1992. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Harold Lehman, 1997 Mar. 28. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Ilya Bolotowsky, 1968 Mar. 24 - Apr. 7. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Peter Agostini interview, 1968. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Fairfield Porter, 1968 June 6. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Helen Frankenthaler, 1969 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Hedda Sterne, 1981 Dec. 17. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Susan Crile, 1972 Aug. 1-3. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Kenneth Noland, 1987 July 1-16. see details... The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives Cezanne and twentieth-century art [sound recording] see details... The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives States of art [sound recording] see details... The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives Lucy R Lippard Oral history, 1999. see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Clement Greenberg papers, 1928-1995 see details... Bryn Mawr College Mariam Coffin Canaday Libary Anne Truitt Papers, 1940-1989. see details... The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. see details... The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives Greenberg, Clement : [photography bio file]. see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Arthur Mones photographs of art critics and historians, 1981. see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Charles Harrison miscellaneous papers regarding an interview with Clement Greenberg, 1982-1991 (bulk 1983-1984) see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Barbara Rose Papers, 1940-1993 (bulk 1960-1985). see details... University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1971. see details... «  back