Oral history, 1994.

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Oral history, 1994.

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LeWitt, an employee of the Museum in the early 1960s, discusses working at the Museum along with artists Dan Flavin, Robert Mangold, and Robert Ryman. LeWitt reminisces about the Museum's place in the New York art world and some of its personalities including Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Arthur Drexler, Alicia Legg, and Dorothy C. Miller, among others. LeWitt also places the development of his own career within the context of MoMA.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Lippard, Lucy R., 1937-

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