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Description

The Duchamp Research Portal is an online platform that aggregates a selection of digitized archival holdings and museum collections at three partner institutions to make a significant portion of primary source materials related to Marcel Duchamp accessible and discoverable through a single interface. The portal currently consists of nearly 50,000 images of digitized archival documents and artworks. The materials include correspondence, drawings, technical plans, photographs, exhibition ephemera, newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, and more.

Contributors

Matthew Affron | Aurélien Bernard | Héloïse Brun | Sonia Descamps | Design for Context | Séverine Gossart | Margaret Huang | Antoine Monnier | Kristen Regina

Institutional Affiliation

Philadelphia Museum of Art | Centre Georges Pompidou | Association Marcel Duchamp

Sponsors

National Endowment for the Humanities | The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation | The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation | The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art | Martha Hamilton Morris and I Wistar Morris III

Is this project Alive?

Yes

Year: Known Start

2014

Decades

2010-2020 | 2020-2030

Project Type

Digitized Archive

Art History

20th Century

Software and Technologies

JSON | Python

Reviewed

Yes

Project Reviews

ARLIS/NA Multimedia and Technology Reviews | https://doi.org/10.17613/2xcb-p513

Project Images

Marcel Duchamp's passport
Marcel Duchamp Republique Française passport, 1954 October 22, MDP_B001_F010_001. Alexinaand Marcel Duchamp Papers, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives. Gift of Jacqueline, Paul and Peter Matisse in memory of their mother Alexina Duchamp, 1998.
Digitized copy of a receipt
Receipt for rent of studio at 210 West 14th Street, New York City, 1943 October 1, MDP_B001_F014_001. Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives. Gift of Jacqueline, Paul and Peter Matisse in memory of their mother Alexina Duchamp, 1998.
Marcel Duchamp as a young boy.
Marcel Duchamp as a young boy, circa 1890. Photo by Eugene Fontaine. Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives. Gift of Jacqueline, Paul and Peter Matisse in memory of their mother Alexina Duchamp, 1998.
Photo of Marcel Duchamp as boy.
Marcel Duchamp as boy standing beside wooden swing, circa 1900. Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives. Gift of Jacqueline, Paul and Peter Matisse in memory of their mother Alexina Duchamp, 1998.
Photo of Marcel and Alexina Duchamp.
Marcel Duchamp's passport MDP_B001_F010_001_006
Digitized copy of a receipt MDP_B001_F014_001_001
Marcel Duchamp as a young boy. MDP_B028_F008_13-1972-9-756_001
Photo of Marcel Duchamp as boy. MDP_B029_F001_13-1972-9-757_001
Photo of Marcel and Alexina Duchamp. MDP_B032_F007_13-1972-9-372_001