MoMA Staff Contributors

Curatorial Concept and Texts

Deborah Wye, Chief Curator Emerita, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books

Design Management

Allegra Burnette, former Creative Director

Project Management

Maggie Lederer, Product Manager, Digital Media/Creative Team

Cataloguing and Research

• Sewon Kang, Cataloguer, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project
• Deborah Wye, Chief Curator Emerita, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books
• Katie Campbell, Christina Costello, Majida Mugharbel, and Lauren Roberts, former Cataloguers, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project
• Arianna Packard, former part-time Cataloguer, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project
• Carol Smith, former Research Assistant, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project
• Sarah Suzuki, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints

Collection and Exhibition Technologies

• Ian Eckert, Associate Director
• Kathryn Ryan, Senior Coordinator
• Jeri Moxley, former Manager

Website Development and Assistance

Dina Brunstein, Senior Developer, Digital Media/Creative Team
Jaclyn Avidon, freelancer, Digital Media/Creative Team
Dan Phiffer, former Media Technology Developer, Digital Media
Nina Callaway and Sara Dayton, former freelancers, Digital Media

Editorial

Jason Persse, Editorial Manager, Creative Team

Digital Imaging

Rob Gerhardt, Collections Photographer, Imaging and Visual Resources
Robert Kastler, Director, Imaging and Visual Resources
Staff photographers, Imaging and Visual Resources
Peter Butler, former Collections Photographer, Imaging and Visual Resources
Kate Keller and Erik Landsberg, former Heads of Collections Imaging

Quotations

Quotations by the artist appear on many of the pages that provide background information and context for the catalogue of prints and illustrated books. The references for those quotations are as follows:

About the Artist

“Art is a guarantee of sanity” appears in several of Bourgeois’s artworks.

Abstraction

Bourgeois, quoted in “Self-Expression Is Sacred and Fatal: Statements,” in Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois: Designing for Free Fall (Zurich: Ammann, 1992), 194.

Architecture

Bourgeois, quoted in Joseph Helfenstein, “Louise Bourgeois: Architecture as a Study in Memory,” in Jerry Gorovoy and Danielle Tilkin, Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture (Madrid: Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, 1999), 26.

Body Parts

Bourgeois, quoted in “A Conversation with Bernard Marcadé,” (Excerpt from an interview for the film Louise Bourgeois, by Camille Guichard, Terra Luna Productions, Paris, 1993. Translated from the French by Caroline Beamish and David Britt.), in Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, eds., Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, in association with London: Violette, 1998), 251.

Books, Portfolios & Series

Bourgeois, quoted in Deborah Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Deborah Wye and Carol Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994), 13.

Chronology

Bourgeois, quoted in “Time” (Paulo Herkenhoff notes, May 8, 1997), in Frances Morris, ed., Louise Bourgeois (London: Tate, 2007), 288.

Essay, 1994

Bourgeois, quoted in Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 26.

Essay, 2017

Bourgeois, quoted in “Statements from an Interview with Donald Kuspit,” (first published in 1988 by Random House and Elizabeth Avedon Editions/Vintage Contemporary Artists, NY, in Louise Bourgeois by Donald Kuspit), in Bernadac and Obrist, eds., Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997, 166.

Fabric Works

Bourgeois, quoted in Brooke Hodge, “Cell (Clothes) 1996,” in Morris, ed., Louise Bourgeois, 76.

Faces and Portraits

Bourgeois, quoted in “Untitled,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 167.

Figures

Bourgeois, quoted in Deborah Wye, Louise Bourgeois (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982), 79.

Home Page

Bourgeois, quoted in Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 14.

Motherhood and Family

Bourgeois, quoted in Interview with Esther Harriet, 1989, in “Family,” in Morris, ed., Louise Bourgeois, 127.

Nature

Bourgeois, quoted in “Rayons de soleil sur la mer,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 132.

Objects

Bourgeois, quoted in “Collecting: an Unruly Passion,” (Artist’s review of the book Collecting: an Unruly Passion by Werner Muensterberger (Princeton University Press, 1993) first published in Summer 1994 Artforum, vol. 32, no. 10, p. 11.), in Bernadac and Obrist, eds., Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997, 275.

Spiders

Louise Bourgeois, Ode à Ma Mère (Paris: Les Éditions du Solstice, 1995), 9.

Spirals

Bourgeois, quoted in “Self-Expression Is Sacred and Fatal: Statements,” in Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois: Designing for Free Fall, 179.

Words

Bourgeois, quoted in “He Disappeared into Complete Silence,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 72.

Techniques

Bourgeois, quoted in Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 12.

Themes

Bourgeois, quoted in Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 15.

Independent Contributors

Website Design

• Kiss Me I’m Polish LLC
• Redub LLC

Website Development

• CogApp, Inc.

Photography

• Art © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
• Photographers of Louise Bourgeois portraits are cited beneath the photographs.
• Photographers of Louise Bourgeois’s Maman on site:
• Georges Meguerditchian, Centre Pompidou (in Tuileries Garden)
• Marcus Leith (at Tate Modern)
• Photographers of other works of art by Louise Bourgeois:
• Christopher Burke, Primary photographer for the Louise Bourgeois Studio
• Other photographers:
• Ken Adlard
• Stefan Altenburger
• Luciano Basagni
• Peter Bellamy
• Adi Bereuter
• Steven Briggs
• Brian Buckley
• Barbara Gross Gallery
• British Museum
• Jay Brooks
• Jenni Carter, Sydney Biennial
• Philip A. Charles, National Gallery
• Christie’s
• Christopher Dawson
• Mario de Lopez
• James Dee
• Frédéric Delpech, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
• Marc Domage
• Doyle
• Timothy Doyon
• Pouran Esrafily
• Jon Etter
• Allan Finkelman
• Zindman Fremont
• Galerie Lelong
• Maximilian Geuter
• Genevieve Hanson
• Hauser & Wirth Gallery
• David Heald
• Bruno Hubschmid
• Eeva Inkeri
• Jim Kempner Fine Art
• Peter Lauri
• Jonathan Leijonhufvud
• Marcus Leith
• Jochen Littkemann
• Rafael Lobato
• Paul Macapia
• Robert Males
• Georges Meguerditchian
• Piermarco Menini
• Philippe Migeat, dist. RMN, Centre Pompidou
• Robert Miller Gallery
• C. E. Mitchell
• Peter Moore
• National Gallery of Canada
• Volker Naumann
• Orcutt & Van Der Putten
• Kent Pell
• Phillips
• Beth Phillips
• Georges Poncet
• Tom Powell
• Etienne Rieger
• Bjarne Riesto
• Adam Rzepka
• Matthew Schreiber
• Mark Setteducati
• Ben Shiff
• Steven Sloman
• Lee Stalsworth
• Studio Fotografico I. Bessi, Carrara
• Christian Wachter
• Nicholas Walster

Special thanks to

• Jerry Gorovoy, President of The Easton Foundation and Louise Bourgeois’s Assistant (1980-2010)
• Wendy Williams, former Managing Director, Louise Bourgeois Studio
• Maggie Wright, Executive Director, The Easton Foundation
• Richard Bruce, Kendal Grady, Beth Higgins, Johee Kim, Cait Schuyler, staff of Louise Bourgeois Studio
• Peter Blum of Peter Blum Editions
• Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver of Harlan & Weaver, with the assistance of Derick Wycherly
• Raylene Marasco of Dyenamix
• Carolina Nitsch of Carolina Nitsch Editions
• Peter Pettengill of Wingate Studio
• Judith Solodkin of SOLO Impression