Elisabeth Zogbaum papers regarding Franz Kline, 1892-circa 2005, bulk 1930-1990

Elisabeth Zogbaum put together an "audiovisual slide show" or presentation on Franz Kline that consisted of slides of Kline's artwork and a documentary soundtrack which recounts his life and career. Sound recordings include original, unedited recordings of candid conversations between Zogbaum and friends, dealers, and contemporaries of Kline's, sometimes individually and often ingroups of two or three. Subjects include James Brooks, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, George McNeil, Joan Mitchel, Giuseppe Panza, Ludwig Sander, Aaron Siskind, Ray Spillenger, and Joe Stefanelli, as well as extensive reflections by Zogbaum herself on Kline's life and work. Recordings also include additional production material such as narration and sound effects, and various edited versions of the finished work. A handful of recordings include technical conversations about the presentation's production.

The script for the slide show appears to have been refined multiple times over the years, and the final edited work exists in multiple versions. This subseries consists of unedited and edited sound recordings, notes, lists of slides and transparencies, typescripts of interview excerpts, and numerous drafts of the slide show script.

This subseries is in alphabetical order. The partial drafts of the presentation script consist of random undated pages, so the contents of those folders have not been arranged.

The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for duplicates.