Archives of American Art
Jan Butterfield papers
Butterfield, Jan
AAA.buttjan
Archival Resource Key
15 Linear feet
1950-1997
The papers of Jan Butterfield measure 15 linear feet and date from circa 1950 to 1997. Papers contain hundreds of recorded interviews with and lectures by artists, panel discussions of artists and art historians, as well as extensive writings by Butterfield. Also found are project files, personal business records, printed materials, photographs, and additional sound and video recordings related to art subjects.
The collection is in English.
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Related Materials
Also found among the collections of the Archives of American Art is a 1981 panel discussion on Bay area art criticism sponsored by the National Women's Caucus for Art, in which Butterfield participated, as well as an oral history interview Butterfield conducted with Helen Lundeberg for the Archives' Oral History Program in 1980.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Jan Butterfield lent material in 1975 for microfilming. She donated the Robert Irwin material in 1980 of and most of the interviews and audio tapes in 1989. An additional 12 feet of papers, including some material previously loaned and microfilmed, along with two additional audio tapes, were donated by Butterfield's brother, and Trustee of the Jan Butterfield Trust, Derek Van Alstine in 2002.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged as 7 series.
Missing Title
- Series 1: Interviews and Lectures (Boxes 1-5; 4.2 linear feet)
- Series 2: Writings (Boxes 5-7, 16, OV 17; 3.7 linear feet)
- Series 3: Project Files (Boxes 8-10, 16; 1.6 linear feet)
- Series 4: Personal Business Records (Boxes 10-11, OV 17-19; 1.1 linear feet)
- Series 5: Printed Materials (Boxes 11-12, 16, OV 17-19; 1.8 linear feet)
- Series 6: Photographs (Boxes 12-14, 16; 2.2 linear feet)
- Series 7: Sound and Video Recordings (Box 15; 0.4 linear feet)
Scope and Contents
The papers of Jan Butterfield measure 15 linear feet and date from circa 1950 to 1997. Papers contain hundreds of recorded interviews with and lectures by artists, panel discussions of artists and art historians, as well as extensive writings by Butterfield. Also found are project files, personal business records, printed materials, photographs, and additional sound and video recordings related to art subjects.
Interviews and Lectures include hundreds of interviews conducted by Butterfield between 1971 and 1987 with contemporary artists about whom she was writing at the time. The artists Robert Irwin and Sam Francis are represented particularly well. Also found are slide talks, class discussions, and lectures given by artists, which are assumed to have been recorded by Butterfield in most cases. Also among the recordings are recorded performances by John Cage, Joe Goode, Newton and Helen Harrison, Jim Roche, and George Greene. Panel discussions include two notable recordings involving Milton Resnick, one with the painter Edward Dugmore in 1959, and the other with the painter Ad Reinhardt at The Club in 1961, which was later dubbed "The Attack."
The bulk of the writings relate to Butterfield's published work The Art of Light and Space, represented here in multiple drafts, research, and photographs of works of art by the artists discussed in the work including Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Maria Nordman, Douglas Wheeler, Bruce Nauman, Eric Orr, Larry Bell, DeWain Valentine, Susan Kaiser Vogel, and Hap Tivey. Also found are extensive drafts and research for catalog essays for exhibitions of Larry Bell, Richard Shaw, Robert Hudson, and Elmer Bischoff. Drafts of articles and publicity writing are mainly about artists but also some galleries and other art events. There are a few transcripts of recorded interviews, and it appears that many of the writings are based on Butterfield's interviews.
Project files include records relating to Butterfield's involvement with the production of a catalog for the corporate art collection of Pacific Enterprises. These also include additional artist interviews and artist files containing research and writing, mainly by her associate Michael Karp. Also found are photographs and sound recordings for the Waterfront Project at the San Francisco Art Institute, an interdisciplinary community-centered development project that involved Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Melinda Wortz, Eric Orr, Dr. E. Wortz, Frank Gehry, Newton and Helen Harrison, Josh Young, and students at the Art Institute. And finally, project files include photographs, interviews, and printed material related to publications of Lapis Press, where Butterfield was Executive Director.
Personal business records include correspondence, price lists, financial records, notes, press releases, and career documentation of Butterfield. Printed materials include articles by Butterfield, articles about Butterfield, and articles by Henry Hopkins, most of which are photocopies. There are also clippings, exhibition catalogs, exhibition posters, and publicity. Of note is a disassembled scrapbook pertaining to the controversial Ed Kienholz exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1966, and a directory of art spaces in Los Angeles from 1978.
Most of the photographs are of works of art by artists about whom Butterfield wrote. Also found are a few files of photographs of artists, some taken by Butterfield, including Philip Guston, Ed Kienholz, Henry Hopkins with Clyfford Still, Robert Irwin, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Turrell. Additional video and sound recordings include artist installations, a documentary on Sam Francis, and an acoustiguide for an Ed Ruscha exhibition.
Biographical / Historical
Jan Butterfield (1937-2000) was an art writer and critic of contemporary art who spent most of her career in California. She is best known for her writings on late twentieth century installation and craft artists, particularly those who worked in California and the American West.
Butterfield was born Jan Van Alstine in Los Angeles, California in 1937 and attended the Univeristy of California, Los Angeles. She received numerous fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as an art critic, and contributed art writing to dozens of exhibition catalogs and art publications including
Art International, Images and Issues, Art News, Art in America, and Flash Art. Her most ambitious work of writing was The Art of Light and Space (Abbeville Press: 1993), which profiles the work of contemporary artists Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Maria Nordman, Douglas Wheeler, Bruce Nauman, Eric Orr, Larry Bell, DeWain Valentine, Susan Kaiser Vogel, and Hap Tivey. She was also the author of a 1972 monograph of the Abstract Expressionist painter Sam Francis.
Butterfield held positions in public relations at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from its opening until 1970, and at the Fort Worth Art Museum from 1970 to 1974. She taught at Northwood Experimental Art Institute in Dallas, Texas, the San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose State University, and Mills College in Oakland, California between 1973 and 1983. At the San Francisco Art Institute, she was Director of the extension program and Coordinator of the visiting artist program and the Waterfront Project between 1976 and 1978. In 1984, Butterfield and the artist Sam Francis co-founded the Lapis Press, where she served as Executive Director from its founding until 1988.
Butterfield was married twice, the second time to Henry Hopkins, Museum Director at LACMA, the Museum of Fine Art of Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She died in 2000 after an extended illness.
Preferred Citation
Jan Butterfield papers, 1959-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Processing Information
Two scrapbooks found in the papers were previously loaned for microfilming in 1975 on reel 1042 with the titlle of Los Angeles County Museum of Art Scrapbooks. The scrapbooks were included in later Butterfield donations. The 1980 acquisition was also microfilmed on reel 2787. These reels are no longer in circulation and all of the filmed materials have been integrated into the larger collection. The entire collection was arranged, described, and a finding aid prepared by Megan McShea in 2012 with funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Sound recordings that were found to be blank were discarded during processing, and any recording that was found to be an incomplete duplicate of another recording found in the collection was also discarded. Reels containing a poor copy of an oral history interview with Helen Lundeberg conducted by Butterfield for the Archives of American Art's oral history program were also discarded. The original recording is found in the Archives' Oral History collection.
Separated Materials
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming on reel 1042 including two volumes of scrapbooks. Loaned materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Existence and Location of Copies
Portions of the collection and materials lent for microfilming are available on 35mm microfilm reels 2797 and 1042 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
Some of the sound recordings in this collection were digitized during processing and are available for research access at the Archives of American Art offices.
Art critics -- California -- San Francisco
Art historians -- California -- San Francisco
Authors -- California -- San Francisco
Women art critics
Women art historians
Women authors
Photographs
Sound recordings
Video recordings
Transcripts
Interviews
Scrapbooks
Goode, Joe, 1937-
Cage, John, 1912-1992
Harrison, Helen Mayer, 1929-
Harrison, Newton, 1932-
Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980
Dugmore, Edward, 1915-
Francis, Sam, 1923-1994
Irwin, Robert, 1928-
Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967
Nordman, Maria
Wheeler, Douglas
Orr, Eric, 1939-1998
Nauman, Bruce, 1941-
Shaw, Richard, 1941 Sept. 12-
Bell, Larry, 1939-
Bischoff, Elmer, 1916-1991
Hudson, Robert, 1938-
Guston, Philip, 1913-1980
Resnick, Milton, 1917-2004
Ruscha, Edward
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
Greene, George
Roche, Jim
Turrell, James
Pacific Enterprises
Hopkins, Henry, 1928-2009
Lapis Press
Young, R. Joshua
Gehry, Frank O., 1929-
Wortz, E.
Kienholz, Edward, 1927-
Wortz, Melinda
Karp, Michael
Interviews and Lectures
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
4.2 Linear feet
Boxes 1-5
1959-1997
Scope and Contents
Recordings in this series are mostly interviews of artists conducted by Butterfield between 1971 and 1987. Also found are slide talks, class discussions, and lectures given by artists, which are assumed to have been recorded by Butterfield in most cases. Artists of the United States who are associated with the Light and Space movement in sculpture are highly represented, as well as artists of the new crafts movement and contemporary West Coast artists in particular. Also among the recordings are recorded performances by John Cage, Joe Goode, Newton and Helen Harrison, Jim Roche, and George Greene.
Butterfield's interviews were mainly conducted for specific writing projects, either for articles, reviews, published artist interviews, catalog essays, or books Butterfield was writing. Some interviews were conducted over the phone. Some recordings are editing sessions in which Butterfield consults with her subjects during the editing process for a specific article or interview to be published. Multiple, extensive interviews are found with artists Sam Francis and Robert Irwin. A few interviews conducted by others are found, including a radio interview of Henry Hopkins regarding the Clyfford Still bequest to SF Moma, interviews by Henry Hopkins of Joe Goode, Philip Guston (in a recording of a public Q&A), Walter Hopps (with Jan Butterfield), and possibly Milton Resnick, and an interview with Ursula Schneider conducted by Lorri Surrihan. A transcript is found for the interview by Henry Hopkins with Walter Hopps. Additional transcripts, usually highly edited from the recorded version, are found among the published interviews in the Writings series. Most of the lectures found in this series take place in Texas and California, including multiple lectures that took place at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Northwood Experimental Artists Institute in Dallas, Texas, and the San Francisco Art Institute. In all, the series contains 107 sound tape reels, 97 cassettes, and 1 videoreel.
Panel discussions include two notable recordings that Butterfield seems to have acquired from Milton Resnick during his solo exhibition at the Fort Worth Art Center in 1971. These include a 1959 appearance of Edward Dugmore and Milton Resnick at Southern Illinois State University, and a 1961 debate between Ad Reinhardt and Milton Resnick which later became known as "The Attack," held at "The Club" in New York City. Also found are recordings of a 1976 conference at UCLA entitled "Space and Place" which included talks by Lloyd Hamrol, Richard Serra, Robert Irwin, and others.
Arrangement
Interviews, lectures, and performances are filed in alphabetical order by their subject's name, and multiple recordings for a single subject are filed chronologically under his or her name. Recordings listed in this series are interviews conducted by Jan Butterfield unless otherwise indicated in the folder listing. Often physical tapes contained multiple recordings, and where an additional recording of a different subject is found on a single physical tape, it is noted with the main entry for that tape, and cross referenced under the additional artist's name alphabetically in the item list. Panel discussions are arranged chronologically at the end of the series.
Additional artist interviews conducted by Michael Karp in the early 1990s are found in the Pacific Enterprises files of series 3, Project files. Additional sound recordings are also found in the Waterfront Project files of series 3, the Lapis Press files of series 3, and in series 7, sound and video recordings.
Processing Information
Not every recording was played during processing, only those without dates or with ambiguous or non-existent labeling. Tapes that were not screened during processing may contain content not noted in its label, or portions of partially taped-over recordings. Also note that white labels appear to have been affixed to the spines of most of the recordings upon accession of the collection to the archives, but these labels were produced without verifying the content of the tapes and often contain errors. Incomplete duplicates found in the collection were discarded during processing.
Ansel Adams
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 December
1
1
Lita Albuquerque and Richard Misrach interview with unidentified curators at California State University at Fullerton
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1988 July 10
1
2
Richard Artschwager
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
circa 1975
1
3
Scope and Contents
First 37 minutes of recording is popular music.
Michael Asher
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1 Sound tape reel
1979 February 26
1
4
Michael Asher
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1 Sound tape reel
1980 August 29
1
5
Michael Asher
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
1981 March
1
6
Mowry Baden
Archival Resource Key
1
Scope and Contents
[See box 5, folder 2; Panel Discussions, Space and Place, UCLA]
Larry Bell
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
Handwritten note on original box: "Iceberg"
1975 April 25
1
7
Larry Bell
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1981 March
1
8
Billy Al Bengston
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 June 26
1
9
Fletcher Benton
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1 Sound tape reel
1980 May
1
10
Joan Brown
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1975 September
1
11
Scope and Contents
Reel also includes circa 43 minute interview with Bruce Conner, October 1974, on side 2 beginning around 46 minutes into tape; also found is a brief fragment of an interview with Paul Karlstrom.
Chris Burden
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Paper note found with original box.
1974 October
1
12
Chris Burden
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Handwritten notes on original: "telephone conv. re article" and "telephone proofing of tape"
1974 October
1
13
Chris Burden, Slide Lecture
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
Original labels on reels indicate one side only, but reels are recorded on both sides.
1978 December 13
1
14
Scope and Contents
Probably recorded at UCLA
Daniel Buren Lecture, "Space as Support," Berkeley, Calif.
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 January 18
1
15
John Cage Performance of "Empty Words" and Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1978 October
1
16
Scope and Contents
Taped over an undated recording of a Waterfront Project meeting (see Series 3: Project files); a fragment of the earlier recording is found in the last minute of side 1 and all of side 2 of the reel.
Vija Celmins
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1980 February 20
1
17
Judy Chicago
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1978 July
1
18
Judy Chicago
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
circa 1979
1
19
Judy Chicago
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
Scope and Contents
[See box 2, item 13; David Hockney interview, 1978]
Christo
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1971 June
1
20
Robert Colescott
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 February 1
1
21
Scope and Contents
Reel begins with a 70 minute fragment of a circa 1977 interview with Robert Irwin.
Original label on reel reads "Josh Young, tape #2, side 1," but there is no recording on Josh Young on the reel.
Bruce Connor
Archival Resource Key
1974 October
1
Scope and Contents
[See box 1, item 11; Joan Brown interview]
Ron Cooper
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1980 December 14
1
22
Leonard Cutrow
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Handwritten note on original cassette: "Life"
1985 October 11
1
23
Leonard Cutrow, Interview by unidentified male interviewer
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassettes (microcassette)
circa 1990-1992
1
24
Ron Davis
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
circa 1976
1
25
Laddie John Dill
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
Scope and Contents
[See box 4, item 18; Hap Tivey, Interdisciplinary Seminar and Interview, San Francisco Art Institute, 1977 October]
John Dowell
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Handwritten note on original: "Telephone conversation for article"
1979 June
1
26
Edward Dugmore
Archival Resource Key
1
Scope and Contents
[See box 5, folder 1; Panel Discussions, The Influence of Modern Painting on Our Tradition]
Tom Eatherton
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1980 December 14
1
27
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1979 June 26
1
28
Scope and Contents
Although reel 1 of 2 is dated Summer 1979 and reel 2 is dated 6/26/79, they are clearly from the same interview.
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Handwritten notes on original box: "Pier 46" and "Last catalogue tape / some good info - scattered through"
1979 September 9
1
29
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 November 29
1
30
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Duplicate of sound tape reel; Handwritten note on cassette: "Also on reel-to-reel"
2 Sound cassettes
Original
1 Sound tape reel
Original
1979 December
1
31
Scope and Contents
Sequence of original recordings unclear, but appears to be cassette marked "afternoon tape" first, cassette marked "eve one" second, and reel marked "tape at house" third.
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
circa 1979
1
32
Scope and Contents
Handwritten note on original reel reads "Manuel Neri - Joan Brown over discussion of later tape," but Neri and Brown are not present on the tape.
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Sound quality is very poor.
Handwritten note on original cassette: "Pier 46 (Garner Tullis w/ Sam)"
circa 1979
1
33
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Handwritten note on original cassette: "Final corrected manuscript discussion"
1980 January 18
1
34
Sam Francis, Flash Art interviews
Archival Resource Key
3 Sound cassettes
1981 November
1
35
Scope and Contents
Sequence of original cassettes is unclear.
Sam Francis, Editorial review of Flash Art interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1981 November
1
36
Sam Francis, Francis and Butterfield testing stereo equipment
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
undated
1
37
Helen Frankenthaler Lecture, Northwood Experimental Art Institute, Dallas, Tex.
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1973 March
1
38
Joe Goode, Interview conducted by Henry Hopkins
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Tape is unlabeled.
1972 December 21
1
39
Scope and Contents
Tape also contains poor quality recording of a group discussion with unidentified participants
Joe Goode, Performance and Interview
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1973 Janaury
2
1
Scope and Contents
Contains a 13 minute performance followed by an interview with the artist.
Joe Goode
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1975 August
2
2
Joe Goode
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
Handwritten note on original cassette 1 of 2: "Arco Catalog"
1981 November
2
3
Bob Graham
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 February 26
2
4
George Greene
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1973
2
5
Philip Guston
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 January 6
2
6
Philip Guston
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Handwritten on original box: "Approval of article for Images and Issues"
1980 February 13
2
7
Philip Guston, Question and Answer with Henry Hopkins, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1980
2
8
Scope and Contents
Taped for the documentary on Guston entitled "A Life Lived," during Guston's 1980 retrospective at SFMOMA.
Lloyd Hamrol
Archival Resource Key
2
Scope and Contents
[See box 5, folder 2, Panel Discussions, Space and Place, UCLA]
Newton and Helen Harrison, Performance, Lecture, and Interview at San Francisco Art Institute
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Handwritten on original box: "In 'Meditations' show SFAI / Performance and partial interview"
1977 February 17
2
9
Scope and Contents
Interview begins approximately 10 minutes into side 2. Tape also contains a fragment of an interview with an unidentified male sculptor, circa 1975, beginning approximately 76 minutes into side 2.
Newton and Helen Harrison
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1978 June 28
2
10
George Herms
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Handwritten on original box: "San Jose State exhib"
1975 January 31
2
11
David Hockney Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1978 November 3
2
12
David Hockney
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1978 December 5
2
13
Scope and Contents
Also contains fragments of two earlier recordings, including an undated recording of a Waterfront Project meeting (see Series 3: Project files) on side 2 of reel 1, and an undated interview with Judy Chicago, 22 minutes into reel 2.
Henry Hopkins for the "Artscene" radio series about the Clyfford Still Exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Additional label on original box: "from Eleanor Dickinson" with residential address
circa 1975
2
14
Scope and Contents
Broadcast by KPFK in Los Angeles, Calif.
Walter Hopps Interviewed by Henry Hopkins and Jan Butterfield
Archival Resource Key
5 Sound tape reels
Includes transcript
1976 June 3
2
15
Scope and Contents
Conducted in conjunction with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition, "Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era"
Robert Hudson
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
circa 1976
2
16
Robert Hudson
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 July
2
17
Robert Irwin, Lecture and Interview, Texas Christian University
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Duplicate of cassette 1 of 3
3 Sound cassettes
Originals; cassette 1 is labeled sides A and B, cassette 2 is labeled C, and cassette 3 is labeled D; all cassettes are mis-labeled 1972.
1971 April
Original cassette 1 of 3 exists in the form of 2 duplicate tapes made by the creator; original recording is not in the collection.
2
18
Scope and Contents
Lecture found on cassettes 1 and 2; interview begins in the last 15 minutes of cassette 2 of 3, side 2.
Robert Irwin, San Diego
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Duplicate of cassette 1 of 2
2 Sound cassettes
Originals; cassette 1 of 2 labeled sides E and F and "interview;" cassette 2 of 2 labeled "Sequence of events - Personal"
1972
2
19
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original tapes in poor condition; use existing duplicate for access.
Robert Irwin, Lecture, Art Center Fort Worth
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Original; labeled sides G and H.
1 Sound cassette
Duplicate; Sound distorted
circa 1972
2
20
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original cassette is damaged; use existing duplicate for access.
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
Originals; cassettes labeled sides I and J, and "preliminary interview, article #3"
2 Sound cassettes
Duplicates
circa 1972
2
21
Scope and Contents
Interview begins on cassette 1, on side labeled "I," and continues on cassette 2, on the unlabeled side. Side labeled "J" contains unrelated recording of an Art Center staff party with Robert Irwin present.
Copy of interview begins on duplicate cassette 1, side labeled "I," and continues on duplicate cassette 2, which is labeled "second 1/2."
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original cassettes are damaged; use duplicate cassettes for access.
Robert Irwin, Lecture, California State University, Humboldt
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Duplicate of sound from original video reel
1 Videoreels (1/2 inch)
1973 February 28
2
22
Robert Irwin, Social Gathering, San Francisco
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Original, not dated; labeled "At Nell's House"
1 Sound cassette
Duplicate; labeled "At Nell's House"
1973 March
3
1
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Original cassette is damaged; use duplicate cassette for access.
Robert Irwin, Los Angeles
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box labeled "Personal interview, Los Angeles, New material for book, parts 3-4 (I have part 1 in long hand)"
1974 July
3
2
Scope and Contents
Recording on side 1; May 30, 1975 interview on opposite side of same reel
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box label reads "Teleph. conv. re: Chicago & Fort Worth"
1975 May 30
3
3
Scope and Contents
Recording on side 2; July 1974 interview is on opposite side of same reel.
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box label reads "Article #4, placing your attention on the periphery of knowing"
1975 June
3
4
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
3 Sound cassettes
Duplicates
1 Sound tape reel
Original; box label reads "latest article"
1975 August
3
5
Scope and Contents
Side 1 of duplicate cassette 1 of 3 contains approximately 8 min., 30 seconds of Irwin interview not found on original reel. Duplicate cassette 2 of 3 (labeled "side 2 1/2") contains an additional lecture and Q&A with an unidentified male speaker, approximately 41 minutes in duration.
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box label reads "Telephone call, Irwin conversation re: 'placing your attention' final OK"
1975 December
3
6
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box label reads "Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, also Whitney show discussion"
1976
3
7
Robert Irwin, Lecture, "Artist As Educator," Berkeley Museum
Archival Resource Key
1976 May 5
3
Scope and Contents
[See box 4, item 19; Hap Tivey, Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, 1977 October]
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1976 May 12
3
Scope and Contents
[See box 5, folder 3; Panel Discussions, Space and Place, UCLA]
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box label reads "Telephone conv. re: Whitney show"
1977 June 2
3
8
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1977 July 5-6
3
9
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box label reads "Telephone conversation re: editing of article #5"
1977 August 3
3
10
Robert Irwin, Interview fragment
Archival Resource Key
circa 1977
3
Scope and Contents
[See box 1, item 21; Robert Colescott, 1979 February 1]
Robert Irwin, Lecture, Berkeley Museum Series
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box label reads "At time of 'Space As Support' exhibition, excellent ocndensation of theories"
1978 April 20
3
11
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box label reads "Discussion re: premis of light and space book"
1979 May 26
3
12
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Box label reads "Newest work, book discussion L&S"
1980 July 15
3
13
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
Originals
2 Sound cassettes
Duplicates
1984
3
14
Scope and Contents
Sequence of interview is cassette 1 of 2, unlabeled side, then side marked "84"; cassette 2 of 2, side marked 3, then side marked 2.
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
1987 March
3
15
Scope and Contents
Only side 1 of cassette 1 of 2 contains the interview from March, 1987. Brief and unrelated recordings exist on cassette 1, side 2, and cassette 2, side 1.
Oliver Jackson
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
1982 August
3
16
Craig Kauffman
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 February 6
3
17
Jim Love
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1973 March
3
18
Tom Marioni Lecture, Indianapolis Museum
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1975 January
3
19
Fred Martin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1980 November 5
3
20
Scope and Contents
Original box labeled "blank," but reel is not blank.
Marshall McLuhan, Southern Methodist University
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1973 November 30
3
21
Blanche McVeigh and the Fort Worth Circle
Archival Resource Key
3
Scope and Contents
[See box 4, item 25; Richard Tuttle, Lecture in Dallas, Texas, circa 1971]
Jack Mims
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1973
3
22
Robert Misrach
Archival Resource Key
3
Scope and Contents
[See box 1, item 2; Lita Albuquerque and Richard Misrach interview with unidentified curators at California State University at Fullerton, 1988]
John Mason
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1978 July 28
3
23
William Moritz
Archival Resource Key
3
Scope and Contents
[See box 5, folder 3; Panel Discussions, Space and Place, UCLA]
Ed Moses
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976
3
24
Ed Moses, Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1977 November
3
25
Stephen Nagourney, P.S. 1
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1981 August
3
26
Bruce Nauman
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1974 May 29
3
27
Bruce Nauman
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
circa 1975
3
28
Bruce Nauman
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 June 26
3
29
Bruce Nauman
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
1981 March
3
30
Manuel Neri
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 December
3
31
Manuel Neri
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Original box labeled: "Art and the Spirit"
1980 December 18
3
32
Louise Nevelson Lecture, Berkeley, Calif.
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
circa 1975
3
33
Maria Nordman
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1978 April
3
34
Maria Nordman
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 June 11
3
35
Maria Nordman
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
Original box labeled "Interview # III"
1979 June
3
36
Scope and Contents
Different from June 11, 1979 recording.
Eric Orr
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 February 26
3
37
Eric Orr
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1980 October
3
38
Eric Orr
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1981 August
4
1
Beverly Pepper
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1975 February 10
4
2
Beverly Pepper
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1975 May 20
4
3
Scope and Contents
Pepper interview is found in the middle of side 1 of reel. Reel also contains multiple partially taped-over recordings, including notes dictated by Butterfield regarding archival research at the beginning of side 1, a 2 min. fragment of an interview with Robert Arneson of October 1974 at the end of side 1, and a fragement of a forum on post-minimalist art in the middle of side 2.
Ken Price
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1978 July
4
3
Joseph Raffael
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 July 15
4
4
Milton Resnick, with Pat Passlof
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
circa 1970
4
5
Scope and Contents
Original cassette 1 of 2 also labeled "Dennis Hopper," but Dennis Hopper is not in recording.
Cassette 2 of 2 also contains a conversation with unidentified men, possibly instructors at the Northwood Experimental Art Institute in Dallas, TX, and two fragments from unidentified acoustiguide recordings.
Milton Resnick
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
1971 February 20
4
6
Scope and Contents
Interview conducted by unidentified man, possibly Henry Hopkins.
Sam Richardson
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1978 May
4
7
Sam Richardson
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1982 September
4
8
Jim Roche, The Believable Literalism and Sure Fire Presentation; Here We Are Henry Piece
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Original cassette also labeled "Jim Roche personal tape piece" and "1. Relation symbols, 2. Wiritings on wall"
circa 1972
4
9
Jim Roche
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
1973
4
10
Scope and Contents
Cassette 2 of 2 marked "January" but seems to follow cassette marked "spring"
Ed Ruscha
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
circa 1981
4
11
Ed Ruscha
Ursula Schneider, interview conducted by Lorri Surrihan
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
circa 1973
4
12
Richard Serra
Archival Resource Key
4
Scope and Contents
[See also box 5, folder 2; Panel Discussions, Space and Place, UCLA]
Richard Shaw
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1981 July
4
13
Hassel Smith
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
circa 1974
4
14
Scope and Contents
Interview is on first 32 minutes of side 1 and last 13 minutes of side 2. Remainder of interview is taped over with a conversation among Smith, Carlos Villa, and Butterfield about the San Francisco Art Institute.
Hassel Smith
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1977
4
15
Joan Tewkesbury Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 October
4
16
Wayne Thiebaud
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 July 4
4
17
Hap Tivey, Interdisciplinary Seminar and Interview, San Francisco Art Institute
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1977 October
4
18
Scope and Contents
Interview begins approximately 12 minutes into reel 1, side 2. Reel 2, side 2 also contains fragments of a recording of a 1974 meeting of Advocates for the Arts, and a slide talk by an unidentified artist, possibly Laddie John Dill.
Original box for reel 2 of 2 also labeled with names Robert Irwin, Judy Chicago, and Dennis O'Leary, but these individuals are not found in the recording.
Hap Tivey, Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1977 October
4
19
Scope and Contents
Side 2 of reel contians Robert Irwin Lecture, "The Artist as Educator," Berkeley Museum, May 5 1976.
Hap Tivey
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 February13
4
20
Hap Tivey
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1986
4
21
Garner Tullis
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
Handwritten note on cassette 1 of 2: "Sam Francis work"
1981 November
4
22
James Turrell
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1979 June 16
4
23
James Turrell
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1981 March
4
24
Richard Tuttle, Lecture in Dallas, Texas
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
circa 1971
4
25
Scope and Contents
Side 2 contains a recorded conversation between Butterfield and an unidentified man and woman concerning printmaker Blanche McVeigh and the Fort Worth Circle.
De Wain Valentine
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Handwritten note on cassette: "first interview"
circa 1978
4
26
De Wain Valentine
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 October
4
27
Scope and Contents
Original box also labeled "Sam Francis 6/22/79," and "no! blank - but keep above info: S.F. tape may be missing." Reel contains only the Valentine interview of October 1979.
Carlos Villa
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1978 March 4
4
28
Scope and Contents
[See also box 4, item 14; Hassel Smith, circa 1974], for a conversation between Smith, Villa and Butterfield regarding the San Francisco Art Institute.
Susan Kaiser Vogel
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1981 June
4
29
Susan Kaiser Vogel
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1982 March 16
4
30
Scope and Contents
Handwritten notes on original cassette read "Side #3?" and "side#4?", but no sides 1 and 2 for this interview are found in the collection.
Susan Kaiser Vogel
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1984 August
4
31
Susan Kaiser Vogel
Archival Resource Key
3 Sound cassettes (microcassette)
1987 October
4
32
Robert Wade
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1973
4
33
Doug Wheeler
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound tape reels
1979 July 15
4
34
Doug Wheeler
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1981 March
4
35
Ed Wortz
Archival Resource Key
4
Scope and Contents
[See box 5, folder 2; Panel Discussions, Space and Place, UCLA]
Michael Yost, Project Manager for Roden Crater
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Poor sound quality
1979 December 6
4
36
Michael Yost, Project Manager for Roden Crater
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1980 May
4
37
Scope and Contents
Original reel also contains part of an oral history conducted by Jan Butterfield for the Archives of American Art. Reel has been removed from the collection and stored with the oral history collection. A digital copy of the Yost interview is available for research access.
Elyn Zimmerman
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1979 August
4
38
Unidentified Artist, Question and Answer Discussion
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
Handwritten note on label: "OK to erase"
circa 1959-1997
4
39
Unidentified Artist, Class visit
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
circa 1959-1997
4
40
Scope and Contents
Class visit found in first 13 minutes of recording. Cassette also contains an unidentified literary reading, music, and fragments of an acoustiguide for a Van Gogh exhibition at LACMA.
Unidentified Curators, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
circa 1959-1997
4
41
Unidentified Lecture on Light and Space Art in Antiquity
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
Handwritten on both cassette cases: "Cutting Edge, 10/7"
circa 1995
4
42
Panel Discussions
Archival Resource Key
5
The Influence of Modern Painting on Our Tradition, University of Southern Illinois, with Milton Resnick and Edward Dugmore
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
7 inch
1959
5
1
Attack, Milton Resnick and Ad Reinhardt Debate, The Club
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
7 inch
1961 January 1
5
1
Space and Place, University of California Los Angeles
Archival Resource Key
5
Hap Tivey, Mowry Baden, Ed Wortz
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 April 7
5
2
Lloyd Hamrol and Richard Serra
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 April 28
5
2
Scope and Contents
Introduction by Meredith Wortz.
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
Duplicates
1 Sound tape reel
Original
1976 May 12
5
3
William Moritz
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1976 May 19
5
3
What is the East? Where is the West?
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1988
5
4
Scope and Contents
Speakers include Suzanne Muchnic, Diana Wong, Josene Starles, Carl Cheng, Joan Hugo, Daniel Wheeler, Ingird Awed, and Ann Page.
Light and Medium, Light as Vehicle, College Art Association, New York, N.Y.
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
1997
5
4
Scope and Contents
Speakers include Susan Chorpenning, Judit Hersko, Stefan Becker, and Seth Riskin.
Writings
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
3.7 Linear feet
Boxes 5-8, 16, OV 17
1962-1997
Scope and Contents
This series contains handwritten and typewritten drafts, notes, research, correspondence, photographs of works of art, and other documentation related to Butterfield's book projects, articles, catalog essays, and publicity writings.
The most extensive project in this series is Butterfield's book
The Art of Light and Space, represented here in multiple drafts, galleys, photographs of works of art, editorial correspondence, records related to later exhibitions of the artists represented in the book, and records of an exhibition of artist portraits created for the book by the photographer James McHugh. Extensive files of photographs of works of art by the artists included in the book are also found in the photographs series. Note that the first two drafts in the series bear earlier titles, Context, the art of light and space, and California Light and Space, but are the same work.
Book projects on the artists Fletcher Benton and Leonard Cutrow are also documented in this series in correspondence, business records, photographs of works of art, and scattered typescript and printout draft writings. Butterfield does not take an author credit for these projects, but she seems to have been involved in their editing and production to different degrees. A book on outdoor sculpture in San Francisco by Warren Radford is found in draft form and appears to have been edited by Butterfield. The draft is filed at the end of the series under "writings by others".
Articles by Butterfield found in this series are mostly in the form of typescript drafts, some hand-corrected. Photocopies of Butterfield's published articles are filed with Printed Materials. Articles about artists or galleries are arranged by the subject's name. Other articles are listed in the series by title.
Many of the files relating to catalog essays by Butterfield contain extensive documentation related to the artist subjects, including multiple drafts, photographs of works of art, and research gathered about the artist or subject matter in the form of printed materials, artist biographies and CVs from galleries, notes, and correspondence. The file for Richard Shaw also contains an interview transcript, presumably for the 1981 interview by Butterfield found In the Interviews series.
Some of Butterfield's work as a publicist for artists and galleries is filed under publicity writings, which include drafts of press releases, exhibition reviews, photographs of artwork, research, and occasionally correspondence with the artist. A large amount of material is found related to Peter Erskine's project "Secrets of the Sun" (1992) including two videocassettes (VHS). An additional videocassette (VHS) is found with publicity writings for the artist Anne Labirola.
Arrangement
Many of the writings are based on recorded interviews that can be found in series 1, Interviews and Lectures. A variety of material related to Butterfield's work on books published by Lapis Press is found in series 3, Project files, which also contains additional publicity writings by Butterfield. Extensive writings by others on the artist George Herms are found in series 4, Personal Business Records. Many of Butterfield's writings that appeared in print are found in series 5, Printed Materials. Additional photographs of works of art by the artists about whom Butterfield wrote are found in series 6, Photographs.
Books
Archival Resource Key
5
The Art of Light and Space
Archival Resource Key
5
Corrected Typescript Draft
Archival Resource Key
1980s
5
5-10
Typescript Draft
Archival Resource Key
1988
5
11-16
Typescript with Editor's Annotations
Archival Resource Key
after 1988
Photocopy
5
17-21
Draft Fragments with Editor's Annotations, Introduction
Archival Resource Key
circa 1988-1992
6
1
Draft Fragments with Editor's Annotations, James Turrell Chapter
Archival Resource Key
circa 1988-1992
6
2-3
Draft Fragments with Editor's Annotations, De Wain Valentine Chapter
Archival Resource Key
1975, 1980, 1991
Also contains photographs, printed materials, and editorial correspondence.
6
4
Scope and Contents
Oversized item moved to Box 16, folder 1.
Draft Fragments with Editor's Annotations, Notes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1988-1992
6
5
Editorial Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1991-1993
6
6
Grant Proposal for Related Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
1988
6
7
Galley Proofs
Archival Resource Key
1993
6
8
Uncorrected Proof
Archival Resource Key
1993
6
9
Photographs, Introductions
Archival Resource Key
1966-1981
6
10
Photographs, Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1970-1985
6
11
Photographs, James Turrell
Archival Resource Key
1967-1991
6
12
Photographs, James Turrell
Photographs, James Turrell
Archival Resource Key
1967-1991
6
13
Photographs, James Turrell
Photographs, Maria Nordman
Archival Resource Key
1971-1983
6
14
Photographs, Maria Nordman
Photographs, Doug Wheeler
Archival Resource Key
1967-1976
6
15
Photographs, Doug Wheeler
Photographs, Bruce Nauman
Archival Resource Key
1969-1988
6
16
Photographs, Eric Orr
Archival Resource Key
1968-1991
6
17
Photographs, Larry Bell
Archival Resource Key
1965-1983
6
18
Photographs, De Wain Valentine
Archival Resource Key
1970-1990
6
19
Photographs, Susan Kaiser Vogel
Archival Resource Key
1977-1981
6
20
Photographs, Hap Tivey
Archival Resource Key
1973-1990
6
21
Source Material, "Robert Irwin's Theories"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1977
6
22
Scope and Contents
Oversized item moved to Box 16, folder 1.
Fletcher Benton
Archival Resource Key
1989-1991
6
23
Leonard Cutrow
Archival Resource Key
circa 1962-1994
6
24-30
Articles
Archival Resource Key
6
Ansel Adams
Archival Resource Key
1976
6
31
Bruce Connor, Bruce Connor Lookalike Contest and Bake Sale (1975)
Archival Resource Key
1973-1980
6
32
Scope and Contents
Oversized items moved to Box 17.
Guy Dill, Sculpture is about Proof: The Visual Harmonics of Guy Dill
Archival Resource Key
1991-1992
6
33
Ferus Gallery, A Small Parenthesis in Time
Archival Resource Key
circa 1976
6
34
Sam Francis, Unpublished Posthumous Article
Archival Resource Key
1994-1996
6
35-36
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 1.
Scope and Contents
Includes editorial correspondence in addition to writings.
Joe Goode
Archival Resource Key
circa 1981
6
37
Robert Irwin, The Subject of Art is Aesthetic Perception
Archival Resource Key
1977
6
38
Jasper Johns, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, The Bride and the Bachelors
Archival Resource Key
circa 1977
6
39
The Kimball Art Museum, The Power and the Glory
Archival Resource Key
circa 1972
6
40
Pablo Picasso, The Death of a Giant
Archival Resource Key
circa 1973
7
1
Quay Gallery and Peter Voulkos
Archival Resource Key
circa 1974
7
2
Joseph Raffael, Infinite Intricateness
Archival Resource Key
1976
7
3
"Made in America," American Art Review
Archival Resource Key
1977
7
4
Thrills, Chills, and Spills; The Second Artists' Soapbox Derby
Archival Resource Key
1978
7
5
Turning the Tide: Early L.A. Modernists, 1920-1956
Archival Resource Key
1990
7
6
Catalog Essays
Archival Resource Key
7
"Shape: Forming the L.A. Look" (1976)
Archival Resource Key
7
Draft and Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1995
7
8
Correspondence and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1995
7
8
Research
Archival Resource Key
circa 1991-1995
7
9
Larry Bell, Albuquerque Museum (1997)
Archival Resource Key
7
Draft
Archival Resource Key
1997
7
10
Correspondence and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1996
7
11
Research
Archival Resource Key
circa 1982-1996
7
12-14
Elmer Bischoff, "Walking a Tightrope," Laguna Art Museum
Archival Resource Key
1985
7
15
Robert Hudson, "Visions of Eyes and Hands," Allan Frumkin Gallery (1976)
Archival Resource Key
7
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1976
7
16
Notes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1976
7
17
Early Drafts
Archival Resource Key
circa 1976
7
18
Late Drafts
Archival Resource Key
circa 1976
7
19
Research
Archival Resource Key
circa 1976
7
20-21
Scope and Contents
Contains photocopies of articles dated 1964-1975.
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 1.
Richard Shaw, Newport Harbor Art Museum (1981)
Archival Resource Key
7
Drafts
Archival Resource Key
circa 1981
7
22
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 17.
Interview Transcript and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1981
7
23
Research
Archival Resource Key
circa 1976-1988
7
24
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials moved to Box 16, folder 1.
Publicity Writings
Archival Resource Key
7
Lita Albuquerque
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990-1996
7
25-26
Dean Andrews
Archival Resource Key
1994
7
27-29
Eleanore Berman
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990
7
30
Chase Chien
Archival Resource Key
circa 1991
7
31
Guy Dill
Archival Resource Key
1979-1992
7
32
Peter Erskine
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990-1992
Includes 2 videocassettes (VHS).
7
33-36
Peter Erskine
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990-1992
8
1-3
Robert Irwin and James McHugh
Archival Resource Key
1991-1993
8
4
Sooja Kim
Archival Resource Key
1994
8
5
Ann Labriola
Archival Resource Key
circa 1996-1997
Includes 1 videocassette (VHS).
8
6-7
Nina Frost Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1991
8
8
Tom Rose
Archival Resource Key
circa 1992
8
9
Charles Strong
Archival Resource Key
1991, 1994
8
10-11
Joyce Treiman
Archival Resource Key
1993-1994
8
12
Betty Tsou Fong
Archival Resource Key
1983, 1986
8
13
William Turner Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1991
8
14
Diana Hsui-lu Wong
Archival Resource Key
1990-1994
8
15-17
Writings by Others
Archival Resource Key
8
A Heritage of Outdoor Sculpture by Warren Radford
Archival Resource Key
1990
8
18
Space in Japanese Residential Architecture by Joseph N. Newland
Archival Resource Key
1978
8
19
Frank Stella Chronology
Archival Resource Key
circa 1987
8
20
Oversized Item from Books, The Art of Light and Space, Draft Fragments with Editor's Annotations, De Wain Valentine Chapter
Archival Resource Key
16
1
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 6, folder 4.
Oversized Item from Books, The Art of Light and Space, Source Material, Robert Irwin's Theories
Archival Resource Key
16
1
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 6, folder 22.
Oversized Material from Articles, Sam Francis, Unpublishes Posthumous Article
Archival Resource Key
16
1
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 6, folder 36.
Oversized Material from Catalog Essays, Robert Hudson, "Visions of Eyes and Hands," Research
Archival Resource Key
16
1
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 7, folders 20-21.
Oversized Material from Catalog Essays, Richard Shaw, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Research
Archival Resource Key
16
1
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials from Box 7, folder 24.
Oversized Material from Articles, Bruce Connor
Archival Resource Key
17
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 6, folder 32.
Oversized Material from Catalog Essays, Richard Shaw, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Drafts
Archival Resource Key
17
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 7, folder 22.
Project Files
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
1.6 Linear feet
Boxes 8-10, 16
circa 1950-1990
Scope and Contents
This series contains records relating to major projects overseen by Butterfield, including a catalog of artworks held by the corporation Pacific Enterprises, a cross-disciplinary project overseen by Butterfield at the San Francisco Art Institute called the Waterfront Project, and a publishing company for which Butterfield served as managing editor called Lapis Press.
Arrangement
The series is arranged as 3 subseries.
Missing Title
- 3.1: The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises Artist Files and Interviews
- 3.2. Waterfront Project Photographs and Sound Recordings
- 3.3. Lapis Press
The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises Artist Files and Interviews
3.1
Archival Resource Key
1 Linear foot
circa 1990
8
Scope and Contents
Records related to a published catalog of the corporate art collection of Pacific Enterprises include galleys of artist biographies as they appeared in the book, a typescript glossary of terms related to artworks in the collection, and nine sound cassettes (microcassettes) containing artist interviews conducted by Michael Karp. Microcassettes have poor sound quality, and the artists being interviewed are not named or consistently identified in cassette labels. Those who have been identified are listed in the folder listing, below, in the order in which their interviews occur on the cassette. Interviews tend to be around 20 minutes in duration.
Artist files generally contain typescript artist biographies, resumes obtained from galleries or from the artist, photocopies of clippings and articles related to the artist, and sometimes contain exhibition printed material and photographs of artwork. Most of the biographies were written by Micahel Karp, but a few were written by Butterfield, including biographies for Arleo, Breschi, Ruth Duckworth, Kenneth Ferguson, David Gilhooly, Tom Marioni, Richard Shaw, Inez Storer, and Peter Voulkos. Note that files do not exist for every artist that was included in the Pacific Enterprises Catalog.
Arrangement
Additional artist files maintained by Jan Butterfield can be found in the writings series under Publicity Writings when they contain writings produced by Butterfield for the artist, in the Personal Business Records series under Correspondence when they contain correspondence between Butterfield and the artist. Additional artist files containing only reproductions of artwork are found in the Photographs series.
Artist Biogrpahies, Galley Proof
Archival Resource Key
circa 1991
8
21-22
Glossary, Typescript
Archival Resource Key
1991
8
23
Interviews
Archival Resource Key
9 Sound cassettes (microcassette)
circa 1990
8
24-26
Scope and Contents
Microcassette 1 of 9
-
John Millei
-
Sam Maloof
-
David Ireland
-
Ron Cooper
Microcassette 2 of 9
- Ron Cooper (continued)
-
Lita Albuquerque
-
Gus Foster
-
David Kimball Anderson
-
Robert Arneson
- Unidentified sculptor
-
David Pearson
-
Louis Pearson
Microcassette 3 of 9
- Louis Pearson (continued)
-
Guy Dill
-
Laddie Dill
Microcassette 4 of 9
-
James Morris
-
Howard Buchwald
-
Dean Johnson
-
Ann Adair
Microcassette 5 of 9
- Add Adair (continued)
-
Tom Marioni
-
James Linnehan
-
Annette McCormick
-
Tim Mather
Microcassette 6 of 9
- Gillian Theobald (Note with Theobald's name indicates this may be part 2 of this interview, but no part 1 is extant.)
-
Keith Milow
-
Norma Pechansky Glasser
-
Zizi Raymond
-
Rosaline Delisle
-
Marilyn Levine
-
Nelson Valentine
-
Frank Romero
-
Peter Alexander
-
Yoshio Taylor
Microcassette 7 of 9
- Gretchen Ewart (Note by Ewart's name indicates this is part 2 of the interview, but no part 1 is extant.)
-
Skip Miller
- Buelbo (?)
-
Richard Deutsch
-
Tom Ashcraft
Microcassette 8 of 9
-
Inez Storer
-
Jean Lowe
-
Eleane Grove
-
Andrew Ginzel
-
Kristen Jones
-
Charles Arnoldi
Microcassette 9 of 9
- Charles Arnoldi (continued)
-
Fran Martin
-
Paul Sarkisian
-
Carol Sarkisian
-
Steven Beye
Artist Files
Archival Resource Key
8
Mark Abildgaard
Archival Resource Key
1990
8
27
Ann Adair
Archival Resource Key
1990
8
28
Edward Allington
Archival Resource Key
1987-1989
8
29
David Anderson
Archival Resource Key
1989
8
30
Adrian Arleo
Archival Resource Key
1987-1988
8
31
Richard Artschwager
Archival Resource Key
1986-1988
8
32
Bill Barrell
Archival Resource Key
1982-1985
8
33
Joel Bass
Archival Resource Key
1986-1987
8
34
Bennett Bean
Archival Resource Key
1988-1989
8
35
Howard Ben Tre
Archival Resource Key
1987-1988
8
36
Roger Berry
Archival Resource Key
1980-1989
8
37
Derek Boshier
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
8
38
Nick Boskovich
Archival Resource Key
1985-1990
9
1
Robert Brady
Archival Resource Key
1976-1989
9
2
Karen Breschi
Archival Resource Key
1987-1989
9
3
Howard Buchwald
Archival Resource Key
1975-1989
9
4
John Buck
Archival Resource Key
1987-1988
9
5
Peter Campus
Archival Resource Key
1981-1989
9
6
Dale Chihuly
Archival Resource Key
1981-1989
9
7
Annette Corcoran
Archival Resource Key
1984-1989
9
8
Philip Cornelius
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
9
9
Ron Davis
Archival Resource Key
1976-1989
9
10
Constance De Jong
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
11
Tony DeLap
Archival Resource Key
1963-1986
9
12
Rosaline Delisle
Archival Resource Key
1987-1989
9
13
Richard Deutsch
Archival Resource Key
1988
9
14
Joseph DiGiorgio
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990
9
15
Guy Dill
Archival Resource Key
1983
9
16
Ruth Duckworth
Archival Resource Key
1982-1989
9
17
Ibsen Espada
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
18
Ned Evans
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
19
Gretschen Ewart
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
20
Kenneth Ferguson
Archival Resource Key
1979-1988
9
21
Gus Foster
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
22
Connie Fox
Archival Resource Key
1986-1990
9
23
Hermine Freed
Archival Resource Key
1980
9
24
David Gilhooly
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
25
Norma Glasser
Archival Resource Key
1987
9
26
Larry Gray
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
9
27
Red Grooms
Archival Resource Key
1987-1989
9
28
Eaine Grove
Archival Resource Key
1990
9
29
Al Held
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
30
Tom Holland
Archival Resource Key
1974-1988
9
31
John Hull
Archival Resource Key
1987-1989
9
32
Jim Huntington
Archival Resource Key
1986-1989
9
33
Phillis Ideal
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
34
Dean Johnson
Archival Resource Key
1986-1989
9
35
Kristin Jones
Archival Resource Key
1986-1989
9
36
William King
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
37
Jeff Koons
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
38
Arva Leodas
Archival Resource Key
1985-1989
9
39
Dennis Leon
Archival Resource Key
1977-1990
9
40
Marilyn Levine
Archival Resource Key
1986
9
41
Sol LeWitt
Archival Resource Key
1986-1989
9
42
James Linnehan
Archival Resource Key
1990
9
43
Jean Lowe
Archival Resource Key
1988-1989
9
44
Gregory Mahoney
Archival Resource Key
1987-1988
9
45
Sam Maloof
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990
9
46
Tom Marioni
Archival Resource Key
1974-1990
9
47
Fran Martin
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
48
Tim Mather
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
9
49
David McClear
Archival Resource Key
1987-1989
9
50
Annette McCormick
Archival Resource Key
1986-1990
9
51
John Millei
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
52
Skip Miller
Archival Resource Key
1990
9
53
Keith Milow
Archival Resource Key
1982-1990
9
54
Mike Moran
Archival Resource Key
1987-1989
9
55
Jesús Bautista Moroles
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
56
James Morris
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
57
Jay Musler
Archival Resource Key
1990
9
58
Ronna Neuenschwander
Archival Resource Key
1987-1990
9
59
John Nygren
Archival Resource Key
1990
9
60
Eric Orr
Archival Resource Key
1980-1989
9
61
Shauna Peck
Archival Resource Key
1987-1989
9
62
Jeff Perone
Archival Resource Key
1990
9
63
Judy Pfaff
Archival Resource Key
1986-1989
9
64
Zizi Raymond
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
65
John Register
Archival Resource Key
circa 1989
9
66
Frank Romero
Archival Resource Key
1984-1989
9
67
James Rosenquist
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
68
Carol Sarkisian
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
9
69
Paul Sarkisian
Archival Resource Key
1982-1987
9
70
Adrian Saxe
Archival Resource Key
1985-1990
9
71
Italo Scanga
Archival Resource Key
1989-1990
9
72
Sean Scully
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
73
Richard Shaw
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
9
74
Peter Shire
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
75
Marion Stiebel
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
9
76
Sandy Skogland
Archival Resource Key
1981-1989
9
77
David Smith
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
9
78
Pat Steir
Archival Resource Key
1989
9
79
Inez Storer
Archival Resource Key
1987-1990
9
80
Roger Sweet
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990
9
81
Yoshio Taylor
Archival Resource Key
1982-1990
9
82
Gillian Theobald
Archival Resource Key
1988-1989
9
83
Gwen Thomas
Archival Resource Key
1986-1989
9
84
John Torreano
Archival Resource Key
1990
9
85
Leo Valledor
Archival Resource Key
1985
9
86
Peter Voulkos
Archival Resource Key
1975-1990
9
87
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to box 16, folder 2.
Peter Waite
Archival Resource Key
1987-1988
9
88
Roscoe West
Archival Resource Key
1976-1989
9
89
Margaret Wharton
Archival Resource Key
1981-1987
9
90
Sheila Wolk
Archival Resource Key
1987
9
91
Elizabeth Woodman
Archival Resource Key
1978-1988
9
92
Oversized material from The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises, Artist Files, Peter Voulkos
Archival Resource Key
16
2
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 9, folder 87.
Waterfront Project Photographs and Sound Recordings
3.2
Archival Resource Key
0.4 Linear feet
1976-1978
10
Scope and Contents
Jan Butterfield coordinated the waterfront project while on the faculty of the San Francisco Art Institute. The project began in 1976 was modeled on the La Defense project in Paris, which involved local artists in urban planning of a blighted area. Participants in the project included Butterfield, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Melinda Wortz, Eric Orr, Dr. E. Wortz, Frank Gehry, Newton and Helen Harrison, and Josh Young, as well as students at the Art Institute. The project and was designed to take a cross-disciplinary approach to urban planning and development for the waterfront district of San Francisco, and to involve artists and local residents in decision-making. Records relating to the project found in this series include photographs of meetings and waterfront scenes, most of which are credited to Jan Butterfield, and sound recordings of meetings, lectures, and literary readings. The lecture by Jan Butterfield contains detailed information about the project as a whole. Sound recordings are on five sound tape reels and 1 sound cassette.
Arrangement
Fragments of additional taped meetings are found on reels that were recycled for Butterfield's interviews. See series 1, interviews and lectures, David Hockney interview and John Cage performance and lecture.
Photographs
Archival Resource Key
circa 1976-1978
10
1-2
Sound Recordings
Archival Resource Key
10
Waterfront Meeting, Frank Gehry's
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1977 July 6
10
3
Waterfront Lecture, Melinda Wortz
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1977 September
10
3
Waterfront Class with Josh Young
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1977 September 16
10
4
Waterfront Class with Toby Rosenblatt, Audrey Owen, Bob Moyer
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1977 October 21
10
4
Lecture by Butterfield at San Francisco Art Institute
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
1978 February 6
10
5
Literary Reading by Waterfront Writers
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound tape reel
1978 May
10
5
Sound Tape Reel Box, Empty, Labeled Waterfront Meeting, Los Angeles
Archival Resource Key
1977 August 31
10
5
Lapis Press Records
3.3
Archival Resource Key
0.3 Linear feet
circa 1950s-1988
bulk 1984-1988
10
Scope and Contents
Lapis Press was a publishing firm Butterfield was involved in. A few scattered records exist in this collection relating to Lapis publications, including a catalog, clippings with cartoons files as "Lapis Jokes," newspaper clippings relating the activities of the press, and two interviews on two sound cassettes with unidentified scholars of Carl Jung, possibly including one with C.A. Meyer, the author of Lapis publication
Soul and Body. One of the interviews is falsely labeled Jean Star Untermeyer, but could not have been her as it post-dates her death. Also found are a number of photographs that were collected for Lapis publications, including copy negatives for Dorothea Tanning's Birthday, photographs of San Francisco beat-era writers from various sources for the book Whitman's Wild Children, and photographs of an unidentified publishing event.
Catalog
Archival Resource Key
circa 1986
10
6
Lapis Jokes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1984-1988
10
7
Interviews Related to Soul and Body by C.A. Meier
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound cassettes
circa 1986
10
8
Photographs
Archival Resource Key
10
Birthday by Dorothea Tanning
Archival Resource Key
circa 1986
Copy negatives
10
9
Whitman's Wild Children by Neeli Cherkovski
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950-1986
10
10-11
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 2.
Unidentified Event
Archival Resource Key
1988
10
12
Publicity
Archival Resource Key
1984-1985
10
13
Oversized Materials from Lapis Press Records, Photographs, Whitman's Wild Children
Archival Resource Key
16
2
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 10, folder 10.
Personal Business Records
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
1.1 Linear feet
Boxes 10-11, OV 17-19
1967-1996
Arrangement
A copy of the periodical
The Journal of Art, which has records in this series, is found in series 5, Printed Materials. Additional press releases are also foundin seris 5, Printed Materials.
Scope and Contents
This series contains records relating to Butterfield's sale and appraisal of artworks, correspondence relating to her writing and publicity work for artists, other records relating to her career including detailed resumes, and a few personal records relating to her family, friends, finances and health. Also found is 1 sound cassette from Butterfield's answering machine containing incoming messages and some phone conversations from the early 1980s.
Correspondence files also contain many enclosures, including contracts, postcards, photographs of works of art, and printed materials. The file on the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission contains extensive writings and other documentation relating to the sculptor George Herms, the subject of an exhibition at the municipal art gallery, Barnsdall Park.
Art Sales and Loans
Archival Resource Key
10
Price Lists
Archival Resource Key
1990-1999
10
14
John Natsoulas Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1993
10
15
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1984-1994
10
16-18
Santa Monica Auctions
Archival Resource Key
1993
10
19
Authentication of Gauguin's Vue du Port du Martinique
Archival Resource Key
1995
10
20
Business License, The Journal of Art
Archival Resource Key
1989
10
21
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
10
Outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1988-1995
10
22
Personal
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970, 1979
10
23
Miscellaneous Business
Archival Resource Key
1992-1994
10
24
Archives of American Art
Archival Resource Key
1991
10
25
AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art)
Archival Resource Key
1991
10
26
Christina Chalmers
Archival Resource Key
1992
10
27
Janet Disraeli
Archival Resource Key
1991
10
28
Tom Eatherton
Archival Resource Key
1967-1981
10
29
Venessa Falgoust
Archival Resource Key
1990-1991
10
30
Walter Hopps and Elizabeth Shepherd
Archival Resource Key
1988
10
31
Eric Johnson
Archival Resource Key
circa 1994-1996
Includes 2 videocassettes (VHS) contianing studio footage.
10
32
David Jones
Archival Resource Key
1987-1993
10
33
Los Angeles Cultural Commission regarding George Herms Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
1992
10
34
Eric Orr
Archival Resource Key
1983-1991
10
35
Stuart Collection, University of California San Diego
Archival Resource Key
1986
10
36
Calvin Tomkins
Archival Resource Key
1992
10
37
Bill Witherspoon
Archival Resource Key
1990-1992
10
38
Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
11
Personal
Archival Resource Key
1992-1994
11
1
Professional
Archival Resource Key
1994
11
2
Job Search
Archival Resource Key
1990-1994
11
3-7
Notes
Archival Resource Key
circa 1983-1994
11
8
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 18.
Press Releases
Archival Resource Key
11
Death of Richard Brown, Kimball Art Museum
Archival Resource Key
1979
11
9
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 17.
Henry Hopkins
Archival Resource Key
1970
11
10
Résumés and CVs
Archival Resource Key
11
Jan Butterfield
Archival Resource Key
1980-1994
11
11
Henry Hopkins
Archival Resource Key
circa 1974
11
12
Telephone Messages
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
circa 1981
11
13
Unidentified Technical Drawing
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970-1990
11
14
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 19.
Oversized Personal Business Records, Press Releases, Death of Richard Brown
Archival Resource Key
17
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 9.
Oversized Personal Business Records, Notes
Archival Resource Key
18
Oversized Personal Business Records, Unidentified Technical Drawing
Archival Resource Key
19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 14.
Printed Materials
Series 5
Archival Resource Key
1.8 Linear feet
Boxes 11-12, 16, OV 17-19
1961-1997
Scope and Contents
This series contains articles published in magazines, newspapers, journals, and other art-related publications, as well as exhibition catalogs, posters, plans for installations and exhibition spaces, a disassembled scrapbook, and special print publications. Many of the articles and clippings exist in photocopy only.
Any printed material containing writings by Butterfield is filed at the beginning of the series under "Articles by Butterfield." A bound collection of article photocopies is found at the beginning of the series, followed by early articles Butterfield wrote for Texas papers between 1970-1972. Individual articles by Butterfield are then filed by artist's name, or by the title of the article if the subject was not a single artist. Clippings have a few files arranged by subject, but most clippings are filed chronologically. A few clippings files also contain press releases. Most of the articles are about specific artists, galleries, museums, and other art world stories. Exhibition catalogs are arranged alphabetically by artist or by exhibition title for group shows. Additional exhibition catalogs are found in the Writings series, among Butterfield's drafts of catalog essays and publicity writings. An exhibition program for Tony Labat is filed under "Articles by Butterfield."
Exhibition posters are for Ferus Gallery from 1963 and Robert Hudson at Moore College in 1978. Plans include two floor plans of installations by James Turrell, one axonometric view of an unidentified installation, and two elevation drawings of P.S.1 in Queens, New York. Publicity files are arranged by subject and contain multiple types of printed material such as press releases, clippings, exhibition catalogs, and announcements. Readings for "Issues in Contemporary Art" contains photocopied articles used by Butterfield to teach a college course of that name.
Special publications include magazines and other printed matter which Butterfield collected or contributed to, including two issues of the program for the Artists' Soapbox Derby at the San Francisco Museum of Art and a 1978 guide to art spaces published by the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art.
Arrangement
Additional printed materials are found in series 2, Writings, series 3, Project files, and series 4, Personal Business Records.
Articles by Butterfield
Archival Resource Key
11
Bound Portfolio
Archival Resource Key
circa 1985
11
15
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Archival Resource Key
1970-1972
11
16
Texas Observer
Archival Resource Key
1971
11
17
"Context: Light and Space as Art"
Archival Resource Key
1982
11
18
"The Russians Are Coming"
Archival Resource Key
1980
11
19
Lita Albuquerque
Archival Resource Key
1989-1990
11
20
Larry Bell
Archival Resource Key
1978, 1982
11
21
Fletcher Benton
Archival Resource Key
1980, 1986
11
22
Joan Brown
Archival Resource Key
1975
11
23
Chris Burden
Archival Resource Key
1975
11
24
Judy Chicago
Archival Resource Key
1979
11
25
Christo
Archival Resource Key
1971
11
26
Richard Diebenkorn
Archival Resource Key
1983
11
27
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1979-1983
11
28-29
Joe Goode
Archival Resource Key
1982
11
30
Philip Guston
Archival Resource Key
1980
11
31
George Herms
Archival Resource Key
1978-1979
11
32
Robert Hudson
Archival Resource Key
1976, 1985
11
33
Robert Irwin
Archival Resource Key
1972-1981
11
34
Oliver Jackson
Archival Resource Key
1982
11
35
Craig Kauffman
Archival Resource Key
1982
11
36
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials moved to Box 16, folder 3.
Tony Labat
Archival Resource Key
1987
11
37
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 3.
Modesto Lanzone
Archival Resource Key
1982
11
38
Helen Lundberg
Archival Resource Key
1983
11
39
Bruce Nauman
Archival Resource Key
1975
11
40
Manuel Neri
Archival Resource Key
1981
11
41
Maria Nordman
Archival Resource Key
1979
11
42
Joseph Raffael
Archival Resource Key
1976
11
43
George Segal
Archival Resource Key
circa 1984
11
44
Wayne Thiebaud
Archival Resource Key
1977
11
45
James Turrell
Archival Resource Key
1980
11
46
"Those Were the Days: L.A. in the 60s"
Archival Resource Key
1981
11
47
Article by Henry Hopkins, "West Coast Style"
Archival Resource Key
1966
11
48
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 3.
Articles about Butterfield
Archival Resource Key
11
Art of Light and Space Review
Archival Resource Key
1993
11
49
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 3.
Lapis Press
Archival Resource Key
1985-1987
11
50
Art Over the Sofa Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
1991
11
51
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
11
Family
Archival Resource Key
1961-1971
11
52
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1979-1994
11
53
Scope and Contents
Also contains funeral mass program.
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials moved to Box 16, folder 4.
Henry Hopkins
Archival Resource Key
1968-1991
11
54-55
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 17.
Peter Erskine
Archival Resource Key
1992
11
56
General Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1968-1975
11
57
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials moved to Box 16, folder 4.
General Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1979-1989
11
58
General Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1990-1991
11
59
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 17.
General Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1992-1993
11
60
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 18.
General Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1994-1997, undated
11
61
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 18.
Exhibition Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
11
24 Young Los Angeles Artists (1971), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Archival Resource Key
1971
11
62
Albright Knox Gallery Acquisitions (1961)
Archival Resource Key
1961
11
63
The Human Condition (1984), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Biennial
Archival Resource Key
1984
11
64
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to box 16, folder 5.
Jack Brogan: Projects (1980), Baxter Art Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1980
11
65
Fluid Bodies (1996), Gallery 825
Archival Resource Key
1996
11
66
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1961, 1967
12
1
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1972-1978
12
2
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1979-1980
12
3
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 5.
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1981-1986
12
4
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1986-1992, undated
12
5
Frimkess (1992), R. Mutt 1917 Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1992
12
6
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings from the USSR (1973)
Archival Resource Key
1973
12
7
The Paintings of James Kelly, 1952-1990, The Wiegand Gallery (1990)
Archival Resource Key
1990
12
8
Ed Kienholz, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1966)
Archival Resource Key
1966
12
9
Light/Motion/Space, Milwaukee Art Center (1967)
Archival Resource Key
1967
12
10
MA: Space-Time in Japan, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Archival Resource Key
circa 1979
12
11
David Maxim: Painted Philosophy (1994), University of California at Berkeley Museums at Blackhawk
Archival Resource Key
1994
12
12
New Structuralists (1994), Boritzer/Gray/Hamano
Archival Resource Key
1994
12
13
Beverly Pepper: Small-Scale Sculpture and Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery (1989)
Archival Resource Key
1989
12
14
Ken Price: Figurine Cups, Gemini G.E.L.
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970
12
15
Clyfford Still (1976), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Archival Resource Key
1976
12
16
Exhibition Posters
Archival Resource Key
12
Ferus Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1963
12
17
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 5.
Robert Hudson, Moore College
Archival Resource Key
1978
12
18
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 19.
Plans
Archival Resource Key
1976, undated
12
19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 19.
Publicity
Archival Resource Key
12
Lee Roy Champagne
Archival Resource Key
circa 1994
12
20
Christo
Archival Resource Key
1991
12
21
Richard Diebenkorn
Archival Resource Key
1992-1993
12
22
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 18.
Edward Dugmore
Archival Resource Key
1991
12
23
Frederick Eversley
Archival Resource Key
1976-1977
12
24
Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
1980-1985
12
26
Joe Goode
Archival Resource Key
1988-1992
12
26
Robert Graham
Archival Resource Key
1992
12
27
"Helter Skelter" Exhibition (1992), Museum of Contemporary Art
Archival Resource Key
1992
12
28
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials moved to Box 16, folder 5.
Maricia Gygli King
Archival Resource Key
1988-1990
12
29
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Archival Resource Key
1986
12
30
Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, Calif.)
Archival Resource Key
1997
12
31
Bruce Nauman
Archival Resource Key
1994
12
32
Gount Giuseppe Panza di Biumo Gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art
Archival Resource Key
1994
12
33
Victor Raphael
Archival Resource Key
1989-1995
12
34
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1993-1994
12
35
Readings for "Issues in Contemporary Art"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1975
12
36-40
Scrapbook, "Ed Kienholz" (1966), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Archival Resource Key
1966
12
41
Special Publications
Archival Resource Key
12
Artists' Soapbox Derby Official Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1975, 1978
12
42
The Jounal of Art
Archival Resource Key
1989
12
43
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 6.
"Los Angeles County Art Museum," Los Angeles Times Supplement
Archival Resource Key
1965
12
44
Looking Critically: 21 Years of ArtForum Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1984
12
45
Museum of California
Archival Resource Key
1982
12
46
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 6.
The New Art Space, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
Archival Resource Key
1978
12
47
Oversized Articles by Butterfield, Craig Kauffman
Archival Resource Key
16
3
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 36.
Oversized Articles by Butterfield, Tony Labat
Archival Resource Key
16
3
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 37.
Oversized Article by Henry Hopkins, "West Coast Style"
Archival Resource Key
16
3
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 48.
Oversized Article about Butterfield, Art of Light and Space Review
Archival Resource Key
16
3
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 49.
Oversized Clippings, Sam Francis
Archival Resource Key
16
4
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials from Box 11, folder 53.
Oversized Clippings, General, 1968-1975
Archival Resource Key
16
4
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials from Box 11, folder 57.
Oversized Exhibition Catalogs, "The Human Condition," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Archival Resource Key
16
5
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 64.
Oversized Exhibition Catalogs, Sam Francis, 1979-1980
Archival Resource Key
16
5
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials from Box 12, folder 3.
Oversized Exhibition Posters, Ferus Gallery
Archival Resource Key
16
5
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 12, folder 17.
Oversized Publicity, "Helter Skelter" Exihbition, MOCA
Archival Resource Key
16
5
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials from Box 12, folder 28.
Oversized Special Publications, The Journal of Art
Archival Resource Key
16
6
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 12, folder 43.
Oversized Special Publications, Museum of California
Archival Resource Key
16
6
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials from Box 12, folder 46.
Oversized Clippings, Henry Hopkins
Archival Resource Key
17
Scope and Contents
Oversized materials from Box 11, folder 54.
Oversized Clippings, General, 1990-1991
Archival Resource Key
17
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 59.
Oversized Clippings, General, 1992-1993
Archival Resource Key
18
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 60.
Oversized Clippings, General, 1994-1997
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18
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 11, folder 61.
Oversized Publicity, Richard Diebenkorn
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18
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 12, folder 22.
Oversized Exhibition Posters, Robert Hudson, Moore College
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19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 12, folder 18.
Oversized Plans
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19
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 12, folder 19.
Photographs
Series 6
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2.2 Linear feet
Boxes 12-14, 16
1958-1994
Scope and Contents
This series contains photographs of Butterfield's friends, associates, and family, her travels to China and Greece, and her wedding to Henry Hopkins. Photographs of people include artists Philip Guston, Ed Kienholz, Henry Hopkins with Clyfford Still, Robert Irwin, Robert Rauschenberg, and a group photograph for the Los Angeles Magazine feature, "LA Art in the 1960s," the published version of which is found in series 5, Printed Materials. The bulk of this series consists of photographs of works of art, arranged by artist, with a few photographs of exhibitions at the end of the series.
Most of the photographs are either prints or slides, but some negatives and contact sheets are also found. Most are of unknown origin or were taken by others, except for the photographs of Philip Guston, and photographs of works of art by Michael Brewster, Ron Davis, Robert Irwin, and Ed Ruscha, which are credited Jan Butterfield.
Arrangement
Additional photographs are found in series 2, Writings, and series 3, Project Files.
People
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12
Philip Guston, photographs by Jan Butterfield
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1979
12
48
Ed Kienholz
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circa 1970
12
49
Henry Hopkins with Clyfford Still
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circa 1976
12
50
Robert Irwin
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1979, undated
12
51
Group for "LA Art in the 1960s" Article, LA Magazine
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1968
12
52
Robert Rauschenberg
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circa 1970s
12
53
James Turrell
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1984
12
54
Personal
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12
Butterfield with Unidentified Others
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circa 1980
Contact sheets
12
55
Wedding of Butterfield and Henry Hopkins
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circa 1970
Contact sheets
12
56
China
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circa 1980
Contact sheets, negatives, and slides
12
57-58
Greece
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circa 1980s
Negatives and slides
13
1
Unidentified
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1988, undated
Negatives and prints
13
2
Works of Art
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13
Michael Asher
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1970
13
3
Larry Bell
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1972-1981
13
4
Billy Al Bengston
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undated
13
5
Fletcher Benton
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undated
13
6
Michael Brewster, photographs by Jan Butterfield
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1981
Negatives and prints
13
7
Michael Brewster
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1972-1979
13
8
Joan Brown
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1974-1978
13
9
Judy Chicago
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1979
13
10
Ron Cooper
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1972-1973
13
11
Mary Corse
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1967-1968
13
12
Eric de la Cova
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1984-1988
13
13
Leonard Cutrow
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1960-1988
13
14-17
Ron Davis, photograph by Jan Butterfield
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circa 1974-1975
13
18
Richard Diebenkorn
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1975, 1981
13
19
Guy Dill
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1970-1991
13
20-22
Toni Dove
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1988-1989
13
23
Tom Eatherton
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1991
13
24
Jules Engel
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undated
13
25
Peter Erskine
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1991
13
26
Joe Fay
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1988-1990
13
27
Lorser Feitelson
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1980, undated
13
28
Oskar Fischinger
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1976
13
29
Roy Fowler
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1985-1988
13
30
Hans Frabel
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undated
13
31
Sam Francis
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1976
13
32
David Furman
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1989
13
33
Paul Georges
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1978-1988
14
1
Philip Guston
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circa 1979
14
2
Helen and Newton Harrision, Installation View
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1977
14
3
Robert Hudson
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1979-1988
14
4
Malou Flato
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1989
14
5
Robert Irwin
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14
Photographs by Jan Butterfield
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Negatives, contact sheets, and prints.
14
6
Slides and Transparencies
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1975-1992
14
7
Prints
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1971-1985
14
8
Dean Johnson
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1983-1989
14
9
Eric Johnson
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1990-1994
14
10
Marcia King
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1984-1989
14
11
Peter Krasnow
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1976, undated
14
12
Anne Labriola
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circa 1991
14
13
Rico Lebrun
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undated
14
14
Helen Lundberg
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circa 1975, undated
14
15
Mary Malott
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1986
14
16
John McLaughlin
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1977, undated
14
17
Ed Moses
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1970
14
18
Bruce Nauman
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1970-1973
14
19
Maria Nordman
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1973-1976
14
20
Maria Nordman
Eric Orr
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1983
14
21
Helen Pashgian
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undated
14
22
Agnes Pelton
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undated
14
23
Edward Ruscha, photograph by Jan Butterfield
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circa 1970
14
24
Richard Shaw
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1987-1988
14
25
Henriette Stone
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undated
14
26
Inez Storer
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1987-1988
14
27
Sarah Tamor
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1991
14
28
Hap Tivey
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circa 1974-1990
14
29-31
James Turrell
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1967-1991
14
32
James Turrell
Doug Wheeler
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circa 1981
14
33
Doug Wheeler
De Wain Valentine
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1968-1989
14
34
Susan Kaiser Vogel
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1977-1991
14
35
Scope and Contents
Oversized material moved to Box 16, folder 7.
Peter Voulkos
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circa 1958
14
36
Elyn Zimmerman
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1980-1981
14
37
Artist Unidentified
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circa 1980s-1990s
14
38
Exhibitions
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14
"A Time and Place," (1991) Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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1991
14
39
"Expressionist Utopia," (1993), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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1993-1994
Also contains press release.
14
40
Mary Miss and Roland Reiss, Mount Saint Mary's College
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1980
14
41
Oversized Photographs, Works of Art, Susan Kaiser Vogel
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16
7
Scope and Contents
Oversized material from Box 14, folder 35.
Sound and Video Recordings
Series 7
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0.4 Linear feet
Box 15
1987-1997
Scope and Contents
This series contains 4 videocassettes (VHS) and 1 sound cassette with art-related recordings. Videos include
The Painter Sam Francis (1992); Breathing Light (circa 1988), about a work of the same title by Peter Erskine; documentation of three multimedia installations by Judit Hersko including Zurbaran Bewitched, Witch-hunt, and Black Forest Requiem, and a documentation of performances and experiments with light entitled Light Dance by Seth Riskin (1987-1995). The sound cassette is an acoustiguide for the 1990 Edward Ruscha exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. A single unlabeled cassette containing what appears to be a band rehearsal is also found.
Arrangement
Most of the sound recordings in the collection are found in series 1, Interviews and Lectures. Additional audio recordings are found in series 3, Project Files. Additional video recordings are found in the Publicity subseries of series 2, Writings, and in the correspondence subseries of series 3, Personal Business Records.
Light Dance
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1 Videocassettes (VHS)
1987-1995
15
1
Breathing Light
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1 Videocassettes (VHS)
circa 1988
15
2
The Painter Sam Francis
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1 Videocassettes (VHS)
1992
15
3
Judit Hersko Installations
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1 Videocassettes (VHS)
circa 1997
15
4
Edward Ruscha Acoustiguide
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1 Sound cassette
1990
15
5
Unidentified Musical Recording
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1 Sound cassette
undated
15
6