Archives of American Art
Leon Golub papers
Golub, Leon, 1922-2004
AAA.goluleon
Archival Resource Key
16.5 Linear feet
4.13 Gigabytes
1930s-2009
The papers of painter, political activist, and educator Leon Golub are dated 1930s-2009 and measure 16.5 linear feet and 4.13 GB. His career as a painter and educator – and, to a far lesser extent, his personal interests and activities – are documented by correspondence, interviews, writings by Golub and other authors, subject files, printed and digital material, and audiovisual recordings. Also included are biographical materials, personal business records, and photographs of Leon Golub and wife Nancy Spero. Posthumously dated items are mostly condolence letters, obituaries, printed material, and inventories of his work.
The collection is in English, French, German, and Japanese.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in 8 series:
Missing Title
- Series 1: Biographical Material, 1930s-2006 (Boxes 1-2; 1.4 linear feet, ER01-ER02; 3.82 GB)
- Series 2: Correspondence, 1955-2004 (Boxes 2-3; 0.9 linear foot)
- Series 3: Interviews, 1967-2004 (Boxes 3-4; 0.8 linear foot)
- Series 4: Writings, 1948-2003 (Boxes 4-5, 21; 1.1 linear foot, ER03; 0.098 GB)
- Series 5: Subject Files, 1959-2005 (Boxes 5-11, OV 18; 6.2 linear feet, ER04-ER06, 0.213 GB)
- Series 6: Personal Business Records, 1965-2009 (Boxes 11-12; 1.4 linear feet)
- Series 7: Printed Material, circa 1950s-2009 (Boxes 12-16, 21, OV 19; 3.9 linear feet)
- Series 8: Photographs, 1940s-2004 (Boxes 16-17, OV 20; 0.6 linear foot)
Biographical / Historical
Leon Golub (1922-2004) was a painter in New York City known for figurative work with political content, an anti-war activist, and professor of art at Rutgers University.
Chicago native Leon Golub studied art history at the University of Chicago (BA 1942) before serving as a cartographer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Europe during World War II. Upon returning home, Golub became identified with Monster Roster, a group of Chicago artists who believed art must be grounded in real events in order to be relevant to the viewer and society, an idea he held throughout his life. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Golub pursued his interest in painting (BFA 1949, MFA 1950) and met fellow student Nancy Spero whom he married in 1951. After graduation he began teaching at local colleges, exhibited in Chicago and New York, and served as chair of "Exhibition Momentum" (1950). The couple and their two sons lived in Italy from 1956-1957. In 1959 they moved to Paris and, while there, a third son was born. Upon returning to New York City in 1964, Golub became actively involved with the Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam, other anti-war groups, and civil liberties organizations. While his painting style changed with time, Golub continued to explore power, violence and conflict, often working in series with titles such as Combats, Napalm, Mercenaries, Interrogation, and Riot.
He first participated in a group show with other veterans at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947, and soon was included in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe, including the Guggenheim Museum's influential national traveling exhibition "Younger American Painters" (1954-1956). Golub and Spero exhibited their work in tandem and collaborated on installations. He continued to participate in group shows including "Documenta IX" (2002). Golub's work is included in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world.
Golub began his teaching career soon after graduation, first at a junior college in Chicago. In the later 1950s he served briefly on the faculties of Illinois Institute of Technology School of Design and Indiana University; in the 1960s at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. He began a long tenure at Rutgers University, School of Visual Arts in 1970 and retired in 1991. In the early 1990s, both Golub and Spero were affiliated with Sommerakademie in Salzburg. Golub wrote and spoke on art, politics, and social issues; he also published many articles, statements, and book reviews, as well as contributing introductions and essays for exhibition catalogs.
Awards and honors included the Skowhegan Medal for Painting (1988), Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights Award (1989), Dickinson College Arts Award (1992), National Foundation of Jewish Culture Visual Arts Award (1995), and Hiroshima Art Prize shared with Nancy Spero (1996). Golub was awarded honorary doctorates of Fine Arts by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1982), Swarthmore College (1985), College of St. Rose (1995), Trinity College (1999), and Pratt Institute (2000). He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002).
Leon Golub died in New York City August 8, 2004 from complications following surgery.
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Preferred Citation
Leon Golub papers, 1930s-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Related Materials
Also among the holdings of the Archives of American Art are oral history interviews with Leon Golub conducted for the Archives of American Art by Bruce Hooten 1965 and Irving Sandler 1968 October 28-November 18. The Nancy Spero papers, 1940s-2009, bulk 1970-2009, include documentation of many of the couple's collaborative projects, joint exhibitions, their family, and shared interests.
Scope and Contents
The papers of painter, political activist, and educator Leon Golub are dated 1930s-2009 and measure 16.5 linear feet and 4.13 GB. His career as a painter and educator – and, to a far lesser extent, his personal interests and activities – are documented by correspondence, interviews, writings, subject files, printed and digital material, and audiovisual recordings. Also included are biographical materials, personal business records, and photographs of Leon Golub and his art work. Posthumously dated items are mostly condolence letters, obituaries, printed material, and inventories of his work.
Biographical materials consist largely of video documentaries about Leon Golub and his work, obituaries, and information about his 2004 memorial service and a larger memorial tribute held later. Also found are educational records, passports, curricula vitae.
Correspondence is mostly of a professional nature, focusing on exhibitions, projects, collectors, articles submitted for publication, Golub's work, speaking engagements, awards, gifts of artwork, studio visits, and travel arrangements. Correspondents include dealers, curators, art historians, critics, collectors, writers, and editors. Scattered throughout are a small number of letters concerning personal business and politics.
Interviews with Leon Golub and joint interviews with Leon Golub and Nancy Spero were conducted for a variety of purposes. They are preserved as transcripts, video, and sound recordings. Writings by Golub include manuscripts and notes for articles, catalog essays, and miscellaneous writings. Notes and texts for talks, lectures, and panel discussions, include some transcripts and recordings. Among the writings by other authors are a dissertation, a thesis, academic papers, notes, texts of speeches, and a recording of a lecture by an unidentified speaker.
Subject files reflect Golub's professional and personal activities, interests and relationships. Of note are many files of "Images (source material)" used for a variety of artwork and projects. Personal business records documenting Golub's artistic output include many inventories and lists, and a comprehensive register of work, information about consignments, loans, photo permissions, and gifts or donations. Also found are extensive mailing lists.
Printed material includes clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, and a variety of miscellaneous printed items. Most material is about/mentions Golub, and/or includes reproductions of his work. Scattered throughout are items concerning topics of interest to Golub, and articles written by him.
The majority of the photographic materials are color digital prints of Golub's artwork. There are photographs of Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, family members, and friends and colleagues at exhibition events. Also found are a few photographs of Golub's plexibox sculptures.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Leon Golub papers were donated by Leon Golub in 1978; the majority of the papers were given in 2013 by The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts via their sons Stephen, Philip and Paul Golub. Material loaned for microfilming in 1969 is included with the 2013 donation.
Processing Information
This collection was processed to a minimal level and a finding aid prepared in 2015 by Catherine S. Gaines with assistance from volunteer Harriet E. Shapiro. The Archives of American Art has implemented minimal processing tactics when possible in order to increase access to more of our collections.
Minimal processing included arrangement to the series and folder levels. Generally, items within folders were simply verified with folder titles, but not arranged further. The collection was rehoused in archival containers and folders, but not all staples and clips were removed.
Born-digital materials were processed by Kirsi Ritosalmi-Kisner in 2019 with funding provided by Smithsonian Collection Care and Preservation Fund.
Existence and Location of Copies
Portions of the collection are available on 35mm microfilm reel N69-22 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
Photographs
Sound recordings
Art dealers
Art -- Collectors and collecting
Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
Interviews
Educators -- New York (State) -- New York
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York
Art historians
Art museum curators
Transcripts
Art critics
Video recordings
Spero, Nancy, 1926-2009
Biographical Material
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
1.4 Linear feet
Boxes 1-2
3.82 Gigabytes
ER01-ER02
1930s-2006
Scope and Contents
This series includes biographical documents such as school transcripts, curricula vitae, passports, and obituaries along with information about Golub's 2004 memorial service and a larger memorial tribute held many months later. There are multiple video documentaries about Golub and his work on 8 videocassettes and in digital format. The documentary "Leon Golub: The Late Works are the Catastrophes" is represented in multiple versions and excerpts. Also included is 1 videocassette of a family party.
Arrangement
Biographical materials are arranged alphabetically by folder title. Additional biographical materials regarding son Paul Golub are found among the subject files (Series 5).
About Golub and His Work
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1
"Leon Golub" and "Golub"
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2 Videocassettes (VHS)
undated
circa 1988
1
1
Scope and Contents
Labels incomplete; may be duplicates of other works in this series.
"Golub: A Film on Art, Politics, and the Media"
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1 Videocassettes (VHS)
1988
1
2
"Der Maler Leon Golub" by Jaqueline Kaess, and "Leon Golub to the Dogs" by Charlie Ahearn
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2 Videocassettes (VHS)
1993-2003
Includes born-digital records, see ER01.
1
3
Leon Golub to the Dogs, a video by Charlier Ahearn (2003), Digital Video Recording
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1.15 Gigabytes
One computer file
2017
ER01
Scope and Contents
(Duplicate of film in Box 1, Folder 3)
"Leon Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes"
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3 Videocassettes (VHS)
Two tapes are labeled "latest version" and "Demo"
2003-2005
Includes born-digital materials, see ER02.
1
4
Leon Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes, a film by Jerry Blumenthal (2004), Digital Video Recording
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2.67 Gigabytes
One computer file
2017
ER02
Scope and Contents
(Duplicate of film in Box 1, Folder 4)
Addresses
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undated
1
5-7
Scope and Contents
3 dismantled Rolodex files
Awards
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1973-1992
1
8
Calendars
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2003-2004
1
9-10
Curricula Vitae
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1970s-2000s
2
1-3
Educational Records, Transcripts (1938-1950)
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1948-1957
2
4
Family Letters
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1930s
2
5
Family Party
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1 Videocassettes (VHS)
1996
2
6
Genealogical Notes
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circa 1983-1999
undated
2
7
Memorial Service (2004 August 16)
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2004
2
8
Memorial Tribute, Cooper Union (2005 April 17)
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2005
2
9
Obituaries
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2004-2006
2
10
Passports and International Certificates of Vaccination
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1952-1987
2
11
Correspondence
Series 2
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0.9 Linear feet
Boxes 2-3
1955-2004
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerns exhibitions, projects, collectors, articles submitted for publication, Golub's work, speaking engagements, interviews, awards, political issues, gifts of artwork, studio visits, travel arrangments, and other topics regarding his professional career. Correspondents include dealers, curators, art historians, critics, collectors, writers, editors, and readers of Golub's published articles, among them: Lawrence Alloway, John Bird, Donald Kuspit, Hans-Ulrich Orist, and William Rubin.
Arrangement
Correspondence is filed by year.
Correspondence
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1955-1999
undated
2
12-32
Correspondence
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2000-2004
3
1-6
Interviews
Series 3
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0.8 Linear feet
Boxes 3-4
1967-2004
Scope and Contents
This series consists of edited and unedited transcripts, some published versions, a number of recorded interviews with Leon Golub, and several joint interviews with Nancy Spero. Interviews were conducted for a variety of purposes by graduate students, art historians, and others, among them: Jon Bird, Albert Elsen, Katy Kline, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Helaine Posner, Connie Samaras, Jeanne Siegel, and David Levi Straus. Included are 1 sound reel, 7 sound cassettes, 2 8-track sound cartridges and 4 videocassettes.
Arrangement
Interview transcripts and recordings are filed by date of interview; published versions are arranged by date of publication. Additional interview transcripts are scattered among the printed material (Series 7).
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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circa 1967-1983
3
7
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1968
3
8
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1968
3
9
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1975-1978
3
10
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1981-1984
3
11
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1984
3
12
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1984
3
13
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1985
3
14
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1985
3
15
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1986-1988
3
16
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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1990-1999
3
17
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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2000-2001
3
18
Leon Golub Interviews, Transcripts
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2002-2004
3
19
Leon Golub Interviews, Sound and Video Recordings
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2 Videocassettes (VHS)
2 Sound cartridges (8 track)
6 Sound cassettes
1 Sound tape reel
undated
circa 1970-1985
3
20-23
Scope and Contents
Sound recordings include interviews produced by Video Data Bank, Fresh Air, and NPR, as well as interviews conducted by Studs Terkel for WFMT, Karl Fortess, and one labeled Baigell; an interview at Ox-bow, and Terkel's show on a Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition of 1974. Video includes a BBC program entitled "Modern Art Practices and Debates" taped at the Museum of Modern Art, and "Face to Face with Leon Golub."
Leon Golub Interviews, Video Recordings
Archival Resource Key
2 Videocassettes (VHS)
2000-2003
4
1
Scope and Contents
Video recordings from Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal and segments from the 2003 Artomi Awards.
Leon Golub and Nancy Spero Interviews, Transcripts
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1983-circa 2003
4
2
Leon Golub and Nancy Spero Interview, Sound Recording
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1 Sound cassette
1981
4
3
Writings
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
1.1 Linear feet
Boxes 4-5, 21
0.098 Gigabytes
ER03
1948-2003
Scope and Contents
Writings by Golub include manuscripts, notes, and printed versions of articles, catalog essays, statements, miscellaneous writings, and poems. In addition, there are also notes for talks and lectures, the transcript of a commencement address delivered at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and 1 sound disc of a talk given at Skowhegan. Also found are transcripts of his participation in panel discussions on politics (CAA), criticism (Douglass College), and a discussion held in conjunction with the exhibition "While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings by Leon Golub from1994-1999."
Writings by other authors include a dissertation, "The Art of Leon Golub: 1946-1978" by Joseph Girard Dreiss (State University of New York, Binghamton, 1980) and a thesis, "Criticism, Instigation and Inspiration in the Work of Leon Golub and Kaethe Kollwitz" by Alexandra Hirsch (The University of Michigan, 1986). Among the academic papers is "Violence, Voyeurism, and the Politics of Witnessing: Leon Golub's Mercenaries, Interrogations, and White Squad series" by Ara H. Merjian (1996). There is partial text by Arthur Danato, Robert Storr, David Levi Strauss, Robert Enright, Meeka Walsh, Robert Enright, and Douglas Dreischpoon with reproductions of Golub's artwork for a book, Leon Golub, Don't Tread on Me, Drawings: 1947-2004. Other items of note include: text of Noam Chomsky's speech at Harvard University "Intervention in Vietnam and Central America: Parallels and Differences" (1985); and notes for Joseph Girard Dreiss' remarks presented at a panel discussion, "Golub's Art: Content and Style," Corcoran Gallery of Art (1985). Also found is a sound cassette of a lecture (speaker unidentified) about modernism and its dependence on rapid communications.
Arrangement
Writings are arranged by format and thereafter alphabetized by folder title. Additional writings by Golub and others are found among the subject files (Series 5); correspondence (Series 2) includes scattered statements by Golub.
By Golub
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4
Articles
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circa 1950s-2003
4
4-10
Book Reviews
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1969-2003
4
11
Letters to Editors
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1968-1969
undated
4
12
Manuscripts, Miscellaneous
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circa 1970s-circa 2000s
undated
4
13
Notes
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4
Clement Greenberg
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circa 1962-1970s
4
14
Irony, Modernism, etc.
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undated
4
15
Mercs
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undated
4
16
Miscellaneous
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undated
4
17-18
October, Up for Grabs, Sewer Rat
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undated
4
19
Poems
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undated
1962
4
20
Panel Discussions, Transcripts
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1973-2002
4
21
Speeches, Transcripts
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1957
undated
4
22
Statements
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circa 1948-2003
4
23-25
Talk at Skowhegan (1989), Digital Audio Recording
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0.098 Gigabytes
Two computer files
2019
Partial recording only.
ER03
Talks and Lectures
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1960s-1980s
undated
4
27
Theater Piece
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circa 1972-1973
4
28
By Other Authors
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Academic Papers
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1992-2002
undated
4
29
Articles and Reviews
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1985-1996
undated
4
30
Book
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circa 2004
4
31
Book Proposal
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circa 2002
4
32
Catalog Essay, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
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2000
4
33
Dissertation
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1980
4
34-36
Lecture
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1 Sound cassette
undated
5
1
Panel Discussion Notes
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1985
5
2
Poems
Archival Resource Key
undated
1996-2003
5
3
Speech
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1985
5
4
Thesis
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1986
5
5
By Golub
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21
Articles
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1970s
21
1
Panel Discussion (transcript of Golub's remarks)
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1973
21
2
Subject Files
Series 5
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6.2 Linear feet
Boxes 5-11, OV 18
0.213 Gigabytes
ER04-ER06
1959-2005
Scope and Contents
Subject files are comprised of correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs and digital photographs, and audiovisual materials in varying combinations. Audiovisual recordings consist of 2 sound cassettes and 9 videocassettes. The files document aspects of Golub's artistic career, personal and professional interests, activities and relationships and include images of many subjects that served as source material for a variety of art projects and installations.
Arrangement
Additional information about individuals, institutions, exhibitions, and events documented by subject files may be found among Golub's correspondence (Series 2). Subject files are alphabetized by title. Filing is inconsistent; for example, subject files concerning exhibitions and loans may be filed by exhibition title, museum or gallery, and occasionally by city or country.
942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion
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1990s-2004
5
6-7
Abu-Jamal, Mumia
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1999
5
8
Allan Frumkin Gallery
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1959-1970
5
9
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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1996
5
10
Anthony Reynolds Gallery
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2000-2003
5
11
Art Gallery of Western Australia
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1997-2000
5
12
Artists and Writers Protest
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1966-1971
5
13
Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America
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1983-1984
undated
5
14
Artists Meeting for Cultural Change
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undated
1976-circa 1978
5
15
artnet.com
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2000-2001
5
16
Atrium, Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art
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2002-2004
5
17
Austria Situation
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1998-2003
undated
5
18
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
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1997-1999
5
19
Banners III Project, ALON USA/FINIA
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2003
5
20
Barbara Gladstone Gallery
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1988-1990
5
21
Barbara Gross Gallery
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1992-2003
undated
5
22
Baying at the Cosmos
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undated
5
23
BBC, "Human Rights, Human Wrongs"
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2000
5
24
BBC, "Goya, The Private Life of a Masterpiece, The Third of May"
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2 Videocassettes (VHS)
circa 2004
5
25
Beckmann, Max
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2001-2003
5
26
Benefits
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1999-2004
5
27
Benefits, Exhibitions, Projects
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undated
1980s-2002
5
28
Bird, John
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2000-circa 2001
5
29
Bookfair Poster
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2001
5
30
Book Project, Interrogating Leon
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undated
5
31
Brand X – Sacilatto Prints Project
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1998-1999
5
32
Brno House of Arts
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1999-2000
5
33
Broad, Eli
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1994-1999
5
34
Brooklyn Museum of Art
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5
"Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000" (2001 May 18-August 19)
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2001
5
35
Lobby Project
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1990-1991
5
36
Vietnam II (1973) Installation (2001 May 11)
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2001
5
37
"Vital Forms: American Art in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960" Panel Discussion
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2001
5
38
"Worldwide" (1991-April 23-June 16)
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1991
Includes 2 videocassettes (VHS)
5
39-40
Bucknell University
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1992-2001
6
1
Burnett Miller Gallery
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1990-1994
6
2
Canvas Samples
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1998
6
3
Censorship
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1989-1999
6
4
Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona
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2003-2004
6
5
Chelsea Art Museum, "Anxiety" (2003 April 5-June 1)
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2003
6
6
Chicago Books
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1984-1986
6
7
Chicago Cultural Center, "Leon Golub: Paintings and Drawings" (2003 January 18-March 30)
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2002-2003
6
8
Christine König Galerie
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1997-2005
6
9
Cibachromes
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1992
6
10
Clements, Charlie
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2003
6
11
Courtyard Gallery
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2001
6
12
Cozier, Chris and Iréné Shaw
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1997
6
13
Cranmer Art Conservation, Inc.
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1994
6
14
Creative Time Poster
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2001
6
15
Cringe Project
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2004
6
16
"Critical Interventions: Evil" (1998) John Hansard Gallery
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1998
6
17
Crown Gallery
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1997-2003
6
18
Denmark
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2003
6
19
"Documenta II" (2001 March 14-2002 September 15)
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2001-2003
6
20-21
Dog Book
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6
Dog
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circa 2003-2004
6
22
Correspondence
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1994-2004
6
23-24
Research Material
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undated
1980s-2001
6
25
Source Material
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undated
6
26-28
"Drawing Conclusions: Work by Artist-Critics, " NYArts Gallery (2003 July 9-31)
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2003
6
29
e-Bay Complaint
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2001
6
30
El Salvador
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1999-2000
6
31
"The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000"
(2000), Exit Art
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1999-2000
6
32
"Erotic Drawing" (2005 January 28-March 5 and 2005, May 1-September 4), Diverse Works, Houston and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
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2004-2005
6
33
Eshelman, Clayton
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1996-2003
6
34
Estate Planning
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1980-1990s
6
35
Exhibitions and Projects
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1999-2002
6
36
"Exhibition Momentum"
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undated
Oversized material housed in OV 18
6
37-38
Fabric Workshop
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1999-2000
6
39
Fawbush Gallery
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1987-1988
6
40
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Award (2003)
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2002-2003
6
41
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, "Bad Male Behavior and Women's Laughter" (2004 June 1-July 12)
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2004
6
42
Fitzgibbon, John
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2001
7
1
FOGA Systems
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1992
7
2
Franz Wynans Fine Art, Inc.
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1992-1998
7
3-4
Freeman, Keller Cushing
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1996-1998
7
5
Galerie Akinci
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1994
7
6
Galerie Alaine Noirhomme
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1995
7
7
Galerie Darthea Speyer
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1987-2003
7
8
Galerie Lelong
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2002-2004
7
9
Gallery Paul Anglim
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1986-1989
7
10
Gittoes, George
Archival Resource Key
2003-2004
7
11
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, "Sanctuary" (2003 April 11-September 29)
Archival Resource Key
2002-2003
Includes born-digital records, see ER04.
7
12
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, "Sancturary", Digital Photographs
Archival Resource Key
0.136 Gigabytes
38 computer files
2003
ER04
Golub, Paul (photocopies 1983-1986)
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
13
Gordon, Avery
Archival Resource Key
2003
7
14
Gould, Roy
Archival Resource Key
1994-1998
7
15
Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts
Archival Resource Key
1964
7
16
Griffelkunst
Archival Resource Key
1993-1997
7
17
Griffin Contemporary
Archival Resource Key
2002-2003
7
18
Hardware
Archival Resource Key
2001
7
19
Head Hunt
Archival Resource Key
1999-2000
7
20-21
Heads
Archival Resource Key
1950s-1960s
7
22
Heads and Combats
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
23
Heckscher Museum of Art "Millennium Messages" (1999 November 29-2001 January)
Archival Resource Key
1998-2000
7
24
Hiroshima Art Prize
Archival Resource Key
1996
7
25
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Archival Resource Key
1995-1998
Includes 1 videocassette (VHS)
7
26-27
Hopper House Art Center
Archival Resource Key
1999
7
28
Horodner, Stuart
Archival Resource Key
1996-2001
7
29
Human Rights Exhibition, "The Voice of Art," U.N. Geneva (2004 March 14-April 25)
Archival Resource Key
2003-2004
7
30
Images (Source Material)
Archival Resource Key
7
Animals, Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
2000-2001
7
31
Blacks, Threnody
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
32
Classical
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
33
Conversing, Site
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
34
Current, Active
Archival Resource Key
undated
1990s-2000s
7
35
Current, Active, for Drawing Center
Archival Resource Key
undated
1990s
7
36
Current Drawings
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
37-40
Dead Man and Woman
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
41
Drawings, Graffiti, etc.
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
42
Drawings, Small Paintings
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
43-44
G, N, [and Vietnam]
Archival Resource Key
1960s-1970s
8
1
Gestures
Archival Resource Key
1980s-circa1990s
8
2
Guns
Archival Resource Key
udated
8
3
Lions
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
4
Mercenaries, Interrogations
Archival Resource Key
1980s
undated
8
5
Older Men
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
6
Older Men, Standing
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
7
Politicians
Archival Resource Key
1970s
undated
8
8
Prisoners
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
9-10
Prisoners, The Arrest
Archival Resource Key
undated
1980s-1990s
8
11
Prisoners, Victims, Heads
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
12
Riots, Go-Ahead
Archival Resource Key
undated
1980s
8
13
"Sandwiched", Digital Photographs
Archival Resource Key
0.055 Gigabytes
48 computer files
2003
ER05
Sphinx
Archival Resource Key
1988
8
15
These Colors, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1988
undated
8
16
Unsorted
Archival Resource Key
1990s
8
17
White Squad, H.A.
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
18
Instructions for Hanging Canvases, undated
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
19
Instructions for Installation of Photographic Transparencies
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
20
Instructions for the Ironing of Leon Golub Painting
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
21
Interns
Archival Resource Key
1990s
8
22
Irish Hunger
Archival Resource Key
2000
8
23
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, "Threads of Dissent" (1999 October
20-2000 January 30)
Archival Resource Key
1998-1999
8
24
Janus Avivson Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1995
8
25
Josh Baer Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1984-1994
8
26-27
Josloff Gallery, University of Hartford
Archival Resource Key
1998-1999
8
28
Kartequin Films
Archival Resource Key
1987-2001
8
29
Kunce, Samm
Archival Resource Key
1999-2000
8
30
Kunsthalle, Wein
Archival Resource Key
1993
8
31
"Kwangju Bienniale 2000" (2000 March 29-June 7)
Archival Resource Key
1999-2000
8
32
"Law and Order Show" (1986 September 19-25)
Archival Resource Key
1986
8
33
Lectures and Visits
Archival Resource Key
1996-2003
8
34
Legal Information for Artists
Archival Resource Key
1970s-1990s
8
35
"Leon Golub Paintings, 1950-2000," Albright Knox Art Gallery (2001 January-April 15)
Archival Resource Key
2000-2001
undated
8
36
"Leon Golub Paintings, 1950-2000," Brooklyn Musuem of Art (2001 May 18-August 19)
Archival Resource Key
2001
8
37
"Leon Golub Paintings, 1950-2000," Irish Museum of Modern Art (2000)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1997-2000
8
38-42
"Leon Golub, While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings: 1994-1999" (2000), Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
2000
8
43
Loft Law
Archival Resource Key
1996
8
44
"Lookout"
Archival Resource Key
9
"Lookout"
Archival Resource Key
1998-1999
9
1
Houston (2000 October 7 – December 3)
Archival Resource Key
1998-2000
9
2
London (2000 September 15-November 11)
Archival Resource Key
2000
9
3
Miami (1999 September 15-November 28)
Archival Resource Key
1999
9
4
New York (1999 February 11-May 16)
Archival Resource Key
9
5
San Francisco (2000)
Archival Resource Key
2000-2001
9
6
Lublijana, Slovenia
Archival Resource Key
2001-2004
9
7
Magnolia Tapestry Project
Archival Resource Key
2003
9
8
Malmö Kunsthalle
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s-circa 2000
9
9
Markers
Archival Resource Key
2001
9
10
Markers 2
Archival Resource Key
2001
9
11
Mary Washington College Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1998-1999
9
12
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMOCA)
Archival Resource Key
1998-1999
9
13
McGraw-Hill
Archival Resource Key
2001
9
14
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Archival Resource Key
2001
9
15
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal
Archival Resource Key
1991-1993
9
16
Musée National d'Arte Moderne, Pompidou Center, "Face à l'Histoire" (1996 December 19-1997 April 7)
Archival Resource Key
1995-1997
9
17-18
Museo Jacob Borges
Archival Resource Key
1997-2000
9
19-20
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Archival Resource Key
1994-1998
9
21
Museum of Contermporary Art, Los Angeles
Archival Resource Key
1994
9
22
"Nancy Spero and Leon Golub: War and Memory" (1994), M.I.T. List Art Center and the American Center in Paris
Archival Resource Key
1992-1995
Includes 2 videocassettes: VHS
9
23-24
Namibia, "The Hope and Optimism Portfolio: A Global Art Project"
Archival Resource Key
1991
9
25
National Gallery of Canada
Archival Resource Key
1999-2003
9
26
Neuendorf, Hans, (Kissinger II and Kissinger IV)
Archival Resource Key
1987-1998
9
27
"News from Home [Orientalism - Occidentalism]" (2004 October 9 - November 6)
Archival Resource Key
2004
9
28
New York Kunsthalle
Archival Resource Key
1996
9
29
Not in Our Name, etc.
Archival Resource Key
2002-2004
9
30
Obrist, Hans Ulrich
Archival Resource Key
1994-2003
9
31
Old Glory (Continued)
Archival Resource Key
1994-1995
9
32
Pacific Northwest College of Art, "Carnival in the Eye of the Storm, War/Art/New Technologies: KOSOVO" (2000 April 6-29)
Archival Resource Key
2000
9
33
Pergamon Project
Archival Resource Key
1998-1999
9
34-35
Peru, American Embassy
Archival Resource Key
2001-2003
9
36
Portraits of Power (executed 1970s)
Archival Resource Key
1980s-2000
9
37
Possibilities for Barion
Archival Resource Key
circa 1990s-circa 2000s
9
38
P.P.O.W.
Archival Resource Key
2003
9
39
"Presence of Greek Myth," Instituto di Storia dell'Arte (1998 May 9-September)
Archival Resource Key
1997-1998
9
40
The Print Center
Archival Resource Key
2001
9
41
"Prints and Drawings – Part I" (2004 February 6-April 4), Seraphin Gallery
Archival Resource Key
2004
10
1
"Prints and Drawings – Part II" (2004 February 26-March), Rosemont College
Archival Resource Key
2004
10
2
Printworks
Archival Resource Key
1985-2003
10
3
Prisoners
Archival Resource Key
1 Videocassettes (VHS)
1990
10
4
Scope and Contents
POV program entitled "Through the Wire"
Projects, Events
Archival Resource Key
2000s
10
5
Public Art Fund
Archival Resource Key
10
6
Rachette, Anne
Archival Resource Key
2003
10
7
Recommendations
Archival Resource Key
1981-2004
undated
10
8-9
Red Sphinx
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
10
Relaxation Instructions
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
undated
10
11
Residenzgallerie, Salzburg Project
Archival Resource Key
1994-1995
10
12
Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1989-2004
10
13
Rod Rogers Dance Company
Archival Resource Key
1980s
10
14
Romania
Archival Resource Key
1996-2000
10
15
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Archival Resource Key
1993-2004
undated
10
16-17
Roth/Horowitz Gallery
Archival Resource Key
2000
10
18
Seated Boxer I
Archival Resource Key
1996
10
19
Seraphin Book, Don't Tread on Me! Leon Golub Drawings: 1947-2004
Archival Resource Key
2004
10
20-21
Seraphin Gallery
Archival Resource Key
2002-2004
10
22
Slome, Manon
Archival Resource Key
2004
10
23
Sommerakademie
Archival Resource Key
1994-2000
10
24
South London Gallery
Archival Resource Key
2000-2003
10
25
Stedelijk Museum (S.M.A.K.) Exhibition (2000)
Archival Resource Key
2000
10
26
Straus, David Levi
Archival Resource Key
2003
undated
10
27
Studio Stefania Miscetti
Archival Resource Key
1993-1999
10
28
Tate Modern, Vietnam II (1973)
Archival Resource Key
2003
10
29
Temple Shalom of Chicago, Stained Glass Window
Archival Resource Key
1995-2003
10
30
Tufts University Gallery
Archival Resource Key
2004
Includes born-digital records, see ER06.
10
31
Tufts University Gallery, Digital Photographs
Archival Resource Key
0.022 Gigabytes
24 computer files
2004
ER06
University of Maryland, Fine Arts Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1994-1995
10
32
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "The Culture of Violence" Tour (2002 January-2003 May)
Archival Resource Key
2001-2003
10
33
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, "Between the Global and the Local: Making Human Rights Claims in the 21st Century" Conference (2000 April 28-29)
Archival Resource Key
2000-2001
10
34
"Utopia," a formation by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Molly Nesbit (2003 April 11-September 29)
Archival Resource Key
2002-2003
10
35
Valencia, "A Sangre y Fuego" (1999 October 6-December 12)
Archival Resource Key
1999
10
36
Vancouver Art Gallery
Archival Resource Key
1994-2001
10
37
Venice Banner
Archival Resource Key
2001
10
38
Visual Artists and Galleries Association (VAGA)
Archival Resource Key
2002-2003
10
39
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
Archival Resource Key
undated
1991-1994
11
1-2
Wayne State University
Archival Resource Key
1996-1997
11
3
WBAI Radio Program about the Intellectual, Political and Artistic Climate of Early 20th Century Berlin
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound cassette
undated
11
4
Weimar Installation, "The Violence Zone" (1995-June 24-July 30)
Archival Resource Key
1995-1996
11
5
Oversized Subject File Material from Box 6, Folder 37
Archival Resource Key
1950
OV 18
Personal Business Records
Series 6
Archival Resource Key
1.4 Linear feet
Boxes 11-12
1965-2009
Scope and Contents
This series consists mainly of inventories and lists that document Golub's artistic output of drawings, paintings, sculpture, prints. "Painting and Sculpture History" (photocopy) is a comprehensive, chronological register of work. Among the miscellaneous lists are: gifts, canvases in flat files, rolled paintings in studio, and items in basement. There is information about gifts and donations, including works in trust and those owned by the Spero Golub Family LLC. Also included are files concerning consignments, loans, photo permissions, and extensive mailing lists.
Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically.
Condition Reports
Archival Resource Key
2008-2009
undated
11
6
Consignments
Archival Resource Key
2002-2003
11
7
Gifts and Donations (1946-2003)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1988-2003
11
8-9
Inventories
Archival Resource Key
11
Golub Active and Spero Active
Archival Resource Key
1994
11
10-12
Available Drawings
Archival Resource Key
2001-2003
11
13
Available Paintings
Archival Resource Key
2002-2004
undated
11
14-16
Available Paintings, Corrected Inventory
Archival Resource Key
2002
11
17
Available Paintings in Collections
Archival Resource Key
2003
11
18
Available Prints
Archival Resource Key
1990-1997
11
19
Erotic Drawings
Archival Resource Key
2003
11
20
Inventory Lists
Archival Resource Key
undated
1990-1992
11
21
Painting and Sculpture
Archival Resource Key
1999
11
22
Political Portraits
Archival Resource Key
1989-1999
undated
11
23
Prints, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Trust
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
24
Small Paintings and Drawings
Archival Resource Key
undated
2002-2004
11
25
Lists, Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
undated
circa 1970s-2003
11
26
Loans
Archival Resource Key
1992-2004
11
27-28
Mailing Lists
Archival Resource Key
1992-1994
undated
11
29-30
Mailing Lists
Archival Resource Key
1994-2001
12
1-2
Painting and Sculpture History (1946-1991)
Archival Resource Key
1991
12
3
Painting Records to be Corrected
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s-circa 1990s
12
4
Paintings in Collections
Archival Resource Key
2003
12
5
Photo Permissions and Fees
Archival Resource Key
1990s-2004
undated
12
6-7
Price Lists (1987-2004)
Archival Resource Key
1990-2004
undated
12
8
Print Documentation (1946-1990s)
Archival Resource Key
1965-2002
undated
12
9-10
Restoration
Archival Resource Key
1994
undated
12
11
Slide Lists
Archival Resource Key
2003
12
12
Sold (1946-2004)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1987-2004
12
13-14
Sotheby's Catalog, Notes for Valuations
Archival Resource Key
1981-2004
undated
12
15
Spero Golub Family LLC
Archival Resource Key
2002-2004
12
16
Works in Storage
Archival Resource Key
undated
1993-2009
12
17
Printed Material
Series 7
Archival Resource Key
3.9 Linear feet
Boxes 12-16, 21, OV 19
circa 1950s-2009
Scope and Contents
Most printed material is about/mentions Golub and/or includes reproductions of his work. Clippings from newspapers and periodicals (many photocopies) represent the largest portion of this series. They include feature articles, reviews, gallery advertisements, letters to the editor and other writings by Golub. Also included in this series are exhibition catalogs and checklists, exhibition announcements, and miscellaneous printed items. Scattered throughout are items concerning topics of interest to Golub, and articles written by him.
Arrangement
Additional printed material is found with biographical materials (Series 1), with Golub's writings (Series 4), and is found in many subject files (Series 5).
Book Covers
Archival Resource Key
1980s-2000s
12
18
Books
Archival Resource Key
2004-2005
12
19-20
Brochures
Archival Resource Key
1990s
undated
12
21
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1948-1966
undated
12
22-27
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1967-1987
13
1-27
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1988-2002
14
1-23
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
2003-2009
15
1-5
Conference/Symposium Announcements and Programs
Archival Resource Key
1966-2001
15
6
Exhibition Announcements
Archival Resource Key
undated
1966-2009
15
7-10
Exhibition Catalogs and Checklists
Archival Resource Key
undated
circa 1950s-2000
15
11-20
Exhibition Catalogs and Checklists
Archival Resource Key
2001-2005
16
1-2
Film and Book Announcements
Archival Resource Key
1988-1998
undated
16
3
Lecture Announcements and Programs for Events with Golub Speeches
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970s-1999
16
4
Miscellaneous Printed Items
Archival Resource Key
1979-2004
undated
16
5
Newsletters and Calendars of Events
Archival Resource Key
1955-2003
16
6
Posters
Archival Resource Key
1970
undated
Oversized material housed in OV 19
16
7
Reproductions
Archival Resource Key
1986-2001
undated
16
8
Oversized Posters from Box 16, Folder 7
Archival Resource Key
undated
OV 19
Clippings (published 1971-1977)
Archival Resource Key
1970s
21
3
Exhibition Announcements
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960-1976
21
4
Exhibition Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960-1975
21
5
Miscellaneous Printed Items
Archival Resource Key
1964-1974
21
7-8
Periodicals (Caterpillar)with Reproductions of Work by Golub
Archival Resource Key
1967-1971
21
7-8
Photographs
Series 8
Archival Resource Key
0.6 Linear feet
Boxes 16-17, OV 20
1940s-2004
Scope and Contents
Photographs of people include portraits of Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, their sons, and his father, Samuel Golub. Portraits include Golub as an elderly man and as a younger man, sometimes posed in front of his artwork. There also are photographs of friends or colleagues at exhibition events, and a series of color snapshots of a young child at an exhibition. The vast majority of materials are color digital prints of artwork produced by Golub, 1981-2004. Also included are photographs of Golub's plexibox sculptures.
Arrangement
Additional photographic materials are included among the subject files (Series 5).
People
Archival Resource Key
1940s-1997
undated
Oversized material housed in OV 20
16
9
Artwork by Leon Golub
Archival Resource Key
16
Art Items/Bronzes (executed 1992)
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
10
Athletes (executed 1999-2004)
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
11
Cyborgs (executed 1999-2002)
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
12
Dogs (executed 1999-2004)
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
13
DWG/Digital (executed, 1999-2003)
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
14
Eagles (executed 1999-2002)
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
15
Erotica (executed undated, 2000-2004)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
1-2
Inkjet Images (undated, 1959-1982)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
3
Lions (executed 1999-2003)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
4
Male Figures (executed 1999-2004)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
5
Miscellaneous (executed 1981-2004)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
6
Mythology (executed 1999-2004)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
7
Plexibox Images (executed undated, 1999)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
8
Skeletons (executed 1994-2004)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
9
Violence (executed 1999-2003)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
10-11
Women (executed 1999-2004)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
12
Oversized Photographs of People from Box 16, Folder 9
Archival Resource Key
1996-2002
OV 20