Frederick Hammersley donated his papers to the Archives of American Art in nine accessions from 1974 to 2008. The Frederick Hammersley Foundation donated additional papers in 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2020 via Executive Director, Kathleen Shields.
The bulk of the collection was digitized in 2013-2014 and is available on the Archives of American Art's website. Materials which have not been scanned include blank pages, duplicates, negatives and slides, blank versos of photographs, and sensitive financial records. Additional papers donated in 2015 and 2018 have not been digitized.
Diana Shenk processed a portion of the papers in 2010 with funding provided by The Getty Foundation. In 2012-2013, a large addition to the papers was integrated, processed, and described by Jayna Josefson and the collection was scanned in its entirety with funding provided by the Frederick Hammersley Foundation. Additions from 2015 and 2018 were processed by Ryan Evans.
Frederick Hammersley papers, circa 1860-2009, bulk 1940-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The Archives of American Art also holds the Tamara Webster papers relating to Frederick Hammersley.
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Painter, graphic designer, and educator Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) spent most of his career in Los Angeles and New Mexico. He is closely associated with the hard-edge abstraction painting style of the Abstract Classicists of Southern California.
Hammersley was born on January 5, 1919 to Anna Westberg and Harold Hammersley in Salt Lake City, where his father worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior. The family lived in Utah and Idaho before finally settling in San Francisco. Hammersley attended the University of Idaho and later enrolled in the Academy of Advertising Art in San Francisco. In 1940, Hammersley began taking classes at the Chouinard Art Institution in Los Angeles.
Hammersley's studies were interrupted by World War II military service from 1942 to 1946. He was stationed first in Paris as a draftsman in the Signal Corp and was eventually promoted to Army sargeant in the Office of Military Government in Berlin. While in Paris, he visited Picasso's studio several times and also took classes at the Ècole des Beaux Arts at the end of the war. When he returned home in 1946, the GI Bill subsidized his final year of study at Chouinard, now the California Institute of Arts, and three years at the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles.
Hammersley made his living as an art professor in California for twenty years, where he taught at the Jepson Art Institute and Pomona College in Claremont. He moved to Albuquerque after accepting a teaching position at the University of New Mexico in 1968. In 1971, Hammersley resigned his teaching position and devoted himself to painting.
Hammersley's reputaton as a painter began in 1948 when one of his small paintings was accepted in an annual exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 1958, several of his works were included in the seminal exhibition
During the late 1970s and 1980s, Hammersley exhibited in several one-man shows, including at L.A. Louver in Venice, California, the Hoshour Gallery in Albuquerque, and the Corcoran in Washington, D.C. In 2000, the Laguna Art Museum presented a traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in Sante Fe, and the Pomona College Museum of Art organized a retrospective in 2007. His work is in museum collections across the country, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Hammersley died in 2009 at the age of 90. He was survived by his sister, Susie Hammersley Stone.
The papers of Los Angeles Abstract Classicist painter and educator Frederick Hammersley measure 34.75 linear feet and date from circa 1860-2009, bulk 1940-2009. The papers contain biographical materials, 32 diaries, family and professional correspondence, personal business and financial records, estate records, writings, graphic design projects, teaching files, printed materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and works of art. 2015 and 2018 additions include a diary possibly written by Hammersley's mother, photograph albums and photographs, sketches and block prints, computer printouts, and hand painted grid color boxes used by Hammersley in teaching color theory. There is a 0.3 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2020 that includes photographs of Hammersley's family, and most significantly for research, a study in pencil and a "model for making cubes," a paper document that can be stored flat and folded into a cube shape.
Biographical materials include resumes and biographies, calendars, military records, family genealogies, school records, high school and college yearbooks, and awards. There are also sound and video recordings of talks, interviews, and television appearances. Scattered materials relating to Hammersley's parents, Anna Westberg Hammersley and Harold Hammersley, are also found in the series.
Correspondence consists of letters from family and close friends as well as business correspondence with collectors and professional art associations. Family correspondents include Hammersley's immediate family and aunts and cousins. Additional noteworthy correspondents include fellow artists Karl Benjamin, William Brice, Robert Chuey, Rico Lebrun, and John McLaughlin, among others.
There are 23 diaries written by Frederick Hammersley dating from 1935-2008, with a gap spanning 1954-1972. Also found are six diaries written by Harold Hammersley dating from 1940-1959 and three by Anna Hammersley from 1909-1965.
Hammersley's writings include college class notes, essays, poetry, lecture notes, grant applications, and proposals. There are also sound recordings of lectures and talks as well as drafts and a final copy of an article published in the journal
Teaching files consist of class lecture notes, student evaluations, and grade books for classes likely taught at Pomona University and the Chouinard Art Institute.
Graphic design projects contain materials from Hammersley's company Handsome Cards for which he designed greeting and holiday cards. Also included are various freelance designs and draft designs for exhibition catalogs. General financial and business records focus on Hammersley business relationships and transactions with galleries and museums and his efforts to promote his art. Galleries and museums represented in the files include Modernism Gallery (San Francisco), L.A. Louver Gallery (Venice, California), and Hoshour Gallery (Albuquerque). This series also contains tax returns and expense ledgers. Also found are scattered materials from the household of Anna and Harold Hammersley.
Estate records are found for Frederick Hammersley, Susie Hammersley Stone, Anna and Harold Hammersley, Frederick Hammersley Sr., Mrs. E. Hammersley, Maude Eliza Hammersley, Dorothy Hutchinson Hammersley, and Basil Edward Pratt. These files include wills and yearly financial reports.
Printed material consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, and printed copies of Hammersley's graphic designs. The series is extensive and contains clippings and exhibition material that represents Hammersley's entire career as an artist. Also found are packets of printed materials created by Hammersley to represent the careers of his friends and colleagues.
Scrapbooks consist of eleven "scrapfiles," postcard albums, and clippings scrapbooks created by Frederick Hammersley and Anna Hammersley. Scrapfiles refers to the original title created by the Hammersleys. Frederick's scrapbooks contain clippings of art, criticisms of his work, and news mentions of his career. Anna's scrapbooks contain one postcard album and 4 scrapbooks and scrapfiles of news clippings relating to subjects of her personal interest.
Photographs include snapshots of Hammersley; images of Hammersley with family and friends; travel photographs, many of them taken in Europe during World War II; photographs of exhibitions; and photographs of Hammersley's artwork. Most of the photographs were labeled and dated by Hammersley. There are six photo albums created by Frederick Hammersley and four albums compiled by his parents Harold and Anna Hammersley.
Artwork consists of Hammersley's sketchbooks, drawings, and paintings from high school and college classes, designs for exhibition catalogs, and cards and printouts for his computer drawings series. Also included are geometric color studies on panel and artwork for a bank mural proposal from 1977. Drawings and design work by Susie Stone, Hammersley's sister are also included, as well as two works by Lu Nowels.
The collection is arranged as 13 series.
This series contains awards, biographies, calendars, certificates, resumes, souvenirs, and yearbooks. Souvenirs are from Hammersley's time spent in Europe in the military after World War II and are from Germany, England, and France. Sound and video recordings are of television appearances and interviews. Recordings are on 1 sound tape reel, 12 sound cassettes, 3 sound discs (CDs), 5 videocassettes (VHS), and 1 videodisc (DVD).
Also found are biographical materials relating to Hammersley's parents, Anna and Harold, and his sister, Susie Hammersley Stone.
Materials are arranged by document type. Audiovisual materials are arranged in chonological order.
This series has been scanned in its entirety, except for material from the 2015 and 2018 additions.
Address Book
Address Book
Address Book, Anna Hammersley
Awards and Certificates
Oversized material housed in Box 33, Folder 3
Baby Book
Bicycle Registration
Birth Certificate, Certified Copy
Business Cards
Biographical Sketches
Biographies and Resumes
Calendars
Calendars
Calendars
Calendars
Calendars
Oversized material housed in Box 33, Folder 16
Census
Chouinard Course Catalogs and Schedules
Class Attendance and Report Cards
Driver's License
Graduation Program, West High School
Family Genealogy
Health Records
Location of Important Papers
Military Records and Documents
Veterans Administration and G.I. Bill Records
Souvenirs, Postcards and Travel Guides
Souvenirs, Theater and Art Gallery Programs, Paris
Souvenirs, England
Souvenirs, British Cigarette Boxes
Souvenirs, German
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 1
Hammersley's Presentation at Contemporary Art Society of New Mexico
Yearbooks, Salt Lake City High School
Yearbooks, Salt Lake City High School
Yearbooks, University of Idaho
Yearbooks, University of Idaho
Artwork, Lists
Vital Records and Certificates
Oversized material housed in Box 33, Folder 4
Wallet, with Emhemera
Passports and Visas
Alien Registration
Passenger Lists, Swedish American Line
Retirement Papers
Susie Hammersley Stone Materials
Personal and professional correspondence spans Hammersley's first year in college through the end of his life. There is correspondence with galleries, museums, professional associations, colleagues, family, and friends. Letters from his sister, Susie Hammersley Stone, are particularly detailed. Also included in this series are letters that document Hammersley's mentoring of several students in his classes at Pomona College. Photographs, clippings, and other miscellaneous enclosures are also to be found in some of the letters.
Correspondents include Karl Benjamin, William Brice, Robert Chuey, Wayne Entice, Claudine Humblet, Stanley Kiesel, Rico Lebrun, and John McLaughlin, among many others. Galleries and museums represented in Hammersley's correspondence include the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Heritage Gallery, Laguna Art Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, and Santa Fe East Gallery
Materials are arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Miscellaneous folders for the alphabet contain single letters from individuals. Drafts of outgoing letters are arranged chronologically.
This series has been scanned in its entirety, except for material from the 2015 and 2018 additions.
Holiday Cards from Others
Drafts of Letters
Returned Correspondence
Copies of Letters Sent
A
Ace Gallery
Adams, Clinton and Mary
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque Museum
Allen, Bardene
Allen, Gwynne and Evelyn
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
Andrews, Jane Wilson
Antreasian, Jeanne and Garo
Ari, Donna
Art Institute of Chicago
Awards in the Visual Arts
B
Barbour, John and Dorothy
Barrett, Joe
Benjamin, Karl
Berkus, Barry and Gail
Boston University, Art Gallery
Brice, William
Brigante, Nicholas
Brommer, Gerald
Brown, Kathleen and Charles
Buck, Gerald
C
California State University Fine Arts Gallery
Chariez, Myriane
Chouinard Art School
Chuey, Bob and Josephine
Clark, Kenneth
Cohn, Frederick and Ellen Landis
Coke, Van
Contemporary Art Society of New Mexico
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Crandall, Marcus
D
Daimler Chrysler
Cross, Daisy
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Dedini, Eldon and Virginia
Dunavant, Bette
E
East, E.
Ehrlich, Susan
Ellis, Bob and Barbara
Entice, Wayne
Erenberg, Sam and Elena
Estes, Merion
F
Feitelson, Lorser and Helen Lundeberg
Fellows of Contemporary Art
Fine Arts Gallery
Fletcher, Bernice
Fletcher, Bill and Judy
Fletcher, Craig
Fogle, Pat
Fogle, Piper (Yost)
Foreman, Madelyn
Frej, Anne and Bill
Fuginami, Noriko
Furniss, Charles D.
G
George, William
Geske, Norman
Getty Research Institute
Grant, Jim and Nancy
Graphics
Grinnell College
Guggenheim Museum
H
Hammersley, Anna
Hammersley, Anna and Harold
Postcards sent to Anna Westberg Hammersley and Harold Hammersley.
Hammersley, Anna and Harold
Hammersley, Harold
Hammersley, Harold
Harold Hammersley's letters to others.
Hammersley, Harold
Harold Hammersley's letters from others.
Hammersley, Victor and Dorothy
Harris, Mary
Hayashi, Yoshimi
Heritage Gallery
Heydt/Bair Gallery
Hill, Flora
Hodges, Mildred
Hogan, Michel and Madge
Hollenbeek, Roger
Hueter, Jim
Hugon, John C.
Humblet, Claudine
Humblet, Claudine
Humblet, Claudine
I
J
Jepson, Herb and Marcia
Jones, Betsy
K
Kawashiri, Sakae
Kelly, Peter and Brenda
Kessler, Albert and Joan
Kiesel, Stanley
King, Ann
King, Robert
Koche, Gloria
Kuhne, Ray
L
Laguna Art Museum
Larrabee, Susan
Lausen, Tom and Patti
Lawler, Charles and Jinny
Lebrun, Rico and Constance
Light Sound
Linda Durham Gallery
LIttler, Charles
Lopez, Ernest
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louie, Dan and Esther
Lowry, Bates
Ludwig, Peter
M
McCrory Corporation
Gander McFall (Middendor/Lane)
McLaughlin, John
Monaghan, Jeanne
Museum of Albuquerque
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of New Mexico
Muth, Donald
N
National Musuem of American Art
New Mexico Arts and Crafts Fair
New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum
New Mexico State Fair
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Nowels, Betty
Nowels, Paula
O
P
Pacific Arts Association
Perine, Bob
Pomona College
Quan, Victor
R
R.C. Erpf Gallery
Radebaugh, Alan Paine
Reed, Arden
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rowlands, Richard
Rusnell, Wesley
Ruth Bachofner Gallery
S
San Francisco Museum of Art
San Francisco State College
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Fe East Gallery
Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
Shedletsky, Stuart
Schettling, Kurt
Schneiderman, Herman
Selz, Peter
Shields, Milt
Shields, Kathleen
Slive, Seymore and Zoya
Smith, Russell and Annette
Southwest Jewish Community Center
Stewart, Berniece
Stone, Susie Hammersley
Stone, Susie Hammersley
Stone, Susie Hammersley
Stone, Susie Hammersley
Stone, Susie Hammersley
Stone, Susie Hammersley
Stone, Susie Hammersley
Stone, Susie Hammersley
T
Tamarind Institute
Thorne, Victoria and David
Tobey C. Moss Gallery
Torres, Tom and Diana
Traylor, Mort and Maxine
Traylor, Mort and Maxine
U
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of New Mexico
V
Van Aver, Philip
Webster, Tammy
Werbelow, Mary
Weschler, Lawrence
Westburg, Clara
Westburg, Dwight
Westburg, Eric
Westside Jewish Community Center
Western State Arts Foundation
Whitney Museum
Wilson, Gene
Wilson, Jeana
Wings, Michael
Wirth, Frances
Wood, Clyde
W
Yost, Virginia
Z
First Names Only
Diaries consists of 32 volumes: 23 created by Frederick Hammersley from 1931-2008; 3 by Anna Hammersley dating from 1909-1965 (the earliest one in Swedish); and 6 by Harold Hammersley dating from 1940-1966.
Frederick Hammersley's early diaries focus on his life during high school and college. They include details about classes, social activities, weather, and his relationship with his parents and sister. His 1945 diary records contain observations about his year in Paris as an army sargeant and reveals his renewed interest in art. Diaries covering the years from 1991 to 2008 document his daily routine and provide interesting details about his painting and exhibition schedules.
Materials are arranged in chronological order by author.
This series has been scanned in its entirety, except for material from the 2015 and 2018 additions.
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Frederick Hammersley Diary
Anna Hammersley Diary
Anna Hammersley Diary
Harold Hammersley Diary
Harold Hammersley Diary
Harold Hammersley Diary
Harold Hammersley Diary
Harold Hammersley Diary
Harold Hammersley Diary
Writings by Hammersley include articles, class notes, essays, poetry, lecture notes and outlines not related to teaching, lists of works of art, general lists, and grant applications. There are talks and lectures on 4 sound cassettes; recorded interviews are found in Series 1.
The notebooks are particularly interesting as they contain observations and reflections on Hammersley's art, several of which also contain sketches. Writings and poetry by other authors include those written by Josephine Anne, Robert Chuey, David Hickey, David Pagil, and John Vokoun.
Materials are arranged chronologically by document type; writings by others appear at the end of the series.
This series has been scanned in its entirety, except for material from the 2015 and 2018 additions.
Articles in
Essay Drafts
Poetry
Mural Proposal
The proposal in this folder relates to the design artwork in the Artwork Series (OV 51) and the Personal Business and Financial Records Series (OV 35, which was scanned with Box 12, Folder 4).
Scholarship Application
Statements and Reflections, on Paintings
Statements and Reflections, on Other Artists
Introduction for
Lectures
Pomona College, Chouinard School of Art, and Jepsson Art School
Lectures
Methodist Church in Claremont, California
Lectures
Chouinard School of Art and Methodist Church
Lectures
"Something Concrete on Abstract Art" by Frederick Hammersley
Lectures
Graham Gallery
Lectures
California State University at Northridge
Lectures
Notebooks
Contains sketches.
Notebooks
Contains painting techniques, poetry, and definitions.
Notebooks
Contains sketches.
Notebooks
Contains sketches with notes concerning technique.
Notebooks
Contains aperature and time notations regarding photographs.
Notebooks
Notebooks
Contains lists of works of art.
Contains exhibition history.
Includes photography log.
Notes
Electrical Engineering course notes
Notes
Notes
Swedish translations
Notes
Lists
Christmas Cards
Lists
Paintings by year
Lists
Works of Art, Drawings
Lists
Works of Art, Photographs
Lists
Works of Art, Paintings sold at Charlotte Jackson Gallery
Anna Hammersley's Notebook
Untitled Work, by David Pagil
"Frederick Hammersley: Painter," by David Hickey
"Mini Essay on Hammersley Computer Drawings," by Unknown
"Hammersley's Line," by John Vokoun
Poetry by Others
Josephine Ann, Robert Chuey, and others
Found here are miscellaneous files related to Hammersley's teaching career. They include lecture notes, teaching notes, student evaluations, and grade books from Hammersley's teaching career. Although they are unlabeled, it is likely that the grade books are from Hammersley's time teaching painting, drawing, and design at Pomona College. Also unlabeled, the lecture and teaching notes are likely from classes taught at the Chouinard Art Institute. Additional lectures not related to teaching are found in Series 4 and recorded interviews are found in Series 1.
Materials are arranged by document type.
This series has been scanned in its entirety.
Lecture Notes
Lecture Notes
Teaching Notes
Teaching Notes
Student Evaluation
Grade Books
Painting
Grade Books
Design
Grade Books
Drawing
This series contains design work from Hammersley's greeting card company, Handsome Cards, as well as various designs for exhibition announcements and catalogs, and freelance design work. Files may include preliminary designs, proofs, prototypes and final master copies of greeting cards. Researchers should note that many of the designs have varying and subtle differences. Also found is a reference file that contains lettering and handwriting samples, printed material, and personal correspondence.
Materials are arranged by document type.
This series has been scanned in its entirety.
Holiday Cards
Master copies with variations.
Holiday and Greeting Cards
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 10
Holiday and Greeting Cards
Holiday and Greeting Cards
Commercially printed
Holiday Cards
Likely Frederick Hammersley's personal holiday cards.
Greeting Card Portfolio
Prepared to be photographed.
Display Folio and Greeting Cards
Proofs
Prototype
Package of assorted holiday cards and photographs.
Sketches, Printing Plates, and Working Drawings
Logos
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Mailing Pieces
Heritage Gallery Designs
Jepson Art School Designs
Design Portfolio
Business Cards
Freelance Work
Miscellaneous Designs
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 9
Reference File
Includes lettering and handwriting samples from printed materials and personal correspondence.
After Hammersley resigned from the University of New Mexico in 1971, he supported himself financially by selling his artwork. This series documents Hammersley's diligent efforts to promote his art through exhibitions and sales. Also contained in this series are tax returns, price lists, and receipts for living expenses and art supplies. The gallery and museum records include correspondence, expense ledgers, consignment agreements, art transport records, invoices and receipts, and insurance records. Hammersley had a decades long relationship with several galleries, including Modernism Gallery (San Francisco), L.A. Louver Gallery (Venice, California), and Hoshour Gallery (Albuquerque). The acceptance and rejection notices contain a compilation of material that documents Hammerlsey submissions to art shows and exhibitions.
Also found are personal financial and business records from Anna and Harold Hammersley's household including 10 household income journals, deeds, insurance records, receipts, retirement information, stocks, an appraisal, and tax records.
Materials are arranged by document type with individual business contacts interfiled alphabetically. Financial records for family members are filed at the end of the series.
This series has been partially scanned. Materials containing sensitive information have not been scanned. These include banking records, passport applications, retirement records, and tax documents. Material from the 2015 and 2018 additions have not been scanned either.
Acceptance and Rejection Notices
Albuquerque United Artists
American References
Application
Formal request for a street address in Los Angeles.
Application
Graphics Photo 1992
Archive 90
Artists Space
Bernalillo County Treasurer
Brandywine Gallery
California Institute of the Arts
Cat Records, Cornflake
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Consignment Agreements
Contracts
Craig Cornelius Gallery
Deeds
Property
Deeds of Gift
Donations
Information regarding the donation of a body to science.
Donations
Receipts for monetary donations
Donations
Land to the First Baptist Church
Donations
Jonson Gallery of University Art Museums, University of New Mexico
Donations
Archives of American Art
Exhibits, Loans, and Gifts
Correspondence and general materials
Exhibits, Loans, and Gifts
Correspondence and general materials
Exhibitions
Expense Ledgers
Expense Ledgers
Expense Ledgers
Fundacion Juan March
Graham Gallery, Albuquerque
Grant Application
Guggenheim
Grant Application
National Endowment for the Arts
Hollis Galleries
Hoshour Gallery
Inpost Artspace, Albuquerque
Instructions for Framing
Insurance Policies
Insurance Policies
Life insurance
Inventory of Books
Invoices
Art Supplies
Invoices
Freelance work
Jan Maiden Fine Art
Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico
Junior League of Los Angeles
L.A. Louver Gallery
L.A. Louver Gallery
L.A. Louver Gallery
L.A. Louver Gallery
Lists of Exhibitions
Mailing Lists
Mexican Investment Bonds
Middendorf/Lane Gallery
Miscellaneous Business
Titles by Hammersley. Includes materials relating to personal therapy and general medical care, finances, lists, insurance, printed materials, and shipping records.
Model Release Agreement
Modernism Gallery
Modernism Gallery
Modernism Gallery
Modernism Gallery
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University
Museum of Albuquerque
New Mexico Museum of Art
Orange County Museum of Art
Owings-Dewey Gallery
Paul Rivas Gallery
Personal Loans
Photo Service
Pioneer Vision Annuity
Potential Buyers
Price Lists
Oversized material housed in Box 24, Folder 1
Montana Property
Proposal
Mural at National Bank of Commerce, Lincoln, Nebraska. Oversized material housed in OV 35.
The planning documents in this folder relates to the proposal found in the Writings Series (Box 8, Folder 16) and the the design artwork in the Artwork Series (OV 51).
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Receipts
Moving expenses from Los Angeles to Albuquerque.
Receipts
Recommendation Letters
Richard Levy Gallery
Richard Levy Gallery
Resumes
Not Hammersley
Site Santa Fe
Slides Sent
Snyder Fine Art
Stocks and Investments
Tobey Moss Gallery
United States Navy Combat Art Collection
University of New Mexico and Tamarind Institute
Vehicle Registration
Visual Arts Project
Financial Notes
Home Insurance and Improvement
Household Inventory List
Household Income Journal
Household Income Journal
Household Income Journal
Household Income Journal
Household Income Journal
Household Income Journal
Household Income Journal
Household Income Journal
Household Income Journal
Household "Cash Book"
Insurance Records
Property Deeds
Oversized material housed in Box 33, Folder 2
Receipts
Stocks
This series contains estate planning materials for Frederick Hammersley and Susie Hammersley Stone. Other records are yearly financial statements and reports for deceased members of the Hammersley family including Harold and Anna Hammersley, Frederick Hammersley Sr., Mrs. E. Hammersley, Maude Eliza Hammersley, and Dorothy Hutchinson Hammersley. Also found is a declaration of funeral planning for Basil Edward Pratt, a friend of Frederick Hammersley. The 2015 and 2018 additions include material from the estate management of Frederick and Edith Hammersley (Frederick and Susie Hammersley's grandparents), including wills, trust reports, and deeds as well as record of sale.
Materials are arranged by family member and document type.
The bulk of this series has been scanned. Confidential materials relating to the estate of Susie Hammersley Stone have not been scanned, as well as materials from the 2015 and 2018 additions.
Frederick Hammersley, Funeral and Burial Arrangements
Frederick Hammersley, Will and Will Preparation Records
Harold and Anna Hammersley, Wills and Estate Planning
Harold and Anna Hammersley, Yearly Financial Reports
Harold and Anna Hammersley, Financial Reports
Frederick Hammersley, Sr., Financial Reports and Correspondence
Frederick Hammersley, Sr., Yearly Financial Reports
Oversized material housed in Box 24, Folder 4
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hammersley, Sr., Yearly Financial Reports
Oversized material housed in Box 24, Folder 2
Mrs. E. Hammersley, Yearly Financial Reports
Oversized material housed in Box 24, Folder 3
Maude Eliza Hammersley, Will
Maude Eliza Hammersley, Yearly Financial Reports and Correspondence
Oversized material housed in Box 24, Folder 5
Dorothy Hutchinson Hammersley, Will
Dorothy Hutchinson Hammersley, Financial Reports and Correspondence
Basil Edward Pratt, Funeral Planning
Friend of Frederick Hammersley
Includes property deed.
This series contains exhibition announcements and catalogs for Frederick Hammersley, his friends, and colleagues; clippings from magazines and newspapers, including those written by Frederick Hammersley; and packets created and titled by Hammersley which may include exhibition announcements and catalogs, scattered correspondence, mailers, brochures, and invitations.
Materials are arranged by document type. Packets created by Hammersley have been kept in their original order.
The bulk of this series has been scanned. In some cases, only relevant pages of exhibition catalogs, newspaper, and magazine publications have been scanned. Material from the 2015 and 2018 additions have not been scanned.
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 7
Benjamin, Karl
Brigante, Nick
LeBrun, Rico
Smith, Barbara
Multiple Artists
Chuey, Warshane, Brice, Van Aver, Maxfield Parish
Multiple Artists
Hueter, Grant, Baden, Lawlee
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Friends Catalogs
Miscellaneaous Catalogs
Other Artists
Other Artists
Other Artists
Mailing Pieces
New Mexico
Mailers, Brochures, and Invitations
Mailers, Brochures, and Invitations
Mailers, Brochures, and Invitations
Mailers, Brochures, and Invitations
From out of state.
Jepson Art School Materials
Chouinard Publications
Exhibition Publicity Materials
Lecture Announcements
"Science of Truth," by Harry Gaze
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Clippings
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 8
Clippings
Jokes and comics
Clippings
Photocopies
Clippings
Marriage and anniversary announcements
Book Marks
Designs
by Susie Hammersley
Manuals
Reproductions of Works of Art
Social Security Materials
Stamps
Statements of Artists
Theatre Program
Class Notes
This series contains 11 scrapbooks and scrapfiles created by Frederick Hammersley and Anna Hammersley. With the exception of a postcard album created by Anna Hammersley, the bulk of the scrapbooks consist of newsclippings, however there are scattered photographss.
Frederick Hammersley's scrapbooks contain examples of drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculpture. There is also one scrapbook of clippings of art criticisms of Hammersley's work which was likely created by his parents but added to by Hammersley.
Largely, Anna Hammersley's scrapfiles and scrapbooks consist of newsclippings of articles and photos that she found interesting. Themes include European royalty, Hollywood stars, United States Presidents and First Ladies, gardens, religion, and gems and jewelry. There is one album of postcards sent to Anna from her friends and family and some blank postcards. Many of these postcards include correspondence in Swedish.
Materials are arranged by chronologically by creator.
This series has been scanned in its entirety.
Clippings, Drawings
Oversized material housed in Box 25, Folder 1
Clippings, Paintings
Oversized material housed in Box 25, Folder 2
Clippings, Photos
Oversized material housed in Box 26, Folder 4
Clippings, Sculpture
Oversized material housed in Box 26, Folder 1
Clippings, Miscellaneous Art
Oversized material housed in Box 26, Folder 2
Art Critics
Scrapbook started by Hammersley's parents. Oversized material housed in Box 26, Folder 3.
Postcard Album
Postcard Album
Postcard Album
Postcard Album
Oversized material housed in Box 29, Folder 1
Scrapbook
Includes biographical clippings. Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 2.
Scrapfile
Includes clippings concerning Hollywood stars, European royalty, Presidents and First Ladies, Religion, etc. Also found is correspondence. Oversized material housed in Box 27, Folder 2.
Scrapbook
Hollywood and Royality clippings. Oversized material housed in Box 28, Folder 1.
Scrapbook
Hollywood and Royalty. Oversized material housed in Box 27, Folder 1.
Fourteen photo albums and loose photographs depict Hammersley, his friends and family, travels to Europe and throughout the United States, exhibitions, and works of art. Hammersley was an amateur photographer and most of the exhibition and artwork images were taken by him and are identified and dated. There is also an extensive set of photos organized by Hammersley into shoeboxes and photo boxes. These photographs have been left in their original order.
Seven of the fourteen photo albums were created by Anna and Harold Hammersley, which include photos of friends, family, landscapes, and city scenes. The other six photo albums were created by Frederick Hammersley and include photos from his time in school, in the army, his travel, his cats, and his family, friends, and artwork. There is also one album of negatives.
An extensive collection of slides, largely produced by Hammersley, document his own artwork as well as work by others used as teaching aids, as well as source material and travel photography are part of a later addition.
Duplicate photographs likely exist. As a photographer, Hammersley experimented with contrast and sizing which resulted in many copies of the same photograph. When found, duplicates within the shoebox and photoboxes organized by Hammersley were returned. These same images, however, may appear elsewhere in the series.
Materials are arranged by document type and subject matter.
This series has been partially scanned. Negatives, slides, and many photographs of works of art have not been scanned.
Anna Hammersley Album
Oversized material housed in Box 29, Folder 2
Harold Hammersley Album
Includes family snapshots and Salt Lake City scenes.
Snapshots Album
Frederick's snapshot album with family photos, school photos at Chouinard, and photographs of works of art.
Anna and Harold Hammersley Album
Oversized material housed in Box 30, Folder 1
Anna and Harold Hammersley Album
Oversized material housed in Box 30, Folder 2
Photo Album 1
Family and family homes, Europe post-World War II, portraits of friends, cats, and exhibitions
Photo Album 2
England, France, and cats
Photo Album 3
Family friends, paintings, and cats
Photo Album 4
Travel photos of New York City, California, and exhibitions
Photo Album 4
Travel photos of Turkey and exhibitions
Photo Album 5
Reprints of Europe photos, travel, artwork, and
Frederick Hammersley
Frederick Hammersley in Uniform and in Germany
Frederick Hammerlsey Portrait Sets
Frederick Hammersley in
Frederick Hammersley with Art and Family
Anna Hammerley
Anna Hammersley with Children
Harold Hammersley
Anna and Harold Hammersley
Double exposure created by Hammersley of two individual portraits of his parents.
Susie Hammersley Stone
Frederick and Susie Hammersley
Family Photos Taken by Harold Hammersley
Family Photos Taken by Harold Hammersley, Reprinted by Frederick Hammersley
Anna Hammersley Taken by Harold Hammersley
Hammersley's Grandparents
Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins in England
Extended Hammersley Family
Westberg Family
Unidentified, Likely Family
Tintype and daguerreotype
Unidentified
Camp Wood, Battalion Headquarters
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 11
Europe, Aerial Views
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 12
California, Highway 5
Germany, Berlin
England
England, London Art Tour
Germany and Holland
France, Paris
Includes photos from the Red Cross Tour
Germany and Holland
New Mexico, Albuquerque
New Mexico, Santa Fe
New York
Turkey
Cats
Homes, California
Homes, Albuquerque
Patti and Thomas Laursen
Helen and Waker Davis
Miscellaneous, Textures and Backgrounds
Miscellaneous People
Experiments
UNM Art Faculty, TV
Louise Lewis
Lisa Whitney
Roth Family
Family
Body Parts
Dad's and Mine Photos
Insects
Churches, Buildings
Cemetery
Trucks, Cars
Favorite Pics
Indians
Landscapes
Debby Whitney and Sister Denise
Plants
Sherry Risenhoover
Gustav Ntifero, NMU Student
France- Paris, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Picasso, Brancusi
Germany and Berlin
Claudine Humblet
Nudes, Susie and I, Artist Models
Gus Heinze
Lynley Loffet
Autographed Photos
Gloria Swanson and President George W. and Mrs. Bush
Flowers, Gardens
Jepson Art School
PBS
Photobox 1
Photos of drawings
Photobox 2
Photos of Hammersley
Photobox 3
8x10 photos of works of art
Photobox 4
Photobox 5
Reprints of portraits, knee series, and landscapes
Photobox 6
"To Mount"
Proof Sheets 1
Photographs originally dated from 1944-1945 and 1962-1967. Includes the first shots taken with Hammersley's SRI Minolta camera. Also includes reprints of Hammersley's photos of Paris and Berlin.
Proof Sheets 2
Photos originally dated 1969. Includes golden, knees, heads, insects, UNM faculty, and Laursen.
Proof Sheets 3
Photos originally date from 1969-1970s. Includes family photos and photos of works of art.
Proof Sheets 4
Photos originally date from 1975-1987. Includes UNM, Washington DC, Roswell, Heyart Bair, and exhibitions.
Proof Sheets 5
Photos originaly date from 1978-1981. Includes interiors and LA Louver Gallery shots.
Proof Sheets 6
Includes self portraits, statements, exhibitions, and Paris in 1945.
Proof Sheets 7
Includes paintings and drawings.
Proof Sheets 8
Includes New York apartment, exhibitions, nudes, Choinard, and Burlingame, and California photos.
Proof Sheets 9
Includes exhibitions.
Proof Sheets and Negatives
Includes exhibitions and works of art.
Proof Sheets and Negatives
Includes exhibitions and works of art.
Proof Sheets and Negatives
Includes models and exhibitions.
Contact Sheets
Notebook
Photographs of Hammersley's notebooks including painting ideas, titles, and sketches of paintings.
Notes Concerning Photographs
"Student Show" (1954)
Brandywine Gallery Show (1974)
University of New Mexico -- "Retrospective" (1975)
University of New Mexico -- "Retrospective" (1975)
Photos annotated by Hammersley
Corcoran Gallery of Art -- "Corcoran 35th Biennial" (1977)
L.A. County Art Museum -- "5 Footnotes to Modern Art History" (1977)
Middendorf Lane Gallery (1977)
Albuquerque Art Museum (1978)
LA Louvre Gallery (1978)
Albuquerque United Artists -- "Form is the Shape of Content" (1980)
Hoshour Gallery -- "Poles a Part" (1984)
Graham Gallery (1986)
Hoshour Gallery (1986)
Artists Space (1987)
New Mexico State Fair -- "Selections 1987" (1987)
Modernism, San Francisco (1987-1990)
"Art Fair L.A. 88" (1988)
New Mexico State Fair -- "Statement 88" (1988)
Abrams College (1989)
Graham Gallery (1989)
Museum of New Mexico -- "Modern Masterworks" (1989)
Roswell Museum (1989)
University of New Mexico (1989)
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe (1989-1993)
California State University at Northridge -- "Paris, Berlin and Albuquerque" (1989-1990)
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe -- "The Alcove Show" (1989-1990)
Laguna Art Museum -- "Turning the Tide" (1990)
Owings-Dewey Fine Arts (1992)
Modernism, San Francisco -- "West Coast Hard Edge" (1993)
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University -- "Lyric Geometry: Frederick Hammersley" (1993)
Richard Levy Gallery -- "Computer Drawings and Prints" (1993)
Corcoran Gallery of Art -- "Still Working" (1994)
Modernism, San Francisco (1995)
Some photos of opening taken by Susie Hammersley.
Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico -- "Visual Puns and Hard Edge Poems" (1999)
University of New Mexico Art Center -- "Visual Puns and Hard Edge Poems" (1999)
LA Louvre -- "I've Been Here All the While" (1999-2000)
Ameringer Yohe Fine Art (2000)
Laguna Art Museum -- "Visual Puns and Hard Edge Poems" (2000)
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art -- "Hunches I Geometrics I Organics" (2004)
Unidentified (2004)
Pomona College Museum of Art (2007)
In Situ Works of Art
Flagged for a Book
Flagged for a Catalog
Hammersley's Personal Art Collection
Work at Jepson School of Art and University of Idaho
Work at Chouinard
Christmas Cards
Drawings
Abstracts, faces, and figures in colored pencil, pencil, and charcoal
Faces and figures in pencil (negatives)
Drawings
Faces and figures in pencil
Drawings
Faces and figures in pencil
Lithographs
Paintings
Self portraits, color block, and organic paintings
Paintings
Color block, and organic paintings
Paintings
Color block, and organic paintings
Mixed Media
Heart series
Sculpture
Miscellaneous and Unidentified
Works of Art by Cassandre
Negatives, Transparencies, and Slides
Oversized material housed in Boxes 23 and 36
Artwork consists of Hammersley's sketchbooks, drawings, and paintings from high school and college classes, designs for exhibition catalogs, and cards and printouts for his computer drawings series. Also included are geometric color studies on panel and artwork for a bank mural proposal from 1977. Drawings and design work by Susie Stone, Hammersley's sister are also included, as well as two works by Lu Nowels.
Materials are arranged by document type; artwork by others appear at the end of the series.
This series has been partially scanned. Unmarked computer punchcards have not been scanned, nor have materials from the 2015 and 2018 additions.
Drawing Plates, High School Mechanical Drawing Class
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 4
Sign, Class President
University of Idaho. Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 3.
Drawings
Design class. Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 5.
Color Wheel
Drawings
Chouinard Art School Geometry class. Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 6.
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Includes notes
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Door Designs
Drawings
Drawings
For Hoshour Gallery project and other for other galleries. Oversized material housed in OV 35.
Handwritten Calculations and Formulas
Computer Punch Cards
Includes drawing titles with dates.
Preliminary Printouts and Instructions
Oversized material housed in Box 34, Folder 1
Preliminary Printouts and Instructions
Oversized material housed in Box 34, Folder 2
Preliminary Printouts and Instructions
Oversized material housed in Box 34, Folder 3
Preliminary Printouts and Instructions
Oversized material housed in Box 34, Folder 4
Preliminary Printouts and Instructions
Oversized material housed in Box 34, Folder 5
Preliminary Printouts and Instructions
Oversized material housed in Box 34, Folder 6
Titled Drawings
Oversized material housed in Box 32, Folder 1
Titled Drawings
Oversized material housed in Box 32, Folder 2
Titled Drawings
Oversized material housed in Box 32, Folder 3
Titled Drawings
Oversized material housed in Box 32, Folder 4
by Susie Hammersley Stone
by Lu Nowels
by Cameron King
Artifact, Type Used for Handsome Cards Designs
Oversized material housed in Box 31, Folder 2
The design artwork in this folder relates to the mural proposal in the Writings Series (Box 8, Folder 16) and the Personal Business and Financial Records Series (OV 35, which was scanned with Box 12, Folder 4).