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Act Up's poster for the 10th Anniversary “Crash the Market” action to demand AIDS treatment for all, including a reduction in the price of medication. Also promotes an activist conference occurring over the preceding weekend.
Condition: Fine.
Item #1100
Announcement for a planned Black Art & Fashion Show at Wadleigh Junior High School (P.S. 88) on May 3, 1969. As noted in the flyer, this show along with other similar events was planned to unite the local black community and help younger African American students develop their talents.
Condition: Good-, two half-ring coffee stains at top of page; faint soft creasing along top edge; smudging to printing at center; stamped "May 7 1969" at bottom of flyer.
Item #728
June 5-30, 1962 exhibition poster for the showing at Martha Jackson Gallery of Alex Katz's stage set used in a Kenneth Koch play. The set came about in an example of New York School collaboration. Koch, inspired by Larry Rivers' painting, George Washington Crossing the Delaware, wrote a one-act play of the same name. After seeing an Alex Katz exhibition of figures made of canvas and wood, Koch asked Katz to create the set for his play, which was later installed for viewing at Martha Jackson's gallery.
Condition: Very Good+.....
Item #759
An original exhibition poster for Alberto Burri's February 1960 exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery. This color offset poster pictures a detail image from a welded steel sheet metal piece. This exhibition occurred during a momentous time in the artist's career; in 1959 he won the Premio dell’Ariete in Milan and the UNESCO Prize at the São Paulo Biennial. In 1960, Burri was awarded third prize at the Carnegie International and his work was shown at the Venice Biennale that same year, where he was awarded the Critics’ Prize.
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Item #490
An 11x17 poster advertising the live recording LP released by Trap Records in 1979, featuring a legendary list of Portland punk bands: the Wipers, Neo Boys, Bop Zombies, Stiphnoyds, Sado Nation, Smegma, Rubbers, Lotek and Cleavers. This poster is sometimes mistaken as the concert poster for the show, although it was produced later to promote the album's release. THe poster is featured on page 191 of Mark Sten's 2015 book "All Ages: The Rise and Fall of Portland Punk,1977-1981". A few pages detail the story of producing the LP.
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Item #1521
An unattributed poster of calligraphy, illustrating different techniques, styles, themes, philosophies and approaches to calligraphic lettering design. The calligraphy itself demonstrates the various techniques and strategies described therein, such as "the longer the lines of writing the more space is needed between them"; "linear separate compressed sequential" and "built-up letters flooded in". Printed in red and black ink on thick ivory paper. From a calligrapher and educator's collection, most of which was from the 1960s.
Condition: Very Good-, light creasing at top and lower right corners; very light foxing along.....
Item #951
An oversize poster for a Carlo Scarpa exhibition at the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice from June 30-October 14, 1984 and sponsored by the City of Venice Department of Culture. Scarpa was commissioned in the early 1960s to restore parts of the Stampalia Foundation's historic 1868 building including interior, exterior and garden elements. The dates at the top of the poster refer to the year of birth (1906) and death (1978) of Scarpa. Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect influenced by Venetian and Japanese architecture and known for a combintation.....
Item #1088
A collection of 41 Boston and Main Railroad photos taken in 1966 and 1967, with detailed location notes written on the backs of the photos, and stamped with the date and year taken. Photographer unknown. Generally taken in the areas of Troy and Lansingburg, New York on the Troy Branch of the railroad. The passenger train traveling from Boston to Troy, NY was named The Minuteman. The dates of operation for the B&M Railroad were 1836-1983. An example of the detail of the notes on the back of one photo reads: "Boston.....
Item #1246
A double-sided flyer promoting a one-hour employee walkout and rally at Columbia University in support of student demands, which included abolishing ROTC, war research and recruiting, opening up apartments held vacant and ending evictions in area apartment houses. The flyer is printed in English on one side and Spanish on the other and is stamped March 26, 1969.
Condition: Near Fine, mild toning; stamped "Mar 26, 1969" on one side.
Item #721
The announcement flyer for the final exhibition at the Dwan Gallery, New York in June of 1971. Artists included Andre, De Maria, Heizer, Ryman, Flavin, LeWitt, Smithson and Sandback, among others.
Condition: Good, dogears to two corners including one having an 1/8" tear/chip, slight toning to cardstock at left side.
Item #140
The flyer for the February 7 to March 4, 1967 group exhibition at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, bringing artists from the New York outpost of the Dwan Gallery to the Los Angeles location. Artists in the exhibit included Sol LeWitt, Arakawa, Anastasi, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Snelson, Michael Steiner, Richard Baringer and Tom Doyle.
Condition: Near Fine, faint soft creasing at edges.
Item #433
An exhibition flyer on heavy cardstock for an October, 1960 Dwan Gallery Los Angeles group show including Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Goodnough, Grace Hartigan, Larry Rivers and Paul Jenkins, among others. The exhibition featured a survey of notable abstract expressionist painters based in New York. The tri-fold flyer opens to list the names of each artist included in the exhibition.
Condition: Very Good+, minor rubbing to edge folds.
Item #634
A Dwan Gallery Los Angeles group show postcard for the June 1-27, 1964 exhibition featuring Arakawa, Charles Frazier, Edward Kienholz, Martial Raysse and Jean Tinguely.
Condition: Fine.
Item #493
Diecut exhibition invite tri-folded as issued and mailed (no postmarked date). Published in connection with Allen Carter exhibition at the Renshaw Gallery at Linfield College, April 5-25.
Condition: Fine, 1 cm tear on middle left and a very slight crease in center that runs half way down the document.
Item #243
The opening of Arlene Schnitzer's Fountain Gallery in 1961 was a pivotal moment in Portland's art history, and its influence still resonates today. This flyer, designed by Dale Ott, advertises a group show for the gallery's one-year anniversary with 32 noteworthy Northwest artists including Mark Tobey, Carl and Hilda Morris, Louis Bunce, Robert Colescott and Michele Russo. Postmarked and with handwritten mailing label on verso, remnants of a gold circular mailing tab seal.
Condition: Near Fine, folded twice as issued.
Item #731
Two-piece set of invitations to the grand opening of Arlene Schnitzer's Fountain Gallery of Art in the Skidmore Fountain section of Portland. The first piece is an invitation to a champagne party on November 28, 1961, the eve of the Gallery's opening. The second is an invitation to the preview the following day. The Gallery officially opened on December 4 with a show including Kenneth Callahan, Carl and Hilda Morris, Michele Russo, Sally Haley, Robert Colescott and others.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item #732
A poster commemorating 100 years of struggle for Puerto Rican independence. The Puerto Rican flag is shown framed in bullets. On September 23, 1868 the Lares uprising was the first major revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. Text in English, Spanish, French and Arabic. Published by OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, with their logo in the lower right. OSPAAAL was established in Cuba in 1966.
Condition: Fair, with overall waviness to poster likely from previous moisture; some edgewear and chips.....
Item #1535
Exhibition document for James Lee Hansen's May-June 1966 exhibition at the legendary Fountain Gallery located in Portland, Oregon. The light brown cover which includes biographical information folds out and includes a large photograph of the artist working along with a list of works. Staple bound into the larger cover flyer is a small book of images of bronze sculptures included in the exhibition. The catalogue was designed by Dale Ott. This catalogue was mailed and includes a note in pencil near mailing address with the message "come say goodbye."
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Item #295
An exhibition flyer for Karel Appel's exhibition held at Martha Jackson Gallery from October 25-November 19, 1960. Martha Jackson Gallery presented Appel's first exhibition in the United States in 1954.
Plus a concurrent exhibition flyer, featuring lithographs by Appel, for the inaugural show at David Anderson Gallery next door (Anderson was Martha Jackson's son). The David Anderson Gallery was dedicated solely to exhibiting prints.
Condition: Martha Jackson flyer: Very Good, folded as issued; minor bump to bottom right corner. Anderson Gallery flyer: Fine.
Item #695
Ace Gallery exhibition flyer for Keith Sonnier's 1973 exhibition. The document includes a floor plan of the gallery and a short list of works including "amplified long and short wave radio receivers" and "32 air tracks" which is in keeping with Sonnier's sound based installations and performances. Sonnier is known for his radical and new use of materials, unbridling sculpture from its past, neon and sound based installations. Postmarked.
Condition: Good, creasing along top of the mailer.
Item #485
Press release for the 1968 LACMA exhibit Late Fifties at the Ferus, which documented “for the first time in a museum presentation the beginnings – the birth and growth of what is now the contemporary art scene in Los Angeles”. Also included is a press release for H.C. Westermann’s LACMA Retrospective of 1968, which included 49 major works.
Condition: Fine, folded as issued, slight toning to top of first page and some small chips to top edge of page 2.
Item #20
Exhibition flyer for Lousie Nevelson's April/May 1961 exhibition at Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in which Nevelson exhibited a series of golden "walls" and circular and semicircular disks that hung from the ceiling. Named "The Royal Tides" exhibition, the works included in this 1961 show became the foundation of the Royal Tides works exhibited by Nevelson in the 1962 Venice Biennale.
Condition: Very Good+, tiny pinholes in four corners barely visible against black printing: folded as issued across center.
Item #486
An exhibition flyer for a Lucus Samaras exhibition at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles in November of 1964. No text is included on the flyer, front or back - just an image of Samaras printed in metallic gold and green with red dots. The artist worked in painting, sculpture, and performance art, and later in his career began experimenting with photography. An early Samaras exhibition flyer.
Condition: Good, some creasing/wrinkling to the the top and at edges of the thin flyer paper; some surface dimples.
Item #632
An invitation for two to a party at the Limelight celebrating the February 1992 special Bruce Weber issue of Interview Magazine, which famously had Marky Mark shirtless on the cover, and inside in his Calvin Klein underwear.
Condition: Fine, folded as issued.
Item #492
An oversize exhibition postcard for a show of modern sculpture masterworks at Pace Gallery, New York from Dec.15, 1964 to January 7, 1965. The image on the card cleverly features a Giacometti sculpture in the elevator at 9 West 57th Street, the location of Pace Gallery from 1963-1968. Machine addressed and postmarked on verso.
Condition: Good, toning to card and small bump on one side; a small pinhole at middle top.
Item #567
