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The cover of this program features four (fast-approaching) views of the iconic Robert Rauschenberg performance image of the artist on roller skates with a parachute strapped to his back. The three dance concerts featured performances and collaborations by Trisha Brown, Deborah Hay, Alex Hay, Steve Paxton, Jill Johnston and Rauschenberg.
Condition: Fine.
Item #16
The poster for an Empty Records band Showcase at Satyricon on August 7, 1998 featuring Steel Wool, the Weird Love Makers and Jr. High. Poster design by Guy Burwell who designed many posters for Berbati's and Satyricon in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Condition: Fair/Good, with the usual holes, tears and creasing from being stapled to a telephone pole.
Item #1526
The poster for the Melvins and Enemy Mine at Berbati's Pan on June 14, 1999. Poster design by Guy Burwell who designed many posters for Berbati's and Satyricon in the late 1990s and early 2000s. A Mike Thrasher production, sponsored by The Rocket magazine.
Condition: Fair/Good, with the usual holes, tears and creasing from being stapled to a telephone pole.
Item #1525
The poster for Queens of the Stone Age at Berbati's Pan in Portland on May 12, 2000. Poster design by Guy Burwell who designed many posters for Berbati's and Satyricon in the late 1990s and early 2000s. A relatively early show for Queens of the Stone Age, who formed in 1996. The cheerleader on the poster is so excited his shoes have come off and his underpants are showing. A Mike Thrasher production, sponsored by The Rocket magazine.
Condition: Good/Fair, with the usual holes, tears and creasing from being stapled.....
Item #1520
If there was a feminist history of the LA gallery scene in the '60s it would certaintly include Eugenia Butler. In 1968, she opened Gallery 669 at 669 N. La Cienega Blvd., a gallery with a short-lived but powerful impact. It was there that Joseph Kosuth had his first U.S. solo exhibition in 1968. After Gallery 669, Butler opened her own gallery down the street at 615 N. La Cienega Blvd. At the Eugenia Butler Gallery, Butler choose not to show the artists of the Ferus scene but instead tended.....
Item #503
The first printing of Edward Camy's "good-natured" pictorial map for The Alaska Line of the Alaska Steamship company, showing the steamship route plus "suggesting some of the most interesting features of the Territory". Camy's whimsical drawings on the map include moose, bears, mountains, hunters, prospectors, walruses, sled dogs, reindeer, canned fish, oil fields, caribou, and other regional attributes. Seattle was the home of the Alaska Steamship Company and "the Alaska Line is Alaska's most important transportation link to with the States...this is America's last frontier, America's most varied Vacationland." Also.....
Item #1553
An exhibition flyer/poster for James Castle's second solo exhibition, which took place October 28-November 18, 1962 at the Bush House Museum in Salem, Oregon. His first show was in 1955 at Portland's Museum Art School. Castle (1899-1977) was a deaf and mute self-taught artist who created drawings, handmade books and constructions in an intensive daily practice for nearly 70 years in Idaho. His work has been the subject of retrospectives organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2008) and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2011), and.....
Item #564
An exhibition poster for an early Robert Colescott show of paintings at the Bush House Museum in Salem, OR from October 15-November 5, 1961. Born in Oakland, Colescott was known for his brightly colored canvases that exuberantly explored issues of race and social politics, along with lust and desire. He taught art at Portland State University from 1957-1966, and also traveled to Egypt and Paris for residencies and teaching. In 1970 he returned to California and for 15 years taught at Cal State/Stanislaus, UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art.....
Item #565
An exhibition of Oregon artists jurored by the Museum's Art Committee from nominations submitted by the Artist Membership of the Museum (Hyman Bloom, William Givler and Betty Willis). This folded brochure includes a list of works for the 1955 exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum - the seventh of its kind. The Director of the museum, Thomas Colt notes 125 works were selected from 562 submissions. What is most useful about is document beyond the list of artists working in Oregon in 1955 are the titles of the works.....
Item #302
Photocopied letter to the contributor(s) of the mail art exhibition at Loeb Student Center, Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York University, which featured artists from 19 countries and more than 1,600 mail artworks. Signed in the print by the Fluxus artist Fletcher Copp. The second page includes the touring college exhibition schedule for the years 1975 and 1976. A nice addition to a Fletcher Copp or mail art collection.
Condition: Good, tri-folded as issued, slight toning, slight soft creasing, and two small tears on second page at folds.
Item #70
An absurdist form for a form made by Portland artist Don Day, apparently for random distribution. The form includes questions and boxes to be filled out relating to forms, such as “where was the form obtained?” “number of spaces left blank or marked 0, none, n.a., etc.” “agency issuing form,” “ink color” and “is the form pretty?” etc.
Condition: Fine.
Item #47
The poster for large-scale sculptor Mark di Suvero's exhibition at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles in September/October of 1965.
Condition: Fine, folded as issued.
Item #429
A strikingly-designed poster for a unique exhibit at the Bush House Museum in Salem, OR in 1961. After a Dada-inspired Portland exhibit the previous month entitled "Exhibition Syndrome," Jack Eyerly, Director of the Bush House Museum in Salem, OR at the time, produced this "essay exhibition...to introduce and give insights into the historical Dada movement...Objects, reproductions, facsimiles and quotations by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Max Ernst and others caught up in often humorous, always protesting Dada activity of 1916 through 1925 are shown". Many Portland artists.....
Item #566
A collection of mail art postcards by the artist Sabato Fiorello, who lived and worked in West Hollywood for many years and was a beloved fixture on the LA art scene. The cards feature photographs of the artist dressed as different characters, personas or historical figures. He exhibited at ONE Archives Gallery & Museum, among others. Fiorello died in Escondido, CA in 2017. Cards are numbered and titled on the back i.e. "A Series for 1980 #1,” “The Satin Clown” and include a photo credit, with most photos in the.....
Item #1592
The rare silkscreened flyer from Flavin's "Cool White, Etc." exhibit in November 1968 at the Dwan Gallery, New York.
Condition: Near Fine, very faint ridge to paper along one side.
Item #550
The poster for Flavin's February 7-March 4, 1970 exhibition "Cornered Installations 1963-1970" at the Dwan Gallery, New York.
Condition: Very Good, some slight soft creasing; folded as issued.
Item #551
A set of four items of ephemera related to Ken Friedman's visit to Portland, Oregon in September of 1978. 1. A poster promoting three events: Sept. 22 at Northwest Artists Workshop (Critical Issues in Contemporary Art), Sept. 25 at The Earth Tavern (The Sociology of Art), and Sept. 26 at the Portland Art Museum (Fluxus, Intermedia and Concept Art). 2. The poster/flyer for Friedman's appearance at the Earth Tavern on Sept. 25. 3. A press release/flyer from the Portland Art Museum announcing Friedman's Sept. 26 discussion at the Museum. 4.....
Item #1067
A flyer or broadside describing five events by Ken Friedman: Scrub Piece (1956), Green Street (1959), Christmas Tree Event (1964), Mandatory Happening (1965), and 10,000 (1971); plus the sculpture The Distance From this Sentence to Your Eye is My Sculpture. The event 10,000 consists of distributing "to friends, people chosen by random process, etc., 10,000 objects, papers, events, etc., over a span of time." The flyer states "the publication and distribution of Five Events and One Sculpture by Ken Friedman constitutes a performance of 10,000. 10,000 was first performed over.....
Item #1064
A double-sided lettering chart or poster culled from a series of lessons that appeared in the 1930s/'40s Speedball textbook "Modern Lettering and Poster Design". The Hunt Pen Company was the manufacturer of Speedball pens, inks, linoleum cutters and Boston pencil sharpeners. The how-to lettering textbooks were an early and essential resource for designers and sign painters. The famous Speedball lettering textbooks were published throughout the 20th century and it was in its 23rd edition as of 1999. Chart No. 1 shows "Excercises Leading into the Construction of Gothic Letters" and.....
Item #862
A double-sided lettering chart/poster culled from a series of lessons that appeared in the 1930s/'40s Speedball textbook "Modern Lettering and Poster Design". The Hunt Pen Company was the manufacturer of Speedball pens, inks, linoleum cutters and Boston pencil sharpeners. The how-to lettering textbooks were an early and essential resource for designers and sign painters. The famous Speedball lettering textbooks were published throughout the 20th century and it was in its 23rd edition as of 1999. Chart No. 2 explores single stroke Gothic alphabets lettered with style B or F-B Speedball.....
Item #863
A double-sided lettering chart/poster culled from a series of lessons that appeared in the 1930s/'40s Speedball textbook "Modern Lettering and Poster Design". The Hunt Pen Company was the manufacturer of Speedball pens, inks, linoleum cutters and Boston pencil sharpeners. The how-to lettering textbooks were an early and essential resource for designers and sign painters. The famous Speedball lettering textbooks were published throughout the 20th century and it was in its 23rd edition as of 1999. Chart No. 3 covers single stroke Speeball Roman alphabets with C-1 and D-1 pens, and.....
Item #864
A double-sided lettering chart/poster from the Hunt Pen Company, which was the manufacturer of Speedball pens, inks, linoleum cutters and Boston pencil sharpeners. They also published Speedball textbooks of "Modern Lettering and Poster Design," how-to lettering textbooks that were an early and essential resource for designers and sign painters. The famous Speedball lettering textbooks were published throughout the 20th century and it was in its 23rd edition as of 1999. Charts No. 7 & 8 cover the "Steel Brush," the flat metal tip used for bolder handcraft lettering common in.....
Item #865
A double-sided lettering chart/poster from the Hunt Pen Company, which was the manufacturer of Speedball pens, inks, linoleum cutters and Boston pencil sharpeners. They also published Speedball textbooks of "Modern Lettering and Poster Design," how-to lettering textbooks that were an early and essential resource for designers and sign painters. The famous Speedball lettering textbooks were published throughout the 20th century and it was in its 23rd edition as of 1999. Charts No. 9 & 10 cover the "Steel Brush," the flat metal tip used for bolder handcraft lettering common in.....
Item #866
A folded annoucement card for a party at the Gotham Book Mart on December 8, 1966 to celebrate the publication of "Martha Graham: Portrait of the Lady as an Artist," and to meet the artist. With a matching laid-in card stating that Ms. Graham has graciously consented to inscribe copies of the book ordered before December 8.
Condition: Folded Card = Fine; Laid-in Card = Very Good, faint soft creases to card.
Item #470
A vintage Crater Lake National Forest Map map, issued in 1925 by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Forest Service. Folds out to 24" x 27" with one side having information on recreation for sportsmen and campers, resources, lakes and other points of interest plus a pledge for prevention of fire in the forests. The other side is the map of the Crater Lake National Forest in red and black. This map also available in the 1930 issue date. Please note: we have several other maps from the Forest Service of this.....
Item #1507
