Tenth Anniversary: Leo Castelli Gallery
An invitation card to the opening for the Tenth Anniversary exhibition of the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York on Saturday February 4, 1967.
Condition: Fine, slight curve to card.
Item #435
Selected Ephemera
Drawings by James Castle; Recent Paintings & Drawings by Louis Bunce
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
Recent Paintings by Robert Colescott
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
Artists of Oregon 1955: Portland Art Museum
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
Fletcher Copp: 1st New York City Post Card Show
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
Mark di Suvero: Dwan Gallery
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
Wat is Dada?
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
Cool White, Etc. from Dan Flavin: Dwan Gallery
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
Cornered Installations 1963-1970 from Dan Flavin: Dwan Gallery
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
![Item #1066 Ken Friedman: 3 Events in Portland, OR [poster]. Ken Friedman](/pictures/thumb/1066.jpeg?v=1567551504)
Ken Friedman: 3 Events in Portland, OR [poster]
A poster for three Ken Friedman events occuring in Portland, Oregon in September of 1978: 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). Friedman established "Fluxus West" in California in 1966 to represent and promote the work of the Fluxus group in the Western United States.
Condition: Very Good, tri-folded.
Item #1066
Ken Friedman: Five Events and One Sculpture
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
Set of 10 Speedball Lettering Charts (1941 & 1957)
A set of ten poster-sized Speedball Lettering Charts (Nos. 1-10) published in 1941 (Nos. 1-6) and 1957 (Nos. 7-10). Culled from the series of lessons that originally 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 as of 1999 was in its 23rd edition.....
Item #1481
Speedball Lettering Charts Nos. 1 & 6
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
Speedball Lettering Charts Nos. 2 & 5
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
Speedball Lettering Charts Nos. 3 & 4
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
Speedball Lettering Charts Nos. 7 & 8
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
Speedball Lettering Charts Nos. 9 & 10
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
Gotham Book Mart and The Poetry Center: Winter Calendar 1969-1970
Set of two pieces: [1] Calendar of events for the Winter season 1969/1970 at The Poetry Center. This amazing schedule of speakers included Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Mead, Noam Chomsky and others. [2] Invitation to a reception in honor of Ginsberg and Snyder which took place at the Gotham Book Mart Gallery right before their reading. This reading by the two Beat Poets and famous friends must have sold out quickly as "sold out" is printed on both the calendar of events and the invitation.....
Item #649
Crater Lake National Forest Map (1925); It's Resources: Timber, Forage, Water, Recreation
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
Everyman's Infinite Art; An Exhibition to Be Held During the Christmas Recess (Because its Appreciation Requires No Viewers)
Harold Gregor, the Chairman of the Art Department at Chapman College at the time, produced this exhibition as an antagonistic response to the Primary Structures exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York (1966), and to Carl Andre’s Lever in particular. Everyman’s Infinite Art has been called both a “satirical misreading of minimalism” and as “paralleling the emerging practices of New York conceptual artists,” predating Lawrence Weiner’s Statements by two years and Robert Barry’s Closed Gallery by three years. Everyman’s Infinite Art was recreated in 2011 for the Getty’s series.....
Item #10
Rick Griffin: Berkeley Bonaparte Postcard
A postcard featuring Rick Griffin's artwork issued by his Berkeley Bonaparte poster company in the Bay Area, from the same period when he was also being commissioned to do work for Family Dog Productions and Bill Graham Presents.
Condition: Very Good, thumbtack hole and impression at center-top; previous owner's name written in blue pen on blank card back; light edgewear.
Item #1193
James Lee Hansen: Sculpture 1969
James Lee Hansen is a staple in NW sculpture and is still working today. This early solo exhibition of his work at the legendary Fountain Gallery in Portland, Oregon is commemorated with this two color poster most likely designed by Dale Ott. folded as issued.
Condition: Good, some .25" closed tears at bottom edge and dents in the paper mostly around the folds. Slight loss of printing along bottom half of vertical middle fold.
Item #495
Buffalo Springfield and Eight Penny Matter: Family Dog Productions Concert Postcard (1967)
The postcard for Buffalo Springfield and Eight Penny Matter at The Family Dog in Denver (1601 West Evans Street), the rock club that presented many psychedelic bands during the short period it was open in 1967-1968. These concerts were on October 6 & 7, 1967. Chet Helms was manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company, which famously added Janis Joplin as its singer for a period. Helms formed Family Dog Productions, and began producing concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium (SF) alongside a young Bill Graham. Helms and Family Dog.....
Item #1145
Quicksilver Messenger Service and Charley Musselwhite: Family Dog Productions Concert Postcard (1968)
The postcard for Quicksilver Messenger Service, Kaleidoscope and Charley Musselwhite at the famed Avalon Ballroom for three nights: January 12-14, 1968. Chet Helms was manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company, which famously added Janis Joplin as its singer for a period. Helms formed Family Dog Productions, and began producing concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium alongside a young Bill Graham. Helms and Family Dog hired a group of young artists to design the graphics for their posters and handbills, which became the standard by which all psychedelic concert posters.....
Item #1144
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sons of Champlin and Taj Mahal: Family Dog Productions Concert Postcard (1967)
The postcard for Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sons of Champlin and Taj Mahal & the Blue Flames at the famed Avalon Ballroom for three nights: October 27-29, 1967. Chet Helms was manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company, which famously added Janis Joplin as its singer for a period. Helms formed Family Dog Productions, and began producing concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium alongside a young Bill Graham. Helms and Family Dog hired a group of young artists to design the graphics for their posters and handbills, which became the standard.....
Item #1143