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Series IV. Project and exhibition files, 1958-2001, undated
56.1 Linear
Feet
(55 boxes, 38 flatfile
folders)
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This series documents the artwork that Herms has produced for some fifty years. It
contains files for projects such as public sculptures, as well as individual works on
paper, photographs of work or work series, photographs of exhibitions, object lists and
arrangements for exhibitions, photographs by Herms and occasionally of Herms, where the
piece in question is part of a collaborative project with a photographer, such as James
Fee. There is some overlap between this series and Series III. Journals, which may also
contains notes and sketches for art projects. Series VI. Tap City Circus and Series VII.
Love Press, also contain project files, and Series IV. inevitably contains Love Press
material. The judgement as to where a given file should be categorized has been largely
the artist's decision.
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Arrangement |
This series is arranged in chronological order. Herms often supplied the date of a
given work or suggested a decade, such as the 1960s, or the late 1960s. These files are
placed at the beginning of each decade, that is, preceding a specific date, such as
1962. Within each annual date, materials have been arranged in the following sequence:
photo-based artwork, photographs of artwork, poetry, assorted/mixed media. Note that not
every year contains material in each of these categories. Files from 1958 to 1980 have
been cataloged in greater detail. Nearly half of the project files contain color
photographs, negatives, or otherwise sensitive materials stored separately from the
paper-based portion of the archive. Oversize boxes and flat file folders hold artwork
such as collages, silkscreen prints, drawings, and paintings. Most of these large works
are undated.
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box |
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75, 318, 351*, 356* |
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1958-1959 |
box |
folder |
318 |
1 |
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Photographs of artwork: President is Dead
|
box |
|
75, 351*, 356* |
|
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Assorted/mixed media |
box |
folder |
75 |
1 |
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Self-portrait |
75 |
3 |
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Portrait |
75 |
2 |
|
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Rasputin room materials? (1959-1960) |
box |
|
351*, 356* |
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Jubilee drawings and paintings |
box |
|
75, 76, 318 |
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1960s |
box |
|
75, 318 |
|
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Photo-based artwork |
box |
folder |
75 |
4 |
|
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Small photos/photocollage |
box |
folder |
318 |
2-4 |
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Negatives |
box |
folder |
75 |
5 |
|
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Louise and Nalota |
75 |
6 |
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Abstraction |
75 |
7 |
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Photocollage |
75 |
8 |
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Diane Di Prima |
75 |
9 |
|
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Ray Johnson and Louise |
75 |
10 |
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Louise and mattress spring |
box |
|
75, 318 |
|
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Photographs of artwork |
box |
folder |
75 |
11 |
|
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Unidentified collages |
box |
folder |
318 |
5 |
|
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Hall of Saints
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box |
folder |
75 |
12 |
|
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Balls series
|
75 |
13 |
|
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Herms work shot by Wallace Berman |
75 |
14 |
|
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Leo Box with Louise and Nalota
|
75 |
15 |
|
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Assemblages |
75 |
16 |
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Taurus Box
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75 |
17 |
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Aquarian Urn (cut-out)
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75 |
18 |
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Assemblage |
75 |
19 |
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No trespassing
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75 |
20 |
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Saturn Collage
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75 |
21 |
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Spit drawing |
75 |
22 |
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Assemblage/double exposure |
75 |
23 |
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Crest? |
75 |
24 |
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Herms in studio |
box |
folder |
76 |
8-10 |
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Poetry |
76 |
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Assorted/mixed media |
76 |
1 |
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Enamel drawings |
76 |
2 |
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Crow quill drawing |
76 |
3 |
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Cover of Jack Hirshman's Blake
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76 |
4 |
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Spit drawing |
76 |
5 |
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Sketchbook |
76 |
6-7 |
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Assorted |
76 |
11 |
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Meat market
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76 |
12 |
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New Mirror of Vanities
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76 |
13-14 |
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Angel's Faint
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76 |
15 |
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Donuts for Duncan
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76 |
16 |
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Mongrelita
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76 |
17 |
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The Vanishing Point
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76 |
18 |
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Government (print)
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76 |
19 |
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Poem/prints |
76 |
20 |
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Full Moon Rite
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76 |
21 |
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Sign |
box |
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76, 318 |
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1960 |
box |
|
76 |
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Photo-based artwork |
76 |
22 |
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Double-exposures |
76 |
23 |
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Ocean; doily |
box |
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76, 318 |
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Photographs of artwork |
box |
folder |
318 |
6 |
|
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The Poet
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318 |
7 |
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Hemorrage Throne
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box |
folder |
76 |
24 |
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Five highs
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76 |
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Poetry |
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See also flat file folder 2**. |
76 |
25 |
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Various |
flatfile |
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2** |
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The God of Foxes has birthed a cub (poem for Nalota) |
box |
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76 |
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Assorted/mixed media |
76 |
26 |
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Collage/Christmas card |
76 |
27 |
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Rolf Nelson Gallery tombstone |
box |
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77, 318, 350 |
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1961 |
77, 318, 350 |
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Photographs of artwork |
box |
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77, 350 |
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Batman Gallery Exhibition |
box |
folder |
77 |
1-4 |
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Photographs |
box |
item |
350 |
D1 |
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Digital images, undated |
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George Herms papers digital files (digital version available on-site
only)
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1 computer disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
box |
folder |
77 |
5 |
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Swing 'N Nail
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box |
folder |
318 |
10 |
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Marcel please do chomp on this (1961-1962)
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box |
folder |
77 |
6-7 |
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Poetry |
box |
|
77, 318 |
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1962 |
box |
folder |
77 |
8 |
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Photo-based artwork: Chapel Abyss Cross
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box |
|
77, 318 |
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Photographs of artwork |
box |
folder |
77 |
9 |
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Burpee seed catalog
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box |
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77, 318 |
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Temple of the Sun
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box |
folder |
77 |
10 |
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Black-and-white |
box |
folder |
318 |
11 |
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Color |
318 |
12 |
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Assemblages |
box |
folder |
77 |
10 |
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Assorted/mixed media: List of works, Aura Gallery |
77 |
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1963 |
77 |
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Photographs of artwork |
77 |
12 |
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July 1234567...
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77 |
13 |
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Battle of Mill Creek
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77 |
14 |
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Feather Rooney (1963-1964)
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77 |
15 |
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The Holy Family (1963-1964)
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77 |
16 |
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Poetry |
77 |
|
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Assorted/mixed media |
77 |
17-18 |
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Hymn's Delight
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77 |
19 |
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Exhibition loan form |
77 |
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1964 |
77 |
20 |
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Poetry |
77 |
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Assorted/mixed media |
77 |
21 |
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Price list of works (1964-1965) |
77 |
22 |
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Label |
box |
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78, 318 |
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1965 |
78, 318 |
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Photo-based artwork |
box |
folder |
78 |
1-2 |
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Louise and Nalota Herms |
78 |
3 |
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Hymn's Delight
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78 |
4 |
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Birth announcement |
box |
folder |
318 |
14 |
|
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Jack Hirschman (negatives) |
box |
|
78, 318 |
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Photographs of artwork |
box |
folder |
78 |
5 |
|
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Capricorn Box and Pisces Box
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78 |
6 |
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Untitled assemblage |
78 |
7 |
|
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After Magic Cool
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78 |
8 |
|
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Everything is OK
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78 |
9 |
|
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Five Highs
|
78 |
10-11 |
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Putrefaction |
78 |
12 |
|
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Aquarian Urn
|
78 |
13 |
|
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Sagittarius Box
|
78 |
14 |
|
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Iris firewater collages |
box |
folder |
318 |
15 |
|
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Loosely scaled model of the universe |
318 |
16 |
|
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Foshay |
box |
|
78 |
|
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Assorted/mixed media |
78 |
15 |
|
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Desire Caught by the Tail
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78 |
16-17 |
|
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Spring Visions
|
78 |
18 |
|
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Announcement for Elias Romero concert |
box |
|
78,318 |
|
1966 |
box |
folder |
78 |
20 |
|
Photo-based artwork: Double exposure of nude woman |
box |
|
78, 318 |
|
|
Photographs of artwork |
box |
folder |
78 |
21 |
|
|
Continuous variations
|
box |
folder |
318 |
17 |
|
|
Assemblage boxes, black-and-white negatives |
box |
folder |
78 |
22 |
|
Poetry |
78 |
23-24 |
1967: Assorted/mixed media |
78 |
23 |
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Dunk-a-luck
|
78 |
24 |
|
Three moons over Manhattan
|
box |
|
78, 318 |
|
1968 |
box |
folder |
78 |
25 |
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Photo-based artwork: Horse with butterfly wings |
box |
|
78, 318 |
|
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Photographs of artworks |
box |
folder |
78 |
26 |
|
|
Assorted |
box |
folder |
318 |
19 |
|
|
Wooden moonbeams
|
box |
folder |
78 |
27 |
|
Poetry: Long Beach poetry reading |
78 |
28-29 |
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Assorted/mixed media |
78 |
|
1969 |
|
|
See also flatfile folder 3** and 4**. |
78 |
30-32 |
|
Photo-based artwork |
78 |
30 |
|
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Nude Herms with pole for Foggy
Wagons
1969
|
78 |
31 |
|
|
Diane Di Prima for Hymns
Delight
1969
|
78 |
32 |
|
|
Doily for Hymns Delight
1969
|
78 |
33-35 |
|
Photographs of artworks |
78 |
33 |
|
|
Assorted works |
78 |
34 |
|
|
The Cosmic Urge
|
78 |
35 |
|
|
Reed Live
|
78 |
36-40 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
|
|
|
See also flatfile folder 3** and 4**. |
78 |
36-37 |
|
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Faithquake planning
|
78 |
39 |
|
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Faithquake opening
|
78 |
40 |
|
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Molly Barnes Holiday Show and Exhibition (1969-1970) |
flatfile |
|
3** |
|
|
|
Moonbeams, original drawings mounted on board, for Faithquake
exhibition
|
flatfile |
|
4** |
|
|
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Ink drawing of man/priest on board; Son, ink drawing on board |
box |
|
79, 318, 352*, 353*, 357*, 360*. |
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1970s |
|
|
See also flatfile folders 10**-12**. |
box |
|
79, 318 |
|
|
Photo-based artwork |
box |
folder |
79 |
1 |
|
|
George and Louise Herms |
box |
folder |
318 |
22 |
|
|
Margaret Nielsen |
318 |
26 |
|
|
Book plates as negative photoprints |
box |
folder |
79 |
2-7 |
|
Photographs of artwork |
79 |
2 |
|
|
Works from Streaming
|
79 |
3 |
|
|
Tarzan Feathers
|
79 |
4 |
|
|
A Way of Life
|
79 |
5 |
|
|
Assemblage works |
79 |
6 |
|
|
Headstone
|
79 |
7 |
|
|
Assemblage works
|
box |
folder |
318 |
21 |
|
|
Pisces Dancers
|
318 |
23 |
|
|
L.A. Dadafest installation |
318 |
25 |
|
|
Effluvia and collage |
box |
folder |
79 |
8-12 |
|
Poetry |
79 |
8 |
|
|
After landing humanity...
|
79 |
9 |
|
|
Dflyab, Gagaku and I confess
|
79 |
10 |
|
|
As in basketball
|
79 |
11 |
|
|
Poetry and list related to Egg of
Night
|
79 |
12 |
|
|
Poem for Louise |
79 |
|
|
Assorted/mixed media |
|
|
|
See also flatfile folders 10**, 11**, and 12**. |
box |
folder |
75 |
13-30 |
|
|
Various |
flatfile |
|
10**, 11**, 12** |
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|
|
Balls effluvia |
box |
|
352*, 353*, 357* |
|
|
|
Collages, test prints, drawings, effluvia |
box |
|
360* |
|
|
|
Coffee filter pieces, hair pieces, collage/assemblages |
box |
|
80, 318 |
|
1970 |
|
|
See also flatfile folder 5*. |
box |
folder |
80 |
1-2 |
|
Photo-based artwork |
80 |
1 |
|
|
Hymns Delight
|
80 |
2 |
|
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Photograph of Ginger |
box |
|
80, 318 |
|
|
Photographs of artworks |
box |
folder |
80 |
3 |
|
|
Holiday exhibition and sale
|
box |
folder |
318 |
27 |
|
|
Herms studio |
318 |
28 |
|
|
Western Gate Ripple
|
box |
folder |
80 |
5-9 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
|
|
|
See also flat file folder 5**. |
80 |
5 |
|
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Western Gate Ripple
|
80 |
6 |
|
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Collage |
80 |
7 |
|
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Angel Paint drawing
|
80 |
8 |
|
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Drawing of the Earth |
80 |
9 |
|
|
Hard Core Porn
|
flatfile |
|
5** |
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|
|
Headstone series, drawing on board and collage/drawing on board |
box |
folder |
80 |
4 |
|
|
Poetry: Poem for Sonny Rollins
|
box |
|
80, 318 |
|
1971 |
|
|
See also flatfile folder 6**. |
box |
folder |
318 |
29 |
|
Photographs of artworks: Assorted works, black-and-white
negatives
|
box |
folder |
80 |
10-14 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
|
|
|
See also flatfile folder 6**. |
80 |
|
|
|
Palm Songs
|
80 |
10 |
|
|
|
Small pieces |
flatfile |
|
6** |
|
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|
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Round prints gang-mounted on black boards (1969-1971) |
box |
folder |
80 |
11 |
|
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Sabian Exercises
|
80 |
12 |
|
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Showdown at Fork Tongue Canyon
|
80 |
13 |
|
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Trickle
|
80 |
14 |
|
|
Waiting for George
|
box |
|
81, 318 |
|
1972 |
81, 318 |
|
|
Photographs of artwork |
box |
folder |
81 |
1 |
|
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Surrealism is Alive
|
81 |
2 |
|
|
Live Jazz
|
box |
folder |
318 |
30 |
|
|
Black-and-white negatives of a work, and of Herms |
box |
folder |
81 |
3-11 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
81 |
3-6 |
|
|
Cal State L.A. |
81 |
7 |
|
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West Coast group show, Crocker |
81 |
8 |
|
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The State of Landscape group show, Newport |
81 |
9 |
|
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Pseudo-obsidians sketch
|
81 |
10 |
|
|
Sketch (1972-73) |
81 |
11 |
|
|
Nick Wilder gallery (1972-1973) |
box |
|
82, 318 |
|
1973 |
|
|
See also flatfile folders 7**, 8**, 9**. |
box |
folder |
82 |
1-2 |
|
Photo-based artwork |
82 |
1 |
|
|
Streaming theater piece
|
82 |
2 |
|
|
Herms with Michael McClure at UC Davis opening |
box |
folder |
318 |
31 |
|
Photographs of artwork in Herms studio (1973-79) |
box |
folder |
82 |
3 |
|
Poetry: Typhoon Paper Poems
(1973-79)
|
82 |
4-13 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
|
|
|
See also flatfile folders 7**, 8**, 9**. |
82 |
4 |
|
|
KPFK folio with Herms cover |
82 |
4-6 |
|
|
Nick Wilder gallery |
82 |
7-12 |
|
|
UC Davis show |
82 |
13 |
|
|
Prometheus Society |
flatfile |
|
9** |
|
|
|
Egypt , Lithograph, dirty, not stamped, unsigned
|
flatfile |
|
7** |
|
|
|
Striding man with stars, Oral sex, ink
drawings (1973-1974)
|
flatfile |
|
8** |
|
|
|
Egypt, Dial-a-vision,
Downtown, Thine Eyes, Lithographs, signed artist
proofs (1973-74)
|
box |
|
83 |
|
1974 |
83 |
1-3 |
|
Photographs of artwork: Bizarre Stars
(1974-75)
|
83 |
4-8 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
83 |
4 |
|
|
LACMA Rental Gallery |
83 |
5-6 |
|
|
Poets of the Cities show |
83 |
7 |
|
|
Streaming Balls
|
83 |
8 |
|
|
On 39th birthday conceptualism is born
statement
|
83 |
|
1975 |
|
|
See also flatfile folders 13**-16**. |
83 |
9 |
|
Photo-based artwork: photograph of Herms in studio (1975-1976) |
83 |
10-11 |
|
Poetry |
83 |
10 |
|
|
Astropoet statement,
Pseudonymphia
|
83 |
11 |
|
|
Poem regarding Neil Young Sequoia
film
|
83 |
12-26 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
|
|
|
See also flatfile folders 13**-16**. |
83 |
12-13 |
|
|
Catalyst |
83 |
14 |
|
|
Collage and Assemblage in Southerm California |
83 |
15 |
|
|
Exploding the Cube
|
83 |
16 |
|
|
Other Voices
|
83 |
17-18 |
|
|
Pseudonymphia |
83 |
19 |
|
|
Sigmund Fletcher blimps created on Love
Press
|
83 |
20-21 |
|
|
Quartet performance
|
83 |
22-24 |
|
|
Sequoia film with Neil Young
|
83 |
25 |
|
|
Jan Butterfield interview |
flatfile |
|
13** |
|
|
|
Collage made from parinted papers, dirt, hair |
flatfile |
|
14**, 15**, 16** |
|
|
|
Effluvia prints on heavy stock |
box |
|
84 |
|
1976 |
84 |
1 |
|
Poetry: Black Ace |
84 |
2-8 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
84 |
2 |
|
|
What's Happening in L.A. Art?
|
84 |
3 |
|
|
San Antonio |
84 |
4 |
|
|
Folies Bizarre
|
84 |
5 |
|
|
Choke magazine
|
84 |
6 |
|
|
Caracas video project
|
84 |
7 |
|
|
Sabian Exercises drawings
|
84 |
8 |
|
|
Invitation to dinner honoring Nick Wilder |
box |
|
84, 318 |
|
1977 |
box |
folder |
84 |
9 |
|
Poetry: The tonic of fuller
|
84 |
10-26 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
84 |
10 |
|
|
Elsane
|
84 |
11 |
|
|
Teragram
|
84 |
12 |
|
|
Tar and feather
|
84 |
13 |
|
|
Collections lists |
84 |
14 |
|
|
A Conversation With George Herms by Susan
Larsen
|
84 |
15 |
|
|
Untitled collage |
84 |
16 |
|
|
Word Works, press release |
84 |
17 |
|
|
Untitled collages |
84 |
18-20 |
|
|
Unbeknownst |
84 |
21 |
|
|
Essay on photography |
84 |
22-23 |
|
|
Trickle
|
84 |
24 |
|
|
Paintings and Sculpture in California, SF MOMA |
84 |
25 |
|
|
Caberet Voltaire project
|
84 |
26 |
|
|
List of Herms collectors |
box |
folder |
318 |
32 |
|
Photos of artwork:Trickle |
box |
|
85, 318 |
|
1978 |
box |
folder |
85 |
1 |
|
Photo-based artwork: George Herms portraits for Prometheus Archives
|
box |
|
85, 318 |
|
|
Photographs of artworks |
85, 318 |
|
|
|
Beauty assemblage
|
box |
folder |
85 |
2 |
|
|
|
Black-and-white |
box |
folder |
318 |
24 |
|
|
|
Negative |
318 |
33 |
|
|
Polaroids and negatives of sculptures |
box |
folder |
85 |
3-20 |
|
Assorted/mixed media |
85 |
3 |
|
|
Realism-Points of View discussion
materials
|
85 |
4 |
|
|
100+ Current Directions in Southern
California show
|
85 |
5 |
|
|
Deja Vu show
|
85 |
6 |
|
|
Southern Exposure show
|
85 |
7 |
|
|
Sculpture 78 show
|
85 |
8 |
|
|
The Perfect Meal
|
85 |
9 |
|
|
Wizzie and Clod
|
85 |
10 |
|
|
CSUF loan form |
85 |
11 |
|
|
Untitled print |
85 |
12 |
|
|
Backdown town
|
85 |
13 |
|
|
A Painting Show, Mt. San
Antonio
|
85 |
14 |
|
|
Light towers from within
collage
|
box |
|
85, 318 |
|
1979 |
|
|
See also flatfile folder 17**. |
box |
folder |
85 |
15-16 |
|
Photographs of artworks |
85 |
15 |
|
|
The Poet, 1960 work with 1978 collector
documentation
|
85 |
16 |
|
|
The Alcove of Beginnings
|
box |
folder |
318 |
34 |
|
|
Western Gate Ripple
|
318 |
36 |
|
|
Color polaroids of collage works |
318 |
35 |
|
Photo-based artwork: Prometheus
|
box |
folder |
85 |
17-28 |
|
Assorted/mixed media: Prometheus
Archives
|
|
|
|
See also flatfile folder 17**. |
box |
|
86, 319 |
|
1980s |
box |
|
86, 319, 365* |
|
1980 |
|
|
See also flatfile folders 18** and 19**. |
box |
|
87, 320 |
|
1981 |
|
|
See also flatfile folder 20-23**. |
box |
|
88, 320 |
|
1982 |
88, 320 |
|
1983 |
box |
|
89, 320 |
|
1984 |
|
|
See also flatfile folders 24**, 25**, 26**. |
box |
|
90-91, 320 |
|
1985 |
|
|
See also flatfile folders 27** - 28**. |
box |
|
92-93, 320 |
|
1986 |
box |
|
93, 320 |
|
1987 |
box |
|
94, 320 |
|
1988 |
|
|
See also flatfile folders 29** and 30**. |
box |
|
95-96, 321 |
|
1989 |
box |
item |
348 |
C1 |
1 audiocassette. George Herms on KCRW, August 1989 |
box |
|
96, 322, 323 |
|
1990s |
box |
|
96, 323 |
|
1990 |
|
|
See also flatfile folder 31**. |
96, 323 |
|
1991 |
box |
|
97, 324 |
|
1992 |
box |
|
97-98, 324 |
|
1993 |
box |
|
98, 324 |
|
1994 |
box |
|
98, 325-327 |
|
1995 |
box |
|
99, 327 |
|
1996 |
99, 327 |
|
1997 |
box |
|
99, 328-329, 349 |
|
1998 |
|
|
See also flatfile folders 32** and 33**. |
box |
item |
349 |
V5-V6 |
First Street Bridge Project
|
|
|
3 videocassettes (VHS). First Street Bridge Project:
Hiro Yamagata, Sculpture of Light; George Herms, Parade of Sculpture. Dir.: Peter Kirby. RT 23:00.
|
box |
|
99, 329 |
|
1999 |
box |
|
100, 330 |
|
2000-2001 |
box |
item |
349 |
V4 |
Unidentified video, undated |
box |
|
101, 330 |
|
Miscellaneous, undated |
box |
|
354*, 355*, 358*, 359*, 361*-364* |
|
Assorted oversize artwork, undated |
flatfile |
|
34-39** |
|
Assorted untitled double oversize artwork, undated |
box |
|
318 |
|
Slides of artwork, |
318 |
8-9 |
|
1960-1994 |
318 |
13 |
|
1963-1990 |