This series includes correspondence relating to Herms' lectures, invitations to
participate in exhibitions, business letters from museums and galleries most prominently
L.A. Louver Gallery and Kathy Lucoff Fine Arts; Herms' public art proposals to the Los
Angeles County Transportation Commission and the City of Santa Monica; letters about
Moon Dial; and Herms' applications for fellowships to
various institutions.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically with undated materials, mailers and empty envelopes at the
end.
Letters,
box
folder
36
1
1962
Includes letter from the Pasadena Museum of Art regarding damages to "Macks."
36
2
1965
Includes a mailer from Norman Rose bookstore. Herms along with Alexander, Meltzer
and Arthur Richer used to work at the bookstore's warehouse.
36
3
1966-1967
36
4
1968-1969
Includes a letter from Molly Barnes Gallery.
36
5
1970-1971
36
6
1972-1973
36
7-8
1974
Includes some correspondence from B. Dalton Bookseller.
36
9-10
1975
box
folder
37
1
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst application, 1975
37
2-4
1976
37
5
National Endowment for the Arts, 1977
37
6
1977
37
7-10
1978
box
folder
38
1
1979
38
2-5
1980
38
6-9
1981
box
folder
39
1-2
1982
box
39-40
American Academy in Rome, 1982-1983
Includes subsequent letters, mailers and newsletters from the Academy from the 1980
to 2002.
box
folder
39
3-10
1980s
box
40
Subsequent correspondence
box
folder
41
1
1983
41
2-5
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1983-1984
41
6
National Endowment for the Arts, 1984
41
7-10
1984
box
folder
42
1-5
1985
42
6-8
1986
box
folder
43
1
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., 1987
43
2-3
1987
43
4-6
1988
box
folder
44
1-6
1989
Herms' draft proposal to Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, LACTC.
44
7-10
1990
box
folder
45
1-2
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, 1990
45
2-8
1991
California Community Foundation (J. Paul Getty Fund for Visual Arts).
box
46
1992
Applications for J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, Pollock-Krasner
Foundation, Inc. and National Endowment for the Arts.
box
47
1993
box
folder
48
1-6
1994
48
7-10
1995
box
folder
49
1-7
1996
Walker Art Center talk regarding The Berman Peace,
included in the exhibition, Beat Culture and the New America.
box
folder
50
1-4
1997
50
5-10
1998
Tie It On Event at the Bloomingdale's Newport Beach
correspondence with color photograph.
