Series I. constitutes the bulk of the collection, with photographic materials that
document the range of Orr's practice. The artist's paintings, sculptures, and
installations are primarily represented by color slides, prints, and negatives, but the
series also includes black-and-white prints, negatives, and contact sheets. Images in
Series I.A. and Series I.B. predominantly feature individual works; images in Series
I.C. consist of exhibition installation shots that include multiple works. Also present
are photographs of Orr working and candid images of Orr with assorted people, found in
Series I.D.
Arrangement
Arranged in five topical subseries (Series I.A. Paintings; Series I.B. Sculpture and
installations; Series I.C. Exhibitions and sites; Series I.D. People; Series I.E.
Miscellaneous) and chronologically thereunder, with undated works at the end of each
subseries. Unidentified works are arranged alongside identified works, according to
date.
Series I.A. Paintings, 1974-2001, undated
1.72 Linear
Feet
(9 boxes)
Box
Folder
1
1
Unidentified, 1974
Six color slides.
1
1
Unidentified, 1979
Ten color slides.
1
2
Green Atmosphere, 1980
Four color slides.
1
2
Zaire, 1980
Two color slides.
1
2
Alice series, 1981
Seven color slides.
1
2
Archaeology of Painting, 1981
Three color slides.
1
3
Ba-Ka, 1981
One color slide.
1
3
Blood Shadow, 1981
Seven color slides. Identified as Blood Meteorite on
some slide mounts.
1
4
Radio, 1981
Three color slides and two color transparencies.
1
5
Silence and the Gold Sky, 1981
One color slide.
1
5
Time Shadow, 1981
One color slide.
1
5
Zaire, 1981
One color slide.
1
5
#9, 1982
One color slide.
1
6
Crazy Wisdom, 1982
Six color slides.
1
6
Crazy Wisdom II, 1982
One color slide.
1
7
Extasis, 1982
One color transparency.
1
7
Mu-2, 1982
One color slide.
1
7
Mu #3, 1982
Two color slides.
1
7
R-2 (revised), 1982
One color slide.
1
8
Coincidence, 1983
Fourteen color slides.
1
9
Manas, 1983
One color slide.
1
9
Mu #7, 1983
One color slide.
1
9
Prime #5, 1983
One color slide.
1
10
Prime Numbers #2, 1983
Ten color slides.
1
10
Prime Numbers #7, 1983
One color slide.
1
10
The Newquist Doors, 1983
Four color slides.
1
11
Transmutation Gold, 1983
One color print, two color slides, and three color transparencies.
1
12
Transmutation Green, 1983
One color slide.
1
12
Without Red, 1983
Two color slides and one color transparency.
1
12
Without Red (Blue), 1983
One color slide.
1
12
Unidentified, 1983
One color slide.
1
12
Always Everywhere, 1984
Three color slides.
1
13
Elizabeth's Pink, 1984
Three color slides.
1
13
How Some Ever, 1984
One color slide.
1
13
Prime Numbers #11, 1984
One color slide.
1
13
Sino-American, 1984
One color slide.
1
13
Torn Time, 1984
One color slide.
1
14
Uaho, 1984
One color slide.
1
14
What's Not Known, 1984
Two color slides.
1
14
Aftermath Green, 1985
One color slide.
1
14
Aftermath Red, 1985
Four color slides.
1
14
Blind Window, 1985
One color slide.
1
15
Blue Gate, 1985
One color slide.
1
15
Blue Horizon, 1985
One color slide.
1
15
Domus I, 1985
Three color slides.
1
15
Edge of Light, 1985
One color slide.
1
15
Ice, 1985
One color slide.
Box
Folder
2
1
…Killing Me..., 1985
One color slide.
2
1
Ocean of Time series #4, 1985
One color slide.
2
1
Ocean of Time #5, 1985
One color slide.
2
1
Ocean of Time series #6, 1985
One color slide.
2
1
One Plus One Equals One, 1985
One color slide.
2
2
Passage, 1985
One color slide.
2
2
Prior, 1985
Three color slides.
2
2
Red Singularity, 1985
One color transparency.
2
2
Sakkara #5, 1985
One color slide.
2
2
The Lund Eight, 1985
One color slide.
2
2
Threshold A/A (Diptych), 1985
One color slide.
2
3
Threshold 3, 1985
One color slide.
2
3
Untitled, 1985
Four color slides.
2
3
Unidentified, 1985
One color slide.
2
3
Crack in Time, 1986
One color slide.
2
4
Crazy Wisdom, 1986
Three color slides.
2
4
Edge of Light, 1986
One color slide and one color transparency.
2
4
Green #9, 1986
One color slide and one color transparency.
2
4
Jarpur, 1986
One color slide.
2
4
Like a Dance the Dark Skinned Man Worked the
Semi-Manual Device Firm Earth Above Alex, 1986
Two color slides.
2
5
Mu 9, 1986
One color slide.
2
5
Night Shift #2, 1986
One color slide.
2
5
Questa #3, 1986
One color slide and one color transparency.
2
5
Radio X, 1986
One color slide.
2
5
Radio XX Red, 1986
One color slide.
2
6
September, 1986
One color slide.
2
6
This Side of Time, 1986
One color slide.
2
6
You Are Killing Me and I Don't Even Know Your
Name, 1986
One color slide.
2
6
Blue Eclyptic, 1987
Two color slides.
2
6
Blue Time Window #15, 1987
Three color slides.
2
7
Blue Void #3, 1987
Two color slides.
2
7
Druid Wight, 1987
Three color slides.
2
7
Ganz series, I, 1987
One color slide.
2
7
Night Shift #33, 1987
Three color slides.
2
7
Oceans of Time #5, 1987
One color slide.
2
8
Oceans of Time #19, 1987
Two color slides.
2
8
Radio Play #5, 1987
One color slide.
2
8
Radio Play #6, 1987
Two color slides and one color transparency.
2
8
Radio Play #8, 1987
Three color slides.
2
8
Red Eclyptic, 1987
One color slide.
2
9
The Other Side of Green, 1987
Two color slides.
2
9
This Has Nothing To Do With
Doors, 1987
One color slide.
2
9
Three Out of Three, 1987
Four color slides.
2
9
Time Fall, 1987
Three color slides.
2
9
Without Blue 5, 1987
Two color slides.
2
10
Unidentified, 1987
Five color slides.
2
10
A Dark Light, 1988
One color Polaroid.
2
10
Ajunta #2, 1988
Three color slides.
2
10
Black Void #3, 1988
One color Polaroid.
2
10
Blue Ecliptic 3, 1988
One color slide.
2
10
Blue Light, 1988
One color slide.
2
11
Dark Light #3, 1988
One color slide.
2
11
Dark Light #4, 1988
Two color slides.
2
11
Dark Light #18, 1988
Two color slides.
2
11
Edge of Light, 1988
Two color slides.
2
11
Edge of Red, 1988
Three color slides and one color Polaroid.
2
11
Gavina I, 1988
One color slide.
2
12
Gavina 3, 1988
One color Polaroid and one color slide.
2
12
Green Passage, 1988
One color slide.
2
12
Green Transformation, 1988
One color slide.
2
12
Green Void, 1988
One color slide.
2
12
House of Nines, 1988
One color slide.
Box
Folder
3
1
Ocean of Time, 1988
One color Polaroid.
3
1
Outside of Time, 1988
One color Polaroid.
3
1
Pagans, 1988
Two color slides.
3
1
Radio Play, 1988
One color Polaroid and one color print.
3
1
Rune, 1988
Two color slides and four color transparencies.
3
2
Saqqara Door, 1988
Two color transparencies.
3
2
The Other Side of Time, 1988
One color Polaroid.
3
2
This Has Nothing To Do With
Fire, 1988
One color Polaroid.
3
2
Time Shadow, 1988
One color Polaroid and one color slide.
3
2
Time Well, 1988
One color Polaroid.
3
3
9 x 9, 1989
One color transparency.
3
3
AT52, 1989
One color transparency.
3
3
Being Made of Light, 1989
One color Polaroid.
3
3
Black Void #2, 1989
One color Polaroid.
3
3
Blind Window, 1989
One color slide.
3
3
Blue Event, 1989
One color Polaroid.
3
4
Blue Infinity, 1989
One color transparency.
3
4
Dark Light 7, 1989
One color transparency.
3
5
Dark Light 10, 1989
One color Polaroid.
3
5
Dark Light 11, 1989
One color Polaroid.
3
5
Dark Time, 1989
One color Polaroid.
3
6
Double, 1989
One color Polaroid.
3
6
Myriad Oceans of Time, 1989
Two color transparencies.
3
6
Penumbra, 1989
One color Polaroid.
3
7
Questa #3, 1989
One color transparency.
3
7
Red Field, 1989
One color transparency.
3
8
Red Fugitive, 1989
One color transparency.
3
9
The Other Side of Red, 1989
One color transparency.
3
10
Untitled, 1990
Six color prints and two color transparencies.
3
11
Untitled, 1992
One color Polaroid and four color slides.
3
11
Marin Red Void, 1996
Three color slides.
3
11
Blue Atmosphere, 1998
Three color slides.
3
11
Blue Is the Most Fugitive Color, 1998
Four color slides.
3
11
Three Ways, 1998
Four color slides.
3
12
Unidentified, 2001
One color slide.
3
13
Above and Below, undated
One color Polaroid.
3
13
After Green, undated
One color Polaroid.
3
14
Ajunta, undated
Two color slides.
3
14
Angel, undated
One color transparency.
3
14
Angel Alex, undated
One color slide.
Box
folder
4
1
Blind Window, undated
One black-and-white print; one black-and-white transparency; one color negative;
one color Polaroid; six color prints; and two color transparencies.
4
2
Blue Ecliptic #3, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
2
Blue Infinity, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
2
Blue Light, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
3
Blue Shift, undated
One color print.
4
3
Blue to Red, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
4
Blue Void, undated
One color Polaroid and eight color prints.
4
5
Cold Fusion, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
6
Crazy Wisdom, undated
Three color Polaroids.
4
7
Crazy Wisdom II, undated
Two color Polaroids.
4
8
Crazy Wisdom A, undated
Two color Polaroids.
4
9
Cygnus, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
9
Dark Event Horizon, undated
Five color slides.
4
9
Dark Light A, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
9
Dark Light AAA, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
10
Dark Side, undated
Three color slides.
4
11
Edge of Blue Finn, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
11
Edge of Time, undated
One color slide.
4
11
Event Horizon A, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
11
From the Other Side, undated
One color Polaroid and six color slides.
4
12
Gavina I, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
12
Gavina #2, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
12
Green Transformation, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
13
Green Void, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
14
Hallograms, undated
Sixteen color slides.
4
14
Heavy Water, undated
Three color slides.
4
13
Helsinki 9, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
15
Heroclites, undated
Five color slides.
4
15
How Many Miles Across the
Universe, undated
Two color slides.
4
16
Jaipur, undated
Three color prints.
4
15
Learning to Work with Gravity, undated
Four color slides.
4
15
Myriad Oceans of Time, undated
One color slide.
4
17
Mu #9, undated
Two color Polaroids.
4
17
Myriad Ocean of Time III, undated
One color Polaroid.
4
18
Niagara, undated
One color transparency.
4
18
Night in Havana, undated
Five color slides.
4
18
Night Shift, undated
Three color slides
Box
Folder
5
1
Night Shift #5, undated
Three color prints.
5
2
Night Shift 14, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
2
Night Shift N, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
2
No Green, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
3
North of Yesterday, undated
Two color transparencies.
5
4
North of Yesterday or Untitled, undated
Five color prints.
5
5
Ocean of Time, undated
One color Polaroid and one color print.
5
5
Ocean of Time #9, undated
Three color slides.
5
5
Oceans of Time XXX, undated
Three color slides.
5
6
Open Window, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
7
Other Side of Blue #6, undated
One color slide.
5
7
Other Side of Red #5, undated
One color slide.
5
6
Penumbra, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
7
Radio, undated
One color slide.
5
7
Radio Play, undated
One color print, two color slides, and two color transparencies.
5
8
Radio Play #5 (Hyundai), undated
One color Polaroid.
5
8
Radio Play #9 (Hyundai), undated
One color Polaroid and two color slides.
5
9
Radio Play #10, undated
Two color prints.
5
8
Radio Play #10 (Hyundai), undated
One color Polaroid.
5
9
Red, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
9
Red 9, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
10
Red Ecliptic, undated
One color slide.
5
10
Red Line, undated
Five color slides.
5
11
Red Shift, undated
One color print.
5
11
Red Shift A, undated
One color print.
5
12
Red Singularity, undated
Five color slides and one color transparency.
5
13
Red to Blue, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
13
Red Way, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
13
Shadow, undated
One color Polaroid.
5
14
Shadow's Memory, undated
One color transparency.
5
15
Taos, undated
Three color prints.
5
16
The Other Side of Green, undated
Nine color slides.
5
16
Three to Four, undated
Two color slides.
5
16
Three Way, undated
Three color slides.
5
17
Three Ways, undated
Four color slides and one color transparency.
Box
Folder
6
1
Time Horizon-A, undated
One color Polaroid.
6
1
Time Horizon-AA, undated
One color Polaroid.
6
2
Time Shadow, undated
Two color Polaroids.
6
2
Time's Shadow, undated
One color transparency.
6
3
Untitled, undated
Five color prints and six color slides.
6
3
Victoria, undated
One color transparency.
6
3
When is Where, undated
Two color slides.
6
3
Without Blue #3, undated
Three color slides.
6
4
Yosemite, undated
One color transparency.
Unidentified, undated
Box
Folder
28
3
Black-and-white 35mm negatives
28
4
Black-and-white prints
Box
6, 23
Color negatives
Box
Folder
6
8
Color Polaroids
6
9-12
Color prints
Box
7
Color slides
Box
8
Color transparencies
Series I.B. Sculpture and installations, 1968-1999, undated
3.36 Linear
Feet
(15 boxes)
Box
folder
9
1
Unidentified project, Century City, (Los Angeles, California?), 1968
Five black-and-white slides and one unmounted color slide.
Sound Tunnel, 1971
One black-and-white slide.
Box
Folder
9
2
Zero Mass, 1973
Eighteen color slides. Slides appear to depict the same work as other slides
labeled Blue Void, 1981.
9
3
"Artist shooting the shit," Venice, California, 1974
Nine black-and-white slides.
9
2
Zero Mass, 1974
Three black-and-white slides.
9
3
Lead Window, 1976
One color slide.
9
4
Sunrise, 1976-1983
Twenty-seven color slides. One slide mount labeled: Inside
Sunrise Electrum Light.
9
5
Gold As Prime Matter, 1979
One color print, three color slides, and one color transparency. One slide mount
labeled Infinite Gold Void.
9
6
Unidentified project, Century City, (Los Angeles, California?), 1979
Five black-and-white slides of a schematic drawing for a project proposal with
Larry Bell.
9
6
Fire as Prime Matter, 1980-1981
Two color slides.
9
7
Silence and the Ion Wind, 1980-1981
Five color slides, one labeled: From Inside L.A. County, '81.
9
2
Blue Void, 1981
Twenty-one color slides. Slides appear to depict the same work as other slides
labeled Zero Mass, 1973.
Box
Folder
23
1
"Gus Foster slides", 1981-1983, undated
Six color slides. Includes Solar Fountain, Blue Void, Vena-Mondt residence project, Blood Shadow, and an unidentified painting.
Box
folder
9
8
Prime Matter, Los Angeles County Museum of
Art (LACMA), 1981
Three color negatives, one color print, six color slides, and one color
transparency.
9
9
Double Vision, 1982
Eight black-and-white slides, one color slide, and two color transparencies.
Includes slides of schematic drawings. Several slide mounts read: Documenta / Kassel, Germany.
9
10
Linear B, 1982
Three color prints, thirty-six color slides, and two color transparencies. One
slide mount labeled Prime Matter #3. Some slide
mounts read: N. Ovsey fountain.
10
1
Newquist Doors, 1983
One color slide.
10
2
Solar Fountain, Performing Arts Center,
Denver, Colorado, 1983
Collaborative project with Larry Bell. Sixty-one color negatives; seventy-eight
color prints; thirty-one color slides; and fourteen color transparencies. Slides
include images of preparatory drawings. An original label for one transparency
reads: Courtesy of Neil G. Ovsey Gallery / Photo credit: Douglas Parker.
10
3
Stella, 1983
One color slide.
10
3
Threefold, 1983
Two color slides.
10
3
Naked Singularity, 1984
Thirteen color slides.
10
4
Carol Vena-Mondt residence project, 1985, undated
Collaboration with Frederick Fisher. Thirty-two color prints of installation models
and seven color slides.
Box
Folder
11
1
Fire and Water, Jenkins residence, Rancho
Santa Fe, San Diego, California, 1985
Five color prints.
11
2
Ice, 1985
One color slide.
11
3
Light Space, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag,
Netherlands, 1985
One color negative; twenty-nine color prints; one color slide; and one color
transparency.
11
2
Prime Matter III, Malmö, Sweden, 1985 or 1986
Twelve color slides.
Box
Folder
28
1
Prime Matter 5, 1985
Two black-and-white prints. Label for The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California on
verso.
Box
Folder
11
2
Prior, 1985
Two color slides.
11
4
Nexus, 1986
One color slide and three color transparencies.
11
5
North of Yesterday, 1986
Thirty-two color prints and five color slides. One slide mount reads: Corcoran show
October 1986.
11
6
Nowling Fountain, 1986
Twenty-four color prints.
11
7
Prime Matter, Sydney Biennale, 1986
Eight color slides.
11
8
Prime Matter IV, Venice
Biennale, 1986
Five color prints, twenty color slides, and one color transparency. One print
includes Eric Orr with unidentified people.
Box
Folder
12
1
Prior, 1986
One color slide.
12
2
Stella, 1986
Thirty color slides. Some slide mounts labeled Naked
Singularity.
12
3
Stepped Singularity, 1986
Three color slides and two color transparencies.
12
4
Twin Water Columns, Sacramento,
California, 1986
Twelve color slides.
12
5
Untitled (Grinstein commission), 1986
Two color prints and twenty-eight color slides.
12
6
Water Doors, 1986
One color negative, two color prints, eight color slides, and two color
transparencies. Some slide mounts read: Zeidler commission.
12
7
Wittgenstein's Ladder, 1986
Three color slides.
12
8
Anaheim project model, 1987
One color slide.
12
8
Delineator, 1987
One color slide and two color transparencies.
12
9
Naked Singularity, 1987
Sixty-two color slides and one color transparency. One slide mount labeled North of Yesterday. One slide seemingly misidentified as
Water Doors.
12
10
Naked Singularity A, 1987
Sixteen color slides. Appears to depict the same work as North of Yesterday (1986 or 1987).
12
11
Phelps Fountain, 1987
Thirty-four color prints.
Box
Folder
13
1
Delineator, 1988
One color slide.
13
1
Naked Singularity, 1988
Eleven color slides.
13
2
North of Yesterday, Brea,
California, 1988
Fifteen color slides.
13
3
Columbia Prime Matter, Beverly Hills,
California, 1989
Forty-seven color negatives and five color slides.
13
4
Fractal B #5, 1989
Six color slides.
13
4
Fractal C, 1989
Two color slides.
13
4
Fractal C #11, 1989
Three color slides.
13
4
Fractal N, 1989
Two color slides.
13
5
Fractal S, 1989
Four color slides.
13
5
Fractal S #4, 1989
Four color slides.
13
6
Green Chemical Light, 1989
One color transparency. Appears to depict the same work as Cedars Cascade.
13
7
Lee Singularity, 1989
Eight color slides and twenty-seven color transparencies.
13
8
Oceans of Time, 1989
Three color prints and three color slides.
13
9
Prime Matter VIII,
1989
Nine color slides.
13
10
Saturday Night Special, 1989
Four color transparencies.
13
11
Alta Mira, Marriott Hotel, San Francisco,
California, 1990-1991
Thirty-seven color negatives; eighteen color prints; fourteen color slides; and
four color transparencies.
Some prints are adhered to each other and are restricted pending conservation.
Box
folder
14
1
Amsterdam Prime Matter,
Amsterdam, 1990
Three color slides and two color transparencies.
14
2
Bamboo Water Veil, Moreno Valley Mall,
California, 1990
Two color slides.
14
2
L.A. Prime Matter, Los Angeles,
California, 1990-1991
Seven color slides and one color transparency.
14
3
Naked Singularity, 1990
Two color slides.
14
4
Saturday Night Special, 1990
Thirty-two color slides.
14
5
Shizuoka Singularity, Shizuoka,
Japan, 1990, 1992
Fourteen color slides.
14
6
Alta Mares, 1991
Four color slides.
14
7
Citadel project, 1991
Fifteen color negatives.
14
8
Lumiere, Long Beach, California, 1991, 1994
Two color negatives, seven color prints, fourteen color slides, and one color
transparency.
14
9
Oceans of Time, MacArthur Place, Santa Ana,
California, 1991
Three color slides.
14
10
Rain Column, Phoenix, Arizona, 1991-1992
One color print and twenty-three color slides. Some slide mounts labeled: Scottsdale Galleria Rainbox and Scottsdale Water Veil.
Seven color prints. Verso of one print reads, Ann Moses.
18
5
Prime Matter #8, undated
Four color slides.
18
6
Saturday Night Special, undated
Four black-and-white prints, two color prints, and three color slides.
18
7
Schorr project, undated
Thirteen color prints.
18
8
Sheraton Hotel project, Chicago, Illinois, undated
Six color prints and one color slide.
Box
Folder
28
12
Silence and the Ion Wind, undated
One black-and-white contact sheet.
Box
Folder
18
9
Slate Water, undated
Four color transparencies.
18
10
State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California, undated
One color print.
18
11
St. Regis, Century City, Los Angeles, California, undated
Twenty color slides.
18
12
Stepped Singularity, undated
Three color transparencies.
18
13
Teak, undated
Twenty-five color slides and one color transparency.
18
14
Teak, Benny Larussa, undated
Thirty-eight color slides.
Box
Folder
17
2
Teak II, Korea, undated
One color transparency.
Box
Folder
18
15
Trumps Restaurant fountain, undated
Eleven color prints.
Box
Folder
19
1
Volcan, undated
Nine color slides.
Box
Folder
28
3
Zero Mass, undated
Eighteen black-and-white negatives.
Unidentified, undated
Box
Folder
28
13
Black-and-white contact sheets
28
14
Black-and-white negative
Box
19, 28
Black-and-white prints
Box
19
Black-and-white transparencies
19
Color contact sheets
19
Color negatives
19
Color Polaroids
Box
19, 20, 21, 33
Color prints
Box
19, 21, 22
Color slides
Box
19, 20, 22
Color transparencies
Box
Folder
23
2
Loose slide labels, 1982-1985, undated
Includes labels detached from slide mounts: Prime Numbers
#2; Carbon/Llama; Sakkara #2; Light Walls;
Radio Plays; Sculpture Masters; and Guy De
Cointet.
Series I.C. Exhibitions and sites, 1981-1999, undated
.51 Linear
Feet
(3 boxes)
Box
Folder
23
6
Unidentified, 1981
One color slide.
Box
Folder
28
6
Acme Art, San Francisco, California, 1984 September 18-October 27
Two black-and-white prints.
Box
Folder
23
7
The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California, 1987-1988
Four color slides.
23
3
Zoe Strecker, Water Wall Sculpture, The Hope
and Healing Center, Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1999
Water mechanics by Eric Orr Studio. One color print and nine color slides.
23
8
Bruce Kapson Gallery, Los Angeles, California, undated
Two color slides.
Box
Folder
24
5
Five Sisters, set/light, Museum of
Contemporary Art, undated
Sixty-seven color negatives and thirty-seven color prints of unidentified
paintings.
Unidentified, undated
Box
Folder
28
7
Black-and-white negatives
Box
23
Color negatives
Box
24
Color Polaroids
24
Color prints
Box
23
Color slides
Series I.D. People, 1964-2001, undated
.45 Linear
Feet
(4 boxes)
Eric Orr, 1964-circa 1985, undated
Box
Folder
28
8
Black-and-white prints, circa 1985, undated
Eleven black-and-white prints. Includes one photograph of Orr with Frederick
Fisher and film crew at the studio of Carol Vena-Mondt, downtown Los Angeles,
circa 1985.
28
8
Black-and-white transparency, undated
One black-and-white transparency.
Box
Folder
24
3
Color Polaroids and prints, undated
Thirteen prints and five Polaroids.
24
4
Color slides, 1964, 1980, undated
Twenty-nine color slides. Includes one slide of Orr's truck and another of Orr
with Silence and the Ion Wind.
Box
Folder
23
5
Crowd in bleachers, unidentified outdoor stadium, 1984
Eleven color slides.
Box
Folder
24
6
Thomas McEvilley, undated
Four color prints.
Unidentified, 1965-2001, undated
Box
Folder
24
7
1965-1998, undated
Eighty-four color slides. Also includes slides of unidentified sites.
Box
Folder
25
1
1985, undated
Eight slides, four unmounted; one small circular-cut print.
25
2
2001
Eight color slides.
undated
Box
Folder
28
9
Black-and-white print
One black-and-white print.
28
9
Black-and-white slide
One black-and-white slide.
Box
Folder
25
3
Color negatives
Twenty-one color negatives.
25
4
Color Polaroids
Five color Polaroids.
25
5
Color prints
Ten color prints.
Series I.E. Miscellaneous, undated
.15 Linear
Feet
(5 boxes)
Box
Folder
23
4
"Audio Visual Services, Office of Instructional Development," undated
One color slide.
Egyptian sarcophagus, undated
Box
33
Black-and-white print
One black-and-white print.
Box
Folder
25
6
Color slide
One color slide
Box
Folder
28
10
"Malcolm Hanes at Bjorn Olsson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden," undated
Series II. consists of oversize schematic drawings by Orr and Orr Labs of building
sites and projects, both public and private, for Orr's fountains and sculptures. Many of
the projects also include site plans by assorted architects and designers for the
buildings or land where Orr's projects were installed.
All known project locations are included in component titles; component titles without
detailed locations are for projects at unidentified locations.
Schematic drawings are also present in binders found in Series III. Papers; color
slides of unidentified schematics are included in Series I.E.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by project.
Box
Folder
35*
1
Prime Matter, 1987
Drawing by Orr.
Flatfile
1**
Unidentified, 1988
Possibly for the Bagdasarian residence project. Signed: Leonardo Gomez '88.
Airport Atrium Water Veil, Torrance Airport,
Torrance, California, 1989-1990
Flatfile
6**
1989 October-1990 August
Plans by Vincent Kevin Kelly & Associates and Berger Iron Works, Inc.
Boxed-roll
1**
1989 February-1990 May
Plan by The Nadel Partnership, Inc.
Box
Folder
36*
1
Bermant project, 1989
Plan by Orr.
36*
1
Grinstein project, 1989
Plan by Orr.
Flatfile
3**
Leeds residence project, 1989-1990
Includes a schematic drawing by Orr and a plan by Luis Ortega Design Studio.
Mitsui Fire Sculpture, Los Angeles,
California, 1989-1991, undated
Flatfile
2**
1989
Plan by Wet Design, Universal City, California.
Boxed-roll
2**
1991, undated
Plans by Wet Design, Universal City, California and AC Martin and Associates.
Water sculpture, Foothill Ranch, Laguna Hills, California, 1989-1990, undated
Flatfile
4**
1989-1990
Plans by Dike / Runa Inc.
Flatfile
5**
1990 April-July, undated
Includes one color drawing and plans by Ashley Martin Engineering Co.
Box
Folder
36*
3
1990 March-December, undated
Includes color drawings and plans by Orr.
36*
6
Ann Janssen project, 1990-1991
Plans by Orr.
Bagdasarian residence project, Los Angeles, California, 1990-1991, undated
Flatfile
10**
1990 September
Plan by William J. Gentile Architect & Associates.
Box
Folder
36*
5
1990 November-1991, undated
Plans by Orr and Orr Labs.
Benach residence project, 1990
Flatfile
7**
1990 January-February
Plan by Olson Sundberg Architects.
Boxed-roll
1**
1990 January
Plan by Liz Fisher and Assoc. Design.
Box
Folder
35*
1
1990 August
Plans by Orr.
Citadel project, City of Commerce, California, 1990
Box
Folder
35*
2
1990 July
Plan by Orr for sculpture in the Citadel's food court.
Flatfile
8**
1990 August
Plans by Martha Schwartz, Ken Smith, David Meyer Landscape Architects, Inc.
Box
Folder
36*
4
Jovet project, 1990-1991, undated
Plans by Orr, Orr Labs, and Peter Carlson Enterprises.
Series III. contains administrative files and ephemera pertaining to Orr's work, with
exhibition announcement postcards, typescript firsthand accounts of Orr's friendship
with conceptual artist James Lee Byars, acquisition documentation and pricing for works
by Orr, and Orr's handwritten notes and typescript proposals for projects. The series
also includes binders consisting of both photographs and schematic drawings that were
not described in Series I. or Series II.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Articles and essays, 1984-1999, undated
On Orr, his work, and his role in the Light and Space movement.
Box
Folder
29
12
Photocopies, 1984-1999, undated
Box
Folder
35*
5
Oversize, 1989
Box
Folder
29
13
Thermofax originals, 1999
Box
Folder
25
7
Ashkenazy Galleries consignment memo and color Polaroids, 1989
Includes seven Polaroids of 1989 paintings Wait;
Blue Void A; Dark Light
#14; Time Shadow; One
Way; Other Side of Light AA; and No Fire.
Box
Folder
30
7
Assorted documents, circa 1985-circa 1995, 2003,
undated
Includes Orr's application for entry to Vietnam and a "Robot Poetry Manifesto" signed
by Orr, James Lee Byars, Marian McEvilley, and others.
Binders of photographs and schematic drawings, 1978-2003, undated
"Sculpture 1987," 1978-1987, undated
Binder of schematic drawings (photocopies), descriptions, lists, and proposals for
sculptural works. Includes Untitled (Prime Matter
series), the Beck commission; Solar Fountain; the
Anaheim city center fountain; the Newquist doors and shutters; Waterwall; the Vena-Mondt studio/residence project; Naked Singularity; the Michael Goodman project; the
Jenkins project; Fire and Water Column; Triangular Fire and Water Column; the Panza proposals:
Prime Matter 8, Thermal Time
Window, Prime Matter, North of Yesterday, Space
Delineator-Single/Double/Planar Wall, Heliostatic
Rain, Sunrise, Sound
Tunnel, Ocean of Time, Silence and the Ion Wind, Sound in
the Shape of a Pear, Nothing Special; LACMA
project: Prime Matter 9; Home Savings of America;
Hawaii project; Whitney Museum multiple project; Amber Hill commission; Cedars Sinai
project.
Box
Folder
29
14
Schematic drawings
Box
Folder
25
8
Color prints
"Selected Works," 1981-1986, undated
Includes typescript descriptions, some on Eric Orr letterhead, and schematic
drawings of selected Orr works; photocopies of clippings; and a proposal application
for the City of Brea's Art in Public Places Program. Identified works include North of Yesterday, Solar
Fountain, and Prime Matter.
Box
Folder
29
15
Descriptions and proposals
Box
Folder
27
2
Color prints
box
folder
37
1
"Empty sheets, slides," undated
Binder of empty photographic print and slide sheets with labels for the following
works and locations: Sandrich Singularity #1; Janssen Prime Matter; International Creative Manange (?); Fukushima
Stadium; Eastern Oceans of Time; Sandel; LACMA Prime
Matter; Lee Singularity; North of Yesterday; Prime Matter
IV (Venice Bien); Nippon Arch; Naked Singularity; Topanga Plaza Mall, Rain Box (Scottsdale); MacArthur Place; Moreno Valley
Mall; Solar Fountain; Teak
Singularity (1995); Fukushima Prime Matter
(1994); Edge of Light (33 x 9); St. Louis Galleria;
Chicago Sheraton; and Jon Douglas.
"Sculpture/blueprints," undated
Binder of schematic drawings for works of sculpture. Schematic drawings were
originally adhered to the original binder sleeves, which were not archival. Drawings
were removed from the binder during conservation treatment. The original binder and
sleeves have been maintained separately from the schematic drawings.
box
folder
37
2
Original binder and sleeves
37
3-4
Schematic drawings
Box
Folder
25
9
Color prints
Unlabeled, 1991,1996, 2001-2003
Assorted sculpture, undated
Mostly empty binder of missing schematic drawings, with ink remnants of drawings
on most of the binder sleeves. Also includes color photographs of select works and
a list of works on Orr's letterhead.
box
folder
37
5
Original sleeves
Box
folder
25
10
Color prints
Also includes list of works on Orr's letterhead.
Assorted sculpture, 1991, 2001-2003
Identified works include: Last Oceans of Time,
Granite Singularity, Enclave, Cedars Cascade, Kanner Water Veil, ICM Prime
Matter, L.A. Prime Matter, Birmingham Prime Matter, and Cuba
Libre.
Box
Folder
29
16
Original housing
Box
folder
25
11
Color prints
Box
folder
26
1
Assorted sculpture, 1996, undated
Binder includes twenty-five color prints, with one identified work: Archimedes Gate.
Box
Folder
29
17
Biographies and chronologies, 1996, undated
29
18
Business and resume cards, undated
Box
Item
32
V1
Chaparral VHS, undated
1 videocassette (VHS) (28 min.) ; 1/2 in. Original label reads, Stereo / final mix.
Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Box
Folder
29
19
Cirrus Editions catalogue sheets, 2007, undated
Acquisition documents for works by Eric Orr.
Correspondence, 1979, 1987-1999, undated
Primarily includes faxes and blank postcards, with one unsigned postcard addressed to
Orr, and a blank postcard addressed to Kurt Hodgetts.
Box
Folder
29
20
1979, 1987-1999, undated
Box
Folder
26
2
Transparencies, 1979
Box
Item
31
DVD1
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Work of Eric Orr,
viewing copy (video), 2012
Sound not re-mastered.
1 video disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
Box
Folder
29
21
Electrum documents, 1996, undated
Includes correspondence, exhibition invitations, schematic drawings, and typescript
notes. Original housing read: To: Kent Hodgetts / Re: Electrum to SCI-Arc 1.07.2003.
Box
Item
31
DVD2
"Eric Orr and a Tower of Fire and Water" (video), undated
1 video disc (DVD-R) (120 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted.
Contact reference for reformatting.
Box
Folder
29
22
Exhibition announcements and postcards, 1979-1996, undated
Postcards primarily for Orr's national solo and group exhibitions, with some
postcards for exhibitions held at international venues. Includes photocopies.
Box
Item
31
DVD3
Five Sisters viewing copy (video), 1980s
1 video disc (DVD-R) (120 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted.
Contact reference for reformatting.
31
CM3
"If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Revolution," undated
1 computer disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM3 contains: 3 Microsoft Word for
Windows files (.docx) titled, Five Sisters credits; 46 image files (.jpg) with
alphanumeric titles; 1 Quicktime file (.mov) titled, Frascati WG; and 1 unidentified
file (.m4v) titled, MUSAC. One file was corrupt and could not be transferred from the
disc: Video/Reina Sofia.mov. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for
reformatting.
Box
Folder
29
23
Interview transcripts, 2007
Transcripts of Elizabeth Orr interviews with curator Maurice Tuchman, art critic
Thomas McEvilley, and art historian Gail Gelburd on their relationships with her
father, Eric Orr.
James Lee Byars, 1983, 1997-1998, undated
Box
Folder
29
24
"Jimmy stories," 1997-1998, undated
Typescript anecdotes by Orr that detail his friendship with artist James Lee Byars.
Also includes Orr's personal chronology, exhibition announcements, and color
printouts of Orr with Byars and Thomas McEvilley.
29
25
"Jimmy stories" (thermofax), 1997
Box
Folder
26
3
Photographs, 1983, undated
Four color prints and two black-and-white prints.
Box
Item
31
D1
"1. James Lee Byars 2. Eric Orr," undated
James Lee Byars, "The Death of James Lee Byars" and Eric Orr Gold Room lecture at
LACMA.
1 audio disc (CD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
Box
Folder
29
26
Kentucadet: Alumni Journal, 1959 May
Alumni journal for the Kentucky Military Institute.
29
27
Limited edition water sculptures, 2004, undated
29
28
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego acquisition documents, 2006
Artist surveys and licensing agreements for Orr's You Had the
Meaning but Missed the Experience (circa 1981-1982) and Red Void II (1992).
Notebooks and notes, 1974-1992, undated
Box
Folder
30
1
1974
30
2
1980
30
3
1992, undated
Includes typescript pages for a lecture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA) on the indigenous art of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the
Congo).
30
4
undated
30
5
Orr Studio sculpture booklet, 2001-2002
With a Hosfelt Gallery envelope addressed to Peggy Orr in 2002.
Painting price lists and invoices, 1990-1991, undated
Box
Folder
30
6
Documents
Includes a black-and-white print of Time Switch
(1973) by Gus Foster.
Box
Folder
27
1
Color Polaroids
Includes seventy-seven color Polaroids, with the following identified paintings:
Purple Elapsed Time; Where
Is Infinity; Red Void; Violent Edge; Oceans of
Time; Xanadu; Blue
Ecliptic; Green Ecliptic; Harry's Cauldron; Lee
Musgrave; Hahn's Birthdate; Three of a Kind; Without
Green; Amarillo; Crazy Wisdom T.O; Sam's Pic; Darkness In Back of The Sky; May to
December; Peggy's Pic; What Takes 4 Light Years to Stop; Red Cloud; In Hand; You've Had the Experience But You Missed the Meaning; Plum Threshold; Parmenides
Dilemma; Zero +; 91
Mu; Edge of Thought; Emergence of Time; Navaho; 3+3=3; If Tachyons Could Tell the
Truth; Always Everywhere at Once Always Nowhere
Sometime; Threshold of Substance; Time Dilation; The Rossi;
Time Window 1; Time Window
2; The Passage; The
Sky is Not A Way Back; 3 Ways; Uaho; Green Guy; Fugitive Blue; Circadian
Rhythm; Nine Times Nine; Crazy Wisdom II; Crazy Wisdom
X; Pangaea; and Temporal Crazy Wisdom.
Box
Folder
30
8
Proposals and histories, 1998-1999, undated
Includes descriptions of Electrum, Karnak, L.A. Prime Matter,
Silence and the Ion Wind,
Solar Fountain, and Zero Mass Space.
30
9
Slide list, Hope and Healing Center, circa 1998
Box
Item
31
CM1
"Teece - E Orr," 2005 June
1 computer disc (CD-RW) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM1 contains: 48 image files (.jpg)
titled: Teece CWC and workers 6 13 05 E Orr. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
Box
Item
32
R1
Tibetan Temple Gongs audiotape reel, 1975 December
1 audiotape reel (60 min.) : analog, 15 ips. ; 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. Original label
reads: Eric Orr / Tibetan Temple Gongs / Dec. 1975 / 15 i.p.s. / Full track / "B" tape
/ (slightly noisier). Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for
reformatting.
Wall Shadow, 2011-2012
Box
Item
31
CM2
Eugenia Butler Gallery, 2011 February
1 computer disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM2 contains: 34 Tagged Image File
Format (.tif) files titled: Orr light piece. One file was corrupt and could not be
transferred from the disc: Orr light piece 7.tif. Unavailable until reformatted.
Contact reference for reformatting.
Box
Folder
34
5
Oversize flier, 2012
A flier for a re-creation of Orr's 1970 piece, Wall
Shadow, presented by LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and Corazon del
Sol as part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival.
The Works Gallery, 1989, undated
Ashkenazy resource exchange, 1989
Box
Folder
30
10
Schematic drawings
Box
Folder
27
3
Color Polaroids
Seven color Polaroids.
Box
Folder
30
11
Collector kits, undated
Includes collector solicitations and postcards with brief resumes for artists
represented by the gallery.
Box
Item
32
C1
Unidentified audiocassette, undated
Original label reads: I.
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until
reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Box
Item
31
D2
Unidentified audio CD, undated
1 compact disc (CD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
31
CM4
Unidentified disc, 2007 July
Possibly includes images of Eric Orr exhibition at Robert Berman Gallery, curated by
Elizabeth Orr.
1 computer disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM4 contains: 4 JPEG File Interchange
Format files (.jpg) and 31 Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) files (.tif).
Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
