Susan Due Pearcy Wood and linoleum block prints of United Farm Workers, 1972-1973, bulk Bulk, 1972-1973

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Summary

Creators:
Pearcy, Susan Due
Abstract:
Susan Due Pearcy is an internationally known artist and printmaker working in the tradition of the transcendentalists. This collection consists of sixteen of her linoleum and woodcut block prints depicting scenes of the migrant field work from her time volunteering with the United Farm Workers in 1972 and 1973.
Extent:
1 oversize box
Language:
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Susan Due Pearcy Wood and linoleum block prints of United Farm Workers (Collection 1865). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

A collection of sixteen linoleum and woodcut block prints, mostly from the years 1972-1973, with one of the prints, “Orange Picker”, dated 2009. The fifteen prints made from 1972-1973 were originally created to be used as illustrations in El Malcriado, the newspaper of the United Farm Workers (UFW), while artist Susan Due Pearcy was volunteering for the UFW in those same years.

Biographical / historical:

Susan Due Pearcy is an internationally known artist and printmaker working in the tradition of the transcendentalists. She was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and has lived in Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, California and, most recently, Maryland. She graduated with a B.S. in painting, graphics, and sculpture in 1969 from New York State University where she studied with Robert Blackburn; and she studied with Michael Ponce de Leon at the Art Student’s League in New York City in 1970. Susan has held various positions of art instruction at various art schools and centers including the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York, the Lee Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia, and Casa del Sol, in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Permanent collections in possession of her works include the National Gallery of Art (Rare Books Collection) in Washington, DC, the Chemalier Museum in France, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has held exhibits at the Chemalier Museum, where she received the Triennial D’Estamps Petit Format award, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Gomez Gallery, the Washington Printmakers Gallery Delaware Center for the Arts in Wilmington, and she has exhibited with the Southern Graphics Conference Council Traveling exhibit from 1996-98, and again from 2006-2009.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by UCLA Library Special Collections, February 15, 2010.
Arrangement:

The collection has been arranged according to the size of the prints.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the reference desk for paging information.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Susan Due Pearcy Wood and linoleum block prints of United Farm Workers (Collection 1865). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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