Finding Aid for the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center. Exhibition files. 1985-1996

Box 1

"Across the Street: Self-help Graphics and Chicano Art in Los Angeles" 1994-1996

Physical Description: 21 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center from 1995 March 11-1995 June 19. Files included are Curatorial, Director's Office, Education, Media Relations, Membership, and Registration.

Note

Contains some restricted material.

Box 1

"Architecture and Democracy: The Phoenix Municipal Government Center Design Competition" 1985-1987

Physical Description: 7 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1987 Oct. 13-Dec. 13. Files included are Illustrations for David Gebhard, and Photography of submissions by architects ELS & Stern, Michael Graves, Hammond Beeby, Arata Isozaki, Richard Legorreta & Charles Moore, and Barton Meyers.

Note

A collaborative project of the Wight Art Gallery and the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, funded in part by the NEA, City of Phoenix, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Box 2

"Arrows of Time: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum" 1992-1995

Physical Description: 21 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 Jan. 24-April 02. Files included are Curatorial, Development, Director's Office, Education, Marketing, Media Relations, Membership, and Registration.

Note

Contains some restricted materials.

Box 2

"Art of Attack: Social Commentary and Its Effect" 1992-1994

Physical Description: 32 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1993 Oct. 12-1994 Jan. 1. Files included are Curatorial, Development, Education, Marketing, Membership, and Registration. Guest curator Karen Mayers selected works by Honoré Daumier, George Cruikshank, José Guadalupe Posada, Klaus Staeck, Robbie Conal, and the Guerrilla Girls primarily from the collections of UCLA's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Ats and the Armand Hammer Museum.

Note

Contains some restricted material.

Box 3

"Art Under 30: The FIAR International Prize" 1992-1993

Physical Description: 15 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1993 Jan. 17-Feb. 14. Files included are Curatorial, Development, Education, Photography, Press Releases, and Registration.

Note

Funded and organized by the Fabbrica Italiana Apparecchiature Radioelettriche S.p.A. (FIAR)

Box 3

"The Assertive Image: Artists of the Eighties" 1994

Physical Description: 35 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1994 June 07-Oct. 09. Files included are Curatorial, Development, Director's Office, Education, Marketing, Media Relations, and Membership. Also includes audio cassette recording of Eli Broad's opening night speech given on 1994 June 6. On exhibit were paintings, photographs and sculptures by 20 artists, with the majority of works selected from the Eli Broad Family Foundation collection.

Note

Contains some restricted material.

Box 3

"Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" 1995

Physical Description: 8 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 April 25-June 18. Files included are Curatorial, with five spiral-bound guest comment books.

Note

Exhibition files are divided between box 3, 4, and 12.

Box 4

"Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" 1994-1995

Physical Description: 8 folders.

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 April 25-June 18. Files included are Curatorial, with three copies of the exhibition catalogue.

Note

Exhibition files are divided between box 3, 4, and 12. Box 4 contains some restricted material.

Box 12

"Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" 1994-1995

Physical Description: 37 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 April 25-June 18. Files included are Curatorial, Development, Education (including one U-Matic and two VHS video tapes), Marketing, Media Relations, Membership, Public Information, and Registration.

Note

Exhibition files are divided between box 3, 4, and 12. Box 12 contains some restricted material.

Box 4

"Breaking the Rules: An Audrey Flack Retrospective" 1989-1992

Physical Description: 1 folder

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1992 March 22-May 17. Correspondence file includes press releases, exhibition checklist, curator's statement, and other exhibition-related material.

Box 4

"Building a National Image : Architectural Drawings for the American Democracy" 1985

Physical Description: 1 folder

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., opening on 1985 Oct. 24. Contains a notebook with slides, photographs and photocopies of architecturally-related materials, some from the"Building a National Image" exhibition catalogue.

Box 4

"Constellations of Light and Dark: Black and White Works on Paper (1947-1954) by Sam Francis" 1995

Physical Description: 8 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held in the Vault Gallery of the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 Feb. 14-April 2. Files included are Curatorial and Registration.

Box 4

"Critiques of Pure Abstraction" 1993-1996

Physical Description: 17 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1996 Jan. 30-March 10, organized and circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated (ICI). Files included are Curatorial, Education, Media Relations, Membership, Publication, and Registration. Also included are two copies of a VHS tape entitled,"Critiques of Pure Abstraction" which provides a 10 minute introduction to the exhibition given by guest curator, Mark Rosenthal, and discussions from the artists Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Annette Lemieux, and David Reed.

Note

Contains some restricted material.

Box 5

Cultural Programs, 1994 (Fall) 1994

Physical Description: 3 folders

Scope and Content Note

Files included are Budget & Projections, Outreach, and Related Research Material/Docent Reading Material for exhibition-related cultural programming held in the fall of 1994.

Box 5

Cultural Programs, 1995 (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) 1994-1995

Physical Description: 18 folders

Scope and Content Note

Files included are Budget & Projections, Calendar & Distribution Lists, Correspondence, Outreach, and Related Research Material/Docent Reading Material for exhibition-related cultural programming held during 1995.

Box 5

Cultural Programs, 1996 (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) 1996

Physical Description: 18 folders

Scope and Content Note

Files included are Budget & Projections, Calendar & Distribution Lists, Correspondence, Education, Outreach, and Related Research Material/Docent Reading Material for exhibition-related cultural programming held during 1996.

Box 5

"Forces of Nature: Géricault's Studies of Horses" n.d.

Physical Description: 1 folder

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum ca. 1995 [?] with holdings from the collection of the Grunwald Center. File included is Curatorial, with a checklist of 13 drawings and brief biography of Théodore Géricault.

Box 5

"Henri Matisse: Works on Paper" 1994-1996

Physical Description: 2 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1996 Jan. 30-March 10, with holdings from the collection of the Grunwald Center. Files included are Curatorial, with checklist and installation slides.

Box 5

"In the Sculptor's Landscape: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden" 1963-1993 (bulk 1992-1993)

Physical Description: 13 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1993 March 21-May 9. Files included are Business and Curatorial.

Note

Exhibition files are divided between box 5 and 6, with 13 folders in each box.

Box 6

"In the Sculptor's Landscape: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden" 1992-1993

Physical Description: 13 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1993 March 21-May 9. Files included are Development, Education, Miscellaneous, OID Video Documentation, Outreach, and Registration.

Note

Exhibition files are divided between box 5 and 6, with 13 folders in each box. Contains some restricted material.

Box 6

"James McNeill Whistler: Works from the Collection" 1995

Physical Description: 1 folder

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition [dates and location unknown] of works from the Grunwald Center. File included is Curatorial, with checklist.

Box 6

"Lari Pittman Drawings" 1995-1996

Physical Description: 8 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1996 Jan. 30-March 10, organized by the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara and curated by Elizabeth A. Brown. Files inluded are Curatorial, Education, and Registration.

Box 6

"LAX-Benito Juarez: Prints by Artists from Mexico City and Los Angeles" 1994-1996

Physical Description: 13 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 Oct. 10-1996 Jan. 07. Premiere exhibition of a portfolio of 16 color lithographs and woodcuts printed by El Nopal Press (founded by master printer Francesco Siqueiros in 1990) of eight artists, four from Los Angeles and four from Mexico City. The artist from Los Angeles were John Valadez, Daniel J. Martínez, Victor Estrada, and Yreina Cervántez, with the artists from Mexico City comprised of Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Rocio Maldonado, Eloy Tarcisio, and German Venegas. This exhibition was coordinated with a survey of works from Self-Help Graphics in the Hammer's adjacent galleries.

Note

Contains some restricted material.

Box 6

MA/MFA Thesis Exhibition, 1993 1993

Physical Description: 4 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1993 June 1-21 of work by graduate students in UCLA's art department. Files included are Catalogue, Development, Invitations, and Media Relations, including exhibition catalogue.

Box 6

MA/MFA Thesis Exhibition, 1994 1994

Physical Description: 4 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1994 June 5-26 of work by graduate students in UCLA's art department. Files included are Curatorial and Education, including exhibition catalogue.

Box 6

"Master Drawings from the Stanford University Museum of Art" 1994-1995

Physical Description: 13 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 Oct. 10-Dec. 24. Files included are Curatorial, Education, Media Relations, and Registration.

Note

Contains some restricted material.

Box 6

"Noche de Risa Altares" 1995

Physical Description: 11 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition/installation held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 Oct. 27-Nov. 26, presented by the Latino Theatre Company and Plaza de la Raza in Association with the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Chancellor's Office of Academic Affairs, and the Hammer. Files included are Curatorial, Education, Membership, and Registration.

Note

Contains some restricted material.

Box 7

"Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957" 1993-1995

Physical Description: 82 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 July 11-Sept. 27. Files included are Correspondence and Curatorial (containing artists files A-Z, Loan Forms A-J, and other materials.) Also includes VHS tape on the artist, Claire Falkenstein.

Note

Exhibition files are divided between boxes 7, 8, and 9. Contains some restricted material.

Box 8

"Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957" 1993-1995

Physical Description: 82 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 July 11-Sept. 27. Files included are Curatorial (Loan Forms, K-Z, catalogue essays, photographs, and other materials.)

Note

Exhibition files are divided between boxes 7, 8, and 9. Contains some restricted material.

Box 9

Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957 1992-1995

Physical Description: 27 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum from 1995 July 11-Sept. 27. Files included are Development, Education, Media Relations, Membership, Public Information, and Registration.

Note

Exhibition files are divided between boxes 7, 8, and 9. Contains some restricted material.

Box 10

"Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Works on Paper 1968-1991" 1989-1992

Physical Description: 12 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Grunwald Center from 1992 Sept. 27-Nov. 15. Files included are Business, Development, Education, Media Relations, Photography, and Publication.

Box 10

"Tony Duquette: The Phoenix Rising from the Flames" 1995

Physical Description: 5 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Armand Hammer Museum in April of 1995. Files included are Insurance, Memos and Photography, Receipts, and Shipping.

Box 10

Undergraduate Exhibitions, 1992 1991-1992

Physical Description: 3 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery in February of 1992. Files included are Art & Design Accepted and Rejected.

Box 10

Undergraduate Exhibitions, 1993 1992-1993

Physical Description: 4 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1993 Feb. 2-21. Files included are Art & Design Accepted and Rejected, and Education.

Box 10

Undergraduate Exhibitions, 1994 1994

Physical Description: 6 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1994 April 12-May 1. Files included are Curatorial and Development.

Box 11

"The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1946" 1990-1993

Physical Description: 34 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1992 Oct. 13-Dec. 6. Files included are Curatorial, Catalogue Essay Drafts, Correspondence, Development, Docents, Education, Grants, Media Relations, Meeting Minutes, Photography, Printed Materias, Registration, Research, and Visitor Book [photocopy]. The exhibition, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, was curated by Karin M. Higa, and co-organized by the Japanese American National Museum, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

Box 10

"William Brice: Works on Paper, 1982-1992" 1991-1992

Physical Description: 5 folders

Scope and Content Note

Exhibition held at the Wight Art Gallery from 1993 March 21-May 2. Files included are Development, Education, and Miscellaneous.

Box 13

Exhibition catalogues. 1972 - 1993

Physical Description: 10 volumes

Scope and Content Note

Includes: Executive Order 9066, The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans (1992); Moonlight Theater, Prints and Related Works by Carlos Almaraz (1991); Grunwald Center Studies VI 1985 (1985); George Cruikshank: Printmaker (1792-1878), Selections from the Richard Vogler Collection (1978); William Brice, Works on Paper 1982-1992 (1993); Grunwald Center Studies V 1984 (1985); Sudden Nature, The Art of Frederick S. Wight 1902-1986 (1991); The Graphic Art of Felix Vallotton (1972); Grunwald Center Studies I 1980 (ca 1980); In the Sculptor's Landscape, Celebrating Twenty-five years of the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden (1993).

Box 14

Exhibition catalogues. 1987

Physical Description: 1 volume

Scope and Content Note

Includes: Foirades/Fizzles: Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns (1987).

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