Hugh Steers Papers

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Hugh Steers Papers

1956-2004

Hugh Auchincloss Steers (1962-1995) was an American painter who committed to representational painting and figuration throughout his career in order to address the impact of Queer identity and the AIDS crisis. The collection contains materials created and accumulated by Steers during his lifetime, and materials generated and managed by his estate after his death from AIDS-related complications in 1995. Materials include personal and business correspondence, notes, slides, transparencies, some personal photographs, resumes and CVs, artist statements, gallery invitations, business cards, price lists, invoices, receipts, lists of donated works, periodicals, press clippings, a pin, some exhibition catalogues, a poster, inventories, appraisals, Steers' official death certificate, a few short film reels from Steers' primary dealer Richard Anderson, and a video recording of Steers' memorial service.

4.25 Linear Feet

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Steers, Hugh, 1962-1995

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Hugh Steers (1962–1995) was born in Washington, D.C., and trained in painting at Yale University, New Haven, CT and Parsons School of Art and Design, New York, NY. Before his death at 32 from AIDS-related complications, Steers created allegorical images of everyday life that captured the emotional and political tenor of New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Embracing representational painting and figuration at a time when such approaches were deemed unfashionable, his intimate compositions...