Bruce Conner correspondence concerning Jay DeFeo's "The Rose", circa 1930-1996.

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Bruce Conner correspondence concerning Jay DeFeo's "The Rose", circa 1930-1996.

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Correspondence of Jay DeFeo with Bruce Conner, museum curators, and others, concerning conservation of her painting, "The Rose". Also includes conservation reports, invoices, DeFeo exhibition announcements, photographs, and clippings. Also includes a photocopy of the corrected typescript for Sombrero fallout, a Japanese novel by Richard Brautigan, given to Bruce Connor by the author.

1 box, 2 volumes (.5 linear feet)

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DeFeo, Jay, 1929-1989

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Artist Mary Joan (Jay) DeFeo was born in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1929 and moved with her family to the San Francisco Bay Area at age three. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Fine Arts at UC Berkeley and won a fellowship after graduation that took her to France, Spain, northern Africa and Italy. In Florence she met artist Clinton Hill, with whom she developed a lasting friendship. In the mid-1950s DeFeo settled in San Francisco and met regularly with Beat poets and artists including Joan and Wil...

Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008

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Born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933, Bruce Conner spent his childhood and young adulthood in nearby Wichita. Upon graduating from Wichita High School East, Conner went on to study art at Wichita University and University of Nebraska, where he met his wife-to-be, Jean Sandstedt. He continued art studies at the Brooklyn Art School and the University of Colorado. In 1957, at the urging of his childhood friend, the poet Michael McClure, and attracted by stories of a vibrant art and literary scene tha...

Brautigan, Richard

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Edna Webster was a close personal friend of Brautigan's. Her son, Peter, was Brautigan's best friend during the time these materials were written. Her daughter, Linda, was Brautigan's "first love." From the description of Richard Brautigan papers, [195-]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122556663 American writer (novelist, poet). Born Tacoma, Washington, January 30 1935. Died Bolinas, California, September 1984. For many, Brautigan was a quintessent...