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Title: E.G. Crichton papers
Dates: circa 1970s-2023
Collection Number: 2023-100
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 25 linear feet (8 oversized boxes and 1 carton)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: E.G. Crichton is an interdisciplinary artist and Professor Emerita of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The
collection documents a selection of Crichton’s artistic and curatorial work, including a 1991 collection of blueprint scrolls
entitled “Graffiti Flowcharts;” the 1992 photo triptych “Talking Back;” a book produced from Lost and Found, a 2001 San Francisco
Public Library exhibition co-curated with Kim Anno; invitations, name tags, table cloths, embroidered napkins, and photographs
from the 2008 performance conversation “Affair-on-the-Green,” produced in collaboration with Laruen Crux; and photographic
portraits, chat boards, and informational text from “Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archive,” an ongoing project that Crichton
first developed as Artist-in-Residence at the GLBT Historical Society from 2008-2014. Also included are 1970s political posters,
including a number commemorating International Women’s Day; periodicals; and records documenting Crichton’s work with the
GLBT Historical Society’s Museum and Curatorial committees in the 2010s.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to materials created by E.G. Crichton has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions
and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
Copyright to other materials in the collection may be held by their creators, or the creators' heirs or assigns. Transmission
or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the
copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
[Identification of item]. E.G. Crichton papers. Collection Number: 2023-100. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of E.G. Crichton, September 2023.
Scope and Content of Collection
E.G. Crichton is an interdisciplinary artist and Professor Emerita of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The
collection documents a selection of Crichton’s artistic and curatorial work, including a 1991 collection of blueprint scrolls
entitled “Graffiti Flowcharts;” the 1992 photo triptych “Talking Back;” a book produced from Lost and Found, a 2001 San Francisco
Public Library exhibition co-curated with Kim Anno; invitations, name tags, table cloths, embroidered napkins, and photographs
from the 2008 performance conversation “Affair-on-the-Green,” produced in collaboration with Laruen Crux; and photographic
portraits, chat boards, and informational text from “Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archive,” an ongoing project that Crichton
first developed as Artist-in-Residence at the GLBT Historical Society from 2008-2014. Also included are 1970s political posters,
including a number commemorating International Women’s Day; periodicals; and records documenting Crichton’s work with the
GLBT Historical Society’s Museum and Curatorial committees in the 2010s.