Clark (Anthony M.) papers

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Clark (Anthony M.) papers

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Table of contents

Notebooks and diaries, Series I. 1941-1976

Physical Description: 5.94 Linear Feet(14 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by format and chronologically thereafter. Miscellaneous material is filed at the end of the series.

Processing Information

Text in quotation marks transcribed from titles assigned by Anthony M. Clark as seen on the title pages of his bound volumes.

Scope and Contents

Series I. consists of Anthony M. Clark's address books, appointment books, diaries, notebooks, poetry books, and workbooks.

Materials are both personal and professional in nature and record Clark's life at a near-daily level. Among the matters documented are his continual academic pursuits in Rome; his time working at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (1955-1959), the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (1961-1973), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1973-1975); and his perceived repeated struggles while navigating professional, personal, and romantic relationships with his male peers.

There is a significant amount of Clark's unpublished poetry and prose—the latter chiefly present in volumes titled "Nuts I-V."

Clark's illustrations are present throughout the bound volumes as are clipped images that he adhered to volume pages.

box 1, folder 1-3

Address books, 1960s, undated

Appointment books, 1959-1975

box 1, folder 4-14

1959-1969

box 2, folder 1-8

1970-1975

Diaries, 1949-1976

box 3, folder 1-7

1949-1951

box 4, folder 1-9

1970 August-1971 June

box 5, folder 1-7

1971 June-1972 March

box 6, folder 1-10

1972 April-1973 November

box 7, folder 1-11

1973 November-1974 December

box 8, folder 1-7

1974-1976 May

Notes, 1969-1972

box 9, folder 1

"Alba Longa Notes I," 1969-1972

box 9, folder 2

"Alba Longa Notes II," 1969-1972

box 9, folder 3

"Alba Longa Notes III," 1969-1972

"Nuts," 1969-1970

box 9, folder 4

"Nuts I," 1969

box 9, folder 5

"Nuts II," 1969-1970

box 9, folder 6

"Nuts III," 1970 February-April

box 9, folder 7

"Nuts IV," 1970 April-June

box 9, folder 8

"Nuts V," 1970 June-August

Poetry, 1951-1974

box 10, folder 1

"Bread of Faithful Speech," 1951-1960

box 10, folder 2

"Pegasus as Packass: Observations & False Scents," 1958-1959

box 10, folder 3

"Everybody's Pushing but Nothings Moving, Said the Donkey to the Barn Door," 1960-1961

box 10, folder 4

"The Grammar of Great Being (&) Great Rest," 1962-1968

box 10, folder 5

"The Numinous at Short Notice," 1963

box 10, folder 6

"Topics," 1966-1967

box 10, folder 7

"A NANI, Poems by Nanipor," 1968-1969

box 10, folder 8

"The S. Felice Bas. Menhir, An Alban Hut Urn, and Notes for the Return of the Age of Saturn," 1969

box 11, folder 1

"The Castle of Dianus," 1969-1970

box 11, folder 2

"Picus Clap Trap," 1970-1971

box 11, folder 3

"Poems," 1971-1974

box 11, folder 4-5

Typescript ("The Chuang Tzu Text"), 1949 June

Scope and Contents

Typescript translation by Clark of the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text and foundational work of Taoism.

Originally submitted to American poet, translator, essayist, and social critic Kenneth Rexroch (1905-1982), whose autograph response accompanies the text.

Workbooks, 1971-1976

box 12, folder 1

"Workbook I," 1971-1972

box 12, folder 2

"Workbook II," 1972-1973

box 12, folder 3

"Workbook III," 1973-1974

box 13, folder 1

"Workbook IV," 1974-1975

box 13, folder 2

"Workbook V," 1975

box 13, folder 3

"Workbook VI," 1975-1976

box 14, folder 1-3

Miscellaneous notes, poetry, and prose, 1941-1949

Artworks, Series II. 1929-1972

Physical Description: 4.36 Linear Feet(4 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by transcribed title and by format thereafter. Photographs of Clark's works are filed at the end of the series.

Processing Information

Text in quotation marks transcribed from titles assigned by Anthony M. Clark as seen on his portfolio folders.

Scope and Contents

Series II. consists of loose papers, sketchbooks, and two unstretched canvases by Anthony M. Clark depicting portraits (both of himself and of others), landscapes, Rome, and classical scenes, among other subjects. The earliest work (dated Thanksgiving 1929) is of the Mayflower. Clark's later art is in large part homoerotic and includes nudes and caricatures.

Techniques used include charcoal, oil pastel, lino print, pen and ink, pencil, and watercolor.

Present are photographs of Clark's larger, framed works in oil or gouache not with the collection.

box 15, folder 1

"Designs for paintings," 1950

box 15, folder 2-6, box 16, folder 1

"Misc. drawings," 1929-1952

box 15, folder 7-15

"Landscapes," 1938-1954

box 17*, folder 1-2

"Opere," 1946-1952

box 15, folder 16-19, box 17*, folder 3

"Portraits," 1942-1958

box 15, folder 20

Self-portrait, approximately 1950

box 15, folder 21-22

Sketchbooks (Rome), 1969-1972

box 15, folder 23, box 18

Sketchbooks, undated

box 15, folder 24-26

Photographs of paintings, 1940s-1950s

Printed material, Series III. 1939-1971

Physical Description: 0.22 Linear Feet(1 box)

Arrangement

Material relating to exhibitions filed first with publications following in alphabetical order by publication title.

Scope and Contents

Series III. consists of printed material relating to or collected by Anthony M. Clark. Included are two exhibition announcements, one exhibition catalog, and four publications.

Salient No. III possibly includes a poem by Clark (identified as "Anthony"); No. IV includes linoleum cuts by Clark (identified as Tony Clark). Allen Johnson, Cornelius Lansing, Herbert MacArthur, and Lauro Venturi are listed as journal editors.

box 19, folder 1

Exhibition announcements, 1947-1954

box 19, folder 2

Exhibition catalog, 1954 January

Scope and Contents

Exhibition catalog for Four Young Americans: Brady, Clark, Gibran, Weitzner held at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art January 3-31, 1954.

box 19, folder 3

The Art Gallery Magazine, 1971 May

box 19, folder 4

"The Minneapolis Institute of Arts" by The Arts Opportunity Program, 1971

box 19, folder 5

Salient No. III, 1944

box 19, folder 6

Salient No. IV, 1946

box 19, folder 7

Excerpt from U.S. Camera, 1939 August

Collection Contents

Notebooks and diaries,

Artworks,

Printed material,