Guide to the Carlos Almaraz and Los Four Ephemera Collection
CEMA 111
Finding aid prepared by Callie Bowdish, 2013
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9010
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu; URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections
Title: Carlos Almaraz and Los Four ephemera collection
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 111
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2.0 linear feet
(one half document box and one oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1960-2013
Abstract: This is a discrete collection containing two boxes of miscellaneous materials that were collected by Charles Schermerhorn
in relation to Carlos Almaraz and the Los Four. Almaraz was one of the members of Los Four, a group of influential artists
in the Chicano Art Movement in Los Angeles. They broke into the mainstream art world with the first significant Chicano exhibition
at the Los Angeles County Museum. Almaraz was well traveled and well received by collectors. He died in 1989 of AIDS at the
age of 48.
Physical Location: del Norte
Language of Materials: The collection is in English.
Scope and Content
This is a discrete collection containing two boxes of miscellaneous materials that were collected by Charles Schermerhorn
in relation to Carlos Almaraz and the Los Four. Almaraz was one of the members of Los Four, a group of influential artists
in the Chicano Art Movement in Los Angeles. They broke into the mainstream art world with the first significant Chicano exhibition
at the Los Angeles County Museum. Almaraz was well traveled and well received by collectors. He died in 1989 of AIDS at the
age of 48.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Acquisition Information
donated by Charles Schermerhorn on July 9, 2007
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Carlos Almaraz and Los Four Ephemera collection, CEMA 111. Department of Special Collections, UC
Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Related Material
Dan Guerrero Collection on Latino entertainment and the arts (CEMA 78)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Almaraz, Carlos
Four (Art group).
Luján, Gilbert, 1940-2011
Romero, Frank E.
Box 1, Folder 1 - 2
Almaraz obituaries, biographical information and events
1972-2012
Box 2, Folder 1
Almaraz Los Angeles School exhibit photos and statement
undated
Box 1, Folder 3
Los Four UC Irvine and Los Angeles County Museum exhibits
1973-1974
Scope and Content
Romero, Frank, Roberto de la Rocha, Carlos Almaraz, Gilbert Sanchez Lujan, and Hal Glicksman. 1973.
Los Four: Almaraz, de la Rocha, Lujan, Romero : Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, November 10 to December 9,
1973 : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 26 to March 31, 1974
: [photographs. Irvine, Calif: School of Fine Arts, University of California, Irvine. This event catalog is signed by the
artists. An event announcement is also included.
Box 1, Folder 4
Los Four UCLA (California State University, Los Angeles) exhibit announcement
1975
Scope and Content
Illustration on the mailer reads, "Los Four con Safos Por El Pueblo"
Box 1, Folder 5
Gilbert Lujan correspondence and sketches
1990-1998
Box 1, Folder 6
Miscellaneous exhibit announcements
1980-1990
Scope and Content
Beardsley, John, and Jane Livingston. 1987.
Hispanic art in the United States: thirty contemporary painters & sculptors. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts. This catalog and various exhibit announcements are in this folder. There is also a correspondence
letter from Pablo de la Rosa.
C. D. Almaraz at Mechicano
October 1972
Los Four: Almaraz/ de la Rocha / Lujan / Romero Art Gallery/ University of California, Irvine
November 10 to December 9, 1973
Los Four: Almaraz/ de la Rocha /Hernandez/Romero at Self-Help (a fund raiser)
Ocober 7-25, 1974
Plaza de la Raza 1st Annual Art Auction
1996