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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Charles Hobson collection: design and production materials for artist's books
Creator:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Creator:
Wilbur, Richard
Creator:
Collins, Billy
Creator:
Hobson, Charles, 1943-
Creator:
Lopez, Barry
Creator:
Mann, Charmetta
Identifier/Call Number: M1555
Identifier/Call Number: 3069
Physical Description:
35 Linear Feet
62 boxes, 6 oversize folders
Date (inclusive): 1985-2016
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36 hours in advance.
Abstract: The Charles Hobson Collection contains correspondence, design notes, drawings, prints, prototypes, copper plates, etc. used
in the creation and publication of artist books.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Charles Hobson, 2007, 2008, and 2017. Accessions 2007-007, 2007-215, 2007-224, 2008-049, 2008-154, 2017-038. Purchase
from Charles Hobson, 2017 and 2018. Accession 2017-037 and 2018-001.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Charles Hobson Collection, M1555, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
California.
Charles Hobson is an artist who uses pastel, monotype and other printmaking variations to construct images for books and works
on paper. He often works in series, follows a historical theme, and employs the monotype as an under painting for further
work with pastel, acrylic and printed texts. He began creating artist's books after working on a tribute book for a friend,
Bruce Nelson, after his death in 1984. The book contained Nelson's prose in a small letterpress edition. His first artist's
book was Supper in Montmartre which came out in 1985.
Chronological list of Hobson's artists' books:
- 1985
- Supper in Montmartre
- 1988
- Flaubert and Louise
- 1990
- Leonardo Knows Baseball (trade edition, 1991)
- 1991
- Degas Dancing
- 1991
- Variations on the Word SLEEP
- 1994
- Balzac's Coffee Pot
- 1994
- Impromptu
- 1994
- Parisian Encounters
- 1995
- Breton's Dream
- 1995
- Clouds and Dreams
- 1995
- Magritte's Buckets
- 1995
- Man Ray's Kiss
- 1996
- Shipwreck Stories
- 1997
- Fresnel's Tower
- 1997
- Lighthouse Legends
- 1998
- Andromeda Imagined
- 1999
- Human Touch
- 1999
- Writing on the Body
- 2000
- Dancing with Amelia
- 2001
- Anotaciones
- 2001
- Seeing Stars
- 2002
- Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
- 2003
- Adam and Eve
- 2003
- Three Kisses
- 2004
- Poems from the Heart
- 2004
- The Writer
- 2005
- The Mappist
- 2006
- The Near Woods
- 2006
- R.O.W.
- 2006
- red thread, two women
The Charles Hobson Collection contains correspondence, design notes, drawings, prints, prototypes, copper plates, etc. used
in the creation and publication of artist books. It is arranged alphabetically by title. The design notes folder for each
book usually contains a list created by the artist of archival material for that project.
Hobson's artist's books are housed in Stanford University's Rare Book Collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Copperplates
Constellations -- Artists' books
Monotypes
Longitude -- Measurement -- Artists' books
Shipwrecks -- Artists' books
Photogravure
Artists' books
Typography
Artists' books -- United States
Earhart, Amelia
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Flaubert, Gustave
Colet, Louise
Centolella, Tom
DeMerritt, John
Evans, Kathy
Levy, Harriet Lane
Shaw, Alice