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Title: Chuck Arnett collection
Dates: circa 1970-1980
Collection Number: 1997-42
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 10 linear feet (works of art, 5 oversized boxes, 2 manuscript boxes)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Collection includes papers and original works of art by San Francisco artist, dancer, and leather community activist, Chuck
Arnett (1928-1988).
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT
Historical Society Archivist.
[Identification of item]. Chuck Arnett collection. Collection Number: 1997-42. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of William Tellman, November 1997 and July 1999. Gift of Michael Caffee, September 2007. “Enjoy” painting gift of David
Barnard, Mike Caffee, and Kerry Bowman, April 2009. Peace symbol work donated by Gayle Rubin, June 2019. John Bix portrait
donated by Sue Davies, March 2019. Moon Signs donated by Mike Caffee in 2022.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection includes photographs, ephemera, oversize sketches and sketchbooks, papers, artifacts, and original works of art
by San Francisco artist, dancer, and leather community activist, Charles "Chuck" Arnett (1928-1988). Works of art include:
a pastel abstract figure with arm & fist (163' x 222') fisting, “Dildo, In Memory of Kerry Bowman,” two smaller, unmounted,
watercolors (102' x 14' each) featuring male figures skateboarding, “Skateboarders,” 1 day-glo painting by Chuck Arnett titled
'Enjoy' (48 in. h x 34 in. w), circa 1970; peace symbol painting; portrait painting of John Bix. Papers include “Arnett Scrapbook
with Autobiographical Notes by Mike Caffee,” and 33 “Moon Signs” used to tell bar patrons the current astrological location
of the moon. GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000268; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D001154;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004299
Leather
Gay men
Art
Dance