Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Treib, Marc
- Extent:
- 4 boxes 170 items
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Description of item], The Marc Treib collection of graphic design ephemera, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library, TRE.001.001.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Marc Treib collection of graphic design ephemera contains 170 items dating from 1960 to 2023 (bulk 1980-1996).
This collection of ephemera consists primarily of printed works on paper and cardstock. Though some items are hand printed using woodblocks or screens, most items were created using industrial offset lithographic or digital processes. Posters, pamphlets, catalogs, brochures, business cards, calendars, and advertisements created primarily by California designers including April Greiman, Michael Manwaring, Charles and Ray Eames, Michael Vanderbyl, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, and others populate this collection. The collection includes materials designed for notable clients, such as admissions bulletins of the California Institute of the Arts by April Greiman, and a large number of museum calendars for the San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) designed by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon.
The collection also contains some materials produced outside of California such as theater programs by Czech designer Marek Majewski for the Teatr Dramatczny in Warsaw, Poland.
The collection does not contain works by Treib himself.
- Biographical / historical:
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Marc Treib (1943-) was born in New York, New York, and was raised in Miami Florida. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Florida in 1966 and later studied in Finland under a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship in Architecture and Design. He received a Master of Architecture in 1969 and a Master of Arts in Design in 1969 from the University of California Berkeley. He joined the University of California Berkeley Department of Architecture in 1969 where he taught for nearly 40 years.
Treib has written, taught, and spoken extensively on topics including architectural design, graphic design, architectural history, Japanese architecture, landscape architecture, and gardens. He also maintains his own design practice with a focus on posters and books and participates in landscape and architectural design competitions. Treib has also curated exhibitions including An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster (1995) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Garret Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living (1997) at the University Art Museum, Berkeley.
Marc Treib continues to live and work in Berkeley, California and is now Professor Emeritus at University of California Berkeley.
- Acquisition information:
- Marc Treib gave a gift of over 500 posters and other examples of 20th Century graphic design to the Los Angeles County Musem of Art in 2014 as The Marc Treib Collection. Selections from this gift were made by Decorative Art and Design curators for inclusion in the permanent art collection of the museum or transfer to the museum's library. This collection contains the portion of the gift designated for research use within LACMA's Balch Art Research Library.
- Processing information:
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The original transfer of 126 items was accessioned and described by archivist Jessica Gambling and curatorial staff in 2014. Physical processing of these items was completed in June 2022 by intern Daryl Bergman under the supervision of Jessica Gambling. Additional accruals from Treib, received through curatorial offices, were accessioned and added to the collection by Julia Han in 2024.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged alphabetically by name of designer or creator. Oversized items are housed in box 2.
- Accruals:
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In March 2023, March Treib transferred lookbooks and ephemera related to the textile and design company Marimekko to the Decorative Arts and Design curatorial department. These materials were transferred to the Resarch Libray in October 2023. Additional items sent by Marc Treib to LACMA curators in July 2020 and April 2023 were accessioned by the Research Library in May 2024.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment only through the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library. An appointment can be requested via the library website at https://www.lacma.org/learn/balch-research-library.
- Terms of access:
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Contact the Balch Research Library at 323-856-6118 or library@lacma.org for information on publishing or reproducing materials included in these records. For some photography, permission will be granted by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as the owner of the physical materials, and does not imply permission from the copyright holder. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain all necessary permissions from the copyright holder.
- Preferred citation:
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[Description of item], The Marc Treib collection of graphic design ephemera, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library, TRE.001.001.
- Location of this collection:
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5905 Wilshire Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90036, US
- Contact:
- (323) 857-6118