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Series 1: Artwork: Original objects created by James Leong

flat-box 1, Folder 1

Leong exhibit poster, 1976

flat-box 1, Folder 2-3

Artwork created by Leong for John Huston film “Freud”

flat-box 2, Folder 1-2

Two sketchbooks, circa 1960s

flat-box 2, Folder 3

John Eaton, “Three arias from Heracles”

flat-box 3, Folder 1-4

Cerberus, process for litho

flat-box 3, Folder 5

“5 negatives”

flat-box 4, Folder 1-3

“Confucius”

flat-box 4, Folder 4

“Green Sun”

flat-box 4, Folder 5

“The Dream”

flat-box 4, Folder 6-8

“The Girl”

flat-box 4, Folder 9

“The Boy and the Bird”

flat-box 5, Folder 1-2

“Eget Trykk,” Norway, progression of work

flat-box 6, Folder 1-10

Ten collographs, 1966

flat-box 7, Folder 1-11

“Maria og Barn,” progression of work

flat-box 7, Folder 12

8 small original paintings, gouache (?) on cardstock, circa 1950s

flat-box 8, Folder 1-11

Last Emperor portfolio

flat-box 9, Folder 1-3

“A Memory,” Norway

flat-box 9, Folder 4

Unidentified work

flat-box 9, Folder 5

“Progression of work,” Norway

flat-box 9, Folder 6

“The Bird,” Norway

flat-box 9, Folder 7

“Portrait of a young woman,” pastel on paper, Norway

flat-box 9, Folder 8

“Nude man,” Norway

map-folder 10

“Nude man;” Cerberus posters

flat-box 5, Folder 3

"The Girls," 19 x 30" work on paper

flat-box 41-42

"Yin and Yang," two 8 x 10" paintings on masonite

flat-box 43, Folder 1-2

"Blue Composition," progression of work. Seven lithographs.

 

Series 2: Correspondence

Box 11, Folder 1

Correspondence re Army breakdown and discharge, 1953

Box 11, Folder 2

To Sister Helen Leong, Sept. 1953

Box 11, Folder 3

Fulbright grant, 1957

Box 11, Folder 4

John Hay Whitney Foundation, 1958

Box 11, Folder 5

Howard Chandler, publisher, 1950s

Box 11, Folder 6

USIS, 1957-1962

Box 11, Folder 7

Cy Twombly, Palazzo Pio lease agreement, 1961; telegram from Leong, 1964 “DESPERATELY NEED RENT JIM”

Box 11, Folder 8-9

John Eaton, 1964, correspondence and ephemera re visit to Palazzo Pio

Box 11, Folder 10-11

Jerome Eisenberg (Royal Athena Gallery, NY), 1960s

Box 11, Folder 12

Paul Cummings, 1990s

Box 11, Folder 13

Walter and Emily Mead, 1980s-90s

Box 11, Folder 14

Russell Leong (brother), 1990s

Box 11, Folder 15-17

Newsletters to family and friends, 1980s and 90s; Misc.

Box 12, Folder 1

Dean Yee Leong, 1977-78

Box 12, Folder 2-6

Dean Yee/James Leong, 1973-78

Box 12, Folder 7-10

Stanley Marcus/James Leong, 1960s-80s

Box 12, Folder 11

Condolence letters to Dean Yee Leong, 2011

 

Series 3: Leong, James: photographs of the artist; personal documents; public projects and protests; publications illustrated by the artist and unpublished writing

Box 13, Folder 1-8

Photographs of the artist, circa 1930s-1990s

Box 13, Folder 9

Marriage of Dean Yee and James Leong

Box 13, Folder 10-11

Misc. personal documents

Box 14, Folder 1-3

San Francisco and El Cerrito murals, 1951-52: newspaper photoengraving on metal; two small original mural panel paintings on card stock; essay by Leong on the mural controversy

Box 14, Folder 4-7

Documentation of United States Information Service (USIS) exhibition in Turkey, 1975-76

Box 14, Folder 8-9

“Computer geometric,” 1971 as evidence for action against Swatch claiming the company copied his work for one of their watch designs

Box 14, Folder 10

% for Art “Art vs. Racism” design proposal, 1991

Box 14, Folder 11

Exhibit binder: “Xi Hua Yuan: A Chinese garden for Seattle,” 1995

Box 14, Folder 12

ObaChine Restaurant protest, Seattle, 1998-99

Box 14, Folder 13

Organization of Chinese Americans, Seattle, dragon boat t-shirt design controversy 1999

Box 14, Folder 14-15

Chinese Historical Society of America mural, San Francisco, 2001

Box 14, Folder 16

Exhibit photos: “Leading the Way: Visionary Asian American Artists of the Older Generation,” Seattle, 2001

Box 15

Exhibition catalogs of others; publications illustrated by Leong; four comb-bound versions of Leong’s autobiographical novel, Cicatrix and other tricks; typescript of Heracles: An opera in three acts, by Michael Fried and John Eaton

Box 20

“Bits of Fantasy,” illustrated, self-published poetry, 1954; early work 1950-54

Box 27, Folder 1-2

Art school materials on paint, color, design etc.; 3 sketchbooks, circa 1958

 

Series 4: Promotional materials: artist binders; clippings; exhibition catalogs; short films

Box 16, Folder 1-4

Artist information binders (slides; vitae; clippings, etc.) circa 1990s

Box 16, Folder 5-6

Printed Leong exhibit pamphlets

Box 16, Folder 7-8

CVs and biographical writing

half-box 17

3 VHS tapes: two copies of “An American artist in Rome: Interview with James Leong”; and “James Leong Mural Restoration;” clippings

Box 18

Exhibition catalogs and promotional materials, 1955-1960s

Box 19

Exhibition catalogs and promotional materials, 1970s-1990s

 

Series 5: Work records and documentation

Box 21

Card catalog of works, 1960s-1990

Box 22

Work diaries, 1965-1990

half-box 23

“Master lists” of work, 1960s-1980

Box 24, Folder 1-2

Works, 1954-1957 [binder]

Box 24, Folder 2-3

Price lists; sales receipts and painting records, Rome

Box 24, Folder 4-5

Price & sales records with related gallery correspondence, 1955-61 [binder]

Box 24, Folder 6-7

Price & sales records, 1959-63 [binder]

Box 25, Folder 1-7

Galleria dell’Ariete, sales records and related correspondence, 1960s; Sales records & price lists, 1957-62 [binder]; spiral bound negatives and contact sheets, circa 1960s

Box 26, Folder 1

Slides and photos, Oslo, 1958

Box 26, Folder 2-4

Mounted black & white photos, 1958-59

Box 26, Folder 5

Photos of work, circa 1960s

Box 26, Folder 6

Contact sheets and negatives

Box 26, Folder 7-13

4x5” slides: 1970; Neireid; “Homage a Strawinsky, 1971; photocopies of paintings, ca. 1990s

Box 27, Folder 3-4

Mounted slides, 1962-66; Mounted slides, 1967-68

Box 27, Folder 5

Black & white photos of work commissioned for John Huston’s “Freud,” circa 1961

Box 27, Folder 6

“Proofs and positives of Barone Cat.,” circa 1960s

Box 28, Folder 1-5

Slides, 1970s-90s

Box 28, Folder 6

Swatch slides; China trip 1994

Box 28, Folder 7-8

Slides and negatives, including “Ripple Tank”

Box 28, Folder 9-10

Slides, “Anatomy of Landscape, 1962” [images made 1995]; misc.

Box 29, Folder 1-12

4x5” slides, 1960s

Box 30, Folder 1-2

Slides, 1964-70

Box 30, Folder 3

Slidex paintings, 1967-85

Box 30, Folder 4

“SFSU copy slides (Irene Poon Andersen,” 1997; “Clear file: Campo, Pioneer Sq. etc.”

Box 30, Folder 5

Slides, small paintings, 1979-87

Box 30, Folder 6

Slides, 1988-1999: “Master set to May 99/extra sets”

Box 30, Folder 7

Slides, misc.

flat-box 31

Glass slides in original boxes, circa 1960s

flatbox-small 32

Misc. slides

flat-box 33

“X-Paintings” 1959-60; 1959-61; 1961 (black and white 18x24 cm images in original Agfa boxes)

flat-box 34

“X-Paintings” 1962-63; 1964; 1965-66 (black and white 18x24 cm images in original Agfa boxes)

flat-box 35

“Portraits, me;” “Freud;” “Norway, Abruzzi, C.A., E.B., Ostia,” (black and white 18x24 images in original boxes)

flat-box 36

“1961—Without Borders;” “Freud—1962;” “Sculpture 1962” (black and white 18x24 cm images in original boxes)

flat-box 37

“1962—Without Borders;” Paintings—Miscellaneous negatives; Paintings 1962-66

Box 38, Folder 1-4

Slides, 1950s-80s

Box 39, Folder 1-5

Slides, 1960s-80s

Box 40, Folder 1-4

Slides, 1980s