Finding aid for the Nancy Buchanan papers, 1882-2017, undated 2017.M.37
Sarah Mackenzie Wade
Special Collections
2022
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Nancy Buchanan papers
Creator: Buchanan, Nancy, 1946-
Creator: Agalidi, Sanda
Creator: Cypis, Dorit, 1951-
Creator: Hafif, Marcia, 1929-2018
Creator: Hare, Sharon, 1950-
Creator: Hunter, Terryl
Creator: Lester, Janice
Creator: Peterfreund, Stuart (Stuart Samuel) (1945-06-30-2017-07-19)
Creator: Rachel, Vaughan
Creator: Rosler, Martha (1943-07-29)
Creator: Simpson, Sylvia Salazar
Creator: Smith, Barbara Turner, 1931-
Identifier/Call Number: 2017.M.37
Physical Description: 72.3 Linear Feet(127 boxes, 3 flatfile folders. Computer media: 9.84 GB [489 files])
Date (inclusive): 1882-2017, undated
Date (bulk): 1970-2008
Abstract: The Nancy Buchanan papers document the Los Angeles-based artist's career from the 1970s to the 2010s. Research and production
files for her projects, including her major performances and video works, reflect Buchanan's exploration of politics, commerce,
environmentalism, and feminism, and highlight her use of art as a tool for raising awareness of social issues. Audiovisual
and digital components are present for many of Buchanan's performance pieces, as are photographs of her artworks, exhibitions,
and performances. The collection also includes assorted personal and professional correspondence, printed ephemera, teaching
files from Buchanan's tenure at the California Institute of the Arts, personal and family materials, papers related to her
curatorial projects and collaborations, and artworks and artists' books created or collected by Buchanan.
Physical Location: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the
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access policy.
Language of Material: Collection material is in English, with some Romanian, Slovenian, Croatian, Korean, Kurdish, Arabic, and Spanish.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers. Born digital content and audiovisual materials are unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Nancy Buchanan. Acquired in 2017.
Digitized Material
Selected audio and video recordings have been digitized: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2017m37. Access is available only to
on-site readers and Getty staff.
Appraisal
Two optical discs were not retained with the collection: one damaged, unreadable optical disc and one blank disc.
Duplicate printed ephemera and newspapers were also not retained.
Arrangement
The archive is arranged in five series: Series I. Project files, 1970-2017, undated; Series II. Professional files, 1922-2016,
undated; Series III. Personal papers, 1898-2014, undated; Series IV. Artwork and artists' books, 1968-2015, undated; and Series
V. Audiovisual and digital materials, 1979-circa 2003, undated.
Born digital materials are integrated into a corresponding series based on content, wherever possible. Born digital materials
without a clear correlation to particular projects can be found in Series V.C. DVDs, circa 2003, undated. The original order
of the born digital files is retained.
Biographical / Historical
Nancy Buchanan is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her performance, conceptual, and video art that focus on themes of
power and personal place. She played an integral role in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and continues
to have an active studio practice, with work that centers on political and social issues, shifts between personal experience
and global politics, and which often incorporates a feminist approach or capitalist critique.
Born Nancy Page Ridenour in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946, Buchanan grew up primarily in Southern California, and attended
Laguna Beach High School, where she earned an art scholarship that supported her freshman year studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA). During her first semester at UCLA, Buchanan married, became pregnant, and experienced the
unexpected death of her mother, Gretchen Kraemer Ridenour. These events led Buchanan to return to Laguna Beach, where she
briefly enrolled in the Laguna Beach School of Art before transferring to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 1965,
where Buchanan also found obstacles. Frustrated by the art faculty there, whom she felt were sexist towards female students,
Buchanan briefly joined the English department but soon resumed her studies in the art department. Fortunately, Buchanan found
her art professors Robert Irwin and Larry Bell to be encouraging of all of their students, and ultimately earned a BA in 1969
and an MFA in 1971 as a member of UCI's first MFA graduating class.
Alongside artists Barbara T. Smith, Eleanor Antin, and Pauline Oliveros, Buchanan was also an early participant in performances
and workshops at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, and she taught her first class through the Woman's Building extension
program. Shortly after the Woman's Building opening in 1974, Smith was invited by Woman's Building cofounder, Judy Chicago,
to join the Grandview Galleries that were forming there, and Smith in turn extended the invitation to Buchanan. Some of Buchanan's
Woman's Building performances include
Pie Piece,
Underground, and an early collaboration with Smith,
Please Sing Along, which opened with nude men dancing to music and ended with a wrestling match between the two artists, in a reversal of the
traditional gender roles that attribute strength and aggression to men while portraying women as passive and decorative.
Throughout her career, Buchanan has been involved in many artist collectives and collaborations. She was one of twelve founding
members of F Space, a cooperative gallery in Santa Ana, alongside fellow UCI art students Barbara T. Smith and Chris Burden.
The gallery on UCI's campus was considered by the art students to be too conservative, and F Space was formed to support UCI
art students in an off-campus setting that would allow for more exploratory works, including performances such as Chris Burden's
Shoot (1971), and Buchanan's first public performances
At Home and
Hair Transplant, both featuring Buchanan and fellow UCI art student, Robert Walker, in the nude.
Buchanan was also a founding member of Double X (sometimes written as
XX,) a democratic collective that emerged in 1975 out of the Woman's Building with members from the Grand View 1 and Grand View
2 gallery spaces (sometimes written as Grandview) that sought to bring women's culture into various communities and to challenge
the bias and sexism practiced toward women artists. The collective's first project was Faith Wilding's,
By Our Own Hands (1977), which documented the women's art movement in Southern California.
Navigating both the global and the personal, Buchanan often incorporates or centers familial narratives into her works. Buchanan's
father, Dr. Louis N. Ridenour, Jr., was a nuclear physicist who served as the first chief scientist in the United States Air
Force, from 1950 to 1951. Ridenour was invited to work on the development of the atomic bomb, but declined, publicly arguing
that there was no defense against nuclear weapons. With works like
Fallout from the Nuclear Family, Buchanan explores the papers of her father, who passed away during her childhood, to highlight the growth of the military-industrial
complex and its impact on the individual. Similarly, with works like
Mother (1975) and
The Marketing of Motherhood (1979 and 1981), Buchanan examines the role of motherhood through the lens of her own role as a mother; the relationship
she had with her own mother, Gretchen Kraemer Ridenour; and how our culture represents motherhood in advertising and business.
Over the course of her career, Buchanan has been a stalwart figure in the Southern California artistic community. She has
served in leadership roles for numerous Los Angeles organizations, including as a board member and committee chair for Los
Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE, 1980 to 1982), a member of the performance and exhibition committees for the Woman's
Building (1984 to 1985 and 1989 to 1990), a video committee member for the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (1987),
and a board member for the Arroyo Arts Collective (1998 to 2001). Through her art and her work as an organizer, community
activist, and curator, Buchanan also demonstrates commitment to making alternative voices heard. She was an organizing committee
member for Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America (1984); an administrator for a 1979 Double X film series
featuring works by women of color; an associate producer from 1988 to 1998 for
Message to the Grassroots, a Community Access cable television program by activist Michael Zinzun; and has taught numerous community workshops on performance
and video art.
For several decades (1988 to 2012), Buchanan was an influential faculty member in the Program in Film and Video at the California
Institute of the Arts (CalArts). From 1980 to 1983, Buchanan lectured part-time at several Southern California universities,
including UCLA; University of California San Diego (UCSD); California State University, Long Beach (CSULB); California State
University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH); and the Otis Art Institute (now the Otis College of Art and Design). She also served
as a faculty member with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Art from 1981 to 1983, and as an adjunct faculty member
with the Vermont College of the Arts and with the Otis Art Institute's Social Practice Program from 2014 to 2018.
Custodial History
Materials were created by Buchanan and remained in her possession from their creation until their transfer to the Getty Library
in 2017. The small artworks by other artists were either purchased by Buchanan, or, more commonly, were given to her directly
as gifts from the artists.
Preferred Citation
Nancy Buchanan papers, 1882-2017, undated, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2017.M.37.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2017m37
Processing Information
In 2019, Jasmine Larkin processed the bulk of the project files and Alison Ransom processed a portion of the personal correspondence.
Sarah Mackenzie Wade processed the audiovisual materials, a portion of the project files, and the photographic materials and
calendars during intermittent onsite access throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, and completed processing and
wrote the finding aid for the collection in 2022.
Digital materials were processed by Laura Schroffel in 2017 and 2019. Files require further processing before access copies
can be made available.
Component titles for materials in Series I. Project files and Series II. Professional files replicate the original folder
labels; all other component titles were devised by the archivist.
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, ST-03-17-0007-17.
Related Archival Materials
Nancy Buchanan, Fallout From the Nuclear Family, 1980, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2011.M.14.
Allan Kaprow papers, 1940-1997, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 980063.
Barbara T. Smith papers, 1927-2012, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2014.M.14.
Doin' It in Public : Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building (1973-1991): oral history interviews, 2008-2011, Getty Research
Institute, Accession no. IA40011.
Faith Wilding papers, approximately 1960s-2015, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2017.M.8.
Getty Research Institute California Video exhibition project files and oral history recordings, 2006-2008, Getty Research
Institute, Accession no. IA60004.
Getty Research Institute public event records and recordings, 1998-2020, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. IA40002.
High Performance magazine records, 1953-2005, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2006.M.8.
The Kitchen videos and records, 1967-2011, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2014.M.6.
Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive, circa 1970-2000, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2006.M.7.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions records, 1978-2018, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2018.M.2.
Michael H. Smith papers, approximately 1971-2012, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2022.M.36.
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. recordings, 2008-2012, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. IA40011.
The Waitresses records, 1971-2015, undated, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2017.M.45.
Woman's Building records, 1960-2016, undated, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2017.M.43.
Publication Rights
Scope and Contents
The Nancy Buchanan papers document the Los Angeles-based artist's career from the 1970s to the 2010s, with research and production
files for her projects, including her major performances and video works, that reflect Buchanan's exploration of politics,
commerce, environmentalism, and feminism, and highlight her use of art as a tool for raising awareness of social issues.
The project files constitute the bulk of the collection, and audiovisual and digital components are present for many of Buchanan's
performance pieces, as are photographs of her artworks, exhibitions, and performances.
The papers also include professional and personal files, with notes and lectures that reflect Buchanan's scholarly approach
to her art practice; teaching files from Buchanan's tenure at various schools, including the California Institute of the Arts;
papers related to her many curatorial projects and collaborations; and printed ephemera for numerous art exhibitions and programs,
primarily throughout Southern California, from the latter half of the twentieth century. Also present are small artworks by
Buchanan and other artists, many of which were given to Buchanan directly as gifts from the artists; and personal and professional
correspondence that demonstrate her close connections and friendships with other artists such as Barbara T. Smith, Stuart
Peterfreund, and Robert Walker.
Bibliography
Buchanan, Nancy.
Nancy Buchanan Resume. Nancybuchanan.net. September 12, 2022. https://nancybuchanan.net/resume_web.pdf.
Chan, Audrey.
Nancy Buchanan: Ethical Provocations (photo essay). Afterall.org. January 12, 2012. https://www.afterall.org/article/nancy-buchanan.
Doin' It in Public : Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building (1973-1991): Oral History Interviews, 2008-2011, Getty Research
Institute, Accession no. IA40011.
Jones, Amelia.
Amelia Jones in Dialogue with Nancy Buchanan,'Truly for Real.' AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. October 22, 2021. https://awarewomenartists.com/en/magazine/reellement-pour-de-vrai-nancy-buchanan-en-conversation-avec-amelia-jones/.
Kook-Anderson, Grace.
Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971. Laguna, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 2012.
Loeffler, Carl E. and Darlene Tong, eds.
Performance Anthology: Source Book of California Performance Art. San Francisco: Last Gasp Press and Contemporary Arts Press, 1989.
Phillips, Glenn,
Acquisition Approval Form for 'Nancy Buchanan Archive,' c. 1960s-2017, accession no. 2017.M.37, April 30, 2017.
Roth, Moira, ed.
The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980. Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1983.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art and nuclear warfare
Art and social action -- United States -- 20th century
Art and technology
Art, American -- California -- 20th century
Feminism in art -- United States -- 20th century
Hair in art
Installations (Art)
Performance art -- California -- Los Angeles
Political art
Video art -- California -- Los Angeles
Women artists -- Archives
Women artists -- California -- Los Angeles
Women artists -- United States -- 20th century
Artists' books
Audiocassettes
Audiotapes
Black-and-white photographs -- 20th century
Born digital
Cabinet photographs
CD-Rs
Chromogenic color prints -- 20th century
Color photographs -- 20th century
Color slides
Contact sheets -- 20th century
Correspondence
DVDs
Film reels
Gelatin silver prints -- 20th century
Photographs, Original.
Printed ephemera
Salted paper prints
Sketchbooks
Tintypes (photographs)
Videocassettes
Buchanan, Nancy, 1946-
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Gallery)
Ridenour, Louis N. (Louis Nicot), 1911-1959
Rideout, Ransom
Walker, Robert, 1942-
Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Project files, Series I.
1882-2017, undated
1970-2017
Physical Description: 17.7 Linear Feet(51 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series I. constitutes the bulk of the collection and consists primarily of correspondence, ephemera, and notes that document
the span of Buchanan's artistic output, with files related to her performances, video art, and installations from 1970 to
the early 2010s, including early projects from her time as a graduate student at UCI. Most files related to Buchanan's performances
and video art include photographic documentation, and many performance files also contain audio or video documentation. Also
present, to a lesser extent, are drawings, grant applications, and objects and scripts used in performances.
Materials for unidentified and undated projects are at the end of this series, as is unsorted ephemera that was not originally
interfiled into the project files.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
At Home, F Space Gallery,
1970
Scope and Contents
Buchanan's first public performance, with fellow UCI graduate student Robert Walker.
box 1, folder 1
Color prints,
1970
Physical Description: 5 color prints
box 86, folder 1
Color transparencies,
undated
Physical Description: 12 color transparencies
box 23, folder 1-3
Correspondence, ephemera, and notes,
1970-1979
At Home #24,
1971
Scope and Contents
A performance by Robert Walker and Nancy Buchanan.
box 18, folder 2
Black-and-white contact sheet strips,
1971
box 18, folder 3
Black-and-white transparencies,
1971
Physical Description: 12 black-and-white transparencies
box 1, folder 2
Hairpiece, University of California, Irvine,
1971
Hairpiece, University of California, Irvine (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 3 color slides
box 1, folder 3
Airbrush works,
1971-1975, undated
Airbrush works (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 7 color slides
box 23, folder 4
F Space,
1971-1972, undated
box 26, folder 8-11
Louis N. Ridenour,
1971-1982, undated
box 23, folder 5
Sympathetic Magic,
1972 January
Hair Transplant (1972),
1972, undated
Scope and Contents
Performance with Robert Walker at F Space Gallery, Santa Ana, California, in which Buchanan removed all of Walker's body hair
and replaced it with her own.
box 18, folder 4
Black-and-white contact sheets,
undated
Physical Description: 3 contact sheets
Scope and Contents
Annotations in ink include: #1 / B Smith (?); #2 / Boles Jackson / #3 photos: Boles Jackson.
box 18, folder 5
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 37 black-and-white negatives
box 16, folder 1
Black-and-white prints,
1972, undated
Physical Description: 8 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In pencil on verso of one print: Nancy Buchanan / Hair Transplant / F Space / July 12, 1972.
box 16, folder 2
Black-and-white slides,
1972
Hair Transplant (1972): Black-and-white slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 6 black-and-white slides
Scope and Contents
Some slide mounts have typescript dates of May and July 1974. Annotations in Buchanan's hand on the mounts date the performance
as 1972.
box 1, folder 4
Color slides,
1972, undated
Hair Transplant (1972): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 4 color slides
box 23, folder 7
[Chris] Burden detective performance,
1972
box 1, folder 5
Curtain paintings,
1973
Curtain paintings (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 20 color slides
box 23, folder 8-9
Grandview 1 and 2,
1973-1976
Please Sing Along (1974 March),
1974-2007, undated
Scope and Contents
One of Buchanan's first postgraduate projects, and a collaboration with her artist friend and fellow UCI alumna, Barbara T.
Smith. See also Series V. Audiovisual and digital materials for a compilation DVD featuring
Please Sing Along and
Tar Baby.
box 18, folder 6
Black-and-white contact sheets,
undated
Physical Description: 2 contact sheets
box 18, folder 7
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 40 black-and-white negatives
box 16, folder 3
Black-and-white prints,
1974, undated
Physical Description: 6 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In typescript label on verso of one print: N. Buchanan, "Please Sing Along," 1974, Woman's Building. In manuscript on verso:
Roger Dontz - Kitty Hodge (sister).
box 16, folder 4
Black-and-white slides,
1974
Please Sing Along (1974 March): Black-and-white slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 9 black-and-white slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount labeled: performance / Grandview Gallery.
box 48, item R1
Please Sing Along music,
1974
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 9. Inventory from the artist reads: music/fx for dance.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 54, item F1
I -
Please Sing,
1974 March
I - Please Sing (digitized version available on-site only): 1974 March
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 54, item F2
II -
Please Sing,
1974 March
II - Please Sing (digitized version available on-site only): 1974 March
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 54, item F3
III -
Please Sing,
1974 March
III - Please Sing (digitized version available on-site only): 1974 March
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 23, folder 11
Pie Piece, Woman's Building, (1974 May),
1974
box 1, folder 6
106 Small Things, Woman's Building,
1974 April-October
106 Small Things, Woman's Building (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 22 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount labeled:
106 Heads / 1974 / hair, feathers, etc. / Grandview gallery installation.
Throw-Away Piece (1974 July),
1974, undated
box 18, folder 8
Black-and-white contact sheets,
1974 July
Scope and Contents
Annotation in ink reads: photos: Marsha Bailey.
box 18, folder 9
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 32 black-and-white negatives
Rock 'N' Roll Piece (1974 August 10),
1974-1981, undated
Scope and Contents
Performance at the Gerard John Hayes Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
box 18, folder 10
Black-and-white contact sheet,
undated
Physical Description: 1 contact sheets
Scope and Contents
Ink annotation on verso: Photos - David Daniel.
box 18, folder 11
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 37 black-and-white negatives
box 16, folder 5
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 6 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In ink on verso of one print: N. Buchanan-parody of being "famous" from "Rock + Roll piece" 1974. Photo: Marsha Bailey. One
print features the artist's signature in black ink at the bottom right.
box 98, folder 1
Color print,
1974
Scope and Contents
Print under plexiglass, with velcro on the verso.
box 1, folder 7
Color slides,
1974, undated
Rock 'N' Roll Piece (1974 August 10): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 30 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount labeled: "Rock 'n' Roll Piece" Gerard John Hayes Gallery.
box 48, item R2
Union oil music from
Rock 'n' Roll,
1974
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 20. Artist inventory reads: Union Oil practice tape /
Rock 'n' Roll Piece performance / Jerry of Blue Cheer recorded.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 115
Jeweled platform shoes,
undated
Scope and Contents
Size 8 five inch platform heels with leather ankle and toe straps and rainbow-colored jewels along the outside of the wood
platform sole. Shoes housed in original Cherokee Shoe Co. of California shoebox with a torn lid.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 1, folder 8
Drawings,
1974-1975, undated
Drawings (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 7 color slides
box 1, folder 9
From Dreams,
1974-1981, undated
From Dreams (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 88 color slides
Scope and Contents
Includes
From Dreams works numbers 1 through 27. Numerous slide mount annotations in ink, many labeled: pencil pastel. Also includes works labeled
Untitled, and
The Tortoise's Dream.
box 1, folder 10
Hair/bones,
1974-1982
Hair/bones (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 18 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations in ink include:
106 Heads,
Hairdos Laguna studio, and
Wolfwoman (1977).
box 24, folder 1-2
The Nancy Buchanan Talk Show (1975 March 15-16),
1975, undated
box 1, folder 11
WB-1-♀,
1975 June-July
WB-1-♀ (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 22 color slides
Scope and Contents
Possible Woman's Building event. Slide mount annotations read: gifts for all / gift to my sister.
Hairdos,
1975 July, undated
box 88, folder 3
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 35 black-and-white negatives
box 16, folder 10
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 2 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In ink on original enclosure: Hairdos / studio show / spons. by Double X - alumin. twinings + satin ribbon.
box 2, folder 1
Color slides,
1975 July
Hairdos: Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 82 color slides
Scope and Contents
Original housing label reads: Hairdos studio show / Youdelman, N. / XX studio show / alum/hair. One slide mount annotated
in ink reads: Hair Portrait.
A Little Style (1975),
1975-1976
Scope and Contents
Performance at Wilshire West Plaza, Los Angeles, California.
box 18, folder 12
Black-and-white contact sheets,
undated
Physical Description: 2 contact sheets
Scope and Contents
One sheet is labeled: Little Style #11. The other sheet is labeled: A Little Style - Wilshire West - photos: John Baker.
box 18, folder 13
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 71 black-and-white negatives
box 16, folder 6
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 9 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In ink on verso of one print: Andrea-Thanks! / "A Little Style" / Wilshire West Plaza / 11/75.
box 16, folder 7
Black-and-white slides
1975, undated
Physical Description: 8 black-and-white slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount labeled: Wilshire West Plaza.
An End to All Our Dreams,
1975, undated
box 48, item R3
Recorded backwards speaking for
An End to All Our Dreams,
1975 May
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 5. Labeled on reel: Frost Wilding / Faith & Everett, Outtakes #1 re Peace.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 48, item R4
An End to All Our Dreams, Tape #1,
undated
Scope and Contents
Original housing labeled: 1k 0vu tone at head for 20. Note on the original housing reads: 8. Inventory from the artist reads:
Recorded backward speech Everett Frost (video).
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 24, folder 5-6
Double X, feminist art collective,
1975-1986
Scope and Contents
Sometimes written as
XX, Double X was a feminist artist group active in Los Angeles from 1975 to 1985 and comprising women artists, including Buchanan,
who challenged the art world for its sexist and biased treatment of women artists.
Tar Baby, (1976),
1976, undated
Scope and Contents
See also Series V. Audiovisual and digital materials for a compilation DVD featuring
Please Sing Along and
Tar Baby.
box 98, folder 2
Color prints,
1976
Physical Description: 6 color prints
Scope and Contents
Six color prints mounted on cardboard.
box 2, folder 2
Color slides,
1976, undated
Tar Baby, (1976): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 50 color slides
Scope and Contents
Some slide mounts labeled: Performance, Mills College, The Floating Wall.
box 93, folder 2
Wolfwoman (1976),
1976
Physical Description: 2 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Includes two mounted prints and a wall label.
box 16, folder 8
Drawing and performance class, Woman's Building extension,
1976
Physical Description: 3 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Three black-and-white print postcards with star stickers and one original envelope decorated with a clipping, postmarked 26
Feb 1976.
box 24, folder 8
Close -
C. S. Opera (1976 November),
1976-1977
box 16, folder 9
Pencils and pastels,
1976-1987
Physical Description: 5 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Prints of drawings, including
From Dreams #24 (1976),
50s/80s #5: If You Own or Plan to Buy 3 or More (1986);
50s/80s #10 (1987); and an unidentified drawing (1987).
True Confessions (1977 February),
1977, undated
Scope and Contents
Performance in Pasadena, California.
box 109
Artist's book,
1977
Scope and Contents
Diary with a key, signed by the artist in red in on the title page. Handbound by Dieter Stenner, Laguna Niguel, California.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 18, folder 14
Black-and-white contact sheet,
undated
Physical Description: 1 contact sheets
Scope and Contents
Labeled: True Confess. B. Sojka.
box 18, folder 15
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 34 black-and-white negatives
Scope and Contents
Labeled: True Confess. B. Sojka.
box 16, folder 11
Black-and-white prints,
1977, undated
Physical Description: 6 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Typescript label on verso of one print reads: N. Buchanan,
True Confessions, 1977 / (Part III) / Photo: Boris Sojka. Typescript label on verso of another print reads: N. Buchanan, performance /
True Confessions, 1977 / Photo: Boris Sojka / (# III: Psychological Instabilities). The final two prints were originally contained in a folded
sheet, with an annotation in ink:
True Confessions / David Daniel Studio / Barbara Margolies w / stopwatch for book.
box 2, folder 3
Color slides,
1977, undated
True Confessions (1977 February): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 58 color slides
Underground (1977 February),
1977
Scope and Contents
Performance at the Woman's Building, Los Angeles.
box 2, folder 4
Color Polaroid,
undated
Physical Description: 1 color Polaroid
Scope and Contents
Annotation in ink reads: "Underground" performance Woman's Bldg.
box 2, folder 5
Color slides,
1977 February, undated
Underground (1977 February): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 13 color slides
Scope and Contents
Some slide mounts labeled: For College Art Assoc. / Mary-Linn Hughes.
Bedtime Stories (1977 May),
1977, undated
Scope and Contents
A performance critical of multinational corporations, and the oil industry specifically, held at the University of California
San Diego.
box 2, folder 6
Color slides,
1977
Bedtime Stories (1977 May): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 11 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount labeled: 1977. Another is presumably labeled erroneously: May '76.
Meager Expectations (1977 September-October),
1977-1979, undated
Scope and Contents
A performance featuring Buchanan and Terryl Hunter dressed as dolls, held at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
on September 4, 1977 and at La Mamelle Arts Center, San Fancisco on October 23, 1977.
box 18, folder 16
Black-and-white contact sheets,
undated
Physical Description: 5 contact sheets
box 18, folder 17
Black-and-white negatives,
1977
Physical Description: 112 black-and-white negatives
Scope and Contents
One sleeve labeled: Meager Exp. Announce 1977; another sleeve labeled: Meager photos / Sarah Tamor.
box 16, folder 12
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 3 black-and-white negatives
box 16, folder 13
Black-and-white prints,
1977-1979, undated
Physical Description: 11 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Several prints have typescript labels on the verso: #3:
Meager Expectations, 1977 / Photo: Sarah Tamor / No permission: call to use. Several prints have additional separate captions that include: Lullabies
for the snake-child; (This little piggy went to market and stayed home….); Ransom Rideout & John Duncan carrying Terryl Hunter.
LAIC, Sept., 77. An original folded-paper enclosure is annotated: Meager Expectations 1979.
box 2, folder 7
Color slides,
1977
Meager Expectations (1977 September): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 42 color slides
box 3, folder 1
Color slides, best originals,
undated
Meager Expectations (1977 September): Color slides, best originals (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 6 color slides
box 48, item R5
Meager Expectations, audio for performance,
1977
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 7. Inventory from the artist reads: OV includes Barbara Smith.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 48, item R6
Meager Expectations, performance, music for introduction,
1979
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 22.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 3, folder 2
Snake Dreams,
1977
Snake Dreams (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 17 color slides
Scope and Contents
Many slide mounts with annotations in ink: pencil / pastel.
box 3, folder 3
With Love From A to B,
1977
With Love From A to B (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 19 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations read: Barbara Smith + Nancy Buchanan / color videotape.
box 3, folder 4
Posters,
1977-1983, undated
Posters (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 17 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount labels include: "Nat. Mor. Consc. Week" poster 1983 /
Wolfwoman, 1977 /
The Marketing of Motherhood, 1981, photomurals based on 1979 performance.
box 3, folder 5
Video,
1977-1984, undated
Video (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 104 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slides of color video art works by Buchanan. Identified works include
Primary + Secondary Spectres (Purple) (1979);
Visible Spectres (1977-1978);
California Stories (1983);
Tech Knowledge (1984);
See I A (1981); and
An End to All Our Dreams.
Deer/Dear (1978 January 11),
1947-1979, undated
Scope and Contents
A performance at Santa Ana College that featured a slide show and a narrative about the notion that women are raised to be
fearful and then are perceived as weak for being so.
box 18, folder 18
Black-and-white contact sheet,
undated
Physical Description: 1 contact sheets
Scope and Contents
Labeled: photos - Ransom Rideout.
box 18, folder 19
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 23 black-and-white negatives
box 17, folder 1
Black-and-white prints,
1978
Physical Description: 2 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Two typescript labels on verso of one print include a label for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York that reads: Performance Art Festival / October 9-15, 1981; the second label reads: Cast shot;
Deer/Dear N. Buchanan, 1978; Santa Ana College; also perf. @ Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas. / Photo: Mayde Herberg. / l to r: Merion Estes,
Kitty Hodge, Terryl Hunter, Nancy Buchanan.
box 116, folder 1-6
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 7 color prints
Scope and Contents
Folder 6 includes two sepia prints that were originally housed in a box labeled:
Deer/Dear; these prints appear to be from Buchanan's
Twin Corners (1975).
box 3, folder 6
Color slides,
1978, undated
Deer/Dear (1978 January): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 7 color slides
Scope and Contents
In ink on two slide mounts:
Deer/Dear, U of Nevada.
box 3, folder 7
Las Vegas,
1978, undated
Deer/Dear (1978 January): Las Vegas (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 37 color slides
Scope and Contents
Some slide mounts labeled: Santa Ana College.
box 124*, folder 1
Paper deer,
undated
Scope and Contents
Five black paper silhouettes of a deer in profile.
box 116, folder 7
Paper heart doily,
undated
Scope and Contents
One red paper heart doily with a typescript verse in the center: The 1st doe he shot at he missed, and the 2nd doe he trimmed
he kissed, and the 3rd ran away in a young man's heart, she's amongst the leaves of the green-o (medieval English folksong).
box 3, folder 8
Santa Ana,
1947, 1977-1978, undated
Deer/Dear (1978 January): Santa Ana (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 23 color slides
box 3, folder 9
Slides used in performance,
1975-1979, undated
Deer/Dear (1978 January): Slides used in performance (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 25 color slides
After-Dinner Story (1978),
1978
box 18, folder 20
Black-and-white contact sheet,
1978
Scope and Contents
Labeled: After-Dinner-Claremont 78.
box 18, folder 21
Black-and-white negatives,
1978
Physical Description: 39 black-and-white negatives
box 4, folder 3
Fragments From Her Suicide Attempt,
1978
Fragments From Her Suicide Attempt (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 18 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount labeled: Sculpture inst. / m/m L.A.C.E. Gallery, L.A. / "XX+" Exhibit.
The Purest/Purist (1978),
1977-1979, undated
box 24, folder 14-17
Papers,
1977-1979, undated
box 17, folder 2
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 13 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Originally housed in envelope inside two folded sheets of paper labeled:
Purity + Purest / after-dinner story @ Claremont Grad School and
Purest/Purist.
box 4, folder 1
Color slides,
Kitty as head/meal,
1978 August
The Purest/Purist (1978): Color slides, kitty as head/meal (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 22 color slides
box 4, folder 2
Color slides used in performances,
1977-1979, undated
The Purest/Purist (1978): Color slides used in performances (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 201 color slides
box 86, folder 2
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 6 color prints
box 4, folder 4
Egg piece, bone pieces, chocolate bones, roses,
1978-1982, undated
Egg piece, bone pieces, chocolate bones, roses (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 57 color slides
Scope and Contents
Some slide mounts with annotations in ink. Identified works include:
2 Dozen of the Long-Stemmed Variety,
Ghost of Xmas Dinner Past, and
A Valentinian Gift.
box 4, folder 5
XX LACE,
1978-1979
XX Lace (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 26 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations in ink include: XX performance; Double X in NB studio / Dianne Smith; Mary Jones; Caron Colvin.
Marketing of Motherhood (1979 May),
1977-2007
box 18, folder 22
Black-and-white contact sheets,
undated
Physical Description: 2 contact sheets
box 18, folder 23
Black-and-white negatives,
1979 May-October
Physical Description: 54 black-and-white negatives
Scope and Contents
One sheet of negatives is labeled: Motherhood - set for film 5/79.
box 17, folder 3
Black-and-white prints,
1979, undated
Physical Description: 9 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
On typescript labels on verso of one print: Nancy Buchanan: "The Marketing of Mother Hood" / 1979 / Photo: N. Buchanan; Scene
from the film: Good Daughter (in doorway) / Stepmother (lounging in living room). On typescript labels on verso of another
print: N. Buchanan: "The Marketing of Mother Hood" / 1979 / Photo: Ulysses Jenkins / advantages of inexpensive plumber's tool
bag.
box 5, folder 1
Color slides,
1979, undated
Marketing of Motherhood (1979 May): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 21 color slides
box 5, folder 2
Color slides, film stills
1979, undated
Marketing of Motherhood (1979 May): Color slides, film stills (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 9 color slides
box 5, folder 3
Color slides used in performance
1979-1980
Marketing of Motherhood (1979 May): Color slides used in performance (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 123 color slides
box 48, item R11
Marketing Motherhood, original, master,
1979 May
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 17, folder 4
Throw Away,
1979 May
Throw Away (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 1 black-and-white slides
Around and About Purity (1979),
1977-1982
Scope and Contents
A five-part performance at the Kansas City Art Institute, in Kansas City, Missouri that featured audiotapes, slide sequences,
and installations centered around the concept of purity and the social impact of the search for purity for women and women's
bodies.
box 5, folder 4
Color slides,
1978-1982
Around and About Purity (1979): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 14 color slides
box 5, folder 5
Color slides, Purity unused,
1977-1979
Around and About Purity (1979): Color slides, Purity unused (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 30 color slides
box 48, item R7
Purity master, tape #2,
1977
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 13. Artist inventory reads: Around & About
Purity, audio includes Allan Kaprow.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 48, item R8
Preachin' the blues,
1980, 1982
Scope and Contents
Original housing labeled: Preachin' the Blues - Side 1 - 7/13/80. Note on the original housing reads: 17. Reel labeled: Allan
- J. Edwards (
Purity) / Bkwds outs 2/82.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 48, item R9
Purity master re-edited,
1981 October
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 15.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 48, item R10
Purist I and II outtakes,
1981
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 4. Reel labeled: Allan, etc. Artist inventory reads: Kaprow, etc. Original housing labeled:
Purity outtakes + orig. omissions - both directions.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 5, folder 6
LAICA install rooms,
1980 April
LAICA install rooms (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 12 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations read: Mickey McGowan / Bride; Roy Cross; Chris Burden.
box 5, folder 7
American Dream drawings,
1980-1981, undated
American Dream drawings (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 18 color slides
Scope and Contents
Identified works include
American Dream #1 (1980);
Sweet Dream (1981);
American Dream #2 - Sweet Dream (1981);
American Dreams - #1 - Everything's Coming Up Roses (1981); and
American Dream #5 (1981).
Fallout From the Nuclear Family (1980-1981),
1944, 1979-1986, undated
box 18, folder 26
Black-and-white contact sheet,
1981 February
Physical Description: 1 contact sheets
Scope and Contents
Labeled: Fallout from the Nuc Family - perf UCSD.
box 18, folder 27
Black-and-white negatives,
1981 February
Physical Description: 36 black-and-white negatives
Scope and Contents
Labeled: Nuclear Family 2/81 UCSD.
box 17, folder 5
Black-and-white print,
1981
Physical Description: 1 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Features a flier for a Nancy Buchanan show at Mandeville Annex Gallery.
box 17, folder 6
Black-and-white slides,
1980-1981
Fallout From the Nuclear Family (1980-1981): Black-and-white slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 5 black-and-white slides
box 6, folder 1
Color slides,
1944, 1980-1983, undated
Fallout From the Nuclear Family (1980-1981): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 139 color slides
Scope and Contents
Some slide mounts labeled: Franklin Furnace 1980. Other slide mounts labeled: Claremont Grad. School Vis. Faculty Show. Includes
one slide labeled: Image from performance "It's Been Asked Before" 1981 - Cornell Univ.
box 6, folder 2
Color slides,
Fallout performance, UC San Diego,
1981
Fallout From the Nuclear Family (1980-1981): Color slides, Fallout performance, UC San Diego (digitized version available
on-site only)
Physical Description: 2 color slides
box 45, item C1
Abe and Cece Taub interview,
circa 1979
Scope and Contents
Research for
Fallout from the Nuclear Family. See also Series III. Personal papers: correspondence.
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 45, item C2
Jimmy Doolittle interview,
1980 April 15
Scope and Contents
Interview conducted in Doolittle's office in the Occidental Building as part of research for
Fallout from the Nuclear Family.
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 49, item R18
Fallout From the Nuclear Family, edited master,
1981 February
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 2.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 25, folder 5-12, box 26, folder 1-2
Correspondence, ephemera, and notes,
1980-1989
If I Could Only Tell You How Much I Really Love You (1980-1981),
1980-1981, undated
box 26, folder 3-5
Papers,
1980-1981, undated
box 18, folder 24
Black-and-white contact sheets,
1980 October 25, undated
Physical Description: 8 contact sheets
Scope and Contents
On verso of one contact sheet: Bonnie Lambert - photos (See I A) If I ... 10/25/80.
box 18, folder 25
Black-and-white negatives,
1980
Physical Description: 56 black-and-white negatives
box 17, folder 7
Black-and-white prints,
1980-1981, undated
Physical Description: 15 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In ink on original housing: photos taken @ MCA, Chicago performance.
box 6, folder 3
Color slides,
1980, undated
If I Could Only Tell You How Much I Really Love You (1980-1981): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 16 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount labeled: L.A.C.E. Gallery, Los Angeles, 1980.
box 6, folder 4
Color slides, Chicago,
1980-1981, undated
If I Could Only Tell You How Much I Really Love You (1980-1981): Color slides, Chicago (digitized version available on-site
only)
Physical Description: 13 color slides
Scope and Contents
Performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
box 49, item R14
If I Could Only Tell You How Much I Really Love You, LACE, master,
1980 October
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 54, item F4
If I Could Only Tell You How Much I Really Love You,
1980 October
If I Could Only Tell You How Much I Really Love You (digitized version available on-site only): 1980 October
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 17, folder 8
Originals,
1980-1982, undated
Originals (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 16 black-and-white slides
Scope and Contents
Slides include images of Buchanan's father, Louis Ridenour, possibly from
Fallout From the Nuclear Family.
It's Been Asked Before (1981 October and 1982),
1981-1984, undated
box 26, folder 12-13
Papers,
1981-1982, undated
box 17, folder 9
Black-and-white prints,
1981
Physical Description: 2 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In ink on recto of one print: 94% Buchanan. In typescript labels on verso of same print: Nancy Buchanan,
It's Been Asked Before / Oct., 1981; Copyright Jon Reis Photography, 1982.
box 6, folder 5
Color slides,
1981-1982, undated
It's Been Asked Before (1981 October and 1982): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 36 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations read: Performance / Washington State Univ. / Pullman; Performance / Cornell University.
box 6, folder 6
Color slides, performance documents,
1982
It's Been Asked Before (1981 October and 1982): Color slides, performance documents (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 15 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount reads: Final lap seq. for audiotape.
box 6, folder 7
Color slides for performance,
1945-1981, undated
It's Been Asked Before (1981 October and 1982): Color slides for performance (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 84 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations read: Poland extra / 1964; 1st bomb dropped / Aug 7, 1945; Tokyo demonstr. / Nov. 1964; Fallout escapes
/ March 15, 1964; Missippi (sic) test / Oct. 25, 1964; Chinese bomb / Oct. 17, 1964; H. Bomb Fell / March 9, 1966; Quakes-Nevada
/ April 1969; Hi Stakes-A-tests / June 1979; Ike-confusion / April 20, 1979; U.S. neutron B. / Feb? 1951.
box 49, item R19
It's Been Asked Before performance, original tape, edited,
1981
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 10.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 127*
Lace costumes,
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes 8 lace button-up, long-sleeved shirts, one leopard-print skirt, and one lace remnant.
box 7, folder 1
The Marketing of Motherhood (1981),
1981
The Marketing of Motherhood (1981) (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 3 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide annotation reads: Photomural based on 1979 performance.
box 124*, folder 2
National Mortality Consciousness Day poster,
1982-1983
Scope and Contents
A poster by Buchanan for the National Mortality Consciousness Day, the Ides of March, 1982. Signed by the artist in pencil
at the bottom: Herman - Thanks! Nancy Buchanan 1983. In typescript at the bottom: © Nancy Buchanan 1981 / Typeset at the Women's
Graphic Center, L.A.
See I A… (1981),
1981, undated
box 51, item R37
See I A, edited master,
1981 July 29
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel (48 min.) : analog ; 9 in., 1 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 26, folder 16
War Games (1982),
1982-1984
box 27, folder 1
California Stories video,
1983-1984
box 7, folder 2
Drawings,
1983, undated
Drawings (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 40 color slides
box 27, folder 2
Technology - script/notes,
1983-1984, undated
box 27, folder 3
The Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction,
1983-1985, undated
box 7, folder 3
Video stills,
1983-1984, undated
Video stills (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 40 color slides
Scope and Contents
Identified works include:
An End To All Our Dreams (1983);
Webs (1983);
Tech Knowledge (1984); and
California Stories (1983).
Mouth(piece) (1984 and 1986),
1984-1989, undated
box 7, folder 4
Color slides,
1984, undated
Mouth(piece) (1984 and 1986): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 7 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount is labeled
Freedom Suites / slide/projection
Mouth(piece).
box 7, folder 5
Color slides, early performance, Woman's Building,
1984
Mouth(piece) (1984 and 1986): Color slides, early performance, Woman's Building (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 56 color slides
Scope and Contents
Includes three unmounted slides.
box 7, folder 6
Congress Club performance slides, Tucson, Arizona,
1986 May
Mouth(piece) (1984 and 1986): Congress Club performance slides, Tucson, Arizona (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 11 color slides
box 45, item C6
Copy -
Mouth(piece) soundtrack,
1985
Scope and Contents
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 49, item R22
Mouth(piece) voice mix,
1984
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 21.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 49, item R23
Mouth(piece) music, master mix, audio for video,
1989
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 25.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 15 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 51, item R38
Mouth(piece),
undated
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 8 in., 1 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 49, item R24
Mouth(piece), copy mix,
undated
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 26.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 118
Plastic teeth and chattering teeth,
undated
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 119
Toothpick flags,
undated
Scope and Contents
These toothpick flags were featured in
Mouth(piece), a video work by Buchanan where participants ate an edible map of the world made of bread and colored cream cheese. The flags
decorated the map and feature the logos of several large corporations selected by Buchanan for their contributions to societal
issues such as overconsumption and environmental degradation.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 11, folder 1-2
Color prints,
1984 January-February
Physical Description: 135 color prints
box 11, folder 3-5
Color slides,
1984-1985
Nicaragua: Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 109 color slides
box 11, folder 6
"Best slides,"
1984
Nicaragua: \Best slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 44 color slides
box 27, folder 5
CD Rom Info 1984,
undated
Freedom Suites (1985 March),
1984-1987, undated
box 27, folder 6-10
Papers,
1984-1987, undated
box 18, folder 28
Black-and-white negatives,
1985
Physical Description: 121 black-and-white negatives
box 17, folder 10
Black-and-white prints,
1985, undated
Physical Description: 4 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In typescript label on verso of one print: N. Buchanan, "Freedom Suites," 1985 Cal Arts / Photo: Susan Singer-Brewster.
box 7, folder 7
Color print
undated
Physical Description: 1 color prints
box 7, folder 8
Color slides,
1985, undated
Freedom Suites (1985 March): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 73 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations include: Performance-Cal Arts; Introduction (audience partic.); (eyes/sightlines section).
box 7, folder 9
Color slides, cast and performance,
undated
Freedom Suites (1985 March): Color slides, cast and performance (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 17 color slides
box 45, item C4
Freedom Suites performance audio,
1985 April
Scope and Contents
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 52, item R39
Freedom Suites, master audiotape reel,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 10.5 in., 1/2 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 73, folder 1
Master audiotape reel documents,
1985 January 19
Scope and Contents
Recording sheets from Max Sound Emporium, P.O. Box 40027, Long Beach, California 90804.
box 49, item R25
Freedom, music tape for dubbing, interviews,
undated
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 6.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 50, item R26
Freedom Suites, rough,
undated
Scope and Contents
Original housing labeled: Blues - off air Senate hearings.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 7, folder 10
WPA show,
1985 May
Physical Description: 29 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slides of the Washington Project for the Arts exhibition,
Family as Subject Matter in Contemporary Art, which included Buchanan's
Fallout from the Nuclear Family.
box 7, folder 11
An American Dream (1985),
1985
An American Dream (1985) (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 1 color slides
box 7, folder 12
Differing Notions of Sanctuary,
1985
Differing Notions of Sanctuary (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 4 color slides
box 8, folder 1
Los Angeles Arts Festival poster,
1985
Los Angeles Arts Festival poster (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 1 color slides
box 8, folder 2
Untitled offset poster,
1985
Untitled offset poster (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 4 color slides
box 27, folder 11-13
Saved From the Sixties,
1985-1989, undated
box 8, folder 3
50s/80s #2,
1986
50s/80s #2 (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 2 color slides
Fair Play - video,
1986-1989, undated
box 27, folder 14-15
Papers,
1986-1989, undated
box 47, item V10
Fair Play master 2.0,
1986
Fair Play master 2.0 (digitized version available on-site only): 1986
Scope and Contents
Labeled: Fair Play edited master / Bruch Martin AGF 6509 De Longpre LA 467-1234 / Beisbol master.
1 videocassette (U-matic) (8:35) : 3/4 in.
box 8, folder 4
Reagan,
1986, undated
Reagan (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 16 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations read:
American Dreams #5--Media Nightmare;
Forgetting detail - mylar over Reagan; detail of tape showing reflection.
box 8, folder 5
Drawings,
1986-1991, undated
Drawings (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 20 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations identify the following works:
Reinvigorated Classicism (1986);
Untitled (1989);
Sleep of Reason (1986);
A Rose, c'est la vie? (1987),
Differing Notions of Sanctuary (1986);
The Boy's Club (The Critics) (1986);
Putting Yourself in the Picture (1991);
American Dream #6 (1987);
American Dreams #5 - Media Nightmare (1986);
TV Putti (1988).
box 8, folder 6
Dupes,
1986-1987
Dupes (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 20 color slides
Scope and Contents
Identified works include:
50s/80s #3-8; #10-11.
Security -
Surveillance - LACE (1987 March-April),
1975-1987, undated
box 28, folder 1-5
Papers,
1975-1987, undated
box 8, folder 7
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,
1987 February
Physical Description: 15 color slides
Scope and Contents
Original housing labeled: Security @ LACE.
Security install, Tracy Art Services, Hillside, Milwaukee,
1987
box 19, folder 1
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description: 37 black-and-white negatives
box 19, folder 1
Black-and-white prints
Physical Description: 23 black-and-white prints
box 28, folder 6-7
Freedom Suites - Revised (1987 July),
1985-1987, undated
box 8, folder 8
This Is the House that Somoza Built,
1987
This Is the House that Somoza Built (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 1 color slides
box 28, folder 8
Contra Art + Performance,
1987-1988, undated
box 8, folder 9
Pastels and collages,
1987-1990, undated
Pastels and collages (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 13 color slides
Scope and Contents
Identified works include:
This is the House that Somoza Built;
All Done With Mirrors;
Cocktail Putti;
The Phallic Mother;
50s/80s #9; and
Untitled (1990).
50s/80s: Return of Style/Return of Content, San Francisco Art Institute (1988 November 23-December 22),
1988
box 28, folder 9
Papers,
1988-1990, undated
box 16, folder 14
Black-and-white print,
undated
Physical Description: 1 black-and-white prints
box 8, folder 10
Color prints,
1988
Physical Description: 14 color prints
Scope and Contents
Original envelope with annotation in ink: 1988 SFAI solo show.
box 8, folder 11
Color transparencies,
1988
Physical Description: 7 color transparencies
Scope and Contents
Originally housed in two envelopes, the first, a San Francisco Art Institute envelope with annotation in ink: transparencies
/ Nancy Buchanan and Carolyn Potter / American Dream #6 1988 / sculpture with video. The second, an Art Galleries, California
State University Northridge envelope addressed to Nancy Buchanan, annotation in ink reads: Transparencies / House.
Sightlines (1988),
1986-1989, undated
box 28, folder 10-11
Papers,
1986-1989, undated
box 17, folder 11
Black-and-white prints,
1988
Physical Description: 21 black-and-white prints
box 8, folder 12
Color slides,
undated
Sightlines (1988): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 3 color slides
box 28, folder 12-13
Garage sales,
1988-2001, undated
box 29, folder 1-2
Miniatures - shows,
1988-1995
Mouth(piece) (1989),
1986-1989, undated
box 29, folder 3-7
Papers,
1986-1989, undated
Mouth(piece) audio for video,
1989
box 45, item C7
Eucke King, William Moritz,
1989
Scope and Contents
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 45, item C8
Toilet flush FX, Stuart Bender V/O,
1989
Scope and Contents
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 45, item C9
Paul McCarthy V/O, toilet,
1989
Scope and Contents
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 29, folder 8-12
Papers,
1989-1991, undated
box 86, folder 3
Color prints,
1990, undated
Physical Description: 3 color prints
box 29, folder 13, box 30, folder 1-5
Namibia script,
1989-1991, undated
box 8, folder 13
Mylar pastel drawings,
1980s
Mylar pastel drawings (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 9 color slides
Correspondence, ephemera, and notes,
1990-2003
box 39, item CM13
Why I Became a Pacifist and Then How I Became a Warrior, by June Jordan,
2003 June 13
Scope and Contents
Annotation on disc continues: Read by Marjon Kashani / June 13, 2003.
1 computer disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 30, folder 10-12
Central/South America (1990),
1981-1992, undated
Peace Stack, S + L, (hypercard), interactive,
1990-1993, undated
box 31, folder 1-3
Papers,
1990-1993, undated
box 86, folder 4
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 2 color prints
American Dream #7 (1991),
1991, undated
box 19, folder 2
Black-and-white prints,
1991
Physical Description: 7 black-and-white prints
box 8, folder 14
Color slides,
1991
Physical Description: 16 color slides
Scope and Contents
One typescript slide mount annotation reads: Nancy Buchanan & Carolyn Potter
American Dream #7: The Price is Wrong 1991, / m/m/sculpture w/video.
box 39, item CM2
[Michael] Zinzun and Am. Dream #7,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM2 contains: 3 DVD data file and backup data files (.bup); 3 DVD data file
and backup data files (.ifo); and 3 Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset) (.vob). Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference
for reformatting.
box 8, folder 15
Home Ec: The S + L Scandal (1991),
1991
Home Ec: The S + L Scandal (1991) (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 18 color slides
Scope and Contents
Annotations in ink on the slide mounts include: Macintosh computer piece; Blandings; bank collapse next?; too big to fail;
S + L computer piece; Spiegel and Fast Eddie (McPrinney?).
box 8, folder 16
LACE show,
1991
Physical Description: 4 color prints
Scope and Contents
Prints are possibly installation shots of
Nancy Buchanan: A Video Retrospective at LACE.
Vietnam (1992),
1992-1996, undated
box 31, folder 5-10
Papers,
1989-1996, undated
box 86, folder 5
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 5 color prints
box 31, folder 11
Interactive work,
1992-1996, undated
box 31, folder 12
Dialogue of the Decades (1993 November),
1994, undated
box 19, folder 3
Interactive pieces,
1994-1995, undated
Physical Description: 4 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In ink on verso of one print: N. Buchanan / Developing 1994-95.
box 31, folder 13-14
Photography/photographic (1994 April),
1993-1994, undated
box 32, folder 1
Banff residency (1995),
1995, undated
Windows & Mirrors (1997),
1991-1999, undated
Scope and Contents
A videotape by Buchanan and Sanda Agalidi.
box 73, folder 3
Papers,
1991-1999, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes notes in Romanian.
box 47, item V14
Buchanan & Agalidi,
Windows & Mirrors 1995, component dub for preview copies,
1995 December
Buchanan & Agalidi, Windows & Mirrors 1995, component dub for preview copies (digitized version available on-site only): 1995
December
Scope and Contents
Cassette labeled: Nancy Buchanan + Sanda Agalidi /
Windows + Mirrors 1995 / component submaster made 12/95. Includes note that reads: Dub for screening.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) (37:00) : analog, mono ; 1/2 in.
Developing: The Idea of Home (1999),
1882-2006, undated
box 32, folder 2-6
Papers,
1991-2006, undated
Developing sources,
1882-2004, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes pamphlets and ephemera, handwritten notes, photocopies, and clippings.
box 35, folder 2-3
Economics,
1992-2000, undated
box 35, folder 7
Final development research texts,
1987-1999, undated
box 35, folder 8
Limits to growth, livable communities conference,
1991-1996
box 35, folder 10
New models, community development,
circa 1992
box 35, folder 11
Unusual materials,
1992-1997
box 35, folder 12, box 36, folder 1
History,
1882-2000, undated
box 36, folder 2
City planning, public places, conservancies,
undated
box 36, folder 3
Los Angeles, city planning, Mt. Washington,
1988-1997, undated
box 36, folder 4
Los Angeles, city planning, redevelopment, downtown / Community Redevelopment Agency,
1992-1995, undated
box 36, folder 5
Oil, ghost towns, Mentryville,
undated
Scope and Contents
Empty folder.
box 36, folder 8
Public transport, trolleys, freeways, air,
1988-1996, undated
box 36, folder 9
Public transportation, MTA sinkhole, Union y Fuerza,
1995-1999, undated
box 36, folder 10
Riverside County, boom, expansion,
1983-1994, undated
box 36, folder 11
Silk culture,
1882-1994, undated
box 36, folder 12
Southern California, Watts,
1990-1997, undated
box 36, folder 13
Southern California, general texts,
1966-1990, undated
box 36, folder 14
Suburban planning, L.A.,
1992-2000, undated
Present,
1988-1997, undated
box 36, folder 15
Affordable Housing Services, Garfield Park,
1996, undated
box 36, folder 16
Miscellanous affordable housing,
1994-1995
box 36, folder 17
Dodger Stadium,
1997, undated
box 36, folder 18
Fallout of 1980s boom,
undated
Scope and Contents
Empty folder.
box 36, folder 19
Fallout of 1980s, gap between rich and poor,
1988-1996
box 37, folder 1
Global Village,
1992, undated
box 37, folder 2
Habitat for Humanity,
1995-1998, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes a small, silver, and unlabeled Atco lockbox key.
box 37, folder 4-5
Justiceville,
1991-1996, undated
box 37, folder 6
Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation,
1994-1995
box 37, folder 7
The new face of public housing,
1991-1996, undated
box 37, folder 8
Nostalgia suburbs,
1990-1996
box 37, folder 9
Pico-Aliso, public housing,
1997, undated
box 37, folder 10
Public housing, Local Initiatives Support Corporation,
1995
box 37, folder 11
Public housing, low income,
1990-1999, undated
box 37, folder 12-13
Rural development agriculture,
1995-1999
box 38, folder 1
South Sea bubble,
1932, undated
box 38, folder 2-5
Tourism: L.A., Banff,
1990-1996
Water,
1993-2004, undated
box 103, folder 6
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 12 black-and-white prints
box 103, folder 7
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 24 black-and-white negatives
box 86, folder 6
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 6 color prints
Scope and Contents
Annotation on original housing reads: Research
Developing at Riverside.
Grant information,
1983-2001, undated
box 73, folder 9
Papers,
1983-2001, undated
box 122, folder 5
Restricted papers,
1983
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted until 2058.
box 32, folder 7-8
Interactive work (1999),
1987-2000, undated
box 9, folder 1
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 5 color prints
box 9, folder 2
Color slides,
1994-1999, undated
Developing: The Idea of Home (1999): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 20 color slides
Scope and Contents
Ink and typescript annotations read: interactive computer work;
Developing: Some Snapshots; @ Calif Museum / photog. Riverside; interactive wk. (Namibia - Quicktime movie); interactive CD-ROM.
Devel. doc. of computer [Developing documentation?],
1994
box 47, item V12
Videocassette
Devel. doc. of computer: Videocassette (digitized version available on-site only): 1994
Scope and Contents
Cassette labeled: Developing: Video Documentation CMP 1994.
1 videocassette (Fuji M321SP Betacam SP) : 1/2 in.
box 47, folder 1
Document
Scope and Contents
Originally housed inside videocassette case. Includes video content index and timestamps.
box 73, folder 10
Rockefeller application (1995-1996),
1995-2001, undated
box 32, folder 9
Dirt piece info,
1999-2000, undated
box 9, folder 3
Nancy Buchanan and Carolyn Potter,
1999
Nancy Buchanan and Carolyn Potter (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 6 color slides
Scope and Contents
Identified works include:
Untitled;
Momento for the Angel of History.
box 33, folder 1
C.O.L.A.grant (2000 April-June),
1999-2004, undated
box 9, folder 4
96th and Central (2000),
2000
96th and Central (2000) (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 5 color slides
box 9, folder 5
Representational Landscapes, Hammer Museum,
2000
Representational Landscapes, Hammer Museum (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 9 color slides
Scope and Contents
Several slide mounts have typescript labels: After Edgar Payne, digital print on canvas (2000); After California...Maurice
Braun (20000); After Bill Bender (2000); Representational Landscapes: 96th & Central (2000).
box 32, folder 10-12, box 33, folder 2-3
Correspondence, ephemera, and notes,
2000-2010
box 9, folder 8
Miniatures,
2001, undated
Physical Description: 61 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount reads: Nancy Buchanan & Carolyn Potter Use Value Detail, 2001.
Democracy When? (2002 May-June),
1977-2002, undated
box 33, folder 4-5
Papers,
1977-2002, undated
box 9, folder 9
Color slides,
2002, undated
Democracy When? (2002 May-June): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 4 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotation reads: "LACE - Democray When?" 2002.
box 33, folder 6
Art/ Women/ California (2002 June-October),
2000-2002, undated
box 33, folder 7
Clearing installation video (2002 October-November),
2002, undated
box 9, folder 10
Another September 11 (2002),
2002
Another September 11 (2002) (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 5 color slides
box 9, folder 11
Guarden (2002),
2002
Guarden (2002) (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 3 color slides
Scope and Contents
This work was possibly part of the exhibition
Show: The Flag.
Sleep Secure quilt (2003),
2003-2004
box 9, folder 13
Color slide,
2004
Sleep Secure quilt (2003): Color slide (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 1 color slides
Scope and Contents
Typescript label on slide mount reads:
Sleepsecure.
flatfile 3*
Pattern,
undated
Scope and Contents
On tissue paper, in pencil.
box 33, folder 9
…And Babies? (2003),
2003-2006, undated
box 33, folder 10-11
Shutters (2004 September-November),
2004, undated
box 9, folder 14
Untitled (January 2000-Sept 21, 2001) (2004),
2004
Untitled (January 2000-Sept 21, 2001) (2004) (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 1 color slides
box 33, folder 13-15
India trip (2006 March-April),
2004-2006, undated
box 34, folder 1
Generic Remix video (2006 October),
2006-2007, undated
box 34, folder 4
Pasadena installation (2006),
2004-2008, undated
box 34, folder 5
California Video (2008 March-June),
2007-2008
box 34, folder 6
ArtRole - Iraq trips,
2008
box 34, folder 7-8
Faith Full (2008),
2008-2009, undated
box 34, folder 9-12
Pacific Standard Time (2011-2014),
1983-2014, undated
box 34, folder 13
Double X Redux exhibit (2015 February-March),
2014-2015, undated
The Castle by Angelo Funicelli,
1976-1989, undated
box 73, folder 6
Puppets,
1976-1989, undated
box 19, folder 4
Shadow puppets,
undated
Physical Description: 86 black-and-white slides
Scope and Contents
Includes nine empty slide mounts. Some slide mounts annotated in pencil. Original housing labeled: A. Funicelli - castle sh.
Pup/bk by NB.
box 9, folder 15
History,
undated
History (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 4 color slides
Scope and Contents
One slide mount annotation in ink reads: Buchanan / detail /
History (mylar over C. Amer. scene).
box 10, folder 1
Motion slides - freedom,
undated
Motion slides - freedom (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 73 color slides
Scope and Contents
Possibly from Buchanan's
Freedom Suites performances (1985 and 1987). See also Series I. Project files.
box 10, folder 2
Mouth(piece),
undated
Mouth(piece) (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 5 color slides
box 10, folder 3
The Practical Impossibility of Justice in the Mind of Someone Wealthy,
undated
The Practical Impossibility of Justice in the Mind of Someone Wealthy (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 2 color slides
Scope and Contents
Typescript label on slide mount reads: Buchanan & Wichert.
box 73, folder 7
Private performances in public spaces,
undated
box 10, folder 4
Relief video stills,
undated
Physical Description: 25 color prints
box 21, folder 3
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 39 black-and-white prints
box 21, folder 4
Black-and-white transparencies,
undated
Physical Description: 4 black-and-white transparencies
box 10, folder 5
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 2 color prints
box 10, folder 6
Color slides,
undated
Video stills: Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 6 color slides
box 19, folder 5
Papers,
undated
Physical Description: 1 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Includes one black-and-white print.
box 50, item R32
Tech - Knowledge final edit, master,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 19, folder 6
The Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction,
undated
Physical Description: 6 black-and-white prints
box 21, folder 2
"Funny objects,"
undated
Physical Description: 2 black-and-white slides
Scope and Contents
Uncut slides.
box 10, folder 7
Assorted,
1983, undated
Physical Description: 3 color slides
Scope and Contents
Includes two unidentified slides and one slide with its slide mount labeled: Kathryn Myers, "They Hold You." Slides originally
housed in envelope addressed to Buchanan and postmarked March 24, 1984.
Unidentified,
1945-1981, undated
U.S. Department of the Interior,
1922-1938, 1966-1974, undated
box 20, folder 2
Black-and-white prints,
1922-1938, 1966-1974, undated
Physical Description: 62 black-and-white prints
box 10, folder 11
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 3 color prints
box 20, folder 1
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 13 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Includes a print of Buchanan and a collaborator in an unidentified piece by Sylvia Simpson. Annotation on the verso of the
print reads: NB + RR in Sylvia Simpson's food sculpture piece-UCSD. Also includes a print of a nuclear explosion and prints
of maps of Riverside County, California.
box 88, folder 5
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 9 black-and-white negatives
box 107
Black-and-white negatives, uncut,
1941, undated
Scope and Contents
10 canisters of uncut negatives. One undated canister is labeled: MacCallum Stores, Ridenour 5872; another canister dated
1941 March 30 is labeled: III; a third canister, also undated, is labeled: Daddy's
Sleepy Eye Lodge.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 21, folder 7-8
Black-and-white slides,
1945-1981, undated
Unidentified: Black-and-white slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 72 black-and-white slides
Scope and Contents
Images are primarily of front pages of newspapers, and were possibly part of Buchanan's
Fallout From the Nuclear Family (1981). See also Series I. Project files.
box 10, folder 8
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 10 color prints
box 10, folder 9
Color slides,
1954, 1980-1981, undated
Unidentified: Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 12 color slides
Scope and Contents
Sides in folder 9 were possibly part of Buchanan's
Fallout From the Nuclear Family (1981). See also Series I. Project files.
box 123, folder 2
Mock-ups,
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes assorted black-and-white clippings and prints with marked-up overlays and cut sheets.
box 124*, folder 3
Oversize color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 2 color prints
Scope and Contents
Two slightly pixelated matte prints.
box 124*, folder 7
Oversize drawing and notes in ink,
undated
Scope and Contents
Drawing in blue ink of a building corner and palm tree, with notes in ink that read: gold rush / CA hills / housing / house
designs made of ants /
After Poussin.
Unsorted ephemera,
1972-2017, undated
box 93, folder 4
Oversize envelope with assorted ephemera,
1972-1978, undated
Oversize,
1977-2011, undated
box 93, folder 3
1979, 2007-2011, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes a handpainted color flier for
Woman with 100 Heads, a group exhibition at Survival Graphics.
flatfile 2**, box 124*, folder 4, box 125*, folder 6
Posters,
1981-2008, undated
Scope and Contents
Posters and fliers for exhibitions and programs with Buchanan and other artists, including a poster for Buchanan's
Freedom Suites; one for two panels on the ethics and economics of performance art at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art featuring
Eleanor Antin, Buchanan, Chris Burden, Cheri Gaulke, Allan Kaprow, Paul McCarthy, and Allan Kaprow. Also includes posters
designed by Claes Oldenburg for the Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America (1984) and a poster by Double
X and the Arts Coalition for Equality that reads: Artists missing in action: Los Angeles has a proud heritage of art created
by women and minorities. Discrimination in the arts must stop!
With some materials in Arabic and Korean.
box 105, folder 2
Slide drawer inserts,
undated
Professional files, Series II.
1923-2016, undated
Physical Description: 11.2 Linear Feet(32 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series II. Professional files comprise documents that reflect Buchanan's scholarly approach to her projects, with research
files, course lecture notes and presentations, and papers related to her curatorial projects and collaborations. Also included
are various writings by Buchanan, published and unpublished, and color slide reference images of works by assorted twentieth-century
artists.
Arrangement
Arranged in four subseries: Series II.A. Research and notes, 1964-2012, undated; Series II.B. Teaching and collaboration,
1923-2016, undated; Series II.C. Writings, 1972-2008, undated; and Series II.D. Reference images, 1972-1983, undated.
Research and notes, Series II.A.
1964-2012, undated
Physical Description: 2.53 Linear Feet(7 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Subseries II.A. includes assorted lists, notes, newspapers and clippings, and research files.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
box 74, folder 1-2
Central America research,
1984-1989
box 74, folder 3
Fred's show (1987),
1984-1987, undated
Scope and Contents
Related to a cable television show with Dr. Fred Landis and produced by the Pasadena Community Access Corporation.
box 74, folder 4
Gnosticism research,
1977, undated
box 74, folder 5
Grants - miscellaneous,
1980-2005, undated
box 74, folder 6
Interactive art - research and writing,
1989-1993
box 74, folder 7
Millennium 2000,
2000, undated
box 74, folder 8
Miscellaneous feminist file,
1975-1987
box 74, folder 9
National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL),
2002-2012
box 74, folder 10
National Video Festival,
1985, undated
box 74, folder 11
The New Art in Orange County,
1972
Scope and Contents
A presentation by the Newport Harbor Art Museum in collaboration with F Space Gallery.
Newspapers and clippings,
1964-1998, undated
box 95, folder 2
The Contemporary,
Winter/Spring 1985
Scope and Contents
A Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art publication.
box 95, folder 4
Los Angeles Daily News,
1985 March 10
box 95, folder 5
L.A. Style: Fifth Anniversary Collector's Issue Art in the City of Angels,
1990 June
box 96, folder 1
LA Village View,
1984 July 29-August 4
box 96, folder 2
LA Weekly,
1987 March 13-19
box 96, folder 3
Laguna Beach Post,
1964 June 11
box 97, folder 1
New University,
1968-1969, undated
box 97, folder 2
Pasadena Weekly,
1998 July 16-22
box 97, folder 3
Village Voice,
1982 June 15
box 97, folder 5
Assorted clippings,
1968-1994, undated
box 102, folder 1
Clippings about Buchanan,
1970-1971
box 74, folder 12-13
Nuclear weapons,
1978-1983
box 74, folder 14
Organizational work,
1987-2008, undated
box 105, folder 4
Postcards,
1978-1981
Scope and Contents
Two blank postcards by Vaughan Rachel and four labeled: A Know Your Corporations Artwork.
box 74, folder 15
Research, mobile,
1998-2009, undated
box 105, folder 5
Untitled drawing series list,
circa 1987
Teaching and collaboration, Series II.B.
1923-2016, undated
Physical Description: 6.91 Linear Feet(19 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series II.B. includes files related to Buchanan's curatorial work, collaborative projects, and courses she taught at the California
Institute of the Arts, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Arizona. Also includes documents and photographs
related to several international artist trips and collaborations, including to Kurdistan, Korea, and Slovenia.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
Arroyo Arts Collective,
1992-2009, undated
box 83, folder 10
Annual discovery tours,
1994-2005
box 87, folder 1
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
box 87, folder 2
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 36 black-and-white prints
box 80, folder 10-11
Without Alarm - Arroyo Arts (1998),
1988-1998, undated
Scope and Contents
A community art exhibition presented at the former Los Angeles City Jail at Lincoln Heights.
Artists Call,
1977-1990, undated
box 73, folder 12
Papers,
1983-1987, undated
1986-1987,
1983-1990, undated
box 75, folder 1-2
Papers,
1983-1990, undated
Scope and Contents
Artists Call: Recall Art against U. S. Intervention in Central America. A juried exhibition at the Los Angeles City College
Art Gallery.
box 125*, folder 7
Exhibition installation floor plan,
undated
box 75, folder 3
Flowers of life (1984-1986),
1977-1985, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes a limited edition print of a poem by Marie-Elise Wheatwind, with an annotation in pencil on the verso: AP 13/50 Marie-Elise
Wheatwind handset and printed by the author for Art/Life June 1982.
box 75, folder 4
The Bag (2003),
2003-2007, undated
California Arts Council (CAC) art workshops,
1985-1990, undated
box 75, folder 5-6
Papers,
1985-1990, undated
box 101, folder 7
Color print,
undated
Physical Description: 1 color prints
box 122, folder 6
Restricted papers,
1986-1987
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted until 2062.
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts),
1992-2013, undated
Miscellaneous,
1992-2012, undated
box 76, folder 8-9
Papers,
1992-2012, undated
box 101, folder 8
Color print and color slides,
1992, 2000
Physical Description: 1 color prints
Physical Description: 6 color slides
box 77, folder 1
ID 517: Artists and War course pack and student project,
2008
Scope and Contents
Student project titled,
Special Topics in Art and Politics: A Not So Simple Case for Torture.
box 77, folder 2
ID 517: Women's Culture - Against Marginalization course pack and student project,
2009-2010
Scope and Contents
Student project titled,
DIY.
box 77, folder 3
CS 570D: History of Video Art course pack,
Spring 2009
box 39, item CM10
New Videos from Bell High School,
2008
Scope and Contents
A compilation of student produced videos from the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Video Program with Bell High School.
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM10 contains: 6 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data files,
a Cue Sheet, and an MD5 File. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 39, item CM11
Nasty Foods by Dayna Robles,
2006
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM11 contains: 9 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data files,
Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset), an ISO Disk Image File, a Cue Sheet, and an MD5 File. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
box 39, item CM12
Bell High School / CAP
Mad Sad Glad Bad,
2007
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM12 contains: 22 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data
files, Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset), ISO Disk Image Files, a Cue Sheet, and an MD5 File. Unavailable until reformatted.
Contact reference for reformatting.
box 77, folder 4
Collaborations,
2006, 2008, undated
box 77, folder 5
Correspondence, Arizona colleagues and former students,
1985-1990, 2000, undated
box 77, folder 6
Curating / education,
1991-2009
Grad school grant information,
1982-1986
box 122, folder 7
Restricted papers,
1982
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted until 2057.
box 77, folder 8
Imagine There's A Future (1985),
1983-1985, undated
box 99
In a Bottle exhibition announcement,
1973
Scope and Contents
Invitation is an oversize black-and-white transparency, rolled.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 77, folder 9
Infill House,
1995, undated
box 77, folder 10
Jurying/curating,
1981-2006, undated
box 77, folder 12
Papers,
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes materials in Korean and English.
Dongseo University,
2000, undated
box 86, folder 9
Color print,
undated
Physical Description: 1 color prints
Summer film workshop,
2000 July
box 12, folder 4
Color negatives
Physical Description: 36 color negatives
box 12, folder 5
Color prints
Physical Description: 35 color prints
Kurdistan trip (2007),
1998-2009, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes materials in Kurdish and English.
box 78, folder 1
Papers,
2003-2009, undated
box 78, folder 2
Newspaper clippings,
2007-2008, undated
box 78, folder 3-4
Small publications,
1998-2008, undated
box 39, item CM1
"ArtRole, USA & UK artists trip to KRG, photos, to Nancy, x Adalet,"
undated
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM1 contains: 288 Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed) JPEG version 2.2.1
files (.jpg). Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 39, item DVD1
"Adalet R. Garmiany, Selection of performances, installation, music & sound art, 2002-2007,"
undated
box 78, folder 5
Lectures - miscellaneous,
1984-1988, undated
box 78, folder 6
Lectures/panels,
1996-circa 2007, undated
box 78, folder 7
Long Weekend (March 2007),
2008
box 78, folder 8
Michael Zinzun show (1985-1995),
1988-2006, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes funeral ephemera and obituary. Buchanan collaborated with Zinzun on the
Message to the Grassroots, a program hosted by Zinzun through the Pasadena Community Access Corporation.
box 79, folder 1
Myth and ritual in contemporary art,
1978, undated
box 79, folder 2
NB curated-miscellaneous,
circa 1983-2001, undated
box 79, folder 3
Performance bibliography, course notes,
1976-1985, undated
box 79, folder 4
Performance class, University of Arizona,
1985-1986
box 79, folder 6
Reading lists,
1966, 1981-1989, undated
Show: The Flag (2002),
1923-2016, undated
Scope and Contents
Collaborative show with Carol Wells.
box 44, folder 8
Adbusters,
2002 January-February
box 79, folder 7-8
Articles and correspondence,
1974-2003, undated
Binder: artist's statements and biographies,
1974-2003, undated
box 79, folder 9
Papers,
1974-2002, undated
box 22, folder 1
Color slides,
1988-2003, undated
Binder: artist's statements and biographies: Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 228 color slides
Scope and Contents
Many of the slide mounts have annotations, both typescript and manuscript. Identified artists include Christina Ulke, Dread
Scott, Margaret Morton, Robbin Henderson; Nancy Parker, Erika Rothenberg, Sally Stein, [Dorit] Cypis, Sheila Pinkel, and Abeles.
Some slide mounts labeled: Photography by Sibila Savage '02. Other slide mounts labeled: Center for the Study of Political
Graphics.
box 44, folder 1
College Art Association 2003/Flag,
1989-2002, undated
box 44, folder 3-4
Contact numbers, development notes,
1923, 1990-2000, undated
box 73, folder 4
Developing movie text,
1999 June 2
box 44, folder 2
Flag, working,
1992-2016, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 94, folder 2
Flag show, developing contacts,
2002
box 9, folder 12
Flag show document,
2002 June 7
Show: The Flag (2002): Flag show document (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 59 color slides
Scope and Contents
Typescript slide mount annotations include: 06-07-02; Center for the Study of Political Graphics / 8124 W. 34d St., Suite
211 / Los Angeles, CA. 90048.
Garden, correspondence,
1978-2002, undated
box 44, folder 6-7
Papers,
1978-2002, undated
box 122, folder 4
Restricted papers,
2001
Conditions Governing Access
Access to graded student work restricted until 2076.
box 44, folder 5
Present, Cambria,
1994-1999, undated
Slovenian show,
1997-2008, undated
box 79, folder 10
Papers,
1997-2000, 2008, undated
box 88, folder 4
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 16 black-and-white negatives
box 9, folder 6
Color negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 36 color negatives
Color prints,
1990, undated
box 9, folder 7
undated
Physical Description: 20 color prints
box 101, folder 5
1990 December, undated
Physical Description: 13 color prints
box 94, folder 3
Newspapers,
1997 March 24
Scope and Contents
In Slovenian and Croatian.
Social Works, LAICA (September 1979),
1919-1984, undated
box 79, folder 11
Papers,
1978-1984, undated
box 18, folder 1
Black-and-white contact sheet
Physical Description: 1 contact sheets
box 18, folder 1
Black-and-white negatives
Physical Description: 31 black-and-white negatives
Scope and Contents
Enclosure annotated in ink: installation opening. Alongside the negatives is a sheet of loose-leaf paper labeled Negs + proofs
that features a list of performances documented in the binder.
box 14, folder 5-6
Color slides,
1919-1979, undated
Social Works, LAICA (September 1979): Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 69 color slides
Scope and Contents
Annotations include artists John Heartfield, Suzanne Lacy, Newton and [Helen Mayer] Harrison, Fred Honidier, with other unidentified
works.
box 79, folder 12
Society for Photographic Education, NB curated,
circa 1995-1996
box 79, folder 13
Still Radical: Feminist Video From the '70s,
2006, undated
Students,
circa 1970-2008, undated
Correspondence and student work,
circa 1970-2007, undated
box 80, folder 1
Papers,
1979-2007, undated
box 94, folder 4
Oversize,
circa 1970
Scope and Contents
A newspaper clipping with an image of
At Home at F Space Gallery.
box 101, folder 9
Color print,
undated
Physical Description: 1 color prints
box 80, folder 2
Student writing,
2001-2008, undated
box 12, folder 1
Color slides,
1981-1982, undated
Student work: Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 110 color slides
Scope and Contents
Many slide mounts have annotations in ink. Annotations include: CSULB (California State University Long Beach), CSUDH (California
State University Dominguez Hills), and UCLA (University of California Los Angeles).
box 12, folder 2
Color slides, performances,
1981-1983, undated
Student work: Color slides, performances (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 40 color slides
Scope and Contents
Many slide mounts have annotations in ink. Annotations include: CGS, Claremont, and UCLA.
box 12, folder 3
Color slides, University of Wisconsin students, drawings and performances,
1982 November-December
Student work: Color slides, UW students, drawings and performances (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 33 color slides
box 122, folder 2-3
Graded student work,
2008, undated
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted until 2083.
Teaching positions and course descriptions,
1971-2001, undated
box 80, folder 3
Papers,
1971-2001, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes appointment letters from southern California universities.
box 122, folder 8
Restricted papers,
1981, 1985
Conditions Governing Access
Includes a 1985 notice of position appointment to the University of Arizona and a California State University Long Beach payroll
transaction form from 1981. Access restricted until 2060.
box 80, folder 4
Thanks, But No Thanks (November 1981),
1982, undated
box 80, folder 5
Torture book,
2002-2007, undated
box 80, folder 7
Video art history papers,
1990-2008, undated
box 80, folder 8
Video how to,
1998-2008, undated
University of Wisconsin,
1981-2012, undated
box 80, folder 9
Wisconsin colleagues/students, SAIC performance workshop,
1981-2012, undated
box 94, folder 5
Newspapers,
1982-1983
Scope and Contents
Includes issues of the University of Wisconsin-Madison newspapers,
Isthmus and
Datelines.
box 101, folder 10
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 2 color prints
Writings, Series II.C.
1972-2008, undated
Physical Description: 1.01 Linear Feet(2 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series II.C. contains assorted writing projects and related notes and lectures, both published and unpublished.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists,
1980-1986, undated
box 81, folder 1
Essay,
1980-1986, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes envelope of black-and-white photographs labeled: Pioneer Art photos.
box 101, folder 11
Color contact sheet,
undated
Physical Description: 1 color contact prints
box 81, folder 2
Citibank,
1989-1993, undated
box 81, folder 3
Lecture stuff,
1991-circa 2006, undated
box 81, folder 4
Miscellaneous,
2000-2004, undated
box 81, folder 5
NB writing - miscellaneous,
1972-1994, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes writings on the project,
Home: Developing the Whole Picture and a piece published in
Leonardo,
Works and Networks: Information Art and the Use of Low-End Electronics for Individual and Community Projects, amongst others. See also
Developing: The Idea of Home (1999) in Series I. Project files.
box 81, folder 6
Nitsch notes 78,
1976-1998, undated
box 81, folder 7
Portrait Review - Barbara Smith,
1975 September-1976 June
Publications,
1973-2008, undated
box 81, folder 8
Papers,
1973-2008, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of
Hair-Raising, a slim 1976 publication by Kelsey St. Press with black-and-white images and brief descriptions of Buchanan's works
Hair Art, Dirty Art (1974) and
Twin Corners (1975).
box 122, folder 9
Restricted papers,
1997, 2002
Conditions Governing Access
Includes a 1997 reproduction request from Simon & Schuster for
With Love From A to B, and a Susbstitute Form W-9. Access restricted until 2077.
box 81, folder 9
Scratching the Belly of the Beast (1994),
1993-1994, undated
box 81, folder 10
Unpublished,
1976-1989, undated
box 81, folder 11
Video logs,
1989-1990, undated
box 81, folder 12
The Way We Look, The Way We See Woman's Building conference paper/panel (1988),
1984-2006, undated
Reference images, Series II.D.
1972-1983, undated
Physical Description: .75 Linear Feet(4 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series II.D. consists entirely of color slides of works by assorted twentieth-century artists, possibly used by Buchanan as
teaching slides.
box 13, folder 1
Afghani truck, African art, tantric art,
1978, undated
Other artists: Afghani truck, African art, tantric art (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 16 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations include: Afghani truck good luck fish; Shivalingam Narmada River; Trikoka Chakra 18th c. - Rajastman
pnt. on cloth; Sanghranisutra Guserat 16h c.; Parasvanatha 18th c.; Triloka Chakra 1600 A.D.; Jambudvipa Yantra; Shiva Lingam
cosmic striations.
box 13, folder 2
Anti-nuclear art,
1978-1983, undated
Other artists: Anti-nuclear art (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 69 color slides
Scope and Contents
Many slide mounts annotated in ink. Includes works by Sisters of Survival, Kathy Arnold, the Waitresses, Joyce Cutler-Shaw,
Lee Waisler, Jenny Holzer, Sandy Skoglund, Barbara Kruger, Nancy Spero, and Jon Borofsky. Other annotations include: Target
LA event; Fallout fashion; Nijmegen, Holland; LA mural; anti-nuke environment; Covent Garden, London.
box 21, folder 5
Burgin, Victor,
1978-1980, undated
Other artists: Victor Burgin (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 29 black-and-white slides
box 13, folder 3
Chamberlain, P. and Stephen Lineweaver,
1980-1981, undated
Other artists: P. Chamberlain and Stephen Lineweaver (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 23 color slides
box 13, folder 4
Grieger, Susan,
1977
Other artists: Susan Grieger (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 25 color slides
box 13, folder 5
Henderson, Robbin and other women artists,
1976-1979, undated
Other artists: Robbin Henderson and other women artists (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 28 color slides
Scope and Contents
Slide mount annotations include: Gayle Partlow, Patricia Patterson, Mary Jones, Joan Moment, and Mary Warner.
box 13, folder 6
Jensen, Alfred,
1978
Other artists: Alfred Jensen (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 32 color slides
box 13, folder 7
Krammes, Barry,
1982 (?) April 29
Other artists: Barry Krammes (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 16 color slides
Lacy, Suzanne / Leslie Labowitz,
1972-1983, undated
box 21, folder 6
Black-and-white slides
1976, undated
Suzanne Lacy/Leslie Labowitz: Black-and-white slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 4 black-and-white slides
box 14, folder 1
Color slides,
1972-1983, undated
Physical Description: 46 color slides
Scope and Contents
Many slide mounts are annotated in ink. Works depicted include
In Mourning and Rage,
A Gothic Love Story,
It's Sproutime,
From Reverence to Rape to Respect,
The Robbery,
She Who Would Fly.
box 14, folder 2
Nitsch, Hermann,
1978 April-May
Physical Description: 37 color slides
Scope and Contents
Some slide mounts annnotated in ink.
box 14, folder 3
Page and Krishan's show, F Space,
[?] March 12
Physical Description: 8 color transparencies
box 14, folder 4
Petra, Mt. Nebo, Megan Williams,
1982
Other artists: Petra, Mt. Nebo, Megan Williams (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 18 color slides
box 14, folder 7
undated
Assorted artists: Color slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 73 color slides
Scope and Contents
Dates on slide mounts are presumably dates for the artworks depicted and include dates that span from 1863 to 1896 and from
1933 to 1987. Slide mount annotations include the following artist names: Rico Lebrun; Yasuhiro Esaki; Hollis Sigler; Andrew
Wyeth; Wayne Thiebaud; Charles Sheeler; René Magritte; Lichtenstein; Jasper Johns; Lucas Samaras; Odilon Redon; [Andy] Warhol;
Christo; [Jean] Dubuffet; Martha Alf; David Hockney; Jan Toorop; Lucien Levy-Dhurmer; David Salle; F Khnopff; [Carl] Andre;
Jim Nutt; Jim Dine; Dottie Attie; [Robert] Rauschenberg; Chuck Close; Henry Moore; Georges Seurat; [Claes] Oldenburg; Oyvind
Fahlstrom; Charles Levitan; Lawrence Weiner; Charles White; Giorgio Morandi; [James] Whistler; [Robert] Morris; John Cage.
box 15, folder 1
Old slides,
undated
Assorted artists: Old slides (digitized version available on-site only)
Physical Description: 121 color slides
Scope and Contents
Dates on slide mounts are presumably dates for the artworks depicted and include 1884 and dates that span from 1942-1981.
Additional slide mount annotations include the names of the following artists: Ben Sakogachi; McGowan bride; Doug Bond; George
Trakas; Masami Teraoka; William Wiley; Andrew (Wilf?); Roger Brown; Robert Donley; Jim Nutt; Daniel Peter Ramirez; William
Conger; Gladys Nilsson; Harold Gregor; Ed Paschke; Philip Hanson; Barbara Rossi; Christina Ramberg; Estelle Kenney; Jean Dubuffet;
Marcel Duchamp; Max Ernst; Wayne Eagleboy; Fred Eversly; Robert Graham; Phil Garner; Ralph Goings; Duane Hanson; Oyvind Fahlstrom;
Shiro Ikesawa; [René] Magritte; Lucas Samaras; Robert Longo; [Roy] Lichtenstein; Jacob Lawrence; Ed Kienholz; Alex Katz; Roland
Reiss; [Robert] Rauschhenberg; [Claes] Oldenburg; Malcolm Morley; and Robert Morris.
Personal papers, Series III.
1898-2014, undated
Physical Description: 12.82 Linear Feet(35 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series III. Personal papers comprises Buchanan's personal correspondence with friends and family; calendars and journals that
document her social and professional engagements; and correspondence and photographs from both the paternal and maternal sides
of her family, the Ridenours and the Hinckleys, respectively. Also present are childhood drawings; documents related to Buchanan's
alma maters, the Laguna Beach High School and UCI; and a trove of intimate correspondence between Buchanan and her elder sister
Eleanor Fay Ridenour Crow (Kitty), with numerous doodles and drawings.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject and format.
box 82, folder 1
Bio-rhythm chart for Nancy Buchanan,
1978
Calendars,
1973-2012
Scope and Contents
Includes an assortment of datebooks, calendars, and faculty planners.
box 123, folder 1
Coloring and Comic,
undated
Scope and Contents
A handmade book by Buchanan of childhood drawings in pencil, crayon, and watercolor; with a typescript story,
The Fawn and the Duchess; and several graded school assignments in arithmetic and the language arts.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
Correspondence,
1964-2014
box 61, folder 2
Anthony, Florence,
1972-1973, 2010
Burdick, Janet and Scott Miller,
1981-1989, undated
box 61, folder 3
Papers,
1981-1989, undated
box 61, folder 4
Chavooshian, Nora,
1982-1988
box 61, folder 6
Hafif, Marcia,
1971-1977, 1992
Scope and Contents
Includes two bags of Hafif's own hair, sent by the artist to Buchanan, one with an accompanying note that reads: Dear Nancy
/ My hair is getting shorter. / M.
box 61, folder 8
Library of Congress,
1996-1997
box 61, folder 9
Los Angeles Free Press,
1967
Scope and Contents
Nancy Buchanan poem and response letters.
Peterfreund, Stuart,
1967-1997, undated
box 15, folder 6
Color prints,
1988, undated
Physical Description: 2 color prints
Rosler, Martha,
1983-1999
box 15, folder 7
Color prints,
1999
Physical Description: 4 color prints
box 62, folder 4
Serle, John and Jerry Palmer,
1964
Scope and Contents
Original folder label reads: Gave me 1st studio.
box 62, folder 5
Shapiro, Stephen,
1982-2001
box 62, folder 6
Silver, Anne (Lawrence),
1972-1973
Slavick, Susanne,
1984-2010, undated
box 62, folder 7
Papers,
1984-2010, undated
box 101, folder 13
Color prints,
1990, undated
Physical Description: 2 color prints
Taub, Dr. Abe and Cece,
1980-2002, undated
box 101, folder 14
Color prints,
1986, undated
Physical Description: 2 color prints
box 63, folder 3
Vandemarr, Lee,
1986-1992, undated
box 63, folder 4
Walker, Robert,
1971-1978
Assorted,
1965-2014, undated
box 63, folder 8-9
1980-1989
Scope and Contents
Includes an Eleanor Antin postcard from Eleanor Antin, postmarked 1983, in box 63, folder 8.
box 15, folder 8-9
Color prints from assorted correspondence,
1994, undated
Family,
1898-2010, undated
Scope and Contents
Primarily consists of correspondence by and photographs of Buchanan's family, including her parents Louis Nicot Ridenour,
Jr. and Gretchen Kraemer Ridenour. Also includes personal photographs of Buchanan from her childhood onward.
Bolger, Lilly and Joe,
1943-1946, undated
box 84, folder 3
Papers,
1943-1946, undated
box 87, folder 3
Black-and-white photographs,
undated
Buchanan, Nancy,
1954-1972, undated
box 94, folder 7
Black-and-white contact sheet,
undated
box 88, folder 1
Black-and-white prints,
1960-1963, undated
Physical Description: 72 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Primarily includes photographs of Buchanan from her youth, with some prints of Buchanan's son Page Buchanan, her high school
boyfriend Steve (Penguin) Heald, and her second husband Ransom Rideout. Includes one Polaroid throwaway peel apart.
box 15, folder 3
E. + N., etc., Brentwood,
1954-1955
Physical Description: 17 color slides
Scope and Contents
E and N are likely Eleanor (Kitty, Buchanan's sister) and Nancy.
box 21, folder 9
Bob Walker and Nancy Buchanan, Venice,
1972
Physical Description: 9 black-and-white transparencies
Scope and Contents
Original envelope reads: with Anne Silver / Baxter and Ariadne / Baxter's puppy pictures.
box 101, folder 21
Dinosaur + NB,
undated
Physical Description: 1 color slides
Physical Description: 1 color prints
Buchanan, Page,
1984-2010, undated
Scope and Contents
Nancy Buchanan's son.
box 84, folder 4-5
Papers,
1984-2010, undated
box 15, folder 9
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 9 color prints
Scope and Contents
School portrait photographs, mostly uncut.
box 88, folder 2, box 89, box 90
Hinckley family,
1907, 1927, undated
Physical Description: 386 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
The contents of box 88, folder 2 were originally housed in a photograph envelope dated January 26, 1984. An annotation on
the original housing for box 89 read: Clara Dean Hinckley (Clara Page) / Gretchen Hinckley Kraemer (youth) / William A. Kraemer
/ John Fay Hinckley / friends - Priscilla Beattie. Some photographs feature annotations in pencil on the verso.
Hodge family,
1986-2010, undated
box 84, folder 6
Papers,
1986-2010, undated
box 101, folder 2
Color prints,
1998-1999
Physical Description: 6 color prints
box 84, folder 7, box 85, folder 1
Kraemer, Clara (Mrs. W. A. Kraemer),
1902-1952, undated
Page, Edgar C. and Clara Hinckley,
1928-1929, undated
box 85, folder 2
Papers,
1928-1929, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes several black-and-white photographs.
box 103, folder 1
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes one cabinet card and one salted paper print.
Ridenour, Gretchen (Kraemer),
1928-1961, undated
box 85, folder 3
Papers,
1928-1961, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes black-and-white photographs.
box 87, folder 4
Black-and-white contact sheet strip,
undated
box 104, folder 1
Color negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 6 color negatives
box 103, folder 4
Ridenour, Arthur,
undated
Physical Description: 9 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Includes one cabinet card.
Ridenour, Leah, and Jacob Capaul,
1898-1963, undated
box 85, folder 4-5
Papers,
1898-1931, 1955-1963, undated
box 87, folder 5-7
Black-and-white prints,
1928-1963, undated
box 87, folder 7
Black-and-white transparencies,
1939
Ridenour, Louis N.,
1944, undated
Scope and Contents
Ridenour's papers, donated by Buchanan and her sister, Kitty, are held in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008060.
box 15, folder 5
Ardmore,
undated
Physical Description: 5 color prints
box 103, folder 3
Black-and-white transparencies,
undated
Physical Description: 33 black-and-white transparencies
box 15, folder 2
Color slides,
1944, undated
Physical Description: 21 color slides
Scope and Contents
Several slides are very dark, with images that are barely discernible. Original housing labeled: Daddy's slides / LNR - old
slides / Bottle Village. Most slide mounts have annotations in ink.
box 85, folder 6
Rideout, Ransom,
1974-1992, undated
Wylie, Wintersteen, Ridenour, Sr.,
1917-1968, undated
box 85, folder 7
Papers,
1947-1949, undated
box 87, folder 9
Black-and-white photographs,
1917, 1950-1961, undated
box 85, folder 8
Assorted family papers,
1913, 1953, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes empty envelopes, a typescript poem titled
El Paso, and a small pamphlet by Page Laboratories of Ventura, California titled
Solite: A New Approach Toward the Solution of Mud Problems.
Assorted family photographs,
1907-2002, undated
Black-and-white prints,
1907-1965, undated
box 103, folder 5, box 91, box 92
Unmounted,
1907-1965, undated
Physical Description: 373 black-and-white prints
box 104, folder 4
Color negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 32 color negatives
box 104, folder 5
Color prints,
1960-2000, undated
Physical Description: 88 color prints
box 104, folder 6
Color slides,
1975-2002, undated
Physical Description: 50 color slides
Scope and Contents
Two slides are unmounted.
box 83, folder 4
Finger paintings,
undated
box 82, folder 7
Jenkins, Connie and Tom,
1979-2005, undated
Journals,
1971-2013, undated
Scope and Contents
Journals and notebooks with journal entries, with newspaper clippings and assorted sketches in ink, graphite, colored pencil,
and watercolor throughout.
box 64, item 1
1971 January 25-1976 December 15
box 64, item 2
1976 December 27-1978 July 8
box 64, item 3
1978 August 13-1979 November 19
box 64, item 4
1980 January 7-1984 August 8
box 65, item 1
1981 April 18-1983 August 16
box 65, item 2
1983 August 20-1985 July 5
box 65, item 3
1984 January 8-1985 December 14
box 65, item 4
1985 September 13-1987 September 20
1987 January 21-1992 January 11
box 66, item 1
Journal,
1987 January 21-1992 January 11
box 101, folder 3
Color prints,
1983, undated
box 66, item 2
1990 November 7-2010 June 1
box 66, item 3
1991 February 12-1993 July 15
box 67, item 1
Journal,
1991 April 5-October 9
box 101, folder 4
Color prints,
1992, undated
Physical Description: 2 color prints
box 67, item 2
1993 February 24-1995 November 19
box 67, item 3
1996 February 17-1999 June 29
box 67, item 5
2000 June 15-2009 July 12
box 68, item 1
2001 October 14-2008 June 21
box 68, item 2
2004 July 26-2008 September 9
box 68, item 3
2010 December 20-2012 May 25
box 68, item 4
2011 January 4-2013 November 7
Kitty (Eleanor Ridenour Crow),
1973-1998, undated
Scope and Contents
Primarily consists of correspondence from Buchanan's elder sister, Eleanor Fay Ridenour Crow (Kitty) to Buchanan. Also includes
an ofrenda by Buchanan for her sister upon her passing in 2000, and some of Kitty's personal papers, including documents related
to her former husband, jazz musician Leroy Vinnegar.
box 72, folder 4
Color photograph,
1979
Scope and Contents
Annotation on verso: Me & my partner, Dennis / 1979.
Correspondence,
1973-1998, undated
With Nancy Buchanan,
1973-1998, undated
From Kitty to Nancy,
1973-1998, undated
box 70, folder 1
1990
Scope and Contents
Includes loose notebook pages with drawings in pencil, pastel, and watercolor.
box 70, folder 10
From Nancy to Kitty,
undated
box 72, folder 5-12
Color photographs from correspondence,
1984-1998, undated
Assorted,
1953, 1980-1996, undated
box 71, folder 1
Letters by Kitty,
1980, undated
box 71, folder 2
Letters to Kitty,
1983-1996, undated
box 71, folder 3
Unidentified,
1953, undated
box 71, folder 5
Health documents,
1979-1995, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes dream recall tally sheets and handwritten notes and drawings.
box 71, folder 6
Kitty Hodge, Psych. 51, Dr. Ludwig, journal,
1979-1983, undated
Scope and Contents
A notebook with handwritten notes on meditation, oracles, and dreams.
box 122, folder 1
Kitty's records,
1959-2000
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted until 2050.
box 21, folder 1
Leroy Vinnegar recording [sets?] and pictures for album,
undated
Physical Description: 17 black-and-white prints
box 82, folder 5
Leroy - album art,
undated
Ofrenda,
1994-2000, undated
box 100
Ofrenda,
2000
Scope and Contents
A small offering on cardboard featuring a wooden box with five worry dolls surrounded by a snake vertebra necklace and snakeskin,
with handwritten annotations in ink, a drop earring hanging below the wooden box, and a black-and-white image of Kitty in
her youth.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 72, folder 1
Big Bear,
2000 November
Scope and Contents
Color negatives and color prints.
box 72, folder 2
Art in the park,
2000 November 3
Scope and Contents
Color negatives and color prints.
box 72, folder 3
Kitty's altar,
2000 November 1
Scope and Contents
Color negatives.
box 71, folder 8
Papers,
1994, 2000, undated
box 82, folder 4
Laguna Beach High School 20 year reunion brochure, class of 1964,
1984
box 124*, folder 5
Laguna Beach High School poster,
undated
Scope and Contents
A poster for 3 one-act plays in the LBHS high school auditorium:
The Sandbox,
The Lesson,
and the Bald Soprano.
Love letters from Doug Wichert,
1982-2006, undated
box 82, folder 8-10
Papers,
1982-2006, undated
Scope and Contents
Letters, notes, and greeting cards to Buchanan from her husband.
box 86, folder 8
Color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 9 color prints
box 82, folder 11
NCC '85 Pioneer Day,
1985 July 17
Scope and Contents
National Computer Conference Pioneer Day program featuring an article on Buchanan's father, Louis Nicot Ridenour, Jr.
Notebooks,
1975-2000, undated
Old stuff / high school,
1958-1964
box 83, folder 1-3
Papers,
1958-1964, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes Buchanan's diploma of graduation from Laguna Beach High School, 1964.
box 122, folder 10
Restricted papers,
1967
Conditions Governing Access
Includes a 1967 wage and tax statement for work at Taco Bell. Access restricted until 2042.
Tamblyn, Christine,
1991, 1998-2001
box 86, folder 7
Color slides,
1991
Physical Description: 2 color slides
Black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 12 black-and-white prints
Black-and-white negatives,
undated
Physical Description: 24 black-and-white negatives
University of California, Irvine,
1965-1969, undated
box 82, folder 6
Binder of student work,
1967-1969, undated
Scope and Contents
Notes and writings by Nancy, including a blue book from a University of California, Irvine math course.
box 83, folder 5
Humanities newsletter, volume III, number 2,
1969 January
box 83, folder 6
Notebook: English 10,
undated
box 83, folder 7
Notebook: English 176 and Political Science 82,
undated
box 93, folder 5
Art 30A Sec.,
1969, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes the diploma from the University of California, Irvine, for Buchanan's bachelor of arts degree in Art.
box 95, folder 3
Indian Head,
1967
Scope and Contents
A University of California, Irvine student publication.
box 124*, folder 6
Voulger,
undated
Scope and Contents
The front cover reads in blue ink: Voulger / the magazine for sophisticated vampiresses in deadly color. With ink and colored
pencil drawings and descriptions of the "models" in blue ink.
Artwork and artists' books, Series IV.
1968-2015, undated
Physical Description: 15.00 Linear Feet(18 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series IV. consists of artworks and artists' books by Buchanan and by other artists. Works by Buchanan are primarily art objects,
with several works on paper and artist book projects. Works by Buchanan with clear correlations to specific projects have
been filed in Series I. Project files. The small artworks by other artists were either purchased by Buchanan, or, more commonly,
were given to her directly as gifts from the artists.
Nancy Buchanan, Series IV.A.
1975-1999, undated
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by project date, with undated items arranged alphabetically at the end of the subseries.
box 108
Mother,
1975
Scope and Contents
A precursor to a 10-volume artwork on the artist's family,
Fallout from the Nuclear Family (1980),
Mother is a clothbound book that comprises photocopies of the personal papers of Buchanan's mother, Gretchen Kraemer Ridenour, who
died when the artist was eighteen. Signed by Buchanan in pencil on inside front cover: Nancy Buchanan 1975.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 125*, folder 2
What kind of neighbors are we?,
1984
Scope and Contents
Signed in pencil at the bottom: 4/500 N. Buchanan 1984. Also at the bottom, in typescript: This poster funded by a grant from
Double X, a Los Angeles coalition of women in art. / Typeset by the Women's Graphic Center.
box 110
Freedom Chorale,
1985
Scope and Contents
Sheet music for a piece by Buchanan and Angelo Funicelli titled
Freedom Chorale, bound in oversize boards wrapped in a camouflage-patterned cloth.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 111
Sketchbook,
1999, undated
Scope and Contents
Small sketchbook of pencil drawings, with one page of handwritten notes dated March 29, 1999.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 112
Fortune cookies,
undated
Scope and Contents
Four fortune cookies, each with a typescript fortune that reads: These men work for you!
box 113
Breast mold,
undated
Scope and Contents
A wax breast mold with rubber cast.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted due to fragility; item is encapsulated and should only be opened by Getty Conservation staff.
box 126*
Camouflage costumes,
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes 5 camouflage costumes and a stack of paper bags printed with either a blue star or a red stripe, all of which feature
text printed in black on the verso: Comply / compliance / complicity / accomplice.
flatfile 1**, box 125*, folder 3
Drawing in ink, with prints,
undated
Scope and Contents
One drawing in ink and two black-and-white prints of interior domestic scenes with chairs, a couch, fireplace, chandelier,
and framed portraits, including one featuring two men, one with a gun drawn. Also includes two black-and-white transparencies
of the ink prints, taped behind yellow paper that is cut to reveal a portion of the transparencies.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 114
Driftwood and shells,
undated
Scope and Contents
A small piece of driftwood with dirt and seashells affixed to the top and wrapped in a paper towel.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 117
Happiness Helper,
undated
Scope and Contents
Features a sealed plastic bag that contains American flags on toothpicks, strips of colored styrofoam, packing peanuts, and
a figurine-sized pair of fabric pants. Bag labeled: Wonder Products / Useless Objects, Inc. / Happiness Helper.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 117
Marriage Machine,
undated
Scope and Contents
Features a sealed plastic bag that contains purple feathers, American flags on toothpicks, plastic cutlery, packing peanuts,
and a small plastic figurine in a yellow dress. Bag labeled: Wonder Products / Useless Objects, Inc. / Marriage Machine.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 125*, folder 4
Mother's Day posters,
undated
Scope and Contents
Oversize posters, some printed on foamcore and others in draft form with cut and pasted images and text.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 125*
Paper dolls and color prints,
undated
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
Scope and Contents
An oversize portfolio with paper dolls and furniture, some laminated, and two color prints that read: You've already won!
Other artists, Series IV.B.
1968-2015, undated
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by artist surname, and chronologically thereunder.
box 125*, folder 5
Agenda poster,
1988
Scope and Contents
Poster text reads: Steven D. Lavine / California Institute of the Arts / Inauguration / October 23, 1988. Accompanying typescript
card reads: This limited edition four-color poster, silkscreened on hand-made paper from Japan, and printed on both sides
of the paper, mixes transparent and opaque inks. The sunburst pattern represents the hope and future of the institute. The
multi-cultural symbols are from the nations around the world. Poster designed by CalArts faculty members Edward Fella, Jeffery
Keedy and Lorraine Wild who collaborate under the name
Agenda.
box 123, folder 3
Buchanan, Dennis,
George Washington: Cosmological Profile,
undated
Scope and Contents
Black-and-white geometric print.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 120
Cypis, Dorit,
On the Nature of Experience, part 2,
2002
Scope and Contents
A stapled packet with buttons pinned to the sheets and color diagrams that indicate how to arrange the buttons into flags.
box 99
The Great Tortilla Conspiracy, corn tortilla print,
circa 2015
Scope and Contents
A corn tortilla by the Bay Area artists' collective, The Great Tortilla Conspiracy, printed with edible ink that reads: Strangling
democracy worldwide: the invisible hand. The tortilla is in a box with a clear top featuring a sticker for the Great Toritlla
Conspiracy, with an additional sticker on the bottom from 2015 for the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
Conditions Governing Access
Access restricted pending conservation.
box 43, folder 1-2
Hafif, Marcia,
Notes on Bob and Nancy,
circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a script by Hafif for a film featuring Buchanan, the artist Robert Walker, and art critic Barbara Rose.
box 102
Hare, Sharon,
Quotes and Queries,
1976
Scope and Contents
Hardcover artist's book signed in blue ink by Hare on the copyright page: 7/76 For Nancy -Roni / 90/150.
box 43, folder 3
Hunter, Terryl,
For All This Time,
1981
Scope and Contents
A wrapper-bound limited edition book. Colophon reads: This book was handset in Eric Gill's Joanna type with ALbertus titles.
400 copies printed on Mohawk Superfine and bound in wrappers. 25 copies bound in boards. Design and presswork by Susan E.
King. This book was funded in part by the National Endwoment for the Arts, a federal agency.
box 43, folder 4
Lester, Janie,
Muggs' Postcard Collection,
1973
Scope and Contents
In pencil on the inside front cover: 21/40 Janice Marie Lester.
Myers, Kathryn,
1983-1984
box 43, folder 5
For An Unknown,
1983
Scope and Contents
Book includes three black-and-white prints mounted directly onto the book's pages. Colophon reads: This is the third book
of the Illusory Press formerly of Madison-Wisonsin now located in Columbus-Ohio. The poems loosely center upon the experience
of relocating and the passage from student to teacher. The type is old and soft but got the words on the page. It is News
Gothic printed on Rives in an edition of 17, give or take a few.
box 43, folder 6
The Pretense of Reason,
1984
Scope and Contents
An artist's book featuring black-and-white prints and text, signed in blue ink on the inside back cover: Kathryn Myers / May
25, 1984.
box 43, folder 7
Myers, Michael,
Wattle and Daub,
1979
Scope and Contents
Includes a print tucked into the front of the spiralbound book signed in red and green ink: Hello Nancy / March 1979 / M.M.
box 43, folder 8
Newton, Richard,
The Fall From Palisades Into the Age of Bristol,
1974 December
Scope and Contents
Signed in black ink by Newton on the inside front cover: For Nancy, who says yes and helps / love, Richard.
box 98, folder 3
Perkins, Michael, color prints,
undated
Physical Description: 2 color prints
Peterfreund, Stuart,
1968-1970, undated
box 43, folder 9
The Hanged Knife and Other Poems,
1970
Scope and Contents
With a dedication in ink on the inside front cover: To Nancy: This is as much your book as mine. In truth, you and Page and
the time we had really must claim a valid half-authorship. Love-now and always, Stuart 12/7/70. Also includes inserted typescript
and photocopied sheets for a poem titled
Reaching Out: For N. B.
box 43, folder 10
New Bag,
1968, undated
Scope and Contents
A book of poems dedicated to Buchanan, with typescript and handwritten sheets of poetry inserted. Signed in blue ink after
the title page: To Nancy with love / Stuart / May 23, 1968 / Laguna Beach.
box 43, folder 11
Pinataro, Jean,
Names Have Been Changed To Protect the Guilty,
1989
Scope and Contents
An accordion-style book signed by the author in black ink on the verso of the front cover.
Rachel, Vaughan,
1972-2015, undated
box 94, folder 6
Black-and-white prints,
1972, 2015, undated
box 20, folder 3
Black-and-white contact sheets,
circa 1976
Physical Description: 6 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
In an envelope postmarked May 23, 1977 addressed to Ms. Vaughan Kaprow. Handwritten annotations on the envelope read: for
Nancy + Ransom / photos of wk on 622 Dimmick 1976.
box 43, folder 12
Rosler, Martha,
Tijuana Maid & A New-Found Career (1976),
1976-1977, undated
Scope and Contents
Postcards, primarily typescript, in Spanish and English, some featuring recipes. Also includes two black-and-white print holiday
cards.
box 43, folder 13
Simpson, Sylvia Salazar, black-and-white prints,
undated
Physical Description: 19 black-and-white prints
Scope and Contents
Prints housed in a white folder with Simpson's full name printed in red on the front cover.
box 93, folder 7
Smith, Barbara T.,
Nancy and Ransom,
1974 December 23
Scope and Contents
A folder of materials by Barbara T. Smith in honor of Nancy Buchanan and Ransom Rideout's wedding, with twelve black-and-white
prints. Also includes the couple's marriage certificate from the State of California, signed in red ink by friends and family.
On the inside right folder flap is a sticker that reads: Love, Barbara.
box 43, folder 14
Titus, Ann M.,
Windows and Doors,
1996
Scope and Contents
A suite of cards in a limited edition of 10. First card signed in ink by the artist and dated 3/26/96.
Audiovisual and digital materials, Series V.
1979-2007, undated
Physical Description: 3.89 Linear Feet(12 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series V. contains audiovisual and digital materials that do not have a clear or unique correlation to materials found elsewhere
in the collection. Upon reformatting of the items in this series, items may be integrated into another series based on content.
The bulk of the series consists of sound and video recordings, including audiocassettes, audiotape reels, film reels, and
videocassettes; digital materials include DVDs and appear to be primarily compilations of Buchanan's assorted video art works,
with one compilation of her performances
Please Sing Along and
Tar Baby. See also Series I. Project files for more on those performances.
Conditions Governing Access
Born digital content and audiovisual materials are unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Arrangement
Arranged by format.
Audiocassettes,
1981-1985, undated
box 45, item C3
Three Tapes [Hi-Tech Ventriloquism],
1981
Scope and Contents
Labeled: 1. Reagan speaks for himself excerpts from "Tomorrow Show" / 2. Chuck & Rona / 3. Childhood Stars. Copyright 1981
Doug Kahn.
1 audiocassette (24 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, mono ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
box 45, item C5
The National Computer Conference, Chicago, Illinois,
1985
Scope and Contents
Buchanan's father, Louis N. Ridenour, was honored as part of "Pioneer Day: The First Generation in Illinois: The Impact, 1954-Present."
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 45, item C10
A Beat 5/19, uprising discussion,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 45, item C11
BCCI, research,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 45, item C12
California songs,
undated
Scope and Contents
Side A labeled: Selected by Lisa Brennlis (?), Kassandra Woodring (?). Side B labeled: KJAZ.
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 45, item C13
Interview with J. Katz,
undated
Scope and Contents
Side 1 labeled: Interview with J. Katz. Side 2 labeled: Katz after trial of piece.
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 45, item C14
Interview with Jaime F.,
undated
Scope and Contents
Side A labeled: Sound effects. Side B labeled: Int. with Jaime F.
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Audiotape reels,
1979-1984, undated
box 48, item R12
Social art interview with Lee Whitten / preach/blues,
1979 September 16
Scope and Contents
Possibly part of the
Social Works exhibition curated by Buchanan at the Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art—see materials in Series II.B. Professional
files: Teaching and collaboration. Note on the original housing reads: 19. Original housing labeled: social works - 1-2 /
2-punk rock / a / b I am a doll / c.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 49, item R13
Parallel Fantasies,
1980 March 29-April 2
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 12. Original housing labeled: Charlotte Lansberg 3/29/80 / A Musical Fable 4/2/80.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Beatles/Lennon,
1980, undated
box 49, item R15
Interviews regarding war,
1980 December
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 23. Reel labeled: Lennon/Ono interview 12/80 / Rans-clock-Lennon (?) / R. Nelson.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 49, item R16
Beatles/Lennon,
1980 December 14
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 3. Labeled: 1. D. Healy, L. Weinglas on Iran, Reggae beat 7/13/80. / 2. Reggae beat, KIOW
(?) country 7/13/80.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 49, item R17
Lennon/Beatles, off-air radio,
undated
Scope and Contents
Labeled: Master for endless - plus 4-tr. Exper. Note on the original housing reads: 11.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 49, item R20
Technology - Music/Chamberlain,
1983
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 49, item R21
Kathryn McMahon, Walter Benjamin, C. Hatch,
1984 April
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 27.
1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 50, item R27
"3-75,"
undated
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 16? / 3-75. Reel labeled: 1-75.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 50, item R28
Assorted outs to re-use, Motown 1 side,
undated
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 18.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 50, item R29
Do You Know What I Mean,
undated
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 14. Artist inventory reads: Music for video comp A. Funicelli.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 50, item R30
Nancy Buchanan and Angelo Funicelli interview,
undated
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 24. Interview conducted by Jacki Apple.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 52, item R40
Nancy Buchanan, art department,
undated
Scope and Contents
Labeled: Nancy Buchanan / art dept - 262-1660.
1 audiotape reel (60 min.) : analog, 15 ips, stereo. ; 10.5 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference
for reformatting.
box 50, item R31
Rejects,
undated
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 1. Reel labeled: Raul; students; Chrissy; Aleida; stripper-blank / 1. Raoul 2. students
3. stripper (?) Aleia / Robbin Aaron outs.
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 53, item R41
Audiotape reel
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 10.5 in., 1 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 73, folder 2
Document inside original housing
Scope and Contents
Recording sheet from Max Sound, 867 East Walton Street, Long Beach, California 90806.
box 50, item R33
Tech tape,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 50, item R34
Technology interviews,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 50, item R35
Unidentified reel,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 50, item R36
Unidentified reel,
undated
Scope and Contents
Note on the original housing reads: 28?
1 audiotape reel : analog ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
DVDs,
circa 2003-2007, undated
box 39, item CM3
Nancy Buchanan,
Please Sing Along /
Tar Baby,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM3 contains: 10 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data files,
Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset), a Thumbs DB file, a Cue Sheet, and an MD5 file. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
box 39, item CM4
N. Buchanan / single channel wk,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM4 contains: 22 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data files,
Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset), a Cue Sheet, and an MD5 file. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 39, item CM5
Nancy Buchanan works,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM5 contains: 12 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data files,
Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset), a Cue Sheet, and an MD5 file. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 39, item CM6
Dark real (?),
undated
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM6 contains: 26 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data files,
Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset), a Cue Sheet, a Plain Text File, A Comma Separated Values file, and an ISO Disk Image File.
Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 39, item CM7
Selected video / N. Buchanan,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM7 contains: 43 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data files,
Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset), ISO Disk Image Files, and Plain Text Files. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference
for reformatting.
box 39, item CM8
N. Buchanan play copy,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM8 contains: 21 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data files,
Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset), a Cue Sheet, an MD5 File, and an ISO Disk Image File. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
box 39, item CM9
Nancy Buchanan video installations,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM9 contains: 11 files. File types include: DVD data files and backup data files,
Video Object Files (MPEG-2 subset), a Cue Sheet, and an MD5 File. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 39
Nancy Buchanan Recent Work,
circa 2003
Scope and Contents
Empty DVD case.
box 39, item DVD2
Touched: Artists & Social Engagement,
2007
Scope and Contents
Published as part of a group exhibition at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California that included Buchanan.
Conditions Governing Access
Not available due to rights restrictions. Contact the repository for information regarding access.
Film reels,
1984, undated
box 54, item F5
Unidentified,
1984
Unidentified (digitized version available on-site only): 1984
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
Originally housed in Yale Laboratories envelope dated August 6, 1984.
box 54, item F6
Unidentified,
1984
Unidentified (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
Originally housed in Yale Laboratories envelope dated August 6, 1984.
box 54, item F7
#1 NY Ransom (?),
undated
#1 NY Ransom (?) (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 54, item F8
E-89 original,
undated
E-89 original (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 54, item F9-F10
Haircut,
undated
Haircut (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
2 film reels : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 54, item F11
Life in the Islands / Dan Barber (?),
undated
Life in the Islands / Dan Barber (?) (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 54, item F12
Mouse outs #1,
undated
Mouse outs #1 (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 55, item F13
Mouse outs #4,
undated
Mouse outs #4 (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 55, item F14
Print,
undated
Print (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 55, item F15-F16
Unidentified,
undated
Unidentified (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
2 film reels : silent ; super 8 mm.
box 121, item F17
Unidentified,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 film reel : silent ; 16 mm. A partially obscured annotation on the original housing reads: L. N. Ridenour / Mass.
Videocassettes,
1993-1998, undated
Imperial Courts workshops, originals,
1993, undated
box 46, item V1
Jordon Down, one,
1993 March 14
Imperial courts workshops, originals: Jordon Down, one (digitized version available on-site only): 1993 March 14
Scope and Contents
Labeled: Imp. Courts 3/14. Has some of Juan's stuff? Amer-I-Can info. Copied to 3/4 inch.
1 videocassette (Kodak Metal P6-120MP) : 8mm.
box 46, item V2
Jordan Downs, Juan [illegible], two,
1993
Imperial courts workshops, originals: Jordan Downs, Juan [illegible], two (digitized version available on-site only): 1993
Scope and Contents
Labeled: 2:30 - symptom of …. truce - unity / 3:04 - changes re: police / 4:55 - Charles (youth) / 5:00 - barriers broken;
meetings / 7:51 - need for employment / 8:14 - re: factory / 9:19 Juan - socioeconomic problems / 9:37 - self-determination
/ 10:36 - playmate - create own jobs / 11:34 - majority lease / 12 - nothing worthwhile is easy / 12:37 - positive contribution
/ 12:50 - Eric Rebus (youth) / 13:25 - Playmate: no gang-banging.
1 videocassette (Sony Video 8 Metal MP120) : 8mm.
box 46, item V3
Perry [illegible], three,
1993 March 14-21
Scope and Contents
Labeled: Imp. Courts 3/14; 3/21.
1 videocassette (Sony Video 8 MP120) : 8mm. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 46, item V4
Imperial Courts, four,
1993 March 14-21
Imperial courts, four (digitized version available on-site only): 1993 March 14-21
Scope and Contents
Labeled: to 27:00 - practice interview / 27-29 - retrace - outdoors / 30 - basketball / 36 - murals / 41:21 - sign.
1 videocassette (Supertape HG-120) : 8mm.
box 46, item V5
Imperial Courts, five,
1993 March 14
Imperial courts, five (digitized version available on-site only): 1993 March 14
Scope and Contents
Labeled: to 3:31 - first day setups, blank* / to 20:07 - outside practice - Andrew, Kevin - prison shots, art freeze samples
/ copied to 3/4 inch - DUB1.
1 videocassette (Sony Hi8 Metal P120) : 8mm.
box 46, item V6
T. M. interview, six,
1993 March 28-April 4
Imperial courts workshops, originals: T. M. interview, six (digitized version available on-site only): 1993 March 28-April
4
Scope and Contents
Labeled: 3/28/93 interview T.M. / 28:00 - Round table / 1:00:00 - Kevin at Nickerson / 27 - reactions /discuss RT / 1:08:44
- Kevin and Dante / 1:10:00 - Kevin and Emanuel.
1 videocassette (Sony Hi8 Metal P120) : 8mm.
box 46, item V7
Imperial Courts, seven,
1993 March 14-April 4
Scope and Contents
"4/4 - Nickerson with Kevin 3/28/92 / 00-27:03 - Int with Tony re: truce / 27:04 - 4/4 - Nickerson gardens cam: Juan; Int.:
Kevin."
1 videocassette (Sony Video 8 Metal MP120) : 8mm. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 46, item V8
San Diego Imperial Courts workshop eight,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 videocassette (Supertape HG-120) : 8mm. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 46, item V9
Ten,
1993 April 18
Scope and Contents
Labeled: Andre - re-use / RXNS to tape viewing.
1 videocassette (Sony Video 8 Metal MP120) : 8mm. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 47, item V11
"Watts Up" master,
1993 May
Imperial courts workshops, originals: Watts Up, master (digitized version available on-site only): 1993 May
Scope and Contents
Cassette labeled: Imperial courts - cap / Spring 1993.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP Ampex) (25 min.) : 1/2 in.
box 47, item V13
Sample computer session: devel. master,
undated
Sample computer session: devel. master (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
Cassette labeled: Developing: Sample session w/ computer, master.
1 videocassette (Fuji M321SP Betacam SP) : 1/2 in.
Possibly related to Buchanan's project,
Developing: The Idea of Home (1999). See also Series I. Project files.
box 47, item V15
Fem video,
1997-1998, undated
Scope and Contents
Cassette labeled: Nancy A. copy / on joining order. / Buchanan class 2000 #3. Original housing labeled: 1) Nancy Angelo -
on joining the order, 1997 - 8' to 8:25 / 2) 1:08:30 C. Maughan - thank you.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) : 1/2 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 47, item V16
House Fly master,
circa 1998
House Fly master (digitized version available on-site only): circa 1998
Scope and Contents
Cassette labeled: N. Buchanan (323)255-1046 / mast. House Fly. Original housing labeled: Master - 2:15 House Fly [show st
@ 1:05:15:00 / 1:05:15:00-1:07:30:00.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) : 1/2 in.
box 47, item V17
Tea for 2000 / Kirsten Dutour (?) (3 loop) PAL,
undated
Tea for 2000 / Kirsten Dutour (?) (3 loop) PAL (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
1 videocassette (VHS) : 1/2 in.
box 47, item V18
Compilation tape,
undated
Scope and Contents
Cassette and original housing labeled: 1. Housefly / 2. California Stories / 3. Fragment / 4. Sight Lines / 5. Tech - Knowledge
/ 6. The Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction. Includes note that reads: 1:15:59:00 / Sightlines.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) : 1/2 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
