Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Penhallow, Michael and San Francisco Artspace
- Extent:
- 13 Linear Feet (25 manuscript boxes, two flat boxes, and three map folders) and 0.01 gigabyte(s) 11 3.5" floppies, 2 5.25" floppies.
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] San Francisco Artspace collection, M2566, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The San Francisco Artspace collection consists of correspondence, exhibition catalogs, flyers, booklets, photographs, slides, newspaper clippings, publications, copies of books published by Artspace and other materials.
A substantial portion of the collection consists of the working files and drafts for Shift Magazine. Another portion of the collection combosed of artists' files withof newspaper clippings, exhibition catalogs and flyers, photographs, and correspondence relating to individual artists. There is also information about the writing, video, painting and sculpture grants that Artspace awarded.
- Biographical / historical:
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San Francisco Artspace was a non-profit art gallery and video production facility founded by Anne MacDonald in 1986. Artspace worked with artists and writers to host exhibitions and to produce artworks, films, and books. Artspace Books, which later moved to New York, published books as well as Shift, an arts and literary quarterly magazine.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- art museums
- Names:
- Penhallow, Michael
- Places:
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- History.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Digital files are closed until processed.
- Terms of access:
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While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] San Francisco Artspace collection, M2566, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022