Acquisition
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents
Processing Information
Related Materials
Separated Materials note
Preferred Citation
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Rick Herold photographs and papers
creator:
Herold, Rick (Richard)
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2013-025
Physical Description:
4.2 Linear Feet
1 archive carton, 2 clamshell binders, 1 flat archive box
Date (inclusive): 1959-2011
Abstract: Photographs and papers by and about professional artist, author, and teacher Rick Herold. Herold used a variety of media and
techniques including painting, reverse painting on plastic, neon, sculpture, performance art, and tattooing. Many of his works
dealt with the relationship of the erotic and the spiritual.
Acquisition
Donated by Rick Herold on July 9, 2011.
Biographical/Historical note
Richard (Rick) Herold was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1941, served in the Navy, and attended the Acadamie Julian in Paris,
St. John's University in Minnesota, Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
In California, he launched an art magazine while studying architectural arts at Otis and was the official Los Angeles County
portrait painter from 1968-1970. Herold worked as a teacher at Pierce College and Los Angeles Junior Colleges before turning
the Zephyr Theatre into a studio and center for art happenings, theater, and Esalen group events.
A published author of erotica including
The Naked Artist, Rick Herold is best known as a professional artist. His work has been shown at many venues including the Orlando and Molly
Barnes galleries in Los Angeles, the Zara Gallery in San Francisco, and in museum collections in Missouri, Colorado, and Oregon.
Rick Herold used a variety of media and techniques including painting, reverse painting on plastic, neon, sculpture and tattooing.
His artworks commonly dealt with the relationship of the erotic and the spiritual, drawing upon his interests in theology,
fine art, Asian mandalas, and East Indian Tantric tankas. Herold was also interested in tribal and folk art which he incorporated
into his tattoo designs and paintings. His work in tattoo art was documented in
Tattoo, a film collaboration with Michael McCullough.
On his website (http://rickherold.com/, accessed in 2013), Herold discusses notable events in his artistic career, including
a commission by Bob Hope to create
Stations of the Cross in Cleveland, and his thirty-year retrospective exhibition at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in 2003.
Scope and Contents
Photographic prints, negatives, 35mm slides, Herold-designed notecards and calendar, an advance copy of
The Naked Artist (a book illustrated and written by Herold), assorted periodicals with Herold interviews, reviews, gallery ephemera, promotional
materials, and papers documenting Rick Herold's history as an artist.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Jeff Snapp, 2013.
Related Materials
Rick Herold artworks catalogued in the ONE art collection
ART2381
Bob Ekert [Enamel on Plexiglas]
ART2198
Unknown (buttocks of nude male hunched over) [Ink on paper]
ART2043
Male Nude [Painting - acrylic on vinyl mounted on canvas]
ART2064
Abstract Fold [Painting - acrylic on plexiglas]
9AR0002
Samson DeBrer [Painting on Plexiglass]
ART2142
John Parker (aka Buddah John) [Painting on Plexiglass box]
Separated Materials note
Posters separated into the ONE poster collection
Molly Barnes Gallery, "In the Garden of Earthly Delights"
Orlando Gallery, "Portrait Paintings Revealing Human Auras & Astral Colors" (signed copy)
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder #, or item name] Rick Herold Photographs and Papers, Coll2013.025, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gay artists
Gay erotic literature
Gay erotic art
Performance art -- United States
Gays -- Exhibitions
Homosexuality and art -- United States -- California
Herold, Rick (Richard)