Finding aid for the Eric Orr documentary photographs and papers, 1959-2012, undated 2017.M.13
Sarah Mackenzie Wade
Special Collections
2020
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Eric Orr documentary photographs and papers
Creator: Orr, Eric, 1939-1998
source: Orr, Elizabeth, 1984-
Identifier/Call Number: 2017.M.13
Physical Description: 24.06 Linear Feet(37 boxes, 2 boxed-rolls, 19 flatfile folders. Computer media: 10.90 GB [195 files])
Date (inclusive): 1959-2012, undated
Abstract: The Eric Orr papers consist primarily of photographic prints, slides, transparencies, and negatives that document the Light
and Space movement artist's paintings, sculptures, and public fountains. Also present are schematic drawings and plans for
Orr's public works and ephemera, clippings, and administrative files that detail Orr's life and practice.
Physical Location: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the
catalog record for this collection. Click here for the
access policy .
Language of Material: Collection material is in English.
Arrangement
Arranged in three series:Series I. Documentary photographs, 1964-2001, undated;
Series II. Schematic drawings, 1987-2001, undated;
Series III. Papers, 1959-2012, undated.
Biographical / Historical
Eric Orr was a key figure in the Light and Space movement in Southern California. Born in 1939 in Covington, Kentucky, Orr
graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute in 1958 and spent his early years traveling across the United States and Cuba.
He briefly attended the University of Cincinnati in the early 1960s, where he produced his first sculpture,
Colt .45, a work later known as
Saturday Night Special. The work featured a mounted pistol facing a chair; viewers could sit and control the pistol via a foot pedal.
Orr participated in civil rights protests in Mississippi in 1964 before relocating to Los Angeles in 1965, where he began
to produce performances, sound art, and perceptual installations, using the elemental qualities of silence, sound, darkness,
and light as material. Among these works was
Zero Mass (1972-1973), an immersive 38-foot-long installation made of paper, where up to five people could enter a dark oval chamber
and, after 10 to 12 minutes, experience altered vision from the lack of spatial perception.
Developing alongside both Southern California conceptual art and the perceptual-based installations commonly associated with
Light and Space art, Orr's work spanned a variety of artistic practices that challenged the definition of artmaking while
also incorporating a broad range of cultural references, including space icons found in ancient religions and cultures, Egyptian
symbolism, and Buddhist spiritualism.
From the 1970s onward, Orr created a diverse body of atmospheric monochrome paintings using airbrushing and oil paint, wall-mounted
sculptures, and public artworks which incorporated a variety of elements including fire, water, gold, volcanic ash, meteorite
dust, and his own blood.
Orr participated in a number of international exhibitions during his life, including documenta VII (1982), the Sydney Biennale
(1986), and the Venice Biennale (1986). His work can be found in many public and private collections, including the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Orr died in Venice, California, in 1998.
Sources consulted:
Eric Orr (1939-1998): A Survey of Works. Santa Monica, CA: Robert Berman Gallery, [2007].
Eric Orr: Time's Shadow. New York, NY: Scott Hanson Gallery, 1987.
Eric Orr: A Twenty Year Survey. San Diego, CA: University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, 1984.
Phillips, Glenn. Acquisition Approval Form for "Eric Orr (American, 1939-1998), archive, c. 1959-1998, accession no. 2017.M.13,"
September 10, 2019.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, with the exception of box 13, folder 11, which is unavailable pending conservation
treatment. Born digital content will be made available on-site only, through the digital preservation repository. Born digital
content and audiovisual materials unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Publication Rights
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of The Estate of Eric Orr. Acquired in 2017.
Preferred Citation
Eric Orr papers and documentary photographs, 1959-2012, undated, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no.
2017.M.13.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2017m13
Processing Information
Sarah Mackenzie Wade processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in 2019.
Digital materials were processed by Laura Schroffel in 2019. Files require further processing before access copies can be
made available.
Scope and Content of Collection
The archive consists primarily of photographic prints, slides, transparencies, and negatives that document the artist's paintings,
sculptures, and public fountains from the 1970s to the 1990s. Also present are schematic drawings for Orr's public works projects
and their sites. To a lesser extent, the archive includes papers that detail Orr's practice, with notes that relate to installation
plans and project proposals, ephemera that pertains to exhibitions of Orr's work, typescript accounts of Orr's friendship
with artist James Lee Byars, and transcripts of interviews conducted by the artist's daughter Elizabeth for her documentary,
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Work of Eric Orr.
Related Materials
Elizabeth Orr
Crazy Wisdom documentary on Eric Orr, 2011, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2015.M.26.
Giuseppe Panza papers, 1956-1990, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 940004.
Hal Glicksman papers, 1927-2010, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2009.M.5.
Several publications have been transferred to the Getty Research Library's general collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art, American -- California -- 20th century
Artists -- Archives
Light and space (Art movement)
Light art -- California, Southern
Space (Art)
Black-and-white photographs -- 20th century
Blueprints (reprographic copies) -- 20th century
Born digital
Color photographs -- 20th century
Color transparencies -- 20th century
Compact discs -- 20th century
Diffusion transfer prints -- 20th century
DVDs -- 20th century
Negatives (Photographs) -- 20th century
Photographs, Original.
Printed ephemera -- 20th century
Slides (photographs) -- 20th century
Orr, Eric, 1939-1998
Orr, Elizabeth, 1984-
Documentary photographs, Series I.
1964-2001, undated
Physical Description: 6.19 Linear Feet(27 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series I. constitutes the bulk of the collection, with photographic materials that document the range of Orr's practice. The
artist's paintings, sculptures, and installations are primarily represented by color slides, prints, and negatives, but the
series also includes black-and-white prints, negatives, and contact sheets. Images in Series I.A. and Series I.B. predominantly
feature individual works; images in Series I.C. consist of exhibition installation shots that include multiple works. Also
present are photographs of Orr working and candid images of Orr with assorted people, found in Series I.D.
Arrangement
Arranged in five topical subseries (Series I.A. Paintings; Series I.B. Sculpture and installations; Series I.C. Exhibitions
and sites; Series I.D. People; Series I.E. Miscellaneous) and chronologically thereunder, with undated works at the end of
each subseries. Unidentified works are arranged alongside identified works, according to date.
Processing Information
The bulk of the photographic materials were originally housed loose in unlabeled photo boxes and envelopes in no discernible
order. A small portion of the photographs were originally housed in unlabeled binders, also with no discnernible order. The
archivist arranged all photographs according to subject and chronologically thereunder. Original binders that included both
photographic materials and paper documents are described in Series III. Papers.
Paintings, Series I.A.
1974-2001, undated
Physical Description: 1.72 Linear Feet(9 boxes)
Box 1, Folder 1
Unidentified,
1974
Scope and Contents
Six color slides.
Box 1, Folder 1
Unidentified,
1979
Scope and Contents
Ten color slides.
Box 1, Folder 2
Green Atmosphere,
1980
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 1, Folder 2
Zaire,
1980
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 1, Folder 2
Alice series,
1981
Scope and Contents
Seven color slides.
Box 1, Folder 2
Archaeology of Painting,
1981
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 1, Folder 3
Ba-Ka,
1981
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 3
Blood Shadow,
1981
Scope and Contents
Seven color slides. Identified as
Blood Meteorite on some slide mounts.
Box 1, folder 4
Radio,
1981
Scope and Contents
Three color slides and two color transparencies.
Box 1, Folder 5
Silence and the Gold Sky,
1981
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 5
Time Shadow,
1981
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 5
Zaire,
1981
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 5
#9,
1982
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 6
Crazy Wisdom,
1982
Scope and Contents
Six color slides.
Box 1, Folder 6
Crazy Wisdom II,
1982
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 7
Extasis,
1982
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 1, Folder 7
Mu-2,
1982
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 7
Mu #3,
1982
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 1, Folder 7
R-2 (revised),
1982
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 8
Coincidence,
1983
Scope and Contents
Fourteen color slides.
Box 1, Folder 9
Manas,
1983
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 9
Mu #7,
1983
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 9
Prime #5,
1983
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 10
Prime Numbers #2,
1983
Scope and Contents
Ten color slides.
Box 1, Folder 10
Prime Numbers #7,
1983
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 10
The Newquist Doors,
1983
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 1, folder 11
Transmutation Gold,
1983
Scope and Contents
One color print, two color slides, and three color transparencies.
Box 1, Folder 12
Transmutation Green,
1983
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, folder 12
Without Red,
1983
Scope and Contents
Two color slides and one color transparency.
Box 1, Folder 12
Without Red (Blue),
1983
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 12
Unidentified,
1983
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 12
Always Everywhere,
1984
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 1, Folder 13
Elizabeth's Pink,
1984
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 1, Folder 13
How Some Ever,
1984
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 13
Prime Numbers #11,
1984
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 13
Sino-American,
1984
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 13
Torn Time,
1984
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 14
Uaho,
1984
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 14
What's Not Known,
1984
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 1, Folder 14
Aftermath Green,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 14
Aftermath Red,
1985
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 1, Folder 14
Blind Window,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 15
Blue Gate,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 15
Blue Horizon,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 15
Domus I,
1985
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 1, Folder 15
Edge of Light,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 1, Folder 15
Ice,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 1
…Killing Me...,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 1
Ocean of Time series #4,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 1
Ocean of Time #5,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 1
Ocean of Time series #6,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 1
One Plus One Equals One,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 2
Passage,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 2
Prior,
1985
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 2, Folder 2
Red Singularity,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 2, Folder 2
Sakkara #5,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 2
The Lund Eight,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 2
Threshold A/A (Diptych),
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 3
Threshold 3,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 3
Untitled,
1985
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 2, Folder 3
Unidentified,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 3
Crack in Time,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 4
Crazy Wisdom,
1986
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 2, folder 4
Edge of Light,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide and one color transparency.
Box 2, folder 4
Green #9,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide and one color transparency.
Box 2, Folder 4
Jarpur,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 4
Like a Dance the Dark Skinned Man Worked the Semi-Manual Device Firm Earth Above Alex,
1986
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 2, Folder 5
Mu 9,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 5
Night Shift #2,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, folder 5
Questa #3,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide and one color transparency.
Box 2, Folder 5
Radio X,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 5
Radio XX Red,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 6
September,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 6
This Side of Time,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 6
You Are Killing Me and I Don't Even Know Your Name,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 6
Blue Eclyptic,
1987
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 2, Folder 6
Blue Time Window #15,
1987
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 2, Folder 7
Blue Void #3,
1987
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 2, Folder 7
Druid Wight,
1987
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 2, Folder 7
Ganz series, I,
1987
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 7
Night Shift #33,
1987
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 2, Folder 7
Oceans of Time #5,
1987
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 8
Oceans of Time #19,
1987
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 2, Folder 8
Radio Play #5,
1987
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, folder 8
Radio Play #6,
1987
Scope and Contents
Two color slides and one color transparency.
Box 2, Folder 8
Radio Play #8,
1987
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 2, Folder 8
Red Eclyptic,
1987
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 9
The Other Side of Green,
1987
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 2, Folder 9
This Has Nothing To Do With Doors,
1987
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 9
Three Out of Three,
1987
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 2, Folder 9
Time Fall,
1987
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 2, Folder 9
Without Blue 5,
1987
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 2, Folder 10
Unidentified,
1987
Scope and Contents
Five color slides.
Box 2, Folder 10
A Dark Light,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 2, Folder 10
Ajunta #2,
1988
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 2, Folder 10
Black Void #3,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 2, Folder 10
Blue Ecliptic 3,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 10
Blue Light,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 11
Dark Light #3,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 11
Dark Light #4,
1988
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 2, Folder 11
Dark Light #18,
1988
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 2, Folder 11
Edge of Light,
1988
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 2, folder 11
Edge of Red,
1988
Scope and Contents
Three color slides and one color Polaroid.
Box 2, Folder 11
Gavina I,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, folder 12
Gavina 3,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid and one color slide.
Box 2, Folder 12
Green Passage,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 12
Green Transformation,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 12
Green Void,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 2, Folder 12
House of Nines,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 3, Folder 1
Ocean of Time,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 1
Outside of Time,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 1
Pagans,
1988
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 3, folder 1
Radio Play,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid and one color print.
Box 3, folder 1
Rune,
1988
Scope and Contents
Two color slides and four color transparencies.
Box 3, Folder 2
Saqqara Door,
1988
Scope and Contents
Two color transparencies.
Box 3, Folder 2
The Other Side of Time,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 2
This Has Nothing To Do With Fire,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, folder 2
Time Shadow,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid and one color slide.
Box 3, Folder 2
Time Well,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 3
9 x 9,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 3, Folder 3
AT52,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 3, Folder 3
Being Made of Light,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 3
Black Void #2,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 3
Blind Window,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 3, Folder 3
Blue Event,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 4
Blue Infinity,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 3, Folder 4
Dark Light 7,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 3, Folder 5
Dark Light 10,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 5
Dark Light 11,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 5
Dark Time,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 6
Double,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 6
Myriad Oceans of Time,
1989
Scope and Contents
Two color transparencies.
Box 3, Folder 6
Penumbra,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 7
Questa #3,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 3, Folder 7
Red Field,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 3, Folder 8
Red Fugitive,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 3, Folder 9
The Other Side of Red,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 3, folder 10
Untitled,
1990
Scope and Contents
Six color prints and two color transparencies.
Box 3, folder 11
Untitled,
1992
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid and four color slides.
Box 3, Folder 11
Marin Red Void,
1996
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 3, Folder 11
Blue Atmosphere,
1998
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 3, Folder 11
Blue Is the Most Fugitive Color,
1998
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 3, Folder 11
Three Ways,
1998
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 3, Folder 12
Unidentified,
2001
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 3, Folder 13
Above and Below,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 13
After Green,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 3, Folder 14
Ajunta,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 3, Folder 14
Angel,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 3, Folder 14
Angel Alex,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 4, folder 1
Blind Window,
undated
Scope and Contents
One black-and-white print; one black-and-white transparency; one color negative; one color Polaroid; six color prints; and
two color transparencies.
Box 4, Folder 2
Blue Ecliptic #3,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 2
Blue Infinity,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 2
Blue Light,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 3
Blue Shift,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color print.
Box 4, Folder 3
Blue to Red,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, folder 4
Blue Void,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid and eight color prints.
Box 4, Folder 5
Cold Fusion,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 6
Crazy Wisdom,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color Polaroids.
Box 4, Folder 7
Crazy Wisdom II,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color Polaroids.
Box 4, Folder 8
Crazy Wisdom A,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color Polaroids.
Box 4, Folder 9
Cygnus,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 9
Dark Event Horizon,
undated
Scope and Contents
Five color slides.
Box 4, Folder 9
Dark Light A,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 9
Dark Light AAA,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 10
Dark Side,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 4, Folder 11
Edge of Blue Finn,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 11
Edge of Time,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 4, Folder 11
Event Horizon A,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, folder 11
From the Other Side,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid and six color slides.
Box 4, Folder 12
Gavina I,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 12
Gavina #2,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 12
Green Transformation,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 13
Green Void,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 14
Hallograms,
undated
Scope and Contents
Sixteen color slides.
Box 4, Folder 14
Heavy Water,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 4, Folder 13
Helsinki 9,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 15
Heroclites,
undated
Scope and Contents
Five color slides.
Box 4, Folder 15
How Many Miles Across the Universe,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 4, Folder 16
Jaipur,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color prints.
Box 4, Folder 15
Learning to Work with Gravity,
undated
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 4, Folder 15
Myriad Oceans of Time,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 4, Folder 17
Mu #9,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color Polaroids.
Box 4, Folder 17
Myriad Ocean of Time III,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 4, Folder 18
Niagara,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 4, Folder 18
Night in Havana,
undated
Scope and Contents
Five color slides.
Box 4, Folder 18
Night Shift,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color slides
Box 5, Folder 1
Night Shift #5,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color prints.
Box 5, Folder 2
Night Shift 14,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 2
Night Shift N,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 2
No Green,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 3
North of Yesterday,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color transparencies.
Box 5, Folder 4
North of Yesterday or
Untitled,
undated
Scope and Contents
Five color prints.
Box 5, folder 5
Ocean of Time,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid and one color print.
Box 5, Folder 5
Ocean of Time #9,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 5, Folder 5
Oceans of Time XXX,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 5, Folder 6
Open Window,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 7
Other Side of Blue #6,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 5, Folder 7
Other Side of Red #5,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 5, Folder 6
Penumbra,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 7
Radio,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 5, folder 7
Radio Play,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color print, two color slides, and two color transparencies.
Box 5, Folder 8
Radio Play #5 (Hyundai),
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, folder 8
Radio Play #9 (Hyundai),
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid and two color slides.
Box 5, Folder 9
Radio Play #10,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color prints.
Box 5, Folder 8
Radio Play #10 (Hyundai),
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 9
Red,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 9
Red 9,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 10
Red Ecliptic,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 5, Folder 10
Red Line,
undated
Scope and Contents
Five color slides.
Box 5, Folder 11
Red Shift,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color print.
Box 5, Folder 11
Red Shift A,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color print.
Box 5, folder 12
Red Singularity,
undated
Scope and Contents
Five color slides and one color transparency.
Box 5, Folder 13
Red to Blue,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 13
Red Way,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 13
Shadow,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 5, Folder 14
Shadow's Memory,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 5, Folder 15
Taos,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color prints.
Box 5, Folder 16
The Other Side of Green,
undated
Scope and Contents
Nine color slides.
Box 5, Folder 16
Three to Four,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 5, Folder 16
Three Way,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 5, folder 17
Three Ways,
undated
Scope and Contents
Four color slides and one color transparency.
Box 6, Folder 1
Time Horizon-A,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 6, Folder 1
Time Horizon-AA,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 6, Folder 2
Time Shadow,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color Polaroids.
Box 6, Folder 2
Time's Shadow,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 6, folder 3
Untitled,
undated
Scope and Contents
Five color prints and six color slides.
Box 6, Folder 3
Victoria,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 6, Folder 3
When is Where,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 6, Folder 3
Without Blue #3,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 6, Folder 4
Yosemite,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 28, Folder 3
Black-and-white 35mm negatives
Sculpture and installations, Series I.B.
1968-1999, undated
Physical Description: 3.36 Linear Feet(15 boxes)
Box 9, folder 1
Unidentified project, Century City, (Los Angeles, California?),
1968
Scope and Contents
Five black-and-white slides and one unmounted color slide.
Sound Tunnel,
1971
Scope and Contents
One black-and-white slide.
Box 9, Folder 2
Zero Mass,
1973
Scope and Contents
Eighteen color slides. Slides appear to depict the same work as other slides labeled
Blue Void, 1981.
Box 9, Folder 3
"Artist shooting the shit," Venice, California,
1974
Scope and Contents
Nine black-and-white slides.
Box 9, Folder 2
Zero Mass,
1974
Scope and Contents
Three black-and-white slides.
Box 9, Folder 3
Lead Window,
1976
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 9, Folder 4
Sunrise,
1976-1983
Scope and Contents
Twenty-seven color slides. One slide mount labeled:
Inside Sunrise Electrum Light.
Box 9, folder 5
Gold As Prime Matter,
1979
Scope and Contents
One color print, three color slides, and one color transparency. One slide mount labeled
Infinite Gold Void.
Box 9, Folder 6
Unidentified project, Century City, (Los Angeles, California?),
1979
Scope and Contents
Five black-and-white slides of a schematic drawing for a project proposal with Larry Bell.
Box 9, Folder 6
Fire as Prime Matter,
1980-1981
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 9, Folder 7
Silence and the Ion Wind,
1980-1981
Scope and Contents
Five color slides, one labeled: From Inside L.A. County, '81.
Box 9, Folder 2
Blue Void,
1981
Scope and Contents
Twenty-one color slides. Slides appear to depict the same work as other slides labeled
Zero Mass, 1973.
Box 23, Folder 1
"Gus Foster slides",
1981-1983, undated
Scope and Contents
Six color slides. Includes
Solar Fountain,
Blue Void, Vena-Mondt residence project,
Blood Shadow, and an unidentified painting.
Box 9, folder 8
Prime Matter, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),
1981
Scope and Contents
Three color negatives, one color print, six color slides, and one color transparency.
Box 9, folder 9
Double Vision,
1982
Scope and Contents
Eight black-and-white slides, one color slide, and two color transparencies. Includes slides of schematic drawings. Several
slide mounts read:
Documenta / Kassel, Germany.
Box 9, folder 10
Linear B,
1982
Scope and Contents
Three color prints, thirty-six color slides, and two color transparencies. One slide mount labeled
Prime Matter #3. Some slide mounts read: N. Ovsey fountain.
Box 10, Folder 1
Newquist Doors,
1983
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 10, folder 2
Solar Fountain, Performing Arts Center, Denver, Colorado,
1983
Scope and Contents
Collaborative project with Larry Bell. Sixty-one color negatives; seventy-eight color prints; thirty-one color slides; and
fourteen color transparencies. Slides include images of preparatory drawings. An original label for one transparency reads:
Courtesy of Neil G. Ovsey Gallery / Photo credit: Douglas Parker.
Box 10, Folder 3
Stella,
1983
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 10, Folder 3
Threefold,
1983
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 10, Folder 3
Naked Singularity,
1984
Scope and Contents
Thirteen color slides.
Box 10, folder 4
Carol Vena-Mondt residence project,
1985, undated
Scope and Contents
Collaboration with Frederick Fisher. Thirty-two color prints of installation models and seven color slides.
Box 11, Folder 1
Fire and Water, Jenkins residence, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego, California,
1985
Scope and Contents
Five color prints.
Box 11, Folder 2
Ice,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 11, folder 3
Light Space, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands,
1985
Scope and Contents
One color negative; twenty-nine color prints; one color slide; and one color transparency.
Box 11, Folder 2
Prime Matter III, Malmö, Sweden,
1985 or 1986
Scope and Contents
Twelve color slides.
Box 28, Folder 1
Prime Matter 5,
1985
Scope and Contents
Two black-and-white prints. Label for The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California on verso.
Box 11, Folder 2
Prior,
1985
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 11, folder 4
Nexus,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide and three color transparencies.
Box 11, folder 5
North of Yesterday,
1986
Scope and Contents
Thirty-two color prints and five color slides. One slide mount reads: Corcoran show October 1986.
Box 11, Folder 6
Nowling Fountain,
1986
Scope and Contents
Twenty-four color prints.
Box 11, Folder 7
Prime Matter, Sydney Biennale,
1986
Scope and Contents
Eight color slides.
Box 11, folder 8
Prime Matter IV, Venice Biennale,
1986
Scope and Contents
Five color prints, twenty color slides, and one color transparency. One print includes Eric Orr with unidentified people.
Box 12, Folder 1
Prior,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 12, Folder 2
Stella,
1986
Scope and Contents
Thirty color slides. Some slide mounts labeled
Naked Singularity.
Box 12, folder 3
Stepped Singularity,
1986
Scope and Contents
Three color slides and two color transparencies.
Box 12, Folder 4
Twin Water Columns, Sacramento, California,
1986
Scope and Contents
Twelve color slides.
Box 12, folder 5
Untitled (Grinstein commission),
1986
Scope and Contents
Two color prints and twenty-eight color slides.
Box 12, folder 6
Water Doors,
1986
Scope and Contents
One color negative, two color prints, eight color slides, and two color transparencies. Some slide mounts read: Zeidler commission.
Box 12, Folder 7
Wittgenstein's Ladder,
1986
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 12, Folder 8
Anaheim project model,
1987
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 12, folder 8
Delineator,
1987
Scope and Contents
One color slide and two color transparencies.
Box 12, folder 9
Naked Singularity,
1987
Scope and Contents
Sixty-two color slides and one color transparency. One slide mount labeled
North of Yesterday. One slide seemingly misidentified as
Water Doors.
Box 12, Folder 10
Naked Singularity A,
1987
Scope and Contents
Sixteen color slides. Appears to depict the same work as
North of Yesterday (1986 or 1987).
Box 12, Folder 11
Phelps Fountain,
1987
Scope and Contents
Thirty-four color prints.
Box 13, Folder 1
Delineator,
1988
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 13, Folder 1
Naked Singularity,
1988
Scope and Contents
Eleven color slides.
Box 13, Folder 2
North of Yesterday, Brea, California,
1988
Scope and Contents
Fifteen color slides.
Box 13, folder 3
Columbia Prime Matter, Beverly Hills, California,
1989
Scope and Contents
Forty-seven color negatives and five color slides.
Box 13, Folder 4
Fractal B #5,
1989
Scope and Contents
Six color slides.
Box 13, Folder 4
Fractal C,
1989
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 13, Folder 4
Fractal C #11,
1989
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 13, Folder 4
Fractal N,
1989
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 13, Folder 5
Fractal S,
1989
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 13, Folder 5
Fractal S #4,
1989
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 13, Folder 6
Green Chemical Light,
1989
Scope and Contents
One color transparency. Appears to depict the same work as
Cedars Cascade.
Box 13, folder 7
Lee Singularity,
1989
Scope and Contents
Eight color slides and twenty-seven color transparencies.
Box 13, folder 8
Oceans of Time,
1989
Scope and Contents
Three color prints and three color slides.
Box 13, Folder 9
Prime Matter VIII,
1989
Scope and Contents
Nine color slides.
Box 13, Folder 10
Saturday Night Special,
1989
Scope and Contents
Four color transparencies.
Box 13, folder 11
Alta Mira, Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, California,
1990-1991
Scope and Contents
Thirty-seven color negatives; eighteen color prints; fourteen color slides; and four color transparencies.
Processing Information
Three groups of prints were adhered to each other upon transfer to the repository: one group of three prints was successfully
separated in conservation treatment in 2023; two additional groups of prints were not able to be separated without loss to
the photograph emulsion and were left as is in a group of five prints and a group of three prints.
Box 14, folder 1
Amsterdam Prime Matter, Amsterdam,
1990
Scope and Contents
Three color slides and two color transparencies.
Box 14, Folder 2
Bamboo Water Veil, Moreno Valley Mall, California,
1990
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 14, folder 2
L.A. Prime Matter, Los Angeles, California,
1990-1991
Scope and Contents
Seven color slides and one color transparency.
Box 14, Folder 3
Naked Singularity,
1990
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 14, Folder 4
Saturday Night Special,
1990
Scope and Contents
Thirty-two color slides.
Box 14, Folder 5
Shizuoka Singularity, Shizuoka, Japan,
1990, 1992
Scope and Contents
Fourteen color slides.
Box 14, Folder 6
Alta Mares,
1991
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 14, Folder 7
Citadel project,
1991
Scope and Contents
Fifteen color negatives.
Box 14, folder 8
Lumiere, Long Beach, California,
1991, 1994
Scope and Contents
Two color negatives, seven color prints, fourteen color slides, and one color transparency.
Box 14, Folder 9
Oceans of Time, MacArthur Place, Santa Ana, California,
1991
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 14, folder 10
Rain Column, Phoenix, Arizona,
1991-1992
Scope and Contents
One color print and twenty-three color slides. Some slide mounts labeled:
Scottsdale Galleria Rainbox and
Scottsdale Water Veil.
Box 14, Folder 11
Unidentified,
1991
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 14, folder 12
Janssen Prime Matter,
1992
Scope and Contents
One color print and eight color slides.
Box 14, Folder 13
Torrance Airport atrium, Torrance, California,
1992-1993
Scope and Contents
Thirty-six color slides.
Box 15, Folder 1
Judgment of Paris, Yokohoma, Japan,
1993
Scope and Contents
Seven color slides.
Box 15, folder 2
North of Yesterday, Baldwin Park or Beverly Hills, California,
1993
Scope and Contents
Six color slides and seven color transparencies.
Box 15, folder 3
Topanga Cascade, Topanga Plaza, (Los Angeles, California?),
1993
Scope and Contents
One color print and forty-five color slides.
Box 15, folder 4
Fukushima Prime Matter, Fukushima, Japan,
1994
Scope and Contents
One color print and twenty-one color slides.
Box 15, Folder 5
Naked Singularity,
1994
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 15, folder 6
Nippon Arch, Tokyo, Japan,
1994-1995
Scope and Contents
Thirty-five color negatives, three color prints, and eight color slides.
Box 15, folder 7
Hankyu Quartet, Osaka, Japan,
1995
Scope and Contents
One color negative and eleven color slides.
Box 15, folder 8
Moreno and/or Topanga project,
1995
Scope and Contents
Eight color prints and forty-one color slides.
Box 15, folder 9
Carl Bianco project,
1996
Scope and Contents
Twelve color prints and three color slides.
Box 16, Folder 1
Cuba Libre, Seoul, Korea,
1996
Scope and Contents
Five color slides.
Box 16, folder 1
Imperial Cascade, Osaka, Japan,
1996
Scope and Contents
Twenty-five color negatives; two color printouts; five color prints; and two color slides.
Box 16, folder 2
Milken Singularity, Santa Monica, California,
1996
Scope and Contents
One color print, five color slides, and two color transparencies.
Box 16, folder 3
Archimedes Gate, Shimane, Japan,
1997
Scope and Contents
Four color prints and two color slides.
Box 16, Folder 4
Dozer,
1997
Scope and Contents
Six color transparencies.
Box 16, Folder 5
Mask, Seoul, Korea,
1997
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 16, Folder 5
A Narrow Path of Emptiness, Seoul, Korea,
1997
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 16, folder 6
Portland Courthouse project, Portland, Oregon,
1997
Scope and Contents
Two color prints, five color slides, and six color transparencies.
Box 16, folder 7
Three Voices, Seoul, Korea,
1997
Scope and Contents
Two color slides and one color transparency.
Box 16, Folder 8
Unidentified,
1997
Scope and Contents
Two color prints.
Box 16, Folder 9
Cedars Cascade, Los Angeles, California,
1998
Scope and Contents
Twenty-seven color slides.
Box 16, folder 10
Inside Out, Production Firm, Santa Monica, California,
1998
Scope and Contents
One color slide and one color transparency.
Box 16, Folder 11
Urayama Dam, Japan,
1998
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 16, Folder 12
Cheekwood Prime Matter, Tennessee,
1999
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 16, Folder 13
Bernstein project,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color transparencies.
Box 17, folder 1
Bird Brain project,
undated
Scope and Contents
Twenty-seven color negatives and eighteen color prints.
Box 17, Folder 2
Black and Red, Korea,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 17, Folder 3
Citadel project, City of Industry, California,
undated
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 17, Folder 4
Della,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color transparencies.
Box 17, Folder 5
Fire and Water,
undated
Scope and Contents
Fifty-six color slides. Includes slides of schematic drawings.
Box 17, Folder 6
Gold Void Window,
undated
Scope and Contents
Twenty-two color slides.
Box 17, folder 7
Johnson residence project,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color negatives, one color print, and thirteen color transparencies.
Box 17, Folder 8
LTV Center project, Dallas, Texas,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color print.
Box 17, Folder 9
MGM Grand project, Las Vegas, Nevada,
undated
Scope and Contents
Nineteen color slides.
Box 17, Folder 10
Moore project,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color Polaroid.
Box 17, folder 11
Nynex, New York,
undated
Scope and Contents
Six color prints and twenty color slides.
Box 17, Folder 12
Oceans of Time, Maryland,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color slides.
Box 18, Folder 1
Presbyterian Hospital project, California,
undated
Scope and Contents
Four color prints.
Box 18, Folder 2
Prime Matter,
undated
Scope and Contents
Twenty-two color negatives.
Box 18, Folder 3
Prime Matter #4,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 18, Folder 4
Prime Matter VI,
undated
Scope and Contents
Seven color prints. Verso of one print reads, Ann Moses.
Box 18, Folder 5
Prime Matter #8,
undated
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 18, folder 6, Box 28, folder 2
Saturday Night Special,
undated
Scope and Contents
Four black-and-white prints, two color prints, and three color slides.
Box 18, Folder 7
Schorr project,
undated
Scope and Contents
Thirteen color prints.
Box 18, folder 8
Sheraton Hotel project, Chicago, Illinois,
undated
Scope and Contents
Six color prints and one color slide.
Box 28, Folder 12
Silence and the Ion Wind,
undated
Scope and Contents
One black-and-white contact sheet.
Box 18, Folder 9
Slate Water,
undated
Scope and Contents
Four color transparencies.
Box 18, Folder 10
State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color print.
Box 18, Folder 11
St. Regis, Century City, Los Angeles, California,
undated
Scope and Contents
Twenty color slides.
Box 18, Folder 12
Stepped Singularity,
undated
Scope and Contents
Three color transparencies.
Box 18, folder 13
Teak,
undated
Scope and Contents
Twenty-five color slides and one color transparency.
Box 18, Folder 14
Teak, Benny Larussa,
undated
Scope and Contents
Thirty-eight color slides.
Box 17, Folder 2
Teak II, Korea,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color transparency.
Box 18, Folder 15
Trumps Restaurant fountain,
undated
Scope and Contents
Eleven color prints.
Box 19, Folder 1
Volcan,
undated
Scope and Contents
Nine color slides.
Box 28, Folder 3
Zero Mass,
undated
Scope and Contents
Eighteen black-and-white negatives.
Box 28, Folder 13
Black-and-white contact sheets
Box 19
Black-and-white transparencies
box 19, box 20, box 21, box 33
Box 23, Folder 2
Loose slide labels,
1982-1985, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes labels detached from slide mounts:
Prime Numbers #2; Carbon/Llama;
Sakkara #2; Light Walls;
Radio Plays; Sculpture Masters; and Guy De Cointet.
Exhibitions and sites, Series I.C.
1981-1999, undated
Physical Description: .51 Linear Feet(3 boxes)
Box 23, Folder 6
Unidentified,
1981
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 28, Folder 6
Acme Art, San Francisco, California,
1984 September 18-October 27
Scope and Contents
Two black-and-white prints.
Box 23, Folder 7
The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California,
1987-1988
Scope and Contents
Four color slides.
Box 23, folder 3
Zoe Strecker,
Water Wall Sculpture, The Hope and Healing Center, Memphis, Tennessee,
circa 1999
Scope and Contents
Water mechanics by Eric Orr Studio. One color print and nine color slides.
Box 23, Folder 8
Bruce Kapson Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
undated
Scope and Contents
Two color slides.
Box 24, Folder 5
Five Sisters, set/light, Museum of Contemporary Art,
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Box 23, Folder 9
Security Pacific Gallery, [Los Angeles, California?],
undated
Scope and Contents
Five color slides.
Box 23, folder 10
Seoul Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea,
undated
Scope and Contents
Sixty-seven color negatives and thirty-seven color prints of unidentified paintings.
Box 28, Folder 7
Black-and-white negatives
People, Series I.D.
1964-2001, undated
Physical Description: .45 Linear Feet(4 boxes)
Eric Orr,
1964-circa 1985, undated
Box 28, Folder 8
Black-and-white prints,
circa 1985, undated
Scope and Contents
Eleven black-and-white prints. Includes one photograph of Orr with Frederick Fisher and film crew at the studio of Carol Vena-Mondt,
downtown Los Angeles, circa 1985.
Box 28, Folder 8
Black-and-white transparency,
undated
Scope and Contents
One black-and-white transparency.
Box 24, Folder 3
Color Polaroids and prints,
undated
Scope and Contents
Thirteen prints and five Polaroids.
Box 24, Folder 4
Color slides,
1964, 1980, undated
Scope and Contents
Twenty-nine color slides. Includes one slide of Orr's truck and another of Orr with
Silence and the Ion Wind.
Box 23, Folder 5
Crowd in bleachers, unidentified outdoor stadium,
1984
Scope and Contents
Eleven color slides.
Box 24, Folder 6
Thomas McEvilley,
undated
Scope and Contents
Four color prints.
Unidentified,
1965-2001, undated
Box 24, Folder 7
1965-1998, undated
Scope and Contents
Eighty-four color slides. Also includes slides of unidentified sites.
Box 25, Folder 1
1985, undated
Scope and Contents
Eight slides, four unmounted; one small circular-cut print.
Box 25, Folder 2
2001
Scope and Contents
Eight color slides.
Box 28, Folder 9
Black-and-white print
Scope and Contents
One black-and-white print.
Box 28, folder 9
Black-and-white slide
Scope and Contents
One black-and-white slide.
Box 25, Folder 3
Color negatives
Scope and Contents
Twenty-one color negatives.
Box 25, Folder 4
Color Polaroids
Scope and Contents
Five color Polaroids.
Box 25, Folder 5
Color prints
Scope and Contents
Ten color prints.
Miscellaneous, Series I.E.
undated
Physical Description: .15 Linear Feet(5 boxes)
Box 23, Folder 4
"Audio Visual Services, Office of Instructional Development,"
undated
Scope and Contents
One color slide.
Egyptian sarcophagus,
undated
Box 33
Black-and-white print
Scope and Contents
One black-and-white print.
Box 25, Folder 6
Color slide
Scope and Contents
One color slide
Box 28, Folder 10
"Malcolm Hanes at Bjorn Olsson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden,"
undated
Scope and Contents
Six black-and-white negatives.
Box 28, Folder 11
Magnigraph,
undated
Scope and Contents
One black-and-white negative.
Box 10, Folder 3
Unidentified schematics,
undated
Scope and Contents
Five color slides.
Schematic drawings, Series II.
1987-2001, undated
Physical Description: 15.24 Linear Feet(3 boxes, 2 boxed-rolls, 19 flatfile folders)
Scope and Contents
Series II. consists of oversize schematic drawings by Orr and Orr Labs of building sites and projects, both public and private,
for Orr's fountains and sculptures. Many of the projects also include site plans by assorted architects and designers for
the buildings or land where Orr's projects were installed.
All known project locations are included in component titles; component titles without detailed locations are for projects
at unidentified locations.
Schematic drawings are also present in binders found in Series III. Papers; color slides of unidentified schematics are included
in Series I.E.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by project.
Box 35*, Folder 1
Prime Matter,
1987
Scope and Contents
Drawing by Orr.
Flatfile 1**
Unidentified,
1988
Scope and Contents
Possibly for the Bagdasarian residence project. Signed: Leonardo Gomez '88.
Airport Atrium Water Veil, Torrance Airport, Torrance, California,
1989-1990
Flatfile 6**
1989 October-1990 August
Scope and Contents
Plans by Vincent Kevin Kelly & Associates and Berger Iron Works, Inc.
Boxed-roll 1**
1989 February-1990 May
Scope and Contents
Plan by The Nadel Partnership, Inc.
Box 36*, Folder 1
Bermant project,
1989
Scope and Contents
Plan by Orr.
Box 36*, Folder 1
Grinstein project,
1989
Scope and Contents
Plan by Orr.
Flatfile 3**
Leeds residence project,
1989-1990
Scope and Contents
Includes a schematic drawing by Orr and a plan by Luis Ortega Design Studio.
Mitsui Fire Sculpture, Los Angeles, California,
1989-1991, undated
Flatfile 2**
1989
Scope and Contents
Plan by Wet Design, Universal City, California.
Boxed-roll 2**
1991, undated
Scope and Contents
Plans by Wet Design, Universal City, California and AC Martin and Associates.
Water sculpture, Foothill Ranch, Laguna Hills, California,
1989-1990, undated
Flatfile 4**
1989-1990
Scope and Contents
Plans by Dike / Runa Inc.
Flatfile 5**
1990 April-July, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes one color drawing and plans by Ashley Martin Engineering Co.
Box 36*, Folder 3
1990 March-December, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes color drawings and plans by Orr.
Box 36*, Folder 6
Ann Janssen project,
1990-1991
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr.
Bagdasarian residence project, Los Angeles, California,
1990-1991, undated
Flatfile 10**
1990 September
Scope and Contents
Plan by William J. Gentile Architect & Associates.
Box 36*, Folder 5
1990 November-1991, undated
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr and Orr Labs.
Benach residence project,
1990
Flatfile 7**
1990 January-February
Scope and Contents
Plan by Olson Sundberg Architects.
Boxed-roll 1**
1990 January
Scope and Contents
Plan by Liz Fisher and Assoc. Design.
Box 35*, Folder 1
1990 August
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr.
Citadel project, City of Commerce, California,
1990
Box 35*, Folder 2
1990 July
Scope and Contents
Plan by Orr for sculpture in the Citadel's food court.
Flatfile 8**
1990 August
Scope and Contents
Plans by Martha Schwartz, Ken Smith, David Meyer Landscape Architects, Inc.
Box 36*, Folder 4
Jovet project,
1990-1991, undated
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr, Orr Labs, and Peter Carlson Enterprises.
Box 36*, Folder 7
Landmark Square project,
1990, undated
Scope and Contents
Drawings and plans by Orr.
Box 29, Folder 1
Lehrer project,
1990
Scope and Contents
Plan by Orr.
Montgomery Mall project, Bethesda, Maryland,
1990-1992
Flatfile 11**
1990-1991
Scope and Contents
Plans by RTKL Associates Inc. and May Centers, Inc.
Box 29, Folder 4
1992
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr Labs.
Newman residence project,
1990-1991, undated
Box 36*, Folder 2
1990
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr.
Box 34, Folder 2
1991, undated
Scope and Contents
Plans by Crissman & Solomon Architects Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts.
Flatfile 2**
Southern California Gas Center project, Los Angeles, California,
1990
Scope and Contents
Plans by Reel Grobman.
Flatfile 9**
University of Nebraska Medical Center project, Omaha, Nebraska,
1990-1991
Scope and Contents
Plans by Hansen Lind Meyer, Inc. and Richard D. Nelson Co.
Flatfile 8**
West Valley Corp residence project,
1990, undated
Scope and Contents
Plan by Charles F. Johnson, Designer.
Box 29, Folder 2
Cohen project,
1991
Scope and Contents
Plan by Orr Labs.
Kenneth Norris, Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute project, Los Angeles, California,
1991, undated
Flatfile 12**
1991 April
Scope and Contents
Plans by Anshen and Allen Architects.
Box 34, Folder 1
1991 April-June, undated
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr Labs, design concept by Anshen and Allen.
Box 35*, Folder 2
Kim Anderson project,
1991
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr.
Flatfile 13**
Kirschner residence project, Santa Monica, California,
1991
Scope and Contents
Plans by Breidenbach Cuen Architects.
Box 36*
Lee Prime Matter,
1991
Scope and Contents
Drawing by Orr.
Flatfile 14**
Lippman residence project, Los Angeles, California,
1991
Scope and Contents
Plans by Fields & Devereaux Architects, AIA and Susan E. McEowen.
Boxed-roll 2**
Moreno Valley Mall project, Moreno Valley, California,
1991-1992
Scope and Contents
Plans by the Jerde Partnership, Inc. Project developed by Homart Development Co.
Box 36*, Folder 8
Moses Veil of Water,
1991
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr. One plan is torn and fragile.
Box 35*, Folder 2
Nesburn project,
1991
Scope and Contents
Plan with drawing in pencil by Orr.
Sheraton Hotel project, Chicago, Illinois,
1991
Boxed-roll 1**
1991 June
Scope and Contents
Plans by Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz & Associates.
Box 35*, Folder 3
1991 June
Scope and Contents
Plans by Orr.
Box 36*, Folder 2
Water Columns, Homart,
1991
Scope and Contents
Plan by Orr Labs.
Box 29, Folder 3
Unidentified,
1991
Scope and Contents
Includes plans by Orr Labs labeled: Ganz light revision / gas company and O'Melveney & Meyers.
Flatfile 15**
Baldwin Park Medical Center project, Baldwin Park, California,
1992
Scope and Contents
Plans by HMC Architects Inc. and consulting architect Arthur Erickson and Associates.
Box 36*, Folder 9
Clackamas Town Center project, Happy Valley, Oregon,
1992
Scope and Contents
Plans by The Hahn Company, Callison.
Topanga Plaza renovation project, (Los Angeles, California?),
1992, undated
Boxed-roll 1**
1992, undated
Scope and Contents
Plans by Callison.
Box 35*, Folder 4
China Max, (China?),
1993
Scope and Contents
Plans by Guthrie Mayberry & Associates Ltd. and a drawing list on letterhead with a Hong Kong address.
Flatfile 16**
Henry residence project, Pasadena, California,
1993
Scope and Contents
Plans by Barry A. Berkus A.I.A.
Flatfile 10**
Unidentified (NARA), Japan,
circa 1993
Scope and Contents
Includes 1993 correspondence from Maeda Environmental Art Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Box 29, Folder 6
E. R. Lawrence project,
1994
Scope and Contents
Plan by Orr.
Imperial Cascade, Imperial Hotel, Osaka, Japan,
1994-1995
Flatfile 17**
1994
Scope and Contents
Plans by Barry Design Associates, Inc.
Box 34, Folder 3
1995
Scope and Contents
Drawings by Orr Labs.
Flatfile 18**
Teikoku Hotel fountain project, (Japan?),
1994
Scope and Contents
Plans by Koei Industry Co., Ltd.
Flatfile 19**
Bettencourt residence project, Auburn, California,
undated
Scope and Contents
Plan by The CBM Group, Inc.
Box 29, Folder 9
Greenburg project,
undated
Box 35*, Folder 5
Hycel Wedge,
undated
Scope and Contents
Plan by Orr Labs.
Flatfile 19**
Moscone Center project,
undated
Box 29, Folder 10
Tony and Carolyn Johnson project,
undated
Flatfile 19**
Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Scope and Contents
Possibly for
Archimedes Gate.
box 29, box 34
Unidentified locations
Scope and Contents
Includes a pencil drawing.
Papers, Series III.
1959-2012, undated
Physical Description: 2.63 Linear Feet(7 boxes. Computer media: 10.90 GB [195 files])
Scope and Contents
Series III. contains administrative files and ephemera pertaining to Orr's work, with exhibition announcement postcards, typescript
firsthand accounts of Orr's friendship with conceptual artist James Lee Byars, acquisition documentation and pricing for works
by Orr, and Orr's handwritten notes and typescript proposals for projects. The series also includes binders consisting of
both photographs and schematic drawings that were not described in Series I. or Series II.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Articles and essays,
1984-1999, undated
Scope and Contents
On Orr, his work, and his role in the Light and Space movement.
Box 29, Folder 12
Photocopies,
1984-1999, undated
Box 29, Folder 13
Thermofax originals,
1999
Box 25, Folder 7
Ashkenazy Galleries consignment memo and color Polaroids,
1989
Scope and Contents
Includes seven Polaroids of 1989 paintings
Wait;
Blue Void A;
Dark Light #14;
Time Shadow;
One Way;
Other Side of Light AA; and
No Fire.
Box 30, Folder 7
Assorted documents,
circa 1985-circa 1995, 2003, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes Orr's application for entry to Vietnam and a "Robot Poetry Manifesto" signed by Orr, James Lee Byars, Marian McEvilley,
and others.
Binders of photographs and schematic drawings,
1978-2003, undated
"Sculpture 1987,"
1978-1987, undated
Scope and Contents
Binder of schematic drawings (photocopies), descriptions, lists, and proposals for sculptural works. Includes
Untitled (Prime Matter series), the Beck commission;
Solar Fountain; the Anaheim city center fountain; the Newquist doors and shutters;
Waterwall; the Vena-Mondt studio/residence project;
Naked Singularity; the Michael Goodman project; the Jenkins project;
Fire and Water Column;
Triangular Fire and Water Column; the Panza proposals:
Prime Matter 8,
Thermal Time Window,
Prime Matter,
North of Yesterday,
Space Delineator-Single/Double/Planar Wall,
Heliostatic Rain,
Sunrise,
Sound Tunnel,
Ocean of Time,
Silence and the Ion Wind,
Sound in the Shape of a Pear,
Nothing Special; LACMA project:
Prime Matter 9; Home Savings of America; Hawaii project; Whitney Museum multiple project; Amber Hill commission; Cedars Sinai project.
"Selected Works,"
1981-1986, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript descriptions, some on Eric Orr letterhead, and schematic drawings of selected Orr works; photocopies of
clippings; and a proposal application for the City of Brea's Art in Public Places Program. Identified works include
North of Yesterday,
Solar Fountain, and
Prime Matter.
Box 29, Folder 15
Descriptions and proposals
box 37, folder 1
"Empty sheets, slides,"
undated
Scope and Contents
Binder of empty photographic print and slide sheets with labels for the following works and locations:
Sandrich Singularity #1;
Janssen Prime Matter;
International Creative Manange (?);
Fukushima Stadium;
Eastern Oceans of Time;
Sandel;
LACMA Prime Matter;
Lee Singularity;
North of Yesterday;
Prime Matter IV (Venice Bien);
Nippon Arch;
Naked Singularity; Topanga Plaza Mall,
Rain Box (Scottsdale); MacArthur Place; Moreno Valley Mall;
Solar Fountain;
Teak Singularity (1995);
Fukushima Prime Matter (1994);
Edge of Light (33 x 9); St. Louis Galleria; Chicago Sheraton; and Jon Douglas.
"Sculpture/blueprints,"
undated
Scope and Contents
Binder of schematic drawings for works of sculpture. Schematic drawings were originally adhered to the original binder sleeves,
which were not archival. Drawings were removed from the binder during conservation treatment. The original binder and sleeves
have been maintained separately from the schematic drawings.
box 37, folder 2
Original binder and sleeves
Unlabeled,
1991,1996, 2001-2003
Assorted sculpture,
undated
Scope and Contents
Mostly empty binder of missing schematic drawings, with ink remnants of drawings on most of the binder sleeves. Also includes
color photographs of select works and a list of works on Orr's letterhead.
Box 25, folder 10
Color prints
Scope and Contents
Also includes list of works on Orr's letterhead.
Assorted sculpture,
1991, 2001-2003
Scope and Contents
Identified works include:
Last Oceans of Time,
Granite Singularity,
Enclave,
Cedars Cascade,
Kanner Water Veil,
ICM Prime Matter,
L.A. Prime Matter,
Birmingham Prime Matter, and
Cuba Libre.
Box 26, folder 1
Assorted sculpture,
1996, undated
Scope and Contents
Binder includes twenty-five color prints, with one identified work:
Archimedes Gate.
Box 29, Folder 17
Biographies and chronologies,
1996, undated
Box 29, Folder 18
Business and resume cards,
undated
Box 32, Item V1
Chaparral VHS,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 videocassette (VHS) (28 min.) ; 1/2 in. Original label reads, Stereo / final mix. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
Box 29, Folder 19
Cirrus Editions catalogue sheets,
2007, undated
Scope and Contents
Acquisition documents for works by Eric Orr.
Correspondence,
1979, 1987-1999, undated
Scope and Contents
Primarily includes faxes and blank postcards, with one unsigned postcard addressed to Orr, and a blank postcard addressed
to Kurt Hodgetts.
Box 31, Item DVD1
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Work of Eric Orr, viewing copy (video),
2012
Scope and Contents
Sound not re-mastered.
1 video disc (DVD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Box 29, Folder 21
Electrum documents,
1996, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, exhibition invitations, schematic drawings, and typescript notes. Original housing read: To: Kent
Hodgetts / Re:
Electrum to SCI-Arc 1.07.2003.
box 31, item DVD2
"Eric Orr and a Tower of Fire and Water" (video),
undated
Eric Orr and a Tower of Fire and Water (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
1 video disc (DVD-R) (120 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Box 29, Folder 22
Exhibition announcements and postcards,
1979-1996, undated
Scope and Contents
Postcards primarily for Orr's national solo and group exhibitions, with some postcards for exhibitions held at international
venues. Includes photocopies.
box 31, item DVD3
Five Sisters viewing copy (video),
1980s
Five Sisters (digitized version available on-site only): 1980s
Scope and Contents
1 video disc (DVD-R) (120 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
box 31, item CM3
"If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Revolution,"
undated
If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Revolution (digitized version available on-site only)
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM3 contains: 3 Microsoft Word for Windows files (.docx) titled, Five Sisters
credits; 46 image files (.jpg) with alphanumeric titles; 1 Quicktime file (.mov) titled, Frascati WG; and 1 unidentified file
(.m4v) titled, MUSAC. One file was corrupt and could not be transferred from the disc: Video/Reina Sofia.mov. Unavailable
until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Box 29, Folder 23
Interview transcripts,
2007
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of Elizabeth Orr interviews with curator Maurice Tuchman, art critic Thomas McEvilley, and art historian Gail
Gelburd on their relationships with her father, Eric Orr.
James Lee Byars,
1983, 1997-1998, undated
Box 29, Folder 24
"Jimmy stories,"
1997-1998, undated
Scope and Contents
Typescript anecdotes by Orr that detail his friendship with artist James Lee Byars. Also includes Orr's personal chronology,
exhibition announcements, and color printouts of Orr with Byars and Thomas McEvilley.
Box 29, Folder 25
"Jimmy stories" (thermofax),
1997
Box 26, Folder 3
Photographs,
1983, undated
Scope and Contents
Four color prints and two black-and-white prints.
box 31, item D1
"1. James Lee Byars 2. Eric Orr,"
undated
1. James Lee Byars 2. Eric Orr (digitized version available on-site only): undated
Scope and Contents
James Lee Byars, "The Death of James Lee Byars" and Eric Orr Gold Room lecture at LACMA.
1 audio disc (CD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Box 29, Folder 26
Kentucadet: Alumni Journal,
1959 May
Scope and Contents
Alumni journal for the Kentucky Military Institute.
Box 29, Folder 27
Limited edition water sculptures,
2004, undated
Box 29, Folder 28
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego acquisition documents,
2006
Scope and Contents
Artist surveys and licensing agreements for Orr's
You Had the Meaning but Missed the Experience (circa 1981-1982) and
Red Void II (1992).
Notebooks and notes,
1974-1992, undated
Box 30, Folder 3
1992, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript pages for a lecture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on the indigenous art of Zaire (now
the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Box 30, Folder 5
Orr Studio sculpture booklet,
2001-2002
Scope and Contents
With a Hosfelt Gallery envelope addressed to Peggy Orr in 2002.
Painting price lists and invoices,
1990-1991, undated
Box 30, Folder 6
Documents
Scope and Contents
Includes a black-and-white print of
Time Switch (1973) by Gus Foster.
Box 27, Folder 1
Color Polaroids
Scope and Contents
Includes seventy-seven color Polaroids, with the following identified paintings:
Purple Elapsed Time;
Where Is Infinity;
Red Void;
Violent Edge;
Oceans of Time;
Xanadu;
Blue Ecliptic;
Green Ecliptic;
Harry's Cauldron;
Lee Musgrave;
Hahn's Birthdate;
Three of a Kind;
Without Green;
Amarillo;
Crazy Wisdom T.O;
Sam's Pic;
Darkness In Back of The Sky;
May to December;
Peggy's Pic;
What Takes 4 Light Years to Stop;
Red Cloud;
In Hand;
You've Had the Experience But You Missed the Meaning;
Plum Threshold;
Parmenides Dilemma;
Zero +;
91 Mu;
Edge of Thought;
Emergence of Time;
Navaho;
3+3=3;
If Tachyons Could Tell the Truth;
Always Everywhere at Once Always Nowhere Sometime;
Threshold of Substance;
Time Dilation;
The Rossi;
Time Window 1;
Time Window 2;
The Passage;
The Sky is Not A Way Back;
3 Ways;
Uaho;
Green Guy;
Fugitive Blue;
Circadian Rhythm;
Nine Times Nine;
Crazy Wisdom II;
Crazy Wisdom X;
Pangaea; and
Temporal Crazy Wisdom.
Box 30, Folder 8
Proposals and histories,
1998-1999, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes descriptions of
Electrum,
Karnak,
L.A. Prime Matter,
Silence and the Ion Wind,
Solar Fountain, and
Zero Mass Space.
Box 30, Folder 9
Slide list, Hope and Healing Center,
circa 1998
Box 31, Item CM1
"Teece - E Orr,"
2005 June
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (CD-RW) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM1 contains: 48 image files (.jpg) titled: Teece CWC and workers 6 13 05 E
Orr. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Box 32, Item R1
Tibetan Temple Gongs audiotape reel,
1975 December
Scope and Contents
1 audiotape reel (60 min.) : analog, 15 ips. ; 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. Original label reads: Eric Orr / Tibetan Temple Gongs
/ Dec. 1975 / 15 i.p.s. / Full track / "B" tape / (slightly noisier). Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for
reformatting.
Box 31, Item CM2
Eugenia Butler Gallery,
2011 February
Scope and Contents
1 computer disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM2 contains: 34 Tagged Image File Format (.tif) files titled: Orr light piece.
One file was corrupt and could not be transferred from the disc: Orr light piece 7.tif. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact
reference for reformatting.
Box 34, Folder 5
Oversize flier,
2012
Scope and Contents
A flier for a re-creation of Orr's 1970 piece,
Wall Shadow, presented by LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and Corazon del Sol as part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and
Public Art Festival.
The Works Gallery,
1989, undated
Ashkenazy resource exchange,
1989
Box 27, Folder 3
Color Polaroids
Scope and Contents
Seven color Polaroids.
Box 30, Folder 11
Collector kits,
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes collector solicitations and postcards with brief resumes for artists represented by the gallery.
Box 32, Item C1
Unidentified audiocassette,
undated
Scope and Contents
Original label reads: I.
1 audiocassette : analog ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Box 31, Item D2
Unidentified audio CD,
undated
Scope and Contents
1 compact disc (CD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
Box 31, Item CM4
Unidentified disc,
2007 July
Scope and Contents
Possibly includes images of Eric Orr exhibition at Robert Berman Gallery, curated by Elizabeth Orr.
1 computer disc (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. CM4 contains: 4 JPEG File Interchange Format files (.jpg) and 31 Exchangeable
Image File Format (Uncompressed) files (.tif). Unavailable until reformatted. Contact reference for reformatting.
