Guide to the University of California, Santa Barbara, University Art Museum Collection

Preliminary arrangement by Special Collections staff; latest revision by A. Demeter, May 9, 2013.

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Phone: (805) 893-3062

Fax: (805) 893-5749

Email: special@library.ucsb.edu

URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/

University of California, Santa Barbara, University Art Museum Collection, 1956-2012

Collection number: UArch 30

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Processed by:: Preliminary arrangement by Special Collections staff; latest revision by A. Demeter
Date completed:: Aug. 10, 2010
Latest revision:: May 9, 2013
Encoded by:: A. Demeter

Descriptive Summary

Title: University of California, Santa Barbara, University Art Museum

Dates: 1956-2012

Collection number: UArch 30

Creator: University of California, Santa Barbara. University Art Museum

Collection Size: 3.3 linear feet (8 document boxes and 1 oversize flat box).

Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract: Includes administrative files and exhibition catalogs, announcements, and posters.

Physical location: Del Sur, University Archives, 25A (boxes 1-8); 30B (box 9).

Languages: English

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

University of California, Santa Barbara, University Art Museum. UArch 30. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Undetermined; additional materials received occasionally.

Scope and Content of Collection

"The University Art Museum (UAM) is located 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Established in 1959, as a gallery dedicated to art education at UC Santa Barbara, it now serves as a unique educational resource for academic and community audiences throughout the region. Today, the UAM has a distinguished Fine Art Collection of over 8,500 works and over 750,000 architectural drawings, historic photographs, writings, scrapbooks, and three-dimensional objects in the Architecture and Design Collection. The Museum has earned an international reputation over the last 30 years for its innovative and culturally diverse exhibitions, catalogues, and interdisciplinary programs."

"Mission Statement: The mission of the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is to serve as a unique educational resource for the various audiences of the university and the community through the collection, preservation, and interpretation of works of art, architecture, and design. By presenting innovative, challenging, and culturally diverse exhibitions, producing catalogues and other publications, and organizing interdisciplinary programs on issues of historical, social, and cultural relevance, the UAM seeks to promote scholarship, inspire creative excellence, and deepen an understanding of the visual arts produced by the world's peoples, past and present."

Source: http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/UAM_info.html

Arrangement

The collection contains the following series:

Series I, Administrative files, contains reports, memos, flyers, and schedules relating to collections, events, and programs of the museum, 1963-2002.
Series II, Exhibitions, contains catalogs and announcements for the museum's exhibitions, 1956-2012.
Series III, Oversize, contains exhibition posters and oversized flyers, 1961-1996.

Related Materials

The University Art Museum holds its own archive of materials on campus buildings and architectural drawings. A list of their architecture and design collections can be found online at http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/adc_list.html .

In University Archives:

UCSB Art Department collection, UArch 70
UCSB Arts & Lectures Records, UArch 16 - Schedules for events occasionally include exhibitions and other events at the University Art Museum
UCSB Office of Public Information Subject Files, UArch 12 - Files on art galleries and art museum

Most exhibition catalogs for the University Art Museum are located at the Arts Library and are searchable in Pegasus, the online catalog.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

University of California, Santa Barbara, University Art Museum

Series I: Administrative Files

Box 1: 1

Annual Report, 1974-1975

Box 1: 2

Memos, 1963-2002

Box 1: 3

Art Break, c. 1980s

Box 1: 4

The Store, c. 1990s

Box 1: 5

Lectures, 1976-1995

Box 1: 6

Student Art Festival, 1965

Box 1: 7

Student Art Festival, 1970

Box 1: 8

Architectural Drawing Collection, c. 2000s

Box 1: 9

The Campaign for UCSB, 1986

Box 1: 10

Miscellaneous events, programs, collections, c. 1970-1990s

Series II: Exhibitions

Box 2: 1

Announcements, 1956

Box 2: 2

Announcements, 1961-1962

Box 2: 3

"The Function of Printed Images," catalog, Jan. 14-Feb. 25, 1962

Box 2: 4

"The Sedgwick Collection," catalog, 1962

Box 2: 5

Announcements, 1962-1963

Box 2: 6

"Saul Steinberg and Paul Klee: An Exhibition of Drawings," catalog, Nov. 20-Dec. 16, 1962

Box 2: 7

"The Art of Easter Island," catalog, Jan. 15-Feb. 26, 1963

Box 2: 8

"Old Master Drawings," catalog, Mar. 12-Apr. 12, 1963

Box 2: 9

"Sigmond Morgenroth Collection of Renaissance and Baroque Medals and Plaques," catalog, Apr. 16-May 12, 1963

Box 2: 10

Announcements, 1963-1964

Box 2: 11

"Images from the Odyssey," catalog, c. 1963

Box 2: 12

"Four Santa Barbara Houses, 1904-1917," catalog, Sept. 17-Nov. 12, 1963

Box 2: 13

"Greek Art," catalog, Nov. 19-Dec. 17, 1963

Box 2: 14

"Chumash Indian Art," catalog, April 21-May 17, 1964

Box 2: 15

"Artists of the University of California, 1963-1964," catalog, c. 1963-1964

Box 2: 16

Announcements, 1964-1965

Box 2: 17

"The First West Coast Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)," catalog, Oct. 6-Nov. 8, 1964

Box 2: 18

"A Retrospective Exhibition of William Dole," catalog, Jan. 12-Feb. 21, 1965

Box 2: 19

"62 Works of Art from Santa Barbara and Vicinity," catalog, April 20-May 14, 1965

Box 2: 20

Announcements, 1965-1966

Box 2: 21

"Pacific Heritage," catalog, June 18-July 17, 1965

Box 2: 22

"Prehistoric Rock Art of the Santa Barbara Region," catalog, Oct. 12-Nov. 7, 1965

Box 2: 23

"The Washington Color Painters," catalog, Nov. 16-Dec. 19, 1965

Box 2: 24

"Robert Thomas: Retrospective Exhibition, 1952-1965," catalog, Jan. 11-Feb. 13, 1966

Box 2: 25

"Surrealism - A State of Mind, 1924-1965," catalog, Feb. 26-March 27, 1966

Box 2: 26

"Louis Christian Mullgardt, 1866-1942," catalog, April 5-May 8, 1966

Box 2: 27

Announcements, 1966-1967

Box 2: 28

"A Selection of Paintings, Drawings, Collages and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wilder," catalog, Oct. 11-Nov. 13, 1966

Box 2: 29

"Annual Faculty Exhibition," catalog, Nov. 22-Dec. 18, 1966

Box 2: 30

"Five Centuries of Prints," catalog, Jan. 5-29, 1967

Box 3: 1

"Etruscan Art from West Coast Collections," catalog, Feb. 7-Mar. 15, 1967

Box 3: 2

"An Exhibition of the Architecture of R. M. Schindler (1887-1953)," catalog, Mar. 30-Apr. 30, 1967

Box 3: 3

"Conway Pierson - Pottery," catalog, Oct. 5-Nov. 5, 1967

Box 3: 4

"Paul Klee: Oils, Watercolors, Gouaches, Drawings, Prints from the James Gilvarry Collection," catalog, Oct. 5-Nov. 12, 1967

Box 3: 5

"Annual Faculty Exhibition," catalog, Nov. 14-Dec. 17, 1967

Box 3: 5

Announcements, 1968

Box 3: 6

"First Comprehensive Retrospective Exhibition in the West of Oils, Gouaches, Pastels, Drawings and Graphic Works by Max Weber (1881-1961)," catalog, Feb. 6-Mar. 3, 1968

Box 3: 7

"A Selection of Paintings from the 50’s and 60’s from the Collection of Gifford and Joann Phillips," catalog, Mar. 12-Apr. 7, 1968

Box 3: 8

"Graduate Exhibition," catalog, July 16-Aug. 18, 1968

Box 3: 9

"Howard Fenton: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1948-1968," catalog, Oct. 8-Nov. 10, 1968

Box 3: 10

"Annual Faculty Exhibition," catalog, Nov. 19-Dec. 22, 1968

Box 3: 11

Announcements, 1969

Box 3: 12

"The Institute of Creative Arts: A Traveling Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Members of the Institute of Creative Arts of the University of California," catalog, c. 1969

Box 3: 13

"The Enigma of Ralph A. Blakelock, 1847-1919," catalog, Jan. 7-Feb. 2, 1969

Box 3: 14

"Kem Weber: The Moderne in Southern California, 1920-1941," catalog, Feb. 11-Mar. 23, 1969

Box 3: 15

"Impressions of Landscape: Landscapes in Prints from 1450 to 1870," catalog, Apr. 1-May 11, 1969

Box 4: 1

"M.F.A. Exhibition," catalog, July 15-Aug. 18, 1969

Box 4: 2

"The Rock Art of Dinwoody Wyoming," catalog, Sept. 30-Nov. 6, 1969

Box 4: 3

Announcements, 1970

Box 4: 4

"Australian Aboriginal Art," catalog, Jan. 6-Feb. 1, 1970

Box 4: 5

"Trends in Twentieth Century Art," catalog, Jan. 6-Feb. 1, 1970

Box 4: 6

"Drawings, 1970: California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah," catalog, Mar. 31-Apr. 26, 1970

Box 4: 7

"Marc Treib: Graphic Design," catalog, Sept. 1-Oct. 11, 1970

Box 4: 8

"The Art Affiliates Collection," catalog, Oct. 20-Nov. 15, 1970

Box 4: 9

"African Arts of Transformation," catalog, Nov. 24-Dec. 20, 1970

Box 4: 10

Announcements, 1971

Box 4: 11

"Rock Art of the Montana High Plains," catalog, Apr. 6-May 16, 1971

Box 4: 12

"Charles Demuth: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living," catalog, Oct. 5-Nov. 14, 1971

Box 4: 13

"Hushang Seihoun - Iranian Drawings," catalog, Nov. 23-Dec. 22, 1971

Box 4: 14

Announcements, 1972

Box 4: 15

Announcements, 1973

Box 4: 16

"Roman Art in West Coast Collections," catalog, Jan. 10-Feb. 11, 1973

Box 4: 17

"Sculptors of the 1940s," catalog, Apr. 3-May 6, 1973

Box 4: 18

Announcements, 1974

Box 4: 19

"5 American Painters: Recent Work," catalog, Jan. 18-Feb. 17, 1974

Box 4: 20

"A Medieval Miscellany: Romanesque and Early Gothic Metalwork," catalog, Feb. 14-28, 1974

Box 5: 1

"Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters form the Collection of Janos Scholz," catalog, Feb. 26-Mar. 31, 1974

Box 5: 2

"Indian Art of the Northern Plains," catalog, Apr. 9-May 12, 1974

Box 5: 3

Announcements, 1975

Box 5: 4

"European Drawings by Minor Old Masters of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," catalog, Jan. 7-Feb. 2, 1975

Box 5: 5

Announcements, 1976

Box 5: 6

"7 + 5: Sculptors in the 1950s," catalog, Jan. 6-Feb. 15, 1976

Box 5: 7

"Clay: The Medium and the Method," catalog, Apr. 7-May 9, 1976

Box 5: 8

"Etruscan Ghiaccio Forte," catalog, Sept. 21-Oct 19, 1976

Box 5: 9

Announcements, 1977

Box 5: 10

"(the) Paperworks: Paintings, Photographs, Texts," catalog, Jan. 5-Feb. 6, 1977

Box 5: 11

"Regional Styles of Drawing in Italy, 1600-1700," catalog, Feb. 16-Mar. 27, 1977

Box 5: 11

"The Cult of Images: Baudelaire and the 19th Century Media Explosion," catalog, Apr. 6-May 8, 1977

Box 5: 12

"Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors," catalog, June 3-30, 1977

Box 5: 13

"Howard Warshaw: A Continuing Tradition," catalog, Aug. 2-Sept. 4, 1977

Box 5: 14

"Contemporary Tableaux / Constructions, 1974-1977," catalog, Nov. 9-Dec. 11, 1977

Box 5: 15

Announcements, 1978

Box 5: 16

"Pochoir: Flowering of the Hand-Color Process in Prints and Illustrated Books, 1910-1935," catalog, Jan. 4-Feb. 12, 1978

Box 5: 17

"Contemporary Drawing / New York," catalog, Feb. 22-Mar. 26, 1978

Box 6: 1

"Richard Allen Morris / Recent Work," catalog, Sept. 27-Oct. 29, 1978

Box 6: 2

"UCSB Faculty Exhibit 1978," catalog, Nov. 9-Dec. 10, 1978

Box 6: 3

Announcements, 1979

Box 6: 4

"Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom: Victorian Architectural Imagery in California, 1878-1908," catalog, Apr. 4-May 6, 1979

Box 6: 5

"Richard Diebenkorn: Intaglio Prints, 1961-1978," catalog, June 27-Sept. 2, 1979

Box 6: 6

Announcements, 1980

Box 6: 7

"The Architecture of Gregory Ain: The Play Between the Rational and High Art," catalog, Jan. 4-Feb. 10, 1980

Box 6: 8

"Invented Images," catalog, Feb. 20-Mar. 23, 1980

Box 6: 9

"In Her Image: The Great Goddess in Indian Asia and the Madonna in Christian Culture," catalog, Apr. 2-May 4, 1980

Box 6: 10

"Downtown L.A. in Santa Barbara," catalog, Apr. 25-May 28, 1980

Box 6: 11

Announcements, 1981

Box 6: 12

"Re-exhumed Etruscan Bronzes," catalog, Feb. 25-Mar. 22, 1981

Box 6: 13

"Contemporary Drawings: In Search of an Image," catalog, Apr. 1-May 3, 1981

Box 6: 14

"The Cubist Print," catalog, Feb. 17-Mar. 28, 1981

Box 6: 15

Announcements, 1982

Box 6: 16

"Figuration," catalog, Jan. 6-Feb. 7, 1982

Box 6: 17

"The Anglo-American Artist in Italy, 1750-1820," catalog, Mar. 7-May 9, 1982

Box 7: 1

Announcements, 1983

Box 7: 2

"Representation Drawing Today: A Heritage Renewed," catalog, Mar. 2-Apr. 17, 1983

Box 7: 3

"Old Master Drawings from the Feitelson Collection," catalog, Nov. 2-Dec. 11, 1983

Box 7: 4

Announcements, 1984

Box 7: 5

"Constructed Metal: Modern Sculpture," catalog, Jan. 10-Feb. 10, 1984

Box 7: 6

"Rowing / Olympics," catalog, June 20-Aug. 5, 1984

Box 7: 7

"The Henry Eichheim Collection of Oriental Instruments," catalog, Sept. 26-Oct. 28, 1984

Box 7: 8

Neo York: Report on a Phenomenon," catalog, Nov. 11-Dec. 16, 1984

Box 7: 9

Announcements, 1985

Box 7: 10

"Bart Wasserman: North Wall Curving South," catalog, Mar. 27-Apr. 28, 1985

Box 7: 11

"Scapes," catalog, Oct. 30-Dec. 15, 1985

Box 7: 12

"The Highway as Habitat: A Roy Stryker Documentation, 1943-1955," catalog, 1986

Box 7: 13

Announcements, 1987

Box 7: 14

"Images of Krishna: Painted Pichhavais of the Vallabhaite Sect," catalog, Jan. 7-Feb. 22, 1987

Box 7: 15

"Paul Tuttle: Design + the 80s," catalog, Mar. 4-Apr. 18, 1987

Box 7: 16

Announcements, 1988

Box 7: 17

"Terry Winters: Painting and Drawing," catalog, Jan. 6-Feb. 21, 1988

Box 7: 18

"Collaborations in Monotype," catalog, Mar. 4-Apr. 17, 1988

Box 7: 19

Announcements, 1989

Box 8: 1

"Abstract Options," catalog, Jan. 6-Feb. 26, 1989

Box 8: 2

"Museology," catalog, Mar. 1989

Box 8: 3

Announcements, 1990

Box 8: 4

"Howard Fenton: Recent Paintings," catalog, Jan. 10-Feb. 25, 1990

Box 8: 5

"Pulse 2: Report on a Phenomenon," catalog, July 7-Oct. 21, 1990

Box 8: 6

Announcements, 1991

Box 8: 7

Announcements, 1992

Box 8: 8

"Knowledge: Aspects of Concept Art," catalog, Jan. 8-Feb. 23, 1992

Box 8: 9

"Mistaken Identities," catalog, Nov. 11-Dec. 20, 1992

Box 8: 10

Announcements, 1993

Box 8: 11

"The Anne Frank Project," catalog, Sept. 21-Oct. 15, 1993

Box 8: 12

Announcements, 1994

Box 8: 13

"Guys Who Sew," catalog, Oct. 5-Dec. 11, 1994

Box 8: 14

"The Image of Desire: Femininity, Modernity, and the Birth of Mass Culture in 19th-Century France," catalog, Oct. 5-Dec. 11, 1994

Box 8: 15

Announcements, 1995

Box 8: 16

"Representing America: The Ken Trevey Collection of American Realist Prints," catalog, Jan. 11-Feb. 26, 1995

Box 8: 17-23

Announcements, 1996-2002

Box 8: 24

"Paul Tuttle Designs," catalog, Oct. 10, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002

Box 8: 25-31

Announcements, 2003-2012

Box 8: 32

Announcements, n.d.

Box 8: 33

Exhibition schedules, 1983-1989

Series III: Oversize

Box 9: 1

Posters & oversize flyers, 1961-1996

Map Cabinet 19: 12

Posters, 1987