Finding Aid to the Jess Papers, 1941-2004, bulk 1962-1997, 1941-2004, (bulk 1962-1997)
Finding Aid to the Jess Papers, 1941-2004, bulk 1962-1997, 1941-2004, (bulk 1962-1997)
Collection number: BANC MSS 2006/203
The Bancroft Library- Finding Aid Author(s):
- Finding Aid written by Jennifer Davis
- Date Completed:
- August 2007
- Finding Aid Encoded By:
- GenX
Scope and Content of Collection
Adams, Marina 1990-1996
Aiken, Joy 1972-1974
Alexander, Paul 1964-1994 undated
Anderson, Harry and "Moo" 1995-1997
Anger, Kenneth 1969-1998
Anger, Kenneth 1969-1998
Anger, Kenneth 1973
Anglim, Paule 1998-1999
A Miscellaneous 1962-1996
Barrier, Alberta 1987-1998
Bary, Lloyd and Dave 1988-1998
Bankson, John 1995-1996
Baum, Don 1989-1996
Beatty, Paul 1963-1965
Benneti, Mary 1993-1994
Berg, Robert undated
Bergan, Brooke 1993-1995
Berkson, Bill 1992-1997
Berman, Wallace 1962-1963 undated
Boler, Megan 1996
Blaser, Robin 1979-1995
Brainard, Joe 1972 undated
Brockway, Lyn 1994-1995
Broughton, James 1952-1988
Brown, Norman O. 1990-1994 undated
Brutten, Milton 1974-1978
Burnett, Catherine 1983-1990 undated
Burnside, Madeleine 1985-1997
Burton, Hilde and David 1977-1998 undated
Burton, Deborah and Stephen 1988-1998
Butterick, Collette (a.k.a. Rose Gazzette) 1988-1992
BA-BE Miscellaneous 1968-2002
BL-BO Miscellaneous 1974-1997
BR-BU Miscellaneous 1981-1994
California Institute of Technology 1994-1999
Coke, Van Deren 1964-1977
Cole, Norma 1988-1999
Collins (Family) 1983-1999
Conner, Bruce and Jean 1959-1998
Connor, Julia 1988-1999
Contact - Sachs, Barbara Turner 1960-1961 undated
Corbett, Edward 1990-1994
Corman, Gene 1984-1988
Cowles, Charles 1969 undated
Creeley, Robert 1974-1996
C Miscellaneous 1959-1997
Dark, Chris 1976-1977 undated
Davidson, Michael 1973-1994
Dillenberger, Jane 1971-1977
Di Prima, Diane 1988-1997
Dunn, Joe 1958-1968
D Miscellaneous 1964-1995
Ehrlich, Susan 1995-1996
Elliott, James 1983-1994
Eshleman, Clayton 1960-1980
E Miscellaneous 1964-1988
Evans, Thomas 1993-1997
Fabilli, Mary and Lili 1988-1996
Fama, Steven 1996-1998
Fauchereau, Serge 1993-1998
Fauchereau, Serge 1984-1999
Fenichel, Lilly 1951-1998
Ferriss, Les - The Lapis Press 1992-1995
Field, Tom 1962 1988-1996
Fineman, Jack 1994-1995
Finlay, Alec - Morning Star Publications 1990-1996
Fisher, Sandra 1987-1988
Foulkes, Llyn 1964-1997
Fraser, Robert 1967 undated
F Miscellaneous 1972-1999
Gardner, Susan 1988
Gaynes, Robin 1995-1999
Gaynor, Chris 1982
Giannini-Norlund, Paula 1993-1995
Giard, Robert 1995
Giffon, Anne 1986-1991
Ginsberg, Allan 1988-1999
Gizzi, Peter 1991-1996
Gluck, Robert 1990-1999
Gordon, Karen Elizabeth 1986-1992
Greene, Merril 1974-1977
Gunn, Thom 1980-1989
G Miscellaneous 1959-1996
Hall, Nor 1994-1996
Harris, Mary Emma 1987-1995
Harrison, Lou (and Colvig, William) 1971-1983 undated
Hawley, Robert and Earlene 1983-1993
Hennum, Gerd 1996-1997
Herms, George and Pixie 1963 1966 1969 1994-1997
Herndon, Fran 1966 1990 undated
Hershon, Bob 1984
Hodes, Ida 1974-1993
Hoffman, Michael 1974-1975
Hoffman, Miriam 1952 1995
Holub, Leo 1992-1998
Howe, Susan 1986-1990
Hulshoff, Laree 1993-1999
H Miscellaneous 1988-1997
Irby, Ken 1971-1999
I Miscelaneous 1983-1997
Jacobus, Harry 1970-1998
Jaeger, Julia 1967-1999
Jarnot, Lisa 1988-1999
Johnson, Ron 1974-1996
Johnston, Alastair 1984-1997
Jones, David 1988-1999
Jones, Mallory and Hawkins, Linda 1988-1990
Jordan, Larry and Patty 1960-1994
Jordan, Lorna Star 1989-2002
Joseph, Barbara 1968-1987
Journoud, Claude 1988-1990
J Miscellaneous 1978-1995
Kael, Pauline and Karagueuzian, Maureen 1989-1996
Keller, Vic 1987-1996
Kienholz, Lyn 1989
Killian, Kevin 1990-2000
Kitaj, R.B. 1967-1994
Kitson, Edward 1970
K Miscellaneous 1964-1999
LaCharity, Ralph 1988-1993
Lazer, Hank 1996-1997
Lehrman, Robert 1991-1995
Levertov, Denise 1963-1989 undated
Lockwood, Willard 1960-1964
Lonidier, Lynn 1967-2000
Lowell, David and Strohm, Colleen 1986-1996
L Miscellaneous 1962-1997
Marlowe, Alan and Di Prima, Diane 1969 undated
Marquand, Ed 1988-1989
Marti, Sister (Starcross Community) 1993-1996
McCarroll, Toby (Starcross Community) 1962-2003
McClure, Joanna 1960-1992
McClure, Michael 1958-1995
McNaughton, Duncan and Genie 1984-1997
Meanor, Patrick 1994
Miller, Chuck 1974 undated
Mixon, Don and Eloise 1969-2002
Mondale, Joan and Walter 1980-1981
Moore, William Brodecky 1964-1996
Munakata, Grace 1984-2002
M Miscellaneous 1968-1997
Neff, John Hallmark 1982-1995
Northwest Review 1963-1964
Noto, John 1991-1992
N Miscellaneous 1977-1990
O'Gallager, Liam and Rheem, Robert 1988-1992
Olivieros, Pauline 1964-1967
Open Space 1964-1965
O Miscellaneous 1965-1998
Palmer, Michael 1989-1997
Parkinson, Ariel 1990-1992
Perl, Jed 1996
Perlmutter, Penny 1988-1989
Peltin, Irving 1989-1989
Philbin, Ann 1992
Piaskowski, Nata 1971-1994
Podgurski, Robert 1997
Poetry Project 1988
Poltroon Press - Alastair Johnston 1986-1995
P-Q Miscellaneous 1958-2001
Rakosi, Carl 1981-1989
Raworth, Tom 1985-1995
Redman, Doris 1992-1994
Rexroth, Mariana 1988-1999
Roth, Joan and William 1962-1994
Rothenberg, Jerome and Diane 1959-1988
Rysdyk, Evelyn 1986-1998
R Miscellaneous 1961-1999
Sankey, Laura and Elwood 1963-1968
Shank, William 1998
Shor, Jayne 1991-1998
Shurin, Aaron 1982-1993
Simas, Joseph 1989-1994
Sloan, Margy 1988 1994
Solinas, Rico 1995-1997
Solnit, Rebecca 1988-1994
[Spicer], Jack undated
Stanford University 1962
Stanley, George 1965 1988-1995
Stockwell, Dean 1963-1967
Strauss, David Levi 1988-1993
S Miscellaneous 1964-1999
Tacker, William Mark 1998-1999
Tallman, Ellen 1967 1989-1994
Tetrault, Jan 1990-1992
Thackrey, Susan 1987-2003
Tremblay-McGraw, Robin 1996 undated
Tress, Arthur undated
Turner, John 1996-1997
Tyler, Mary C. 1978 1989-1995
T Miscellaneous 1988-1999
University of California Press (McClung, William) 1987-1990
Wagstaff, Christopher and Sheena 1983-1996
Wenning, Henry 1967-1968
Whalen, Philip 1962-1992
Whitney, Stanley 1990-1997
Wilson, Robert 1964 1988-1992
Williams, Jonathan 1959-1993
Winkfield, Trevor 1977-1996
V-W Miscellaneous 1958-1998
Yamauchi, Koichiro 1996-1997
Yau, John 1990-1995
Zen Center 1977 1994-1995
Zukofsky, Louis 1958-1970
Zwicky, Fay 1988-1994
Zyzzyva 1986-1998
"Patricia" no surname 1961
No surname correspondents 1965 1966 1998-1999 undated
"Wishful correspondence" 1994-1996
"Requests disregarded" 1994-1997
871 Fine Arts 1992-1993
Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Auping, Michael 1984-1997
Arts Club of Chicago 1980-1981
Art Institute of Chicago 1971-1978
Bedford Gallery 1994-1996 2001
Berkeley Art Museum 1997-1998
Black Sparrow Press 1967-1973
Boise Gallery of Art 1984
Borregaard's Museum 1961-1964
Boxtie, Taylor, James 1997
California Institute of Technology 1995
Cellini Gallery 1968
Central City Hospitality House 1997
Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum 1967-1968
Cleveland Museum of Art 1987
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts - Murdoch, Robert 1974-1977 1996
Des Moines Art Center 1993
De Saisset Museum 1982-1988
De Young Memorial Museum 1995
Dilexi Gallery 1962-1969
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 1987-1995
Fresno Art Museum 1994-1996
Gallery Paule Anglim 1974-1997
Gallery Reese Palley 1970
Gumps 1958-1959
Harcourt Brace 1996
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 1987-1997
Institute of Contemporary Art Amsterdam 1992-1993
Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania 1969-1970
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art 1983-1984
John Berggruen Gallery 1989-1995
John Natsoulas (Novelozo) Gallery 1989-1995
Kent Gallery 1991-1992
Laguna Art Museum 1994-1996
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1982-1996
L.A. Louver 1979-1992
Meridian Gallery - Society for Art Publications 1996-1997
Mills College Art Gallery 1993-1994
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1971-1996
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1992-1993
Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1993-1995
Museum of Modern Art, New York 1965-1985
National Endowment for the Arts 1972-1974 1996
National Portrait Gallery 1995-1996
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery 1991
Oakland Museum of California - Tomidy, Paul 1984-1998
Palo Alto Community Center and Weigand Gallery 1990-1996
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1978-1979
Richmond Art Center 1989-1994
Rolf Nelson Gallery 1964-1966
Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Limited 1983-1985
Royal Academy of Arts 1990-1991
San Francisco Art Institute 1987-1996
San Francisco Museum of Art 1962-1969
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1968-1992
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Conservation Department 1983-1986
San Jose Museum of Art 1989-1990
Secession Gallery 1994-1995
Serendipity Books 1984-1996
Smithsonian Archives of American Art 1995
University of California, Los Angeles Armand Hammer Museum 1995
University Art Museum, Berkeley 1977-1992
University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Gallery, Watson, Scott 1995-2000
Valley House Gallery - Vogel, Donald 1969
Vancouver Art Gallery 1989
Wadsworth Atheneum Matrix Gallery 1988-1998
Walker Art Center - Boswell, Peter 1984-1995
Whitney Museum of American Art 1986-2002
Miscellaneous 1968-1999
A Skeptic Milieu Medallion 1954-1975
J No. 2 - I Ups to Myself And 1959
Mimeographed in J No. 2 1959 October
Open Space No. 4, April 1964 - Letter to Jerry Reilly 1964 March 23
A Tread By a Thread: A Pillowbook 1965
The Mister E Mage of 3-in-1 Isle 1968
This Here Other World [1968]
This Here Other World - Typescript [1968]
A Break-down Make-up Snake-skin and Craft of the Whole World undated
As Bird Ditties and Purple Exities - Typescript undated
Palström - Typescript undated
Untitled poems undated
Miscellaneous 1942 undated
Series 3: General Files 1941-1999 undated
"Reviews" - Publicity 1961-1998 undated
Personal records and transcripts 1941-1988
California Institute of Technology transcripts 1942
Miriam Hoffman drawings 1946-1953
Norris Embry notebook 1952
King Ubu Gallery 1952-1953
Caesar's Gate flyers 1955
Photographs of Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley 1955
Catalogue of "Postcard Collages" 1957-1967
Historias de Cronopios y de Famas by Julio Cortazar -typescript 1960
Flyer - "San Francisco's Burning" by Helen Adam, illustrated by Jess 1963
Art sales register 1968-1999
Odyssia Gallery Statements and Correspondence 1968-1997
Pricelist of oil and wax paintings and "paste-up" poster list 1970-1971 undated
"From a Suite of Metaphysical Poems" by Robert Duncan, art by Jess (two copies) 1971
"A Catalogue of the art collection belonging to Robert Duncan" 1973 January
Bay Area Funeral Society 1974-1995
Insurance 1978-1979
Financial Ledger 1981-1989
"Duncan-Jess Collection" - Art catalogue 1988
Duncan, Robert - Probate 1988-1993
Clippings 1990
Non-profit donations register 1995-1998
Harry Jacobus prints 2003
Jess obituary, The San Francisco Chronicle 2004 January 7
Selected Poems of George Macdonald undated
Ray Johnson collection undated
The Napoleonic Geometry of Art undated
Artwork undated
Notebook [stained glass] undated
[Titles of future work?] undated
Artwork documentation - pictorial undated
Miscellaneous 1998-1999 undated
Unidentified Photographs undated
Salvages IV, V, VII, VIII Translation Material - collage pieces undated
Framed artwork, "Mysterium Magnum" undated
Framed portrait, Robert Duncan undated
Billy the Kid by Jack Spicer, illustrated by Jess - Originalplates and negatives undated
Portraits of Jess by Leo Holub undated
The Better Dream House by Joe Dunn, illustrated by Jess - original shooting copy undated
Drawing for Jess on his 30th birthday by R. Duncan 1953
Helen Adam photo album undated
Book of Exquisite Corpses - drawings by Jess, Harry Jacobus and Robert Duncan undated
Exquisite Corpses BANC MSS 2006/203
Scope and Content Note
Additional Note
"Man, Woman, Cat, in a Room." BANC MSS 2006/203
Additional Note
"Formal Garden." BANC MSS 2006/203
Additional Note
Personal catalogue of works including collector information undated
Haiku by Diane DiPrima, illustrated by George Herms 1967
George Herms artworks - 2 pieces (deck of cards and collage) undated
Unidentified artworks - 2 pieces (playing card and jewelry box) undated
Series 4: George Herms Papers 1960-1990 undated
Correspondence 1960-1990 undated
Artwork 1963-1970 undated
Exhibition flyers and catalogues 1973-1989
Blobs by Nalota Herms 1971
Zen Love Poems by Idell, illustrated by George Herms 1967
Clearspring 1967
"Miscellany #1" - Formerly gathered in custom box found in Oversize Box 2 folder 5 1963-1982 undated
"Miscellany #2" 1963-1975
Lunar Packet 1964-1965
Artwork - "John tree heavy with arcs" poem by Jack Hirschman, design by Herms 1970
Exhibition posters 1973-1984 undated
Untitled artwork undated
"Miscellany #1" - Custom box, contents of box are in Box 20 undated