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Preliminary Guide to the Anne Greet Cushing Collection
Printers Mss 40
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Title: Anne Greet Cushing Collection
Dates: ca. 1940s-1980s
Collection number: Printers Mss 40
Creator:
Cushing, Anne Greet
Collection Size:
1.5 linear feet
(3 boxes and 1 oversize box).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Prospectuses, slides, and other materials mainly relating to artists and artists' books, many French, esp. Iliazd.
Physical location: Boxes 1-3 (Del Sur); Box 4 (Del Sur Oversize).
Languages:
English, French
None.
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.
Anne Greet Cushing Collection. Printers Mss 40. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Donated by Anne Greet Cushing, 1999.
From the
Unicorn Folio, Series Two, Number One: (1968):
Anne Hyde Greet [Cushing] is the author of a book of poems,
Spring Eclogue (Francistown, N.H.: Golden Quill Press, 1962) and of an annotated translation,
Alcoõls Guillaume Apollinaire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965). Her poems have appeared in
The New Yorker,
New Statesman and other magazines, and she has published articles and book reviews concerning 19th and 20th century French poetry in American
and French journals. She is currently Associate Professor of French Literature at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
In addition to "Pension Revisited" and "Feast Day at Belgirate," she is represented in this issue of
Unicorn Folio by translations from the French of Pierre Reverdy: three prose poems.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains examples of fine printing, proofs, prospectuses, articles, lists, bibliographies, catalogs, correspondence,
and other material primarily relating to art and artists’ books in France, the work of Guillaume Apollinaire, Marc Chagall,
Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, and especially the avant-garde Russian artist and publisher Iliazd [born Ilia Zdanevich in Tiblisi,
lived and died in Paris]. Also included are etchings and a manuscript book of Japanese drawings.
There are a number of fine press, artists' books, and other related monographs also donated by Anne Cushing, which have been
cataloged separately and which may be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog. Some items, such as art exhibition
catalogs, are housed in the UCSB Arts Library. An accompanying teaching slide collection was transferred to the Art History
Department in 2002.
More detailed information about the contents and significance of items in the collection is contained in the appended list
prepared by the donor.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Cushing, Anne Greet
Greet, Anne Hyde
Poets, American.
Poets, French
Artists, French.