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Rachel Homer collection of Bruce Conner correspondence and ephemera, approximately 1963-2016.
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Title:

Rachel Homer collection of Bruce Conner correspondence and ephemera, approximately 1963-2016

Creator/Contributor:

Homer, Rachel Johnston, creator, collector.

Creator/Contributor:

Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008, correspondent.

Abstract:

Collection includes personal correspondence from Bruce Conner to Rachel Homer. This correspondence is comprised primarily of mail art with some written letters addressed to Rachel Homer. Also included are several photographs of Conner, two catalogs, several Conner multiples including his collaboration with Michael McClure, Lobe Key Stilled Lionman..., two tickets to Michael McClure's play The Beard, and invitations to the reception and preview for Conner's retrospective IT'S ALL TRUE. The collection also includes two collaged matchboxes signed Bruce Conner, from approximately 1964, a Tiddlywinks box filled with strings and tiny objects, and a Cassius Clay (aka Mohammad Ali) 45 vinyl record: The Champ Sings! Stand By Me and I Am The Greatest.

Date:

1963 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Artists -- 20th century
Artists -- California -- San Francisco
Mail art
Assemblage (Art) -- California -- San Francisco
Artistes -- 20e siècle
Artistes -- Californie -- San Francisco
Art postal
Assemblage (Art) -- Californie -- San Francisco
mail art
Artists
Assemblage (Art)
Mail art
California -- San Francisco
Homer, Rachel Johnston -- Archives
Conner, Bruce -- 1933-2008 -- Correspondence
Conner, Bruce -- 1933-2008

Note:

RESTRICTED. Requests for use must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Gift of Rachel Homer ; 2018.
Rachel Johnston Homer is a collector and author. She was a friend of Bruce Conner.
Rachel Homer collection of Bruce Conner correspondence and ephemera, BANC MSS 2018/222, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.

Type:

mail art.
Archives.
Mail art.
Personal correspondence.
Mail art.
Envois postaux (Art)

Physical Description:

print
1 (2 boxes)
1

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

RESTRICTED. Requests for use must be approved by the appropriate curator.