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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
"In 1969 David Hockney made a series of prints to illustrate six fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm; a book was published the following year in a limited edition. Since then the etchings have been exhibited and admired throughout the world, and this exhibition will bring the works to audiences in Britain"--Page 3.
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Auction catalog detailing the 'double portrait' painting of author Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy from 1968, painted by their friend David Hockney. Includes photographs, studies, essays, other 'double portraits' by Hockney, and contextual information about the work, the artist, and the painting's subjects.
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The text in the booklet is an edited version of several hours of conversations with Hockney concerning, for the most part, the function and meaning of sketchbooks for him personally, or, perhaps, for any artist. The accompanying facsimile is as true a copy as it possible of an original sketchbook, including blank pages--Adapted from page 5.
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Manuscripts
Typescript of conference paper written by David C. Gooding. Includes cover letter dated 1977, April 12 to M. D. Greenwood, librarian at the Burndy Library, in which Gooding writes that the paper, which Gooding read at the Winter meeting of the BSHS [British Society for the History of Science] at Chelsea College on 1977, January 8, was the first part of a longer, more detailed study of Faraday's Experimental Researches, slated for publication.
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These portraits of Hockney's friends from Los Angeles, New York and London were drawn from life in the studios of Gemini G.E.L., 8365 Melrose Avenues, during two visits to Los Angeles; one from February to May, 1976 and another during November, 1976.
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Visual Materials
One booklet entitled How to make Crepe Paper Flowers, published by Dennison Manufacturing Co., Framingham, Massachusetts, 1922. 32 pages in length, this instructional pamphlet provides both general and specific instructions for making numerous kinds of flowers from crepe paper. Each page highlights one kind of flower, and includes textual and visual (black and white) instructions. Laid in are several folded paper pattern sheets for use with the instructional pamphlet. The front and back covers are illustrated and in color; the front cover features a seated woman who is cutting a length of green crepe paper; the back cover features an orange vase of pink (presumably crepe paper) roses. Also on the front cover is the price of the pamphlet: "Price 10 [cents symbol]". The inside of the front cover is a manufacturer's advertisement for "Instrutions Books of 'Dennison Craft'", which lists and briefly describes the six titles in the series. The inside of the back cover advertises three books of holiday and party decorations issued by Dennison Manufacturing Co. "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms. at the top of the front cover.
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