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Holly Roberts : works 1989 to 1999

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Description: "Roberts' odyssey with the painted photograph began in the mid-1970s. She found that painting over a slick photographic surface, she was able to manipulate the paint -- scrape it, scratch it, even wipe it away -- with the luxury of never losing the underlying image. A modern pioneer of the method, Roberts ups the ante with an understanding of human dynamics just short of psychic and a technique that appears unstudied, but is in fact, quietly accomplished. The combination results in a deeply resonant imagemaking, both haunting and profound"--Publisher's description.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2000]
Call number: 653217
Creator: Roberts, Holly (1951-)(Opens in new tab)

Holly Roberts : works 2000 to 2009

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"Published as a companion book to Holly Roberts: Works 1989 to 1999 [Nazraeli Press, 2000], Works 2000 to 2009 documents the artist's activities during the past ten years. Roberts's odyssey with the painted photograph began in the mid-1970s. She found that in painting over a slick photographic surface, she was able to manipulate the paint by scraping it, scratching it and wiping it away with the luxury of never losing the underlying image. A modern pioneer of the method, Roberts brought the technique to a study of the emotions and psyche of the human condition. After spending decades refining her practice of over-painting photographs, Holly Roberts reversed her modus operandi and in 2005 began constructing photo-based images on top of painted, stand-alone, abstract backgrounds. Her use of these innovative backdrops sets the stage for a very different manner of making images that state her oddly lyrical takes on what she perceives to be true"--Publisher's description.

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John Roberts letters

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The collection consists of ten letters to Roberts and a receipt for payments by Roberts to Sumner Black Coal, an Arapaho. The authors of the letters include Reverend Franklin Spalding, Missionary Bishop of Colorado; Reverend Ethelbert Talbot, Missionary Bishop of Wyoming, and Idaho; Reverend J. B. Funsten; and George H. Sands, a Major in the U.S. Cavalry and commanding officer at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The correspondence deals with affairs on the reservation, its residents, staff, and finances. More specifically, Reverend Franklin Spalding asks about the progress of Sherman Coolidge, an Arapaho priest and John Roberts' assistant.

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Jack and Jim Roberts and Bill Sullivan in Malibu

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Image of children, identified as Jack and Jim Roberts (the sons of Fred and Florence Roberts), driving a cart and pony through a creek in the Solstice Canyon area in Malibu, California, with a dog. One person is identified as Bill Sullivan, but it is not clear whether it is the man or one of the other children.

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Hill Street Building construction

Manuscripts

9 items: eight invoices from Milwaukee Building Co. (Los Angeles), all stamped "Paid," in the 1920-1921 time frame ; one piece of "scratch" paper with the figure "$5196" on it, and "Paid 11/30/20."

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Fred, Flo, Jack and Jim Roberts in Malibu

Visual Materials

Image of Fred and Florence Roberts sitting in a horse drawn buggy with their sons Jim and Jack Roberts on either side on horseback, in Solstice Canyon, Malibu, California.

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Truly Florence Roberts

Visual Materials

Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor Florence Roberts wearing a sleeveless dress with a pearl necklace and earrings.

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Holly Roberts : works 1989 to 1999

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