Manuscripts

Drawings and paintings

Description: Sketches and paintings, primarily from the early 1960s. Subjects are mostly women, with a few self-portraits, animals, and still lifes. Some are signed and dated.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1960s-1970s
Call number: mssBabitz
Creator: Babitz, Eve(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Eve Babitz through Glenn Horowitz Bookseller with support from Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield, November 2021.; gift of Mirandi Babitz, December 2024.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Notebooks, address books, datebooks

Manuscripts

Babitz's address books and datebooks from the 1960s to the 1990s, and a few diary-type notebooks from the 1960s to the 1990s. Several of the datebooks are crammed with phone numbers, appointments, and observations; notebooks are sparser.

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Collage and drawing

Manuscripts

27.5x35.5 collage of Ahmet Ertegun, signed; and a drawing of the Bradbury Building interior by Mae Babitz.

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Sketchbooks and loose drawings

Manuscripts

Three sketchbooks and some loose drawings, primarily of cats and people.

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Eve Babitz papers

Manuscripts

Materials documenting the life and career of writer and artist Eve Babitz. Writings includes drafts and galleys of her books Slow Days, Fast Company (1977), Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time (1979), L.A. Woman (1982), Black Swans (1993), and Two By Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night (1999); as well as articles and stories; screenplays; unpublished manuscripts; and collected clippings and publications. The Personal series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence with friends, family, and publishing contacts; biographical and family items; and Babitz's notebooks and datebooks. Photographs are of Babitz, her friends and family, and the Los Angeles area, including hundreds she took with a Brownie camera documenting her friends and social sphere from 1968 to 1971. Artwork primarily consists of collages Babitz made between 1967 and1970, some commissioned for publication or album artwork. Collage subjects include musician friends and acquaintances including Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger, Stephen Stills, Ginger Baker, and Noel Harrison; commissioned work featuring Marilyn Monroe and Liza Minnelli; and pastoral and abstract scenes. There are also drawings and paintings dating from the early to mid-1960s.

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Correspondence - friends and family incoming/outgoing

Manuscripts

Incoming letters and cards from friends, some unsigned or unidentified; and the majority of Babitz's outgoing correspondence. Babitz's outgoing correspondence is primarily from the late 1960s to early 1970s and includes carbon copies, drafts, and unsent letters and postcards. There is also incoming and outgoing family correspondence (mid 1950s to mid 1960s) with her parents Sol and Mae Babitz, sister Mirandi Babitz, and a few other relatives.

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Collages

Manuscripts

Collages 16x20 or smaller, most from the late 1960s. Includes a piece with the inscription, "Merry Christmas Father, Love Evie" and the piece Sea Legs. Other subjects include Bob Dylan, George Harrison, a hummingbird, and several landscapes.

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