Material written, drawn and printed by Barry Flanagan including notes on his thoughts and for his correspondence, sketches for works, samples and proofs for prints, sculpture plans and templates and laser and rubber stamp drawings.
Photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies, scans and print-out images. Barry Flanagan's original files and, where evident, series have been left in tact and categorised, as far as possible, according to function, subject or type.
Includes correspondence and subject files, administrative and business papers. The 'extent' for this series includes sub-series hidden from public view comprising 43 folders.
Volumes containing sketches, notes, artist's statements and draft letters and faxes in pencil and pen relating to personal and professional matters, some of which include related inserts such as business cards. Many have pages torn out and contain inserted loose sheets.
Files containing loose sheets of writings including faxes, draft letters, thoughts and artists statements on professional and personal matters, with related sketches, notes, correspondence, press-cuttings and images.
Barry Flanagan started to print 'funds' in 1969. He used his own printed notes and postal orders numbered and authenticated with a thumb print. They were given in lieu of cash to collaborators and assistants including Charles Harrison, Lucy Lippard, Cheryl Potter, Andrew Dipper and Anthony Stokes. Such notes also featured in works including Thumb Prints, Mirror Prints, Money, 1972. These papers include copies of these notes, with related papers and correspondence.
This series of print files containing colour tests, annotated and defective prints, blind prints and notes on the positioning of prints, were acquired by the Estate of Barry Flanagan on 10 October 2012 from Galerie Lelong, Paris. They formed part of a larger series of print files stored at the Galerie; the artworks have been catalogued in the artworks section. Where artworks formed part of the archive file, their presence has been noted in file descriptions. Files are ordered by date of the work.
Plan drawing regarding choreography for Counterfoil, (1972) annotated by Flanagan detailing set design and live set additions for the dancers to interact with.