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Archives at Cornell

Box 8

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

Wagstaff exhibitions, 1973, 1978-1981, 1983, 1985

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Included in the folder is a photocopy of an invitation to Wagstaff’s opening on March 29, 1979 at the Montgomery Art Gallery (Pomona College); a broadside for a Wagstaff exhibition at the dell’International Center of Photography in Italy in 1979; and the NYU press release dated 6/1/78 for the first major exhibition of photographs from the Sam Wagstaff Collection.

Dates: 1973, 1978-1981, 1983, 1985

Wagstaff. Sam's letters, 1973 - 1977

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Annotated carbon copies of correspondence between Mapplethorpe and Sam Wagstaff.

Dates: 1973 - 1977

Show invitations, 1978 - 1988

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Approximately 25 invitations to Mapplethorpe openings ca. 1978 – 1988. In addition, folder contains flyers and press releases for premiere screenings of Robert Mapplethorpe’s short film “Still Moving/Patti Smith” ca. March/ April 1978.

Dates: 1978 - 1988

R.M. (Robert Mapplethorpe) interviews, 1980 - 1989

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Folder contains annotated and highlighted carbon copies of interviews with Mapplethorpe from the 1980s. In addition, present in this folder are Morrisroe’s handwritten notes regarding a Spanish documentary about Mapplethorpe.

Dates: 1980 - 1989

Reviews, 1980 - 1990

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Highlighted and annotated carbon reviews of Mapplethorpe’s openings in the 1980s.

Dates: 1980 - 1990

Notes, undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 6-10
Scope and Contents

Morrisroe’s hand written research and interview notes. Includes memo notebooks and dozens of loose leaves. Notes center around all of the major voices/persons in the book including Sam Wagstaff, John McKendry, Mapplethorpe’s college roommate, etc.

Dates: undated

Maxime de la Falaise, 1975, 1988-1991

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Includes letter from Mapplethrope to de la Falaise's husband, John McKendry, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967-1975.

Dates: 1975, 1988-1991

Patti Smith, 1975-1977, 1982

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Includes numerous annotated articles on Patti Smith. Also includes an Arista Records Patti Smith publicity still; signed first edition of Smith’s Ha! Ha! Houdini [1977]; issue # 2 of PUNK magazine; 8/5/82 birth announcement of Jackson Frederick Smith, son of Fred “Sonic” Smith and Patti Smith.

Dates: 1975-1977, 1982

Patti Smith, 1977

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Includes numerous, annotated, articles on Smith in addition to invitation to Smith’s “Rock n’ Rimbaud” reading [October 20, 1977 at Veith Turske Gallery]

Dates: 1977