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Oversize - Series XI: Art Works

Subseries A: Finished / Original

Two texts: One written on custom declaration form: "Some of us bring in material to work with...."; One written on verso of fragment of poster distributed by Between C&D "Within all this my fears disappeared...", Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photo collage and letter to Dennis Cooper with envelope, 1988 December 28

Box: XI.24, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Flat-File-Folder: 197 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extent

1 item

Physical Facet

one collage

Subjects

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Description: Photo letter composed of 20 photographs taped together in linear configuration making a single object. Individual photos: vignetted aerial view of city; man standing in circle of light at night; skeleton with fake gun in mouth; train engine; hand holding burning globe; nude blindfolded man in abandoned building; tire tracks and footprints in dirt; Tom Rauffenbart at beach; child lying down on sidewalk, face covered; fake eyeball with ant; bandaged hands holding coins; machinery with dials; seated woman in stockings; boxers in ring; monkey being weighed; young men dancing; dog with false human teeth; negative image of couple having sex; nude with wolf mask; DW self-portrait reclining on couch smoking.

Maker: David Wojnarowicz

Where Made: n.p.

Materials: gelatin silver photographs, tape

Dimensions: 81 inches in length. Each individual photograph is between 4 and 7 inches.

Color Photocopies of Circular Images (2 Copies), Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sketch: [Garbage Pile], Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Untitled watercolors - 5 landscapes; 1 still life, Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Two Drawings: "Slam Click", Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photolithography (5): [Skeletons, Voodoo doll, globe, cells], Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil image with cut out: [Skull on fire], Undated, inclusive

Box: 105, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sketch of head on printed score for "Sonatina", undated

Box: XII.46, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Don't Accept Murder, Speak Up!"

Box: I-XI.22, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mounted Poster: "A months ago...", 1985

Box: XII.46, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Distributed in Between C & D. 1 copy.

Untitled- collage on board, Undated, inclusive

Item: MSS.092.cuid5945 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extent

1 item

Physical Facet

one collage

Subjects

Plantiff's Exhibit 14. Color photograph reproduction of David Wojanrowicz's Water, 1990

Item: 092.2.0104 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extent

1 item

Physical Facet

one photograph

Subjects

Genres

Unfinished painting - Map collage, Undated, inclusive

Item: MSS.092.cuid5841 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extent

1 item

Physical Facet

one collage

Subjects

Genres

Unfinished painting - Sex Series, Undated, inclusive

Item: MSS.092.cuid5842 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extent

1 item

Physical Facet

one painting

Subjects

Genres

Black Warning Signs, Undated, inclusive

Item: MSS.092.cuid5843 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extent

1 item

Physical Facet

one poster

Subjects

Genres

Elephants, Undated, inclusive

Item: MSS.092.cuid5844 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extent

1 item

Physical Facet

one painting

Subjects

Stencil Tool: [Fish head], Undated, inclusive

Box: 105, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil Tool: [Burning house (barely used)], Undated, inclusive

Box: 105, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil tool: [Burning house], Undated, inclusive

Box: 105, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil Tool: [Falling man], Undated, inclusive

Box: 105, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil image: [Wolf or dog head], Undated, inclusive

Box: 105, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

14 Stencil Tools: [Shape of USA], Undated, inclusive

Box: 105, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil fragments and other materials previously attached to stencils, removed during conservation 2016, Undated, inclusive

Box: 105, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil Tool: [Skeleton with pope hat], Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil Tool: [Lobster claw-head army man], Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil Tool: [Wolf Head stencil tool], Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Collage: [Skull with sewn lips etc...], Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil Tool: [Head], Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil Tool: [Masturbation], Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil Tool: [Small DW smoking], Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil Tool: [Outline Hujar dreaming], Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil tool: [square root symbol]2 GMe/Re, Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sketch: [Man with raised arm], Undated, inclusive

Box: 106, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries B: Drawings

Two Drawings: Dog with patterned decorations; Devil with Halo, Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

2 Drawings: Torso dressed in Camouflage; Torso with arrows (St. Sebastian), Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sketch: [Man with machine gun], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sketch - seated tattooed man, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil tool: [Flying fish], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil tool: [Man and bull II], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil tool: [Man and bull I], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil tool: [DW self-portrait], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil tool: [Unused burning house], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil tool: [Fish], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil image [Hujar Dreaming], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stencil image [King Kong in Flames], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Drawing: "The Eye Opens Sideways", Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Painting on board: [Sailor], Undated, inclusive

Box: 107, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries C: Sketches

Sketchpad with 4 Ink Washes, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries D: Source/Background Material

Commercially Printed: 100-yard sighting-in target, Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notice for sale of agricultural equipment (in Spanish), undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tissue paper w/ print images, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, Log of Ferry Boat, 1965

Box: XI.23, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Text on Acetate, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Supermarket Coupons, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Various source images, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Envelope w/ DW's handwriting, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Various newspaper pages, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Image of 3 ghouls, by "James", undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Text on acetate, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Giant black dog w/ frightened children, house, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Die Maschine" (print material), undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Encyclopedia page - "Surinam to Surveying", undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photocopy: "Sedition Committee Brings Art From Behind Bars", undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photo: "Storm in the Grand Canyon, Arizona", undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Map book, undated

Box: XI.23, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Posters: "The Late Show Film Series Presents...;" "Llego Noviembre;" "Los Enanitos Toreros", undated

Box: XII.46, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New York Post cover, Aug 10 1988 - "Some Cops Hid Badges. .", 1988

Box: XI.23, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Print material - "Militant Eroticism Art" calendar, 1990, 1990

Box: XI.23, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Loteria Nacional" tables, undated

Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Commercially Printed: "The Sermon on the Mount", Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Patterned paper (handmade?), undated

Box: XII.46, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Comic strip - "Buck missing on Mercury!", undated

Box: XII.46, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pumpkin cutout, undated

Box: XII.46, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Paper bag with logo: "I (heart) America;" Poster with logo and spray paint: "British Airways/London Bridge", undated

Box: XII.46, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Indian style painting, possibly Thangka center painted panel, undated

Box: XII.46, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

16 supermarket advertisements and one map of the USA, Undated, inclusive

object: 092.2.0105 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extent

17 items

Physical Facet

16 posters and one map

Subjects

Genres

Subseries E: Plans

Notes, sketches, and plans for artworks, Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notes and Sketches: "Lists & Ideas for Work", Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries F: Xerox Art

Photostat: [Romulus and Remus myth: two infants with wolf], Undated, inclusive

Box: 105, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photocopies of drawings: face with sewn lips (1); Face with sewn lips with brick wall background (3); brick wall (1), Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Color Photocopy composition (skeleton, baby, snowflake, fabric), Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries G: Other People's Art

Poster, silkscreened: "Did you ever want to kill your boss", undated

Box: XII.46, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Barbara Kruger, "Aqui!" Issue 1, Set 1, 1984, 1984

Box: XI.24, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poster/Flyer/Zine: "Evolution of a Masterpiece", Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photo of Michael Roman Poster, "The Jimmies" (NYC summer 1984), 1984

Box: XII.46, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Screenprint-"Don't Labor Under a Misconception" (Creator Unknown, (Not DW)), Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jenny Holzer, "Inflammatory Essays"

Box: 98 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Kiki Smith, Handmade Photobook, "Dear David...", 1991

Box: 105, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Luis Frangella, Screenprint, "To David", 1983

Box: 105, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unidentified artworks and page of newspaper comics (none D.W.), Undated, inclusive

Box: XI.24, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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