Series VI: Biographical, circa 1980s - 1997, inclusive
Arrangement
This series is arranged into five subseries: Subseries A: Photographs & Documents; Subseries B: Obituaries; Subseries C: Reviews; Subseries D: Business and Promotional; and Subseries E: Taxes, Receipts, and Legal Documents.
Subseries A: Photographs
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes snapshots of Wojnarowicz, his work, and friends; biographical, contractual, and medical documentation.
Art agreements, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Biographical dateline, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bio-Wojnarowicz family, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Consent forms, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Illinois State University exhibition-checklist of works, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Medical-American Hospitals of Paris test results, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Medical-HIV study report: informed consent, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Medical-morphine document, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Insurance-medical and art, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Photos, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Photos, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Photos, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Photos, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Photos (color Xerox); Jute Harper [Peter Hujar] Greeting Cards, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Photos (print) - Hujar, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Prize, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries B: Obituaries
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains some 22 obituaries which appeared in such diverse commercial publications as OUT, Entertainment Weekly, and TIME. Also, files pertaining to Wojnarowicz's memorial service, including the funeral log.
Announcement of memorial, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Funeral log, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Art in America, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-City of LA, "In Tribute", undated
Box: 9, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Entertainment Weekly, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Entertainment Weekly, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Interzone Vogue, dedicated to Wojnarowicz, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-New Art Examiner, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-NY Newsday, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-NY Times, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-NY Times, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Newsweek, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Otherside, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-OUT, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Paper Sept. 1992, 1992
Box: 9, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-People, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-QW, "Fighting Words", undated
Box: 9, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Review, "City of Widows", undated
Box: 9, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Review, "Notes on the Blood-Filled Egg", undated
Box: 9, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-Review, "Stonewalled at the Museum", undated
Box: 9, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-TIME June 1990, 1990
Box: 9, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-TIME August 1992, 1992
Box: 9, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary-tribute/memorial program, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tom's notes for memorial service, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries C: Reviews
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes some 50-odd critical reviews of various Wojnarowicz exhibitions, performances, writings, and art.
Articles re: AIDS protest against FDA, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mention, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Misc. Articles/reviews/commentary/reflections, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 55 A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review - p. 133, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-AIDS exhibit, Switzerland, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-art and flyer, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Artforum tear sheets for Gracie Mansion Gallery, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Arts Magazine tearsheets, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 62 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Carr, C. Village Voice, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 63 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Close to the Knives, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 64 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Close to the Knives, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 65 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Close to the Knives & Memories; That Smell & letter from Serpent's Tail, ;
Box: 10, Folder: 66 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-critical piece on Wojnarowicz, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 67 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Gracie Mansion Gallery, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 68 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Gracie Mansion review material, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 69 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review --- "In the Shadow of the American Dream", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 69A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Memories That Smell Like Gasoline, Out, Summer, 1992, 1992
Box: 10, Folder: 70 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-misc., undated
Box: 10, Folder: 71 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews --- various exhibitions, installations, performances, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 71A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews --- various exhibitions and publications, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 71B. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Mueller, C. "Art and About", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 72 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Postcards from America, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 73 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review --- Postcards from America, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 73A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Rimbaud, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 74 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-"7 Miles a Second", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 75 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-"7 Miles a Second", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 75A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-"7 Miles a Second", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 75B. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-"7 Miles a Second", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 75C. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-"7 Miles a Second", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 75D. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-"7 Miles a Second", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 75E. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Voice, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 76 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Waterfront Journals, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 77 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review-Waterfront Journals, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 77A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review --- "Brush Fires in the Social Landscape", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 77B. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review --- "Brush Fires in the Social Landscape", undated
Box: 10, Folder: 77C. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries D: Business and Promotional
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains various artist-related materials, including gallery papers, exhibition and performance flyers, and contracts. Also included are business cards and phone numbers of Wojnarowicz's friends and contacts, and other artists' exhibition flyers and catalogs.
Anna Friebe Galerie invoice, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 78 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artist file: Anna Friebe Gallery, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 78A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artist file: Wojnarowicz bios, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 78B. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artist file: Wojnarowicz exhibition flyers, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 78C. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artist file: Wojnarowicz exhibition and performance flyers, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 78D. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artist file: various artist-related, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 78E. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bills, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 79 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Christmas catalog and misc. Receipts, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 80 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Close to the Knives playbill, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 81 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contemporary Museum Hawaii fax, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 82 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
C. W. Graphics: contract, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 82A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Film rights option, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 83 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pollock-Krasner Foundation application, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 83A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Galerie MichPle Chomette, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 84 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gracie Mansion Gallery, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 85 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gracie Mansion Gallery, etc., undated
Box: 10, Folder: 86 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Insurance cancellation/levy sale, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 87 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New Museum, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 88 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plane tickets, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 89 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Public Art Fund Inc. : memo, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 89A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1989, 1989
Box: 10, Folder: 90 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1989, 1989
Box: 10, Folder: 91 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts, etc., undated
Box: 10, Folder: 92 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts, etc., undated
Box: 10, Folder: 93 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts, etc. --Spain, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 94 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts for taxes 1990-97, 1990-1997
Box: 10, Folder: 95 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spain gallery papers, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 96 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Walker Art Center-Ben Neil & David Wojnarowicz/ITSOFOMO, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 97 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Other artists' exhibition flyers and catalogs, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 97A. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Business cards and phone numbers, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 97B. (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries E: Taxes, Receipts, and Legal Documents
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of taxes, including Peter Hujar tax information, and receipts, ordered chronologically (where possible) from 1983 to 1986.
Receipts 1983, 1983
Box: 11, Folder: 98 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1983-84, 1983-1984
Box: 11, Folder: 99 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1984, 1984
Box: 11, Folder: 100 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1984, 1984
Box: 11, Folder: 101 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1984, 1984
Box: 11, Folder: 102 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1984, 1984
Box: 11, Folder: 103 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1985, 1985
Box: 11, Folder: 104 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1985, 1985
Box: 11, Folder: 105 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1985, 1985
Box: 11, Folder: 106 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1985, 1985
Box: 11, Folder: 107 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1985, 1985
Box: 11, Folder: 108 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1985, 1985
Box: 11, Folder: 109 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1985, 1985
Box: 11, Folder: 110 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts-art supplies, undated
Box: 11, Folder: 111 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts-bank 1986, 1986
Box: 11, Folder: 112 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1986, 1986
Box: 11, Folder: 113 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1986, 1986
Box: 12, Folder: 114 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1986, 1986
Box: 12, Folder: 115 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1986, 1986
Box: 12, Folder: 116 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1986, 1986
Box: 12, Folder: 117 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1986, 1986
Box: 12, Folder: 118 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1986, 1986
Box: 12, Folder: 119 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts 1986, 1986
Box: 12, Folder: 120 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Receipts-plane tickets, undated
Box: 12, Folder: 121 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tax-misc., undated
Box: 12, Folder: 122 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tax-misc. receipts, undated
Box: 12, Folder: 123 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
