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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 137 Collections and/or Records:

2. Letters / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-58079-10001329
Scope and Contents

The letters Q and Z are stamped in varius typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

3L3 [1] / Depew, Wally., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-58109-10001360
Scope and Contents

Three booklets have the same title but different imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

3L3 [2] / Depew, Wally., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-58120-10001372
Scope and Contents

Three booklets have the same title but different imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

3L3 [3] / Depew, Wally., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-58121-10001373
Scope and Contents

Three booklets have the same title but different imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

4 artists / Depew, Wally ; LeWitt S ; Forney D ; Bandt L., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-53076-74222
Scope and Contents

The four artists in this book are Wally Depew who wrote and designed the woodblock prints for the overleaf for the fold-out for it, and the cited artists, Sol LeWitt, Darrel Forney and Linda Bandt. The theme of the this book involves wordplay. Depew used three adjacent letters from each artist's name, e.g. SOL, FOR, & LIN to rubberstamp words containing these letters on each page. For example, SOLEMN, FORCE, LINGUIST. The loose sheet entitled, ANALYSIS, documents the statistics involved with rubberstamping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

A Sweet Book / Depew, Wally., 1984

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Identifier: CC-58122-10001374
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book deals with the 'virtues' of sugar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Bad Monkey Poem / Depew, Wally., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-58143-10001395
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a single letter of the title, one series with solid black letters, another with black outline letters. Two black outline letters are left over, viz. 'l' and 'i' amd one solid black 't.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Beaver: An Abstract Novel / Depew, Wally; Depew L., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-52998-74142
Scope and Contents

This book is dedicated to Linda Depew. The title refers to the slang expression for a woman's unshaved vagina. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Blue / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15169-15490
Scope and Contents

The text of this book interspersed with rubberstamped images of a husk of corn reads "blue corn grows in the sand for the Hopi." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Book For L / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-58119-10001371
Scope and Contents

The pages depict nude women in various poses taken from magazines that are rubberstamped with single or multiple letters. The drawing depicts a piece from a jig saw puzzle suggesting that the unscrambling of the letters might have a meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

coming / Depew, Wally., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-15184-15505
Scope and Contents

The image on each page is a rubberstamped blue dragon with the lightest image at the beginning of the book that progresses to the darkest image at the end. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

DATURA / Depew, Wally., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-15168-15489
Scope and Contents The word "DATURA" is rubberstamped in different layouts over several pages followed by an "APPENDIX" repeating the word "DATURA" in different colors with overprinting and smudging on a wider page that has been folded in at one end and rubberstamped with a colored flower. Wikipedia states the following: Datura are herbaceous, leafy annuals and short-lived perennials which can reach up to 2 meters in height. The leaves are alternate, 10--20 cm long and 5--18 cm broad, with a lobed or toothed margin. The flowers are erect or spreading (not pendulous like those of the closely allied Brugmansia), trumpet-shaped, 5--20 cm long and 4--12 cm broad at the mouth; colors vary from white to yellow, pink, and pale purple. The fruit is a spiny capsule 4--10 cm long and 2--6 cm broad, splitting open when ripe to release the numerous seeds. The seeds disperse freely over pastures, fields and even wasteland locations. Datura belongs to the classic "witches' weeds," along with deadly nightshade,...
Dates: 1985