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Box 396

 Container

Contains 74 Results:

[the 1st of January] / Melnikov-Starquist, Willi., 1997

 Item — Box: 396
Identifier: CC-55947-9999415
Scope and Contents

This is a letter addressed to Mr. Marvin Sackner! " Great thanks for your wonderful catalog!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Attached to "Hieroglypoetry especially for Mr. Marvin Sackner"

Dates: 1997

RE: Concrete Poetry in the UK [Marvin Sackner email correspondence to Gregory Charles Thomas], November 2012 - April 2013

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

Contains emails between Marvin Sackner and Gregory Charles Thomas, primarily about artists Bob Cobbing and Dom Sylvester Houedard

Dates: November 2012 - April 2013

смена (smena) / unidentified, undated

 Item — Box: 396
Identifier: CC-55947-9999415
Scope and Contents

Printed text has been significantly obscured with marker and damage to paper surface

Dates: undated

[William Allen catalog & letter sent to Marvin Sackner regarding Ken Cox Collection] / Allen, William, 9 October 2012

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

In the letter, Allen offers the Ken Cox Collection on the behalf of Cox's family to the Sackner archive for £45,000, explaining Cox's significance and connections to Dom Sylvester Houedard and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Items in the catalog include sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints

Dates: 9 October 2012

Statement [to Ruth & Marvin Sackner for purchase of two untitled works by Zdenek Kosek] / Cavin-Morris Gallery, 28 September 2012

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

Invoice #1320. Kosek works are "Untitled" (1990) and "Untitled (Pivnice)" (1991), which the statement contains photographs of. Total fee was $1,800

Dates: 28 September 2012

RE: your Archive [Marvin Sackner email correspondence to Mali Burgess], 13 May - 18 June 2013

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

Emails detail the sale of five artist books by Burgess, including "Silence", "Time", and three books including poetry chosen for "Still". Marvin values the books at $20,000, but can only offer $5,000 due to retirement straining his funds. Photocopied page is of a letter written by Marvin to Burgess, thanking her and enclosing a check

Dates: 13 May - 18 June 2013

[Invoice from Allyson Strafella to Sackner Archive], 11 February 1997

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

Invoice details the sale of two typewriter drawings: both untitled and created in 1993. Total cost came out to $650

Dates: 11 February 1997

[Marvin Sackner email correspondence to Nicola Simpson], December 2012

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

Simpson thanks Marvin for his appearance at an event about Dom Sylvester Houedard and for the use of his collection, asking for digital copies of a few collection items. Marvin obliges, and resends the files when asked.

Dates: December 2012

[Invoice from Xexoxial Editions, presumably to Sackner Archive] / And, Miekal., 18 February 2013

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

Concerns the order of works by multiple artists, including Bern Porter, Irving Weiss, Bruce Andrews, Alan Halsay, John M Bennet, mIEKAL aND, and Elizabeth Was. Subtotal is $111

Dates: 18 February 2013

Davi Det Hompson [article in New York Times] / Rosenburg, Karen., 15 February 2013

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

Rosenberg writes about the "Sure Sure Davi Det Hompson: 1976-1995" exhibit put on by ZeiherSmith Gallery during February 2013

Dates: Publication: 15 February 2013

RE: greetings [Marvin Sackner email correspondence to Cavan McCarthy], 2013 January 15 - 2013 April 22

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

Marvin contacts McCarthy about his typewriter poetry. McCarthy replies that his output has been less and less since his Parkinson's diagnosis in 2002, that most of his typewriter poetry resides at the Leeds University, and speaks some about his artistic process

Dates: 2013 January 15 - 2013 April 22

RE: Performance at MoMA [Marvin Sackner email correspondence to Augusto de Campos], 2012 October 6

 Item — Box: 396
Scope and Contents

De Campos contacts Marvin to ask if he and Ruth will be able to attend his performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to which Marvin responds that he will be unable to

Dates: 2012 October 6