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Box 272

 Container

Contains 23 Results:

The Ballerina, 1984

 Item — Box: 272
Identifier: CC-19334-19717
Scope and Contents

This book object has the shape of a headless ballerina. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

my pet concertinas, 1988

 Item — Box: 272
Identifier: CC-48234-69258
Scope and Contents

The booklet with the 26 treated pages has an abstract line drawing on its cover, the booklet with 69 treated pages has the roman numeral "II" on its cover with the title "Les Tres Riches Heures de Fleur." The first booklet describes and illustrates trips to Kenya, Verona, Dusseldorf with Phillips' assistant/bookbinder Pella Erskine Tulloch. He also describes and illustrates her musical tastes. The first sketch of her portrait appears on one of the pages; the Sackner Archive holds the completed painted portrait. In the booklet with 69 treated pages (concertina II), Phillips mentions drawing and painting Pella's portrait and comments on his own activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988