Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bengston, Billy Al
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content: Billy Al Bengston papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet (Box 10)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940s-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bengbill, Series 10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs are of Bengston, his friends, galleries, exhibitions, sites of Bengston's commissions, and one family photograph dating from the 1940s. Photographs of other artists include Carlos Almaraz, Richard Diebenkorn, David Hockney, Garry Winogrand. Also included are photographs of artwork, including the Plato de Moreno series of watercolors commissioned in 1982 by Jerry Brown's gubernatorial campaign. Photocopies of photographs not found elsewhere have been kept. Of interest are photographs of Bengston during his 1975 residency at the Everson Museum of Art, helping to construct the house of Roy and Carol Doumani, and Bengston conversing with Buck Henry.

Also found are slides of Bengston's artwork for the installation of his 1988 retrospective.