Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Holt, Nancy, 1938-2014
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content: Nancy Holt Estate records
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content: Nancy Holt Estate records / Series 3: Writings, Calendars, and Notebooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947-2013
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.holtnanc, Subseries 3.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artist statements are primarily about Holt's individual projects and may duplicate or supplement those found in her project files. Writings on poems and sculpture also include versions of Holt's statements on individual works and projects, notes, and drafts, as well as quotations from other sources. Files also include answers to a questionnaire related to Holt's "Buried Poems," a copy of her 1977 essay on Sun Tunnels published in Art Forum, and a sound recording of a lecture delivered by Holt in 1987. 

A folder entitled "Nancy's Writings, Early" includes a  medical report from Holt's childhood, poetry (by Holt?), crossword work diagrams, and a March 15 1971 Bob Smithson and Bob Fiore conversation transcript. Desert quotes and writings include a notebook of Holt's with a draft of a letter to Dennis Wheeler and other notes and quotations related to the desert and Sun Tunnels, as well as loose sheets of quotations and photocopies of writings by others related to the desert.

Writings by others about Holt include draft manuscripts, some annotated by or accompanied by notes or responses from Holt. They include drafts by Baile Oakes who wrote and edited works on both Holt and Smithson. Writings by Ted Castle are primarily about subjects other than Holt but include a copy of a published article he wrote about her.