Writings and Illustrated Notebooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tuttle, Richard, 1941-
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content: Richard Tuttle papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Linear Feet (Boxes 2-5, 12-17, 26)
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content: 0.001 Gigabytes (ER03)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963-2018
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tuttrich, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Gigabytes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The series is arranged as two subseries.

3.1: Writings, 1965-2018

3.2: Illustrated Notebooks, 1963--2017
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Writings and illustrated notebooks date from 1963-2018. Writings include loose journal entries, text for lectures and other speaking engagements, manuscripts for essays, prose, and poetry, as well as scattered notes, writings fragments, and a few published writings. There are also several writings by others, primarily pertaining to Tuttle. One file of poems is in born-digital form.

The illustrated notebooks comprise the bulk of this series and include over 200 items dating over a six-decade span. While not all notebooks are illustrated, Tuttle used most books for a multitude of purposes. They contain a mixture of diary entries, travelogues, lists, drafts of letters, weekly plans, artwork and exhibition ideas, sketches, drawings, and scattered notes. Sketches and drawings are in pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, pen, ink, ink wash, and crayon. Many illustrations reflect Tuttle's spare and subtle style, while other sketches contain logistical details and notes for finished works. Many notebooks also contain pages devoted to Tuttle's daily practice of languages in Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, Japanese, and Chinese.