Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ball, Fred Uhl, 1945-1985
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content: Fred Uhl Ball papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945-1987, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ballfred, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The photographs and slides in this series were donated to the Archives of American Art in archival binders. They have been removed from their original binders. The original arrangement has been maintained, and the content notes for slides are generally taken directly from the labels provided in the binders.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains photographs of Ball throughout his life, in addition to photographs of artwork and exhibitions. Photographs of Ball include portraits of the artist in his studio, and family photographs include baby, childhood, and high school pictures. There are also photographs of Ball demonstrating at the State Fair (1965); at an installation and in his studio; and with his mother and half-brother. One photograph of Ball as an infant is labeled "date unknown, photo possibly by Imogen Cunningham." Three photographs show Kathryn Ball and Bruce Beck working on Ball's Sutter Hospital Mural which they completed in 1986.

Binder 1: Photographs #1 contains photographs of commissions in California, Nevada, and New Jersey arranged alphabetically by name of site; and material relating to the 1987 Fred Uhl Ball Retrospective at Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, including a catalog of the exhibition, photographs of the installation and transparencies of works from the catalog.

Binder 2: Photographs #2 contains miscellaneous color photographs of work completed between 1968 and 1985, with some photographs of undated work. Binder 3: Slides #1 contains slides of Ball, including shots of him in his studio, and slides of exhibitions and artwork including commissions. Binders 4 and 5 contain slides of artwork organized by type of work or media.