Exhibition and Commission Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Benton, Fletcher, 1931-
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content: Fletcher Benton papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet (Box 2-4, OV 11-13, RD 14, FC 15)
label: Extent
content: 0.5 Gigabytes (ER01)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959-2004
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bentflet, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gigabytes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arrangement is chronological. Additional information about exhibitions and commissions is found in series 2, Correspondence and series 5, Printed Materials.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Materials include correspondence with galleries, museums and specific commission patrons; financial records; shipping and subcontracting documentation; audiovisual material and planning and design materials, including a significant amount of oversized materials. The most extensive documentation is found for the Folded Circle-Arc commission by Stanley Consultants, Inc. in Muscatine, Iowa; the California/International Arts Foundation Traveling Sculpture Exhibition; Double Folded Circle Ring in Brussels and Double Circle Folded by Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Note that the folder of South American Materials contains correspondence, shipping records and inventories of artwork involving Estudio Actual (Caracas), Galeria Bonino Ltd, (New York) and Stanford University. An early exhibition in San Francisco is documented on digitized motion picture film shot by Al Wong in 1967. Additional audiovisual material in the series include 2 videocassettes (VHS); one with documentation of the installation of Double Folded Circle Ring in Brussels, and a promotional video about Double Circle Folded in Los Angeles; and one sound cassette recording of the reception for Folded Circle-Arc in Muscatine, Iowa.