Guide to the David Wojnarowicz Papers MSS.092

Fales Library and Special Collections

Collection processed by Marvin J. Taylor

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on October 13, 2021
Description is in English. using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Updated by Jacqueline Rider to reflect incorporation of video preservation master and sub-master files Updated by Megan O'Shea to add seven items and prepare 24 others for a move to offsite art storage in September 2017 Updated by Megan O'Shea to incorporate items treated and rehoused by Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department staff Updated by Megan O'Shea to prepare artwork being sent to offsite art storage in December 2017 Updated by Weatherly Stephan to note deaccessions Updated by Kelly Haydon to incorporate new digital access copies of materials from Series VIII, Subseries C: Sound Materials Updated by Anna McCormick to remove obsolete links. Edited by Amy C. Vo to revise harmful language regarding suicide and addiction Updated by Anna Björnsson McCormick to note context between art objects. Updated by Weatherly Stephan to reflect rehousing of objects in Series XIII , March 2017 , August 2017 , November 2017 , December 2017 , June 2018 , May 2019 , January 2020 , April 2021 , July 2021 , October 2021

Container List

Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Series XI: Art Works, circa 1970s - 1990s Scope and Contents This series includes sketches, drawings, studies, altered items, and collage; source material comprises diverse images and textual material which bear directly and indirectly on Wojnarowicz's art. Such items as maps, comic books, postcards, tear sheets, decals, and targets appear in the source material. Art by others includes work by downtown contemporaries Kiki Smith and Barbara Kruger. Arrangement This series is arranged into seven subseries: Subseries A: Finished/Original; Subseries B: Drawings; Subseries C: Sketches; Subseries D: Source/Background Material; Subseries E: Plans; Subseries F: Xerox Art; and Subseries G: Other People's Art.
Subseries A: Finished/Original
Box: 148	Folder : 9	Art - blue ballpoint pen drawing - "Look Honey a Hallucination"	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 1	Art - color separation	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 2	Art Sketch Book - "Bowery Joe"	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 3	Art - 2 prints - Brain-Time	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 4	Art - production - color sample - The Death of American Spirituality	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 5	Art - production - color separation - The Death of American Spirituality	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 6	Art - black ink	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 7	Art - frottage	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 8	Art - images and text	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 9B.	Art - "Mexico" collage	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 9C.	Art - "I Have Always Liked...the Idea of Movies. ."	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 10	Art and Images - Memories that Smell Like Gasoline	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 11	Art and Poem - graphite pencil drawing of dog with cast	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 12	Art - Peter Hujar's diagnostic letter altered with a drawing of two men kissing, from W's "Fuck You Faggot-Hater" series	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 12A.	Art - transparency, "Buying Souls. ."	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 9A.	Art - Xerox diptych	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 13	Comic collage	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 14	Comic - altered Archie comic: "Yo Sadie. ."	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 15	Comic - altered Archie comic: "Reggie is trying to kick his junk habit again. ."	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 15A.	Comic - altered Archie comic: "Archie and Mr. Weatherbee in 'School Tool'"
Box: 148	Folder : 16	Folder with sperm art - painted collage on manilla folder	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 17	Image - brain, eye, earth, heart	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 18	Images	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 18A.	Man's face in shadow	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 19	Postcard - altered	undated
Box: 115		Rimbaud mask Processing Information Rehoused and removed from Box XI.19 Folder 20 to Box 115.	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 21	Sperm/Money/Seeds w/envelope	undated
Box: 112	Object : MSS.092.cuid6194	Stencils - Burning House Stencils (image-making tools)	Undated
Item: MSS.092.cuid6199		Burning man running Works of art.	Undated
Subseries B: Drawings Scope and Contents note [see also Flat Box]
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 148	Folder : 1	Bee: "I'm gonna hold my breath until I die"	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 2	Bellevue Hospital, sketches from	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 3	Bread loaf sewn, ape with club, etc.	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 4	Crashing dove, large deer with leg through roof of house, etc.	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 5	Fuck You Bozo	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 6	recordings after sleep	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 7	Two men with trousers down	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 8	Water, drawings from	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 9	Various drawings	undated
Subseries C: Sketches Scope and Contents note [see also Flat Box]
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 148	Folder : 1	Sketchbook	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 2	Sketchpad	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 3	Storyboard for Times Square Project	undated
Subseries D: Source/Background Material
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 148	Folder : 1	Ads in Spanish	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 2	Archives of American Art materials	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 3	Article on bullfrog	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 4	Article on prison in Newsweek (Oct. 6, 1986)	1986
Box: 148	Folder : 4A.	Autumn leaf cut-outs	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 5	Cards	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 6	Cards - French	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 7	Cards - pictures of animals	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 8	Cards - postcards and envelopes	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 9	Cards - postcards (may contain notes)	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 10	Cards - postcards	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 11	Clippings and tearsheets	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 12	Clippings	undated
Box: 148	Folder : 13	Clippings	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 14	Comics	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 14A	Ripley's Believe it or Not Collection, A Guide, 1978.	1978
Box: 149	Folder : 14B	Exploded Views, Completely Detailed Drawings of Famous Firearms	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 15	Comics	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 15A.	Comics	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 15B.	Comics	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 15C.	Comics	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 15D.	Comics	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 16	Coupons	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 17	Decals	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 18	Diagram of eye	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 19	Diagram of frog	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 20	Envelopes	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 21	Flag images on felt	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 22	Holograms	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 23	Maps	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 24	Maps	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 25	Maps	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 26	Maps	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 26A.	Mexican wrestling magazines	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 27	Night Train label	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 28	Photographs	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 28A.	Plastic rulers	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 29	Pornography - cards and tearsheets	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 30	Pornography - "Old Reliable" catalog	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 30A.	Poster: "Jibaro Si! Yankkkee No."	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 31	Printed material	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 32	Signs	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 33	Signs - FBI Wanted	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 34	Signs - missing animal	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 35	Signs - police posting	undated
Box: 149	Folder : 36	Source - assorted print material	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 37	Source	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 38	Source	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 39	Stencils - alphabet & numbers	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 40	Targets - animals	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 41	Targets - bull's eye	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 42	Text on acetate	undated
Subseries E: Plans
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 108	Folder : 1	Various plans	undated
Subseries F: Xerox Art
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 108	Folder : 1	Black and white	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 2	Black marker drawings	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 3	Color	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 4	Color (cont'd)	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 5	FBI and police notices	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 6	Finished works by DW xeroxed	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 7	Man with gun	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 8	Money	undated
Box: 108	Folder : 9	Self-portrait with target	undated
Subseries G: Other People's Art
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 108	Folder : 1	Other people's art - various	undated
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Table of Contents

Container List

Series XI: Art Works, circa 1970s - 1990s

Scope and Contents

Arrangement

Subseries A: Finished/Original

Processing Information

Subseries B: Drawings

Scope and Contents note

Subseries C: Sketches

Scope and Contents note

Subseries D: Source/Background Material

Subseries E: Plans

Subseries F: Xerox Art

Subseries G: Other People's Art