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John Ashbery collection of artwork and objects

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1318
Abstract: The collection consists of artwork and objects collected by American poet John Ashbery. It includes paintings, glassware, ceramics, clothing, household objects, realia, printed material, collage materials, and other items of significance to Ashbery, some of which inspired his poetry or appeared in his published work. The collection includes materials by or received from Ashbery's husband David Kermani and artists Joe Brainard and Trevor Winkfield, among others. All materials were kept in...
Dates: 1819-2018

Fabergé Eggs: (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986), 1986

 Item — Box: 54 (Oversize)
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1318, Series II

Italian Painting from Caravaggio to Modigliani (Albert Skira, 1952), 1952

 Item — Box: 55 (Oversize)
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1318, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Pages marked:

1) p. 27 Caravaggio, Bacchus Ailing CA. 1590 [see Ashbery’s collage “Still Life” (2016)

2) p. 39 Orazio Gentileschi Young Woman Playing the Lute CA. 1626

3) p. 69 Alessandro Magnasco Punchinello and His Son CA. 1720

3) p. 75 Giambattista Tiepolo Telemachus and Mentor CA. 1740

Dates: 1952

The Masters 10: Tiepolo (Knowledge Publications, 1965), 1965

 Item — Box: 55 (Oversize)
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1318, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Not marked but see Plate V “Venus with a Mirror” (1725) and John Ashbery’s “Tiepolo Macaron” (2015)

Dates: 1965

Fabbri, Fratelli, ed. Il Maestri del Colore: Vermeer (A. & G. Marco, 1964), 1964

 Item — Box: 55 (Oversize)
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1318, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Pages not marked but see: VI-VII Veduta di Delft and Ashbery’s poem “View of Delft” and XVII La merlettaia and Ashbery’s collage.

Dates: 1964

Lands End Catalog addressed to Ashbery, 2016

 Item — Box: 56
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1318, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Page folded but nothing marked. For collages, see Ashbery’s “Strawberry Stairs” (2015) and “Dark Decollation” (2015).

Dates: 2016

L'Opera Completa del Bronzino (Rizzoli Editore, 1973), 1973

 Item — Box: 56
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1318, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Marked: Tav. II La Deposizione di Christo

Note also Tav. XXIII

See Ashbery collages: “Salle d’Attente” (2016) and P.K. (2015) [and several others]

Dates: 1973

McCorquodale, Charles. Bronzino (Harper & Row, 1981), 1981

 Item — Box: 56
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1318, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Marked: (“A Lady with a Dog” p. 98)

See John Ashbery’s “Royal Family II” (2014)

See also cover of Bronzino (McCorquodale), see bottom right of Ashbery’s “Mannerist Concerns” (2008)

Dates: 1981

Gasser, Manuel, Angus Malcolm, trans. Self-Portraits from the Fifteen Century to the Present Day (Appleton-Centiury, 1961), 1961

 Item — Box: 57
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1318, Series II
Scope and Contents: Pages marked for: 1) Parmigianino “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” (1523) p. 60-61: see Ashbery’s “Still Life” (2016) (above) and “The Mail in Norway” (2009)2) Caravaggio “David with the Head of Goliath” (1605) p. 68-69 See Ashbery’s Dark Decollation (2015)3) Michael Sweerts “Self-Portrait” (1661) p. 96-974) Luis Meléndez “Self-Portrait” (1746) p. 112-1135) Barthélemy Menn “Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat” (1872) p. 148-49...
Dates: 1961