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Drawings

Drawings

Part of

People

  • Gene Summers (creator)
  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

Title

Drawings

Dates of creation

1951 - 2002

Level of archival description

File 4

Extent and Medium

  • 29 drawings
  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of drawings created for inclusion in the 2003 book Gene Summers : Art / Architecture by Werner Blaser.

Reference Number

AP114.S1.SS4.D4

Arrangement

Material was likely kept in its original order by the archivist who first processed this fonds.

Inventory

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    • Reference Number: ARCH263525
    • Title: Drawings for Book
    • Dates of creation: 1951 - 2002
    • Form: drawings, textual records
    • Catalogued items within this file 4

    People:

    • Gene Summers (archive creator)

    Description:

    Clearprint tablet cover containing 26 drawings, watercolours and and prints, and 1 sheet with notations in pencil.

    - chart of bronze vases
    - dust jacket design
    - "Bronze table base F 17 B"
    - "BGM Chair # 2 (L) (Bronze)"
    - 3 studies for candlesticks
    - "# 5 Wood Chair"
    - 4 studies for silk curtain colour, IIT Chapel
    - study of guest units for Desert Gardens project
    - site plan for Cañada Business Center
    - Berlin National Gallery preliminary scheme
    - detail of bronze skin (Seagram building)
    - "Shaker Tower"
    - W & L stool
    - BGM chair

    Quantity / Object type:

    26 drawing(s)

    Extent and Medium:

    • 26 drawings
    • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

    Technique and media:

    Ink and/or coloured pencil on trace; ink and graphite on trace; watercolour and graphite on paper; ink, graphite and collage on trace; printouts

    Inscription:

    some drawings initialled or signed and dated

    Credit line:

    Gene Summers fonds
    Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
    Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
    Don de Gene Summers/
    Gift of Gene Summers

    Objects that have been catalogued:

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    • Reference Number: ARCH263527
    • Title: Drawings for the dust jacket design
    • Dates of creation: 2002
    • Form: drawings
    • Catalogued items within this file 0

    People:

    • Gene Summers (archive creator)

    Description:

    Drawings for the dust jacket design:
    - perspective drawing based on a preliminary design for the Berlin National Gallery
    - female figure
    - perspective drawing with female figure in foreground

    Quantity / Object type:

    3 drawing(s)

    Stage and Purpose:

    • publication drawing

    Extent and Medium:

    • 3 drawings

    Technique and media:

    Ink or ink and graphite on trace

    Dimensions:

    sheets (largest): 28,1 x 43,3 cm sheet (smallest): 28,2 x 21,2 cm

    Credit line:

    Gene Summers fonds
    Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
    Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
    Don de Gene Summers/
    Gift of Gene Summers

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