Administrative
1958-2012
Sub-series
This subs-series documents Melvin Charney's administrative files related to his professional activities, such as his involvement professional associations and schools of architecture. It contains correspondence and office records related to issues of copyright and reproduction, financial records and applications for funding, as well as membership in various professional associations, societies and committees.
Material in this series was likely kept in it's original order when it was first processed upon it's arrival at CCA.
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Ring binder containing the contact information for many of Melvin Charney's acquaintances and colleagues.
1 File
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in French (predominant) and English, including correspondence, film negatives, notes, photographs, sketches, and telegrams related to the Théâtre d'aujourd'hui project for which Melvin Charney was involved as a member of the Comité de planification artistique.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: THEATRE D'AUJOURDHUI
1 File
sheet (smallest): 21,4 × 12,5 cm (8 7/16 × 4 15/16 in.) sheets (largest): 35,3 × 21,5 cm (13 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.) sheets (photographic prints): 20 × 25,1 cm (7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Also contains documents related to a grant and scholarship applications to the Canada Council, and the Ford Foundation.
1 textual record(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Assorted documents in English and French, including correspondence, newsletters, notes, and sketches of floorplans (including a photocopy), related to the following CCA exhibitions:
- Melvin Charney: interpretations and interventions;
- On the dialects of the constructed image: the work of Melvin Charney.
1 textual record(s)
sheet (smallest): 21,5 × 13,8 cm (8 7/16 × 5 7/16 in.) sheet (largest): 29,6 × 41,8 cm (11 5/8 × 16 7/16 in.)
Contains thermal faxes that can fade with time.
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Original folder inscribed in graphite: VIZ[sic]-ART COPYRIGHT
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including printouts, sketches, photographs, a slide, inventories of Melvin Charney's work, invoices, and notes related to the following projects:
- Une oeuvre d'art publique à l'intersection de la rue Centre et de l'avenue Atwater dans le quartier Pointe St-Charles;
- Usines, poteaux, maisons, drapeaux: célébration d'un quartier populaire ... Château d'eau d'usine dénoué;
- In flight series ... TACA, Guatamala City, 1993;
- In flight series ... an airbus on the ground at Warsaw Airport;
- In flight series ... Libyan aircraft smolders at Entebbé;
- In flight series ... Dienbienphu, May 7, 1954;
- Rough cuts ... 4 studies;
- Canada Memorial, Green Park, London ... study no. 8;
- Toronto construction;
- Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 2;
- Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 3;
- Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 4;
- Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 5;
- Floating houses ... Tree-House.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: MC ARTWORK-CAT ENTRY NOTES
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest): 10 × 15 cm (3 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet (largest): 27,6 × 21,4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English, including correspondence, invoices, notes, and art consignment lists related to the transport of five pieces of work to the William Turner Gallery, including:
- In flight series ... French paratroopers, Zaire, 1994;
- Trees ... via dell'Arancera, Borghese gardens, November 2000, no. 6;
- Trees ... Parc de Sceaux, France, May 2001/1;
- Trees ... Parc de Sceaux, France, May 2001/2;
- Tree ... North Rustico, P.E.I.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: TURNER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English and French, including correspondence, notes, a sketch of a floorplan, and waybills for the following artworks to be transported:
- In flight series... on the aircraft carrier George Washington, 1994;
- In flight series... a Russian M18 helicopter about to explode, Grozny, 1994;
- In flight series... a B-52 minutes before it crashed, Spokane, Washington, 1994;
- In flight series... French paratroopers, Zaire, 1994.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: GALERIE CHARLES & MARTIN GAUTIER / QUE
1 file(s)
sheet: 27,7 × 21,3 cm (10 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Original folder inscribed in graphite: INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTRE
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including a grant application to the Canada Council Exploration program for funding, notes, a photocopy of a drawn map of Montreal, newspaper clippings, reference materials, and the following photographs:
- La maison de Rivière-des-Prairies, Fragments 1 (1 gelatin silver print);
- Musée du Québec, exterior view, June 1970 (1 gelatin silver print);
- Unidentified house (1 gelatin silver print).
Original folder inscribed in graphite: MONTREAL DOCUMENTATION: CARTIER
1 file(s)
sheets: 20,4 × 25,2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing a transportation calendar for Pacart, and correspondence from Melvin Charney regarding payment for services rendered.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: PACART - ARTWORK STORAGE / 2010+
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
1 textual record(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
FIle containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including notes, correspondence related to the Public Lending Right Commission (PLRC).
Original folder inscribed in graphite: PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT COMMISSION
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English and French (predominant), including correspondence related to Melvin Charney's membership in the Société du droit de reproduction des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs au Canada (SODRAC).
Original folder inscribed in graphite: SODRAC / LICENSING AGENCY
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in French (predominant) and English, including correspondence related to Melvin Charney's membership in the related to the Société du droit de reproduction des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs au Canada (SODRAC).
Original folder inscribed in graphite: SODRAC - Copyright Request 2011
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English and French, including calendars and correspondence related to the Canadian Artists' Representation and Le regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: RAAV 2011-2012
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Original folder inscribed in graphite: RCA - ARC CURRENT
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Original folder inscribed in graphite: RSC: ACAD ARTS & HUM OF CAN / 2008+
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Original folder inscribed in graphite: YALE UNIVERSITY - CURRENT
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English, including Melvin Charney's application for a Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: 12.2011 MOLSON PRIZE
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Original folder inscribed in graphite: CURRENT AWARDS / FUNDING
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
Original folder inscribed in graphite: CALQ-BOURSE DE CARRIÈRE 2012 OCT 15th
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
File containing documents in English and French (predominant), including correspondence, CVs, and materials related to Melvin Charney's application for funding for his exhibition, Between observation and intervention: the painted photographs of Melvin Charney. Also includes 1 compact disc inscribed in black ink, "IMAGES / CALQ / CHARNEY / ARCHI.", and a request to reproduce Melvin Charney's piece, Dancing.
Original folder inscribed in graphite: CALQ / DEMANDE DE BOURSE / 09.2007
1 file(s)
Melvin Charney fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Dara Charney/
Gift of Dara Charney
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