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Patti Smith featured in the Janet Hamill Archive

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Patti Smith featured in the Janet Hamill Archive

The Janet Hamill Archive offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of Patti Smith as seen through the letters, manuscripts, photographs and documents collected by Janet Hamill during her and Patti's 40-year-long friendship.



Left: Polaroid of Patti Smith from the early 70s. Right: Janet Hamill in Morocco, 1973 by Neil Winokur.

In 2011 Patti was awarded the prestigious Polar Music Prize, considered the “Nobel Prize for Music.” The citation read:

“By devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock’n’roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock’n’roll. Patti Smith is a Rimbaud with Marshall amps. She has transformed the way an entire generation looks, thinks and dreams. With her inimitable soul of an artist, Patti Smith proves over and over again that people have the power.”

To the best of our knowledge, the collection contains the largest and most important gathering of unique Patti Smith archival material ever to appear on the market and includes over a thousand pages of manuscripts and typescripts relating to her National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids; over 200 pages of correspondence with Janet dating from 1970–2005; original photographs, artwork, posters, broadsides, ephemera and a wonderful early drawing by Patti of her and Janet, created in 1966. Additionally, the archive contains extensive material that document the life and work of New York poet Janet Hamill.

The prospectus offering the archive may be viewed here.

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The Patty [Oldenberg] Mucha Archive

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Patty [Oldenberg] Mucha Archive
New York City Art World in the Sixties & Seventies

The Patty Mucha Archive features correspondence, manuscripts, artworks, documents and ephemera from a wild index of artists, poets, dancers and performers active in the era of Pop Art, Happenings, E.A.T., Yippies and Punk including: Olga Adorno, David Bradshaw, Joe Brainard, Gregory Corso, Jean Dupuy, Bob Dylan, Kenward Elmslie, Deborah Hay, Richard Hell, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Ruth Kligman, Billy Klüver, Frosty Myers, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Clarice Rivers, Larry Rivers, Lucas Samaras, Carolee Schneemann and Andy Warhol to name a few. [details here]



Ray Gun Theater. Front of Postcard. Photograph by Robert McElroy of Patty in the Claes Oldenburg 1960 Happening "Blackouts" at the Reuben Gallery. The photograph is also featured on the cover and frontispiece of Michael Kirby's seminal 1965 book Happenings.

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The Latest Threads Talks

Recent Threads Talks by Keith Smith and Richard Minsky have been uploaded to the Threads Talk Series page on Penn Sound

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Chanccani Quipu





Cecilia Vicuña
Chanccani Quipu, 2012
Edition: 32
$3,500

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