Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Stephen Longstreet, Artwork for "Reading Poetry to Jazz," and "Jam Sessions," Accession # 10740-c, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These designs were given to the University of Virginia Library by Stephen Longstreet, Beverly Hills, California, on June 8, 1994.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of fourteen collage and designer marker ("magic markers") artwork designs, ca. 1931-1972, and undated, created by artist and author Stephen Longstreet (1907- ). The collages, composed of several different types of paper, including construction paper and magazines, were designed for use on the stage for the Coast Jazz Group Project "Reading Poetry to Jazz". Slides were made of several of these collages for back projection onto the stage.

Much of the designer marker artwork, which also occasionally uses india ink in the design, were selections from a limited edition of Stephen Longstreet's prints entitled Jam Sessions, which were hand colored by the artist and issued by the Los Angeles Art Association in 1952.