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• Fonds: Gene Summers fonds, 1957 - 2004
•    Series: Professional documents (1957-2004), 1957 - 2004
•      Sub-series: Monograph, 2002 - 2003
•        Sub-series: Drawings, 1951 - 2002

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.

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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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    • ARCH284111
    • Study for silk curtain color, IIT Chapel, Chicago
    • Form: works of art
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    • ARCH284112
    • Study for silk curtain color, IIT Chapel, Chicago
    • Form: works of art
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    • ARCH284113
    • Study for silk curtain color, IIT Chapel, Chicago
    • Form: works of art
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    • ARCH284114
    • Study for silk curtain color, IIT Chapel, Chicago
    • Form: works of art
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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