Works of art and writings by Gene Summers

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• Fonds: Gene Summers fonds, 1957 - 2004
•    Series: Personal documents (1980-1985), 1980 - 1985
•      Sub-series: Works of art and writings by Gene Summers, 1980 - 1985

People

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

Title

Works of art and writings by Gene Summers

Dates of creation

1980 - 1985

Level of archival description

Sub-series 1

Extent and Medium

• 346 photographic materials
• 19 drawings
• 2 paintings
• 0.01 l.m. of textual records

Scope and Content

Sub-series documents artwork and textual records produced by Gene Summers from 1980 – 1985. It consists of drawings, sketches, photographs, and artefacts, including a series of sketches reproduced on mauve plexiglass. The sub-series also contains a 2012 copy of a manuscript titled “McCormick Place,” written by Summers in 1985.

Reference Number

AP114.S2.SS1

Arrangement

The records in this sub-series have been arranged by material type.

Inventory

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197191
  • Title: sketches
  • Dates of creation: 1980
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

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

  Description:

  Sketch studies inspired by the Chicago Tribune Tower competition.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 study(ies)

  Stage and Purpose:

  • studies (visual works)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing

  Technique and media:

  Ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on tracing paper mounted on board

  Dimensions:

  secondary support: 45,2 x 29,9 cm

  Inscription:

  Inscriptions: dated and initialled.

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-024-001 S

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197192
  • Title: Sketch studies inspired by the Chicago Tribune Tower competition
  • Dates of creation: 1980
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

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

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 study(ies)

  Stage and Purpose:

  • studies (visual works)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing

  Technique and media:

  Ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on tracing paper mounted on board

  Dimensions:

  secondary support: 45,3 x 30 cm

  Inscription:

  Inscriptions: dated and signed

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-024-002 S

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197193
  • Title: Sketch studies inspired by the Chicago Tribune Tower competition
  • Dates of creation: 1980
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

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

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 study(ies)

  Stage and Purpose:

  • studies (visual works)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing

  Technique and media:

  Ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on tracing paper mounted on board

  Dimensions:

  secondary support: 45,3 x 29,8 cm

  Inscription:

  Inscriptions: dated and initialled

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-024-003 S

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197194
  • Title: sketches
  • Dates of creation: 1980
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

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

  Description:

  Sketch studies inspired by the Chicago Tribune Tower competition. Initialled and dated 1980.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 study(ies)

  Stage and Purpose:

  • studies (visual works)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing

  Technique and media:

  Ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on tracing paper mounted on board

  Dimensions:

  secondary support: 45,3 x 29,9 cm

  Inscription:

  Inscriptions: dated and initialled

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-024-004 S

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197195
  • Title: Floral patterns
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  10 drawing(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 10 drawings

  Technique and media:

  Graphite and ink on tracing vellum

  Dimensions:

  sheets: 43 x 55 cm

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-022-006 S

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197205
  • Title: Floral arrangement
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 painting(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 painting

  Technique and media:

  Watercolour and graphite on paper

  Dimensions:

  sheet: 61 x 46 cm

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-022-006 S

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197206
  • Title: Frieze made with stencil based on a decorative design by Louis Sullivan
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 painting(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 painting

  Technique and media:

  Paint on paper

  Dimensions:

  sheet: 25 x 68 cm

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-022-007 S

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197207
  • Title: Landscapes
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  4 photograph(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 4 photographs

  Technique and media:

  Gelatin silver prints

  Dimensions:

  sheets: 20.5 x 25.5 cm

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-021-019 T

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197211
  • Title: Views of landscapes in Yosemite National Park
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Description:

  Views of landscapes in Yosemite National Park. 226 negatives and 17 contact sheets, includes notepad with notes on photographs (including time of day, subject, speed, lens).

  Quantity / Object type:

  244 photograph(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 244 photographs and negatives

  Technique and media:

  Negatives and gelatine silver prints

  Dimensions:

  negatives: 2.5 x 2.5 cm sheets: 20 x 25.5 cm notepad: 7.5 x 16 cm

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-021-020 T

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197455
  • Title: Views of different landscapes, some taken from a hot air balloon; views of a collection of rugs and carpets; 1 portrait
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  98 photograph(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 47 negatives
  • 51 photographs

  Technique and media:

  47 colour negatives, 42 colour photographic prints, 9 polaroids

  Dimensions:

  6 x 6 cm and 12.5 x 12.5 cm

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-021-021 T

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197553
  • Title: "House on a hill top," 1 of a series of 4 sketches reproduced on mauve plexiglass
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 artefact(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing

  Dimensions:

  47.5 x 130.5 cm

  Physical Description:

  plexiglass, framed

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-2001-022

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197554
  • Title: "House on a hill top," 1 of a series of 4 sketches reproduced on mauve plexiglass
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 artefact(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing

  Technique and media:

  Plexiglass, framed

  Dimensions:

  47.5 x 130.5 cm

  Physical Description:

  plexiglass, framed

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-2001-023

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197555
  • Title: "House on a hill top," 1 of a series of 4 sketches reproduced on mauve plexiglass
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 artefact(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing

  Dimensions:

  47.5 x 130.5 cm

  Physical Description:

  plexiglass, framed

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-2001-024

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197556
  • Title: "House on a hill top," 1 of a series of 4 sketches reproduced on mauve plexiglass
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 artefact(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing

  Dimensions:

  47.5 x 130.5 cm

  Physical Description:

  plexiglass, framed

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-2001-025

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  • Reference Number: ARCH197557
  • Title: Silkscreen of image of a house reproduced on mauve plexiglass
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Gene Summers (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 artefact(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawing

  Dimensions:

  65 x 135 cm

  Physical Description:

  plexiglass, framed

  Credit line:

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

  Folder Number:

  114-2001-026

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  • Reference Number: ARCH264374
  • Title: McCormick Place
  • Dates of creation: 2012
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

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

  Description:

  ACCESS COPY ONLY. Copy of a manuscript written by Gene Summers in June, 1985. Original was not donated to the CCA.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 textual record(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Physical Description:

  31 pages

  Location:

  Chicago Illinois United States

  Credit line:

  Gene Summers fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  
  

  Related units of description:

  • See also the file on McCormick Place in Series 1, sub-series 1.