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[email protected] Copyright 2005 Register of the Stuart Collection RSS 1250 1 Records RSS 1250 Descriptive Summary Title: Stuart Collection Records Identifier/Call Number: RSS 1250 Contributing Institution: Mandeville Special Collections Library 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California, 92093-0175 Languages: English Physical Description: 29.2 Linear feet1 archives box, 8 records cartons, 37 oversize folders, and 18 tubes Date (inclusive): 1982 - 2006 Abstract: The Stuart Collection at the University of California, San Diego, is a collection of site-specific public art in settings where people can encounter it as part of their everyday lives. The artists invited to contribute proposals by the Stuart Collection's Advisory Committee are prominent conceptual artists, including some not typically associated with environmental sculpture. As of 2006, 16 works have been completed: SUN GOD (1983), Niki de Saint Phalle; TWO RUNNING VIOLET V FORMS (1983), Robert Irwin; LA JOLLA PROJECT (1984), Richard Fleischner; TREES (1986), Terry Allen; SOMETHING PACIFIC (1986), Naum June Paik; UNDA (1987), Ian Hamilton Finlay; VICES AND VIRTUES (1988), Bruce Nauman; LA JOLLA VISTA VIEW (1988), William Wegman; UNTITLED (1991), Michael Asher; TERRACE (1991), Jackie Ferrara; GREEN TABLE (1992), Jenny Holzer; SNAKE PATH (1992), Alexis Smith; RED SHOE (1996), Elizabeth Murray; STANDING (1998), Kiki Smith; READ/WRITE/THINK/DREAM (2001), John Baldessari; BEAR (2005), Tim Hawkinson. The records include design materials from eleven of the artists whose works have been built for the Stuart Collection, and proposal materials from thirteen artists whose works have not been built, as well as photos of an early non-constructed proposal from Richard Fleischner.