Douglas Darden papers and drawings, 1979-1996

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Series III: Other Projects and Artworks

This series is arranged in loose chronological order. The series primarily consists of Darden's artworks in mixed media from the 1980s. These artworks/drawings are executed in charcoal, paint, pastel, graphite, pen, and collage. They feature expressive abstract forms, industrial scenes, and allegorical projects, and range from the size of a postcard to 4ft by 6ft.

The series also includes materials for identified projects that were not featured in Condemned Building or Laughing Girls. The folder, "Misanthropy Hall," contains notes and research materials, as well as a print of the drawing, "H.M.M. House for a Mad Misanthrope," currently held at the Bass Museum in Miami. [Note: this project was originally to be featured in but was ultimately left out.] The folder "I-Club" contains research materials and process work concerning Japanese culture, armor, samurai, opium, military technology, mechanical machines, and the Rape of Nanking. The process work includes the manipulation of line drawings using transparencies, the same process Darden used to create his "Dis/continuous Genealogies" for the projects in Condemned Buildings. The series also includes sketches and studies on trace for "Displaced Suburb," a project that used the same site as "Night School," the McMillan Water Filtration Plant in Washington D.C. One folder includes two drawings on trace (one of each aforementioned project) which overlay the third drawing of a site plan.



Drawer 208 Folder 5 Assorted Projects, 1979, 1985, undated

30 items : sketches, drawings, "Four Thresholds of Lent," "The John ca. Maultsby Farm Columbus County, N.ca." copy, surveyed 1973 Dec 28, 2 "Fort Residence"? project drawings.



Roll A84.01b Harvard Project, Theater, ca. 1981

9 item : drawings



Roll A84.01a Harvard Project, Miscellaneous, ca. 1981

11 item : drawings; includes 2 drawings for L'Hotel Guimard Addition; 2 drawings Lewis Wharf Office/Residential Building; and 7 drawings for unidentified project(s)



Drawer 206 Folder 6 "Section looking East", 1982 Feb 16

1 item : mounted drawing



Drawer 206 Folder 12 Project with Bridge, 1982

2 items : mounted drawings



Box 14 Folder 1 "An Egypt for Baltimore" & "Place to say 'No'", 1983 Apr

2 items : drawings



Box 14 Folder 2 "Family House", 1983

1 item : drawing with images pasted on back



Box 14 Folder 3 "Gold-diggers", 1983/4

5 items : collages



Box 14 Folder 4 "House on Two Hills", 1983

1 item : drawing



Box 14 Folder 5 "One if by Land, Two if by Sea", 1983

1 item : drawing



Box 14 Folder 6 "Progress", 1983

1 item : collage



Box 14 Folder 7 "Spinning Wheel", 1983

1 item : collage



Box 14 Folder 8 "Station for a Childhood Eclipsing", 1983

1 item : drawing



Box 14 Folder 9 "Subjects Made Sensitive to the Wind", 1983

1 item : drawing



Box 14 Folder 10 "A Trysting Place", 1983

1 item : drawing



Box 14 Folder 11 "Windmill", 1983

1 item : collage



Drawer 206 Folder 8 Displaced Suburb Preliminary, 1984, undated

20 items : plan and section sketches



Drawer 207 Folder 9 Displaced Suburb Studies, 1984, undated

40 items : sketches, plans, sections, elevation ; "Suburb for the Lost and Found."



Box 14 Folder 12 "The Illusion of Choice", 1984

1 item : collage



Box 14 Folder 13 Pillar of Progress, 1984, undated

5 items : 2 undated, "Pillar of Progress: The Journeyman," "Pillar of Progress," "Gold- Tipped Pillar of Progress"



Box 14 Folder 14 "'Q2' Escapes His Nightmare", 1984

1 item : collage



Box 15 Folder 16 "Washed Houses", 1984

1 item : pencil and pastel on paper

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 14 Folder 20 "Symptoms of Refuge", 1984

1 item : drawing



Box 15 Folder 18 Untitled, [abstract structure with bridge], 1984

1 item : colored pencil and pastel drawings

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 15 Folder 18 Untitled, [abstract structure with staircase], 1984

1 item : colored pencil and pastel drawings

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 15 Folder 17 Untitled, [abstract landscape], 1985

1 item : colored pencil and pastel drawings

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 15 Folder 17 Untitled, [abstract nature or landscape], 1985

1 item : colored pencil and pastel drawings

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 14 Folder 15 "The Lost Bridge", 1985

1 item : collage



Box 14 Folder 16 "Mill for Grinding Time", 1985

1 item : collage



Box 14 Folder 17 "Sacre Coeur", 1985

1 item : collage



Box 14 Folder 18 "Triptich", 1985

1 item : collage



Box 14 Folder 19 Night School Perspectives, 1985

3 items : drawings



Box 14 Folder 21 Subdivisions, 1985

11 items : "Subdivisions, Opus" 2 through 12; drawings



Box 14 Folder 22 Vacancies, 1985

7 items : "Vacancies" I, VI, VIII, IX, XI, XII, XIII; drawings



Box 14 Folder 23 "Felix Culpa: Weehawken, N. J.", 1985

1 item : drawing



Box 14 Folder 24 "The Hollow Door", 1985

1 item : drawing



Box 14 Folder 25 "Pilings", 1985

1 item : drawing



Box 14 Folder 26 Untitled, 1985

2 items : pastels



Drawer 206 Folder 2 Unfixed Pastels, 1985, undated

26 items : includes charcoal drawings ; graphite drawings ; pen & ink drawings ; "Air Factory" Collage ; "Vacancies" ; "Night School."



Box 15 Folder 16 "i.e. find the Hand of God", ca. 1985

1 drawing : watercolor, pencil, color pencil, and ink on paper

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 15 Folder 16 "Home Section - No20 (Alto)", ca. 1985

1 item : oil stick and charcol on board

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 18 Folder 4 Drawing vignettes of railways and roadways, 1985

19 items : ink and charcoal on paper

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 18 Folder 5 "Untitled Study (ReWorking of A.B."), ca. 1985

1 item : ink on pen on paper

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 18 Folder 5 [Black maker sketch on lined notepad paper]

1 item

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 18 Folder 5 [Bridge and house and watercolor study], ca. 1985

1 item

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Roll 2 Untitled, 1986

1 item : mixed media



Roll 1 "VII", 1986

1 item : charcoal drawing



Drawer 206 Folder 7 "The Construction of Demolition, Preliminary Design", 1987 Jan 15

1 item : mounted drawing for an installation at the Nature Morte Gallery, in collaboration with Bob Curtis.



Roll 3 "IX", 1989

1 item : mixed media



Box 15 Folder 16 [Caracalla, Rome], 1989

1 item : pencil and wash on mounted paper

[Acquisition 2022.005]



Box 15 Folder 15 Allison's New House/First Home, 1994 Mar 21, 23

Drawing and xeroxes of drawings of Allison Darden's house in Denver, CO.



Box 14 Folder 27 Untitled Collages, undated

untitled collages : 3 items; also includes misca. collage pieces



Box 14 "Eliade Institute- Campus Entry", undated

5 items : mounted drawings



Box 6 Folder 1 Misanthropy Hall, undated

Notes, research materials, prints : 1 item



Box 6 Folder 2 "I-Club", undated

Research material and process work: visual and textual references, Xeroxes, magazine articles, newspaper clipping, manipulation of line drawings using transparencies



Box 6 Folder 3 Unidentified Projects, undated

Includes paste up for "Station of the Eclipsing Child?" negatives : 6 items ; drawings : 13 items