Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Holt, Nancy, 1938-2014
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- Nancy Holt Estate records
- Nancy Holt Estate records / Series 3: Writings, Calendars, and Notebooks
- Date
- circa 1970s-2013
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.holtnanc, Subseries 3.3
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Nancy Holt Estate records, 1835, circa 1900-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Series Rights
- Items created by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson copyright held by Holt/Smithson Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Requests for permission to reproduce should be submitted to ARS
- Scope and Contents
- Notebooks are a primarily spiral-bound and many are dated by Holt on the front cover and are sequential. They contain a wide variety of information including journal entries, notes and small sketches related to current projects, many drafts of letters including to other artists, to do lists, names and addresses, records of phone calls, and everyday life notations such as recipes and lists. Later notebooks reveal Holt's growing interest in Buddhism, meditation, and dream journaling. One notebook contains childhood memories captured in a single sentence, one per page. One of the earliest notebooks contains entries dating from 1970-1974 and consists primarily of journal entries which provide insight into Holt's ideas at the time, and her evolving sense of identity. She writes about her relationship with Robert Smithson, artist friends including Richard Serra, Carl Andre, and others, her spirituality, and her need for connection with other women in her growth as an artist, among many other things. Two of the notebooks are labeled as relating to the project 30 Below (1979) and the film Pine Barrens (1975), but many of Holt's projects, including Sun Tunnels (1976) are also documented to some extent in this series.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.
- Record ID
- ebl-1684433415618-1684433416753-2
