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Publications from the Strawberry Industry, 1967-2001

Documents relating to strawberry varieties, including patent policy, 1986-2007

Ten page accordion book, acrylic and whiteout on handmade Lhakpa Nepal paper, approximately 14 3/4 x 19 3/4, fully extended the book measures 147 1/2 inches. My accordion book inspired by Chinese Three Kingdom battles led speculative poems and images about the Biblical War in Heaven--which led to even more speculative poems and images about a great celestial proto-protagonist whose filing cabinets were filled with coded maps of impossible-to-diagram galactic rhizomes--showing locations of cosmic mines with veins of intelligent matter from which the creator created himself, a mate, and then galactic races to populate the worlds he had caused to evolve. Horses, tigers, platypuses, porpoises, whales and chimpanzees, even mites & lice got their share of intellectual matter--the latter from floor droppings swept up and divided several trillion times. It's a complicated story

Twenty-three plate accordion book, unfinished, individual plate size approximately 21 x 15 3/4, fully extended approximately 362 inches. In my 1987 visual journal I made a drawing of my great grandmother Lerona Abgail Martin Wilson lying in her bed receiving a visit from deceased relatives. I had read her life story filled with accounts of her visions, and I wonder if I might have been thinking about making books or folios based on her life. A few years later I began to make more drawings of Lerona's visions. From September 1996 to December 1997 I devotd several pages of my journal of drawings of Lerona and in some of those sketches I began to depict specific visions and continued making them until the spring of 1997.* In 2004, or perhaps even earlier, I began working on an accordion book inspired by Lerona's account of her visit to the spirit world with her mother. Although over half of the plates are incomplete, this accordion book provides insights into my struggles as I tried to decode how to present one of Lerona's most astonishing visions. The draft reveals both my changing ideas and attitudes toward the visions and how I experimented with styles, expressive qualities, and whether or not I should retain or obliterate Lerona's text. All subsequent versions of the vision are based on this unfinished accordion. There are two additional plates, with images on both sides, which were excised from the book at an early stage. These works are now in the collection of Gail Miller and Kim Wilson in Salt Lake City. I have suggested to Miller and Wilson that at some point, they might consider donating these experimental plates to the USU collection. *These journals are in the archives of the Paterno Library of the Pennsylvania State University. Digital versions of the journals will be available online in 2015. --creator's description

My home in Fairview, Idaho, was just a mile from Bear River. To me the river and its valley have become almost mythic. One poem refers to my swimming in the river - a boyhood passion that my parents, especially my mother, discouraged. Another poem plays with the contrast between devilish magpies (for which I collected a two-cent bounty) and angelic seagulls (who saved the Mormons from starvation). A third poem is about boyhood power - of my shouting and causing thousands of ducks to fly from the river. The final poem is about the Bear River Massacre - that tragedy that took place just a few miles up river from Fairview. The Preston High School mascot was and probably still is "the Preston Indians." How terrilby ironic! There were supposed to be more folios in the series. Some of the poems may even have been written. There is a painted folio awaiting the text. Alas!--creator's description

Eleven-page accordion book, acrylic on handmade Lhakpa Nepal paper, fully extended the book measures 20 x 161 1/4 inches

Twele folios, acrylic and text on handmade Lhakpa Nepal paper, each folio is approximately 19 x 26 inches. This series began with the premise that rather than entering this world randomly, before my birth I chose my parents. Indeed, this is what my patriarch grandfather told me in a blessing he pronounced upon my head when I was sixteen. Why in the world did I choose poor parents who lived in the desolate valley where Lund, Idaho, is situated--and during the great depression too? The images and text in Before birth are a meditation on my choice. Was it fortunate? Unfortunate? Did I merely select the best from among a bad set of choices? Through the visual and verbal speculation that comprises the series I came to the realization that when I chose my parents, simutaneously I chose an illustrious array of forbearers and an almost grand heritage. My choice was probably far better than my sixteen-year-old-self could comprehend."--Creator's description

Twenty-five plates, recycled Ming Dynasty calligraphy manuscript, acrylic, printed text, and stamped seals on Lhakpa Nepal paper, each plate approximately 13 x 19 inches. I purchased a Ming Dynasty calligraphic manuscript in Seoul Korea in 2004. Chinese colleagues told me the manuscript was written for children and teenagers, that it is about heaven and earth, the four seasons, animals, plants and seasonal flowers. Rather than asking colleagues to translate the entire document for me, I decided that I would imagine what the text revealed by writing poems, and surrounding the two sets of texts with images, portraits, and stamps (including seals of my name written in Chinese characters). I have created a conversation that I do not understand--creator's description

I Visit the Spirit World with My Mother (12 folios, 24 plates - laminated Nepal paper, acrylic, stenciled images, collaged copies of engravings from Max Ernst's "The Hundred Headless Woman" - 22 x 36)

Twenty-two plate accordion book, with plates worked on both sides, black gesso and acrylic on laminated Lhakpa Nepal paper, plates 8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches--fully extended the accordion measures approximately 93 1/2 inches

Sixteen folios, black gesso, acrylic, and text on Lhakpa Nepal paper, individual folio size, approximately 19 x 26 inches

In 2007 the Salt Lake Tribune featured a story on Stan Sanders' collection of historical Utah brewing paraphernalia. The article also highlights several of the major historical breweries in Utah including the Becker Brewing and Malting Company, Fisher Brewing Company and the Wagener Brewing Company. Del Vance's book, 'Beer in the Beehive' is also discussed.

Richard Andrew Griffin.

The 10 folios are on folded Shizen waterco lor paper with acrylic painting and collaged images, including a Penn State poster of the artist, his art, and biography; the folded folios measure 15 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches. 10 folios (single-fold) : color illustrations ; 40 x 31 cm, extending to 40 x 59 cm.

Five folios (2020-2021) made from collaged images and acrylic painting and hand-written and stamped text on Lokta paper. Each folio measures approximately 19 x 27 1/2 inches. 5 folios (single-fold) : color illustrations ; 50 x 35 cm.

This series has eight single-fold folios (2003-2004), acrylic painting, repurposed Chinese book pages (including Chinese text & illustrations), with written and printed text on Lokta paper; each folio measures approximately 19 x 27 1/2 inches. 8 folios (single-fold) : color illustrations ; 50 x 35 cm.

The set includes four single fold folios (2021/2024) with collaged images from Picasso's Guernica and acrylic painting on Shizen watercolor paper measuring 23 x 30 1/2 inches. 4 folios (single-fold) : color illustrations ; 59 x 35 cm.

4 single-fold folios collaged and painted on handmade paper on the The Best of Art, a book written the New York World art critic Emily Genauer (1948); along with the wide ranging effect upon his art, imagination, & theories of visual cultural pedagogy. 4 folios (single-fold) : color illustrations ; 59 x 39 cm.

During my four years at Utah State, from 1952 to 1956, I worked as the display person in the department store on Main street. First it was C.C. Anderson and then became Bon Marché. My design and decoration efforts in the store interior and windows were virtually unsupervised; I could do almost anything I wished. As I decorated the spaces, I have wondered if I learned more about designing in the department store than I did in my art classes at the university. In the two folios in this set I remember the six-foot tall rabbit I dribbled Jackson Pollock style for the Easter fashion window.--Artist description. The 2 two-panel single-fold folios with collaged images and acrylic painting are on Shizen watercolor paper measuring 23 x 30 1/2 inches (2020). 2 folios (single-fold) : color illustrations ; 50 x 35 cm.

Twelve folios based on Lerona Wilson's vision of the same name from her 'LIfe sketch and experiences,' 1932, laser and inkjet prints, and acrylic on handmade Lhakpa Nepal paper, individual folio sizes: approximately 21 x 30 3/4 inches. This folio was developed from the incomplete accordion version (circa 2004/2006). By making individual folios, if one folio did not turn out in the way I wished, I could discard it and make another--a practice that was not possible with the accordion version. The completed folio provided the model for 'I visit the Spirit World with my mother' (2008). The original twenty-four 13 x 18 1/2 inch plates from which the digital images were made for printing by the Mormon Artist Group Press, New York, NY, inkjet prints, acrylic, and text mounted on Yupo synthetic paper--creator's description