Byron Randall artwork and photographs, 1906-1990s
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Randall, Byron
- Title
- Byron Randall artwork and photographs
- Dates
- 1906-1990s (inclusive)19061999
1940s-1990s (bulk)19401999 - Quantity
- 16 boxes including photographs, prints, drawings, and textual materials
- Collection Number
- PH2016-016
- Summary
- Artwork and photographs relating to the career of Byron Randall
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Access restricted: For terms of access, contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.
- Languages
- English
Biographical Note
Byron Randall was born in October 23, 1918 in Tacoma, Washington, and raised in Salem, Oregon. When he was 20 years old he had a solo show at the Whyte Gallery in Washington, D.C. which launched his art career. In 1942 he moved to San Francisco and became the first president of the Artists' Guild of San Francisco. He studied painting in Mexico for a while and rented a studio above the famous City Lights Bookstore. He eventually established a guest house/art gallery in Tomales, California. He was an expressionist who credited the look of his paintings to growing up in the Oregon environment. Much of his art is concerned with social justice themes. He died on August 11, 1999.
Content Description
Artwork and photographs relating to the career of Byron Randall
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.
Administrative Information
Return to TopDetailed Description of the Collection
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Series 1: Photographs
44 photo albums, loose photographs, negatives and slides-
Description: People and trips
Color photo album
Dates: 1990-1992Container: Box/Folder 1/1-2 -
Description: Untitled album
1940s b&w prints, photos of paintings, etc.
Dates: circa 1940sContainer: Box/Folder 1/3-4 -
Description: Photos from untitled envelope
Early b&w prints, misc. portraits.
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 1/5 -
Description: Tomales-history photosDates: 1906Container: Box/Folder 1/6
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Description: Prints, paintings, gallery registryContainer: Box/Folder 1/7-8
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Description: Byron Randall-photos, family photos, documents, clippingsDates: 1946Container: Box/Folder 2/1
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Description: 1970-1981 at seminary exhibitDates: 1970-1981Container: Box/Folder 2/2
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Description: Trip to Isla De Mujeres, MexicoDates: January 1990Container: Box/Folder 2/3
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Description: Daily mandatories - photos, hodge podge, 1990-on
Color photos, family albums.
Dates: 1990sContainer: Box/Folder 2/4-6 -
Description: Scotland photo studies
Town scenery and rural landscape.
Dates: 1990sContainer: Box/Folder 3/1-2 -
Description: Byron Randall with Eve Wieland
Misc. color albums.
Dates: 1990sContainer: Box/Folder 3/3-5 -
Description: Misc. photos.
Color, b&w, family and painting photos.
Container: Box/Folder 4/1 -
Description: Notes on Yugoslav artists & photos of their work
b&w prints
Container: Box/Folder 4/2 -
Description: Misc. loose photos.
b&w family portraits
Container: Box/Folder 4/3 -
Description: "1952"
b&w portrait
Container: Box/Folder 4/4 -
Description: Photo records - Eve’s castle at Pottenbrunn
Baby photo - Eve
Container: Box/Folder 4/5 -
Description: Vol. three - some works from the Cotati show
Photos of paintings and notes.
Container: Box/Folder 4/6 -
Description: Misc. Elkhorn photos
Historical b&w family photos from paper mounted album
Container: Box/Folder 4/7 -
Description: Misc. photos, family albums
mounted on paper album, color
Container: Box/Folder 4/8 -
Description: Photos
Old b&w portraits, newer color photos of paintings, misc.
Dates: 1988Container: Box/Folder 5/1 -
Description: Mendocino
Clippings, old family b&w photos, polaroids.
Dates: 1964-1969Container: Box/Folder 5/2 -
Description: Untitled album
clippings, letters, paper album mounted b&w 1960s photos
Dates: 1960sContainer: Box/Folder 5/3-4 -
Description: Oils, watercolors, graphics
clippings, letters, paper album mounted b&w 1960s photos
Container: Box/Folder 5/5-6 -
Description: Untitled album
b&w paper mounted photos, color photos, 8½”x11” silver gelatin prints
Container: Box/Folder 5/7 -
Description: Tomales guest houseContainer: Box/Folder 5/8
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Description: Family photos: Inverness, Elkhorn, Concord, Tomales, & so forthDates: circa 1990Container: Box/Folder 6/1-2
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Description: Chicken Coop Studio, people, places, things & so forthDates: 1988Container: Box/Folder 6/3-5
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Description: Chicken Coop Studio, people, places, things & so forthDates: 1988Container: Box/Folder 6/3-5
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Description: Photos, negatives, and slides
Includes b&w family portraits, loose photos, color photos of paintings mounted on paper, negatives, and slides
Dates: 1988Container: Box 7 -
Description: Book #1, Gale’s
Photos of paintings and notes for show curation
Container: Box 8 -
Description: SlidesContainer: Box 10
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Description: Slides & negativesContainer: Box 11
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Description: Untitled albums
color family/friends albums, painting photos.
Container: Box/Folder 12 -
Description: Mostly still life
Painting photo album
Dates: August 1993Container: Box/Folder 12 -
Description: Bri Tomales, Chicken Coop Studio albumContainer: Box/Folder 12
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Description: Photos for Byron and PeleContainer: Box/Folder 12
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Description: Studies for watercolor series on ScotlandContainer: Box/Folder 12
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Description: Misc. artworks album
photo paintings
Dates: 1997Container: Box/Folder 12 -
Description: Tomales, 1997. Studio One Show albumDates: 1997Container: Box/Folder 12
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Description: San Francisco album
Snapshots, oilpaintings
Container: Box/Folder 12 -
Description: Visit to artist Pablo O’Higgins at home
Mexico City?
Container: Box/Folder 12 -
Description: Rose Cottage show at the huevos rancheros brunch meeting ‘99Dates: May 1999Container: Box/Folder 12
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Description: PaintingsContainer: Box/Folder 12
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Photographs taken at Tomales
Container: Box/Folder 15/1
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Description: Portrait of Byron Randall by Robert PachecoDates: 1990
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Description: Group photograph at Tomales Community Park by Art RogersDates: 1980
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Series 2: Papers
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Description: “Very special material” Clippings, letters.Container: Box/Folder 9/1
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Description: Letters ‘69, photos, etc. HonoluluDates: circa 1969Container: Box/Folder 9/2
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Description: Personal papers, newspaper clippings, scrapbookContainer: Box/Folder 9/3
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Description: Coastal Cook interviewDates: 1989Container: Box/Folder 9/4
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Description: “Project - copies from letters”Container: Box/Folder 9/5
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Description: Personal papers - letters for Judy at hospiceContainer: Box/Folder 9/6
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Description: Personal papers - Byron Randall news clippings, letters.Container: Box/Folder 9/7
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Description: Personal papers - untitled folders
News clippings, notes, letters
Container: Box/Folder 9/8 -
Description: Personal papers - poetry, loose papers, etc.Container: Box/Folder 9/9
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Description: Display items - Tomales showDates: 2003Container: Box/Folder 9/10
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Description: 1970s: newspaper clippings
re: sightseeing, info available under Freedom of Information Act
Dates: 2003Container: Box/Folder 9/11 -
Description: Biographical material, Tomales, etc.Container: Box/Folder 9/12
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Series 3: Art work
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Description: Misc. loose drawings, sketches, paintingsContainer: Box 13
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Description: Misc. drawingsContainer: Box 14
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Description: Watercolors
Two still life and two landscapes
Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 15/2 -
Description: Lino print:“Montreal Winter,” ed. unlimitedDates: 1956Container: Box/Folder 15/3
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Description: Woodblock print: “Plowshare the Military”Dates: 1976Container: Box/Folder 15/4
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Description: Wood drawing print: “Credo”Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 15/4
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Description: Woodblock print (black): “J.S. Bach”Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 15/5
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Description: Woodblock print (green): “J.S. Bach”Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 15/6
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Description: Woodblock print: “Peace/Hyacinth”Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 15/7
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Description: Woodblock print: “Fruit & Flowers”Dates: 1964Container: Box/Folder 15/8
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Description: Lino print: “Hanging Clothes”Dates: 1956Container: Box/Folder 15/9
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Description: Miscellaneous artwork
Contains watercolors found with block prints, drawings, a collection of early drawings (1936), and a spiral notebook of drawings (Punaluu, 1976)
Dates: 1936-1976Container: Box 16
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Artists and community--California
- Artists--California
- Drawing--California
- Expressionism (Art)
- Painting, American--Specimens
- Photographers--California
- Social justice in art
Personal Names
- Randall, Byron--Archives
- Randall, Byron--Family--Photographs
- Randall, Byron--Friends and associates--Photographs
- Randall, Byron--Photographs
Geographical Names
- Tomales (Calif.)--Photographs
Form or Genre Terms
- Black-and-white photographs
- Ephemera
- Negatives (photographs)
- Paintings (visual works)
- Personal correspondence
- Photographs
- Sketches
- Slides (photographs)
- Woodcuts (prints)
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
