Overview of the Collection
UUS_P0588
Ernesto Edwards photograph collection
1960-2006
Edwards, Ernesto.
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-8248
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu
1 box
0.5 linear feet
The Ernesto Edwards photograph collection consists of 269 photographs and negatives mostly originating from the
1960s and 1970s. Photographs from this collection document recreational trips to Utah, Yosemite National Park, and to the California Bay area. Other images display Beat
art paintings and popular figures such as painters Nemi Frost, Tom Field and Russel Fitzgerald, poets Marylin Hackerm, Tom McNeil, Lewis Ellingham, Robert Creeley,
Allen Ginsberg, and Joanne Kyger. The collection also includes artistic images taken by Joe Ketola which focus on human nature and excesses.
Material in English
Processed in February of 2015.
Donated by Ernesto Edwards.
No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright
clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Ernesto Edwards Photographs must be obtained from the Special Collections
Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Initial Citation:
USU_P0588; Ernesto Edwards Photographs;
Photograph Collections Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University
Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations:USU_P0588,
USUSCA.
Biographical Note
Ernesto Edwards was born in Salt Lake City UT, in 1933. After graduating from the University of Utah in 1962, he visited California and came in contact with the
Beat movement and poets Lewis Ellingham and Gail Chugg. After deciding to move to the Bay area, Edwards developed an interest in collage.
Edwards made collage works throughout the 1960s while also writing poetry. The majority of Edwards’ paintings feature human beings and animals.
The 269 photographs and negatives in this collection are divided into thirteen folders organized into three categories: recreational trips, Beat Movement paintings, and Photos of Beat Artists and
Authors. The Ernesto Edwards Photograph Collection contains a variety of items displaying important elements of the Beat movement. The images provide insights into the California
Bay area's artistic vitality during the Beat movement.
Ernesto Edwards Manuscript Collection
Photographs
Fine Arts
California
Utah
Edwards, Ernesto--Photographs.
Beat generation--Photographs.
Beat generation--History--Sources.
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1,2,4
Recreational Trips
2005-2006
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1
1:01:01-02
Lewis Ellingham at Pt. Cabrillo, Thanksgiving 2005
November 2005
1
1
1:01:03
Letter from Lewis Ellingham to Ernesto Edwards
June 15 2006
1
1
1:01:04-40
Trip to Utah
June 12 2006
1
2
1:02:01-41
Photos of Bay area
1974 January 04
1
2
1:02:42-43
Paintings
undated
1
2
1:02:45
Jack Boyce, Yosemite Series (Negatives)
1965
1
3,10, and 13
Art Paintings
1970s-1980s
1
3
1:03:01-02
Frank and Shevy
1978
1
3
1:03:03-07
Kali Flower
1982
1
3
1:03:08
Red Queen II
1978
1
3
1:03:13
Aids Quilt
1988
1
3
1:03:17
Pig I
1978
1
3
1:03:18
Mother, by Tom Field
1983
1
10
1:10:01
Portrait: Candy Darling, 48"x48" Acrylic on Canvas
undated
1
10
1:13:01-29
Negatives of Paintings
undated
1
4,5,6,7,8,9,11, and 12
Beat Artists and Authors
1970s-2000s
1
4
1:04:01-11
Unidentified individuals
1960s-1980s
1
4
1:04:12
Ernesto and Nemi Frost
undated
1
4
1:04:17
The Kilgore(?) Family
December 2004
1
5
1:05:03
Robert Duncan
undated
1
5
1:05:03
Helen Addams
undated
1
5
1:05:10
Stinson
1963
1
5
1:05:14
H. Addams
undated
1
5
1:05:18-21
Russel Fitzgerald
1973
1
6
1:06:01-03
Tom Field
1990 circa
1
6
1:06:01-03
Tom Field
1990 circa
1
7
1:07:01-06
Ernesto Edwards
1970s-2000s
1
8
1:08:02
Marilyn Hacker
1968
1
8
1:08:03
Tom McNeil
undated
1
9
1:09:01
Letter to Lewis Ellingham
June 6 1973
1
9
1:09:02-03
Robert Creeley
1973
1
9
1:09:04
Allen Ginsberg
June 1973
1
9
1:09:05
Joanne Kyger
undated
1
9
1:09:07
Russell Fitzgerald
undated
1
11
1:11:01-02
Frank Ross
undated
1
11
1:11:03-11
Photographs taken by Joe Ketola
undated
1
12
1:12:01-68
Album of Beat Poets at a Party. One image of Joanne Kyger holding book, "The Dharma Committee"
1980-1989