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Windsor Utley papers, 1927-1990

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Utley, Windsor, 1920-1989
Title
Windsor Utley papers
Dates
1927-1990 (inclusive)
Quantity
.63 cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection Number
4219 (Accession No. 4219-003)
Summary
Papers of a Seattle painter, gallery owner, and friend of painter Mark Tobey.
Repository
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

The papers are open to all users.

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Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Windsor Utley (1920-1989) was a Seattle painter, a gallery owner, and a friend of the painter Mark Tobey. He was born in Los Angeles in 1920 and spent his early years concentrating on his musical studies in California. He moved to Seattle during World War II. Although Windsor Utley has been celebrated as a Northwest artist, he lived at times in California, Washington, New York, Canada, and Italy. He exhibited his paintings extensively throughout the United States and Canada.

Windsor Utley opened Utley's Art Galleries, first in Seattle in 1966 and in Victoria, British Columbia, during the 1970s. He moved the galleries to Laguna Beach, California, in 1983 and re-opened Utley's Galleries in Seattle in 1987. Windsor Utley died in Seattle in 1989.

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Content Description

Utley's papers include correspondence, exhibit notices, exhibit lists and catalogs, publications, reviews and other clippings, photographs, legal documents, news releases, and lists and receipts, 1927-1990 (bulk 1945-1989).

Although Windsor Utley was an artist, musician, and teacher, most of the materials in these papers concern his work and exhibits as a painter. The only material concerning Windsor Utley's immediate family is a letter to his grandmother (1927). Utley was a friend of Mark Tobey and corresponded with him often. However, the Mark Tobey file consists primarily of clippings and does not contain personal documents.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The creator's literary rights have been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Gift of Josephine Utley, Windsor Utley's widow, in June 1990 and January 1991.

Processing Note

Two accessions were merged and processed in 1991.

Separated Materials

Additional correspondence from Mark Tobey was donated to the Smithsonian Institution.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Incoming letters

    • Description: Colescott, Robert and Zdenka
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 1/1
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Duveen-Graham Gallery (New York City)
      Dates: 1955-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 1/2
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Graham Gallery (New York City)
      Dates: 1958-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 1/3
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Hallston, Pehr
      Dates: 1957-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1/4
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Seattle Art Museum
      Dates: 1951-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1/5
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Tobey, Mark
      Dates: 1957-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1/6
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Allied Arts of Seattle
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: American Federation of Arts
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Anderson, Frances
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia)
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Art in America
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: British Columbia, Provincial Coordinator of Art
      Dates: 1974-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Camosun College (Victoria, British Columbia)
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Chi Omega Alumnae
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: DuPen, Everett and Charlotte
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Gilkey, Gordon W.
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Graham, Colin

      See: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Hollesch, Carlo
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Los Angeles Art Association
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
      Dates: 1955-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Northwest Water Color Society
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Oregon, Portland State College
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Osver, Arthur
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Pike Place Farmers Market Association
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Portland Art Museum
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Schneider, Joe
      Dates: 1959-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Seattle Municipal Art Commission
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Seattle Public Schools
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: Tana, Emo
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters
    • Description: University of Washington Henry Gallery
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Incoming letters

  • Outgoing letters

    • Description: To grandmother, age 6
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 1/9
      Location: Outgoing letters
    • Description: Other
      Dates: 1957-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 1/10
      Location: Outgoing letters
  • Description: General correspondence

    Regarding Utley's painting Tribute to Beethoven.

    Dates: 1988-1990
    Container: Box/Folder 1/11
  • Description: Exhibition notices
    Dates: 1952-1989, undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1/12
  • Description: Exhibition lists and catalogs
    Dates: 1945-1989, undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1/13-14
  • Description: Legal documents
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box/Folder 1/15
  • Description: Publications
    Dates: 1955-1962
    Container: Box/Folder 2/1
  • Description: Poem
    Dates: circa 1932
    Container: Box/Folder 2/2
  • Description: News releases
    Dates: 1974-1990
    Container: Box/Folder 2/3

  • Lists

    • Description: Artists Equity Association membership list
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 2/4
      Location: Lists
    • Description: Auction from the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Windsor Utley
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/4
      Location: Lists
  • Description: Receipts
    Dates: 1955
    Container: Box/Folder 2/5
  • Description: Clippings
    Dates: 1940-1988, undated
    Container: Box/Folder 2/6

  • Photographs

    • Description: Children of Summit Art Class, Bush School
      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box/Folder 2/7
      Location: Photographs
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1945-1985, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/8
      Location: Photographs

  • Subject series: Mark Tobey

  • Description: Ephemera
    Dates: 1961, undated
    Container: Box/Folder 2/10
  • Description: Duplicates
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 2/11


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