Garry Knox Bennett papers, 1917-2017, bulk 1960-2017

Files titled with the names of museums, galleries, and organizations consist of correspondence, loan forms, artwork lists, contracts, printed materials, and other material related to various activities in which Bennett was involved. Other files are for donations, grant proposals, juror and panelist roles, projects and publications, and studio visits and tours. Also included are artist statements by Tom Farber written under the pseudonym Tomaso Fabrizzi for Bennett's jeweler and painter pseudonyms Gerraldo Bennucci and Ambrose Pillphister. Bennett disliked writing artist statements and often looked to other people to write them for him. Bennett's close friend and writer Jack Marlowe wrote several tongue-in-cheek statements for Bennett that became widely distributed and included in articles about Bennett that took snippets from these statements. The Bennetts thought that statements did not read well when partially printed in an article, therefore they stopped sending Marlowe's statements to journalists. The series also includes digital formats including digital video recordings of an interview with Bennett for the Oakland Museum.