Gerald Gooch (3 results)

[32] pp.; 22.2 x 22.2 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 1 - November 9, 1969. Essay by Joan C. Siegfried. Includes exhibition checklist. Artists include Terry Allen, Frederick Anderson, Jeremy Anderson, Bernard Aptekar, Robert Arneson, Gene Beery, Wallace Berman, Peter Bodnar, Roger Brown, Roy De Forest, Oyvind Fahlström, Edward C. Flood, William Geis, David Gilhooly, Gerald Gooch, Robert Gordy, Red Grooms, Sue Hall, Philip Hanson, Robert Hudson, Jess, R.B. Kitaj, Nicholas Krushenick, Roy Lichtenstein, Alden Mason, James Melchert, Gladys Nilsson, James Nutt, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ed Paschke, Peter Phillips, Christina Ramberg, Mel Ramos, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, Peter Saul, William Schwedler, David Smyth, Norman Steigelmeyer, Ernest Trova, Andy Warhol, H.C. Westermann, William T. Wiley, Karl Wirsum, Ray Yoshida, Arlo Acton, Robyn Martin, and Giovanni Ragusa. Covers designed by Edward C. Flood. Very Good. Light rubbing of covers and cover edges and spine and bumping of top and bottom right corners. 2.3 cm. of water staining to the bottom of pages 27-32 at spine. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Magazine. 40p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, poetry, fiction, services and resources, events, nude photos and illustrations, erotic one-act play, very good newsletter on pastebound newsprint. Debut issue of the SFL newsletter/magazine. According to the Online Archive of California, Bancroft: "The Sexual Freedom League was founded in 1963 in New York City. Julian Beck, Allen Ginsberg, and Dr. Leo Koch were among those on the Advisory Committee of the original group, which was active in demonstrations for a wide range of causes." The original SFL was formed in NYC by Jefferson Poland in 1963 as New York City League for Sexual Freedom. When Poland moved to the Bay Area from NYC in 1966 he founded the SFL in the East Bay which was a loose-knit group with few rules, little organization and no fees. After he split several others stepped in to create their own versions of the league including Richard Thorne, Margo Rila and her husband Frank Esposito Rila. By 1971 several SFL chapters had formed around the US including the one Don Jackson was a member of. Jackson, whose copy this is, was a gay activist in Southern California who contributed to The Alpine County Project aka Stonewall Nation. In a letter responding to internal strife over Liberal and Conservative leaders in the SFL Jackson, a Libertarian, offered himself as a Liberal candidate for office. The San Francisco chapter was headed up by Margo St. James at this time.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 2 pp. Fold out Poster. Very Good. Black and White Plates. Soft Covers.Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-77). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright.