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Robert Fones fonds
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Business Files

Series is comprised of the business and professional files of Robert Fones. It includes grant applications, awards, income tax returns, and documents relating to the sales and exhibition of his work as well as the publication of his writing. Of note is 21 years of correspondence with Carmen Lamanna, Robert Fones’ first Toronto art dealer from 1970 to 1990, and with S.L Simpson Gallery, which subsequently represented Robert Fones. It also includes correspondence and agreements with regard to his art related teaching career.

Fones, Robert

Art production materials and models

Series is comprised of materials and models relating to the production of specific works of art from 1973 to 2011. The production files include stencils and tracings, drawings, sketches, technical measurements and specifications, sample materials, photographs, correspondence, documentation and research notes. This series includes models for Backyards, Owen Jones, Gordon’s Block, Iron Bridge, Counties 1 and Counties 2. It also includes two sets of alphabets: a copper set used in the Niche paintings and Leviathan Letters crafted out of clay, and the Stomachion Puzzle from What the Locals Make. Dates and file titles supplied by the artist unless otherwise indicated.

Fones, Robert

Robert Fones fonds

  • LA.SC125
  • Fonds
  • [19--]-2011

Fonds consists of Robert Fones’ correspondence, journals, sketchbooks, art production materials and files for artworks and public art commissions, unpublished handmade artists books, a set of rubber stamps used for correspondence art, and ephemera related to Coach House Press, a publisher Fones had a longstanding relationship with. Fonds also includes Fones’ research and business files as well as files related to his design, curatorial and writing projects.

Fones, Robert

Sketchbooks and colour-mixing books

Series is comprised of the sketchbooks used and kept by Robert Fones. The volumes primarily contain sketches and drawings, often related to specific artworks, design projects or artist book works. Some of the sketchbooks, as noted in the descriptions, contain finished drawings that the artist has chosen to leave intact within the sketchbooks. The sketchbooks may also contain some diaristic writings, personal reflections and technical notes, thus there is some overlap with the journals especially in earlier volumes. Also included in this series are several colour mixing books used by Robert Fones, which consist of colour mixing formulas for several of his artworks, as noted in the descriptions.

Fones, Robert

[Colour mixing book]S/C 48

Colour formulas for Counties 1, 2011; Counties 2, 2011; Rivers of Thanckes; Hath No Such Glorye; Which All To Nothing; Retourne for Springes; The Sonne by Whom; Where Correspondencie; Earth When It Doth Ayre; The Prince of Light.

[Colour mixing book]S/C 47

Colour formulas for Sifto repair; Leviathan bookmarks; Ten Splint Wheel, 2006; Ten Splint Wheel (Ten Colours), 2006; Leviathan watercolours; G, S and Y Types; Leviathan mobiles; Hyphen Dash Mailbox, 2008; Red M (Malevich), 2010; Yellow En (Le Corbusier), 2010; Grey R (Rodchenko), 2010; Origin Bookmarks; Liquorice Allsorts Man (1922 Version); Origin Bookmarks, 2nd Series; Such Glorye, 2011; Counties 1 model; Counties 2 model; Maggs 85, May 2011; Counties 2, 2011.

Project files

Series is comprised of archival materials relating to various curatorial, graphic design and artist book projects that Fones has undertaken during his artistic careers. It includes material towards an artist book on cones that was never completed, source material for Anthropomorphiks, and materials relating to artist books Field Identification and Head Paintings. It also includes research notes, correspondence, and drafts of catalogue essays and speaking notes for his curatorial projects: Russell Spanner: A Spanner in the Works and Greg Curnoe’s Cut-Out: Shaped Collages (1965-1968). It also includes artwork and related materials for several graphic design projects.

Fones, Robert

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