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File consists of art projects completed by Barbara Astman while she was in high school.

Accrual consists of source materials and collage components relating to Barbara Astman’s works.

Series comprises photos of Barbara Astman and family members with several leaves of textual material.

Series comprises photos of Barbara Astman’s art projects and exhibitions in Canada during the 1970s and 1980s. Accrual to series consists of installation photographs of three exhibitions of Barbara Astman’s work: “Untitled, I was thinking about you” (Sable-Castelli?), Personal/Persona (AGH), and Clementine Part I, II & III (Yukon Arts Centre).

Series comprises photographs, chiefly slides, documenting Barbara Astman’s work in Toronto and elsewhere between 1968 and 2006.

Accrual consists of works by other artists given as gifts to Barbara Astman, and related correspondence.

Series consists of annual income tax returns and related receipts for art-related expenses arising from Barbara Astman’s art practice.

Series comprises recordings of Barbara Astman’s artistic activity and other recordings made between 1990 and 2006.

Series comprises Barbara Astman’s journals and journal / notebooks from 1974 to 2003. The contents of these volumes vary; sometimes the artist makes a narrative record of the events of daily life, sometimes she makes notes about artistic inspiration or more mundane memoranda. Often, she fills pages with found images, ephemera and Polaroid snapshots. There are numerous connections between the pages of these volumes and the artist’s finished works. All volumes contain some element of journal writing, which distinguishes them from the notebooks in Series 9. Accrual to series consists of two journals and one journal fragment from diverse periods in Astman’s life: a diary from her teen years, a baby journal documenting the infancy of her daughter Amy Astman Baker, and pages from a journal with collage elements from the early 2000s.

Series comprises photocopies of magazine articles on Barbara Astman and her art, including reviews. Series also includes posters for Astman’s exhibitions, and a few posters for exhibitions by her friends. Accrual contains copies of advertisements for and reviews of Astman’s exhibitions, similar material pertaining to friends of the artist, and documentation of internet searches on Astman from 2002.