Box 17

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This series comprises emails Amos sent to family and friends. As with the correspondence, emails are filled with attachments of photographs, newspaper clippings and drawings. Email content includes life information, party planning, birthday wishes, holiday greetings, and remembrances of Matt Glavin after the announcement of his death in January 2013.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Amos participated in an Oral History interview conducted by Roger Hull, Professor Emeritus of Art History and Senior Faculty Curator, Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. In the interview, Amos discusses his childhood in northern Idaho and the trials of living with an abusive father. He also talks of his time at Portland State University; his philosophy, Preliminism; and his artwork. Context is given to various parts of his collection including The Village, where he lived with...

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This series contains Amos's journals, notes, poems, and scrolls. He wrote his thoughts about life events including caring for his mother, the death of his brother, Clinton, and his childhood. He wrote of current events and includes information about his conception of Preliminism.

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Correspondence in this subseries is largely between Rex, his mother, Jean, and Diane Amos. These include letters from Amos during his time in the Army, as well as those written while he was in Ireland with Matt Glavin and Graham Conroy. Also included are Amos's letters to members of congress, and letters to the editor regarding various local and international issues.

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Tom Albright and Beatrice Hablig are friends of Rex and Diane Amos. Albright was a controversial and influential art critic in the San Francisco Bay area. Hablig is an artist of mostly paintings, pastels, and photography.

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Sandy Brooke is a friend and advocate of Amos's artwork.

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The majority of these materials are from Rex and Diane Amos to Sandy Brooke, as well as Jim Brooke. Among this correspondence are an Artspirit article about Henry Sayre, Graham Conroy poetry, and articles on the Stendhal Effect. Materials are arranged in reverse chronological order.

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Matt Glavin is a San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painter, long-time correspondent and friend of Amos's. Also included are letters from Tangla Boothby, formerly married to Gary Ewing.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains correspondence written between Amos and his friends and family. It is arranged into subseries to reflect the individuals with whom Amos was corresponding. The correspondence covers topics such as life, travel, fly fishing, artwork, family and friendship. Many of Amos's envelopes contain his drawings and/or collages. Many of the letters contain drawings as well.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains correspondence written between Amos and his friends and family. It is arranged into subseries to reflect the individuals with whom Amos was corresponding. The correspondence covers topics such as life, travel, fly fishing, artwork, family and friendship. Many of Amos's envelopes contain his drawings and/or collages. Many of the letters contain drawings as well.