Wilton David Gleep Drawings,ca
Collection Number: 7655
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
Title:
Wilton David Gleep drawings,
ca. 1973.
Collection Number:
7655
Creator:
Wilton David Gleep
Quantity:
18 items.
Forms of Material:
Pen and ink drawings.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
18 original pen and ink drawings (5 x 7 ") mounted on stiff board and 8 larger sized (8 x 11") ink drawings and page mockups
for different Catalyst publications, with the original mailing envelope addressed to Ian Young at Catalyst Press, covered
with doodles by Gleep, and postmarked Oct. 4, 1973. The original letter enclosed with the shipment is not included.
Language:
Collection material in English
Louisiana pioneer of Gay Hippie art.
Gleep's works were exhibited in the National Erotic Art Exhibition in San Diego (1973), the Gabriel Gallery in Madison, Wis.,
and the International Museum of Erotic Art in San Francisco and were published in GPU News (Gay Peoples Union, Milwaukee),
Fag Rag, Gay Sunshine, and Mirage, a transsexual magazine. In June 1976, he was one of 12 patients in the schizophrenic ward
research project at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. After that, no more is known of his fate.
18 original pen and ink drawings (5 x 7 ") mounted on stiff board and 8 larger sized (8 x 11") ink drawings and page mockups
for different Catalyst publications, with the original mailing envelope addressed to Ian Young at Catalyst Press, covered
with doodles by Gleep, and postmarked Oct. 4, 1973. The original letter enclosed with the shipment is not included.
Names:
Gleep, Wilton David.
Young, Ian.
Catalyst Press.
Subjects:
Gay artists.
Hippies.
Schizophrenic--Art.
Cite As:
Wilton David Gleep drawings, #7655. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.
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