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The Athenaeum’s Erika & Fred Torri Artists’ Books Collection

Book Number	Artist	Title	Pub. Year	Box No.	Comment
AB 1998.12	Baldessari, John	Telephone book	1988	147
AB 1999.39	Baldessari, John	Zorro	1998	147
AB 2001.77	Baldessari, John	Lamb = cordero	1993	147
AB 2001.88	Baldessari, John	Brown and Green	2001	147
AB 2002.16	Baldessari, John	Life & opinions of Tristram Shandy	1988	119	Oversized
AB 2002.32	Baldessari, John	Four events	1975	147
AB 2003.36	Baldessari, John	John Baldessari: National City	1996	147
AB 2003.58	Baldessari, John	Metaphor problem again	1999	64a
AB 2004.110	Baldessari, John	Yours in food, John Baldessari	2004	147
AB 2007.56	Baldessari, John	Prima facie: Marilyn's dress, a poem (in four parts)	2006	147
AB 2008.22	Baldessari, John	Baldessari - RMS W VU: wallpaper, lamps, and plants (new)	1998	147
AB 2008.56	Baldessari, John	Retrospective	2007	147
AB 2008.104	Baldessari, John	Prima facie: Marilyn's dress, a poem (in four parts)	2006	122	With box and print
AB 2008.136	Baldessari, John	While something is happening here, something else is also happening there: works 1965-2001	2001	147
AB 2008.141	Baldessari, John	Brown and green and other parables	2001	152
AB 2008.150	Baldessari, John	Throwing a ball once to get three melodies and fifteen chords	1973	147
AB 2009.8	Baldessari, John	Noses & ears, etc. Part three	2007	147
AB 2009.64	Baldessari, John	Again the metaphor problem and other engaged critical discourses about art: a conversation between John Baldessari, Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner	2007	147
AB 2010.44	Baldessari, John	Ingres and other parables	1972	147
AB 2010.53	Baldessari, John	Parse	2010	160
AB 2010.73	Baldessari, John	Miracle chips: guaranteed fresh	2009	147
AB 2011.23	Baldessari, John	California viewpoints	1986	160
AB 2012.1	Baldessari, John	Brutus killed Caesar	1976	160
AB 2012.3	Baldessari, John	Throwing three balls in the air to get a straight line: best of thirty-six attempts	1973	160
AB 2012.16	Baldessari, John	Fable	1977	147
AB 2012.36	Baldessari, John	Choosing: green beans	1972	160
AB 2012.54	Baldessari, John	John Baldessari, Barbara Bloom: between artists	2011	160
AB 2017.91	Baldessari, John	Scenes from the cutting-room floor	2017	209
RSM B193 cl	Baldessari, John	Close-cropped tales	1981

In 2010, the Athenaeum published a booklet exploring the library’s complete collection of artist’s books by the much heralded contemporary artist Ed Ruscha. A second booklet focusing on the Athenaeum’s complete collection of Ida Applebroog’s artist's books was published in 2011. The third booklet on Allen Ruppersberg was published in 2012 and the fourth and fifth booklets (on John Baldessari and Bruce Nauman) were published in 2013. In 2016, the booklet on Roberta Allen’s complete collection was published, followed by booklets on Allan Kaprow and Mel Bochner in 2018. Currently a booklet on Sol LeWitt and a second edition of booklet on Ed Ruscha are in process. All booklets—catalogues raisonnés—are sent out to a list of national and international institutions interested in artists’ books.

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