Erika – FYI, 1991
Projection print, 16 x 20 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Funds from Erika and Fred Torri, 1993.01

Frau mi Violine, 1996
Mixed media and collage on paper, 19.75 x 13.75 inches
Gift of the Artist in honor of Erika and Fred Torri, 1996.04

Untitled, 1994
Black-and-white photograph, Edition 1 of 50, 13.25 x 15.25 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for 1994 Patron Gift (1st), 1994.01

Untitled, 1955
Ink on paper, 21.25 x 12.625 inches
Gift of Kathleen Briggs, 1995.01

Square-cut allée at Parc de Sceaux, 1993/1995
Fiber-base gelatin silver print, Artist’s proof, 20 x 20 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Funds from Katherine Kaufman, 1995.02

Volcanoes and Reading Lamps, 1997
Ink on paper, 30.125 x 22.50 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Funds from the Alida Brill and Steven Scheuer Foundation, 1997.02

Pablo Picasso, 1998
Ink on rag paper, 21.5 x 19 inches
Gift of the Artist, used for Athenaeum Program Cover 2016/2017 (15th), 1991.01

Athenaeum Book Sale, 1991
Photo collage, 20 x 32 inches
Gift of the Artist, 1999.02

Untitled (Baby It’s Cold Outside), 1999
Mixed media on paper, 17.5 x 13.25 inches
Gift of the Artist, 1999.03

La Coupole: Paris, 1987
Watercolor on handmade paper, 10 x 13 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Funds from J. Robert Orton, Jr., 2001.10

Untitled Landscape, no date
Acrylic, gold leaf, and silver leaf on panel, 20.125 x 35.75 inches
Gift of Mary Sternberg in honor of Erika Torri, 2002.02

Name poem: The Athenaeum, 2003
Ink on rice paper, 12 x 15 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for Athenaeum Program Cover 2003/2004 (2nd), 2003.07

Wave Break 1, 2003
Gelatin silver print, Edition 1 of 7, 23.5 x 28.5 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2003.09

Visitor (Erika Torri), 2003
Aquarelle on paper, 15.75 x 11.25 inches
Anonymous Gift, 2003.12

Box of Letters, 2001
Mixed media, box 5.5 x 14 x 4.5 inches, variable dimensions overall
Gift of the Artist, 2004.02

Les Messieurs d’Avignon, 2003
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2004.11

10 Items or Less, 1974
Gouache on paper, 8.75 x 6.75 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2005.01

Untitled, 2005
Graphite and pastel on paper, 11.125 x 17.625 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for Athenaeum Program Cover 2006/2007 (5th), 2006.04

Bouquet, 1999
Enamel, gold leaf, and resin on papier mâché, 86 x 51 x 51 inches
Gift of the Artist and Athenaeum Purchase with Funds from Erika and Fred Torri and J. Robert Orton, Jr., 2006.11

Graffiti House, 2006
Lambda print mounted on Plexiglas with gator board and aluminum backing, Edition 4 of 5, 11 x 33 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2007.02

Sign Painting, 2002
Oil on board, 24 x 24 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2007.05

Play Houses, Carmel Valley, San Diego, CA, USA, 2002
Pigment print on acrylic, Edition 2 of 5, 23.75 x 30.75 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2007.08

Turquoise Noria Coffee, Hama, Syria, 2007
Archival pigment print, 16 x 20 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2008.02

Quick Sketch, 2008
Water-soluble calligraphy pen and pastel on paper, 25 x 19 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2008.05

Untitled, 2008
Watercolor on paper, 18 x 13.75 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for Athenaeum Program Cover 2008/2009 (7th), 2008.07

City Hall, El Cajon, 2002
Wood-burning on wood (pyrography), 17.5 x 17.5 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2008.09

Untitled, 2009
Digitally enhanced print from a leaf found outside the Athenaeum, 11 x 17 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for Athenaeum Program Cover 2009/2010 (8th), 2009.02

Untitled, 2009
Digital print and embroidery on vinyl, Edition 1 of 125, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for 2009 Patron Gift (16th), 2009.03

Untitled from Negative Construct #1, 2009
Enamel on birch plywood, 11.875 x 9 inches, 9 x 12 inches, 5.25 x 7.5 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2009.07–2009.09

Athenaeum Program Cover, 2010
Watercolor and ink on paper, 14 x 10.25 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for Athenaeum Program Cover 2010/2011 (9th), 2010.09

Untitled 2009.02, 2009
Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
Gift of Madison Gallery, La Jolla, CA and Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2010.13

Untitled, 2010
Ink on paper, 8.25 x 10 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Funds from Sue Whitman, 2010.15

Duckling, 2009
Graphite and charcoal on paper, 29.125 x 29.125 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2010.16

Untitled (Sawhorses), 2005
Color marker on paper, 17.25 x 15.125
Gift of the Artist and Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA and Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2010.18

Untitled, 2010
Photo construction mounted on paper, 11 x 30 inches each of two
Gift of the Artist and Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2010.20

Untitled, 2010
Photo construction mounted on paper, 11 x 30 inches each of two
Gift of the Artist and Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2010.20

Jacaranda II, 2010
Acrylic on canvas, 11.25 x 8.625
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2010.21

ABC Wire Installation, 2009
Found wire, 1982–2009, variable dimensions
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2010.23

Untitled (blue), 1993
Oil on board, 12 x 12 inches
Gift of Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA and Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2011.01

Mary at the Stove, 1993
Casein on plasterboard, 96 x 73 inches
Gift of the Artist and Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA and Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2011.02

Defragmentation, 2011
Photograph, collage, 11 x 16 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2011.03

Leonardo da Vinci as a Musician (from Special Collections Revisited), 1996/2008
Digital C-print, 12.5 x 19 inches
Gift of Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA and Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2011.06

Untitled, 2011
Digital print with rhinestones, Edition 1 of 140, 10.5 x 8 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for 2011 Patron Gift (18th), 2011.07

Sixty, 2011
Colored pencil on paper, 19 x 15.5 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2011.09

Dolled, 2010
Mixed media on paper, 22.5 x 12 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2012.01

Ax Playing Haydn, 2008–09
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches
Gift of Lis Carpenter, Colin Carpenter and Megan King, 2012.02

Athenaeum Windows, 2012
Gouache on paper, 7.25 x 8.5 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for Athenaeum Program Cover 2012/2013 (11th), 2012.03

Untitled from 2011 Scriptorium, Devout Exercises of the Heart, 2011
Ink and oil on antique sheet music, 12x24
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for 2012 Patron Gift (19th), 2012.04

Erika, 2012
Triptych, acrylic on board, 48 x 84 inches
Gift of the 2011/2012 Athenaeum Board of Trustees in honor of Erika Torri, 2012.05

Similar Differences, 2013
Mixed media, 52.5 x 22.25 x 13.25 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2013.02.1–12

#22, 2012
Acrylic on canvas, 10.125x10.125
Gift of the artist, 2013.03

Passage à travers Jalousie petite, 2013
Aluminum glass, dichroic mosaic and light, 16x12x2
Gift of the artist, 2013.05

Sunken Staccato Story, 2013
Ink, watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 22.25 x 15.25 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commissioned for Athenaeum Program Cover 2013/2014 (12th), 2013.06

ARTS & LETTERS, State II, 2008
Three color lithograph, Edition 1 of 35, 29.375 x 22.125 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2013.07

Genuine Altoon Dracula Forgery #2, 2001
Lithograph, Edition of 20, 12 x 9 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2013.12

Sector 9, 2010
Acrylic on panel, 12 x 12 inches
Gift of the Artist, 2013.13

Flash III, 2013
Cast cement with pigment, 7.25 x 5 x 2.5 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2013.14

Cover to Cover #1–17 (for Michael Snow), 2014
MDF, melamine, latex paint and steel pins, Edition 1 of 5, .5 x 120 x 213 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2014.01.1–17

Book, 2012
Acrylic on wood, 18 x 20 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2015.01

Desde Siempre/Since Always, 2015
Egg tempera on board, 9.875 x 9.875
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2015.02

Receptacle for Memories That Can’t Possibly Be True, 2016
Paper, ink, wax, 1.25 x 3.125 x 2.5 inches
Collection Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2017.12

Baldessari, 2017
Print on paper, Edition 3 of 50, 10.25 x 8.25 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2017.13

Documentation for Festival of Whispers sound artwork, 2017
Print, 7 x 8.5 inches
Commissioned for Program Cover 2017/2018 (16th), 2017.16

#34, 2003
Marker on paper, 7 x 5 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2018.06

Las Hermanitas, 2018
Half-cut Mexican brick with low-fired underglaze ceramic decals, 5.25 x 8 x 4.75 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2019.02

The Mark/Hide or Seek, 2019
Acrylic on weeded books and linen, 16.5 x 8.5 x 9.25 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2019.11

Blue, 2019
Graphite on paper, 19.375 x 19.375 inches
Collection Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2019.14

Sketch for New Beginning, 2018
Ink on paper, 20.625 x 20.625 inches
Collection Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2019.15

Edo Collage #12, 2019
Collage, 14 x 11 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2019.16

Opening at the Athenaeum/experience 6695
Color photograph on archival paper, 29 x 37 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2019.17

National City, 1996
Poster for the MCASD Exhibition, 80 x 8.5 inches
Collection Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Gift of Erika Torri, SC2020.01

Untitled, 2010
Black-and-white photograph, 19.125 x 24.125 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2020.02

Untitled, 2010
Black-and-white photograph, 19.125 x 24.125 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2020.02_detail

Untitled, 2017
Vintage wallpaper and vinyl contact paper on cotton rag, 24 x 20 inches
Collection Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2020.03

Glen Island Beech, 2019
Silverpoint on paper, 17 x 13 inches
Collection Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2020.04

Foxgloves, 2020
Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Collection Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Commissioned for 2021–2022 Music Program Covers (19th), 2020.05

Athenaeum School of the Arts, 2020
Acrylic on canvas, 15.625 x 12.625 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2021.23

Loft, 2021
Basswood, series of 35, 33 x 47 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2021.24

Diploma, 2020
Casein and gold leaf on paper, 13 x 16.5 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2021.25

On, Beside, Above, 2019
Acrylic on wood, 25 x 22 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2021.47

Dasha’s Portrait, 2016
Lithograph, Edition 1 of 7, 20 x 14 inches
Gift of the Artist, 2021.58

Untitled, 2021
Collage, 15.5 x 19 inches
Gift of the artist, 2021.90

Smoke, 2021
Oils and sheet lead on birch panel, 14.625x46x1 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2022.08

Wedged Queen Ann’s, 2021
Cast bronze and steel plate, 5.75x11x7 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2022.09

Gold Medal Marvel: Jennifer Sullivan, RN, 2020
Watercolor, collage paper weaving, 13.25x10.25 inches
Athenaeum Purchase with Art Committee Funds, 2022.10

Café, 1989
Pastel, 9.75 x 12.125 inches
Gift of Martin Breslauer, 2023.07

In the 1920s, Kate Session proposed a garden renovation for the Athenaeum, and Merrell Gage created the bronze statue “Girl Holding Book,” 2024
Archival inkjet print, Edition 1 of 150, 10x8 inches
Commissioned for 2024 Patron Gift (30th), 2024.01

Infinite Index, 2024
Aluminum foil, tape, laminated adhesive labels, magazine on paper, 12 x 12 inches
Athenaeum Purchase, Commission for 2024-2025 Program Cover (23rd in series), 2024.02