COLLECTION OF SEVEN FLUXUS WORKS Second Half of the 20th Century

COLLECTION OF SEVEN FLUXUS WORKS
Second Half of the 20th Century
1-2) "Yellowstone Canyon" by Roger Cutforth, 1977. Chromogenic print. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the mount. Notes in ink in the margin. 8" x 5". Framed 10.5" x 9".
2) "Red River Red Landscape, Paco Duro Canyon, Texas" by Roger Cutforth, 1977. Eight chromogenic contact prints. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the mounts. Dedicated "To Peter on your fiftieth birthday Love, Roger and Rosalind" and countersigned on the frame back. 8.25" x 5.25". Framed 9.75" x 7.75".
3-4) Part A and Part B of "Roger + Mother on front steps 535 Shackamaxon Drive Westfield, New Jersey" by Roger Welch, 1972. Part A a silver print and Part B a chromogenic print. Both signed, titled and dated verso. Part A with signed and dated recounts of when the photograph
was taken by both the artist and his mother. Part A photograph 3.5" x 3.5". Overall 30" x 20". Part B photograph 3.75" x 5". Overall 30" x 20".
5) Robert Rauschenberg performing Pelican by Peter Moore, 1963. Silver print with the artist's estate blind stamp lower right. 11" x 13.75". Framed 16.25" x 19.5".
6) "Letters", published by the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, 1969. Includes loose pages of reproduced proposals of artist's projects including contributions from artists Sol LeWitt, Christo, Richard Serra and Dennis Oppenheim housed in original box. 9" x 12". Box with considerable wear.
7) "Night Cover" by Bob Bailey, 1992. Wooden mixed media assemblage. Signed, titled and dated verso. 16.5" x 24".

Provenance:
The Peter Hutchinson Art Trust.
Peter Hutchinson.

Notes:
Peter Hutchinson (1930?2025) was a British-born American artist who became deeply immersed in New York's experimental art community. Although he was not a member of the Fluxus movement, he developed close friendships with many of its artists over the years. A regular at Max's Kansas City, the legendary New York gathering place for artists and musicians, Hutchinson met many of these artists there during the 1970s.

His collection of Fluxus and related works grew organically through these relationships. Rather than assembling the works solely as a collector, Hutchinson acquired many of them directly from fellow artists through friendship, exchange and trade. The resulting group offers a personal record of the artistic networks in which he participated, spanning his longstanding connections between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. The collection includes works by artists with whom Hutchinson maintained relationships over the course of decades, giving the individual objects a provenance rooted in the informal exchanges and friendships that were central to the experimental art community of the 1960s and 1970s.

Condition
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