Archive
The Erik Brunetti Foundation for the Arts maintains an archive documenting more than three decades of Erik Brunetti’s artistic, cultural, editorial, and design practice. The Archive preserves primary-source materials supporting research into the development, production, circulation, exhibition, and reception of Brunetti’s work.
Holdings include artworks, working materials, mechanicals, drawings, prototypes, correspondence, photographs, publications, printed matter, exhibition documentation, production records, audiovisual materials, legal records, and cultural ephemera. Together, these materials provide evidence of artistic process, authorship, chronology, provenance, collaboration, and historical context.
The Archive is distinct from the Foundation’s Collections. Collections presents defined bodies of work and selected holdings under the Foundation’s stewardship. The Archive preserves the documentary and material record surrounding those works and establishes the policies through which materials may be consulted, borrowed, photographed, reproduced, or published.
Archival Stewardship
The Foundation documents and preserves materials according to their evidentiary, historical, and research significance. Archival stewardship includes:
Establishing and maintaining object and file records
Recording authorship, chronology, provenance, and exhibition history
Preserving working materials and evidence of production
Organizing correspondence, photographs, publications, and ephemera
Documenting conservation requirements and physical condition
Managing research access and institutional loans
Administering image, publication, and reproduction requests
Connecting selected digital records with the Foundation’s Repository
Supporting the continuing preparation of the Catalogue Raisonné
Archival arrangement and description remain ongoing. Descriptions may be revised as additional evidence is located, dates are verified, or relationships between materials become better understood. Provisional information is identified as such and is not represented as established fact.
Access, Loans & Rights
The Foundation provides three separate channels for engagement with its holdings.
Access governs supervised consultation by researchers, curators, scholars, writers, and other qualified applicants.
Loans governs the temporary movement of eligible works and archival materials for museum exhibitions, institutional research, and approved public programs.
Rights governs requests to photograph, reproduce, quote, publish, broadcast, or otherwise use images and archival materials.
Approval in one category does not constitute approval in another. Research access, for example, does not automatically authorize photography, publication, reproduction, loan, authentication, or commercial use.
Archive & loan inquiries:
archive@erikbrunettifoundation.org
Research access inquiries:
research@erikbrunettifoundation.org