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Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 1
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 2
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 3
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 4
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 5
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 6
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 7
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 8
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 9
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 10
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 11
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 12
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 13
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969, image 14
Lot 13

Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management,
Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969,

20 – 30 June 2025, 12:00 PDT
Online, Los Angeles

US$6,000 - US$8,000

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Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 5 featuring designs for Neil Young, Poco, Laura Nyro, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' album and Lookout Management,

Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1969,
bound sketchbook with black cover, approx. 100 pages with most pages worked on, includes handwritten notes, designs and drawings showing the direct evolution of his album designs, with designs for typography, single and album cover designs, stationary designs, vinyl labels, posters, tour merchandise, promotional material, and concept ideas, in both pen and pencil, with loose pages of notes within and to-do lists,
13 x 10in

Footnotes

In order, key pages include:
1. Neil Young sketches with Crazy Horse in pen and pencil.

2. Sketched ideas for Poco's self-titled album (1970). On the same page, including a colored two-sided sketch of band, other side a couple beside a fireplace on card taped to the page. Following this, a large pencil sketch of the landscape used for the 1970 album.

3. Logo sketches for Lookout Management in black pen and in pencil.

4. A plan for a Poco concert poster in pencil.

5. Sketch titled Laura Nyro in Concert in black pen, with logo designs to the opposite page.

6. Sketched designs for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Déjà Vu (1970), including an outlined stool, like the chair which David Crosby is seen sitting on the final cover.

7. A section of Woodstock related concepts, Woodstock Calendar Poster titled to the lower margin. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young played their first public show at the festival on August 17, 1969.

8. A Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young In Concert poster idea.

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