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Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 1
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 2
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 3
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 4
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 5
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 6
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 7
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 8
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 9
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 10
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972, image 11
Lot 44

Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash,
Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972,

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

US$12,000 - US$15,000

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Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 10 featuring designs for America, Asylum Records stationary, Roxy, Albert Hammond, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash,

Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1972,
bound sketchbook with black cover, approx. 100 pages with most of 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 additional pages of loose notes within and a Colony Concerts backstage pass,
13 x 10in

Footnotes

In order, key pages include:
1. Sketched designs for the America album Homecoming, 1972. Handwritten notes and titled Come Home America to upper right corner in pencil. Following this, further sketches of landscapes with the band in the center.

2. Pencil sketches of Albert Hammond for the 1972 album It Never Rains In Southern California.

3. Designs for Asylum Records dated 9/1/72, for David Geffen and Elliot Roberts, including logos and posters, and a sketch titled Two Hands Arm Wrestling. Following this, Asylum Records letterheads and stationary designs.

4. Logo ideas for Burden's company R.Twerk, Burden sometimes used a drawing of a cockroach as his trademark.

5. Pencil sketched logos for the Byrds and album designs following.

6. First half of the sketchbook contains designs for other artists including as Sopwith Camel, Ned Doheny, Rod Taylor and Bill Rinehart.

7. A page titled The Eagles - So Far So Good to the upper right corner. Contains pencil sketches for a concept album.

8. Four pages of pencil sketches for Poco's Crazy Eyes (1973). The first sketch with the eyes highlighted in black pen amongst pencil sketch.

9. The Roxy Club t-shirt design and concept for the logo, in anticipation for the opening of the venue in 1973.

10. America logo sketches for the 1973 album Hat Trick.

11. Dated 5/23/73, detailed notes and sketches for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Human Highway, the unfinished album. A few pages later, a Front Cover concept for the album.

12. A sketch for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young With Guests.

13. Pencil sketches for Neil Young's film Journey Through the Past, with a note reading a film by Neil Young. Young directed films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past in 1973.

14. Poster design for the America Tour '73, USA with Jackson Browne, following sketch featuring Jackson Browne.

15. Handwritten notes and reminders for projects including Graham Nash's album Wild Tales (1973).

16. Eagles and Beatien Yazz information regarding the original album drawing for The On the Border (1974); notes for C.S.N.Y / Best Of; and Neil Young Tonight's the Night (1975).

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