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Lot 5
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 4 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash' self-titled debut album, Richard Pryor, Steppenwolf, The Monkees, Dove Records and Joni Mitchell, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1968-1969,
20 – 30 June 2025, 12:00 PDT
Online, Los AngelesUS$8,000 - US$12,000
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Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 4 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash' self-titled debut album, Richard Pryor, Steppenwolf, The Monkees, Dove Records and Joni Mitchell,
Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1968-1969,
bound sketchbook with black cover, approx. 100 pages with approx. two thirds of pages worked on, includes handwritten notes, designs and drawings showing the direct evolution of his album designs, typography, stationary designs, vinyl labels, posters, tour merchandise, promotional material, and concept ideas, in both pen and pencil and color,
13 x 10in
bound sketchbook with black cover, approx. 100 pages with approx. two thirds of pages worked on, includes handwritten notes, designs and drawings showing the direct evolution of his album designs, typography, stationary designs, vinyl labels, posters, tour merchandise, promotional material, and concept ideas, in both pen and pencil and color,
13 x 10in
Footnotes
In order, key pages include:
1. Wings (1968) album sketches in pencil, followed by font ideas in pen for the Wings. Wings were a folk rock group who began playing as an opening act for Big Brother and the Holding Company and Sly and the Family Stone.
2. Album sketches in pencil for Richard Pryor's 1968 self-titled album. Followed by sketches for Dove Records, the label the album was released on with Reprise Records.
3. A group of intricate sketches for Steppenwolf in black ink including the mouse from Steppenwolf artworks. Followed by an album plan for Steppenwolf's self-titled album. Including the mouse that Gary Burden often included on Steppenwolf artwork designs.
4. A plan for the debut 1969 Crosby, Stills & Nash album cover where Burden experiments with the order of names, sketches titled Stills, Crosby + Nash, and Crosby, Nash + Stills. Burden wrote Chronology of Pop! to the lower margin of the page. Following this, a piece of tracing paper secured to the page with the Crosby, Stills & Nash logo concept in pen.
5. A plan for a Monkees album, including detailed sketches in both pencil and black ink and other Monkees sketches including one intricate design in red, yellow, green and blue.
6. Handwritten notes and sketches for the 1970 film Monte Walsh. Sketches for the title font. Following pages show cowboy boot designs, key ring designs and other props.
7. A concept for California Bloodlines by John Stewart (1969) in pencil and pen.
8. A poster concept for CSN titled Somewhere Over The Rainbow 'A Pot Of Gold, in pencil.
9. A sketch of an eye in pencil, possibly used for the Clifton Chenier's Clifton Chenier's Very Best album (1969).
10. A larger section of designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash's debut album (1969) in pen and in color, including geometric shapes and more psychedelic concepts. Including a cut out of a wave. Includes a sketch close to how the album cover ended up.
11. A large sketch titled Joni Casts Her Spell to the lower margin, for Joni Mitchell. Likely an early unused concept for an album, with tracing paper stapled to page with additional sketch of Joni looking at her reflection.
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