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Hamady, Walter Samuel Haatoum, 1940-2019

 Person

Biographical / Historical

Walter Hamady (b.1940-d.2019), an innovative papermaker, printer, publisher of books by hand, artist, and teacher https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/libspecial/collections/manuscripts/perishable.php

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Boxes Collages / Hamady, Walter ; Clay S ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08956-9132
Scope and Contents

Many of the works in this catalogue incorporate images of lungs. One of the boxes in this exhibition was acquired by the Sackner Archive and the Archive is mentioned as holding works by Hamady. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Handmade Books, Collages and Sculptures / Hamady, Walter ; Olson T ; Spector B ; Heft C ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-33092-34717
Scope and Contents

This catalogue features Hamady's assemblages. Toby Olson and Buzz Spector contribute critical essays on Hamady's work. Olson wrItes about his art pieces in the essay "One Night at the Farm" and Spector describes Hamady's work in an essay, "Biblioselfconsciousness: Walter Hamady's Gabberjabbs." The Sackner Archive is mentioned as holding Hamady's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Journey 22 from Haslach to Hau (Elipsis), 1989

 Item — Box 109: [Barcode: 31858073143749]
Identifier: CC-09850-10044
Scope and Contents

In this book object, the artist utilizes a photographic schematic of a vertical section of the whole lung as a hat for a young woman. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989