Esta Nesbitt archive

Reprography art and accompanying documents, 1966 – 1983, of Esta Nesbitt (1918 – 1975), fashion illustrator, teacher, and photographer. Includes motion pictures, notebooks, diaries, photographs, correspondence, and other materials regarding her exhibitions and performances, especially “Walk-Up Tape-On,” 1969, “Everyman,” 1969, “Electrostatics,” 1972, and, less extensively, “Xerography-Extensions in Art,” 1973. There are periodicals and catalogs on or about her, and several portraits of her. Not included in this collection are her illustrations for fashion and children’s literature, information regarding her teaching career, and her experiments with reprography art.

The first series contains biographical materials, which includes photographs of Nesbitt as well as periodicals with Nesbitt references. The second series contains exhibitions-related materials, such as exhibition catalogs from 1966-1969 and 1971-1983. It also houses notes, maps, charts, motion picture film, transparencies, and photographs representing Nesbitt’s “Walk Up Tape-On” performance. Furthermore, box one has information regarding her “Xerography—Extensions in Art” performance, including correspondence, notes, the press release, and catalog. Box two consists of the description, invitation, and prints from Nesbitt’s “Everyman” performance, while box three contains materials on the records of “Electrostatics” and Transcapasas “stair pattern”, and box four houses three transcapsagraphic books from 1971.