Excerpt from Sylvester Orphanos: Catalog of an Exhibit, October-December 1990
This exhibit focuses on three collecting areas of interest to the Department of Special Collections and the UCLA Library. It highlights fine printing in Los Angeles through the publications of Ralph Sylvester and Stathis Orphanos. It exhibits works by Los Angeles photographer Stathis Orphanos. It stresses a sharing of world cultures through the Sylvester & Orphanos portfolio on the late Greek artist Yannis Tsarouchis.
The exhibit and the catalog show and describe a circle of ever-widening associations, long important to the UCLA Library. The twenty-four signed limited editions of Sylvester & Orphanos have been produced in collaboration with much of the printing and book arts talent in Los Angeles. Lillian Marks, Patrick Reagh, the late Grant Dahlstrom, and many others are mentioned and featured in this catalog. Don Bachardy and Vance Gerry are only two of the Los Angeles artists associated with Sylvester & Orphanos publications represented in this exhibit. Shirley Burden presented Stathis Orphanos"s first Los Angeles showing of photographs. At one time the late Mr. Burden was the Chairman of the Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Orphanos"s photographs, to be appreciated for their fine arts qualities, also serve as Los Angeles records: of the late bookseller Peggy Christian (President of the Friends of the UCLA Library, 1971) and of authors such as Christopher Isherwood.
The exhibit has a special section on Yannis Tsarouchis, which relates to the sharing of Greek and American culture. In this catalog Melina Mercouri, Minister of Culture and Sciences, Greece, 1981-1989, thanks us for including this segment. It is we who must thank her for her efforts and contributions. She set in motion the Sylvester Orphanos project which allows us to view color plates of the work of Yannis Tsarouchis.
In November of 1949, UCLA Librarian Lawrence Clark Powell wrote in the library"s Acquisitive Notes about the beginnings of a collection of modern Greek literature. He was enthusiastic about Greek writers associated with Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell. Their papers and books are two of the department"s strongest collections. Powell also wrote of emerging Greek poets George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis. Powell described volumes added to the library and wrote that Elytis"s work was "clairvoyant poetry about the winds and weathers of the Aegean." Both Seferis and Elytis would receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Elytis is one of the many Greek cultural figures who have joined in tribute to Yannis Tsarouchis in the volume in preparation by Sylvester & Orphanos.
The department is pleased to share these areas, now, with the viewing public, as an invitation for research in our rare and unique material.
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