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THE ALLAN HOUSER ARCHIVES

Following Allan's death in 1994, an archive was created to house the thousands of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and other personal articles which remained in his studio. It also holds his library, his personal art and artifact collection, sketchbooks, photographs, and personal documents. Open only to museum curators and scholars, the archives serve as an invaluable resource for traveling exhibitions and research. In 1998 Mrs. Anna Marie Houser created the ALLAN HOUSER FOUNDATION to administer her collection and to operate the archives.

SKETCHBOOKS

239 sketchbooks with an average of 25 pages per book total nearly 6000 pages of sketches. Often there are multiple sketches, sometimes as many as 10 per page. These tens of thousands of ideas were the vast reservoir from which sprung thousands of paintings, drawings, and sculpture.

BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS

Included in the archive's collection are nearly 100 original temepra paintings and pen & ink drawings done by Allan Houser between 1954 and 1962 as commissioned illustrations for 7 different books including The Desert People, Blue Canyon Horse, The Cave, Cochise, Geronimo, Runner in the Sun, and Joe Sunpool.

WATERCOLORS

50 watercolor paintings done between 1955 and 1965 are housed in the archives collection. 43 of these paintings are included in an exhibtion traveling under the auspices of the Allan Houser Foundation and have been shown in over 20 venues throughout the United States and Europe.