This series is arranged in loose chronological order. The series primarily consists of Darden's artworks in mixed media from the 1980s. These artworks/drawings are executed in charcoal, paint, pastel, graphite, pen, and collage. They feature expressive abstract forms, industrial scenes, and allegorical projects, and range from the size of a postcard to 4ft by 6ft.
The series also includes materials for identified projects that were not featured in Condemned Building or Laughing Girls. The folder, "Misanthropy Hall," contains notes and research materials, as well as a print of the drawing, "H.M.M. House for a Mad Misanthrope," currently held at the Bass Museum in Miami. [Note: this project was originally to be featured in but was ultimately left out.] The folder "I-Club" contains research materials and process work concerning Japanese culture, armor, samurai, opium, military technology, mechanical machines, and the Rape of Nanking. The process work includes the manipulation of line drawings using transparencies, the same process Darden used to create his "Dis/continuous Genealogies" for the projects in Condemned Buildings. The series also includes sketches and studies on trace for "Displaced Suburb," a project that used the same site as "Night School," the McMillan Water Filtration Plant in Washington D.C. One folder includes two drawings on trace (one of each aforementioned project) which overlay the third drawing of a site plan.
Drawer 208 Folder 5
Assorted Projects, 1979, 1985, undated
30 items : sketches, drawings, "Four Thresholds of Lent," "The John ca. Maultsby Farm Columbus County, N.ca." copy, surveyed 1973 Dec 28, 2 "Fort Residence"? project drawings.
Roll A84.01b
Harvard Project, Theater, ca. 1981
Roll A84.01a
Harvard Project, Miscellaneous, ca. 1981
11 item : drawings; includes 2 drawings for L'Hotel Guimard Addition; 2 drawings Lewis Wharf Office/Residential Building; and 7 drawings for unidentified project(s)
Drawer 206 Folder 6
"Section looking East", 1982 Feb 16
Drawer 206 Folder 12
Project with Bridge, 1982
2 items : mounted drawings
Box 14 Folder 1
"An Egypt for Baltimore" & "Place to say 'No'", 1983 Apr
Box 14 Folder 2
"Family House", 1983
1 item : drawing with images pasted on back
Box 14 Folder 3
"Gold-diggers", 1983/4
Box 14 Folder 4
"House on Two Hills", 1983
Box 14 Folder 5
"One if by Land, Two if by Sea", 1983
Box 14 Folder 6
"Progress", 1983
Box 14 Folder 7
"Spinning Wheel", 1983
Box 14 Folder 8
"Station for a Childhood Eclipsing", 1983
Box 14 Folder 9
"Subjects Made Sensitive to the Wind", 1983
Box 14 Folder 10
"A Trysting Place", 1983
Box 14 Folder 11
"Windmill", 1983
Drawer 206 Folder 8
Displaced Suburb Preliminary, 1984, undated
20 items : plan and section sketches
Drawer 207 Folder 9
Displaced Suburb Studies, 1984, undated
40 items : sketches, plans, sections, elevation ; "Suburb for the Lost and Found."
Box 14 Folder 12
"The Illusion of Choice", 1984
Box 14 Folder 13
Pillar of Progress, 1984, undated
5 items : 2 undated, "Pillar of Progress: The Journeyman," "Pillar of Progress," "Gold- Tipped Pillar of Progress"
Box 14 Folder 14
"'Q2' Escapes His Nightmare", 1984
Box 15 Folder 16
"Washed Houses", 1984
1 item : pencil and pastel on paper
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 14 Folder 20
"Symptoms of Refuge", 1984
Box 15 Folder 18
Untitled, [abstract structure with bridge], 1984
1 item : colored pencil and pastel drawings
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 15 Folder 18
Untitled, [abstract structure with staircase], 1984
1 item : colored pencil and pastel drawings
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 15 Folder 17
Untitled, [abstract landscape], 1985
1 item : colored pencil and pastel drawings
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 15 Folder 17
Untitled, [abstract nature or landscape], 1985
1 item : colored pencil and pastel drawings
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 14 Folder 15
"The Lost Bridge", 1985
Box 14 Folder 16
"Mill for Grinding Time", 1985
Box 14 Folder 17
"Sacre Coeur", 1985
Box 14 Folder 18
"Triptich", 1985
Box 14 Folder 19
Night School Perspectives, 1985
Box 14 Folder 21
Subdivisions, 1985
11 items : "Subdivisions, Opus" 2 through 12; drawings
Box 14 Folder 22
Vacancies, 1985
7 items : "Vacancies" I, VI, VIII, IX, XI, XII, XIII; drawings
Box 14 Folder 23
"Felix Culpa: Weehawken, N. J.", 1985
Box 14 Folder 24
"The Hollow Door", 1985
Box 14 Folder 25
"Pilings", 1985
Box 14 Folder 26
Untitled, 1985
Drawer 206 Folder 2
Unfixed Pastels, 1985, undated
26 items : includes charcoal drawings ; graphite drawings ; pen & ink drawings ; "Air Factory" Collage ; "Vacancies" ; "Night School."
Box 15 Folder 16
"i.e. find the Hand of God", ca. 1985
1 drawing : watercolor, pencil, color pencil, and ink on paper
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 15 Folder 16
"Home Section - No20 (Alto)", ca. 1985
1 item : oil stick and charcol on board
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 18 Folder 4
Drawing vignettes of railways and roadways, 1985
19 items : ink and charcoal on paper
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 18 Folder 5
"Untitled Study (ReWorking of A.B."), ca. 1985
1 item : ink on pen on paper
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 18 Folder 5
[Black maker sketch on lined notepad paper]
1 item
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 18 Folder 5
[Bridge and house and watercolor study], ca. 1985
1 item
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Roll 2
Untitled, 1986
Roll 1
"VII", 1986
1 item : charcoal drawing
Drawer 206 Folder 7
"The Construction of Demolition, Preliminary Design", 1987 Jan 15
1 item : mounted drawing for an installation at the Nature Morte Gallery, in collaboration with Bob Curtis.
Roll 3
"IX", 1989
Box 15 Folder 16
[Caracalla, Rome], 1989
1 item : pencil and wash on mounted paper
[Acquisition 2022.005]
Box 15 Folder 15
Allison's New House/First Home, 1994 Mar 21, 23
Drawing and xeroxes of drawings of Allison Darden's house in Denver, CO.
Box 14 Folder 27
Untitled Collages, undated
untitled collages : 3 items; also includes misca. collage pieces
Box 14
"Eliade Institute- Campus Entry", undated
5 items : mounted drawings
Box 6 Folder 1
Misanthropy Hall, undated
Notes, research materials, prints : 1 item
Box 6 Folder 2
"I-Club", undated
Research material and process work: visual and textual references, Xeroxes, magazine articles, newspaper clipping, manipulation of line drawings using transparencies
Box 6 Folder 3
Unidentified Projects, undated
Includes paste up for "Station of the Eclipsing Child?" negatives : 6 items ; drawings : 13 items