N OTE S 1. Lisa Phillips. Sarah Charlesworth: A Retrospective. SITE Santa Fe; 1998. Page 45. I.
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2. ROMY CHARLESWORTH. A Family of Engineers: My grandfather, Harry Prescott Charlesworth, was of one of the first graduating classes in electrical engineering at MIT 1905. It may have been the first. Before that, MIT was big for chemical and mechanical engineering. Electrical Engineering was new. He was brilliant, knew what he loved, and got work with American Telephone and Telegraph immediately. He became a pioneer in long-distance telephone engineering. His work led him to become vice president of Bell Labs. This is a link to his bio: http://ethw.org/Harry_Charlesworth. Granddaddy’s father was one of Haverhill’s first fire chiefs (important because of the great fire that wiped much of the mills in 1882), and partnered to start the first turbine electrical power company in Haverhill, Mass. 3. ROMY CHARLESWORTH. The kit Dad built our house from was the 1959 “Techbilt” Deck House that later became Acorn Deck House of Acton, Mass. It was a new concept featuring prefabricated post-and-beam design, tongueand-groove wood walls, glass panels and a deck, linking outdoors to indoors in an environmentally pleasing way. Uncle Dick also used this plan to build his summer house in Southport, Maine. II.
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4. Modern History: Herald Tribune; September, 1977, at C Space in New York; March 19–30, 1978. 5. John Auerbach, who Sarah dated in the late ’60s. See photo, page 143. 6. One week before his death in October, 1968, Marcel Duchamp selected 23-year-old Joseph Kosuth to receive the prestigious 1968 Cassandra Foundation Grant. 7. Lisa Phillips. Sarah Charlesworth: A Retrospective. SITE Santa Fe; 1998. Page 42. 8. Susan Fisher-Sterling. Sarah Charlesworth: A Retrospective. SITE Santa Fe; 1998. Page 75. III.
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9. Linker, Kate. Art in America, Sarah Charlesworth: Artifacts of Artifice; July, 1998. Pages 74-79, 106 + cover (feature).
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10. Sarah showed with a number of Galleries in New York and Europe. In addition she was represented by S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada (from 1986); Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (from 1987); and the Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (from 2003). 11. Work in Progress, Susan Inglett Gallery; 2009. 12. The SITE Santa Fe Retrospective traveled to: The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, DC; The Cleveland Center for the Arts, Cleveland, OH; and The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Sarah Charlesworth, A Retrospective, curated by Louis Grachos and Susan Fisher Sterling. V. M I L L E N I U M
13. Louise Lawler, Traveling to LA Together, Art Forum; November 13, 2013. 14. Douglas Eklund, The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Page 16. ALBUM
15. Kate Linker, “Challenged To Encompass Everything”: Friends Remember Sarah Charlesworth at the Art Institute of Chicago. Art News; September 18, 2014. 16 . Margot Norton from correspondence with the authors; June 2015. ACK NOWLEDGEMENTS
17. All comments included in this book attributed to Sarah Charlesworth are adapted from a 2011 interview conducted by Judith Olch Richards for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art’s Oral History Program: Oral history interview with Sarah Edwards Charlesworth; 2011, November 2–9, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian.
