Overview Title: Robert W. Fichter collection Call Number: Coll132 Creator: Fichter Robert 1939-2023 Dates: 1960-2015 Size: 11 boxes (8.25 linear feet) Abstract: The Robert W. Fichter collection contains research materials, correspondence, notebooks, exhibition pamphlets and invitations, personal and professional correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs and artwork that ranges between polaroid pictures, transparencies, slides, stretched canvases, rolled canvases, and drawers his work and the work of other artists. Language: English Citation: Robert W. Fichter collection, Collection 132, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).
Administrative/Biographical Note Robert Whitten Fichter was born in Fort Meyers, Florida in 1939. As the yearbook photographer at his high school, he became inspired to pursue art. While attending the University of Florida at Gainesville (1959-1963), he studied printmaking with Ken Kerslake and photography with Jerry Uelsmann, who encouraged him to pursue an MFA under photographer Henry Holmes Smith at the University of Indiana (1963-1966). Fichter started his career working as an Assistant Curator at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY where he hosted his first solo exhibit in 1968. He joined the faculty of UCLA in 1968 and in 1972, he returned to Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he remained until his retirement in 2006. In the same year, Fichter donated his archives of drawings, prints, photographs, paintings, preparatory materials and manuscripts to the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Fichter has exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada (1970), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1974), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1974), Kunsthaus Zurich (1977), Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (1981), Whitney Biennial (1981), University of South Florida Art Galleries (1984), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1986), and the Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls (1990). Fichter’s work is included in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography, George Eastman Museum, High Museum, International Center of Photography, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Art, and Norton Simon Museum, among others.Fichter passed away in June 2023 in Tallahassee, Florida.
Scope & Content Series I: Teaching and Exhibition Materials A: Florida State University B: Exhibitions and Writings Series II: Coorespondence A: Personal Coorespondence B: Professional Correspondence Series III: Notebooks
Provenance Information Accessions P2011-04, P2013-36, P2013-37, P2017-12, and P2018-01.
The Robert W. Fichter collection was recieved by UMBC Special Collections and Gallery in 2007 from the donor, Robert Fichter.
Access & Use This collection is open for research. There are no restricted materials.
Permission is required for all reproduction requests. Copyright maintained by the creator.
Subject Headings Fichter, Robert, 1939- –Archives. Photography, Artistic — Exhibitions. Photographers — Archives. Photographers — Florida. Florida State University — Faculty. Series Description & Container List Expand all | Collapse all
Series I: Teaching and Exhibition Materials Sub-series I.A Florida State University Title Date Box Folder Info Florida State University Tenure Credentials 1979-1999 Tenure: Letters of Support for Robert Fitcher, Associate Professor Promotion 1979 Florida State University Committee on Faculty Sabbaticals 1982-1985 Tenure Promotion Package, Professor Rank 1982 History of Photography Course Materials 1992 Teacher Incentive Program- Robert Fitcher 1994-1995 Distinguished Research Professor Award 2000 Fitcher Syllabus 2002-2007 Design Research Profiles undated Lecture Notes undated Various Teaching Materials undated
Sub-series I.B Exhibitions and Writings Title Date Box Folder Info “Alternative Image: An Aesthetic and Technical History of Nontraditional Photographic Printing Processes” 1992 “AX Cavation/ RWF: A weapon to meet the terrible needs…”By James Hugunin, illustrations by Robert Fitcher July 5, 1988 “Made In Florida” Exhibit Press Packet 1992 “Phtographer and Photography” Film Prospectus 1974-1975 “Todd Walker” Speech undated Art Reviews 1978-1983 Confessions of a Silver Addict 1990 Exhibition Pamplets and Flyers 1963-2007 View 3 copies Exhibition Pamplets and Flyers 1977-1988 Exhibition Pamplets and Flyers 1979-2007 Exhibition Pamplets and Flyers 1985-2003 Florida Photogenesis Notes undated Florida Photogenesis: The Work of Creative and Experimental Photographers in Florida October 6-November 19, 2000 Investigating the Image of Reality: Making Designs to Test your Sense of Reality undated MEMO: Student Work/ Photography, edited by Richard Jaquish February 29, 1964 The Tatooed Green Dragon by Robert Fitcher undated Untitled Draft undated Working Papers November 1980
Series II: Coorespondence Sub-series II.A Personal Correspondence Title Date Box Folder Info Coorespondence with “Bud P” 1976-2010 Coorespondence with Steve Gluckman 1964-1994 Correspondence with “Vickie” 1976-1981 Correspondence with Lynda Davis undated, 1978 Letter from Fred Licht 1989-2000 Letter from Virginia Cartwright June 5, 1984 Letters from “Al” 1960-1964 Letters from “Net” 1960 Letters from A. Colson 1963-1964 Letters from Angie Mount 1960 Letters from Arthur McVoy 1960 Letters from Barbara Fialkoff 1960-1972 Letters from Bea Nettles undated Letters from Betty Hahn 1976-1978 Letters from Bob Heinecken 1968-1998 Letters from Carl Chiarenza 1980-1995 Letters from Cindy Keyworth February 1962-April 1963 Letters from Cindy Keyworth Novembr 1960-December 1961 Letters from Dave Kent 1963-1975 Letters from Eileen Cowan 1972 Letters from Frank Sadler 1960 Letters from Harold Jones 1968-2011 Letters from his mother 1960 Letters from Hollis Fitcher 1963-1964 Letters from Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. 1960 Letters from Jack Nicholson 1980-2007 Letters from Jackie Prammell 1960 Letters from Jan Stussy undated Letters from Jerry N. Uelsmann 1963-1964 Letters from Julie Pesrod 1960 Letters from Kay Baldwin 1960 Letters from Lawrence Hetrick 1960-1966 Letters from Nelson Meyer 1960-1963 Letters from Oliver T. Ivey 1968-1978 Letters from Paige Pinnell 1968 Letters from Paula Braswell Letters from Robert Freidus 1994-1999 Oversized Postcards 1975-1978. Various Personal Coorespondence (2) 1973-1978 Various Personal Coorespondence (3) 1960-1996 Various Personal Coorespondence (4) 1960-1997 Various Personal Correspondence (1) 1968-1998
Sub-series II.B Professional Correspondence Title Date Box Folder Info Andrew Smith, Inc. Fine American Photography 1985 Appalachian State University 1989 Art South 1985 Arthur Taussig 1986 Awards in Visual Arts (AVA) 1985 Boca Raton Museum of Art 1988-2012 California Insitute of the Arts 1976-1983 Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona 1976-2012 Center of Exploratory and Perpetual Art (CEPA) Gallery 1986-1992 Center of Photography, Tokyo Insitute of Polytechnics 1995-1996 College Art Association 1991-1993 Colorado Mountain College 1972-1981 Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College 1991-1992 Creolde School of Arts 1981-2001 Daum Museum of Contemporary Art 2013 Daytona Beach Community College 1988-1999 Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament 1984-1985 Eitharong Gallery 1990-1991 Fay Gold of Fay Gold Gallery 1983 Film in the Cities 1980-1986 Florida Center for Contemporary Art 1994-1995 Florida Department of State 1980-1986 Florida Department of State- Secretary of State, George Firestone 1974-1981 Florida State University 1971-2005 Gillman Stein Gallery 1988-1990 Goucher College Department of Art History 1997-1998 Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival, Inc. 1989-1990 High Museum of Art 1988-1994 John Michael Kohler Arts Center 1981-1982 Laguna Arts Museum 1992 Light Gallery 1971-1997 Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies 1976-1986 Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1986-2011 Madison Art Center 1985 Miami- Dade Community College 1978-1995 Mint Museum of Art 1980-1981 Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design 2013 Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 1978-1982 National Endowment for the Arts 1974-1996 National Gallery of Art 1985-1991 National Gallery of Canada 1969-1989 New Orleans Museum of Arts 1975-1978 Northern Kentucky University 1981-1982 Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University 1980-1996 Norton Gallery and School of Art 1989-2013 Norton Simon Museum and Foundation 2004-2013 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 1972 Ohio University School of Art 1986 Palm Springs Art Museum 2013 Penland School of Crafts 1968-1981 Pensacola Junior College 1971-1990 Photo Group Center 1987-1994 Polaroid Corporation 1979-1986 Robert Freidus Gallery 1979-1984 Rolling Stone Press 1991-1997 Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida 1990-2013 San Francisco Camerawork Inc. 1977-1990 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1982-1984 Smithsonian Insitution 1966-1978 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art 1986 Stetson University 1990-1993 Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities undated, 1978 Susan Spiritus Gallery 1979 Tamarind Institute 1987-1994 Tampa Museum of Art 1989-1994 The Bush Foundation 1983 The Deland Museum of Art 1994 The Friends of Photography 1972-1989 The Gallery of Contemporary Art 1968 The George Eastman House 1962-2013 The J. Paul Getty Museum 2013 The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art 1980-1989 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1989 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston undated The Museum of Modern Art 1981 The Nelson-Adkins Museum of Art 2012-2013 The New Museum of Contemporary Art 1982-1984 The New York Times 1971-1976 The Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1979-2014 The School of the Arts Institute of Chicago 1972-1986 The University of Connecticutt School of Fine Arts 1976-1990 The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival 1985-1986 UCLA Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery 1983-1984 United States Information Agency (USIA) 1974 University Art Museum at the University of New Mexico 1980-1993 University of California- Various Campuses 1968-1984 University of Central Florida 1983-1984 University of Colorado- Various Campuses 1976-1988 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Art and Design 1981-1982 University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1987-2011 University of Nevada Department of Art 1976-1977 University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art 1990 University of Rochester 1988-1990 University of South Florida and Art Galleries 1979-2002 University of West Florida Art Gallery 1977-2011 Valencia Community College 1981 Various Museum Agreements 1976-2014 Various Professional Coorespondence 1974-1992 Various Professional Coorespondence 1971-2003 Various Professional Coorespondence 1973-1995 Victor Landwebber 1981-1983 Virginia Beach Center for the Arts 1990-1991 Visual Studies Workshop 1977-2010 Weatherspoon Art Museum 2013-2014 Wellington B. Gray Gallery, School of Arts at East Carolina University 2002-2003
Series III: Notebooks Title Date Box Folder Info Fitcher Notebook: Clayton, Georgia 1965 Fitcher Notebook #6 1970 Fitcher Notebook #1 1971 Fitcher Notebook #2 1973-1974 Fitcher Notebook #3 1973-1976 Fitcher Notebook: Italy 1974 Fitcher Notebook #7 1974 Fitcher Notebook: Brussels, Belgium 1975-1976 Fitcher Notebook 1976 Fitcher Notebook 1976 Fitcher Notebook 1976 Fitcher Notebook #5 1976-1977 Fitcher Notebook #13: San Fransciso and Los Angeles, California 1978 Fitcher Notebook #12 1978-1979 Fitcher Notebook #17 1979 Fitcher Notebook #19 1979 Fitcher Notebook #16: Boston and Sun Valley 1979 Fitcher Notebook 1980 Fitcher Notebook : Colorado Springs Little Notebook 1980 View not there Fitcher Notebook 1981 Fitcher Notebook : Italy 1982 Fitcher Notebook : “Japorty’s” 1982 Fitcher Notebook : Japan 1982 Fitcher Notebook # XX 1982-1984 Fitcher Notebook 1982-1984 Fitcher Notebook : Colorado Springs, Colorado 1983-1984 Fitcher Notebook : Minature 1983-2009 Fitcher Notebook : Piano Player, Italy 1984 Fitcher Notebook : Atlanta, Georgia 1985 Fitcher Notebook : Faculty Portraits 1985 Fitcher Notebook : Salt Lake City, Utah 1986 Fitcher Notebook 1986 Fitcher Notebook #26 1986-1990 View not there Fitcher Notebook 1991 Fitcher Notebook #30 1987 Fitcher Notebook 1989 Fitcher Notebook #46 1989-1997 Fitcher Notebook #69: Washington D.C 1990-1991 View Print Exhibit Notes Fitcher Notebook #56: Colorado Springs 1994 Fitcher Notebook #57: Washington, DC 1994 Fitcher Notebook 1996 Fitcher Notebook #49 1998 Fitcher Notebook #71 1998 Fitcher Notebook : Italy 1998 Fitcher Notebook #76 1999-2000 Fitcher Notebook 2001 Fitcher Notebook : Minature 2002-2009 Fitcher Notebook #31: London, UK 2004 Fitcher Notebook : Portland, Oregon 2007 Fitcher Notebook : Clayton, Georgia 2010 Fitcher Notebook #32 2010 View not there Fitcher Notebook: Tallahasee, London, and Perugia 2015 Fitcher Notebook : Oakland Museum undated Fitcher Notebook : Light Gallery Comment Book undated Fitcher Notebook : Washington undated Fitcher Notebook undated Fitcher Notebook undated Fitcher Notebook undated Fitcher Notebook #8 1977 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #15 1979 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #20: New York Show Notes 1979-1980 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #23: Colorado Spring 1980 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook : James and Martha 1980 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook 1981 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #34 1981 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #35 1981 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #36 1981-1982 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #30: Phone Log/ Daily Studio Notes 1981-1983 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #33: Freidas Gallery, NYC 1981 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #31 1982 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #37: Milan, Italy 1982 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook 1983 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #29: Florence, Italy 1987-1988 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #41 1989 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #45 1989-1990 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #50: Austrailia Notebook 1992 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #63 1992-1997 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #53 1993-1996 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #76: North for the Summer 1996 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #72: Last Teaching Adventure 1998 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook : Italy 1998 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #77 1999-2005 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #89 2002 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook #12: Highland, North Carolina 2005 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook : Drawing on the Farm 2005 View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebooks undated View Oversized notebooks Fitcher Notebook undated View Oversized notebooks
