PORTRAITS of Gus Blaisdell

Stanford University 1957

Aspen, Colorado

by Arnold Gassan 1962

Editor at University of New Mexico Press 1966

Pomona 1973- Standing: Hap Tivey, James Turrell, Gus Blaisdell, Lewis Baltz

Sitting – Maury Baden, Guy Williams

Gus Blaisdell and Ira Jaffe 1985
Gus Blaisdell and Poet Geoffrey Young       Portrait by William Stafford 1971

             Gus Blaisdell and Ray Waddington 1976

Gus Blaisdell                     Portrait by Max Kozloff
Gus Blaisdell and Poet Robert Creeley 2000   Portrait by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

Gus Blaisdell and writer Evan S. Connell at Trinity Site-Video Still from His Heaviness        by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

Gus Blaisdell at Living Batch Bookstore 1999      Video Still from His Heaviness by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey

Gus Blaisdell and Nicholas Brownrigg photos by Nicole Blaisdell Ivey
Stanford Friends meet again.40 years later
Gus Blaisdell by Matt Cohen
Gus Blaisdell by Douglas Kent Hall ALBUQUERQUE 2000

Gus Blaisdell and painter Guy Williams 1972

Gus Blaisdell visiting Jack Stauffacher’s Greenwood Press San Francisco

Stanley Cavell and Gus Blaisdell               Harvard 1970’s

Gus and Cat    Aspen                Portrait by Arnold Gassan

Gus Blaisdell              Polaroid portrait by Johnathan Williams
Gus Blaisdell and Marc Maron Living Batch Bookstore ABQ, NM 1990’s

Gus Blaisdell                    Portrait by Adrian Salinger

His Heaviness screening at The Outpost 2005 Photo by Gloria Graham
Allan Graham, Moon 2, 1986

  HE WAS A DEEP CAT September 21, 1935  -  September 17th 2003 

Ernest Gaines awarded National Medal of Arts

Photo by Jim Santana from the archives of Gus Blaisdell

Photo by Jim Santana from the archives of Gus Blaisdell

Photo of Ernest Gaines by Edward "Ned" Springs

Photo of Ernest Gaines by Edward “Ned” Springs

 The guy in the picture with me is Edward "Ned" Spring.  He was a very good friend of both Gus Blaisdell and me.  We were at Stanford together back in the late 50s.  We used to listen to a lot of Jazz together, drink wine and discuss literature.  Ned use to write liner notes for 33 rpm dust jackets.  He could be extremely funny...He died young.  I think Gus was at his bed side when he died,  Gus called to tell me he had gone to the big PAD in the sky.  He left a wife and two children.  Gus and I were at the memorial. It was very quiet.  Betty, Ned's wife,  wanted it that way.  Just a few close friends.  I think that was the only time I was ever seen to cry.  Ned was quite thin, and Gus always called him The Snake.  He called me Prez, because I wore a hat like the one Lester Young, the great jazz musician, wore.  Gus was good at giving people different names.  "Hey, Prez, the snake has left us "  We had been out drinking at the No Name Bar in Sausalita only a couple of weeks before he died--Me, Gus and Ned.....Ernie>

The guy in the picture with me is Edward “Ned” Spring. He was a very good friend of both Gus Blaisdell and me. We were at Stanford together back in the late 50s. We used to listen to a lot of Jazz together, drink wine and discuss literature. Ned use to write liner notes for 33 rpm dust jackets. He could be extremely funny…He died young. I think Gus was at his bed side when he died, Gus called to tell me he had gone to the big PAD in the sky. He left a wife and two children. Gus and I were at the memorial. It was very quiet. Betty, Ned’s wife, wanted it that way. Just a few close friends. I think that was the only time I was ever seen to cry. Ned was quite thin, and Gus always called him The Snake. He called me Prez, because I wore a hat like the one Lester Young, the great jazz musician, wore. Gus was good at giving people different names. “Hey, Prez, the snake has left us ” We had been out drinking at the No Name Bar in Sausalita only a couple of weeks before he died–Me, Gus and Ned…..Ernie>