1957: Carl Andre (CA) moves to New York. Lives with Hollis Frampton (HF) on Mulberry Street
June 1958: HF introduces CA to Frank Stella (FS). Shares studio with FS.
1958-1959: First wood sculptures.
1959: 22 Novels or ’My Short Novels’, later published by Reno Odlin.
Oct. 1959: Marries Barbara Brown
1960-1964: Works as railroad freight brakeman and conductor for the Penna Railroad.
Autumn 1960: according to HF, time when CA “began taking given texts and ‘cutting’ directly from them as from a timber” (1996 Krefeld catalogue p. 61); divorces BB.
1960: Sonnet on a Drowned Poet (using broken quotations from Hart Crane poem); Passport (September).
1960–1965: A Theory of Poetry and Shape & Structure (as dated in Seven Books)
1961: First “dada forgeries”; First Five Poems, typeset by Reno Odlin in an edition of at least 6 copies, Tacoma, Washington
1962: Moves in with Rosemarie Castoro (RC), East Broadway, later Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn
Winter 1962-1963: 12 Dialogues with Hollis Frampton, typed on RC’s typewriter.
1963: Marries RC; correspondence with Reno Odlin
1963: America Drill, One Hundred Sonnets; first ‘Operas’
Nov. 27, 1963: An Absolution for the Names of Words (reacting to Kennedy assassination)
1964: Three Operas (as dated in Seven Books)
Oct. 1964: Included in “Eight Young Artists,” curated by E.C. Goosen at Hudson River Museum.
Shows Cedar Piece.