Collection Information
Size: 1.3 Linear feet
Summary: An autobiography (unpublished), "Cleo: A Naked Woman's Handbook," 1982; correspondence; writings and notes; lists of artwork in her collection (almost entirely of drawings and paintings of her given to her by the artists for whom she posed); photographs of Cleo and of works of art in which she posed; posing schedules; printed material relating to artists for whom she posed; and material relating to the scholarship fund she established to assist minority art students. There is an addition of 50 black and white and color photographs of Cleo and friends at an exhibit "Cleo: Fifty Years as an Artist's Model" at Otis/Parsons Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1990, and 3 photographs of Cleo modeling, circa 1980 donated 2020.