Archival Book
"Every Single Object": The Complete Works of Jim Rutherford
2026-2029
James Rutherford's collecting and preservation habits span more than 50 years. They encompass a full range of tools, objet d'arts, furnishing, furniture, and other sundry items. Together, they form a kind of Adamic statuary of reformed things - past-purposed creations filed down, fixed up to be set aside.
"Every Single Object": The Complete Works of Jim Rutherford is the full, authorized record of every extant Jim Rutherford creation. Taken together, his material refinishings represent a kind of hearted pull to preserve that most pure of all boyhood instincts - the impulse to have, to see, to touch. This directed desire for beauty - to keep something and save it, appears in our time as a window into an older world.
Archival Digital
"Every Single Object": The Complete Works of Jim Rutherford
2026-2029
A partnership between Takoma/Gallery Place, the Takoma Foundation, and Takoma Archival Solutions, "Every Single Object": The Complete Works of Jim Rutherford, the digital version, is a set-aside application enabling his entire oeuvre to be viewed by the public.