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The collection includes award ribbons,brochures; catalogs; certificates; clippings; correspondence; journal entries (labeled ‘notes’); exhibit announcements, layout plans, and invitations; lists of artwork (some include prices); photographs of artwork and of people; and a volume of poetry.

The seven and one half inches of materials focuses on Dr. Stark’s artist career and only references his medical career and his war-time service.

This series includes examples of original artwork, photographs of original artwork, and reproductions for publication of exhibit catalogs, programs, et cetera, therefore materials are divided between “Originals,” and “Reproductions.” Items include pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, and line and wash drawings, ranging from informal, spontaneously drawn works to the more formal color washed drawings. The subjects, culled mainly from Stark’s daily life as well as his domestic and international travel, vary widely: New York City scenes; a busy river community in Bangkok; the canals of Venice; villages of Barbados, and hospital scenes. Note that b.1/f.8 includes one item from 1971 that is glued to a page with other 1950s-era drawings. Also note that b.1/f.14, “First sale (to Edgar Bergen),” includes a clipping of Edgar Bergman and a photocopy of the check written to Stark for the sale of the picture he purchased. Two sketches (…de San Juan 1954, and Sunday at the Metropolitan Museum, 1976) plus the art exhibit layout for a show at the National Arts Club are in oversize box 4

The photographs include several folders capturing scenes from opening receptions for Dr. Stark’s one-man shows (b.2/f.6-8). Also included are photographs of Stark in his WWII uniform and images of him and his wife, Judy, separately and together, and at various celebrations. Note that Hortense Kooluris and Kirby Kooluris are family members - Judy Stark’s sister and nephew.

This series includes place/date listings of Stark’s one-man shows, catalogs of his shows, formal invitations to private showings, and announcements of and invitations to openings.

This series includes ribbons awarded to Stark at exhibits, several published items he illustrated, including the volume of poetry mentioned earlier (1946), and several articles, and some notes taken on a trip around the country. B.2/f.24 contains a long article that focuses on his WWII experience as an artist.