Dwan Gallery publications and ephemera, 1960-1971

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Dwan Gallery publications and ephemera, 1960-1971

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2012m37

Collection of exhibition announcements, posters and exhibition catalogs documenting the exhibitions held at Virginia Dwan's influentional galleries in Los Angeles and New York. In the early sixties, Dwan introduced artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenberg, and Yves Klein to Los Angeles, and then worked with Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, and others upon her move to New York in 1965.

6 Linear Feet (2 boxes, 2 flatfile folders)

Getty Research Institute

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11616303

Getty Research Institute

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Arman, 1928-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bv7pcd (person)

Arman (1928-2005) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. Born Armand Pierre Fernandez. Changed name to Armand Pierre Arman and known as Arman. From the description of Oral history interview with Arman, 1968 May 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595110 ...

LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sq981c (person)

Sol LeWitt (1928 – 2007) Sol LeWitt was born on September 9th, 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut to Eastern European immigrants. His father, a doctor and inventor, died when he was 6. Soon after, he moved with his mother, a nurse, to live with an aunt in New Britain, Connecticut. His mother took him to art classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and he would draw on wrapping paper from his aunt’s grocery store. LeWitt received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1949 (where he made his f...

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bg2pg2 (person)

An abstract painter considered influential in the development of Minimalism. Though a contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists, he rejected biomorphism and developed paintings based on geometry, specifically grids, often using a single color in gradations. His last works were a series of all-black canvases. From the Getty's Union List of Artist Names record...