Lee Hansley Gallery Records, 1966-2005 (bulk 1990s-2005)

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Lee Hansley Gallery Records, 1966-2005 (bulk 1990s-2005)

1966-2005 (bulk 1990s-2005)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/05796/

Lonnie Lee Hansley (1948-2019) was a white journalist and art gallery owner. He opened Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh, N.C., in 1993. The Lee Hansley Art Gallery Records document the intersection of art and commerce and the business of being a professional artist. Materials include artist files, idea files, and exhibition publicity and marketing materials; mock-ups of artist Margaret Crawford's children's books; a masters thesis by Lamar Lynes about artist Howard Thomas; photographs of artwork and exhibitions; and collected documentation about artist Maude Gatewood. Audiovisual materials document an award show and the Lilo Kemper exhibition. Other materials include a print of Roanoke Rapids High School, recordings of its chorus, 1966-1969, and images from a high school reunion; Kiwannis minstrel recordings, 1954-1956; and recordings of hymns sung at Mary Ruth Hansley's 2016 memorial service.

7.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1000 items)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 11664838

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Kemper, Lilo, 1920-2014

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Lilo (Lieselotte) Kemper was born 16 June 1920, in Deutsch Krone, Germany (now Wałcz, Poland), and died 6 December 2014, in Durham, North Carolina. She was an artist, ceramicist, and potter, and a retired pathologist. Kemper was a 1942 graduate of Lettehaus, Berlin, studying chemistry and biology. Following the post-World War II partition of Germany, she moved from East Germany to Munich, West Germany, then in 1955 immigrated to New York. She worked as a research associate in neuropathology a...

Crawford, Margaret Louise, 1932-

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Raleigh artist Margaret Crawford studied with Gregory Ivy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she earned her BFA and MFA degrees. She is a disciple of the modernist Bauhaus philosophy of art and she worked almost exclusively in the abstract mode. Her works are both geometric abstractions and biomorphic abstractions. Margaret was an expert printmaker, a skillful painter and an accomplished sculptor. Her entire professional life was dedicated to teaching art on the university l...

Gatewood, Maud, 1934-2004

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Lynes, Lamar.

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Lee Hansley Gallery (Raleigh, N.C.)

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The Lee Hansley Gallery opened in 1993 in Raleigh, N.C. It was founded and managed by Lee Hansley, former curator at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Gallery was dedicated to showcasing quality fine art through a series of changing exhibitions, both group and solo shows, featuring works by mature professional artists from North Carolina, the Southeast and the nation. It remained open until shortly after the death of Lee Hansley in 2019....

Hansley, Lee

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Lee Hansley (1948-2019) owned and operated the Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh, N.C. Prior to that he was also curator of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, N.C. Hansley studied journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, afterwards working as city editor at the Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.), and editor-in-chief at the Northampton News (Jackson, N.C.), Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald (Ahoskie, N.C.), Halifax County This Week (Scotland Ne...