John Palmer Leeper Correspondence, 1951-1952

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John Palmer Leeper Correspondence, 1951-1952

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John Palmer Leeper (b.1921) served as the director of the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas (1954-90). Blanche Magurn Leeper (b.1911) was assistant curator of Oriental Art at the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, assistant to the director of the Pasadena Art Museum (1950-53), and a librarian at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum (1954- ). The collection consists of 147 letters and post cards written by Blanche and John P. Leeper describing their activities at the Pasadena Art Institute (now Pasadena Art Museum) and in Southern California art circles generally.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Leeper, Blanche Magurn

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Pasadena Art Museum

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Art museum, Pasadena, Calif. Renamed Norton Simon Museum of Art in 1974 and later renamed the Norton Simon Museum. Held Duchamp retrospective 1963. From the description of Marcel Duchamp Restrospective Exhibition records, 1959-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502678 ...

Leeper, John Palmer

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Biography Leeper was born in 1921 in Dennison, Texas; BS in journalism from Southern Methodist University and an MA in art history from Harvard University; Blanche Magurn Leeper was born in 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts; BA in philosophy and MA in Fine Arts from Radcliffe College; she was assistant curator of Oriental Art at the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum at Harvard; assistant to the director, Pasadena Art Museum, 1950-53; married John Lee...