Everett Ellin Gallery records relating to David Smith
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Smith, David, 1906-1965
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Sculptor; Bolton Landing, N.Y. From the description of David Smith interview, 1964 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80437636 Sculptor. Studied painting at the Art Students League in New York City between 1927 and 1932. Smith began working with sculpture around the time of leaving the League. In 1940 he moved to upstate New York where he remained until his death in 1965. Retrospective exhibitions of Smith's work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957, and at the Fogg Art ...
Ellin, Everett
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Everett Ellin was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1928 and died in 2011 in Diana, Texas. While he is most known in the art world as a Los Angeles dealer of contemporary art, his BS in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan (1949) and JD from Harvard Law School (1952) allowed him to follow diverse career paths before and after he ran the Everett Ellin Gallery (1957-1958) and Everett Ellin Gallery, Inc. (1960-1963). Ellin is regarded as one of the key local gallery owne...
Everett Ellin Gallery
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The Everett Ellin Gallery opened in 1959 on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. In this first iteration of his gallery, he showed California abstract expressionist artists, including Bruce Beasley, to whom he gave his first show. Ellin's hunger to see the world of abstract expressionism in its native environment led him to take a job in New York as Director of the Contemporary Art Department at French & Company. Recommending him for the job was Clement Greenberg, "the mastermind and sp...
