Collections and programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art : oral history transcript / by George M. Goodwin, under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

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Collections and programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art : oral history transcript / by George M. Goodwin, under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

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Donahue discusses his background with impressions and models in Louisville, Kentucky; his Ph.D at the New York University, Institute of Fine Arts; his career in art museums: specific collectors such as Anna Bing Arnold, the Ahmanson Foundation, Norton Simon, Armand Hammer,and Bernie Cantor. He also discusses certain major exhibitions and acquisitions and other Los Angeles basin museums.

[i], xii, 428 p. ; 28 cm.

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