Everett Ellin papers

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Everett Ellin papers

[circa 1958-1963]

Photographs and printed material regarding Everet Ellin's career as owner of the Everett Ellin Galleries. Photographs are of Ellin, his galleries in Los Angeles, and Alexander Calder's sculpture. Printed material includes gallery advertisements, and a cafe menu from Ellin's Santa Monica Boulevard gallery.

0.3 linear feet

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SNAC Resource ID: 7081388

Archives of American Art

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Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976

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Sculptor. From the description of Alexander Calder correspondence, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452461 Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Alexander Calder, 1971 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395903 B. 1898, d. 1976. From the description of Alexander Calder artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228431975 ...

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...