Phillips, Gifford

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role

Collector

dates

1918-2013

city

Santa Fe

state

NM

other cities

Washington, DC; New Haven, CT; Los Angeles, CA; Santa Monica, CA; Chevy Chase, MD; Palm Desert, CA;

sex

M

historical notes

Gifford Phillips was a writer, publisher (Frontier Magazine and The Nation), real estate developer (Pardee Phillips), an art collector and the nephew of the collector Duncan Phillips (1886–1966), of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C.

Together with his wife, Joann G. Kocher Phillips (ca. 1929–), he formed an art collection which included work by, among others, Richard Diebenkorn, Henri Matisse, Willem d Kooning, Channing Peake, Helen Frankenthaler, Pablo Picasso, Robert Motherwell, Milton Avery, Henry Moore, Claire Falkenstien, Oscar Kokoschka, Arshile Gorky, Emerson Woelffer, Ad Reinhardt, and Lee Mullican. He and his wife were also involved in the preservation of Pueblo Indian art.

The Gifford and Joann Phillips collection was exhibited at the UCLA Art Galleries from November 4–December 9, 1962.

Phillips served as trustee of the Phillips Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, the Pasadena Art Museum (served as president 1970–1974), a founding Chairman of the Contemporary Art Council at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a member of the Mark Rothko Foundation.

decades
of activity

1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000
2000-2010

updated

02/14/2025 10:12:24

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Joann and Gifford Phillips papers, circa 1950-2011	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers, circa 1910s-2007, bulk 1965-2000	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Maurice Tuchman interviews, 1976.	see details...
Phillips Collection Library and Archives 1600 21st Street NW	[Oral history] Interviews with Gifford Phillips and Joann Phillips, 2004.	see details...
University of California, Los Angeles YRL Department of Special Collections	Approaches to art collecting oral history transcript / Gifford Phillips ; interviewed by George M. Goodwin, [1979].	see details...