Phillips, Gifford |
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role
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Collector |
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dates
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1918-2013 |
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city
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Santa Fe |
| state | NM | | other cities | Washington, DC; New Haven, CT; Los Angeles, CA; Santa Monica, CA; Chevy Chase, MD; Palm Desert, CA; |
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historical notes
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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.
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decades
of activity | 1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000
2000-2010
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Archives/Repository |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Joann and Gifford Phillips papers, [ca. 1950] - 2006. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers, 1937-1988.
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Maurice Tuchman interviews, 1976. |
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Phillips Collection Library and Archives
1600 21st Street NW |
[Oral history] Interviews with Gifford Phillips and Joann Phillips, 2004. |
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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]. |
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