Hopps, Walter

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role

Dealer/Gallery

dates

1933-2005

city

Los Angeles

state

CA

other cities

Eagle Rock, CA;

sex

M

historical notes

Walter Hopps was a 20th-century art curator and art dealer.

Hopps helped establish Los Angeles galleries such as the Syndell Gallery (1951) and the Ferus Gallery (1957). He curated exhibitions at the Pasadena Art Museum (1959–1967), Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Joseph Cornell Study Center at the Smithsonian, the Menil Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (1991–1999), and the Whitney Museum of Art (1996).

decades
of activity

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

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10/31/2024 13:33:21

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Modern Art in Los Angeles the Beat years, 2003 November 17-19.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Jay DeFeo papers, circa 1940s-1979	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Barbara Rose Papers, 1940-1993 (bulk 1960-1985).	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Barbara Rose papers, 1962-circa 1969	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Records of the Fine Arts Program of the Federal Reserve, 1975-1981	see details...
University of California, Los Angeles YRL Department of Special Collections	Pasadena Art Museum oral history transcript, 1987: Walter Hopps	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Artist file: Hopps, Walter: miscellaneous uncataloged material	see details...
Whitney Museum of American Art The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Archives	Hopps, Walter: Art World Personality Files.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Modern Art in Los Angeles. The late forties, 2003.	see details...