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Phillips, Joann print view role Collector dates 1928-2018 city Santa Fe state NM other cities Portland, OR; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; sex F historical notes Joann G. Phillips, née Kocher, is an art collector, patron, and is involved in the arts community in Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and New York. Together with her husband, Gifford Phillips (1918–2013), she formed an art collection that 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. The Giffords were also involved in the preservation of Pueblo Indian art. She is a member of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (served as its Chairman from 1986-1991), trustee of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and a former member of the Fine Arts Committee of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe. decades of activity 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 website https://vimeo.com/39281500 updated 02/14/2025 10:12:27 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Phillips Collection Library and Archives 1600 21st Street NW [Oral history] Interviews with Gifford Phillips and Joann Phillips, 2004. see 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... University of California, Los Angeles YRL Department of Special Collections At the Ferus Gallery oral history transcript / Irving Blum ; interviewed by Joann Phillips, [1976 and 1978], and Lawrence Weschler, [1979]. see details... University of California, Los Angeles YRL Department of Special Collections Lee Mullican / interviewed by Joann Phillips; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles. see details... University of California, Los Angeles YRL Department of Special Collections Emerson Woelffer oral history transcript / interviewed by Joann Phillips, [1976] see details... The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Irving Sandler papers, ca. 1950-2000. see details... see also: Phillips, Gifford «  back