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Phillips, Joann

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dates 1928-2018
city Santa Fe
stateNM
other citiesPortland, OR; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY;
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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.
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1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000
2000-2010
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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, [ca. 1950] - 2006. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Morris Louis and Morris Louis Estate papers, 1937-1988.
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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