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| title | Oral history interview with Patricia Faure, 2004 Nov.17-24. |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Patricia Faure conducted 2004 Nov. 17, 22, 24 by Susan Ehrlich for the Archives of American Art, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Faure spoke about her early childhood in Wisconsin and the family’s move to California; attending Hollywood High and meeting young stars; modeling; working for Vincent Price on Saturday’s during high school; moving to New York for her modeling career; her first husband Philip Peyton; classes at the New School of Social Research, New York; meeting Joseph Cornell; her return to Los Angeles in the early 1950s; Riko Mizuno and other galleries in operation before she opened Asher-Faure; photography; her marriage to Jacques Faure and living in France; her daughter Zazu, born 1965; working for Nick Wilder, and the numerous artists and actors she met through his gallery; opening Asher-Faure with Betty Asher; the growth of galleries and art museums in Southern California; collectors; art writers, including Christopher Knight, Suzanne Muchnic, David Pagel, Leah Ollman and Holly Meyers; her shows that combine a New York gallery and an artist from that gallery, for example the André Emmerich Gallery and Franz Kline or Philip Guston; the other businesses in Bergamont Station; her enjoyment of putting up a show; dogs bringing their owners into her gallery space; the independence of the art market from the stock market; and how she has profited in many ways from this journey. Faure also recalls Man Ray, Rico Lebrun, Frank Sinatra, Larry Rivers, Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, John Altoon, Sam Francis, Irving Blum, Peggy Moffit, Bill Claxton, Felix Landau, Everett Ellin, Maurice Tuchman, Rona Pondick, Jo Baer and others. Bio / His Notes: Interviewee Patricia Faure, 1928, was a Gallery owner of Los Angeles, Calif. Interviewer Susan Ehrlich: Art historian, Beverly Hills, Calif. |
| extent | Sound recording, master: 6 sound discs (5 hrs. and 20 min.) : digital ; 2 5/8 in. Sound recording, duplicate: 3 sound cassettes Transcript: 104 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript Online Transcript |
| access | Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_249406 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-patricia-faure-11894 |
| acquisition information | This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:46 |
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| title | Modern art in Los Angeles [multimedia]: the sixties, 2004 December 9-10. |
| repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The collection is comprised of audio visual materials made during the program Modern art in Los Angeles: the sixties, held on December 9-10, 2004 at the Getty Research Institute. The program consisted of two group oral history interviews and a public panel discussion. Participants included: gallerists Irving Blum, Everett Ellin, and Patricia Faure; art patron and Gemini G.E.L. co-founder Stanley Grinstein; curator Henry Hopkins; and Thomas Crow, Andrew Perchuk, and Rani Singh of the Getty Research Institute Location: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - CONTACT REFERENCE Call Number: 2005.M.13 Holdings at This Location: Video use copies Location: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - CONTACT REFERENCE Call Number: 2005.M.13 Holdings at This Location: Box 1 |
| extent | 12 videocassettes of 12 (DV) : sd., col. original. 5 sound cassettes of 12 : analog, mon. original. |
| formats | Sound Recording Video recording |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. Audio visual materials unavailable until reformatting is complete. |
| record link | https://rosettaapp.getty.edu/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE823020 |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ROSETTAIE823020 |
| acquisition information | This Interview if part of the Getty Research Institute |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:47 |
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| title | Modern art in Los Angeles [sound recording] : Patricia Faure oral history, 2005. |
| repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Taped oral history interview of Los Angeles gallerist Patricia Faure conducted by Jennifer Goodell on 23 February 2005. Biographical or Historical Notes: Los Angeles gallerist Patricia Faure (1928-2008) became director of the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in 1972. She opened the Asher/Faure Gallery in 1979 with Betty Asher, and in 1994 opened the Patricia Faure Gallery at the Bergamot Station arts complex (Santa Monica, CA). Artists she represented included sculptors Richard Artschwager, Craig Kauffman, Gwynn Murrill, and Joel Shapiro, and painters Llyn Foulkes, Sam Francis, John M. Miller, and Margaret Nielsen. Location: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - CONTACT REFERENCE Call Number: 2010.M.6 Holdings at This Location: 1 Box: C1 use copies (housed with 2010.M.1-2010.M.4;2010.M.7-2010.M.11) Location: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - CONTACT REFERENCE Call Number: 2010.M.6 Holdings at This Location: 1 Box: C1 originals (housed with 2010.M.1-2010.M.8) |
| extent | 3 sound cassettes of 3 : analog, 1 7/8 ips, mono ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/4 in., 1/8 in. tape original. 5 compact optical discs (CD) of 5 : digital ; 4 3/4 in. use copy. |
| formats | Sound Recording Interview |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat864909 |
| record source | http://library.getty.edu/vwebv/searchBasic |
| acquisition information | This Interview is part of the Getty Research Institute |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:47 |
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| title | Patricia Faure Gallery records 1952-2006, bulk 1970-2006 |
| repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Records of the Patricia Faure Gallery comprise exhibition announcements, catalogues, ledgers, financial statements, and artist files. Location: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - CONTACT REFERENCE Call Number: 2010.M.13 |
| extent | ca. 25 linear ft. (unprocessed) |
| formats | Business Papers Exhibition Catalogs Catalogs Financial Records Artist Files |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers, except audiovisual materials which are unavailable until reformatted, and materials in Box 56, which are sealed until 2087 |
| record link | http://archives2.getty.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/2010.M.13/2010.M.13.xml |
| record source | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat863673 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the repository and on the repository's Web site. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Samuel Freeman. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:47 |
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| title | Nicholas Wilder Gallery records, 1944-1984, bulk 1968-1979 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Collection includes exhibition announcements, catalogs, invitations, financial records, 5x8 index cards (records of sales of works) and 5x7 transparencies (cards and tranparencies are arranged in alphabetical order by artist), and some correspondence. Artists represented by the gallery include John Altoon, Larry Bell, Tony Delap, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Joe Goode, David Hockney, Hans Hoffmann, Agnes Martin, Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, Bruce Nauman, Alexis Smith, and George Herms. |
| extent | 3.4 linear ft. |
| formats | Catalogs Financial Records Correspondence Interview |
| access | Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. office. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.nichwild.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/nicholas-wilder-gallery-records-6190 |
| acquisition information | The Nicholas Wilder Gallery records were donated to the Archives of American Art in 1998 by Matthew Curtis Klebaum, a friend of Wilder's and a former employee of the James Corcoran Gallery. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:47 |
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| title | Betty Asher papers, 1860-1999. |
| repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | The Betty Asher papers, including letters, photographs, posters, press clippings, collection records, and tea cup postcards, give a vivid sense of the Michael and Asher families, Betty Asher as collector, and the Los Angeles art world of the postwar years. Series I contains over 700 photographs, including formal studio portraits, color snapshots, baby albums and twenty photographs of the Asher family residence taken by Julius Shulman. Documenting Asher’s collecting interests are approximately 200 photographs of her art collection, part of which has now been donated to local museums, and part of which was sold at auction. Her ceramics and cup collection is also photo-documented. Many of these photographs depict pieces as they were originally installed in different areas of the various Asher homes. Several black and white and color photographs document the exhibition Limited Works by Important Artists (known as the "Multiples show") held at the Egg and the Eye Gallery in 1966. The exhibition featured Pop art prints, books, sculpture, ceramics and games by Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Watts, among others. More than 200 photographs of Los Angeles gallery openings and art parties at Asher’s home in Los Angeles from the 1960s to the 1990s highlight her presence in the Southern California art scene, along with other pivotal figures such as Irving Blum, Stephanie Barron, Stanley and Elise Grinstein, and Patricia Faure. Series II includes family letters and professional correspondence not cataloged in individual artist files, as well as official documents, such as birth and marriage certificates, and business contracts. Asher’s favorite recipes are also preserved in this series. Business files in Series III include loan forms and invoices, chronicling the amassing of Asher’s collections of art and teacups. Also included is Asher’s collection of more than 1200 cup postcards in Series IV. Series V pertains to exhibitions of Asher’s cup collection. The Artist Files in Series VI include a wealth of material that traces Asher’s strong relationships with artists, which developed in tandem with her collecting activities. Asher’s artist files contain letters, postcards and gifts from artists such as George Herms, Dan Flavin, Joe Goode, Emerson Woelffer, William Copley, and Bruce Conner. A significant portion of the archive includes gallery announcements and over 300 posters, many of them signed by artists such as Billy Al Bengston and Edward Kienholz. Eighty of these posters are original announcements from the Ferus Gallery and Irving Blum gallery. Printed matter, such as clippings and announcements, when not included in the above series, may be found in Series VII. Biographical or Historical Notes: Betty Asher, trained as a nurse, became an important Los Angeles art collector and dealer, known for her contemporary art and cup collections. |
| extent | 69.6 linear ft. |
| formats | Business Papers Personal Papers Photographs Artist Files Printed Materials |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2009m30 |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/mlc5om/GETTY_ALMA21127955270001551 |
| finding aid | Preliminary inventory available in the repository; folder level control. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Michael Asher. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:47 |
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