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titleOral history interview with Ivan C. Karp, 1969 Mar. 12.
repositoryArchives of American Art
descriptionAn interview of Ivan C. Karp conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art at the Leo Castelli Gallery on 1969 March 12. Karp speaks of growing up in the boroughs of New York City, his reading and writing interests, commercial film making, his work for the Hansa Gallery and Martha Jackson, summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the art scene in New York City in the late 1950s.

Karp discusses the invention of the names "O.K. Harris" and "Green Gallery"; his work for Leo Castelli including gallery exhibitions, expenses, collectors, critics and staff; the work of Richard Artschwager, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Cy Twombly, Gerry Vanderweil, Andy Warhol, and others; The Club; "soft art"; and the art market. He recalls Richard Bellamy, Ileana Sonnabend, Robert C. Scull and others.
extent1 sound tape reel (2 hours 30 min.) ; 7 in. Transcript: 123 p.
formatsSound Recording Transcript Online Transcript
accessContact repository for restrictions and policies.
record linkhttp://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-ivan-c-karp-11717#transcript
record sourcehttp://www.siris.si.edu/
finding aidSound Recording and transcript available on the repository's web site.
acquisition informationPart of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958.
updated03/16/2023 10:30:01
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titleOral history interview with George Segal, 1973 Nov. 26.
repositoryArchives of American Art
descriptionAn interview of George Segal conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art.

Segal speaks of his childhood and family life in the Bronx; his education at Rutgers and at Pratt Institute; studying at New York University with William Baziotes; abstract expressionism; his acquaintance with Allan Kaprow and the Hansa Gallery group; his search for an individual language as an artist; life and art on his New Jersey farm; exhibitions at the Hansa and Green galleries; his development of bandage and plaster sculpture. He recalls Sidney Delevante and Richard Bellamy.

Bio / His Notes:
Sculptor, painter; North Brunswick, N.J.; d. June 9, 2000.
extent2 sound tape reels ; 5 in. Transcript: 112 p.
formatsOnline Transcript Sound Recording Transcript
accessTranscript available on the Archives of American Art website.
record sourcehttp://www.siris.si.edu/
acquisition informationThis interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.
updated11/12/2014 11:30:04
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titleSubject file: GREEN GALLERY (NEW YORK, N.Y.): miscellaneous uncataloged material.
repositoryThe Museum of Modern Art
descriptionMoMA: REQUEST THE FILE BY THE CALL PHRASE "SUBJECT FILE" AS WELL AS THE SUBJECT HEADING.

The folder may include announcements, clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, and other ephemeral material.

Location
MoMA Queens Subject Files

Call Number
GREEN GALLERY (NEW YORK, N.Y.)
extent1 folder
formatsEphemera
accessContact repository for restrictions and policies.
record sourcehttps://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991010224869707141
updated11/29/2022 15:49:51
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titleRichard Bellamy Papers, 1950-1999
repositoryThe Museum of Modern Art
descriptionProfessional papers of Richard Bellamy, art dealer, gallery owner, friend and patron of artists and the art world. The papers particularly contain records of the Hansa Gallery, the Green Gallery, the Oil & Steel Gallery, and material relating to the artists Mark di Suvero and Alfred Leslie, as well as many others.

Related Collections at MoMA and Elsewhere:
Within the Museum Archives, scattered materials relating to Richard Bellamy, the Green Gallery, and Robert Scull can be found in Collectors Records, Art Lending Service/Art Advisory Service Records, the Alfred H. Barr Papers, and the James Lee Byars - Dorothy C. Miller Correspondence.

Catalogs to many of the exhibitions documented here are located in the Museum Library. The library's subject and pamphlet files contain exhibition announcements and ephemera for the Green Gallery, the Oil & Steel Gallery, and other institutions; the library's artist files contain folders on Richard Bellamy and most of the artists he befriended and represented.

In the 1960s, Richard Brown Baker conducted interviews with Richard Bellamy and Richard Stankiewicz for the Archives of American Art to document the history of the Hansa Gallery; those transcripts are accessible online. The Archives of American Art also contains interviews with Robert Scull and oral histories or records of many of the artists mentioned in this collection, including the Alfred Leslie Papers and the Mark di Suvero and di Suvero Family Papers.

Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Long version: Richard Bellamy Papers, [series.folder]. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.

Short version: Bellamy, [series.folder]. MoMA Archives, NY.
extentApprox. 30.5 linear feet
formatsBusiness Papers Personal Papers Correspondence Estate Papers Subject Files
accessThe records are open for research and contain no restricted materials.
record linkhttp://www.moma.org/research/archives/EAD/Bellamyf.html
record sourcehttp://moma.org/research/archives/holdings.html
finding aidguide online and in repository
acquisition informationThe Richard Bellamy Papers were acquired by the Museum Archives from Richard Bellamy's son, Miles Bellamy, in November, 2000. Series V, Adam Aronson Correspondence, was given to the museum in 2000 by Aronson to complement the main collection.
updated11/12/2014 11:30:04
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