Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Hopper, Dennis, 1936-2010
| title | Hopper, Dennis : [photography bio file]. |
| repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | The file may include announcements, clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral material filed through 2000; after 2000 all material is filed in the Library's artist files. Location MoMA Queens Photo Bio File Call Number Hopper, Dennis |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera Clippings Printed Materials |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991012242049707141 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:44 |
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| title | Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. |
| repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | The folder may include announcements, clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral material. Location MoMA Queens Artist Files Call Number HOPPER, DENNIS |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera Clippings |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991010788819707141 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:44 |
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| title | Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews, 1966-1967 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Interviews conducted by Saltman, and lectures by various speakers on various subjects, each approximately 20 minutes in length, for the "Art and Artists" series broadcast on radio station KPAL in Palm Springs, California, 1965-1966. Several of the interviews / lectures consist of more than one reel. The 65 interviewees and lecturers include: Ralph Altman, Edward Biberman, Nicholas Brigante, Katherine Brugger, Walter C. Carlson, Edmund Carpenter, Lynn Cordner, Kenneth Donahue, Leonard Edmondson, Ekros, Claire Falkenstein, Lorser Feitelson, Max Finkelstein, James Gill, Gerald Gladstone, Richard Hamilton, Mrs. Dalzell Hatfield, Henry Hopkins, Dennis Hopper, Benjamin Horowitz, Mahendra K. Jain, R. K. Jain, Kelly James, Abbot Kaplan, Andre Karlson, Fred Katz, Roger Kuntz, Felix Landau, Jules Langsner, Jack Levine, Lawrence Lipton, Stephen Longstreet, Bart Lytton, Robert Marko, Paul Maure, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Gertrud Natzler, Otto Natzler, Joseph Nyiri, Harry Partch, Lily Pons, Vincent L. Price, Ernest Lloyd Raboff, Fanya Chocem (Sage), Atzie Schiff, Arthur Secunda, Art Seidenbaum, Austin Sellery, Vicci Sperry, Gloria Stuart, Henri Temianka, Harry Trimborn, Maurice Tuchman, Kenneth E. Tyler, Gordon Wagner, June Wayne, Albert W. Wein, Eileen M. Whitaker & Frederic Whitaker (transcribed, 7 p.), Charles W. White, Helen Wurdemann, Peter Yates, Colin Young, Joseph L. Young and Jerry Ziegengeist. Also included is an unknown speaker, lecturing on the topic "Early Western Artists." Bio / His Notes: Radio talk show host; Los Angeles, Calif. |
| extent | 94 sound tape reels (ca. 20 min. each) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 3-5 in. |
| formats | Interviews Sound Recording |
| access | Untranscribed interviews and 1 transcribed interview; use requires an appointment. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.saltmoll.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/molly-saltman-art-and-artists-interviews-7179 |
| finding aid | A list of interviewees is available in all Archives of American Art offices. |
| acquisition information | Donated by Molly Saltman, 1986. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:44 |
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| title | Wallace Berman papers, 1907-1979 (bulk 1955-1979). |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Letters, notes from an interview of Berman, art work, issues of Berman's underground publication Semina, and one of "S.M.S.", printed materials, photographs and audio tapes provide an overview of the career of California assemblage artist and beat poet Wallace Berman, as well as the "beat" movement in California in the late 1950s through the 1970s. Approximately two thirds of the collection consists of Berman's library - mostly poetry - including many first editions, by writers of the beat movement. Letters, 1957-1979, are from universities, publishers, museums and other business related contacts, and from artists, friends and writers of the beat movement, among them Robert Branaman, Jess (Collins), Jay DeFeo, Diane DiPrima, Bob Driscoll, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Hirschman, Ray Johnson, Larry Jordan, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Henry Miller, Stuart Z. Perkoff, and John Wieners. Also found are ten letters written by Berman, 1957-1979. Notes from an interview, 1967, consist of sentence fragments taken from a London interview of Berman by Sandrada. Art work, 1956-1976, consists of 11 collages and 9 drawings by Berman, and 8 photograms by Robert F. Heinecken. The file on Berman's mail art magazine Semina, 1955-1967, contains original issues No. 1-2 and 4-8, and announcements from the Semina Art Gallery. Relating to his publication S.M.S. is issue No. 1 (1968). Printed material, 1907-1976, includes clippings; exhibition announcements and catalogs; brochures; booklets; 2 scripts entitled The Beard by Michael McClure and The Yin and The Yang by Don Sherman, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Fonda. Included in this series are Berman's library -74 books of mostly poetry, some illustrated by Berman, by Billy Al Bengston and Ed Ruscha, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Hirschman, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Stuart Z. Perkoff, John Wieners, and others. Also found in the series "writings" are typescripts for a book, and of poetry by McClure, Meltzer, and Wieners. Photographs, 1956-1976, are of Berman, his wife, and his colleagues George Herms, Patricia Jordan, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, and John Wieners. There are also photographs of the Poets' Parade, 1958, and of Berman's work "Wall Painting". Audio tapes, 1962-1965, consist of 3 sound recordings, on 12 reel-to-reel tapes, of poetry readings by Michael McClure, David Meltzer, and Kenneth Patchen. Tapes include 10 duplicates of an editioned poetry reading by McClure at the Lion House, Fleishacker zoo, San Francisco, CA, recorded by Bruce Conner. Bio / His Notes: Assemblage artist, poet; Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif.; b. 1926; d. 1976 Born in Staten Island, N.Y., Berman moved to Los Angeles with his family in the 1930s. After being expelled from high school for gambling, he briefly attended the Jepson Art School and the Chouinard Art School. By the 1950s, he had become a full-time assemblage artist and produced a mail art publication Semina, which contained a sampling of beat poetry and images selected by Berman. In 1963, he permanently settled in Topanga Canyon near Los Angeles and created verifax collages and rock assemblages. |
| extent | 4.9 linear ft. (on 3 microfilm reels) |
| formats | Correspondence Interview Notes Works of Art Printed Materials |
| access | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.bermwall.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/wallace-berman-papers-10771 |
| finding aid | Electronic finding aid available at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/bermwall.htm. |
| acquisition information | Donated 1991 by Tosh Berman, Berman's son. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:44 |
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