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| title | Paul Kantor oral history transcript | repository | University of California, Los Angeles |
| description | Kantor discusses his career, reasons for dealing privately, and comments on international art dealers and relationships between dealers and artists. Note(s): Transcript of a six-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program. Audiotape recordings also may be accessed in the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections by special arrangement. Bio/History: Art dealer. Forms part of: Los Angeles art community : group portrait. Also forms part of: Oral History collection, Dept. of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles Original or duplicate materials: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley |
| extent | 230 leaves, bound |
| formats | Oral History Transcript |
| access | Contact the UCLA library for access restrictions. |
| record source | http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1972953 |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:07 |
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| title | Emerson Woelffer papers, 1937-1999 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence, printed material, and a drawing. Biographical/Historical Note: Surrealist and Dada painter, teacher, and art collector; Los Angeles, California. Born in Chicago. Moved to Los Angeles in 1959. Taught at the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. Collector of primitive art. One of Southern Californias most respected senior modernists, Emerson Woelffer (b. 1914) came to Los Angeles in 1959 to teach at Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of Art). He later taught at various Southern California institutions, most notably at Otis School of Art and Design. In 1961 he was a Tamarind Fellow. He continued to teach at Otis until his retirement in 1992. |
| extent | 0.4 linear ft. (partially micrfilmed on 2 reels) Addition: 0.6 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Printed Materials Drawings |
| access | Microfilm reels 1052 and 3482 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information. Addition: Use requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. office. |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/emerson-woelffer-papers-9359 |
| record source | http://collections.si.edu/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:17 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Betty M. Asher, 1980 June 30 and 1980 July 7 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Betty M. Asher conducted 1980 June 30 and 1980 July 7, by Thomas H. Garver, for the Archives of American Art. Asher speaks of her family; education; her marriage to Dr. Leonard Asher; buying her first prints and painting from the Associated American Artists Gallery; and early purchases at the Little, Bowinkle, and Green Galleries in Los Angeles. She discusses her interest in abstract expressionism; buying art in Mexico and New York; dealers including Irving Blum, Virginia Dwan, Paul Kantor, Felix Landau, Ernest Raboff, Esther Robles, and Ileana Sonnabend; activities and members of the Modern and Contemporary Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; her work for Maurice Tuchman; Walter Hopps and the Pasadena Art Museum; and exhibitions and funding of the Asher/Faure Gallery. Biographical/Historical Note: Betty M. Asher (1914-1994) was an art collector and art dealer of Beverly Hills, Calif. |
| extent | 4 sound cassettes; Transcript: 59 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Transcript Online Transcript |
| access | Online Transcript |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_211936 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-betty-m-asher-12547 |
| acquisition information | Part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:19 |
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| title | Institutional File. Paul Kantor Gallery | repository | The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives |
| description | The file may include any of the following materials: announcements, clippings, photographs, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs and checklists under 50 pages, other ephemeral material. Cite as Brooklyn Museum of Art Library Collections. BMA institutional files. |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives for access restrictions. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991007125459707141 |
| acquisition information | Files compiled by BMA library staff from circa 1917 to the present. |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:51 |
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