Finding Aid to the Triangle Gallery Records
Dean Smith
The Bancroft Library
2023
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Triangle Gallery records
Creator:
Triangle Gallery
Creator:
Van Hiele, Jack, 1917-2011
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2011/185
Physical Description:
10 linear feet
(7 cartons, 5 boxes, and 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1950-2011
Date (inclusive): undated
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
, Japanese
, Dutch; Flemish
.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Ty Gurler in 2011.
Biographical / Historical
Born in Assen, Netherlands in 1917, Jack [Jakob] Van Hiele graduated with a law degree in 1938 from the University of Leiden,
but abandoned a career in law to work at the Salzburg Opera. Starting as a stagehand he rose to become an assistant to the
director. When WWII overtook Europe, Van Hiele avoided military service because of his employment, yet was forced into factory
labor, finally ending up in a refugee camp at the close of the war. Unable to find work in Holland, his language skills earned
him employment in Stockholm as a tour guide to Mediterranean countries. These travels south found him acquiring artworks
and antique furniture in Italy and leading Van Hiele to open Gallerie Venezia in Stockholm for ten years.
While planning his immigration to the United States in the late 1950s, Van Hiele made a trip to San Francisco and decided
to make the city his home. Upon arrival, he subsequently opened Triangle Gallery in downtown San Francisco in 1961; the gallery's
focus being on contemporary American and Asian artists. In championing modern Japanese and Chinese artists, Van Hiele soon
becoming recognized as a leader in new Asian art well before the international art world took interest. He was equally devoted
to artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. Van Hiele, became beloved for his independent taste and lasting commitment to artists
he admired.
Though moving to six different addresses within the downtown area of San Francisco, and at one point in the early 70s considering
a move to New York City, the gallery was to stay in business for 50 years becoming in the process an icon in the Bay Area
arts community. Being the proprietor of the longest-lived contemporary art gallery in San Francisco, Van Hiele cited his "Dutch
stubbornness" as the secret to the gallery's longevity.
Still ardently working at the gallery as its sole employee six days a week, Jack Van Hiele died in January of 2011 at the
age of 93.
Preferred Citation
Triangle Gallery records, BANC MSS 2011/185, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Processing Information
Processed by Dean Smith in 2023.
Scope and Contents
The Triangle Gallery records, 1950-2011; undated [bulk 1960s-2011] consist of artists' files, correspondence, gallery records,
and personal papers charting the creation of gallery in 1961 to the time of its closure in 2011 due to the death of the owner
Jack Van Hiele.
The Artist Files are broken down in to two subseries: Represented (artists who were formally represented by the gallery and/or
had at least one exhibition) and Inquires (artists seeking representation) and are comprised of correspondence to/from the
artist and gallery, exhibition announcements, records of sales, inventories, photodocumentation of artworks, and ephemera.
Correspondence is mainly of a personal nature, but does include some correspondence with gallery clients.
Gallery Records consists of exhibition announcements from the entire course of the galley's operation, files regarding select
group exhibitions, guest book registers, mailing lists, client address cards, sales records, inventories, press releases,
works on consignment and loans, resale certificates, leases and insurance policies, secondary market sales records, news clippings
of reviews and articles about the gallery, miscellaneous catalogs, and general miscellany.
The series Personal includes diaries, notebooks, passports, obituaries, a home lease, a folder of materials collected on a
trip to Japan, news clippings on various subjects (both art and non-art related), and miscellany.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Triangle Gallery
Van Hiele, Jack, 1917-2011
Carrigg, Jack, 1925-2014
Baoping, Chen, 1963-
Esaki, Yasuhiro
Feasél, Donald
Geary, Linda, 1960-
Goehlich, John Ronald
Held, Archie
Huffington, Anita, 1934-
Masando, Kito, 1937-
Kroll, Hope
Morris, Carl, 1911-1993
Morris, Hilda, 1911-1991
Morseberger, Philip, 1933-1921
Peek, Stephanie
Prestini, James, 1908-1933
Romano, Joseph, 1911-1985
Siegriest, 1889-1989
Sondag, Lynn
Spring, Barbara, 1917-2011
Tomioka, Sochiro
Ueda, Kaoru, 1928-
Wexler, Susan, 1937-
Habatabai, Hadi, 1964-
Art galleries, Commercial--California--San Francisco
carton 1, folder 1-2
Akers, Adela
1981-2010; undated
carton 1, folder 3
Aminoff Baker, Tonia
1996-2007; undated
carton 1, folder 4
Asaoka, Masaki
1976-1996; undated
carton 1, folder 5
Bae, Yoong
1983-1997; undated
carton 1, folder 6
Barker, Gary
1986-1990; undated
carton 1, folder 8
Bassett, Richard
1980-1997; undated
carton 1, folder 9-11
Beckelheimer, Carl
1989-2005; undated
carton 1, folder 12
Berry, Roger
1999-2010; undated
carton 1, folder 13
Boerefijn, Ruth
1995; undated
carton 1, folder 14
Carrigg, Jack
1964-2009; undated
carton 1, folder 15
Chase, Ronald
1965-1990; undated
carton 1, folder 16
Chen, Baoping
1992-2005; undated
carton 1, folder 17
Clutz, William
1967-2004; undated
carton 1, folder 18
Domoto, Hisao
1967-1995; undated
carton 1, folder 19
Edwards, Kathleen
1989-2000; undated
carton 1, folder 20
Esaki, Yasuhiro
1975-2009; undated
carton 1, folder 21
Faulkner, Lucia
1989-1996; undated
carton 1, folder 22
Feasél, Donald
1991-2010; undated
carton 1, folder 23
Fong, Chung-Ray
1977-2009; undated
carton 1, folder 24
Foosaner, Judith
2006-2007
carton 1, folder 25
Geary, Linda
1996-2001; undated
carton 1, folder 26
Gillman, Steven
1982-1989
carton 1, folder 27
Goldsmith, Susan
1994-1999; undated
carton 1, folder 28
Green, George
1977-1999; undated
carton 1, folder 29
Hack, Howard
1967-1994; undated
carton 2, folder 1-3
Held, Archie
1986-2002; undated
carton 2, folder 5
Holmes, Douglas
1981-2000; undated
carton 2, folder 6
Humble, Patrick
1973-2006; undated
carton 2, folder 7-10
Huffington, Anita
1985-2004; undated
carton 2, folder 12
Jiobu, Laurie
1990-2002; undated
carton 2, folder 13
Jurinko, Andy
1975-2000; undated
carton 2, folder 16
Kennedy, Michael
1971-1995; undated
carton 2, folder 17
Kishi, Masatoyo
1960-2002; undated
carton 2, folder 18-22
Kito, Masando
1964-2010; undated
carton 2, folder 23
Kiyokawa, Taiji
1969; 1983; undated
carton 3, folder 2
Kondo, Mikio
1985-1996; undated
carton 3, folder 5-7
Kroll, Hope
2007-2010; undated
carton 3, folder 8
Lacroix, Richard
1966-1991; undated
oversize_folder 1A
Lacroix, Richard
1968; 1985
carton 3, folder 9
Lane, Christopher
1993-2001; undated
carton 3, folder 10
Linenthal, Peter
1984-2010; undated
carton 3, folder 12
London, Rhoda
1992-2002; undated
carton 3, folder 13-15
Loughlin, R. Lance
1989-1997; undated
carton 3, folder 16
Morphis, Thomas
2001-2005; undated
carton 3, folder 17-21
Morris, Carl
1950-2002; undated
carton 3, folder 22
Morris, Hilda
1967-2007; undated
carton 3, folder 23
Morseberger, Philip
1995-2001; undated
carton 3, folder 24
Myers, Elaine
2001-2007; undated
carton 3, folder 25
Nakajima, Mas
2002-2008; undated
carton 3, folder 26
Nakano, Yuzo
1993-2006; undated
carton 3, folder 27-28
Natale, Joseph
1989-1999; undated
carton 3, folder 29
Natzler, Otto
1959-1993; undated
carton 3, folder 30
Nishimori, Katsu
1981-2002; undated
carton 4, folder 1
Ochman, Jim
1982-2001; undated
carton 4, folder 2
Ohi, Toshiyasu
1981-2002; undated
carton 4, folder 3-4
O'Kiersey, Patrick
1985-2010
carton 4, folder 5
Peek, Stephanie
1995-2010; undated
carton 4, folder 6
Picton, Mathew
1996-2001; undated
carton 4, folder 8-9
Prestini, James
1969-1993; undated
carton 4, folder 10
Putman, Miranda
1990-2005; undated
carton 4, folder 11
Ré, Paul Bartlett
1974-1997
carton 4, folder 14-16
Romano, Joseph
1978-2010; undated
carton 4, folder 18
Schuler, Melvin
1970-1974; undated
carton 4, folder 19-23
Siegriest, Louis
1950-1996; undated
oversize_folder 1A
Siegriest, Louis
1962-1986
carton 4, folder 27-30
Spring, Barbara
1998; 2002-2010; undated
carton 5, folder 2-3
Stroud, Patricia Lyons
1988-2010; undated
carton 5, folder 4
Suga, Sokichi
1965-1993; undated
carton 5, folder 5
Summers, Blake
2003; 2007
carton 5, folder 7-10
Tomioka, Soichiro
1965-2010; undated
carton 5, folder 11-12
Ueda, Kaoru
1978-2001; undated
carton 5, folder 13
Wakita, Aijiro
1968-1996; undated
carton 5, folder 14
Weinberger, Richard
1982-2004
carton 5, folder 15
Wexler, Susan
1988-2006; undated
carton 5, folder 16
Wilson, Richard
1991-2010; undated
carton 5, folder 17
Aquino, Edmundo
1984-1994; undated
carton 5, folder 19
Cormack, Aileen
1998-2010; undated
carton 5, folder 20
Horsting, Archana
1982; 2000; undated
carton 5, folder 21
Okumura, Mitsuya
1983-2000
carton 5, folder 22
Pennington, Sally
undated
carton 5, folder 23
Pieterse, Henk
1987; 1996; undated
carton 5, folder 24
Silverberg, L.
1988-1991; undated
carton 5, folder 25
Silverwood, Mary Dyess
1984
carton 5, folder 26
Tabatabai, Hadi
1988-2000; undated
carton 5, folder 27
Miscellany
1962; 2003-2006
carton 5, folder 28
Outgoing
1977 Dec. 18-2010 Sep. 1
carton 5, folder 29
Cotton, Stephan Harold
2000 Feb. 4-2001 Oct. 10
carton 5, folder 30
Dandy, Elisabeth
1982 Apr. 16-1988 Dec. 14
carton 5, folder 31
Goehlich, John Ronald
1969 Dec. 23-2002 Dec. 12
carton 5, folder 32
Hoeffel, Frances & John
2005 [Nov.?] 21-2010 Oct. 12
carton 5, folder 33
Kastner, Fenton
1984 Apr. 17-1987 Nov. 6
carton 5, folder 34
Noto, Ingolf
1993 Apr. 29-1995 Nov. 5
carton 5, folder 35
Segelstad, Harold E.
2000 Mar. 6-2001 July 20
carton 5, folder 36
Von Euw, Jack
1992 Oct. 15-2010 July 31; undated
carton 5, folder 38
Misc. G-W
1974-2010; undated
carton 6, folder 1
No Surname - Jerelle
1975 June-Sep.; undated
carton 6, folder 2
No Surname - C-S
1981-2010; undated
carton 6, folder 3-6
Exhibitions Annoucements
1961-2010; undated
carton 6, folder 7
Group Exhibitions - Inaugural Exhibition, "A Certain Smile"
1961 Sep.
carton 6, folder 8
Group Exhibitions - "The Japan Show"
1996 Dec. 12-2006 June 12; undated
carton 6, folder 9
Group Exhibitions - "Fifty Years in the Business-Director's Choice Artworks..."
1999 May-June
carton 6, folder 10
Group Exhibitions - 40th Anniversary Exhibition
2001 July- Sep.
carton 6, folder 11
Group Exhibitions - "Triangle Gallery San Francisco-Gallery Artists/50 Years of Artwork"
2010 Apr.-Dec.
carton 6, folder 12
Group Exhibitions - Miscellany
1969; 2006-2010
carton 6, folder 13
Guestbook Register
1997 Aug.-1999 Nov.
carton 6, folder 14
Guestbook Register
2005 Apr.-2006 Dec.
carton 6, folder 15
Guestbook Register
2006 Dec.-2008 Dec.
carton 6, folder 16
Guestbook Register
2008 Nov.-2011 Feb.
box 5
Client address cards
1961; undated
carton 6, folder 19-22
Exhibition Price Lists
1961 Oct.-2010 Nov.
carton 6, folder 23
Sales
1977 July-2010 July
carton 6, folder 24
Inventory Lists
1988-2001
carton 6, folder 26
Works on Consignment
1995-2007
carton 7, folder 1
Works on Loan - Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College
2001 Apr.-Aug.
carton 7, folder 2
Works on Loan - Kyo-Ya/Palace Hotel, San Francisco
2007-2010; undated
carton 7, folder 3
Works on Loan - Maria Watson
2006-2009
carton 7, folder 4
Works on Loan - Miscellany
2007-2010
carton 7, folder 5
Reseale Certificates
1961; 1989-2009
carton 7, folder 6
Leases & Insurance Policies
1971-2007; undated
carton 7, folder 8
Secondary Market Sales - Morris, Carl
1962-2000; undated
carton 7, folder 9
Secondary Market Sales - Old Master Paintings
1959-1999; undated
carton 7, folder 10
News Clippings - Reviews
1969-2005; undated
carton 7, folder 11-12
Catalogs - Miscellaneous
1969-2006; undated
carton 7, folder 13
Unidentified photographs of artworks
undated
carton 7, folder 14
Miscellany
1973-2002; undated
box 4
Diaries / Notebooks / Address Books
1971-2007; undated
carton 7, folder 17
Home Lease Agreement
1991
carton 7, folder 18
Japan Trip
1985-1986; undated
carton 7, folder 20
News clippings - Visual Arts
1978-2010; undated
carton 7, folder 21
News clippings - Miscellany
1975-2010; undated
