INVENTORY OF THE HENRY HOPKINS PAPERS, 1950-2005
Finding aid prepared by Sheila Prospero.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Henry Hopkins papers
Date (inclusive): 1950-2005
Number: 2006.M.1
Creator/Collector:
Hopkins, Henry, 1928-
Physical Description:
15.0 linear feet
(32 boxes, 1 flat file folder)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The selected papers of curator, teacher, and museum director, Henry Hopkins, document his teaching at the University of California,
Los Angeles, some of the exhibitions he curated, and his directorship at the Fort Worth Art Center Museum, the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art.
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Language: Collection material is in
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Biographical/Historical Note
Henry Hopkins, born 1928, studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, but is best known as a curator, teacher, and museum
director. He was director of the Fort Worth Art Center Museum from 1968 to 1973. In 1974 he moved to San Francisco where he
took over the directorship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1974-1986). In 1991 he was made Chair of the Department
of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was instrumental in the negotiations that gave UCLA management responsibility
over the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and was the museum's director from 1994 until 1998, when he returned to teaching in UCLA's
art department. In 1991 Hopkins began painting again, and had several exhibitions of his work. Hopkins died in 2009.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, except for any unreformatted audio visual materials.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Henry Hopkins papers, 1950-2005, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2006.M.1.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Henry Hopkins in 2006.
Processing History
Processed and re-housed by Sheila Prospero. Inventory is preliminary.
Digitized Audio Recordings
All audiocassettes have been reformatted. Online access to
digitized audio recordings is available to on-site readers and Getty staff.
Videocassette number V13 has also been reformatted and is available as a DVD use copy.
Scope and Content of Collection
Henry Hopkins's papers include manuscripts of writings and lectures; research files; correspondence with artists, including
Clyfford Still; and copies oral histories conducted with Hopkins by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Archives
of American Art. Files document his time as Director of the Fort Worth Art Center Museum (1968-1973) and the controversy that
precipitated his departure, and Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1974-1986). Also included are papers relating
to his teaching at UCLA (1991-2002) and his chairmanship of the Art Department (1991-1994). Some files relate to the negotiations
that resulted in the Armand Hammer Museum of Art being transferred to UCLA (1994), and his directorship of the Hammer, from
1994 to 1998. Some papers document events at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The papers contain materials about the exhibition "Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," and posters and printed ephemera
for other exhibitions, including posters for "War Babies," and "L.A. When it Began." Audio and video recordings contain interviews
with prominent American artists and Los Angeles art collectors.
Also included in the papers are personal files that pertain to Hopkins's study at the Art Institute of Chicago, and his military
service. Publications received with the papers will be transferred to the Getty Research Library's core collection.
This inventory is a preliminary draft.
Arrangement note
Collection is arranged as received.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Hopkins, Henry, 1928-
Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Art Institute of Chicago.
Fort Worth Art Center-Museum
Huysman Gallery
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Subjects - Topics
Art, American--California--Los Angeles--20th century--Exhibitions
Art--Collectors and collecting
Subjects - Titles
A Life in Art
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997
Genres and Forms of Material
Audiocassettes
Color slides
Ephemera
Photographic prints
Posters
Videocassettes
Container List
Box 2-3
Newspaper and magazine articles about Hopkins
Box 6
Archives of American Art oral history of Henry Hopkins,
1937
Box 6
Chicago Art Institute,
1937, 1954-1955
Box 6
Military Service,
1952-1954
Box 7
Looking at Modern Painting class at UCLA Extension,
1957-1963
Box 7
First Exhibition organized by Henry Hopkins, UCLA,
1960
Box 7
Huysman Gallery,
1959-1960
Box 7
Hopkins controversy with Lester Longman, Chairman of UCLA Art Dept.,
1961
Box 7
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) publications
Box 7
West Coast Now exhibition,
Feb 1968
Box 7
Rick Brown resignation from Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),
1965
Box 7-8
Hopkins leaving Los Angeles for Fort Worth
Box 8
Texas Governors Conference Keynote,
1968
Box 8
Forth Worth Drawing Show controversy
Box 8
Hopkins leaving Fort Worth for San Francisco
Box 8-9
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
1973-1986
Box 9
Artist Soap Box Derby, San Francisco,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Slides and color photographs
Box 10
Henry Tyler Hopkins exhibition
Box 10
Los Angeles Art Research Project,
1988
Scope and Content Note
See audiovisual tapes.
Box 10
UCLA Appointment to Art Dept. Chair,
1991
Box 11
UCLA and Hammer Museum Agreement
Box 11
Exhibition at Vice President's House,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Selected by Hopkins.
Box 11
Honorary Degrees and honors
Box 12
PCC Sculptures Garde Project
Box 12
Hammer Codex Issues, publicity
Box 13
Frederick Weisman Art Foundation,
1986-1991
Box 13
Leaving San Francisco for Los Angeles
Box 14
50th Anniversary San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
1985
Box 16-17
Art and museum related correspondence
Box 17
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Mostly black-and-white.
Box 18
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Mostly black-and-white, with some slides.
Box 19
First Amendment Blacklist Project
Box 19
Holocaust Memorial, San Francisco,
1985
Box 19
California Art Project, Getty Grant
Box 21
Correspondence with Clyfford Still
Box 23
"Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," exhibit
Box 24
A life in Art, Henry Tyler Hopkins, volumes I and II
Scope and Content Note
Oral history conducted by University of California, Los Angeles, Oral History Project.
Box 25
"Sunshine & Noir" slides
Scope and Content Note
Slides re-housed in same order as in original; see repository regarding copyright.
Box 26-28
Video recordings
Scope and Content Note
All the videos are VHS cassettes, and are unavailable until reformatting is complete. Videos have been numbered by the repository,
V1-V18. Videocassette number V13 has been reformatted and is available as a DVD use copy.
Box 26
V1-V5: Interviews with Henry Hopkins
Box 26
V1: Joan Quinn Profiles, 1994 Apr
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 26
V2: Art the Vidio [sic] Monthly, 1990
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 26
V3: Robert Arneson: German Expresionism, 1985
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 26
V4: Art Donors [broadcast?] CNN, 1990 Jan
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 26
V5: Life and Times, 1998 Oct
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 27
V6-V13: Events, symposia, exhibitions
Box 27
V6: Weisman Art Awards, 1991
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 27
V7: Ferus to the Future, San Antonis: Ed and Nancy Kienholz and Henry Hopkins, undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 27
V8: LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition, undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 27
V9: Art in L.A.: German television
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 27
V10: U.S. Hous of Representatives debate on The Dinner Party
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 27
V11: Goode, McMillan, Ruscha exhibition, undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 27
V12: Friends of John Altoon, S000 May
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 27
V13: Right Turn on Red: Billy Al Bengston and Henry Hopkins, undated
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 28
V14-V18: Collections and artist tapes
Box 28
V14: The Marcia Simon Weisman Collection, 1987 Mar
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 28
V15: Frank Gehry, PBS Special, 1988 Jul
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 28
V16: Peter Alexander, Puddles, 1995 Apr
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 28
V17: Diana Wong: Labyright, 1994
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 28
V18: Debbie Han
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS).
Box 29-30
Audio recordings
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassettes hold interviews and oral histories with artists, gallerists, curators, and collectors (C1-C35). Radio programs
that included Hopkins and others talking about art are recorded on C36-C48. Cassettes have been numbered C1-C48 by the repository.
All audiocassettes have been reformatted. Online access to
digitized audio recordings is available to on-site readers and Getty staff.
Box 29
C1 - Asher, Betty, Los Angeles,
2 March 1989
Scope and Content Note
2 audiocassettes of 2.
See also C2.
Box 29
C2 - Bengston, Billy Al; Betty Asher
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Smithsonian oral histories. 2nd half of side B contains interview with Betty Asher. See also C1.
Box 29
C3 - Blum, Irving,
16 May, 1986
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
About Ferus gallery.
Box 29
C4 - Burkhardt, Hans, Los Angeles,
26 Apr 1989
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C5 - Coplans, John,
13 July 1987, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C6 - Copley, Claire, New York,
27 Aug 2003
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C7 - Cowles, Charles, New York,
25 Aug 2003
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C8 - Dwan, Virginia, New York,
8 Nov 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C9 - Factor, Betty and Monte,
18 Jan 1989
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C10 - Fenichel, Lilly,
15 Mar 1989
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C11 - Fischinger, Elfriede,
30 Mar 1989
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C12 - Gersh, Philip and Beatrice,
25 Feb 1989
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C13 - Grinstein, Elyse and Stanley,
22 Feb 1989
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C14 - Halff, Robert,
28 Jan 1989
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C15 - Hazelette, Joan, Los Angeles,
28 Feb 1989
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C16 - Holloway, Sterling
Scope and Content Note
Sound cassette is missing.
Box 29
C17 - Janss, Edwin, in his home,
25 Aug 1988
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C18 - Kantor, Paul,
14 Mar 1989
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C19 - Kauffman, Craig,
15 Jan 1986, 24 Jan 1986
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C20 - Landau, Felix, Los Angeles,
26 Apr 1989
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C21 - Leffingwell, Edward, with Irving Blum,
5 Aug 1988
Scope and Content Note
3 sound cassettes of 3.
With Irving Blum on tapes 2 and 3.
Box 29
C22 - Lundeberg, Helen in her studio, Los Angeles,
19 Dec 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C23 - Mason, John, in his studio,
14 Sep 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C24 - Moses, Edward,
14 Jan 1986, 21 Jan 1986
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C25 - Myers, Barton,
7 Oct 1994
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C26 - Nelson, Rolf, Richman Valley, Staten Island, N.Y.,
8 Nov 1988
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C27 - Nosei, Annina, New York,
28 Aug 2003
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C28 - Price, Vincent,
3 Apr 1989
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C29 - Rowan, Robert and Vivian,
22 Nov 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C30 - Ruscha, Edward, by Dave Hicks [?]
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C31 - Tuckman, Maurice, New York,
29 Aug 2003
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C32 - Wayne, June, at her home in Los Angeles (Tamerind),
31 Jul 1989
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 29
C33 - Weber, John, New York City gallery,
12 Nov 1988
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C34 - Weisman, Marcia,
2 Feb 1989
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 29
C35 - Wilder, Nicholas, interviewed by Ruth Bowman,
Sep 1988
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 30
C36 - ArtLA '87 Art Fair, Hosted by Ara Guzelimian and Larry Stein, ARTS/LA, KCRW radio,
14 Dec 1987
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 30
C37 - Mayor Tom Bradley, Henry Hopkins, Frederick R. Weisman, and Nora Halpern Brougher, ARTS/LA, KCRW radio,
30 May 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 30
C38 - Backstage at Royce #8725, Henry Hopkins with Hilton Kramer,
18 Apr 1987
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 30
C39 - Backstage at Royce #8944, Henry Hopkins with Peter Norton and Paul Shimmfi,
26 Dec 1989
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 30
C40 - Backstage California, Henry Hopkins, Eli Broad, Barbara Piper et al,
29 Jan 1996
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 30
C41 - Backstage California, Robert Hughes, KKGO radio,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 30
C42 - Backstage L.A, Henry Hopkins, KKGO radio,
5 Apr 1998
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 30
C43 - Hopkins, Henry,
16 Aug 1988
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
R (?) and Hopkins talking about grant proposal.
Box 30
C44 - Hopkins, Henry, home of R.N.,
8-9 Jul 1994
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 30
C45 - Hopkins, Henry and Elise Haas
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Voice tracks.
Box 30
C46 - Hopkins and Kramer, "Museums' Future," YWHA,
7 Dec 1987
Scope and Content Note
2 sound cassettes of 2.
Box 30
C47 - Hopkins, Henry on Manuel Neri, Florida
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 30
C48 - Kienholz, Ed, Nancy Kienholz, and Henry Hopkins, panel discussion at Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, panel 3 of "Ferus
to the Future,"
11 Mar 1994
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette.
Box 31-32
Publications
Scope and Content Note
See detailed list in repository; publications will be transferred to Getty Research Library collection.
Oversize 1**
"War Babies," posters
Scope and Content Note
Four different versions, with signatures of artists, one from the James Corcoran Gallery (Santa Monica, Calif.).
