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Anneberg Gallery, 1966-1981, and craft and folk art in the San Francisco Bay Area : oral history transcript / 1998California craft artists oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Anneberg, Margery, 1921-, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Larsen, Jack Lenor.Creator/Contributor:
Schwarcz, June.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Seattle background and family; studying jewelry-making, New York City, 1945; Far Eastern studies, University of Washington,
1946-1957; move to Berkeley and UC Berkeley library job; contact with northern California designer craftsmen; establishing
home, studio, and gallery on Hyde Street, San Francisco, 1964; discussion of Anneberg Gallery exhibitions, 1966-1981: impact
of Coptic textiles, announcements and installations, curatorial scholarship, critical reviews and publicity, mixing contemporary
craft and folk arts, sources and collectors, gallery economics, issue of authentication; American Craft Council, other San
Francisco galleries, museums; closing Anneberg Gallery and instituting the Center for Folk Art and Contemporary Crafts; role
in beginning of San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1983-1986: board and advisory group, curatorial work, A Report, exhibitions,
catalogues.
Date:
1998 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFolk art
Handicraft
Art museums -- California -- San Francisco
Arts, Modern -- 20th century
Museum curators -- Interviews
Arts, Modern
Art populaire
Artisanat
Arts -- 20e siècle
crafts (art genres)
Museum curators
Handicraft
Folk art
Arts, Modern
Art museums
California -- San Francisco
Anneberg Gallery.
Note:
Margery Anneberg ; with introductions by Jack Lenor Larsen and June Schwarcz. Interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in
1995. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: California craft artists oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Shelved as Phonotape 2979 C:1-22.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (viii, 368 pages) : illustrations, color portrait ; 28 cm
22 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.