Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Betty Turnbull interviews with Southern California artists and related
ephemera
Date (inclusive): 1960-1988
Number: 2015.M.28
Creator/Collector:
Turnbull, Betty,
1924-2010
Physical Description:
2.6 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The collection consists of interviews
with leading Southern California artists conducted by Betty Turnbull, in preparation for her
1976 exhibition The Last Time I Saw Ferus, which documented
the circle of artists and art figures surrounding the Ferus Gallery. Also included are
ephemera, photographs and correspondence relating to the exhibition and other
projects.
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Language: Collection material is in
English.
Biographical Note
Betty Turnbull (1924-2010) was the first curator of exhibitions for the Newport Harbor Art
Museum (now the Orange County Museum of Art), serving from 1968 to 1981. She also served as
acting director of the museum from 1972 to 1973. She operated the TLK Gallery with Phyllis
Lutjeans and Victoria Kogan from 1982 to 1985.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers. Audiovisual materials unvailable until
reformatted.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Betty Turnbull interviews with Southern California artists and related ephemera, 1960-1988,
The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2015.M.28.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2015m28
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Glenda Winterbotham in memory of Betty Turnbull.
Processing history
Processed and described in March 2017 by Hannah Mandel and Ellen Colvin under the
supervision of Kit Messick.
Digitized Material
C19 Craig Kauffman Laguna Beach, 1976 January 13, was digitized in 2018. Access is
available only to on-site readers and Getty staff.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises interviews, photographs, and ephemera related to southern
California artists, art dealers and curators in the mid 1970s and 1980s, including Robert
Irwin, Ed Ruscha and Ed Kienholz. The bulk of the collection relates to the organization of
Turnbull's 1976 exhibition at the Newport Harbor Art Museum,
The Last
Time I Saw Ferus
, which was focused on the legacy of Los Angeles' recently closed
Ferus Gallery (1957-1966) and the artists affiliated with it. Also present are materials
relating to other projects by Turnbull, such as the TLK Gallery, which Turnbull operated
jointly with Phyllis Lutjeans and Victoria Kogan from 1982 to 1985, and articles written by
and about Turnbull from the late 1970s and 1980s.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in two series: ; and .Series I.
Interviews, 1975-1988
Series II. Papers and ephemera,
1960-1985
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Ruscha, Edward
Plagens, Peter
Kienholz, Edward,
1927-1994
Hopps, Walter
Irwin, Robert, 1928-
Glicksman, Hal
Blum, Irving, ,
1930-
Kauffman, Craig,
1932-2010
Bischoff, Elmer,
1916-1991
Park, David, 1911-1960
Strombotne,
James
Harden, Marvin,
1935-
Henderson, Victor,
1939-
Oliveira, Nathan,
1928-2010
Lutjeans, Phyllis
Bengston, Billy Al
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Orange County Museum
of Art (Calif.)
Ferus Gallery
(Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subjects - Topics
Art -- California -- Exhibitions
Art, American -- California -- Exhibitions
Art, American -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century
Artists -- California -- Interviews
Artists -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century
Art museum curators -- Interviews
Genres and Forms of Material
Printed ephemera -- California
Sound recordings
Contributors
Turnbull, Betty,
1924-2010
Henderson, Victor,
1939-
Lutjeans, Phyllis
