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California Art Gallery and Museum Ephemera Collection
ART EPH
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Title: California art gallery and museum ephemera
Date (inclusive): 1928-2011
Date (bulk): 1960-1969
Collection Identifier: ART EPH
Physical Description:
10.0 boxes (4.5 Linear feet)
Repository:
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-357-1848
reference@calhist.org
URL: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.
Abstract: Consists of advertisements, announcements, brochures, exhibition catalogs, invitations and posters promoting various artists
and exhibitions held at California art galleries, art museums, and college art museums. Materials are primarily from San Francisco,
the Bay Area and Los Angeles galleries and museums; bulk of materials date from the 1960s.
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Director
of the Library and Archives, North Baker Research Library, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco,
CA 94105. Consent is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], [File name], California Art Gallery and Museum Ephemera Collection, California Historical Society.
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Additions to the collection are ongoing.
Processed by Jaime Henderson in 2013.
Collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the art gallery or museum.
Consists of a variety of ephemera pertaining to California art galleries, art museums and college art museums, mainly in San
Francisco, the Bay Area and Los Angeles. The bulk of the material dates from the 1960s, but the collection includes ephemera
from 1928 to 2011. Types of art represented include painting, photography, sculpture, ceramic and glass art, textiles and
mixed media. Many 1960s-era contemporary art galleries are represented such as Arleigh Gallery (San Francisco), Batman Gallery
(San Francisco), Dilexi Gallery (San Francisco), Dwan Gallery (Los Angeles), Ferus Gallery (Los Angeles), John Bolles Gallery
(San Francisco) and Maxwell Galleries (San Francisco) as are the exhibition catalogs of major California museums such as the
Oakland Museum and the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Types of ephemera include advertisements, announcements, brochures, exhibition
catalogs, invitations and posters.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog:
Advertisements.
Announcements.
Art galleries, Commercial--California.
Art museums--California.
Artists.
Brochures.
California Ephemera Project.
College art museums--California.
Exhibition catalogs--California.
Invitations.
Posters.