California Art Gallery and Museum Ephemera Collection

Finding aid prepared by Jaime Henderson.

California Historical Society

678 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA, 94105-4014

(415) 357-1848

reference@calhist.org

2013

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

Location of Materials: Collection is stored onsite.

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.

Access

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Publication Rights

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.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], [File name], California Art Gallery and Museum Ephemera Collection, California Historical Society.

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Accruals

Additions to the collection are ongoing.

Processing Information

Processed by Jaime Henderson in 2013.

System of Arrangement

Collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the art gallery or museum.

Scope and Contents

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.

Indexing Terms

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.

Numeric

1111 Gallery (San Francisco) undated

20x20 Gallery (San Francisco) undated

ADI Gallery, Inc. (San Francisco) 1977-1980

The Annex Galleries (Santa Rosa) 1984

Architect's Guild (Tiburon) 1961

Arleigh Gallery (San Francisco) 1960s

Art Gallery, California State College, Stanislaus ( California: A Celebration of the Land ) 1985

Art Unlimited (San Francisco) 1961

Artists' Cooperative (San Francisco) 1963-1965

Artiques Affordable Art (San Francisco) 1985

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco undated

Association of California Ceramic Artists ( Clay and Glass) 1993

Balboa Pavilion Gallery (Balboa) 1967

Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (Robert B. Honeymoon, Jr. collection) 1968

Barrios Gallery (Sacramento) undated

Batman Gallery (San Francisco) 1960-1961

Beep Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Bennett Hall Photography and Murealism (San Francisco) undated

Berkeley Gallery (San Francisco) 1961-1966

Biltmore Galleries (Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles) 1977

The Black Cat (San Francisco) undated

The Blue Dolphin (Art collective, San Francisco) undated

Boreas Gallery (San Francisco) 1961

Braunstein Gallery (San Francisco) 1984

Bridgeway Gallery Inn (Sausalito) 1961

Brunn Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Butterfield & Butterfield ( American Pictures , San Francisco) 1981

Buzz Gallery (San Francisco) 1965

California Art Club 2006-2011

California Palace of the Legion of Honor ( Exhibition of Modern Art) 1928

California State University, Northridge ( California Art Pottery, 1895-1920) 1988

Canessa Gallery (San Francisco) 1968, 1977, 1983

Cantata Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Capp Street Project (San Francisco) 1986

Capper's Gallery (San Francisco) 1968

Carmel Art Association ( Our First Five National Academicians ) 1989

Center for Creative Survival (San Francisco) undated

Cheney Cowles Museum ( Frances H. Gearhart: California Block Prints ) 1990

City of Paris Galleries (San Francisco) undated

Cityscape Foto Gallery (Pasadena) 1983, 1985

The Columbus Gallery (San Francisco) 1961

Conacher Galleries (San Francisco) undated

Corwith Galleries (San Francisco) 1965

Cory Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Creative Arts Gallery (Sausalito) undated

Daedalus (Fine arts restoration, Oakland) undated

Dalzell Hatfield Galleries (Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles) 1961

David Cole Gallery (Sausalito) 1960-1961

David Stuart Galleries (Los Angeles) 1966

Dilexi Gallery (San Francisco) 1960s

Dinesen Art Centre (San Francisco) 1965

Dinner Party Project (Judy Chicago) undated

Donald Organ Galerie (San Francisco) undated

Douglas Elliot Gallery (San Francisco) 1980

Dwan Gallery (Los Angeles) 1966

E.B. Crocker Art Gallery ( Charles Christian Nahl: Artist of the Gold Rush, 1818-1878 , Sacramento) 1976

Edward Dean Galleries (San Francisco) 1961

Edward Quill Galleries (San Francisco) 1961-1963

El Mochuelo Gallery (Santa Barbara) 1964

Eric Locke Gallery (San Francisco) 1958, 1962

Especially Galleries Guide (San Francisco) 1974

Esther-Robles Gallery (Los Angeles) 1961

Everett Ellin Gallery (Los Angeles) 1961

Felix Landau Gallery (Los Angeles) 1961-1967

Ferus Gallery (Los Angeles) 1961-1962

The Fieldstone Collection of Early California Art 1985

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Collection of American Sculpture 1982

Yosemite 1979

The Firehouse (San Francisco) 1962

Focus Gallery (San Francisco) 1967-1985

Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco) 1979-1986

Fredric Hobbes Fine Art (San Francisco) 1961

Fresno Arts Center

200 Years of American Painting 1977

Southern California School of Watercolor, 1928-1978 1978

Views of Yosemite 1982

G. Paul Bishop Portrait Studio (Berkeley) 1953

G. Ray Hawkins Gallery (Los Angeles) 1985

Galeria de la Raza/Studio 24 (San Francisco) undated

Galerie Ariel (San Francisco) 1980

Galerie de Tours (San Francisco) 1962, 1966

Gallerie de Vaux (San Rafael) 1980

The Gallery (Carmel-by-the-Sea) 1966

The Gallery (Mill Valley) undated

The Gallery (Oakland) 1981

Gallery House (Menlo Park) 1967, undated

Gilbert Galleries (San Francisco) 1973, undated

Goodman Art Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Grapestake Gallery undated

Grete Williams Gallery (San Francisco) 1961

Grove Gallery (Pacific Grove) 1966

Gump's Galleries (San Francisco) 1961-1967

Hackett-Freedman Gallery (David Ligare exhibit, San Francisco) 1999

Hansen Fuller Gallery (San Francisco) 1974

Hansen Gallery (San Francisco) 1965-1966

Harcourts Gallery (San Francisco) 1975

Hartley Gallery (San Francisco) 1965

Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California

Bicoastal Artists of the 1870s 1992

Early Artists of the Bohemian Club 2002

Maurice Logan: Artist and Designer 1991

The Watercolors of William Keith, 1838-1911 1979

Herbert Palmer Gallery (Los Angeles) 2001

Hollis Galleries undated

Holmes Gallery (Holmes Book Company, Oakland) 1960

Hoover Gallery and Marquoit Galleries (San Francisco) 1975

Howard's Galleries (San Francisco) undated

Humboldt Galleries (San Francisco) 1974

Hunter Gallery (San Francisco) 1968

Hungry I (San Francisco) undated

I-K

Iron Pot Gallery (San Francisco) undated

The Irvine Museum ( All Things Bright and Beautiful: California Impressionist Paintings from the Irvine Museum ) 1999

Jacksons (Oakland) 1961

James M. Hansen Gallery (Santa Barbara)

Alexander F. Harmer, 1856-1925 exhibit 1982

Colin Campbell Cooper exhibit 1981

Jan Holloway Gallery (San Francisco) 1991

Janet Steinberg Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Jensen Gallery (San Francisco) 1975

John Bolles Gallery (San Francisco) 1961-1966

John F. Kennedy University undated

John Pence Gallery (San Francisco) 1975-1977, 1984

Joseph Dee Museum of Photography 1985

Knott Gallery (San Francisco) 1971

La Jolla Art Center undated

Laguna Beach Museum of Art

The Collector's Eye 1980

Virginia Steele Scott Memorial Collection and Examples from the Permanent Collection 1980

William Wendt exhibit 1977

Laky Galleries (Carmel and San Francisco) undated

Lawson Galleries (San Francisco) 1983-1984

Laymen Gallery (San Francisco) undated

L'envoi Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Lesser Gallery (San Francisco) undated

The Lion (San Francisco) undated

The Little Gallery (San Francisco) 1967

Lloyd Clark Studio Gallery (Oakland) 1962

Long Beach Museum of Art undated

Lorne Williams Gallery (San Francisco) 1963

Los Angeles Art Association 1961

Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( Los Angeles Prints, 1883-1980 ) 1980

Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery (San Francisco) 1946-1975

Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego ( Belle Baranceanu: A Retrospective ) 1985

Marquoit Galleries (San Francisco) 1975

Martha Jackson Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Mary Perry Stone Studio Gallery (San Rafael) undated

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz ( Plein Air Paintings: Landscapes and Seascapes from Santa Cruz to Carmel Highlands, 1898-1940 ) 1985

Maxwell Galleries (San Francisco) 1960s

Physical Description: 3.0 folders

Meniscus Portfolio (San Francisco) 1983

The Mezzanine Gallery (San Francisco) 1965, undated

Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma ( A Selection of American Painting by Artists of the 19th Century Working in Northern California ) 1976

Monterey Museum of Art

Jo Mora, Artist and Writer 1998

Small Wonders, the Etchings of August Francois Gay 1998

Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art

Colors and Impressions: The Early Work of E. Charlton Fortune 1990

Henrietta Shore exhibit 1986

Monterey: The Artist's View, 1925-1945 1982

Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College

Los Angeles Painters of the 1920s 1972

Myth and Grandeur: California Landscapes, 1864-1900 1987

Montgomery Gallery (San Francisco) 1985

Moscoso, Victor undated

Moore Galleries, Inc. (San Francisco) undated

Museo Italo Americano (San Francisco) undated

Museum of Utopian Art (San Francisco) undated

Nathan Gallery (San Francisco) 1977, undated

Nathan & Mead Gallery (San Francisco) 1979

National Women's Caucus for Art Conference (San Francisco) 1981

New Langton Arts (San Francisco) 1984

Nexus Gallery (La Jolla) 1961

Nicholas Wilder Gallery (Los Angeles) 1965-1967

Norman Hunter Galleries (San Anselmo) 1965

The North Point Gallery (San Francisco) 1973-1985

Northern California Gallery Guide 1975

The Oakland Museum

Anne Brigman exhibit 1974

Art of the Gold Rush 1998

The California Collection of William and Zelma Bowser 1970

Chiura Obata: A California Journey 1977

Elmer Bischoff: Figurative Painting 1957-1972 1975

Guy Rose: American Impressionist 1995

Mine Okubo: An American Experience 1972

Monotypes in California 1972

Sargent Johnson: Retrospective 1971

Society of Six 1972

Theodore Wores: The Japanese Years 1976

William Hahn, Genre Painter 1829-1887 1976

Xavier Martinez exhibit 1974

P-Q

Palm Springs Desert Museum

California's Western Heritage 1986

Helen Lundeberg since 1970 1983

The Pomo: Gifts and Visions 1984

The West as Art 1982

Pat Carey Gallery (San Francisco) 1979

Paule M. Anglim (Architectural art services, San Francisco) 1961

Peninsula Gallery (Menlo Park) 1966

Periwinkle Art Gallery (Pacifica) undated

Petersen Galleries (Beverly Hills)

The Paintings of Franz A. Bischoff 1980

The Paintings of Sam Hyde Harris 1980

Philippe Bonnafont Gallery (San Francisco) 1984

Pomeroy Galleries (San Francisco) 1960s

The Poor Man's Gallery (San Francisco) 1966

Poor Richard's Gallery (San Mateo) 1955

Primus Stuart Galleries (Los Angeles) 1961-1962

The Print Rooms (San Francisco) 1921

The Prism Gallery (San Francisco) 1961

Quay Gallery (San Francisco) 1966-1967

R.E. Lewis, Inc. (San Francisco) 1961-1963

Redfern Gallery (Laguna Beach) 1988

Reese Palley (San Francisco) 1971

Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco) 1986

Rolf Nelson Gallery (Los Angeles) 1965-1966

Rorick Gallery (San Francisco) 1981-1984

Rose/Bernardi Gallery (Sausalito) 1975

Rose Rabow Galleries (San Francisco) 1961

Rotunda Gallery (City of Paris, San Francisco) undated

Russian Hill Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery (Santa Barbara) 1973

Ruthermore Galleries (San Francisco) 1960-1961

St. John Galleries (San Francisco) 1965

San Francisco Art Association 1960

San Francisco Art Institute 1961-1996

San Francisco Camerawork 1983-1985

San Francisco Museum of Art 1961, 1966

San Jose Museum of Art

Americans Abroad: Painters of the Victorian Era 1975

Women Look at Women undated

Plein Air exhibit 1988

Santa Barbara Historical Society (Carl Oscar Borg exhibit) 1990

Santa Barbara Museum of Art ( Edward Borein: Drawings and Watercolors, 1873-1945 1965

Santa Cruz city Museum (Cor de Gavere exhibit) 1974

Schaeffer Galleries (San Francisco) 1939-1940

Setay Gallery (Beverly Hills) 1966

Skylight Gallery and Poor Man's Frame Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Skylight Studio (Berkeley) undated

Southern Exposure Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Spatsa Gallery (San Francisco) 1961

Squids (San Francisco) 1985

Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University ( California Landscape Painting, 1860-1885: Artists around Keith and Hill ) 1976

Stewart-Verde Galleries (San Francisco) 1966

Sumitomo Bank Gallery (San Francisco) 1986

Swanson Art Galleries, Ltd. (San Francisco) undated

T-U-V

Thackrey & Robertson (San Francisco) undated

This N' That Shoppe (San Francisco) 1963

Thompson Gallery (Los Gatos) 1967

Timken Art Gallery (San Diego)

Albert Bierstadt: Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall 1986

European and American Works of Art in the Putnam Foundation Collection 1983

Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield ( Scenes of California Life, 1930-1950 ) 1991

Triangle Art Gallery (San Francisco) 1961, 1975

Triton Museum of Art (Santa Clara)

Arts of the American Indian 1972

Duveneck: Lost Paintings Found 1987

Elizabeth Boott Duveneck: Her Life and Times 1979

Trojanowska Gallery (San Francisco) 1992

U.F.O. Gallery (San Francisco) 1967

Union Court Gallery (San Francisco) undated

V.C. Morris (San Francisco) undated

Valley Art Gallery (Walnut Creek) 1975

Vallis and Jensen (San Francisco) 1967

Vickery, Atkins & Torrey (San Francisco) undated

Vorpal Galleries (San Francisco) 1965-1973

W-X-Y-Z

Walton Galleries, Inc. (San Francisco) 1975

Walton-Gilbert (San Francisco) 1979-1984

Western Association of Art Museums California Landscape Paintings, 1870-1930) 1978

Western Women's Bank (Gallery, San Francisco) undated

Wiggs Gallery (San Francisco) 1966

Willoughby-Toschi Fine Arts Gallery (San Francisco) undated

Women's Portfolio (San Francisco) 1974

World Arts Gallery (San Francisco) 1961

Wortsman Rowe Galleries, Inc. (San Francisco)

The Art of Emil Carlsen 1975

Minerva J. Chapman exhibit 1974

Wrubel Gallery (Berkeley) 1985-1986

Zantman Art Galleries (Carmel) undated