Jan Baum Gallery Records, 1967-2007

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Summary

Title:
Jan Baum Gallery records
Dates:
1967-2007
Creators:
Silverman, Iris, Baum, Jan, Saar, Betye, Saar, Alison, Saar, Lezley, 1953-, Jan Baum-Iris Silverman Gallery, and Jan Baum Gallery
Abstract:
The Jan Baum Gallery records include correspondence; press kits containing newspaper clippings, price lists, curriculum vitae and artists' statements; loan agreements; receipts; invitations; miscellaneous ephemera; and photographic and audiovisual materials.
Extent:
30 Linear Feet (84 boxes)
Language:
Collection material is in English.
Preferred citation:

Jan Baum Gallery records, 1967-2007, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2008.M.61

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2008m61

Background

Scope and content:

The Jan Baum Gallery records document the relationships between the gallerists, artists, museums, and collectors through extensive correspondence and exhibition materials. The archive also contains photographic materials, notes, price lists, artists' statements, loan agreements, and audiovisual materials documenting artworks and installations. Among the artists represented in the archive are Chris Burden, Bella Feldman, Sylvia Glass, Kathryn Jacobi, Roberto Gil de Montes, Jim Morphesis, Peter Plagens, Darren Waterston, and Takako Yamaguchi. Files on Betye Saar and her daughters Alison Saar and Lezley Saar are particularly extensive.

Biographical / historical:

The original Jan Baum-Iris Silverman Gallery opened on March 15, 1977 in Los Angeles. Following the death of Iris Silverman, Jan Baum reopened the Gallery under her own name in 1981, continuing the gallery's focus on contemporary and African art, with a particular emphasis on California artists. Baum retired and closed the gallery in 2007.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Jan Baum Gallery in 2008.
Processing information:

In 2008 Emmabeth Nanol re-housed the archive and created a box list. In 2009 she further processed and arranged some of the materials and expanded the box list into a preliminary finding aid under the supervision of Andra Darlington. The arrangement of the archive is based on the original order of the collection as it was received from the Jan Baum Gallery, though it required some refinement. Collection-level notes are based on curatorial acquisition documentation.

Arrangement:

Organized in three series. Series I. Artist files, 1967-2007; Series II. Group exhibitions, 1994-2007; Series III. Administrative files, 1984-2007.

Physical location:
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Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Emmabeth Nanol
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-29 13:38:49 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers, except unreformatted audiovisual materials.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Jan Baum Gallery records, 1967-2007, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2008.M.61

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2008m61

Location of this collection:
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688, US
Contact:
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