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  • Preferred Citation
  • Biographical/Historical note
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Access
  • Acquisition Information
  • Arrangement
  • Processing Information note
  • Separated Materials note
  • Publication Rights

  • Contributing Institution: Special Collections
    Title: Jan Baum Gallery records
    Creator: Silverman, Iris
    Creator: Baum, Jan
    Creator: Saar, Betye
    Creator: Saar, Alison
    Creator: Saar, Lezley, 1953-
    Creator: Jan Baum-Iris Silverman Gallery
    Creator: Jan Baum Gallery
    Identifier/Call Number: 2008.M.61
    Physical Description: 30 Linear Feet (84 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1967-2007
    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.
    Physical Location: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record  for this collection. Click here for the access policy .
    Language of Material: 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

    Biographical/Historical note

    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.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    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.

    Access

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

    Acquisition Information

    Gift of Jan Baum Gallery in 2008.

    Arrangement

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

    Processing Information note

    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.

    Separated Materials note

    155 books and 23 serials were transferred to the Library's core collection. Most of the transferred books are exhibition catalogs. Once these materials have been processed, they can be found in the library catalog with a Provenance search on "Jan Baum Gallery." An itemized list of transferred publications may be requested from the repository.

    Publication Rights

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Photographic prints -- 20th century
    Sound recordings -- 20th century
    Correspondence -- 20th century
    Video recordings -- 20th century
    CD-ROMs
    Art, Modern -- Exhibitions
    Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
    Art, African -- Exhibitions
    Artists -- California
    Art, Modern -- 20th century
    Art museums -- California -- Los Angeles
    Photographs, Original
    Art, African -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
    Art -- Exhibitions
    Jan Baum-Iris Silverman Gallery
    Burden, Chris, 1946-2015
    Baum, Jan
    Plagens, Peter
    Saar, Alison
    Saar, Betye
    Glass, Sylvia
    Jacobi, Kathryn
    Montes, Roberto Gil de
    Morphesis, Jim, 1948-
    Waterston, Darren, 1965-
    Saar, Lezley, 1953-
    Feldman, Bella, 1930-
    Jan Baum Gallery
    Yamaguchi, Takako