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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Henry Hopkins papers
Creator: Hopkins, Henry, 1928-2009
Identifier/Call Number: 2006.M.1
Physical Description: 15 Linear Feet(32 boxes, 1 flat file folder)
Date (inclusive): 1950-2005
Abstract: The selected papers of curator, teacher, and museum director, Henry Hopkins, document his teaching at the University of California,
Los Angeles, some of the exhibitions he curated, and his directorship at the Fort Worth Art Center Museum, the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art.
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Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content of Collection
Henry Hopkins's papers include manuscripts of writings and lectures; research files; correspondence with artists, including
Clyfford Still; and copies oral histories conducted with Hopkins by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Archives
of American Art. Files document his time as Director of the Fort Worth Art Center Museum (1968-1973) and the controversy that
precipitated his departure, and Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1974-1986). Also included are papers relating
to his teaching at UCLA (1991-2002) and his chairmanship of the Art Department (1991-1994). Some files relate to the negotiations
that resulted in the Armand Hammer Museum of Art being transferred to UCLA (1994), and his directorship of the Hammer, from
1994 to 1998. Some papers document events at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The papers contain materials about the exhibition "Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," and posters and printed ephemera
for other exhibitions, including posters for "War Babies," and "L.A. When it Began." Audio and video recordings contain interviews
with prominent American artists and Los Angeles art collectors.
Also included in the papers are personal files that pertain to Hopkins's study at the Art Institute of Chicago, and his military
service. Publications received with the papers will be transferred to the Getty Research Library's core collection.
This inventory is a preliminary draft.
Collection is arranged as received.
Henry Hopkins, born 1928, studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, but is best known as a curator, teacher, and museum
director. He was director of the Fort Worth Art Center Museum from 1968 to 1973. In 1974 he moved to San Francisco where he
took over the directorship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1974-1986). In 1991 he was made Chair of the Department
of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was instrumental in the negotiations that gave UCLA management responsibility
over the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and was the museum's director from 1994 until 1998, when he returned to teaching in UCLA's
art department. In 1991 Hopkins began painting again, and had several exhibitions of his work. Hopkins died in 2009.
Processed and re-housed by Sheila Prospero. Inventory is preliminary.
Gift of Henry Hopkins in 2006.
Henry Hopkins papers, 1950-2005, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2006.M.1.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2006m1
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audio and
video recordings are available to on-site readers and Getty staff only.
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Digitized Audiovisual Recordings
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All videos have been reformatted. Online access to
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art -- Collectors and collecting
Art, American -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Audiocassettes
Ephemera
Color slides
Posters
Photographic prints
A Life in Art
Videocassettes
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997
Art museum curators -- Archives
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Huysman Gallery
Hopkins, Henry, 1928-2009
Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Fort Worth Art Center-Museum
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center