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Hopps, Walter (American art gallery owner and curator, 1932-2005)
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Note: Hopps had a distinguished career as a curator of 20th-century art. He began his career by helping to establish Los Angeles as a significant site for contemporary art with the founding of Syndell Gallery in 1951 and, with Edward Kienholz, Ferus Gallery in 1957. He staged noteworthy exhibitions at the Pasadena Art Museum from 1959 to 1967 including the first retrospective of Duchamp's work in a major museum and the first museum exhibition of Pop art. He next worked in Washington, D.C. at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and later the Smithsonian Institution, organizing exhibitions of such artists as Barnett Newman and Robert Rauschenberg. During this time he also founded the Joseph Cornell Study Center at the Smithsonian. Hopps next worked in Houston, serving as director and later curator of the Menil Collection; he was also involved in the search for the architect to design the Menil Collection building (Renzo Piano was ultimately chosen). Hopps was a guest curator at various institutions late in his career; for instance, he was guest curator to the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey from 1991 to 1999 and he organized a retrospective of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz for the Whitney Museum in 1996. |
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Herms, George |
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(American sculptor, born 1935) [500093370] |
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Ferus Gallery |
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(American art galley, 1957-1968) [500302128] |
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Kienholz, Edward co-founded Ferus Gallery in 1957 |
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(American sculptor, 1927-1994) [500028686] |
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(American art gallery owner and curator, 1932-2005) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American curator, 1933-2005) ..... [VP]
(Unknown artist) ..... [MoMA]
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