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ID: 500115559
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115559
 
Record Type: Person
Coplans, John (English photographer, teacher, and curator, 1920-2003, active in the United States)

Note: Coplans was a founding editor of art magazines Artforum and Dialogue. He served as curator at the Pasadena Art Museum in Pasadena, California, and later as director at the Akron Art Institute in Akron, Ohio. Also known for his large-scale photographic self-portraits consisting of somewhat abstract close-up views of his aging body. He was an avid collector of photography. He was married to the photographer Amanda Means.

Names:
Coplans, John (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Coplans, John (Dutch-P,NA)
John Coplans (V,display)
Coplans, John Rivers (V)
קופלנס, ג'ון (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
English
American

Roles:
artist (preferred)
curator
editor
photographer
teacher
painter
author
writer
collector
publisher
lecturer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
Died:  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1971-2003  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
exhibition:   exhibited at The Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art in 2000  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   1960-1967  Berkeley (Alameda county, California, United States) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Coplans, John (I)

Biographies:
(English photographer, teacher, and curator, 1920-2003, active in the United States) ..... [VP Preferred]
(British photographer in USA, b.1920) ..... [BHA]
(British artist, op.1959-) ..... [WCI]
(British artist, born 1920, active 1959) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(English photographer, 1920-2003) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(British artist, 1920-2003) ..... [MoMA]
(English photographer, 1920-2003) ..... [IMJ]
(English painter, 1920-2003) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
קופלנס, ג'ון ........ [IMJ]
........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Coplans, John ........ [GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50018005
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 207399
............................  Whitney Biennial Exhibition (2000) 233
............................  Witt Computer Index database
............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Coplans, John Rivers ........ [BHA Preferred]
.........................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
John Coplans ........ [GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCI, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Art Newspaper [online] (2002-) accessed 2 Sep 2003
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50018005
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  International Directory of Exhibiting Artists (1982-) 1983
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n50018005
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 207399
....................  Whitney Biennial Exhibition (2000) 77; 233
....................  Who's Who in American Art (1936-)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q3181269
....................  Witt Checklist of British Artists (1991)
....................  Witt Computer Index database
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Art Newspaper [online] (2002-) accessed 2 Sep 2003
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