Series I.B. Galleries and museums, 1957-2005
3 Linear
Feet
(5 boxes)
Series I.B. contains photographs, exhibition invitations, posters and correspondence
from galleries and museums focusing on the Los Angeles art scene. The majority of this
section contains Ferus Gallery and Semina Gallery material. See also artist files in
Subseries I.A. for more information on specific artists who exhibited at these
galleries.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by name of gallery or museum.
box
folder
34
1
The Alan Gallery, 1959 May 12
34
2
Barnsdall Art Park, circa 1958
Poetry reading announcement at the Frank Lloyd Wright Gallery.
box
93-95, 129
Craig Krull Gallery, 1996-2001
box
folder
93
1-4
Papers, 1996-2001
box
94-95, 129
Photographs, 1999
Contains photographs of Edward Teske, George Herms and Suzi Hicks at exhibition
opening.
94-95, 129
Black-and-white prints
box
94
Prints and contact sheets
box
folder
129
1
11 x 14 inch contact sheets
box
95
Negatives
95
Color prints and negatives
box
28, 34, 71*
Ferus Gallery, between 1957-1966
For more files on individual artists who exhibited at the Ferus Gallery, see also
Series I.A.
box
folder
34
3-4
Announcements, between 1957-1966
Includes a framed invitation to Wallace Berman's first exhibition. See also
Robert Alexander's Press Baza file for a second copy of Sonia Gechtoff's
invitation.
box
28, 34
Photographs, circa 1957
Contains photographs of art at the Ferus Gallery; Wallace Berman's exhibition;
Bob Alexander, Wallace Berman, John Reed, Walter Hopps, and Juanita Dixon at the
Ferus alley. For more images of Berman's exhibition at the Ferus Gallery and his
related arrest and trial, see Wallace Berman's photographic files.
box
folder
34
5
Prints, contact sheets, circa 1957
Also includes contact sheets of Wallace Berman in abandoned building in
Venice.
box
folder
28
4
Negatives, 1957
box
folder
71*
10
Posters and broadsides, 1959-1964
Advertising exhibitions for Josef Albers, John Altoon, Larry Bell, Billy Al
Bengston, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Roy Lichtenstein, John Mason and Andy
Warhol.
box
folder
34
6
Focus Gallery, 1975
box
93, 95
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, 1983-1994, undated
box
folder
93
6-8
Papers, 1983-1994
box
93, 95
Photographs, undated
box
folder
93
5
Contact sheet
box
95
Negatives
box
34, 93, 95
LACMA, circa 1966-1968, 1981, 2001
box
folder
34
7
Papers, circa 1966-1968, 1981
box
93, 95
Photographs added later, 2001
Brittin materials integrated into the archive in 2012.
box
folder
93
9
Print and contact sheet
box
95
Negatives
box
folder
34
8
L.A. Louver, 1992
Invitation to Poem Makers featuring Wallace Berman's
Semina.
box
93, 95
M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1976-1977, 1996
93, 95
Black-and-white prints, 1996
box
folder
93
10
Prints and contact sheets
box
95
Negatives
95
Color slides, 1976-1977
box
folder
34
9
The National Portrait Gallery, 1996
box
28, 34
Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1976 February-October
The Last Time I Saw Ferus 1957-1966 exhibition,
1976.
box
folder
34
10
Correspondence, 1976 February 23
box
28, 34
Photographs, 1976 October 16
box
folder
34
11
Prints, contact sheets
box
folder
28
5
Negatives
box
folder
93
11
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2005
box
28, 34, 72*
Semina Gallery, 1957-1961
box
folder
34
12
Papers, 1957-1961
34
13
Semina, No.1 (incomplete
copy), 1957
Includes only 8 contributions.
box
28, 34, 72*
Photographs, between 1957-1960
Images of Brittin's first exhibition and the Berman's home in Larkspur,
California. Contains photographs of Wallace and Shirley Berman, Suzi Hicks and
Donald Morand.
box
folder
34
14
Prints, contact sheets, 1960
box
folder
28
6
Negatives, 1960
box
folder
72*
6-7
16 x 20 inch prints, between 1957-1960
Includes a photograph of Cameron's contribution to Semina, No.1.
72*
5
Maquette, 1957
Mock-up of Jean Cocteau, Alexander Trocchi and Dion Vigne's contributions to
Semina, No.2.
