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PRELIMINARY INVENTORY FOR THE JAN BAUM GALLERY RECORDS, 1967-2007
2008.M.61
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Title: Jan Baum Gallery records
Date (inclusive): 1967-2007
Number: 2008.M.61
Creator/Collector:
Jan Baum Gallery
Physical Description:
30.0 linear feet
(84 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
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.
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Language: Collection material is in
English.
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.
Open for use by qualified researchers, except unreformatted audiovisual materials.
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Jan Baum Gallery records, 1967-2007, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2008.M.61
Gift of Jan Baum Gallery in 2008.
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.
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.
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.
Organized in three series.
Series I. Artist files, 1967-2007;
Series II. Group exhibitions, 1994-2007;
Series III. Administrative files, 1984-2007.
Baum, Jan, 1930-
Burden, Chris, 1946-
Feldman, Bella, 1930-
Glass, Sylvia
Jacobi, Kathryn
Montes, Roberto Gil de
Morphesis, Jim, 1948-
Plagens, Peter
Saar, Alison
Saar, Betye
Saar, Lezley, 1953-
Waterston, Darren, 1965-
Yamaguchi, Takako
Jan Baum Gallery
Jan Baum-Iris Silverman Gallery
Art museums--California--Los Angeles
Art, African--Collectors and collecting--United States
Art, African--Exhibitions
Art, Modern--20th century
Art, Modern--Exhibitions
Art--Collectors and collecting--United States
Art--Exhibitions
Artists--California
CD-ROMs
Correspondence--20th century
Photographic prints--20th century
Photographs, Original
Sound recordings--20th century
Video recordings--20th century
Baum, Jan, 1930-
Jan Baum-Iris Silverman Gallery
Saar, Alison
Saar, Betye
Saar, Lezley, 1953-
Silverman, Iris