Virginia Dwan
Virginia Dwan (October 18, 1931 – September 5, 2022)
Early life and education
Virginia Dwan, heiress to the
In 1950, Dwan married psychology graduate student Peter Fischer, and one month after her 19th birthday, she gave birth to her daughter, Candace.[3] She married UCLA medical student Philippe Vadim Kondratief in 1958.[3]
Career
Dwan leased a tiny storefront in a Spanish Mission-style building at 1091 Broxton Avenue in the
Dwan found a bigger space in 1962, hiring art dealer John Weber, who brought in a few of his own artists and organized some shows.
In 1965, Dwan moved to
Dwan then began to focus on
Legacy
In 1965, the Virginia Dwan Collection, featuring artists like Willem de Kooning (Untitled, 1961), Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Lee Bontecou, was exhibited at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dwan later gave many artworks to various museums in the United States. Already in 1969, she presented the
Other works were given to other museums, including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago;[18] the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and the Des Moines Art Center. In 2013, Dwan gave A Nonsite, Pine Barrens, New Jersey (1968) by Robert Smithson, an indoor work containing substances from an outdoor site elsewhere;[19] and Glass Stratum (1967) by Timothy McCormack, made up of 37 sheets of half-inch-thick glass layered atop one another, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[20][15]
- Collection pledged to National Gallery
Dwan's private collection was pledged as a promised gift to the
- Archives
The Dwan Gallery Archives are held at the
References
- ^ a b c Virginia Dwan, Behind-the-Scenes Force in the Art World, Dies at 90 (subscription required)
- ^ New York Times.
- ^ a b c Catherine Wagley (September 17, 2022), Virginia Dwan, influential L.A. gallerist and risk-taking arts patron, dies Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Dawson (2007), 38
- ^ a b Scott Timberg (January 1, 2012), Galleries fostered the L.A. art scene Los Angeles Times.
- ^ a b Dawson (2007), 43
- ^ Dawson, Jessica. "Whatever Happened to Virginia Dwan?" X-TRA Contemporary Arts Quarterly. Accessed 6 September 2014
- ^ Dwan Gallery (1962–67) Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center.
- ^ "KATE GUADAGNINO, Virginia Dwan, Glamorous Art Dealer of the '60s, Gets an Exhibition at the National Gallery, Vogue Magazine, SEPTEMBER 29, 2016". 29 September 2016.
- ^ "star axis: the naked eye observatory of charles ross". designboom. 9 February 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ Wagley, Catherine. "Virginia Dwan, influential L.A. gallerist and risk-taking arts patron, dies," Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2022. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
- ^ a b Kennicott, Philip (1 October 2016). "A gallery owner talked herself out of the business and into the desert". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena.
- New York Times.
- ^ New York Times.
- ^ Rizzo, Angie. "Holy Architecture for Earthly Devotion," Hyperallergic, January 28, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Eddy, Jordan. "Field Report: Las Vegas, NM," Southwest Contemporary, August 28, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Sol LeWitt, Five Silkscreen Prints (1970) Art Institute of Chicago.
- ^ "A Nonsite - Pine Barren's New Jersey' by Robert Smithson
- ^ National Gallery of Art: "Glass Stratum", by Timothy McCormack, conceived 1967 & refabricated 2014.
- ^ a b c The Washington Post.com: "National Gallery of Art to get 250 works from Virginia Dwan Collection", by Katherine Boyle September 26, 2013.
- ^ a b The New York Times.com: "Virginia Dwan's Big Gift to the National Gallery", by Carol Vogel, 26 September 2013.
- ^ NGA.gov Virginia Dwan Collection
- ^ National Gallery of Art: "Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971" — exhibit at National Gallery (2016−2017) + LACMA (2017) .
Sources
- Dawson, Jessica (2007). "Virginia Dwan Los Angeles". Archives of American Art Journal 46 (3/4).
External links
- National Gallery of Art: Virginia Dwan Collection
- Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art: Dwan Gallery (Los Angeles, California + New York, New York) Archives — homepage for collection's digitized records.
- Smithsonian Institution: Oral history interview with Virginia Dwan (1984)
- Leftmatrix.com: Dwan Gallery
- Dwan Gallery publications and ephemera, 1960-1971, finding aid, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession No. 2012.M.37. The Collection consists of exhibition announcements, posters and exhibition catalogs documenting the exhibitions held at Virginia Dwan's influential galleries in Los Angeles and New York.