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Creator:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery  Search this

Subject:

Acerol, Ali  Search this

Ackerman, Robert E.  Search this

Beach, Alicia  Search this

Bengston, Billy Al  Search this

Boskovich, John  Search this

Cranston, Meg  Search this

Dowell, Roy  Search this

Gambrill, Jeff  Search this

Kabakov, Ilʹia︠ ︡Iosifovich  Search this

Kidon, Heidi  Search this

Jackson, Richard  Search this

Lodato, Peter  Search this

McCarthy, Paul  Search this

Oshiro, Kaz  Search this

Pittman, Lari  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert  Search this

Rothenberg, Erika  Search this

Ruppersberg, Allen  Search this

Shaw, Jim  Search this

Smith, Alexis  Search this

Sonnier, Keith  Search this

Syrop, Mitchell  Search this

Vallance, Jeffrey  Search this

Weber, Marnie  Search this

Kelley, Mike  Search this

Burden, Chris  Search this

Jiménez, Cisco  Search this

Felsen, Rosamund  Search this

Type:

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery records, 1949-2014, bulk 1978-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women art dealers  Search this

Theme:

Art Market  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)16203

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)368159

AAA_collcode_rosafelg

Theme:

Art Market

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_368159

Creator:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery  Search this

Names:

Acerol, Ali  Search this

Ackerman, Robert E.  Search this

Beach, Alicia  Search this

Bengston, Billy Al  Search this

Boskovich, John  Search this

Burden, Chris, 1946-  Search this

Cranston, Meg  Search this

Dowell, Roy  Search this

Felsen, Rosamund, 1934-  Search this

Gambrill, Jeff  Search this

Jackson, Richard  Search this

Jiménez, Cisco, 1969-  Search this

Kabakov, Ilʹia︠ ︡Iosifovich, 1933-  Search this

Kelley, Mike, 1954-2012  Search this

Kidon, Heidi  Search this

Lodato, Peter  Search this

McCarthy, Paul  Search this

Oshiro, Kaz, 1967-  Search this

Pittman, Lari, 1952-  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008  Search this

Rothenberg, Erika  Search this

Ruppersberg, Allen, 1944-  Search this

Shaw, Jim, 1952-  Search this

Smith, Alexis, 1949-  Search this

Sonnier, Keith, 1941-2020  Search this

Syrop, Mitchell, 1953-  Search this

Vallance, Jeffrey  Search this

Weber, Marnie  Search this

Extent:

28.9 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Scrapbooks

Date:

1949-2014

bulk 1978-2014

Summary:

The Rosamund Felsen Gallery records measure 28.9 linear feet and date from 1949 to 2014, with the bulk of the records dating from 1978 to 2014. The records shed light on the gallery's operations primarily through administrative records, artist files, exhibition and event files, financial records, born digital material, photographs, and slides.

Scope and Contents:

The Rosamund Felsen Gallery records measure 28.9 linear feet and date from 1949 to 2014, with the bulk of the records dating from 1978 to 2014. The records shed light on the gallery's operations primarily through administrative records, artist files, exhibition and event files, financial records, born digital material, photographs, and slides.

Administrative records consist of advertising files, property records, a gallery notebook, gallery digital files, and more. Also included in this series are several folders comprised of Rosamund Felsen's personal and professional papers and photographs. Artist files consist of resumes, slides and photographs of artists and their work, printed mnaterial, some sales and consignment records, and correspondence. Artists represented in the collection include Richard Jackson, Kaz Oshiro, Tim Ebner, John Boskovich, Jeff Gambill, Jeffrey Vallance, Mitchell Syrop, Mac James, Marnie Weber, Keith Sklar, Leland Rice, Erika Rothenberg, Peter Lodato, Paul McCarthy, Jim Shaw, Al Ruppersberg, Ilya Kabakov, Lari Pittman, Cisco Jiménez, Chris Burden, Mike Kelley, and Heidi Kidon.

Exhibition and event files relate to Rosamund Felsen Gallery exhibitions and performances as well as a number of art fairs and exhibitions held at other galleries and museum spaces. The files contain consignment and sales records, check lists, born digital material, photographs and slides, installation directions, printed material, and more. Financial records contain primarily sales records, invoices, some correspondence, and receipts.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as four series.

Series 1: Administrative Records, 1968-2013 (2 linear feet; Box 1-2, OV 30-33)

Series 2: Artist Files, 1949-2013, bulk 1978-2006 (19.7 linear feet; Box 22-25, OV 34)

Series 3: Exhibition and Event Files, 1979-2014 (3.7 linear feet; Box 22-25, OV 34-36)

Series 4: Financial Records, 1978-2014 (3.5 linear feet; Box 25-29)

Biographical / Historical:

The Rosamund Felsen Gallery was established in 1978 in Los Angeles, California by Rosamund Felsen. The gallery closed its physical location in 2016 after nearly four decades as a widely influential contemporary art gallery.

In 1960, Rosamund Felsen began her art career working as an assistant registrar for the Pasadena Art Museum, and eventually became curator of prints. Felsen also worked at Gemini GEL: Graphics Editions Limited alongside her second husband, Gemini co-founder Sidney Felsen. From these positions, Felsen became friendly with both established and younger artists, learned to mount exhibitions, and participated in art-related operations. In 1977, Timothea Stewart asked Felsen if she would like to work at her new gallery. After two exhibitions, Felsen took over the Timothea Stewart Gallery and started her own.

Rosamund Felsen gallery exhibited artists working in various mediums, including video and sound, and frequently showed live performance art. Early artists exhibited at the gallery included Richard Jackson, Keith Sonnier, Maria Nordman, Chris Burden, and William Wegman. Felsen gallery opened Robert Rauschenberg's In + Out City Limits: Los Angeles (1981) on New Year's Eve; and added artists Jeffrey Vallance, Mike Kelley, Lari Pittman, and Erika Rothenberg to its roster by the end of the 1980s. Felsen brought on a list of new artists in the 1990s, including Paul McCarthy, Renee Petropoulos, Tim Ebner, Meg Cranston, Steven Hull, and Nancy Jackson. The gallery continued to show solo and group exhibitions of its artists, and featured a run of smaller artist-curated exhibitions of local and international artists. The Project Wall exhibitions included artist/curators Andrea Bowers and Steven Hull and showed European artists Erwin Wurm and Nils Norman. By 2004, Felsen's artists were all living in Los Angeles except for two, video artists Judith Barry and Joan Jonas.

In 1990, the gallery moved from Los Angeles to West Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard. Four years later, Felsen Gallery moved to a location in the Bergamot Station Arts Center, where it remained until 2015. After Bergamot, the gallery moved to the Arts District in Los Angeles. Rosamund Felsen Gallery closed its physical location in 2016, but continued representing a number of artists online.

Related Materials:

Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Rosamund Felsen conducted by Anne Ayres, October 11, 2004.

Provenance:

The collection was donated in several installments from 2014 to 2016 by the Rosamund Felsen Gallery via Rosamund Felsen, gallery founder and owner. Rosamund Felsen Letters and Postcards were donated in 2016 by Rosamund Felsen.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Topic:

Women art dealers  Search this

Function:

Art galleries, Commercial -- California

Genre/Form:

Scrapbooks

Citation:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery records, 1949-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.rosafelg

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Rosamund Felsen Gallery records

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92ff1b56f-55a6-4621-b016-276e1c4783a7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-rosafelg

Collection Creator:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery  Search this

Container:

Box 2, Folder 20

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

2000-2003

Collection Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery records, 1949-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.

See more items in:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery records

Rosamund Felsen Gallery records / Series 2: Artist Files

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95b986012-b59a-4c13-9d91-394da0d99a71

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-rosafelg-ref93

Collection Creator:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery  Search this

Container:

Box 3, Folder 1

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

2000-2003

Collection Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery records, 1949-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.

See more items in:

Rosamund Felsen Gallery records

Rosamund Felsen Gallery records / Series 2: Artist Files

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9093aca17-bb52-43f8-992f-d7405aee9c30

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-rosafelg-ref94

Author:

Lowe, Constance  Search this

Beach, Alicia  Search this

Colpitt, Frances  Search this

Marshall Gallery of Contemporary Art  Search this

Subject:

Lowe, Constance  Search this

Beach, Alicia  Search this

Physical description:

36 p. : col. ill. ; 16 x 24 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Place:

United States

Date:

2004

Topic:

Colored pencil drawing  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_743985