Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Josine Ianco-Starrels, 1989 June 15. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
University of California, Los Angeles. Chicano Studies Center Search this
Type:
Printed Materials
Date:
1975 Sept. 14
Citation:
Chicanarte: statewide exposicion of Chicano art, 1975 Sept. 14. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material on Chicano art, 1965-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project Search this
Extent:
2 Sound cassettes (Sound recordings (ca. 3 hrs.))
93 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sound cassettes
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Date:
1989 June 15
Scope and Contents:
An interview of Josine Ianco-Starrels conducted 1989 June 15, by Ruth Gurin Bowman for the Archives of American Art, Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project. Ianco-Starrels recounts her youth in Bucharest, Romania; WWII and her family's fleeing to Palestine; her father Marcel Ianco's affiliation with the Dadaists in Zurich; her first marriage that brought her to New York in 1950; studying at the Art Students League; her second marriage to Herbert Kline, a documentary filmmaker; her involvement with the Lytton Center of the Visual Arts and the beginning of her curatorial career; working at California State University, Los Angeles as gallery director; her teaching career; her interest in Los Angeles artists including Jack Zajack, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Felix Landau, Joyce Treiman, Betty Saar, Joan Brown, and others; curating and programs at the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park and later at the Long Beach Museum; her views on community and access to local galleries; and her relationship with artists and the art community.
Biographical / Historical:
osine Ianco-Starrels (1926-2019) was a curator and gallery administrator in Los Angeles, California. Born 1926 in Bucharest, Romania. Josine Ianco-Starrels was curator of the Lytton Center of the Visual Arts (1961-1969), Associate Professor, Art Gallery Division at California State University, Los Angeles (1969-1975), Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park (1975-1984), and Senior Curator at the Long Beach Art Museum (1987-1990). Ianco-Starrels died at the age of 92 at her home in Rogue City, Oregon.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. Funding for this interview was provided by the Margery and Harry Kahn Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund of New York.
The papers of curator and gallery director, Josine Ianco- Starrels, measure 11.0 linear feet and date from 1930-2017. Included are biographical material; files relating to Ianco-Starrels' work at various museum and galleries; correspondence; writings about exhibitions and autobiographical writings; photographs, negatives and slides of Ianco- Starrels, others and works of art; audio visual material including video and sound recordings of conversations, events and a documentary on Marcel Janco; and scattered artwork by others including a poster made by George Herms and drawings by Raymond Saunders. Also included are the papers of Ianco-Starrels' husband, Herbert Kline, who was a filmmaker. Included in his papers are some of the items from his making of the film, Posing as an American Nazi, which was filmed in Spain.
Biographical / Historical:
Josine Ianco-Starrels (1926-2019) was a curator and gallery administrator in Los Angeles, California. Born 1926 in Bucharest, Romania. Josine Ianco-Starrels was curator of the Lytton Center of the Visual Arts (1961-1969), Associate Professor, Art Gallery Division at California State University, Los Angeles (1969-1975), Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park (1975-1984), and Senior Curator at the Long Beach Art Museum (1987-1990). Ianco-Starrels died at the age of 92 at her home in Rogue City, Oregon.
Provenance:
Donated 2000 by Josine Ianco-Starrels and in 2019 by Elissa Kline, Ianco-Starrels' daughter.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Occupation:
Arts administrators -- California -- Los Angeles Search this
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Carlos Almaraz : selected works, 1970-1984 : paintings and pastel drawings, July 24 to August 26, 1984, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
Contemporary southern Californian art : 4.4-6.14.1987 / organizer: Taipei Fine Arts Museum ; coordinator: Pacific Cultural Foundation ; sponsor: China Airlines
Lorser Feitelson : a retrospective exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, August 16 through September 17, 1972 / presented by the Municipal Arts Department, Los Angeles
Pacific heritage : an exhibition co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Department and the Municipal Art Patrons / in cooperation with Henry J. Seldis
Connie Zehr : flash back, 1967-1985 : an installation of mnemonic fragments : [exhibition] January 29-February 24, 1985, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
West coast 74, Black image : 1974 invitational exhibition : [exhibition dates, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California, September 13-13 October, 1974, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California, January 22-16 February, 1975] / Crocker Art Gallery Association and E. B. Crocker Art Gallery
Guy Williams : selected works, 1976-1982 : Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, 4804 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, January 22, 1982-February 21, 1982 / with an essay by Gus Blaisdell
