Henry Hopkins

Henry Hopkins, born 1928, studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, but is best known as a curator, teacher, and museum director. He became director of the Fort Worth Art Center Museum (1968-1973). In 1974 he moved to San Francisco where he took over the directorship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1974-1986).

In 1991 he was made Chair of the Art department of the University of California, Los Angeles. He was instrumental in the negotiations that gave UCLA management responsibility over the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and was the museum's director from 1994 until 1998 when he retired to return to teaching in UCLA's art department. In 1991 Hopkins began painting again, and has had several exhibitions of his work. [http://archives.getty.edu:8082/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=utf8a;c=utf8a;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=US%3A%3ACMalG%3A%3A2006.M.1;focusrgn=bioghist;byte=20365124.]

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* [http://library.getty.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=681276 Henry Hopkins papers, 1950-2005. Getty Research Institute, Research Library. Los Angeles, California.] The collection includes manuscripts of writings; research files; announcements; correspondence with artists; audio and videotaped interviews of prominent 20th-century American artists and Los Angeles art collectors; a copy of the oral history of Henry Hopkins conducted by U.C.L.A in two bound volumes; and binder containing notes and sheets of slides documenting the exhibition "Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997". Also included are three signed "War Babies" posters, one "L.A. When it Began" poster, one "Small Renaissance: Southern California Style" pamphlet, one typescript entitled "The Cultural Flowering of Los Angeles in the 30’s and 40’s", plus other miscellaneous papers and printed ephemera. [http://library.getty.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=681276]

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