Oral history interview with Tom Jancar
name: label: Interviewee
content: Jancar, Tom, 1950
label: Interviewer
content: Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter
label: Names
content: Bowers Museum
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content: Claire Copley Gallery
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content: Jancar Gallery
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content: Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt Gallery
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content: Orange Coast College -- Students
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content: University of California, Irvine -- Students
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content: Ader, Bas Jan, 1942-1975
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content: Amico, David, 1951-
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content: Askevold, David
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content: Cointet, Guy de, 1934-1983
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content: DeLap, Tony, 1927-2019
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content: Gagosian, Larry
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content: Garver, Thomas H.
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content: Glicksman, Hal
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content: Hebron, Micol
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content: Hubbard, Kim
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content: Jimmerson, Tom
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content: Kauffman, Craig, 1932-2010
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content: Kira, Hiromu, 1898-1991
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content: Kuhlenschmidt, Richard
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content: Lawler, Louise
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content: Leider, Philip, 1929-
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content: Milant, Jean, 1943-
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content: Prince, Richard, 1949-
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content: Segalove, Ilene, 1950-
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content: Sprinkle, Annie, 1954-
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content: Tippett, Phil
topic: label: Topic
content: Art dealers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews
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content: Gallery owners -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews
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content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Jancar, Tom, 1950
label: Interviewer
content: Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Tom Jancar (1950- ) a contemporary art dealer who owns Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles, California. Hunter Drohojowska-Philp is a writer in Los Angeles, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (sound files (2 hr., 30 min.) Audio, digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 58 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Recorded on Roland R-05 AZ4430.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2017 June 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jancar17
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Tom Jancar conducted June 23 2017, by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, for the Archives of American Art, at Pomona College, Art Department, Claremont, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Mr. Jancar discusses his family's origins in the Pasadena, California area; his mother's interest in painting and his early exposure to art in their home; the impact of music on his early art understanding; his first classes in art history at Orange Coast College and subsequent art degrees from UC Irvine; his interest in collecting Pictorialist photography in the Los Angeles area; his first exposures to Conceptual art at UC Irvine; his time as a teaching assistant for Bas Jan Ader at UCI; the impact of visits as a student to galleries in the L.A. area, especially the Claire Copley Gallery. Mr. Jancar also describes his work as an art preparator at the Bowers Museum; his time performing construction work with Tom Jimmerson for galleries in the L.A. area; his friendship with Richard Kuhlenschmidt and the opening of the Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt Gallery in the Los Altos Apartments building in 1980; Mr. Jancar's decision to leave the gallery business in 1982 and to devote his time to working in corporate architecture; his return to the gallery world in 2006 and the opening of the Thomas Jancar Gallery; his focus on women artists and emphasis on showing the work of emerging artists alongside more established artists; his decision to leave the gallery world once again in 2015, and the closing of his gallery. Mr. Jancar also recalls Hal Glicksman, Tom Jimmerson, Craig Kauffman, Tom Garver, Phil Tippett, Tony DeLap, Ilene Segalove, Hiromu Kira, Guy de Cointet, as well as Kim Hubbard, David Amico, Phil Leider, Larry Gagosian, Louise Lawler, Jean Milant, Micol Hebron, Richard Prince, Annie Sprinkle, and David Askevold, among others.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds the Jancar Gallery records.