Leonard Kaplan papers
name: label: Creator
content: Kaplan, Leonard, 1922-2008
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California
label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- California
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1999 by Leonard Kaplan. Included in the donation are 55 items previously lent for microfilming in 1965 (reel LA 9). Additional papers (a scrapbook) is expected.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kaplan, Leonard, 1922-2008
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art dealer and painter; California. Leonard Kaplan was born in 1922 New York City and studied on scholarship at the Art Students League with Reginald Marsh and William Palmer. He painted murals for the WPA, working with Dean Fausett, and for commercial buildings in Milwaukee, WI, St. Louis MO, and Los Angeles, CA. Moving to Laguna Beach, CA, in 1945, he continued to paint, but then ventured into whalebone sculptures and opened the Ancient Arts Gallery that specialized in everything from pre-Columbian art to art nouveau. He closed the gallery in 1979, due to a chronic back ailment that resulted from injuries sustained while whaling. Since closing the gallery, Kaplan has continued to create and exhibit his paintings, drawings, prints, and collages.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 55 Items (Reel LA 9)
label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Unmicrofilmed)
label: Extent
content: 55 Items (Reel LA 9)
label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Unmicrofilmed)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1982
label: Date
content: 1939-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kaplleon
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel LA 9 available at Archives of American Art offices through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel LA 9: Photographs of Kaplan and his work, mostly undated and unidentified, plus a few clippings, biographical data, gallery catalogs and articles about him.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Two scrapbooks with photographs of Kaplan's works, biographical material, letters from patrons, newspaper, and magazine articles, exhibition catalogs and announcements, and slides of works. The majority of the photographs are undated and unidentified.