Oral history interview with Ivan C. Karp
name: label: Interviewee
content: Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Club (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Hansa Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: O.K. Harris Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Richard Green Gallery  (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Artschwager, Richard, 1923-2013
label: Names
content: Bellamy, Richard
label: Names
content: Castelli, Leo
label: Names
content: Johns, Jasper, 1930-
label: Names
content: Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Rosenquist, James, 1933-
label: Names
content: Scull, Robert C.
label: Names
content: Sonnabend, Ileana
label: Names
content: Twombly, Cy, 1928-
label: Names
content: Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Gallery directors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Optical art
label: Topic
content: Pop art
label: Topic
content: Soft sculpture -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ivan C. Karp (1926- ) is an art dealer and director of the OK Harris Gallery in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings: (2 hours 30 min.), 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 78 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969 March 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.karp69
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ivan C. Karp conducted 1969 March 12, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art at the Leo Castelli Gallery.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Karp discusses the invention of the names "OK Harris" and "Green Gallery"; his work for Leo Castelli including gallery exhibitions, expenses, collectors, critics and staff; the work of Richard Artschwager, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Cy Twombly, Gerry Vanderweil, Andy Warhol, and others; The Club; "soft art"; and the art market. He recalls Richard Bellamy, Ileana Sonnabend, Robert C. Scull, and others. Karp speaks of growing up in the boroughs of New York City, his reading and writing interests, commercial film making, his work for the Hansa Gallery and Martha Jackson, summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the art scene in New York City in the late 1950s.