Artist Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Koplin Del Rio Gallery
label: Collection Creator
content: Koplin Gallery (Santa Monica, Calif.)
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content: Koplin Gallery and Koplin Del Rio Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973-2006
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kopldelr, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Artist files are arranged alphabetically by artist and record type thereafter.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Series has been digitized in entirety, with the exception of duplicates, blank versos of photographs, and some printed material and publications for which only the covers and/or relevant pages may have been digitized. Some artist printed material not related to Koplin Gallery has been selectively digitized.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artist files further document the gallery's exhibition history and include press releases, price lists, resumes and artist statements, announcement cards, catalogs, press coverage, and scattered photographs and slides of exhibition installations for many of the solo exhibitions held at the gallery. Additionally, artist files include photographs and slides of artwork and press coverage extending well beyond the gallery to provide more extensive documentation of the careers and exhibition histories of many of the individual artists.

There is substantial documentation for Joan Brown, whose work was showcased in six exhibitions at the gallery, including the inaugural 1982 exhibition, and substantial correspondence and exhibition records for James Doolin, French photographer Gisele Freund, Mineko Grimmer, David Ligare, Kerry James Marshall, and others. Correspondence typically documents the gallery's interest in an artist's work, exhibition logistics, loans, and the facilitation of commissions for artists such as Mineko Grimmer and John Nava, and offers insight into the career ebbs and flows of many of the artists represented.

Files labeled "correspondence and exhibitions" typically contain general correspondence with the artists and correspondence related to exhibitions of their work at the gallery, as well as gallery press releases, price lists, artist statements, announcements, press reviews, and photographs and slides of exhibitions. Press coverage of exhibitions at other galleries and museums are generally arranged separately as indicated in the container listing.

Scattered sound and video recordings include news items about some of the gallery's exhibitions including shows for Ida Applebroog, Robbie Conal, and Sarah Perry; interviews with Robbie Conal, Lezley Saar, and Ken Twitchell; and recordings of artists including Ida Applebroog, Joan Brown, Peter Dean, and Gisele Freund talking about their work. Also found are video recordings about various installations by Mineko Grimmer and related performances, and a work by Robbie Conal.