Oral history interview with Ivan C. Karp
odd: label: General
content: Part of this interview was inadvertently recorded over by the interviewer.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012
label: Interviewer
content: Baker, Richard Brown
label: Creator
content: Kaprow, Allan
label: Names
content: Hansa Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Avedisian, Edward, 1936-2007
label: Names
content: Bellamy, Richard
label: Names
content: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
label: Names
content: Follett, Jean, 1917-1991
label: Names
content: Force, Miles
label: Names
content: Leslie, Alan
label: Names
content: Müller, Jan, 1922-1958
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Segal, George, 1924-2000
label: Names
content: Stankiewicz, Richard, 1922-1983
label: Names
content: Stout, Myron, 1908-1987
label: Names
content: Ting, Walasse
label: Names
content: Wilson, Jane, 1924-2015
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Artist-run galleries -- New York (State) -- New York
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: Baker, Richard Brown
label: Creator
content: Kaprow, Allan
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ivan C. Karp (1926-) is an art dealer from New York, New York. Worked at the Hansa Gallery two seasons under Richard Bellamy. Later became director of the OK Harris Gallery.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording: (1 hour, 3 min.), 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 30 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963 October 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.karp63
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
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 1963 October 18, by Richard Brown Baker, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The interview focuses on Karp's time as co-director of the Hansa Gallery from 1956 to 1958. Karp talks about the general character and co-operative structure of the gallery; its mailing list and operation practices; how it located new talent; its sales; its location; critics and collectors who visited the gallery; coverage of the gallery in the art and general press; the make-up of its membership and his co-director Richard Bellamy. He discusses artists who were affiliated with the gallery: Richard Stankiewicz; Jane Wilson; Jan Müller; George Segal; Jean Follett; Myron Stout; Lilly Brody: Allan Kaprow; Miles Force; and Fay Lansner. He also mentions unaffiliated artists who exhibited in group shows at Hansa: Alfred Lesie, Robert Richenburg, Walasse Ting and the New Sculpture Group. Collectors mentioned are Horace Richter, Charles Carpenter, and Liz Parkinson [ph].