Oral history interview with Richard Bellamy
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 34 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bellamy, Richard
label: Interviewer
content: Baker, Richard Brown
label: Names
content: Hansa Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Forst, Miles, 1923-
label: Names
content: Gruen, John
label: Names
content: Hess, Thomas B.
label: Names
content: Müller, Jan, 1922-1958
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content: Stankiewicz, Richard, 1922-1983
label: Names
content: Stout, Myron, 1908-1987
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Cooperative societies -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art's 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: Bellamy, Richard
label: Interviewer
content: Baker, Richard Brown
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Richard Bellamy (1927-1998) was an art dealer from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bellam63
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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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 Richard Bellamy, concerning the Hansa Gallery, conducted 1963, by Richard Brown Baker, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bellamy speaks of the Hansa Gallery's original organization by a group of Hans Hofmann's students; Hansa's location, purpose and program; and the definition of a cooperative gallery. Bellamy reminisces about his early life in Cincinnati, the influence of the Provincetown exhibition in 1949, becoming manager and director of Hansa Gallery and the gallery's move uptown. He discusses financial arrangements with artists, guest exhibitions, collectors, the gallery's location and its disadvantages in regard to visitors and critics, an Allan Kaprow exhibition, and the inclusion of Hansa artists in the Whitney Museum of American Art's annuals and other exhibitions.
label: Scope and Contents
content: He comments on Hansa's reputation, ART NEWS notices, comparisons of the Hansa and Green galleries, the weaknesses of a cooperative gallery, the search for new artists, financial problems, reasons for closing the gallery, galleries where original Hansa artists now exhibit and the gallery's importance in the art life of the times. He recalls John Gruen, Richard Stankiewicz, Miles Forst, Jan Muller, Myron Stout, and Thomas Hess.