Oral history interview with Joan Ankrum
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 6 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 24 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 50 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Ankrum, Joan
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Ankrum Gallery
label: Names
content: Pasadena Playhouse
label: Names
content: Ankrum, Morris, d. 1964
label: Names
content: Broderson, Morris, 1928-2011
label: Names
content: Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978
label: Names
content: Hirshhorn, Joseph H.
label: Names
content: Jackson, Martha Kellogg, 1907-1969
label: Names
content: Lundeberg, Helen, 1908-1999
label: Names
content: Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-1987
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Actors -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
label: Topic
content: Deaf artists
label: Topic
content: Hearing impaired
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art 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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Ankrum, Joan
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joan Ankrum (1913-2001) was a gallery owner from Los Angeles, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 195 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997 November 5-1998 February 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ankrum97
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Joan Ankrum conducted 1997 November 5-1998 February 4, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Pasadena, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Ankrum discusses her status as a role model for women due to her independence in leaving a difficult marriage and establishing a new career; her theater and film career and association with the Pasadena Playhouse; her discovery of Morris Broderson, the hearing-impaired nephew of her husband Morris Ankrum; encouraging Broderson's artistic talent and efforts to help him learn to speak and interact socially; her career as director of the Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles and the artists, collectors and dealers she became involved with, among them Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg, Joseph Hirshhorn, Martha Jackson and Jake Zeitlin.