Oral history interview with Betty M. Asher
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav file. Duration is 3 hr., 30 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Asher, Betty
label: Interviewer
content: Garver, Thomas H.
label: Names
content: Asher & Faure
label: Names
content: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
label: Names
content: Blum, Irving, 1930-
label: Names
content: Landau, Felix (1924-2003)
label: Names
content: Robles, Esther, 1907-2001
label: Names
content: Tuchman, Maurice
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Collectors -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Asher, Betty
label: Interviewer
content: Garver, Thomas H.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Betty M. Asher (1914-1994) was an art collector and art dealer of Beverly Hills, California.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- California
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 59 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980 June 30 and 1980 July 7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.asher80
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
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Betty M. Asher conducted 1980 June 30 and 1980 July 7, by Thomas H. Garver, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Asher speaks of her family; education; her marriage to Dr. Leonard Asher; buying her first prints and painting from the Associated American Artists Gallery; and early purchases at the Little, Bowinkle, and Green Galleries in Los Angeles. She discusses her interest in abstract expressionism; buying art in Mexico and New York; dealers including Irving Blum, Virginia Dwan, Paul Kantor, Felix Landau, Ernest Raboff, Esther Robles, and Ileana Sonnabend; activities and members of the Modern and Contemporary Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; her work for Maurice Tuchman; Walter Hopps and the Pasadena Art Museum; and exhibitions and funding of the Asher/Faure Gallery.