Oral history interview with Rhona Hoffman
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hoffman, Rhona, 1934-
label: Interviewer
content: Silverman, Lanny
label: Names
content: Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource
topic: label: Topic
content: Art dealers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews
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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: Hoffman, Rhona, 1934-
label: Interviewer
content: Silverman, Lanny
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Rhona Hoffman (1934- ) is a art dealer in Chicago, Illinois.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewer Lanny Silverman (1947-2025) is a curator at the Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois.
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content: 3 Items (sound files (2 hrs., 50 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 112 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2015 June 18-22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.hoffmar15
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Rhona Hoffman, conducted 2015 June 18-22, by Lanny Silverman, for the Archives of American Art's Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project, at Hoffman's home in Chicago, Illinois.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hoffman speaks of growing up in New York City; training as an artist; opening and running the store at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA); the role of the MCA and its opening; marrying, working with, and divorcing Donald Young; opening the Young Hoffman Gallery; changes in the Chicago art gallery scene; her relationships with artists and collectors; feminist art and artists; Chicago arts writers; the relationship between international art fairs and changes in the art market; Hoffman's opinions on contemporary political art; art and irony; and public art. Hoffman also recalls Sol LeWitt, Vito Acconci Michael Rakowitz, Jenny Holzer, Natalie Frank, Helyn Goldenberg, Grace Hokin, Donald Young, Marianne Deson, Kehinde Wiley, Raymond Pettibon, Ian Wilson, and others.