Anneberg Gallery, 1966-1981, and craft and folk art in the San Francisco Bay Area
By: Margery Anneberg ; with introductions by Jack Lenor Larsen and June Schwarcz. Interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1995. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Riess, Suzanne B.; Larsen, Jack Lenor.; Schwarcz, June.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1998
Subjects: Anneberg Gallery.; Folk art.; Handicraft.; Art museums -- California -- San Francisco.; Arts -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century.; Museum curators -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: California craft artists oral history series.
Description: Seattle background and family; studying jewelry-making, New York City, 1945; Far Eastern studies, University of Washington, 1946-1957; move to Berkeley and UC Berkeley library job; contact with northern California designer craftsmen; establishing home, studio, and gallery on Hyde Street, San Francisco, 1964; discussion of Anneberg Gallery exhibitions, 1966-1981: impact of Coptic textiles, announcements and installations, curatorial scholarship, critical reviews and publicity, mixing contemporary craft and folk arts, sources and collectors, gallery economics, issue of authentication; American Craft Council, other San Francisco galleries, museums; closing Anneberg Gallery and instituting the Center for Folk Art and Contemporary Crafts; role in beginning of San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1983-1986: board and advisory group, curatorial work, A Report, exhibitions, catalogues.