Henry Hopkins (curator)

Henry Hopkins (14 August 1928 - 27 September 2009) studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, but is best known as a curator, teacher, and museum director. He became director of the Fort Worth Art Center Museum (1968–1973). In 1974 he moved to San Francisco where he took over the directorship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1974–1986).

In 1991 he was made Chair of the Art department of the University of California, Los Angeles. He was instrumental in the negotiations that gave UCLA management responsibility over the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and was the museum's director from 1994 until 1998 when he retired to return to teaching in UCLA's art department. In 1991 Hopkins began painting again, and has had several exhibitions of his work.^[1]

External links

• Henry Hopkins papers, 1950-2005. Getty Research Institute, Research Library. Los Angeles, California. Henry Hopkins's papers include manuscripts of his writings, his lectures, and his research files, correspondence with artists, including Clyfford Still, and a copies oral histories conducted with Hopkins by the University of California, Los Angeles, 1980, and the Archives of American Art. Files document his time as Director of the Fort Worth Art Center Museum (1968–1973) and the controversy that precipitated his departure, and Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1974–1986). Also included are papers relating to his teaching at UCLA (1991-) and his chairmanship of the Art Department. Some files relate to the negotiations that resulted in the Armand Hammer Museum of Art being transferred to UCLA (1994), and his directorship of the Hammer, until 1998. Some papers document events at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The papers contain materials about the exhibition "Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," and posters and printed ephemera for other exhibitions, including posters for "War Babies," and "L.A. When it Began." Audio and video recordings contain interviews with prominent American artists and Los Angeles art collectors. Also included in the papers are personal files that pertain to Hopkins's study at the Art Institute of Chicago, and his military service.^[2]
• Union List of Artist Names, Getty Vocabularies. ULAN Full Record Display for Henry Hopkins, Getty Vocabulary Program. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California.

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