Josine Ianco-Starrels papers, 1930-2017
Social Media Share Tools
Object Details
- Creator
- Ianco-Starrels, Josine, 1926-2019
- Subject
- Kline, Herbert
- Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- United States
- Physical Description
- 11 Linear feet
- Access Note / Rights
- Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
- Summary
- The papers of curator and gallery director, Josine Ianco- Starrels, measure 11.0 linear feet and date from 1930-2017. Included are biographical material; files relating to Ianco-Starrels' work at various museum and galleries; correspondence; writings about exhibitions and autobiographical writings; photographs, negatives and slides of Ianco- Starrels, others and works of art; audio visual material including video and sound recordings of conversations, events and a documentary on Marcel Janco; and scattered artwork by others including a poster made by George Herms and drawings by Raymond Saunders. Also included are the papers of Ianco-Starrels' husband, Herbert Kline, who was a filmmaker. Included in his papers are some of the items from his making of the film, Posing as an American Nazi, which was filmed in Spain.
- Citation
- Josine Ianco-Starrels papers, 1930-2017. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Biography Note
- Josine Ianco-Starrels (1926-2019) was a curator and gallery administrator in Los Angeles, California. Born 1926 in Bucharest, Romania. Josine Ianco-Starrels was curator of the Lytton Center of the Visual Arts (1961-1969), Associate Professor, Art Gallery Division at California State University, Los Angeles (1969-1975), Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park (1975-1984), and Senior Curator at the Long Beach Art Museum (1987-1990). Ianco-Starrels died at the age of 92 at her home in Rogue City, Oregon.
- Language Note
- English .
- Provenance
- Donated 2000 by Josine Ianco-Starrels and in 2019 by Elissa Kline, Ianco-Starrels' daughter.
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA_CollID)6309
- (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)223509
- AAA_collcode_iancjosi
- Theme
- Research and writing about art
- Archives of American Art
- Theme
- Research and writing about art
- Record ID
- AAADCD_coll_223509
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply