Hopps, Walter

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Name (Latin)
Hopps, Walter
Date of birth
1932-05-03
Date of death
2005-03-20
Gender
male
MARC
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Other Identifiers
VIAF: 71454764
Wikidata: Q2544848
Library of congress: n 50028490
Sources of Information
  • His Marcel Duchamp ... c1964.
  • His Robert Rauschenberg, 1991:CIP t.p. (Walter Hopps) data sht. (b. 5-3-32)
  • Mindscapes from the New-land, 1975:t.p. (Walter W. Hopps) p. 7 (b. Glendale, Calif.; curator of 20th cent. art, Nat. Coll. of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Inst.)
  • Washington Post, Mar. 22, 2005:(Walter Hopps, 72, curator; d. Mar. 20, 2005, Los Angeles; b. May 3, 1924, Eagle Rock, Calif.)
  • New York times, Mar. 23, 2005(Walter Hopps; curator of 20th-century art and founding director of Menil Collection; b. in Los Angeles in 1933; d. Sunday [Mar. 20] in Los Angeles, aged 72 and had lived in Houston and Los Angeles)
Wikipedia description:

Walter "Chico" Hopps (May 3, 1932 – March 20, 2005) was an American museum director, gallerist, and curator of contemporary art. Hopps helped bring Los Angeles post-war artists to prominence during the 1960s, and later went on to redefine practices of curatorial installation internationally. He is known for contributing decisively to “the emergence of the museum as a place to show new art.” (Roberta Smith, New York Times)

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