http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9d5nb3dv Online items available Finding aid for the Allan Kaprow papers, 1940-1997 Annette Leddy. Finding aid for the Allan Kaprow 980063 1 papers, 1940-1997 Descriptive Summary Title: Allan Kaprow papers Date (inclusive): 1940-1997 Number: 980063 Creator/Collector: Kaprow, Allan Physical Description: 63.5 Linear Feet(119 boxes, 16 flat file folders, 2 rolls) Repository: The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688
[email protected] URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390 Abstract: The Allan Kaprow Papers offer comprehensive documentation of an artistic career that spanned the latter half of the 20th century and continues into the 21st. Arranged chronologically so as to demonstrate the artist's passage from student of art and art history to practicing artist, art theorist and art educator, the collection contains drawings, term papers and notebooks from Kaprow's student days, followed by ca. 250 Project Files, comprising the complete extant documentation of Kaprow's Environments, Happenings, and Activities. Request Materials: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record for this collection. Click here for the access policy . Language: Collection material is in English . Biographical / Historical Note Allan Kaprow was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on August 23, 1927, and spent his childhood in Tuscon, Arizona. His family then moved to New York, where Kaprow attended the High School of Music and Art, graduating in 1945. He received his B.A. degree from New York University, where he majored in philosophy and art history and was a principle cartoonist for the college magazine.