Portraits of Artists: Photographs by John Waggaman ~ Art Exhibition Catalog Book, 1967

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Rare find. Published by the La Jolla Museum of Art in La Jolla, California. Catalogue of the museum exhibition, May … more Rare find. Published by the La Jolla Museum of Art in La Jolla, California. Catalogue of the museum exhibition, May 17 - June 18, 1967. Features 57 black and white photographic portraits of artists by John Waggaman, and a self portrait of the photographer.

Artists include (in order of appearance): Peter Voulkos, Ron Davis, John Mason, Ruth Asawa, Richard Allen Morris, Joan Brown, Phil Kirkland, Edmund Kohn, Tony DeLap, Harold Paris, John Baldessari, Tony Berlant, George Miyasaki, Billy Al Bengston, Jimmy Suzuki, Alvin Light, Judy Gerowitz, Richard Diebenkorn, Sheldon Kirby, Miqel Marina, Dewain Valentine, Joan Tanner, Miles Varner, Oliver Andrews, Loyd Hamrol, Seldon Spaulding, Robert Thomas, Howard Fenton, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Bill Dole, Howard Warshaw, Ed Garman, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Guy Williams, John McLaughlin, George Durrant, Sam Francis, Manuel Neri, Gabriel Kohn, Kenneth Price, William Brice, Matsumi Kanemitsu (second entry with different portrait), Emerson Woelffer, David Simpson, Don Dudley, Charles Ross, Charles Mattox, Bob Irwin, Robert Hudson, Malcolm McClain, James Strombotne, James Grant, Roy DeForest, David Gray, Karen Kozlow, Ed Moses.

61 pages total: Title page + Introduction by Henry Seldis + Statement by John Waggaman + 57 pages with photo plates. Soft cover with staple binding. Minor shelf wear to cover. Pages fine.

Purchased from the estate of Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn (1931 - 2022). Caryl was a longtime art collector and patron in Los Angeles. She was also the daughter of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, whose art collection established the Hirshhorn Museum as a part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. less