Collection Information
Size: 1 Linear foot
Summary: The records of the Candy Store Gallery measure 1.0 linear feet and date from 1968 to 2004. The records document the history of the gallery through correspondence, photographs, artist files for some of the artists, and printed material including clippings, magazine articles, exhibition announcements and catalogs.
Biographical/Historical Note
The Candy Store Gallery was founded by Adeliza McHugh in Folsom, California in 1962. The gallery primarily exhibited the works of teachers and students from California State University at Sacramento and the University of California at Davis. The gallery also hosted multiple solo exhibitions of artists such as Robert Arneson, Sandra Shannonhouse, and Luis Jimenez. The gallery closed in 1992.
Provenance
The collection was donated in 2004 by Sheri Renison, daughter of Adeliza McHugh, as part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.
Related Materials
Also found in the Archives of American Art is the Candy Store Gallery exhibition announcements, [undated] and 1973-1982.
Language Note
English .
Funding Note
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.