Klausner, Ara
Size: 17 items
Summary: 16 black and white photographs of installation preparations and gatherings at Perdalma Gallery. Identified subjects include Stanley Boxer, Carl Holty, Leonard Brenner, Ilya Bolotowski, Vaclav Vytlacil, Ara Klausner, and Joyce Weinstein. Also included is a Perdalma label from a painting by Klausner.
Ara Klausner was co-founder with Stanley Boxer of the Perdalma Gallery, a short lived art gallery in New York.
Donated 2011 by Joseph Keiffer, brother of the executor of Rachel Klasusner's (Ara Klasuner's wife) estate.
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Perdalma gallery photographs, 1950-1955. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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