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Las Vegas Art League Photograph Collection (PH-00064)

Abstract

The Las Vegas Art League Photograph Collection contains two photographic prints from between approximately 1960 and 1969. These photographs depict the director of the Las Vegas Art League, Lucile Spire Bruner, along with other individuals viewing and displaying art in Las Vegas, Nevada. Other individuals pictured are Bill Cramer, Miram Kapfer, Irene Chenin, Marge Herzoz, Mary Callahan, and Eleanor Badik.

Finding Aid PDF

Date

1960 to 1969

Extent

0.04 Cubic Feet (1 hanging folder)
0.10 Linear Feet

Related People/Corporations

Scope and Contents Note

The Las Vegas Art League Photograph Collection contains two photographic prints from between approximately 1960 and 1969. These photographs depict the director of the Las Vegas Art League, Lucile Spire Bruner, along with other individuals viewing and displaying art in Las Vegas, Nevada. Other individuals pictured are Bill Cramer, Miram Kapfer, Irene Chenin, Marge Herzoz, Mary Callahan, and Eleanor Badik.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.

Arrangement

Materials remain as they were received.

Biographical / Historical Note

Lucile Spire Bruner, wife of architect and appraiser Elmo C. Bruner, founded the Las Vegas Art League in 1950 after she moved to the Las Vegas, Nevada from Santa Fe, New Mexico. When the City of Las Vegas bought the Twin Lakes Lodge (also known as Lorenzi Park), the Las Vegas Art League requested and received three buildings to teach and display art. The Art League became the Las Vegas Art Museum (LVAM) in 1974, and then relocated to the Sahara West Library and Fine Art Museum in 1997. They remained in operation until 2009.

Sources:

Woods, Vivian. "A Brief History of the Las Vegas Art Museum," http://www.lastplace.com/EXHIBITS/LVAM/history.html. 1998. Accessed July 6 2020.

Itzkoff, Dave. "Las Vegas Art Musuem to Close." The New York Times. February 23, 2009. Accessed March 25, 2020. https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/las-vegas-art-museum-to-close/

Related Collections

The following resources may provide additional information related to the materials in this collection:

Vivian Woods Papers, 1960-1989. MS-00351. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Las Vegas Art Museum Records, 1952-2009. MS-00549. Special Collections and Archives, University of Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Las Vegas Art League Scrapbooks, 1966-1967. MS-00185. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Preferred Citation

Las Vegas Art League Photograph Collection, approximately 1960-1969. PH-00064. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Acquisition Note

Materials were donated in 1970 by the Las Vegas Art League; accession number 1970-008.

Processing Note

In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.

Resource Type

Collection

Collection Type

EAD ID

US::NVLN::PH00064

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