Peter Goulds (Los Angeles) — George Herms: The Secret Archives, 1965

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1965. Dealer Catalogue. 4to. Soft Covers. 76 pp.Includes 23 separate objects (2 booklets, 2 folios, 5 leaves, 1 folded sheet, 10 color postcards, 1 accordion-folded sheet and 1 poster). Material all laid loose as issued in white cardboard portfolio with black string-and-button tie and printed b/w pictorial paper label (slight exterior rubbing, else a nearly new copy as issued). Very Good. Color plates. Catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 8 to November 1, 1992. Acknowledgments by Edward Leffingwell; main text (essay, titled 'A Drug Store for Artie') by Leffingwell and Herms. Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA) (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-1977). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright. .