A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the
twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who
helped shape it. An innovative, iconoclastic curator of
contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at
the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery
with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where he turned the
spotlight on a new generation of West Coast artists. Ferus was also
the first gallery ever to show Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans
and was shut down by the L.A. vice squad for a show of Wallace
Berman's edgy art. At the Pasadena Art Museum in the sixties, Hopps
mounted the first museum retrospectives of Marcel Duchamp and
Joseph Cornell and the first museum exhibition of Pop Art--before
it was even known as Pop Art. In 1967, when Hopps became the
director of Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art at age
thirty-four, the New York Times hailed him as "the most gifted
museum man on the West Coast (and, in the field of contemporary
art, possibly in the nation)." He was also arguably the most
unpredictable, an eccentric genius who was chronically late. (His
staff at the Corcoran had a button made that said WALTER HOPPS WILL
BE HERE IN TWENTY MINUTES.) Erratic in his work habits, he was
never erratic in his commitment to art. Hopps died in 2005, after
decades at the Menil Collection of art in Houston for which he was
the founding director. A few years before that, he began work on
this book. With an introduction by legendary Pop artist Ed Ruscha,
The Dream Colony is a vivid, personal, surprising, irreverent, and
enlightening account of his life and of some of the greatest
artistic minds of the twentieth century.
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