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30.09.2009
HENRY T. HOPKINS, 1928–2009
Henry T. Hopkins, artist, museum director and art advocate who played a leading role in establishing Los Angeles\\\' art scene, has died. Hopkins was chair of the UCLA Department of Art from 1991-94, serving concurrently as director of UCLA’s Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery. During that time, he helped negotiate the agreement for the Armand Hammer Museum of Art to become part of UCLA and was its director from 1994-98, when he returned to the UCLA Department of Art until his retirement in 2002.
Prior to his positions at UCLA, Hopkins opened the Huysman Gallery in Los Angeles in 1960, where he was the first to show young artists such as Ed Ruscha, Larry Bell and Joe Goode. In 1961 he became the assistant curator of modern art for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and established its education department. From 1969-74, he was director of the Fort Worth Art Center Museum before taking the same position at the San Francisco Museum of Art, which became the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1975. He returned to Los Angeles in 1986 to head the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation. He moved to UCLA’s Department of Art in 1991.
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