ELEVEN FROM THE REUBEN GALLERY. 1965.

NYC: Guggenheim, 1965

28 x 12cm, 8pp, single folded sheet (printed only one side) . Exhibition catalogue displaying work from artists who were mainstays of the famous Reuben Gallery which was one of the most important venues that held Happenings: Allan Kaprow’s §8 Happenings in Parts took place there in October 1959 as did an exhibition by the Fluxus artist George Brecht and thereafter a stream of significant exhibitions or performances took place for the next three years. The sheet has a useful chronology of those shows, biographies of George Brecht, Jim Dine, Rosalyn Drexler, Martha Edelheit, Red Grooms, Allan Kaprow, Renee Miller, Claed Oldebburg, Lucas Samaras, George Segal and Robert Whitman. There is a short essay by Lawrence Alloway and four drawings by Oldenburg, Dine, Whitman and Grooms are reproduced. Minor edge wear at corners else VG. A very useful document of early pop art and the happenings movement.