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.
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.
Collection is open for research.
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.
Materials remain as they were received.
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."
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.
Materials were donated in 1970 by the Las Vegas Art League; accession number 1970-008.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.