Kaprow's Hansa connection

To the Editors:

Having assiduously searched your two texts on the career of Allan Kaprow [A.i.A., Mar. '08], I find no reference to the Hansa Gallery (1954-59). Kaprow was one of the founders of this artist co-op whose "management," over time, was shared by Richard Bellamy and myself.

Members and exhibitors included George Segal, Richard Stankiewicz, Lucas Samaras, Wolf Kahn and others of notable achievement. Kaprow produced his first Happening at Hansa--to rather limited acclaim.

In 1961, while I was working with Leo Castelli, Kaprow asked me if I would look at the "curious" paintings of one of his colleagues at Douglass College, a certain Roy Lichtenstein. I received the artist the following day.

Ivan C. Karp

New York

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