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She attended Scripps College in Claremont, California and served as a master sergeant in the Marines during World World War World War II
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Eugenia Butler
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In 1963, she became the American representative of Galleria Delegate Deposito, which featured work by European artists who made functional art objects, such as trays or jewels. Eugenia Butler was born Eugenia Louise Jefferson in Bakersfield, California. After World World War II, Butler married James G. Butler, a lawyer and former pilot who had accumulated a small fortune as a drug products lawyer
Their daughter, Eugenia P. Butler, was an artist.
Butler"s first venture as an art dealer was to serve as the American representative of Galleria Delegate Deposito, which was established in 1963. Galleria Delegate Deposito was based in Genoa, Italy, and served as the exhibition space for Gruppo Cooperativo di Boccadasse, an artist collective Eugenio Carmi and Carlo Fedeli founded in Italy.
The group made and sold functional art objects, and distributed monthly bulletins and a mail order catalogue to reach an international audience. In 1967, she joined dealer Riko Mizuno as co-director of Gallery 669 on Louisiana Cienega Boulevard (Mizuno had opened the gallery the previous year, in 1966).
They exhibited paintings and etchings by artist Henry Miller and work by Editor Kienholz and gave Joseph Kosuth his first Los Angeles exhibition.
After parting ways with Mizuno, Butler opened the Eugenia Butler Gallery in 1968, at 615 North. Louisiana Cienega Boulevard. The gallery owner staged a 30-day exhibition for Icelandic artist Dieter Rot, which consisted of 20 suitcases filled with cheese.
