Ivan C. Karp

Background

Karp was born in the Bronx but grew up in Brooklyn.

Career

Whilst there, he helped sell the works of, popularize and market the initial generation of People’s artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. He worked there for ten years, leaving in 1969 to open his own gallery called Oklahoma Harris in SoHo (which at the time was the newest gallery district in New York City). Karp died on June 28, 2012 at the age of 86, in Charlotteville, New New York

Karp wrote a comic novel, "Doobie Doo", about love between popular artists.

Connections

associate:

Leo Castelli