14 Facts About Eugenia Butler

Eugenia Louise Butler was an American art dealer and collector.

Eugenia Butler co-directed the Los Angeles Gallery 669 with founder Riko Mizuno from 1967.

Eugenia Butler's gallery showed the work of conceptual artists, including John Baldessari, James Lee Byars, Douglas Huebler, and her daughter, Eugenia P Butler.

Eugenia Butler attended Scripps College and served as a master sergeant in the Marines during World War II where she met her future husband James G Butler, a lawyer and fighter pilot.

At Documenta, an art exhibition in Kassel, Germany in 1972, Eugenia Butler arrived nude riding a white horse.

Eugenia Butler served on LACMA's Contemporary Art Council and New Talent Award Committee in the mid 1960s.

In 1966 Eugenia Butler became the Los Angeles representative for Galleria del Deposito.

In 1967, Eugenia Butler partnered with Riko Mizuno, the gallerist running Gallery 669, for a single year.

Eugenia Butler opened her namesake gallery in 1968 after parting ways with Riko Mizuno.

Eugenia Butler's main focus for her gallery was on conceptual art consisting of dematerialized and non-object oriented work.

Eugenia Butler was an early champion of conceptual art, developing the hallmarks of space, interaction and performance.

Eugenia Butler presented conceptual artist John Baldessari's second gallery exhibition in 1970.

Eugenia Butler was the first person to sell one of Baldessari's photographs.

The most controversial piece to come out of the Eugenia Butler Gallery was Swiss artist Dieter Roth's exhibition, "Staple Cheese ".