Paule Isabelle Anglim was a Canadian-born gallerist, dealer, and curator.
10 Facts About Paule Anglim
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Paule Anglim founded and directed Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco for approximately four decades before her death on April 2,2015.
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Paule Anglim's exhibitions encompassed the work of defining figures of the Bay Area Beat era and conceptual art sensibility, such as David Ireland, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni and Jim Melchert.
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Paule Anglim was educated at the Universite Laval in Quebec and at the University of Toronto.
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Paule Anglim gravitated toward the art world via an interest in architecture.
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Paule Anglim's first business was called Architecture Art Service, and her first exhibition was a look at fine art in new architecture, mounted at the school of architecture at UC Berkeley.
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Paule Anglim opened Gallery Paule Anglim in the early 1970s in North Beach and became popular for showing the fine art associated with the Beat scene.
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Paule Anglim met her near-contemporary Louise Bourgeois in Paris, offering her a solo show in 1987, and represented the artist until her death in 2010.
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Paule Anglim was married twice, to Charles Anglim and later to William Turnbull, both deceased.
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Paule Anglim's sparsely furnished Russian Hill home, where she hosted salons and dinners, housed her personal art collection, including works of Francis Picabia, Rebecca Horn, and Marcel Duchamp, among others.