Longtime S.F. gallery owner Paule Anglim dies
Longtime S.F. gallery owner Paule Anglim dies
Paule Anglim, a leading dealer of contemporary art in San Francisco, died Thursday morning in the city.
“She was very well connected to both the old postwar community of artists of the 1930s and young artists in the Bay Area,” said the painter Robert Bechtle, reached at his San Francisco studio.
Bechtle, famous for his painting of the common station wagon, has been represented by Ms. Anglim for 25 years.
Ms. Anglim discovered some key artists at the outset of their careers, such as John Beech, Nayland Blake, Vincent Fecteau and John Zurier, all of whom went on to build international reputations.
“Paule was a no-nonsense person, but at the same time very generous,” said Gay Outlaw, a San Francisco sculptor represented by Ms. Anglim for 15 years.
After graduating with a degree in sociology, she was hired by Catholic Social Services to be a social worker in San Francisco.
In 1982, Gallery Paule Anglim moved to 14 Geary St., and it soon became an address around which much of the rest of San Francisco’s art business seemed to pivot, as galleries moved into and out of downtown with fluctuations in the Bay Area economy.
A long-term understanding with the owners of the two-story building, whose second floor her business occupied, allowed Ms. Anglim to ride out the instabilities of the region’s art economy.
Kenneth Baker is The San Francisco Chronicle’s art critic, and Sam Whiting is a Chronicle staff writer.