![]() ![]() It was produced by Hampton and filmed and edited by Bill Perrine, whose most recent documentary is about the San Diego's underground music scene in the 1990s.Today we’d like to introduce you to Beverly Harris.īeverly, please share your story with us. A documentary about Pomeroy will be on view at the exhibit. The exhibit "Portrait of Pomeroy" opens Saturday in the gallery space at downtown San Diego's Central Library. "I still enjoy going to thrift stores and finding something wonderful," Pomeroy said. He’s donated works to the Oceanside Museum of Art and the city of San Diego. ![]() These days, Pomeroy collects less and gives more. Walter just went right to the artist and supported them decade after decade after decade." "That he kept them going at times when it was tough. they use this same word, that Walter was a hero," Hampton said. ![]() Pomeroy almost always bought straight from the artists and built relationships with them. There was an immediacy and sincerity that was so refreshing." "I don’t think there’s a pair of white gloves in this place to move a painting around, period. "It was so accessible and unpretentious," Hampton said. He was overwhelmed when he walked into the apartment for the first time and saw all the art. Now you can see how dark it is."Īngela Carone Walter Pomeroy points to the holes in his art collection since pieces have been moved to the downtown library for a new exhibit, March 9, 2016.Ĭurator Hampton appreciates the lack of formality in how Pomeroy presents his collection. "When I got it, I just went out and bought a drugstore frame and the backing and the mat are not acid free. "The Picasso is a good example of how I’m not a good preserver," Pomeroy said. It hangs a little crooked on a wall close to the floor. Pomeroy actually owns an etching by Picasso. "But in her case, there were Picassos and famous people," Pomeroy said. He hangs his paintings salon style, just as she did in her Paris apartment. Gertrude Stein remained a prominent influence on Pomeroy. "That was kind of a touching moment, and we didn't have many of those in my family." "She had no idea who Gertrude Stein was or anything," Pomeroy said. "I would play that often and she heard that."įor his birthday, she made him a round cake and wrote "pigeons on the grass" on the cake. "There’s a wonderful refrain, 'Pigeons on the grass alas, a magpie in the sky,'" Pomeroy said. He was especially fond of "Four Saints in Three Acts" by composer Virgil Thompson, with a libretto by poet Gertrude Stein. Pomeroy would listen to records, especially operas. His bedroom was by the kitchen where his mother often spent time. Toklas in 1922 in their art-filled apartment in Paris.Īs he got older, his musical tastes broadened. His mother worked as a cocktail waitress. "I grew up downtown on Union Street near Ash. "My stepfather was a marine and my biological father was a sailor," Pomeroy said. He always loved art, music and books, but he didn’t come from an art loving family. He worked as a computer programmer at General Dynamics for 33 years. It highlights that local mid-century period represented in Pomeroy's collection. "Walter has collected the most extensive slice of what painters and drawers were doing in San Diego during the 1950s and '60s," said Dave Hampton, an expert in San Diego mid-century art and curator of the exhibit "Portrait of Pomeroy," which opens Saturday in the art gallery at downtown San Diego's Central Library. He also bought the work of National City-born artist John Baldessari, now one of the luminaries of the art world. "If I saw something I liked and I had money in my pocket, I would buy it," Pomeroy said. Some of those artists had studios in Balboa Park's Spanish Village so Pomeroy would go and hang out there on the weekends. In the 1950s and '60s, Pomeroy started hanging out with up-and-coming San Diego artists, like Williams and Morris. His art collection runs the gamut from low to highbrow, from a Paris thrift store find to photography to works by star artists like David Hockney and Sam Francis. But it was the artwork and need for wall space that forced him to expand into two adjacent apartments (he owns the small complex where he lives). He also collects LPs, CDs, DVDs, books, perfume bottles and swatch watches. Angela Carone A portrait of Walter Pomeroy, who has an extensive collection of paintings and drawings by San Diego artists from the 1950s and '60s, March 9, 2016. ![]()
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