Art dealers emerge from the shadows

The art dealer Virginia Dwan was not always widely known, even in art circles. In 2006, the dealer John Weber sat for an oral history interview for the Archives of American Art and discussed working for Dwan in Los Angeles. I really loved Virginia, still do, he said. She had such good taste, and she was really so sympathetic to the artist and very generous with her money. The interviewer, however, was unfamiliar with her. Is she alive still? he asked. (She was and is.)Dwan is now among a crop o