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Interviewee:
Iselin, Lewis, 1913-1990  Search this
Interviewer:
Brown, Robert F.  Search this
Names:
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts  Search this
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation  Search this
Saint-Gaudens Memorial (Organization)  Search this
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation  Search this
Geldzahler, Henry  Search this
Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975  Search this
Motherwell, Robert  Search this
Pearson, Ronald H. (Ronald Hayes), 1924-1996  Search this
Smith, Paul J., 1931-  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Sound recording: 1 sound file, digital, wav file)
23 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Interviews
Sound recordings
Date:
1981 September 30
Scope and Contents:
Interview of Lewis Iselin, conducted 1981 September 30 by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Camden, Maine.
Iselin speaks of his role as a trustee of the Guggenheim and Tiffany Foundations, the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; his own work of modeling in wax; and his "sculpture to wear." Iselin also recalls Henry Geldzahler, Robert Motherwell, Henry Allen Moe, Ron Pearson, Paul Smith and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Lewis Iselin (1913-1990) was a sculptor from Camden, Maine.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
Topic:
Museums -- United States -- Trustees -- Interviews  Search this
Sculptors -- Maine -- Interviews  Search this
Wax-modeling -- United States  Search this
Wearable art -- United States  Search this
Genre/Form:
Interviews
Sound recordings
Identifier:
AAA.iselin81
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9240aaf9a-bf59-4985-97f1-0c031737a649
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-iselin81