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Interviewee:
Petersen, Roland, 1926-  Search this
Interviewer:
Karlstrom, Paul J.  Search this
Names:
Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906  Search this
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890  Search this
Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988  Search this
Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966  Search this
Miró, Joan, 1893-  Search this
Obata, Chiura  Search this
White, Minor  Search this
Extent:
12 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Date:
2002 Sept. 17
Scope and Contents:
An interview of Roland C. Petersen conducted 2002 Sept. 17, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Petersen's home, in Pacifica, Calif.
Petersen discusses his background, education, and his influences including Stanley William Hayter, Joan Miro, and Minor White, as well as his attraction to Asian brush painting which he learned from Chiuro Obata at Berkeley, Abstract Expressionism and the University of California, Davis. Also discussed are Cezanne's and Van Gogh's techniques.
Biographical / Historical:
Roland Petersen (1926- ) is a painter from Pacifica, Calif.
General:
Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr.
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 administrators.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Topic:
Painters -- California -- Interviews  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.peters02
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw956ca99ef-0d8b-43f4-987f-8e6e2eaea50b
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-peters02