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Interviewee:
Van Veen, Stuyvesant  Search this
Interviewer:
Nathan, Emily  Search this
Names:
Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950  Search this
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975  Search this
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974  Search this
Rich, Daniel Catton, 1904-1976  Search this
Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976  Search this
Extent:
51 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Date:
1981 May 5-14
Scope and Contents:
An interview of Stuyvesant Van Veen conducted 1981 May 5-14, by Emily Nathan, for the Archives of American Art.
Van Veen speaks of his family background and parental influence; his early training, and studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; his army service; some of his experiences as a young artist; early exhibits of his work; his mural work; anthropological drawings he did under Franz Boas for Columbia University in the 1930s. He recalls Max Beckmann, Thomas Hart Benton, Leon Kroll, Daniel Catton Rich and Hudson Dean Walker.
Biographical / Historical:
Stuyvesant Van Veen (1910-1988) was a painter from New York, N.Y.
General:
Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 36 min.
Provenance:
These interviews are part of the Archives' 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:
Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.vanvee81
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97872a884-09ec-4bdf-a84c-f3404f27223e
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-vanvee81