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Oral history interview with Esteban Vicente, 1968 August 26

Catalog Data

Interviewee:
Vicente Perez, Esteban, 1903-2001  Search this
Interviewer:
Sandler, Irving, 1925-  Search this
Subject:
Dalí, Salvador  Search this
Pach, Walter  Search this
De Kooning, Willem  Search this
Pollock, Jackson  Search this
Frankenthaler, Helen  Search this
De Kooning, Elaine  Search this
Resnick, Milton  Search this
Avery, Milton  Search this
Mitchell, Joan  Search this
Marca-Relli, Conrad  Search this
Kline, Franz  Search this
Rothko, Mark  Search this
Type:
Interviews
Place:
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939
Place of publication, production, or execution:
United States
Physical Description:
86 Pages, Transcript
Summary:
Interview of Esteban Vicente conducted 1968 August 26, by Irving Sandler, for the Archives of American Art. Vicente speaks of the gallery activity of the 1940s and 1950s; The Club and the exhibition on 9th Street arranged by many of those artists; remembering Mark Rothko as a casual acquaintance and the society of artists living in the Hamptons; coming to the United States, acting as vice-consul in Philadelphia for the Loyalist camp during the Spanish Civil War; and his own work and his feelings about the work of his contemporaries. He recalls Bill de Kooning, Franz Kline, John Ferrin, Marca-Relli, Milton Resnick, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Walter Pach, Elaine de Kooning, Milton Avery, Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dali, and many others.
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Esteban Vicente, 1968 August 26. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
Item is a transcript.
Location of Originals:
Location of original tape unknown.
Funding:
Funding for the interview was provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.
Biography Note:
Esteban Vicente (1903-2001) was a painter in New York, New York. and Bridgehampton, New York.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
This interview is 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.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)11750
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213187
AAA_collcode_vicent68
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213187