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Interviewee:

Erlebacher, Martha Mayer  Search this

Interviewer:

Hunter, Anne S.  Search this

Names:

Pratt Institute  Search this

Erlebacher, Walter, 1933-1991  Search this

Paglia, Camille, 1947-  Search this

Schoelkopf, Robert J., 1927-1991  Search this

Extent:

155 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

1990 December 7-1991 January 12

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Martha Mayer Erlebacher conducted 1990 December 7-1991 January 12, by Anne Schuster Hunter, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.

Erlebacher discusses her family background and education including her studies at Pratt Institute in Industrial Design, meeting future husband Walter Erlebacher; working for the design firm Arthur Wagner Associates; receiving her advanced degree from Pratt; her early optical paintings and the gradual introduction of the figure; studying and teaching herself anatomy along with Walter Erlebacher in the mid 1960s; a 1966 Yaddo fellowship; moving to Philadelphia and her first one person show there in 1966; showing with Robert Schoelkopf; the development of themes and use of mythology in her art; interest in Renaissance painters; Camille Paglia's "Sexual Personae"; and portrait commissions and models.

Biographical / Historical:

Martha Mayer Erlebacher (1937- ) is a painter from Philadelphia, Pensylvania. Wife of sculptor Walter Erlebacher.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound tape cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 41 min.

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.

Restrictions:

Transcript: Patrons must use microfilm copy.

Occupation:

Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Figurative painting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.erleba90

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-erleba90

Collection Creator:

Gershoy, Eugenie, 1901?-1983 or 6  Search this

Extent:

5.8 Linear feet (Boxes 1-6, 8-9)

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1914-1983, undated

Scope and Contents note:

Correspondence is primarily between Gershoy and family members and colleagues. Correspondence with her sister and brothers and their families discusses Gershoy's activities, including her relationships with Harry Gottlieb and Juliana Force. Correspondence with colleagues includes letters from Elizabeth Ames of Yaddo, Mildred Baker, Arnold and Lucile Blanch, Virginia Dehn, Aline Fruhauf, Agnes Hart, Frederic Knight, Josef Presser, and Virgil Thomson. There are Christmas cards from Irving Marantz, George Picken, Anton Refregier, Moses Soyer, and Raphael Soyer. Correspondence found in box 9 is primarily from museum colleagues including Alfred Barr, Adelyn Breeskin, Juliana Force, and A. Hyatt Mayor. There is also a recommendation from Anton Refregier.

See Appendix for a list of notable correspondents from Series 2.

Appendix: List of Notable Correspondents from Series 2:

Art Students League: see Photographs

Avery, Frances: undated Christmas cards (2); 1967 Christmas card

Baber, Alice: Oct 16, 1975; Oct 21, 1975

Baker, Mildred: undated letters (20); May 22, 1969; [Aug 1971]; May 25, 1980; Mar 10, 1981; Mar 17, 1981; Mar 26, 1981; Jun 5, 1981; 1981 Christmas card; 1982 Christmas card

Bertoia, Harry: see Printed Material for autographed exhibition announcement

Blanch, Arnold and Lucile: undated letters (2); Jan 1975; Dec 18, 1975; 1977 Christmas card; Jan 1977; Jan 1978; also see Printed Material for exhibition announcements and catalogs; also see Photographs

Botkin, Henry and Rhoada: undated cards (5); 1973 Christmas card; Jul 29, 1974; Aug 15, 1975; 1975 Christmas card; 1976 Christmas card; 1977 Christmas card; also see Printed Material for an exhibition announcement

Breeskin, Adelyn: May 23, 1969; Dec 19, 1969; Feb 17, 1970; Nov 24, 1970; Jan 14, 1971; Feb 22, 1971; Jul 14, 1971; Sep 13, 1971; Dec 22, 1971; Feb 8, 1972; Mar 30, 1972; May 30, 1972; May 16, 1975; Oct 29, 1975; Nov 21, 1975

Cadmus, Paul: Oct 18, 1956 postcard

Calder, A. Stirling: see Photographs

Castellon, Rolando: undated letter; [Apr 1968]; May 13, 1968; Jan 6, 1972; Apr 5, 1979

Chase, Doris: undated letter

De Creeft, Jose: see Printed Material for an exhibition catalog

Dehn, Virginia (Mrs. Adolph Dehn): undated Christmas card; Dec 9, 1975; [Jan 1976]; Dec 18, 1977; Feb 17, 1978; Dec 16, 1978; Dec 5, 1980; 1981 Christmas card; 1982 Christmas card; also see Printed Material for exhibition announcements and catalogs

Dixon, Constance ("Consie," daughter of painter of the West, Maynard Dixon): 1949 Christmas card; May 5, 1952; 1961 Christmas card

Engelking, Roberto (architect): undated letter; Jan 16, 1949; Mar 22, 1949

Evergood, Philip: see Printed Material for an exhibition catalog

Ferber, Herbert: see Printed Material for an exhibition catalog

Force, Juliana: [mentioned in Oct 16, 1929, Apr 1930, April 29, 1930, Oct 1, 1930, Oct 25, 1930, Nov 1, 1930, Sep 12, 1932, and Sep 20, 1932 postcards]

Fortess, Karl and Lillian: 1977 Christmas card; Aug 14, 1979; Dec 3, 1979; Jan 8, 1980; 1980 Christmas card; 1981 Christmas card; 1982 Christmas card

Freilich, Michael: undated letter; also see Printed Material for exhibition announcement; also see Photographs

Fruhauf [Vollmer], Aline: undated letters (22); Mar 31, 1944; Jan 3, 1948 (note from Susie Vollmer); Jan 18, 1950; Jan 27, 1950; Apr 15, 1950; Sep 9, 1957; Nov 29, 1957; Jan 15, 1958; Nov 1, 1958; Feb 1, 1961; Dec 21, 1970; Apr 14, 1972; Jan 15, 1974; Jun 12, 1974; Jun 18, 1975; Jun 3, 1977; Oct 23, 1977; 1977 Christmas card; Mar 11, 1978; Jul 18, 1979 (letter from Erwin Vollmer); 1980 Christmas card (from Erwin Vollmer)

Gikow, Ruth: see Printed Material for exhibition announcements

Glassgold, Adolph Cook (painter, former Whitney Museum curator): undated letter; May 26, 1948; 1972 Christmas card; 1977 Christmas card; 1978 New Year's card

Gottlieb, Harry: [postcards dated 1923-1934 mention Gottlieb]; undated letter; Apr 27, 1977; also see Printed Material for an exhibition catalog; also see Photographs

Goulet, Lorrie: see Printed Material for exhibition announcements

Hardy, Marcella (writer from India): May 18, 1956

Hart, Agnes: see Presser, Agnes Hart

Hartwig, Cleo: see Printed Material for an exhibition announcement

Howland, Isabella: undated letter; Sep 19, 1951; 1966 Christmas card; 1967 Christmas card; Jul 17, 1969; Jul 1971; 1971 Christmas card

Klitgaard, Georgina: 1972 Christmas card

Knight, Frederic and Dorothy: undated letters (6); May 19, 1953

Knight, Frederic and Hortense: undated letters (3); Dec 5, 1975; 1977 Christmas card; Nov 18, 1978; Sep 16, 1979; Dec 7, 1980; Nov 23, 1981; also see Printed Material for exhibition announcements and catalogs

Kosloff, Alexis (Russian dancer): [mentioned in Jul 5, 1928 postcard]

Lonergan, Joy (Mrs. John Lonergan): undated letter; Jul 25, 1975; Jul 19, 1977; Apr 27, 1978; Mar 7, 1979; May 25, 1979; Sep 12, 1979; 1981 Christmas card

Marantz, Irving and Evelyn: undated Christmas card; 1971 Christmas card; Jun 4, 1975; 1975 Christmas card; [Sep 5, 1978]; also see Printed Material for an exhibition catalog

Mayer, Ralph and Bena: undated letters (3); Feb 10, 1975; Nov 29, 1977; May 16, 1980; Jan 1, 1981; Aug 7, 1981; 1981 Christmas card

Nakian, Reuben: see Photographs

O'Connor, Francis V.: undated letters (2); Jun 19, 1970; Nov 11, 1970; Dec 22, 1975

Olds, Elizabeth: undated card

Picken, George and Viola: undated letters (3); 1944 Christmas card; 1972 Christmas card; 1974 Christmas card; 1977 Christmas card; also see Printed Material for an exhibition catalog

Pollet, Joseph: see Printed Material for an exhibition catalog; also see Photographs

Presser, Josef and Agnes Hart: undated letters (3); [Sep 1970]; Nov 6, 1973; Feb 25, 1978; Feb 14, 1979; Feb 21, 1979; Mar 4, 1979; Mar 19, 1979; Jun 13, 1979; Sep 7, 1979; [Nov 4, 1979]; also see Printed Material for exhibition announcements and catalogs

Reeves, Ruth: undated letter

Refregier, Anton: 1971 Christmas card; 1973 Christmas card

Robinson, Gertrude (author of -- The Cardinal -- , wife of Morton Robinson, novelist and poet): undated letter; Feb 6, 1972; 1974 Christmas card; 1977 Christmas card; Feb 16, 1978; Jun 20, 1978; 1978 Christmas card; Jun 20, 1978; Apr 17, 1979; Sep 10, 1979; Dec 19, 1980; Sep 22, 1981; Oct 17, 1981; Nov 12, 1981

Rockwood, Paul and Alice (painter and Bishop Museum Director): undated letter; Dec 8, 1951; Jan 7, 1960

Rogers, Jane C. (painter, sister of Leon Kroll): undated Christmas card; Dec 30, 1948

Rose, Phyllis (writer): un Christmas card; Jan 23, 1977; Jul 1978; Dec 1981

Sarg, Tony: [mentioned in Oct 30, 1923 and Nov 7, 1923 postcards]

Scaravaglione, Concetta: Dec 22, 1959; Jun 24, 1960; also see Photographs

Shibley, Gertrude (Painter): 1977 Christmas card; Jun 5, 1979

Smith, Gretchen and Mary (daughters of Judson Smith): [Judson Smith mentioned in Feb 17, 1925 postcard]; undated Christmas cards (3); 1977 Christmas card; Sep 16, 1980; see Printed Material for an exhibition catalog for Judson Smith

Soyer, David (son of Moses Soyer): 1977 Christmas card

Soyer, Moses: undated Christmas card

Soyer, Raphael: undated Christmas cards (3); 1980 Christmas card; 1981 Christmas card; 1982 Christmas card; also see Printed Material for exhibition announcements

Still, James (Writer): Nov 8, 1950; Jun 8, 1979

Striebel, Fritzi (Mrs. John Striebel, ceramic sculptor, writer): undated letters (11); Jun 6, 1975; Oct 14, 1975; Feb 1, 1976; [May 1976]; Aug 21, 1976; 1976 Christmas card; 1977 Christmas card; Feb 17, 1979; Apr 11, 1979; Jul 3, 1979; Oct 22, 1979; Nov 6, 1979; Nov 20, 1979; [1979 Christmas card]; Apr 5, 1980; Oct 5, 1980; Dec 30, 1980; Jan 9, 1981; Apr 22, 1981; May 12, 1981; Oct 22, 1981; Nov 16, 1981; 1981 Christmas card; 1982 Christmas card; Feb 26, 1983; [Mar 1983]

Taylor, Joshua: Dec 20, 1972; Dec 5, 1975

Thomson, Virgil (composer): undated letters (2); Apr 1, 1970; Jun 8, 1971; Nov 8, 1971; Jan 1, 1972

Van Veen, Stuyvesant: undated letter; Nov 23, 1976

Varda, Jean: see Photographs

Varian, Dorothy: undated letters (5); Jul 17, 1977; Mar 30, 1981

Vollmer, Aline Fruhauf: see Fruhauf

Whitney Studio Club: [mentioned in Jan 31, 1928, Apr 9, 1928, and Feb 16, 1929 postcards]

Wilder, Thornton: Jul 20, 1953

Wright, Russell (industrial designer): undated Christmas cards (5); Dec 12, 1972; Feb 2, 1976

Yaddo: undated letters (4): Oct 17, 1949; Dec 12, 1949; Jan 9, 1950; Jan 24, 1950; Mar 31, 1950; Aug 23, 1950; Aug 24, 1950; Oct 9, 1950; Oct 11, 1950; Feb 26, 1951; also see Photographs

Zorach, Tessim: May 11, 1968; Nov 20, 1970; Nov 28, 1970

Collection Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Patrons must use microfilm copy.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Eugenie Gershoy papers, 1914-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.gerseuge, Series 2

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-gerseuge-ref19

Creator:

Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice), 1902-1971  Search this

Names:

Design Laboratory (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

United States. Work Projects Administration  Search this

Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933  Search this

Extent:

0.2 Linear feet ((on 11 microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1930-1972

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence; writings and notes; scrapbooks; business material; biographical data; photographs; inventories; exhibition catalogs; and printed material.

REELS D222-D223: Manuscripts; notebooks entitled "Concepts of Substance" containing notes, essays, quotations, a diary, and reviews; scrapbooks; and publications.

REELS 1296-1302 & 1322(photos): Personal and business correspondence; notes and manuscripts of her many philosophical writings on light, space, and the infinite; poems by Pereira and by others; sales and loan receipts for her paintings; inventories of her paintings; paint formulas and technical data; biographical data; notes for the Design Laboratory of the WPA-Fine Arts Project; statements by her about her art and about the alleged suppression of her art by the Museum of Modern Art; exhibition catalogs; clippings; and photographs of her works and personal photos.

REEL 2395: Course outlines, an activity report, and printed material pertaining to the Design Laboratory school of industrial design in New York City. Also included are outlines, writings, and printed material pertaining to Pereira's lectures at Columbia University, the Brooklyn Museum, Smith College, the Artists League, the University of Michigan, and for the United American Artists.

REEL 3470: A letter to Juliet Gordon, New York City, October 15, 1969, protesting the denigration of women by -"a whole battalion of these American super artists," and condemning the Museum of Modern Art for devoutedly supporting their art. She writes, "Only when a society is expiring do such aberrations and betrayal of the female become the cultural mode."

Biographical / Historical:

Painter, writer, educator; New York, N.Y. Died 1971.

Provenance:

Material on reels D222-D223 lent for microfilming 1965 and material on reel 2395 donated 1965 by Irene Rice Pereira; material on reels 1296-1302, 1322 lent for microfilming, 1977 and reel 3470 donated 1978 by Djelloul Marbrook, nephew of Pereira.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Educators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women educators  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.pereiric

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-pereiric

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

Conversations and talks

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2019-12-13T20:59:11.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

See more by:

cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_-1ddJLkUfco

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2012-10-15T22:05:52.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

See more by:

cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_4I9InLRMl-E

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2021-02-11T11:40:24.000Z

YouTube Category:

Entertainment  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

See more by:

cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_9fmt_L1oCQI

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2018-09-27T18:41:16.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

See more by:

cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_GREBN2pq4Tc

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2017-12-15T06:00:03.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

See more by:

cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_w-7QaZzEvWA

Interviewee:

Reinhardt, Richard H., 1921-1998  Search this

Reinhardt, Richard H., 1921-1998  Search this

Interviewer:

Polsky, Richard  Search this

Subject:

Cute, Virginia  Search this

Withers, Margret Craver  Search this

Philadelphia Museum of Art. School of Industrial Art  Search this

Handy & Harman (Firm)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Jewelry making  Search this

Jewelry makers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13231

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214378

AAA_collcode_reinha90

Theme:

Craft

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_214378

Interviewee:

Reinhardt, Richard H., 1921-1998  Search this

Reinhardt, Richard H., 1921-1998  Search this

Interviewer:

Pacini, Marina  Search this

Subject:

Cute, Virginia  Search this

Withers, Margret Craver  Search this

Fleming, Erik, Baron  Search this

Philadelphia Museum of Art. School of Industrial Art  Search this

Handy & Harman (Firm)  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Topic:

Jewelry making -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Silverwork -- Technique  Search this

Silversmiths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Handicraft -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Pennsylvania  Search this

Jewelry makers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12359

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214621

AAA_collcode_reinha91

Theme:

Craft

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_214621

Interviewee:

Somerson, Rosanne, 1954-  Search this

Somerson, Rosanne, 1954-  Search this

Interviewer:

Michie, Thomas S., 1956-  Search this

Subject:

Abramson, Ron  Search this

Callahan, Harry M.  Search this

Capanigro, Paul  Search this

Cooke, Ned  Search this

Dunnigan, John  Search this

Fairbanks, Jonathan L.  Search this

Follen, Eck  Search this

Frid, Tage  Search this

Jackson, Dan  Search this

Joseph, Peter T. (Peter Thomas)  Search this

Kagan, Richard  Search this

Keck, Hardu  Search this

Kranov, James  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy  Search this

Mattia, Alphonse  Search this

Melanson, Gracie  Search this

Osgood, Jere  Search this

Sfirri, Mark  Search this

Siskind, Aaron  Search this

Swanson, Charlie  Search this

Szasz, Merlin  Search this

White, Leroy  Search this

Wolf, Hans  Search this

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts  Search this

Peters Valley (Craft center)  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design  Search this

Richard Kagan Gallery  Search this

Snyderman Gallery  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Topic:

Fine woodworking  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Educators -- Rhode Island -- Interviews  Search this

Furniture design -- Study and teaching  Search this

Photography  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Women  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13618

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)271125

AAA_collcode_somers06

Theme:

Craft

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_271125

Interviewee:

Patti, Tom, 1943-  Search this

Patti, Tom, 1943-  Search this

Interviewer:

Warmus, William, 1953-  Search this

Subject:

Arnheim, Rudolf  Search this

Borowsky, Irvin J.  Search this

Buechner, Thomas S.  Search this

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster)  Search this

Gund, Ann  Search this

Gund, Graham  Search this

Heller, Doug  Search this

Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope  Search this

Kostellow, Rowena Reed  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl  Search this

Parriott, Joseph  Search this

Pelli, Cesar  Search this

Rockwell, Norman  Search this

Rogers, Malcolm Jennings  Search this

Safdie, Moshe  Search this

Wagman, Laurie  Search this

Wood, Art  Search this

Corning Museum of Glass.  Search this

General Electric Company  Search this

George Walter Vincent Smith Museum  Search this

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts  Search this

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge  Search this

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation  Search this

Penland School of Crafts  Search this

Pratt Institute  Search this

Sienna Gallery  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Colombia -- description and travel

Europe -- description and travel

Israel -- description and travel

Topic:

Design, Industrial -- Study and teaching  Search this

Designers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Glass art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Glass artists -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Glass blowing and working -- Study and teaching  Search this

Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)15780

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)287761

AAA_collcode_patti10

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_287761

Interviewee:

Winters, Terry, 1949-  Search this

Winters, Terry, 1949-  Search this

Interviewer:

Lyon, Christopher, 1949-  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17618

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)397360

AAA_collcode_winter18

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_397360

Creator:

Plaut, James S. (James Sachs), 1912-1996  Search this

Plaut, James S. (James Sachs), 1912-1996  Search this

Subject:

Adenauer, Konrad  Search this

Bernstein, Leonard  Search this

Breuer, Marcel  Search this

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)  Search this

Gandhi, Indira  Search this

Wright, Frank Lloyd  Search this

Gropius, Walter  Search this

Peirce, Waldo  Search this

Ruckstull, F. W. (Fred Wellington)  Search this

Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph)  Search this

Berman, Eugene  Search this

Kirstein, Lincoln  Search this

Kokoschka, Oskar  Search this

Milles, Carl  Search this

Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.)  Search this

Institute of Modern Art (Boston, Mass.)  Search this

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Search this

World Crafts Council  Search this

Expo 67 (Montréal, Québec)  Search this

Exposition universelle et internationale (1958 : Brussels, Belgium)  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Scrapbooks

Sketchbooks

Sound recordings

Place:

Israel

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Art Theory and Historiography  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9561

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211762

AAA_collcode_plaujame

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Art Theory and Historiography

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211762

Interviewee:

Winters, Terry, 1949-  Search this

Interviewer:

Lyon, Christopher  Search this

Extent:

4 Items (sound files (2 hrs., 54 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

58 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2018 November 13 -15

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Terry Winters conducted 2018 November 13 and 15, by Christopher Lyon, for the Archives of American Art, at Winters' White Street Studio in New York, N.Y.

Winters speaks of his aversion to personal mythology in his artwork; his childhood in Brooklyn; early exposure to art exhibitions and classes in New York; his classical art education; formative encounters with avant-garde paintings in the 1960s; the development of his interest in architecture and industrial design; living in SoHo and refurbishing lofts for a living there in the 1970s; his early painting style in relation to Minimalism and Modernist abstraction; assisting in the construction of Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field;" his interest in incorporating natural structures and computational imaging in his paintings; the role of time in his painting practice; new directions in his painting practice beginning in the early 1980s; his decision to start exhibiting his artwork; the beginning of his printmaking practice; the interaction between his painting, printmaking, and drawing practices; his thoughts on the similarities between his artwork and that of Louise Bourgeois; the impetus for his midcareer retrospective at the Whitney Museum in the early 1990s; buying and constructing on a property in Columbia County, New York, where he now paints; the impetus and execution of his 2004 retrospective at the Addison Gallery of Art; developments and changes in his art-making practice between the Whitney and Addison retrospectives; his increasing creation of work in series; the role of scale in his painting practice; the development and implications of various individual works and series reproduced in the Addison retrospective catalog, including "Tenon's Capsule," "Computation of Chains," "Graphic Primitives," "Mesh Works," and "Turbulence Skins;" his collaboration with Trisha Brown; the development and execution of the books Perfection, Way, Origin with Jean Starobinski and "Turbulence Skins" with Ben Marcus; and the role of metaphor in readings of his work. Winters also recalls Ivan Karp, Herb Aach, Louis Kahn, Buckminster Fuller, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Brice Marden, Robert Fosdick, Carroll Dunham, Klaus Kertess, Ileana Sonnabend, Florence Barron, Bill Goldston, Aldo Crommelynck, Lisa Phillips, Hendel Teicher, Adam Wienberg, Dave Douglas, Jennifer Tipton, Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Interviewee Terry Winters (1949- ) is an artist in New York, N.Y., and Columbia County, N.Y. Interviewer Christopher Lyon (1949- ) is a writer in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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:

The transcript and recording are open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Lichtenberg Family Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.winter18

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-winter18

Interviewee:

Holub, Leo, 1916-2010  Search this

Holub, Leo, 1916-2010  Search this

Interviewer:

Karlstrom, Paul J  Search this

Subject:

Adams, Ansel  Search this

Arnautoff, Victor Mikhail  Search this

Barnes, Matthew Rackham  Search this

Corbett, Edward  Search this

Cunningham, Imogen  Search this

Gaw, William A.  Search this

Hackett, Dick  Search this

Holub, Florence  Search this

Mackey, Spencer  Search this

Mondale, Walter F.  Search this

Oldfield, Otis  Search this

Packard, Emmy Lou  Search this

Piazzoni, Gottardo  Search this

Randolph, Lee F.  Search this

Rivera, Diego  Search this

Sinel, Joseph Claude  Search this

Smith, Hassel  Search this

Sterne, Maurice  Search this

Weston, Edward  Search this

White, Minor  Search this

Wilson, Charis  Search this

San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.)  Search this

Stanford University. Dept. of Art  Search this

University of California, San Francisco. School of Fine Arts  Search this

Art Schools in California Oral History Project  Search this

Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Photographers -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching -- California  Search this

Photography  Search this

Photography -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area  Search this

Theme:

Photography  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12356

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)216329

AAA_collcode_holub97

Theme:

Photography

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_216329

Interviewee:

Lipofsky, Marvin B. (Marvin Bentley), 1938-2016  Search this

Lipofsky, Marvin B. (Marvin Bentley), 1938-2016  Search this

Interviewer:

Karlstrom, Paul J  Search this

Subject:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Glass art -- California  Search this

Glass artists -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Glass blowing and working -- Technique  Search this

Glass blowing and working -- Study and teaching  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12658

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)245773

AAA_collcode_lipofs03

Theme:

Craft

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_245773

Interviewee:

Somerson, Rosanne, 1954-  Search this

Interviewer:

Michie, Thomas S.  Search this

Creator:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Names:

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Peters Valley (Craft center)  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design -- Faculty  Search this

Rhode Island School of Design -- Students  Search this

Richard Kagan Gallery  Search this

Snyderman Gallery  Search this

Abramson, Ron  Search this

Callahan, Harry M.  Search this

Capanigro, Paul  Search this

Cooke, Ned  Search this

Dunnigan, John, 1950-  Search this

Fairbanks, Jonathan L.  Search this

Follen, Eck  Search this

Frid, Tage  Search this

Jackson, Dan  Search this

Joseph, Peter T. (Peter Thomas), 1950-1998  Search this

Kagan, Richard  Search this

Keck, Hardu  Search this

Kranov, James  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-  Search this

Mattia, Alphonse  Search this

Melanson, Gracie  Search this

Osgood, Jere, 1936-  Search this

Sfirri, Mark  Search this

Siskind, Aaron  Search this

Swanson, Charlie  Search this

Szasz, Merlin  Search this

White, Leroy  Search this

Wolf, Hans  Search this

Extent:

61 Pages (Transcripts)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2006 August 7 and 2007 June 22

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Rosanne Somerson conducted 2006 August 7-2007 June 22, by Thomas Michie, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island. In part one of this interview, Somerson speaks of growing up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; attending RISD beginning in 1971; being asked to teach there nine years later; creating a new department of furniture design; tailoring that furniture design program to encompass the development from design to manufacture; introducing materials other than wood into the program; garnering international attention through worldwide exhibits; her first show at the Richard Kagan Gallery in Philadelphia; participating in a group show in New York City for female woodworkers; making connections through the Snyderman Gallery and Pritam and Eames Gallery; working directly with clients on commissioned pieces; the financial stability of teaching; designing a piece for the headquarters of Khon, Peterson Fox, and Conway in New York; the sculptural elements present in many of her works; moving from a small studio in Boston, Massachusetts, to a larger studio in Westport, Connecticut, and finally to a shared studio in Fall River, Massachusetts; the supportive and proud reaction of her children to her work; creating a production company with colleagues and designing furniture for the RISD dormitories; attempting to make these designs both flexible and environmentally-friendly; putting aside teaching for an administrative position in the department; recent travel to Japan, Australia, England, Israel, and France; enrolling in summer programs with art schools like Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine and others; and excitement for her upcoming sabbatical.

In the second portion of the interview, she discusses living in a house built by her father in Wyncote, Pennsylvania; enjoying the location of the house on a former cherry orchard and consequently being drawn cherry wood as a medium; the feeling of her parents that anything could be accomplished with a certain amount of study; her mother's interest in weaving and spinning later in life; the creative pursuits of her older brothers, including creative writing and photography; verbally communicating the outside world to her blind grandfather and gaining an aptitude for interpreting visual imagery; being more academically than artistically focused in her youth; visiting art museums and having other cultural experiences with her family; being fascinated with photography by seeing her brother's work; deciding to put off college in order to spend a year in Denmark studying photography; enrolling in RISD and feeling overwhelmed at first by her inexperience; taking a winter course in wood-working and preferring it to photography; being advised by her teacher Tage Frid to gain a wood-working education by pursuing sculpture at RISD; transferring into industrial design later; learning a great deal from and being extraordinarily influenced by Tage Frid as a furniture designer and teacher; taking a semester off to attend Peters Valley Craftsmen in New Jersey; spending a few years after graduation assisting Frid with the writing and publication of his articles; working as an assistant editor for Fine Woodworking magazine; being offered a job at RISD in the furniture department; creating the furniture design program; using RISD's collection as inspiration for her work and as a teaching tool; moving towards using more local woods in her designs; her recent lecture and travel in China; and looking forward to focusing on her work in the new studio.

Somerson recalls John Dunnigan, Dick Kagan, Ned Cooke, Jonathan Fairbanks, Wendy Maruyama, James Krenov, Dan Jackson, Jere Osgood, Alphonse Mattia, Peter Joseph, Ron Abramson, Charlie Swanson, Eck Follen, Peter Walker, and others. In the second part, Somerson recalls Merlin Szasz, LeRoy White, Hardu Keck, Gracia Melanson, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Paul Crot, Paul Capanigro, Tage Frid, Hans Wolfe, Mark Sfirri, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Rosanne Somerson (1954- ) is a professor of furniture design and furniture designer and maker in Westport, Massachusetts. Thomas Michie is a curator of decorative arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.

General:

Originally recorded on 5 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 3 min.

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.

Occupation:

Furniture designers -- Rhode Island  Search this

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Educators -- Rhode Island -- Interviews  Search this

Furniture design -- Study and teaching  Search this

Photography  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Function:

Artists' studios

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.somers06

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-somers06

Interviewee:

Reinhardt, Richard H., 1921-  Search this

Interviewer:

Pacini, Marina  Search this

Names:

Handy & Harman (Firm)  Search this

Philadelphia Museum of Art. School of Industrial Art  Search this

Cute, Virginia  Search this

Fleming, Erik, Baron  Search this

Withers, Margret Craver, 1907-  Search this

Extent:

45 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

1991 Aug. 22

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Richard Reinhardt conducted 1991 Aug. 22, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.

Reinhardt discusses Virginia Cute and her classes in jewelry making at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in the 1940's; Margret Craver Withers and the late 1940's Handy & Harman workshops where Baron Erik Fleming taught new silversmithing techniques; exhibition of work produced during the 1948 workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in that year; changes in the Pennsylvania Museum School over the years; and crafts in Philadelphia.

Biographical / Historical:

Richard Reinhardt (1921-1998) was a jewelry maker, industrial designer, furniture maker, and educator from Philadelphia, Pa.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 19 min.

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: Patrons must use microfilm copy.

Topic:

Jewelry making -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Silverwork -- Technique  Search this

Silversmiths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia  Search this

Handicraft -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Pennsylvania  Search this

Jewelry makers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.reinha91

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-reinha91

Interviewee:

Reinhardt, Richard H., 1921-  Search this

Interviewer:

Polsky, Richard  Search this

Names:

Handy & Harman (Firm)  Search this

Philadelphia Museum of Art. School of Industrial Art  Search this

Cute, Virginia  Search this

Withers, Margret Craver, 1907-  Search this

Extent:

109 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1990 July 5

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Richard Reinhardt conducted 1990 July 5, by Richard Polsky, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project. Reinhardt discusses his childhood in Philadelphia; his earliest art school classes, beginning at the age of ten; his studies at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now The University of the Arts); his military service including his first experience teaching mechanical drawing; returning to PMSIA after the war where he finished his degree while teaching, and his subsequent 41 years on the staff; studying with Virginia Cute, Margret Craver Withers and the Handy & Harman workshops; the curriculum at the PMSIA and the changes it underwent over the years; the development of the jewelry program with teachers Olaf Skoogfors, Robin Quigley and others; his move from jewelry into industrial design, furniture making and ultimately back to jewelry making; and exhibitions.

Biographical / Historical:

Richard Reinhardt (1921-1998) was a jewelry maker, industrial designer, furniture maker, and educator from Philadelphia, Pa.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 41 min.

Provenance:

This interview is a 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.

Restrictions:

Transcript: Patrons must use microfilm copy.

Topic:

Jewelry making  Search this

Jewelry makers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.reinha90

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-reinha90