Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Caroline Durieux, 1978 June 1-2. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Interview of Caroline Durieux conducted 1978 June 1-2, by Dennis Barrie and Marilyn Symmes, for the Archives of American Art.
Biographical / Historical:
Caroline Durieux (1896-1989) was a printmaker from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
General:
Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav file. Duration is 2 hr., 5 min.
Provenance:
These interviews are 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.
A black and white photograph of Durieux working on a series of prints in her studio.
Biographical / Historical:
Lithographer and printmaker; Baton Rouge, Louisianna.
Provenance:
Provenance unknown.
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.
REELS 1792-1793: Correspondence; biographical data; writings on art; photos of art work, and personal photos, with one of Diego Rivera; contracts; price lists for art work; exhibition catalogues, announcements, and invitations; and 245 clippings. Also included are 21 critiques of her work written by John Dos Passos, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Lithographer, painter, and educator (Baton Rouge, La.)
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1979 by Caroline Durieux.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Correspondence with Ferguson's wives, family and friends, among them political cartoonist for The Militant, Laura Gray, ceramist Cleo Bell, and mathematician Frederick Rodney Holt, one of the founders of Apple Computers; photographs of Ferguson, his family, his sculptures and reliefs, and studio pictures; several issues of The Militant and the International Socialist Review; minutes from meetings of various socialist and civil rights organizations; and printed material.
Biographical / Historical:
Sculptor, teacher; La., Ohio, and Calif. Ferguson was born in Shangai, China. He studied art with Albert H. Atkins and Robert Laurent. He worked on the WPA art project on the facades of the Louisiana State Office Building and Agricultural Building in Baton Rouge, and the U.S. Post Office in Leesville. He taught at Louisiana State University in the 1940s and was also an instructor in Cleveland on the Federal Art Project for Karamu House, a neighborhood art center designed to provide instruction in the visual and performing arts. He was active in the Socialist Workers Party and other socialist and left-wing groups. He died in Los Angeles in 1974.
Provenance:
Donated 1996 by Jerry Estruth, who had been asked to retrieve them from storage by Ferguson's friend, Frederick Rodney Holt.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
