A panel discussion sponsored by the Southern California Committee for Contemporary Art Documentation.
The participants speak of the relationship between documentation and contemporary art.
The participants are: Stella Paul, Sheldon Nodelman, Henry Hopkins, Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison, David Brauer, Herschel Browning Chipp, Murney Gerlach, Derek Boshier, Nancy Holt, and Paul Karlstrom. The event is hosted by the Archives of American Art.
Biographical / Historical:
The Southern California Committee for Contemporary Art Documentation is a consortium representing galleries, museums, libraries and archives throughout Southern California. Established in 1985 to promote an understanding of and interest in documentary records relating to contemporary art activity in the area.
General:
Originally recorded on 9 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 47 min.
Funding note:
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.
Collection Restrictions:
Use requires an appointment.
Occupation:
Conceptual artists -- California, Southern Search this
Funding for the digital preservation of these recordings was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
An interview of Erle Loran conducted 1981 June 18, by Herschel Chipp, for the Archives of American Art.
Loran speaks of his education, his studies with Cameron Booth and Hans Hofmann, life in Europe on a grant, his study of Cezanne, including his book, "Cezanne's Composition," and his return to New York. He discusses teaching at the Minneapolis School of Art, the WPA Art School, in Minneapolis, and the University of California, at Berkeley. He comments on meeting Marsden Hartley, American midwestern painters, ghost towns as subject matter for paintings, American politics in the 1930s, and surrealism in America.
Biographical / Historical:
Erle Loran (1905-1999) was a painter and art historian of Minneapolis, Minn. and Berkeley, Calif.
General:
Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 10 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 14 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:
Art historians -- California -- Interviews Search this
Gaston Lachaise, 100th anniversary exhibition : sculpture and drawings : Palm Springs Desert Museum, November 19 through December 19, 1982, Palm Springs, California / essay by Herschel B. Chipp
Jugendstil & expressionism in German posters; an exhibition organized by Herschel B. Chipp. Chronology and catalogue by Brenda Richardson. University Art Gallery, Nov. 16 through Dec. 9, 1965; Pasadena Art Museum, Jan. 18 through Feb. 20, 1966
Author:
University of California, Berkeley Committee for Arts and Lectures Search this
Interviews conducted by Kathleen Berrin, Letitia Brown, Elayne Marquis, Stacy Schaefer and Thomas K. Seligman, 1982, in connection with the exhibition, "The Bay Area Collects: art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas," held at the H. M. de Young Memorial Museum, July 3, 1982-October 3, 1982. Interviewees are: Margery Anneberg, Charles Campbell, Herschel Browning Chipp, Lawrence E. Dawson, Ruth and Marc Franklin, Melinda Young Frye, John and Monica Haley, Erle and Clyta Loran, Allen Maret, Robert Neuhaus, Bill Pearson, Al Stendahl and James Willis.
Other Title:
Tapes labelled: The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 7/81-12/81.
Papers of curator Herschel Browning Chipp concern the provenance, conservation, publication and exhibition of the painting "Washington rallying the troops at Monmouth," 1854, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, owned by the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum.
correspondence, research notes, press releases, newsclippings, photographs, conservation reports, and 2 unpublished manuscripts, "Washington at Monmouth" by John D. Hicks, and "Emanuel Leutze's Mural Westward the Course of Empire Takes Us Way" by Justin G. Turner, and documents regarding the program and budget for the 1965 exhibition of the Leutze painting.
Biographical / Historical:
Art historian, writer, museum curator, and educator; Berkeley, Calif. Born 1913. Died 1992.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1984 by Herschel Browning Chipp.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
The human image in German expressionist graphic art from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation : University Art Museum, Berkeley, January 28-March 22, 1981, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 22, 1981-January 3, 1982 / exhibition and essay by Herschel B. Chipp ; catalogue entries by Karin Breuer ; exhibition organized by the University Art Museum, Berkeley
Paintings by U.C. artists, faculty of the Departments of Art, University of California, Berkeley and Davis : [exhibition] July 13-August 31, 1965, University Art Gallery, Berkeley
Author:
University of California, Berkeley University Art Museum Search this
Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculpture : a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973 : the Picasso Project / [directed by Herschel Chipp and Alan Wofsy]
