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Creator:

Lawrence P. Fraiberg Productions  Search this

Names:

Lawrence P. Fraiberg Productions  Search this

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

New Museum (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

O.K. Harris Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

Campoli, Cosmo  Search this

Cavanau, Ted  Search this

Derman, Rick  Search this

Fraiberg, Lawrence P.  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Kovich, Robert  Search this

Nolan, Barry  Search this

Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006  Search this

Phillips, Liz  Search this

Rose, Barbara  Search this

Segal, George, 1924-2000  Search this

Solomon, Holly  Search this

Thorne, Joan, 1943-  Search this

Extent:

2.4 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Video recordings

Date:

1979

Summary:

The State of the Arts videorecordings measure 2.4 linear feet and consist of 30 videocassettes (U-matic) and three sets of handwritten notes, all created during the production of a pilot episode for a broadcast television documentary series on contemporary art in 1979. Four stories were produced for the pilot: a staged debate on modern art at the Museum of Modern Art; an investigation into the economics of the contemporary art market, a collaboration between video artist Nam June Paik and sound artist Liz Phillips, and an extended interview with sculptor George Segal on the occasion of his 1979 retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Video footage includes raw footage for each segment and edited versions of the economics of art story, the Nam June Paik and Liz Phillips story, and the George Segal story. The reporter and interviewer for the program was Barry Nolan.

Scope and Contents:

The State of the Arts videorecordings measure 2.4 linear feet and consist of 30 videocassettes (U-matic) and three sets of handwritten notes, all created during the production of a pilot episode for a broadcast television documentary series on contemporary art in 1979. Four stories were produced for the pilot: a staged debate on modern art at the Museum of Modern Art; an investigation into the economics of the contemporary art market, a collaboration between video artist Nam June Paik and sound artist Liz Phillips, and an extended interview with sculptor George Segal on the occasion of his 1979 retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Video footage includes raw footage for each segment and edited versions of the economics of art story, the Nam June Paik and Liz Phillips story, and the George Segal story. The reporter and interviewer for the program was Barry Nolan.

Although the program never aired, the video shot for the pilot documents significant artists and gallerists of its time, with profiles of O.K. Harris Works of Art and its founder, Ivan Karp, as well as art dealer Holly Solomon and critic Barbara Rose, Marcia Tucker in the early days of the New Museum, and footage of artists like Nam June Paik, Liz Phillips, and George Segal in their studios, describing their work in detail. The sound and video piece created by Paik and Phillips with the dancer Robert Kovich was commissioned by the State of the Arts producers for the pilot program, and the four hours of video documenting their collaboration and its product may therefore be unique.

Interview subjects for the economics of art story include Ivan Karp, Tom Drysdale, Rick Derman, Cosmo Campoli, Joan Thorne, Holly Solomon, Marcia Tucker, and Barbara Rose. The Marcia Tucker interview takes place at the New School, which was at the time the home of the New Museum. Footage also includes a gallery opening at O.K. Harris Works of Art. Extended interviews with Liz Phillips, Nam June Paik, and George Segal are found in the footage of their respective stories.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as one series.

Missing Title

Series 1: -- State of the Arts -- Production Video, 1979 (2.4 linear feet; boxes 1-3)

Biographical / Historical:

State of the Arts was planned as a broadcast television magazine program on the subject of contemporary art. The pilot was produced in 1979 by Lawrence P. Fraiberg Productions with funding provided jointly by IBM and the National Endowment for the Arts. Fraiberg and Tom Cavanau served as executive co-producers, Rick Derman as field producer, and Barry Nolan as interviewer. The program never aired.

Lawrence P. Fraiberg was a longtime television documentary veteran when the pilot was produced. He graduated from the University of California in 1949 and began his career at television station KPIX in San Francisco. He became vice president and general manager of WNEW-TV in New York in 1965, and was named president of Metromedia Television in 1977. In 1980 he was appointed president of the Television Station Group for Westinghouse Broadcasting. An active member in community and industry organizations, he is a recipient of an honorary degree (1978) from St. John's University, New York, a Peabody Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Broadcasting Industry (1986), and a Trustees Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1990). He died in 2011.

Barry Nolan, the interviewer for State of the Arts, went on to a career as a television magazine host and producer, with credits including Evening Magazine, Hard Copy, Extra!, and Nitebeat, and in 2012 produced the documentary No Way Out But One with his wife, Garland Waller.

Provenance:

Donated 1979-1980 by Lawrence P. Fraiberg.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Rights:

Authorization to quote or reproduce for purposes of publication requires written permission from Ted Cavanu, Rick Derman and Barry Nolan. Contact Reference Services for more information.

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.

Topic:

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Study and teaching  Search this

Performance art  Search this

Artists' studios  Search this

Video art  Search this

Sound sculpture -- United States  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Art -- Economic aspects  Search this

Function:

Production companies

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Video recordings

Citation:

State of the Arts Videorecordings, 1979. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' Hidden Collections grant program.

Identifier:

AAA.frailawr

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State of the arts videorecordings

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92f7d4bec-4caf-4705-8058-87f72987ab5a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-frailawr

Creator:

Artschwager, Richard, 1923-  Search this

Names:

Adair Margo Gallery  Search this

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts  Search this

Cornell University  Search this

Gagosian Gallery  Search this

Galerie Franck + Schulte  Search this

Harvard University  Search this

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art  Search this

Leo Castelli Gallery  Search this

Lorence-Monk Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Museum Ludwig  Search this

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)  Search this

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Search this

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

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture  Search this

University of Wisconsin  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Copley, William Nelson, 1919-1996  Search this

Fischl, Eric, 1948-  Search this

Johnson, Ray, 1927-  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this

Kimmelman, Michael  Search this

Lawler, Louise  Search this

LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007  Search this

Murray, Elizabeth, 1940-  Search this

Namuth, Hans  Search this

Neuendorf, Hans  Search this

Ruscha, Edward  Search this

Schaffner, Ingrid  Search this

Schjeldahl, Peter  Search this

Waters, John, 1946-  Search this

Woodman, Betty, 1930-  Search this

Extent:

5.6 Linear feet

9.33 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Illustrated letters

Transcripts

Sketches

Photographs

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Date:

1959-2013

Summary:

The papers of New York painter and sculptor Richard Artschwager measure 5.6 linear feet and 9.33 GB and date from 1959-2013. The papers include extensive correspondence, recorded talks and a lecture, exhibition files, printed and digital material, and photographs.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York painter and sculptor Richard Artschwager measure 5.6 linear feet and 9.33 GB and date from 1959-2013. The papers include extensive correspondence, recorded talks and a lecture, exhibition files, printed and digital material, and photographs.

Artschwager's correspondence is with museums, galleries, artists, art historians, academic institutions, and publishers and concerns exhibitions, speaking engagements, and teaching. Frequent correspondents include Lawrence Alloway, Leo Castelli Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ivan Karp, Museum Ludwig, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Ingrid Schaffner, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Also found are letters from fellow artists, including William Copley, Eric Fischl, Ray Johnson, Louise Lawler, Sol Lewitt, Ed Ruscha, John Waters, and Betty Woodman. Some letters are annotated or illustrated with sketches by Artschwager.

The collection includes a lecture and recorded talks by Richard Artschwager held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and the Carpenter Center of the Visual Arts, Harvard University, and other venues. One of the recordings is from the "Conversations with Contemporary Artists" series of the Museum of Modern Art. Also included in this series is a recorded discussion with artists Alex Katz and Elizabeth Murray and art critics Michael Kimmelman and Peter Schjeldahl.

Exhibition files are found for exhibitions held at Adair Margo Gallery, Lorence Monk Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cornell University, and numerous others, including many in Europe. Files typically contain correspondence, price lists, announcements, printed material, photographs, and a few sound and video recordings.

Printed material includes invitations and announcements as well as posters, reproductions, and brochures, mostly related to Richard Artschwager's exhibitions. Newspaper and magazine clippings document exhibition openings and the critical reception of his work.

There are also a few photographs including images of Leo Castelli by Hans Namuth used by Artschwager in preparing for his portrait of Castelli.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 5 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Correspondence, circa 1970-2013 (Boxes 1-3; 3.0 linear feet, ER01-ER02; 0.555 GB)

Series 2: Talks and Lecture, 1985-2009 (Box 4; 0.8 linear feet, ER03-ER10; 8.77 GB)

Series 3: Exhibition Files, 1973-2007 (Boxes 4-5; 1.0 linear feet)

Series 4: Printed Material, 1959-2012 (Boxes 5-6, OV 7; 0.6 linear feet)

Series 5: Photographs, circa 1973, 2007 (Box 6, OV 8; 0.1 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Richard Artschwager (1923-2013) lived and worked in New York City and Hudson, New York and was known primarily for his paintings and sculptures. Artschwager was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in New Mexico. As a youth, Artschwager showed a talent for drawing. He studied chemistry and mathematics at Cornell University. In 1944, Artschwager interrupted his studies to enlist in the U.S. Army. After the war, he returned to Cornell to complete his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948. Encouraged by his first wife, Elfriede Wejmelka to develop his interest in art, Artschwager moved to New York to study at the Studio School of Amédée Ozenfant. His paintings and drawings from this period were featured in two group shows at the Terrain Gallery in 1957 and at the Art Directions Gallery on Madison Avenue in 1959, where they were recognized by Donald Judd.

In the 1950s, in order to support his family, Artschwager turned to designing and manufacturing modern furniture. His woodworking skills inspired him to create sculptures from utilitarian objects such as tables, chairs, and mirrors. He is best known for the use of building materials Celotex and Formica in his work and for inventing an abstract form he called "blps" reliefs, stencils or decals that were installed randomly in museum, gallery and public spaces. From the mid-1980s to late 1990s, Artschwager designed large scale projects, though he continued to incorporate everyday domestic objects in his sculptures and paintings.

In 1965, Artschwager was given his first one-man exhibition at the Castelli Gallery and he remained with the Gallery for thirty years. He was also represented by Mary Boone, David Nolan, and the Gagosian Gallery. In the 1980s, Artschwager served on the Visual Arts Policy Committee at the National Endowment of the Arts. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts in 1992. He was a visiting artist at New Mexico State University, Soka University, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the University of Arizona. Artschwager's work was the subject of a major surveys, including the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Neues Museum, and Serpentine Gallery. He participated in numerous international group shows including the Venice Biennale and Documenta in Kassel, Germany. The Whitney Museum of American Art honored Artschwager with two travelling retrospective exhibitions in 1988 and 2012. In late 2012, Artschwager had one-man shows at the Gagosian Gallery and David Nolan Gallery.

Richard Artschwager died at the age of 89 years in 2013. He is survived by his wife, Ann Sebring Artschwager and three children from previous marriages.

Related Materials:

Also found among the resources at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Artschwager, March 3-28, 1972, conducted by Paul Cummings.

Provenance:

The collection was donated by Richard Artschwager and his wife Ann Artschwager in 2013.

Restrictions:

Use of original material requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.

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.

Occupation:

Art critics  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

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

Art, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Genre/Form:

Illustrated letters

Transcripts

Sketches

Photographs

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Citation:

Richard Artschwager papers, 1959-2013. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.artsrich

See more items in:

Richard Artschwager papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b1669278-fbd8-48b5-832c-ad4b93ec08bd

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-artsrich

Creator:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

OK Harris Works of Art (Gallery: New York, N.Y.)  Search this

O.K. Harris Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Subject:

Wesselmann, Tom  Search this

Rohm, Robert  Search this

Salt, John  Search this

Kacere, John C.  Search this

McLean, Richard Thorpe  Search this

Goings, Ralph  Search this

Grinder, Robert  Search this

Hanson, Duane  Search this

Karp, Marilynn Gelfman  Search this

Baeder, John  Search this

Butterfield, Deborah  Search this

Castanis, Muriel  Search this

Celender, Don  Search this

Clarke, John Clem  Search this

De Andrea, John  Search this

Dufresne, Leonard  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Prints

Diaries

Citation:

Ivan C. Karp papers and OK Harris Works of Art gallery records, 1960-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Photo-realism  Search this

Theme:

Art Gallery Records  Search this

Art Market  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)16157

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)366202

AAA_collcode_okharr

Theme:

Art Gallery Records

Art Market

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_366202

Creator:

Roberts, Colette, 1910-  Search this

Names:

British Broadcasting Corporation  Search this

Grand Central Moderns (Gallery)  Search this

Le Point Cardinal (Gallery)  Search this

New York University -- Faculty  Search this

Bauermeister, Mary, 1934-  Search this

Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988  Search this

Chryssa, 1933-  Search this

Dehner, Dorothy, 1901-1994  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Ferren, John, 1905-1970  Search this

Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974  Search this

Johnson, Ray, 1927-  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Le Prat, Thérèse  Search this

Lindner, Richard, 1901-1978  Search this

Marisol, 1930-2016  Search this

Moy, Seong  Search this

Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988  Search this

O'Doherty, Brian  Search this

Ray, Man, 1890-1976  Search this

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967 -- Photographs  Search this

Schwabacher, Ethel, 1903-1984  Search this

Sterne, Hedda, 1910-  Search this

Vieira da Silva, Maria Helena, 1908-1992  Search this

Extent:

10.2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Transcripts

Reviews (documents)

Interviews

Articles

Notes

Manuscripts

Photographs

Sound recordings

Date:

1918-1971

Summary:

The papers of New York City and Paris art historian, educator, and gallerist Colette Roberts measure 10.2 linear feet and date from 1918 to 1971. Papers include correspondence, writings, teaching records, project proposals, gallery records from Grand Central Moderns Gallery, clippings, Roberts' printed articles, press releases, exhibition catalogs, posters, photographs, and a few works of art on paper. Also found are 124 interviews with contemporary artists conducted by Roberts.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of New York City and Paris art historian, educator, and gallerist Colette Roberts measure 10.2 linear feet and date from 1918 to 1971. Papers include correspondence, writings, teaching records, project proposals, gallery records from Grand Central Moderns Gallery, clippings, Roberts' printed articles, press releases, exhibition catalogs, posters, photographs, and a few works of art on paper. Also found are 124 interviews with contemporary artists conducted by Roberts.

Significant correspondents include Sam Adler, Erwin Barrie, Hubert Damisch, George Deem, Mesdames de Harting and de Tinan, Lamar Dodd, Hélène Drude (Le Point Cardinal gallery), Arne Ekstrom, Albert M. Fine (Fluxus artist), Iqbal Geoffrey, R.G. Gilllet, Adolph Gottlieb, Cleve Gray, Leon Hartl, Jennett Lam, Alberto Cifolelli Lamb, Mike Nevelson, Norman Norotzky, Jacqueline Pavlowsky, Abe Rattner, Ad Reinhardt, H. Sandberg, Philippe Stern, Russell Twiggs, and Zuka.

Writings by Roberts include manuscripts and articles about artists, writings about her own art, personal writings, working notes from interviews and classes, reviews, and translations between English and French.

Among the personal records are Robert's files relating to teaching, charitable activities, and exhibitions. Also found are gallery records from Grand Central Moderns Gallery, including artist résumés, a card file of artworks with provenance information, exhibition catalogs and announcements, membership records, posters, publicity, and sales records.

Printed materials in the collection include clippings, Roberts' printed articles, press releases, and other exhibition catalogs and announcements. Photographs are of Roberts, artists, including Ad Reinhardt, classes, art spaces, and works of art. A small number of artworks on paper are also found, including Fluxus art stamps and a printed picture of Ray Johnson stamped "DOUGHNUT FESTIVAL."

Documentation of interviews with artists conducted by Roberts includes a card index file, a few transcripts, and the original sound recordings. Most of the recordings are interviews with artists that Roberts created during a class she taught at New York University between 1957 and 1971 called "Meet the Artist," including Mary Bauermeister, Romare Bearden, Dorothy Dehner, John Ferren, Ray Johnson, Ivan Karp, Thérèse Le Prat, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Seong Moy, Brian O'Doherty, Man Ray, Ethel Schwabacher, Hedda Sterne, Marie Helena Vieira da Silva, and many others. In preparation for magazine articles, Roberts conducted more extensive interviews with Chryssa, Marcel Duchamp, Adolph Gottlieb, and Louise Nevelson. A few of the recordings of Marcel Duchamp were not created by Roberts. In all, over 100 artists are represented in Roberts' interviews. Other recordings found include lectures and interviews conducted by people other than Roberts.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 8 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Correspondence, 1918-1971 (Box 1, 0.5 linear feet)

Series 2: Notes and Writings, 1936-1970 (Box 1, 0.3 linear feet)

Series 3: Personal Records, 1944-1971 (Box 1-2, 11; 0.7 linear feet)

Series 4: Grand Central Moderns Gallery Records, 1952-1970 (Box 2-3, 11; 0.7 linear feet)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1938-1971 (Box 3-5, 11-12; 2.0 linear feet)

Series 6: Photographs, 1930-1971 (Box 5; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 7: Artwork, 1940-1969 (Box 5; 4 folders)

Series 8: Interviews with Artists, 1959-1971 (Box 5-10; 5.5 lienar feet)

Biographical Note:

Colette Roberts was a French artist, curator, gallery director, and scholar who emigrated to the United States in 1939, settling in New York City and remaining there until her death in 1971.

Roberts was born in Paris, France in 1910. She studied art with Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson and with Henry Focillon at the Ecole du Louvre, and she later attended the Institut d'Art et Archeologie at the Sorbonne. Roberts came to the United States in 1939, settling in New York City, and became an American citizen three years later. In her early years in the United States, Roberts lectured and wrote on art and literature, and was active in various war-relief organizations, raising money and organizing benefits for organizations such as the American Red Cross and UNICEF. She was the gallery director for the National Association of Women Artists' Argent Galleries from 1947 to 1949, secretary to the curator of Far Eastern Art at New York's Metropolitan Museum from 1950 to 1951, and art editor for "France Amérique," the French-language newspaper in New York, beginning in 1953.

Roberts became gallery director of the Grand Central Moderns Gallery (New York, NY) in 1952 and remained in that position until 1968, when the gallery closed. The gallery was opened in 1946 by Erwin S. Barrie of the Grand Central Galleries for the promotion of living American artists. Among the artists represented there were Jennett Lam and Seong Moy. During this period she was also an instructor at New York University and Queens College, teaching art history and contemporary art. In 1957, she began a course at New York University called "Meet the Artist," for which she took her classes to the studios of working artists to see and discuss their work. In the early 1960s, she began to tape record her interviews of artists for this course, a practice which continued until her death in 1971. In 1968, Roberts worked briefly as Gallery Director for the A.M. Sachs Gallery (New York, NY), and as an oral history interviewer for the Archives of American Art.

Roberts wrote extensively on contempoary art, including articles and monographs on Mark Tobey (1960, Grove Press), Louise Nevelson (1964, The Pocket Museum), and Marcel Duchamp. She was a regular contributor to Aujourd'hui and Art and Architecture magazines.

Related Material:

Additional papers and recordings of Colette Roberts are held by Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center.

Separated Material:

A copy of a 1967 oral history with Adolf Gottlieb conducted by Dorothy Seckler for the Archives of American Art oral history program, which was found in Roberts' papers, has been returned to the Archives' oral history collection.

Provenance:

The sound recordings and transcripts of interviews with artists, were donated by Colette Roberts in 1970. The remaining papers were donated by her son, Richard B. Roberts, in 1973.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

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.

Occupation:

Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

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

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

Fluxus (Group of artists)  Search this

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

Genre/Form:

Transcripts

Reviews (documents)

Interviews

Articles

Notes

Manuscripts

Photographs

Sound recordings

Citation:

Colette Roberts papers and interviews with artists, circa 1930-1971. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc.

Identifier:

AAA.robecoli

See more items in:

Colette Roberts Papers and Interviews with Artists

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9bb878da1-c929-41fc-aa11-e3a678ffd3f1

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-robecoli

Interviewee:

Drexler, Rosalyn  Search this

Interviewer:

Lyon, Christopher  Search this

Names:

Garth Greenan Gallery  Search this

Hunter College -- Students  Search this

Kornblee Gallery  Search this

Reuben Gallery  Search this

Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990  Search this

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014  Search this

Barthelme, Donald  Search this

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988  Search this

Bruce, Lenny  Search this

Carmines, Al  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

De Kooning, Elaine  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Dine, Jim, 1935-  Search this

Doyle, Tom  Search this

Drexler, Sherman  Search this

Geldzahler, Henry  Search this

Gilman, Richard, 1923-2006  Search this

Hess, Thomas B.  Search this

Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970  Search this

Hirshhorn, Joseph H.  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this

Kent, Allegra  Search this

Klein, William  Search this

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962  Search this

Kroll, Jack  Search this

Marx, Chico, 1887-1961  Search this

Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962  Search this

Neel, Alice, 1900-1984  Search this

Newman, Barry  Search this

Perelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph), 1904-1979  Search this

Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978  Search this

Samaras, Lucas, 1936-  Search this

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004  Search this

Teer, Barbara Ann, 1937-2008  Search this

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987  Search this

Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994  Search this

Extent:

82 Pages (Transcript)

5 Items (Sound recording: 5 sound files (3 hr., 26 min.), digital, wav)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2017 May 17-June 2

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Rosalyn Drexler conducted 2017 May 17 and June 2 by Christopher Lyon, for the Archives of American Art, at Garth Greenan Gallery in New York, New York.

Drexler discusses her childhood in the Bronx; her experiences studying dance and music; her higher education at Hunter College; attending films and the Yiddish Theater; meeting her husband Sherman Drexler; her time as a professional wrestler; her memories of traveling to the South and encountering Jim Crow segregation; she describes learning about art from Sherman Drexler and her joint exhibition with Sherman; her early work in sculpture; participating in Happenings with Jim Dine; joining Anita Reuben's gallery; her debut as a playwright; her experience writing "I am the Beautiful Stranger;" the changing public perception of her and being classified as an artist; her decision to become a painter and appropriating images for her work; the influence of S. J. Perelman on her plays; her play about Joseph Cornell and ballerina Allegra Kent, and interviewing Allegra Kent; her recent artwork and preparing for her 2017 show at Garth Greenan Gallery; her artwork from the 1980s and 1990s; her comedy writing and sense of humor. Drexler also recalls Chico Marx, Jack Newfield, Igor Youskevitch, Ivan Karp, Anita Reuben, Lucas Samaras, Richard Gilman, Al Carmines, Amiri Baraka, Barbara Ann Teer, Franz Kline, Elaine De Kooning, Bill de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Jack Kroll, Lawrence Alloway, Tom Hess, Barney Newman, Harold Rosenberg, Susan Sontag, Joe Hirshhorn, Henry Geldzahler, Donald Barthelme, Kornblee Gallery, Eva Hesse, Tom Doyle, William Klein, Marilyn Monroe, Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Basquiat, Saturday Night Live, and Lenny Bruce, among others.

Biographical / Historical:

Rosalyn Drexler (1926- ) is a sculptor, playwright, and novelist in New York, New York. Christopher Lyon (1949- ) is a writer in Brooklyn, New York.

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:

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

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

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

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

Topic:

Women wrestlers  Search this

Segregation -- United States  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women sculptors  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Happenings (Art)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.drexle17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90bfba5d5-5e75-43b8-a9a5-bfc6e1c0120e

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-drexle17

Interviewee:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Interviewer:

Baker, Richard Brown, 1912-2002  Search this

Subject:

Kaprow, Allan  Search this

Leslie, Alan  Search this

Ting, Walasse  Search this

Müller, Jan  Search this

Benton, Thomas Hart  Search this

Avedisian, Edward  Search this

Segal, George  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert  Search this

Bellamy, Richard  Search this

Stout, Myron  Search this

Stankiewicz, Richard  Search this

Wilson, Jane  Search this

Follett, Jean  Search this

Force, Miles  Search this

Hansa Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Ivan C. Karp, 1963 October 18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Artist-run galleries -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13094

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)215602

AAA_collcode_karp63

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_215602

Interviewee:

Clarke, John Clem, 1937-  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Kornblee, Jill  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound tape reel (5 in.)

31 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1972 July 13

Scope and Contents:

An interview of John Clem Clarke conducted 1972 July 13, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Clarke speaks of his education; playing football for Oregon State University; his early aspirations to teach art; his travels; his studio in Liverpool, England during the Pop Art period, 1962; action painting; his use of stencils and photography; a painting's "visual code"; his influences; his dealers including Ivan C. Karp and Jill Kornblee; and "old master subjects". Clarke also explains his color theory.

Biographical / Historical:

John Clem Clarke (1937-) is a painter from New York, New York.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 58 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 available on the Archives of American Art website.

Topic:

Sculptors -- United States -- Interviews  Search this

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

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.clarke72

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw950a340f1-42c0-438c-b013-eac0ab295c2c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-clarke72

Interviewee:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Interviewer:

Baker, Richard Brown  Search this

Creator:

Kaprow, Allan  Search this

Names:

Hansa Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Avedisian, Edward, 1936-2007  Search this

Bellamy, Richard  Search this

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975  Search this

Follett, Jean, 1917-1991  Search this

Force, Miles  Search this

Leslie, Alan  Search this

Müller, Jan, 1922-1958  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008  Search this

Segal, George, 1924-2000  Search this

Stankiewicz, Richard, 1922-1983  Search this

Stout, Myron, 1908-1987  Search this

Ting, Walasse  Search this

Wilson, Jane, 1924-2015  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording: (1 hour, 3 min.), 7 in.)

30 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1963 October 18

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Ivan C. Karp conducted 1963 October 18, by Richard Brown Baker, for the Archives of American Art.

The interview focuses on Karp's time as co-director of the Hansa Gallery from 1956 to 1958. Karp talks about the general character and co-operative structure of the gallery; its mailing list and operation practices; how it located new talent; its sales; its location; critics and collectors who visited the gallery; coverage of the gallery in the art and general press; the make-up of its membership and his co-director Richard Bellamy. He discusses artists who were affiliated with the gallery: Richard Stankiewicz; Jane Wilson; Jan Müller; George Segal; Jean Follett; Myron Stout; Lilly Brody: Allan Kaprow; Miles Force; and Fay Lansner. He also mentions unaffiliated artists who exhibited in group shows at Hansa: Alfred Lesie, Robert Richenburg, Walasse Ting and the New Sculpture Group. Collectors mentioned are Horace Richter, Charles Carpenter, and Liz Parkinson [ph].

Biographical / Historical:

Ivan C. Karp (1926-) is an art dealer from New York, New York. Worked at the Hansa Gallery two seasons under Richard Bellamy. Later became director of the OK Harris Gallery.

General:

Part of this interview was inadvertently recorded over by the interviewer.

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 available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Artist-run galleries -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.karp63

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9dd116c11-efc4-4903-9159-a7267d3dcf0e

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-karp63

Interviewee:

Hansen, Al, 1927-1995  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Students  Search this

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) -- Students  Search this

Pratt Institute -- Students  Search this

Reuben Gallery  Search this

Brecht, George  Search this

Callahan, Harry M.  Search this

Dine, Jim, 1935-  Search this

Dunn, Bob  Search this

Dunn, Judith  Search this

Eisenhauer, Lette  Search this

Goldfine, Pauline  Search this

Groth, John, 1908-1988  Search this

Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998  Search this

Kaprow, Allan  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Mac Low, Jackson  Search this

Maciunas, George, 1931-1978  Search this

Marisol, 1930-2016  Search this

McCarey, Don  Search this

Moorman, Charlotte  Search this

Müller, Jan, 1922-1958  Search this

Nakian, Reuben, 1897-1986  Search this

Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-  Search this

Ortiz, Rafael Montanez  Search this

Paik, Nam June, 1932-  Search this

Poons, Larry  Search this

Segal, George  Search this

Smith, Tony, 1912-1980  Search this

Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998  Search this

Waring, James, 1922-1975  Search this

Watts, Robert, 1923-1988  Search this

Extent:

2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, 5 in.)

112 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1973 November 6-13

Scope and Contents:

Interview of Al Hansen conducted 1973 November 6-13, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

Hansen traces his personal history, recalling his childhood and early education in Queens; his service in the armed forces; and jobs he held in social work, advertising, off-Broadway theater, and art galleries. He describes taking classes with John Groth at the Art Students League in the 1940s; with Reuben Nakian at Pratt in the 1950s; and with John Cage at the New School in 1958. He also discusses the rise of New York as an art center; his interest in film; his involvement in experimental sound and music; his approach to creating Happenings and that of other artists; organizing poetry readings at the Epitome Coffee Shop; his Hershey bar wrapper collages; the writing of his book, "A Primer of Happenings and Space Time Art," (New York: Something Else Press 1965); his interactions with Fluxus and George Maciunas; participating in the "Below Zero" show at the Reuben Gallery in 1959; attending the Destruction In Art symposium in London in 1966; and his recent exhibitions in Germany. People he recalls include Tony Smith; Pauline Goldfine [ph]; Dick Higgins; Wolf Vostell; Larry Poons; Allan Kaprow; Claes Oldenburg; Don McCarey [ph]; Jim Dine; George Brecht; Jackson Mac Low; James Waring; Marisol Escobar; Ivan Karp; Bob Watts; George Segal; Judith Dunn; Bob Dunn; Jan Müller; Nam June Paik; Raphael Ortiz; Charlotte Moorman; and Lettie Lou Eisenhauer.

Biographical / Historical:

Al Hansen (1927-1995) was an artist from New York, New York. Founder of Fluxus art movement and one of the first Happenings artists.

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.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Topic:

Fluxus (Group of artists)  Search this

Art, American  Search this

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

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Happenings (Art)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the transcription of this interview provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.hansen73

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9934acc05-c372-46fa-924a-d3cdb5649cbf

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hansen73

Interviewee:

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Leo Castelli Gallery  Search this

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981  Search this

Bellamy, Richard  Search this

Callahan, Harry M.  Search this

Drouin, René  Search this

Flavin, Dan, 1933-  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930-  Search this

Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997  Search this

List, Vera  Search this

Ludwig, Peter, 1925-  Search this

Nauman, Bruce, 1941-  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008  Search this

Scull, Robert C.  Search this

Serra, Richard, 1938-  Search this

Solomon, Alan R., 1920-1970  Search this

Sonnabend, Ileana  Search this

Tremaine, Burton  Search this

Extent:

194 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1969 May 14-1973 June 8

Scope and Contents:

Interview of Leo Castelli conducted 1969 May 14-1973 June 8, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

Castelli speaks of his background; fleeing Europe, 1940-1941; his U.S. Army service; The Club; establishing his New York galleries; his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, and her success as an art dealer; galleries in the 1940s and 1950s; his staff; prints; commissioned works; exhibitions and sales of works by Dan Flavin, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, and others; collectors including Philip Cortelyou Johnson, Vera G. List, Peter Ludwig, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scull, and Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine. Castelli recalls Alfred H. Barr, Richard Bellamy, John Cage, René Drouin, Ivan C. Karp, and Alan Robert Solomon.

Biographical / Historical:

Leo Castelli (1907-1999) was an art dealer from New York, New York.

General:

Originally recorded as 8 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 15 digital wav files. Duration is 14 hr., 12 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.

Occupation:

Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.castel69may

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw991dbedb1-b314-4a60-b12e-b9a46ecce37c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-castel69may

Interviewee:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Interviewer:

Brach, Paul H. (Paul Henry), 1924-2007  Search this

Subject:

Cohen, Ronny  Search this

O.K. Harris Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Leo Castelli Gallery  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Ivan C. Karp, 1986 April 17-1988 October 18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12283

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214747

AAA_collcode_karp86

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_214747

Creator:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Brach, Paul, 1924-  Search this

Interviewer:

Cohen, Ronny  Search this

Names:

Leo Castelli Gallery  Search this

O.K. Harris Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Extent:

3 Sound cassettes

87 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound cassettes

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

1986 April 17-1988 October 18

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Ivan C. Karp conducted 1986 April 17-1988 October 18, by Ronny Cohen for the Archives of American Art.

Karp discusses his background, working at the Leo Castelli Gallery from 1959 to 1969; the process of opening the OK Harris Gallery in 1969 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City; his perception of art collectors and the nature of art collecting; the New York art scene from the 1960s through the 1980s; how art work is priced; artists he considers to be overvalued; and how one knows which art works have value. He mentions Leo Castelli, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, David Salle, Mark Rothko, and Anselm Kiefer.

Paul Henry Brach (painter, New York, New York) joins the discussion on the third tape recorded on October 18, 1988.

Biographical / Historical:

Ivan C. Karp (1926-2012) was an art dealer and director of the OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York.

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:

Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Gallery directors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Identifier:

AAA.karp86

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a3cf2811-185b-4d51-9ac8-da872084a04b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-karp86

Interviewee:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul, 1933-1997  Search this

Subject:

Artschwager, Richard  Search this

Bellamy, Richard  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Johns, Jasper  Search this

Lichtenstein, Roy  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert  Search this

Rosenquist, James  Search this

Scull, Robert C.  Search this

Sonnabend, Ileana  Search this

Twombly, Cy  Search this

Warhol, Andy  Search this

Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Richard Green Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Hansa Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

O.K. Harris Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Ivan C. Karp, 1969 March 12. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Optical art  Search this

Pop art  Search this

Soft sculpture -- United States  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11717

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211988

AAA_collcode_karp69

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_211988

Interviewee:

Hanson, Duane  Search this

Interviewer:

Kirwin, Liza  Search this

Names:

O.K. Harris Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Carter, Dudley  Search this

De Andrea, John, 1941-  Search this

Grygo, George  Search this

Hauser, Alonzo, 1909-1988  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Kienholz, Edward, 1927-  Search this

McVey, William Mozart, 1905-1995  Search this

Milles, Carl, 1875-1955  Search this

Rood, John, 1902-1974  Search this

Extent:

3 Items (Sound recording, sound cassettes)

39 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1989 August 23-24

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Duane Hanson conducted 1989 August 23-24, by Liza Kirwin, for the Archives of American Art.

Hanson speaks of his years growing up in rural Minnesota; his Swedish ancestry; the influence of his wives and family on his art; his teaching career spanning sixteen to twenty years; his experiences at Cranbook; discussions of his place in the art world as a Realist, Hyperrealist, or New Realist; influence of contemporary sculptors of the time on his work; the importance of American art being able to break into the Russian art scene; his process and the pitfalls and advantages of different types of materials, including bronze and polyester resin; the schedule he follows when working and how the pace of his schedule and deadlines affect his art; whether the materials he employs contributed to his cancer; the discussion of his disease, subsequent treatment, and how it impacted his art; the change in focus from his earlier pieces centered around war or social upheaval to his newer, satirical work such as "Jogger" or "Sunbather with Black Bikini," which featured more athletic or trendy characterizations of people; his thought process in choosing what to sculpt; discussions of his exhibition at the Whitney Museum and various galleries in the United States, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia, among others; and his ecological concerns. Duane Hanson also recalls Andy Warhol, John DeAndrea, Carl Milles, John Rood, Julius Schmidt, William McVey, Rodin, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Duane Hanson (1925-1996) was a sculptor from Davie, Florida. Hanson was best known for his life-size figures, often dressed in real clothes.

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 administrators. Funding for this interview provided by the Lannan Foundation.

Occupation:

Artists' models  Search this

Artists' models  Search this

Topic:

Figure sculpture  Search this

Sculpture -- Technique  Search this

Pop art  Search this

Sculptors -- Florida -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Lannan Foundation.

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.hanson89

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9642c706a-7f96-4d4e-8eda-6d2f37312e6e

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hanson89

Interviewee:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Club (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Hansa Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

O.K. Harris Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Richard Green Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Artschwager, Richard, 1923-2013  Search this

Bellamy, Richard  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930-  Search this

Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008  Search this

Rosenquist, James, 1933-  Search this

Scull, Robert C.  Search this

Sonnabend, Ileana  Search this

Twombly, Cy, 1928-  Search this

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings: (2 hours 30 min.), 7 in.)

78 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1969 March 12

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Ivan C. Karp conducted 1969 March 12, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art at the Leo Castelli Gallery.

Karp discusses the invention of the names "OK Harris" and "Green Gallery"; his work for Leo Castelli including gallery exhibitions, expenses, collectors, critics and staff; the work of Richard Artschwager, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Cy Twombly, Gerry Vanderweil, Andy Warhol, and others; The Club; "soft art"; and the art market. He recalls Richard Bellamy, Ileana Sonnabend, Robert C. Scull, and others. Karp speaks of growing up in the boroughs of New York City, his reading and writing interests, commercial film making, his work for the Hansa Gallery and Martha Jackson, summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the art scene in New York City in the late 1950s.

Biographical / Historical:

Ivan C. Karp (1926- ) is an art dealer and director of the OK Harris Gallery in New York, New York.

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 available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Gallery directors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Optical art  Search this

Pop art  Search this

Soft sculpture -- United States  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.karp69

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw937490cff-69fe-4cbc-b150-25706f2b3bb9

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-karp69

Interviewee:

Scull, Robert C.  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Andrejevic, Milet, 1925-1989  Search this

Bellamy, Richard  Search this

De Maria, Walter, 1935-2013  Search this

Di Suvero, Mark, 1933-  Search this

Heizer, Michael, 1944-  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930-  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962  Search this

Leslie, Alfred, 1927-  Search this

Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970  Search this

Rosenquist, James, 1933-  Search this

Rutherford, Judith  Search this

Segal, George, 1924-2000  Search this

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987  Search this

Extent:

69 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1972 June 15-28

Scope and Contents:

Interview of Robert Scull conducted by 1972 June 15-28, Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Scull speaks of his early life and education in New York City; attending night classes at the Art Students League; the importance of museum visits; becoming assistant art director for Saks 34th Street; financially successful ventures; the start of his collection in 1954; his criteria for acquisition; his relationships with artists; the pop art scene; portraits of Scull by various artists; the effects of publicity surrounding his collection; his interest in the future of art; the disposition of his collection; critics; relationships with dealers and museums.

He recalls Barnett Newman, Richard Bellamy, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Andy Warhol, Alfred Leslie, Ivan Karp, Mark Di Suvero, Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, Milet Andrejevic, and Judith Rutherford.

Biographical / Historical:

Robert Scull (1917-1986) was a collector from New York, N.Y.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 28 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.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.scull72

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92e6d142c-02e1-45d2-8775-abf54ad8de91

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-scull72

Creator:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Venet, Bernar, 1941-  Search this

Type:

Sound Recording

Date:

1970

Citation:

Ivan C. Karp and Bernar Venet. Interview with Ivan Karp and Bernar Venet, 1970. Colette Roberts Papers and Interviews with Artists, 1918-1971. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)10818

See more items in:

Colette Roberts Papers and Interviews with Artists, 1918-1971

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_10818

Creator:

Dine, Jim, 1935-  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

1960 Aug.

Citation:

Jim Dine. Jim Dine postcard to Ivan Karp, 1960 Aug.. Ivan C. Karp papers and OK Harris Works of Art gallery records, 1960-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)14087

See more items in:

Ivan C. Karp papers and OK Harris Works of Art gallery records, 1960-2014

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_14087

Creator:

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Rose, Barbara, 1938-2020  Search this

Type:

Sound Recording

Date:

1968 April

Citation:

Ivan C. Karp and Barbara Rose. Interview with Ivan Karp, 1968 April. Barbara Rose papers, 1962-circa 1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)16136

See more items in:

Barbara Rose papers, 1962-circa 1969

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_16136

Creator:

Fawcett, John S.  Search this

Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

1996 January 9

Citation:

John S. Fawcett. John S. Fawcett illustrated envelope to Ivan and Marilyn Karp, 1996 January 9. Ivan C. Karp papers and OK Harris Works of Art gallery records, 1960-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Comic books, strips, etc.  Search this

Mail art  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)17108

See more items in:

Ivan C. Karp papers and OK Harris Works of Art gallery records, 1960-2014

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_17108