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Oral history interview with Robert Mangold

Interviewee:
Mangold, Robert, 1937-  Search this
Interviewer:
Lyon, Christopher  Search this
Names:
Cleveland Institute of Art -- Students  Search this
Mnuchin Gallery  Search this
Pace Gallery  Search this
Society for Visual Anthropology (U.S.) -- Faculty  Search this
Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Art -- Students  Search this
Albers, Josef  Search this
Chaet, Bernard  Search this
Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970  Search this
Katz, Alex, 1927-  Search this
LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007  Search this
Lippard, Lucy R.  Search this
Marden, Brice, 1938-  Search this
Nice, Don, 1932-  Search this
Welliver, Neil  Search this
Wyman, Robert  Search this
Extent:
3 Items (sound files (2 hr., 43 min.) Audio, digital, wav)
37 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Interviews
Sound recordings
Place:
Italy -- description and travel
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and Travel
Date:
2017 November 16
Scope and Contents:
An interview with Robert Mangold conducted 2017 November 16, by Christopher Lyon, for the Archives of American Art, at Mangold's studio in Washingtonville, New York.
Mangold speaks of his childhood in the North Tonawanda, New York; early experiences of drawing; attending the Cleveland Institute of Art, a summer program at Yale Norfolk, and graduate school at Yale; his first encounter and experiments with Abstract Expressionism in the late 1950s; the influence of Pop art and New York City's built environment on his work; moving to New York in 1962; the art world social scene of the early 1960s; his teaching career at SVA; his investigative approach to art-making; his approach to making series of works; the influence of living in the countryside on his work; his investigations of drawn lines in paintings beginning in the late '60s; his recent decision to hire an assistant; his formative summer of 1974 in Italy; his 2017 retrospective survey at Mnuchin Gallery; and his comments on certain pieces reproduced in the Pace Gallery catalogue of his work. Mangold also recalls Bernard Chaet, Alex Katz, Josef Albers, Brice Marden, Neil Welliver, Lucy Lippard, Robert Ryman, Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, Don Nice, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Robert Mangold (1937- ) is a minimalist artist in New York, New York. Christopher Lyon (1949- ) is an author and publisher 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.
Topic:
Abstract expressionism  Search this
Art -- Technique  Search this
Minimal art  Search this
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this
Pop art  Search this
Genre/Form:
Interviews
Sound recordings
Identifier:
AAA.mangol17
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw99a93be78-7919-4ee0-ae2c-da5abaef8c18
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-mangol17
Online Media:

Don Nice : the nature of art / John Driscoll

Title:
Nature of art
Author:
Driscoll, John Paul  Search this
Nice, Don 1932-  Search this
Subject:
Nice, Don 1932-  Search this
Nice, Don 1932- Criticism and interpretation  Search this
Physical description:
208 p. : ill. ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Catalogs
Date:
2004
C2004
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_798505

Don Nice : a 20 year survey / Eleanor Flomenhaft, curator

Author:
Nice, Don 1932-  Search this
Flomenhaft, Eleanor  Search this
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island  Search this
University of Oklahoma Museum of Art  Search this
Springfield Art Museum  Search this
Subject:
Nice, Don 1932-  Search this
Physical description:
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 27 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
1985
C1985
Call number:
N40.1.N616 F56 1985
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_667548

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