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Sound recordings
Interviews
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Clinton Adams, 1974 March 29. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
An interview of Clinton Adams conducted 1974 March 29, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
Adams speaks of how he got involved with the Tamarind Lithography Workshop; how and why Tamarind came about; the lack of artists doing lithographs; the need for the artist to collaborate with the printmaker in order to make a good print; writing a book about the workshop; how in order to interest American Artists into making lithographs, there needs to be a market for it; how it was difficult collecting works of art for the University of New Mexico (UNM); the current art scene in Albuquerque; the arts programs at UNM; moving the workshop to UNM in order to make Tamarind a permanent institute and get more funding; and how more women are becoming printers. He recalls June Wayne, Lynton R. Kistler, Man Ray, Jean Charlow, Eugene Berman, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Garo Antreasian, Joe Funk, Romas Viesulas, Tatyana Grosman, Irwin Hollander, Ken Tyler, Julie Duristo, Bohuslav Horak, Kenneth Adams, John Sommers, and many others.
Biographical / Historical:
Clinton Adams (1918-2002) was a printmaker, painter, and art administrator from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
General:
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 57 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 others.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Occupation:
Arts administrators -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Interviews Search this
Letters and postcards from Willis in Paris to his family and letters from Home savings and Loan Association of Los Angeles, Calif. and the Santa Monica Public library; exhibition catalogs, announcements, invitations and clippings; a guestbook from an open house honoring Willis; 2 scrapbooks containing clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, postcards and newspaper clippings about his experiences as an ambulance driver on the western front during World War II; lists of art work, gallery receipts and consignment sheets; a sketchbook of watercolors; a photograph album of his art work and photographs of Willis, his family, friends, and art work.
Biographical / Historical:
Painter; Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born in Farmington, New Mexico. Taught art at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, 1941-1942, and was the director of of the Field School of the University of New Mexico at Taos, 1941-1942.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming, 1984, by Helen Willis, Paul's widow, as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Biographical material, sketchbooks, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, financial material and correspondence.
REEL 3057: An autobiographical essay with notes; biographical information; sketches and sketchbooks; scrapbooks containing clippings and photographs of art work; photographs of von Hassler and his wife; correspondence; financial documents, including price lists, receipts, and a ledger; insurance papers, legal documents, naturalization papers, contracts, and legal actions; clippings, exhibition catalogs and printed material; and material collected by Esther Sheehan Berrenberg, including an exhibition catalog, appraisals, receipts, and photographs of von Hassler's artwork, and a scrapbook containing clippings and letters about von Hassler.
REELS 3057-3058 and 3285: Letters, postcards and greeting cards from Caroline Coudray, W.A. Kline, Esther Sheehan and Mrs. G. S. Westermann and drafts of letters sent; receipts, check stubs and other financial material; sketches and sketchbooks; three lithographic reproductions; and clippings and printed material.
Biographical / Historical:
Painter; Albuquerque, N.M. Born in Bremen, Germany. Studied at the Dusseldorf Academie. Moved to the U.S. prior to World War I and lived in New York City for several years before relocating to New Mexico.
Provenance:
Lent 1984 by Esther Sheehan Berrenberg and Novella King, friends of von Hassler's, and microfilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Rights:
Authorization to publish, quote or reproduce requires written permission from Novella King. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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