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Series Creator:

Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969  Search this

Container:

Box 33, Folder 18

Type:

Archival materials

Scope and Contents:

Boston, Massachusetts

Series Restrictions:

Collection is open for research but the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogs are stored off-site and are restricted due to fragile condition. Researchers should consult microfilm in NMAH library for 1880-1983 editions, drawer 692. Some additional items may be restricted due to fragile condition. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Series Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Series Citation:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods / Business Records and Marketing Material / Companies and Proprietors / Th-Va

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep80323f70c-8b08-414a-86a1-db247bcb6d97

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0060-s01-01-dry-ref3947

Interviewee:

Cederquist, John, 1946-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Subject:

Bennett, Garry Knox  Search this

Clark, Garth  Search this

Cooke, Edward S.  Search this

Danto, Arthur Coleman  Search this

Gaines, Tom  Search this

Hughes, Robert  Search this

Makepeace, John  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy  Search this

Parrasch, Franklin  Search this

Smith, Roberta  Search this

Snidecor, John  Search this

Straight, Bob  Search this

Straight, Chris  Search this

Turnbull, George  Search this

Zuecher, Gary  Search this

California State University  Search this

Franklin Parrasch Gallery  Search this

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Oakland Museum  Search this

Saddleback College  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with John Cederquist, 2009 April 14-15. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Furniture designers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Sculptors -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Woodworkers -- California -- Interviews.  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Architecture & Design  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)15662

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)282437

AAA_collcode_cederq09

Theme:

Craft

Architecture & Design

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_282437

Interviewee:

Cederquist, John  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Creator:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Names:

California State University -- Students  Search this

Franklin Parrasch Gallery  Search this

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Oakland Museum  Search this

Saddleback College -- Faculty  Search this

Bennett, Garry Knox, 1934-  Search this

Clark, Garth, 1947-  Search this

Cooke, Edward S., 1954-  Search this

Danto, Arthur Coleman, 1924-  Search this

Gaines, Tom  Search this

Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012  Search this

Makepeace, John  Search this

Maruyama, Wendy, 1952-  Search this

Parrasch, Franklin  Search this

Smith, Roberta  Search this

Snidecor, John  Search this

Straight, Bob  Search this

Straight, Chris  Search this

Turnbull, George  Search this

Zuecher, Gary  Search this

Extent:

11 Items (Sound recording: 11 sound files (4 hr., 54 min.), digital, wav file)

111 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2009 April 14-15

Scope and Contents:

An interview of John Cederquist conducted 2009 April 14-15, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Cederquist's studio, in San Clemente, California.

John Cederquist speaks of his recent series Dollar Bill; his long-standing interest in perspective and use of tool imagery in his work; his childhood in Southern California; his early interest in art through custom car art; high school art instruction and focusing on craft; earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at California State University, Long Beach in the late 1960s and early 1970s; teaching at Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California, starting in the early 1970s; work in wood and leather; other brief teaching jobs in Southern California universities; early exhibitions; exhibition and demonstrations at Parnham House, Beaminster, England, 1978; starting to teach perspective at Saddleback; Number One; the Egg and the Eye gallery/cafe, Los Angeles, California; Game Table [1982]; Auntie Macassar Goes West, 1987-88; philosophical and aesthetic differences between wood artists on the East and West coasts; exhibition: "Material Evidence: Master Craftsmen Explore ColorCore," Workbench: the Gallery, New York, New York, 1984; "California Woodworking," the Oakland Museum [of California, 1980; Thonet catalog as source material]; influence of animation in film and television; the perceptual and conceptual issues in translating two dimensions into three, and vice versa; the nature of illusion and perception; inclusion of work in an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989; the influence of How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging, Hideyuki Oka, Trumbull, Connecticut: Weatherhill, 1967; use of the Thomas Chippendale book (1754) as source material; subtle influence of cubism on Ghost Boy [1992] piece; his choice of furniture as the vehicle for his aesthetic exploration; series Furniture That Builds Itself (1991-2007), and continued influence of cartoons and animation; his choice of different kinds of wood; series How to Wrap Five Crates; series Kimonos and the influence of Japanese aesthetics; When Machines Dream of Hokusai [1995]: Road to Dreamland; series Wave (early to mid-1990s), and Tubular [1990], the first in the series; series Kosode; series This Is Not Lunch; historical Japanese tattoos as a source of inspiration; "Furniture That Builds Itself," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York, 2003; sense of humor and "goofiness" in his work; Flat Foot Floogie Builds a Bench. [2003]; influence of photography on his work; his pieces as functional furniture and the artistic potential therein; social commentary in his recent Kosode pieces; Heavenly Victory; how his pieces get named; "The Art of John Cederquist: Reality of Illusion," Oakland Museum of California, 1999-2000; Breakthrough series: Steamer, early 1990s; Top Drawer (1985); Space Age Wave Machine (1999); use of thick wood instead of veneer; strengths and weaknesses of a university setting for art studies; the importance of being part of the craft movement; the role of Garth Clark's gallery in the movement; the importance of working with the Franklin Parrasch gallery; his admiration for art critic Robert Hughes; the role of online media in art journalism and criticism and journalism. He also recalls Gary Zuercher, Franklin Parrasch, John Snidecor, George Turnbull, John Makepeace, Edward S. Cooke, Garry Knox Bennett, Wendy Maruyama, Tom Gaines, Bob and Chris Straight, Arthur Danto, and Roberta Smith.

Biographical / Historical:

John Cederquist (1946- ) creates fine art furniture and wood sculpture. Cederquist is known for using trompe l'oeil in his work. He was educated at Long Beach State University and teaches at Saddleback College.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 11 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 54 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 administrators.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Cabinetmakers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Furniture designers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Sculptors -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Woodworkers -- California -- Interviews.  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

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.cederq09

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e6b8700a-8d69-4730-8c1b-fa580b376816

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-cederq09

Collection Correspondent:

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978  Search this

Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this

Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961  Search this

Spier, Robert Forest Gayton  Search this

Simpkins, Norman  Search this

Sinder, Leon  Search this

Slobodin, Richard  Search this

Spicer, Edward Holland  Search this

Tax, Sol, 1907-1995  Search this

Helm, June, 1924-  Search this

Ottenberg, Simon  Search this

Osgood, Harold Cornelius  Search this

Pollitzer, William S., 1923-  Search this

Peck, John Gregory  Search this

Niehall, Arthur  Search this

Nelleman, George  Search this

Opler, Morris Edward  Search this

Oakes, Marrilee  Search this

Rouse, Irving, 1913-2006  Search this

Rogers, Edward S.  Search this

Siddiqi, A. H. A.  Search this

Salz, Beate R.  Search this

Riesman, David  Search this

Reina, Ruben E.  Search this

Rioux, Marcel  Search this

Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005  Search this

Aberle, David F. (David Friend), 1918-2004  Search this

Alizai, Saeed K.  Search this

Chance, Norman A.  Search this

Casagrande, Joseph B. (Joseph Bartholomew), 1915-1982  Search this

Count, Earl W.  Search this

Cohen, Yehudi A.  Search this

Davis, William  Search this

Damas, David  Search this

Blackwell, Gordon  Search this

Boek, Walter  Search this

Berndt, Ronald  Search this

Bittle, William Elmer  Search this

Barnouw, Victor  Search this

Basehart, Harry  Search this

Anderson, Nels  Search this

Balikci, Asen, 1929-  Search this

Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963  Search this

Fejos, Lita Binns  Search this

Evans, Arthur  Search this

Ervin, Sam J. Jr  Search this

Erickson, Vincent O.  Search this

Carneiro, Robert  Search this

Braidwood, Robert J. (Robert John), 1907-2003  Search this

Bohannan, Paul James  Search this

Gibson, Mickey  Search this

Geertz, Clifford  Search this

Freilich, Morris  Search this

Ford, Clellan  Search this

Foote, Don Charles  Search this

Flannery, Regina  Search this

Fischer, F. L.  Search this

McFeat, Tom F. S.  Search this

Mayo, Selz C.  Search this

Matthiasson, John S.  Search this

Maslow, Abraham H.  Search this

Naroll, Raoul  Search this

Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985  Search this

Meggers, Betty Jane  Search this

Langness, L. L.  Search this

Laing, Gordon B.  Search this

Kupferer, Harriet J.  Search this

Kimball, Solon T.  Search this

Marshall, Donald Stanley  Search this

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich  Search this

Lewis, Oscar  Search this

Lantis, Margaret, 1906-2006  Search this

Hopkins, Tom R.  Search this

Herzmaier, Maria  Search this

Hindley, George K.  Search this

Kaplan, Berton H.  Search this

Kenny, Michael  Search this

Hsu, Francis Lang-Kwang  Search this

Jocher, Katherine  Search this

Duncan, Richard  Search this

Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991  Search this

Desy, Pierrette  Search this

Du Bois, Cora Alice, 1903-1991  Search this

Heath, Dwight Braley  Search this

Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977  Search this

Emmons, Gary L.  Search this

Gillin, John, 1907-1973  Search this

Gladwin, Thomas Favill  Search this

Goldschmidt, Walter, 1913-2010  Search this

Goodenough, Ward Hunt  Search this

Graves, Theodore Dumaine  Search this

Gulick, John  Search this

Gussow, Zachary  Search this

Hamori-Torok, Charles  Search this

Hansen, Asael Tanner  Search this

Harper, Edward B.  Search this

Hayakawa, S. I.  Search this

Spindler, George D.  Search this

Teicher, Morton I.  Search this

Thompson, Laura, 1905-2000  Search this

Titiev, Mischa  Search this

Trudeau, John  Search this

Toit, Brian du  Search this

Valentine, Victor F.  Search this

Tuden, Arthur  Search this

Vincent, Clark  Search this

Vallee, Frank G.  Search this

Vogt, Evon Zartman  Search this

Voget, Fred W.  Search this

Walker, Willard  Search this

Von Furer-Haimendorf, C.  Search this

Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980  Search this

Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-  Search this

Wolf, Eric R.  Search this

Collection Creator:

Honigmann, John Joseph, 1914-1977  Search this

Container:

Box 106

Type:

Archival materials

Collection Restrictions:

Some materials concerning the operations of the University of North Carolina Department of Anthropology are restricted.

Collection Rights:

Honigmann used pseudonyms when referring to his informants in publications. Irma Honigmann has requested that researchers refrain from publishing their names.

Collection Citation:

John Joseph Honigmann Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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John Joseph Honigmann Papers

John Joseph Honigmann Papers / Series 7: ANTHROPOLOGICAL SUBJECTS, ANTHROPOLOGY, RELATED SUBJECTS AND SCHOLARS / Miscellaneous

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw35c0fd363-92c2-4b46-9189-25e22801473a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-1993-15-ref1080

Author:

Blainville Monsieur de  Search this

Guthrie, William 1708-1770  Search this

Lockman, John 1698-1771  Search this

Soyer, Daniel  Search this

Turnbull, George  Search this

Physical description:

3 v., [4] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 26 cm. (4to)

Type:

Books

Place:

Italy

Europe

Date:

1757

Topic:

Description and travel  Search this

Call number:

DG424 .B58 1757

DG424.B58 1757

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_356834