Oral history interview with Stephen Greene
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. 2 reels Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 7 min.
label: General
content: Sound quality is poor.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Greene, Stephen, 1918-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Valley Cottage -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Greene, Stephen, 1918-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Stephen Greene (1918-1999) was a painter from Valley Cottage, N.Y
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording: master (33 min.), 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 44 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968 June 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.greene68
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Stephen Greene conducted 1968 June 8, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Greene speaks of his early life and family; the art education that he received; the major events that influenced his painting; how his artistic career developed throughout the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s; the forms and subject matter he used in his works. Greene also recalls Philip Guston, Perry Rathbone, Grant Wood, Hyman Bloom, Betty Parsons, and others.