Oral history interview with Clinton Adams
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 57 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Adams, Clinton, 1918-2002
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Tamarind Lithography Workshop
label: Names
content: University of New Mexico. College of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Adams, Kenneth M.
label: Names
content: Antreasian, Garo Z., 1922-2018
label: Names
content: Berman, Eugene, 1899-1972
label: Names
content: Charlow, Jean
label: Names
content: Funk, Joseph, 1917-1981
label: Names
content: Grosman, Tatyana, 1904-1982
label: Names
content: Hollander, Irwin
label: Names
content: Horak, Bohuslav, 1914-2004
label: Names
content: Kistler, Lynton R.,  , 1897-1993
label: Names
content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
label: Names
content: Ray, Man, 1890-1976
label: Names
content: Sommers, John, 1927-
label: Names
content: Tyler, Kenneth E.
label: Names
content: Viesulas, Romas, 1918-
label: Names
content: Wayne, June, 1918-2011
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Adams, Clinton, 1918-2002
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Clinton Adams (1918-2002) was a printmaker, painter, and art administrator from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 49 Pages (Transcription)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 March 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.adams74
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Clinton Adams conducted 1974 March 29, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.