Oral history interview with Yvonne Jacquette
name: label: Interviewee
content: Jacquette, Yvonne
label: Interviewer
content: McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
label: Creator
content: Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
label: Names
content: Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
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content: Moore College of Art
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content: New York (State).. Metropolitan Transportation Authority.Arts for Transit
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content: Parsons School of Design -- Faculty
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content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts -- Faculty
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content: University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty
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content: Burckhardt, Rudy, 1914-1999
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content: Denby, Edwin Hooper, 1873-
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content: Grooms, Mimi Gross
label: Names
content: Katz, Alex, 1927-
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content: Kushner, Robert, 1949-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Mural painting and decoration
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content: Mosaics
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content: Painting -- Equipment and supplies
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content: Painting -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women printmakers
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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Jacquette, Yvonne
label: Interviewer
content: McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
label: Creator
content: Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Yvonne Jacquette (1934-2023) was a painter and printmaker in New York, N.Y. James McElhinney is an artist and educator in New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (Sound recording, master: 3 sound files (2 hr., 55 min.), digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 91 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Recorded on Edirol R-09HR; two SD memory cards.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2010 October 19 and 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jacque10
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Yvonne Jacquette conducted 2010 October 19 and 21, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art's Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts project, at Jacquette's home and studio, in New York, N.Y.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Jacquette talks about a current competition for art in a Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) subway station at 34th Street and 11th Avenue in New York City; mosaics and fresco; materials and methods; other MTA commissions; her late husband Rudy Burckhardt; teaching at Moore College of Art in Philadephia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, and Parsons School of Design; flying over proposed subjects to get an aerial view; spending summers in Maine; other artists in Maine; her interest in painters who "developed spiritually"; travel to Japan with Burckhardt; collaborating with Burckhardt on the film, "Night Fantasies," (1990); acceptance of women artists; galleries; women artists she admires, and other topics. She recalls Robert Kushner, Edwin Denby, Alex Katz, Mimi Gross, and others.