Oral history interview with Richard Stankiewicz
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 30 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Stankiewicz, Richard, 1922-1983
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: University of Albany -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Zabriskie Gallery
label: Names
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
label: Names
content: Kootz, Samuel Melvin, 1898-1982
label: Names
content: Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955
label: Names
content: Porter, Fairfield
label: Names
content: Smith, David, 1906-1965
label: Names
content: Zabriskie, Virginia M., 1927-1991
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Huntington -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art -- Political aspects
label: Topic
content: Politics in art
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: Stankiewicz, Richard, 1922-1983
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Richard Stankiewicz (1922-1983) was a sculptor and educator from Huntington, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 48 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979 June 26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.stanki79
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 Richard Stankiewicz conducted 1979 June 26, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Stankiewicz speaks of his life since the Archives last interviewed him in the mid-sixties; joining the Zabriskie Gallery; the Loft Living Program and his struggles with city officials; the beginning of the respectability of modern art in America; deciding to leave New York City and move to Massachusetts; accepting a teaching position at the University of Albany; his ambivalence about teaching; his comments on photographs being shown to him of his art work over the years; how his ideas develop; how he doesn't mix his politics and art; an exhibition he did in Australia; and what he is working on right now. He recalls Hans Hofmann, Fairfield Porter, Virginia Zabriskie, Sam Kootz, David Smith, Julio Gonzales, Fernand Léger, and many others.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also has interviews, video recordings, and the papers of Richard Stankiewicz.