Oral history interview with Edna M. Lindemann
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 21 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lindemann, Edna M.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
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: Lindemann, Edna M.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edna Lindemann (1915-2006) was an art instructor from Buffalo, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound files (1 hr., 21 min.), digital, wma)
label: Extent
content: 33 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1994 Dec. 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lindem94
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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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 with Edna Lindemann conducted 1994 Dec. 1, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Lindemann's home, West Falls, N.Y.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Lindemann discusses her childhood in Buffalo as the daughter of Nason and Carl Meibohm, who established an art gallery, frame shop, and art supply store early in the 20th century. She remembers living above the shop and summers spent in the country in the house that is now her residence. She talks about the effect of growing up surrounded by Stickley furniture, leaded glass, and Roycroft objects and the importance of the family's church, the conservative Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Lindemann remembers her love of school, although there was no art instruction until high school where she was strongly influenced by Marie Colburn, a serious painter who summered in the art colony of Rockport, Mass. She recalls the encouragement of both Colburn and of Henry Jacobs, supervisor of art instruction in the Buffalo public schools, to pursue her art interests. Lindemann recalls the necessity during the Depression of combining technical instruction at the Albright Art School (diploma, 1936) with vocational training in art education at the State University of N.Y., at Buffalo (B.S., 1936). She talks about her early teaching positions in local public schools.