Oral history interview with Louis Bunce
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 43 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bunce, Louis, 1907-1983
label: Interviewer
content: Lafo, Rachel Rosenfield, 1951-
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
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content: Kharouba Gallery (Portland, Or.)
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content: Portland Art Museum (Or.)
label: Names
content: Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986
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content: Robinson, Boardman, 1876-1952
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content: Weber, Max, 1881-1961
topic: label: Topic
content: Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews
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content: Art, Modern -- Northwestern States
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content: Art, American -- Northwestern States
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content: Painters -- Oregon -- Portland -- Interviews
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content: Educators -- Oregon -- Portland -- Interviews
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content: Printmakers -- Oregon -- Portland -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Bunce, Louis, 1907-1983
label: Interviewer
content: Lafo, Rachel Rosenfield, 1951-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Louis Bunce (1907-1983) was a painter, printmaker, and educator from Portland, Oregon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 78 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 December 3-13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bunce82
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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
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Louis Bunce conducted 1982 December 3-13, by Rachel Rosenfield, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bunce speaks of his family background and education at the Portland Museum Art School; attending the Art Students League in New York and studying under Max Weber, Boardman Robinson and others; returning to Portland during the Depression and working on WPA projects; his interest in jazz and its influence on his work; his involvement in the Northwest arts community; his interest in landscapes and figures; teaching at the Portland Museum Art School; founding the Kharouba Gallery; developing his interest in the graphic arts; and the current Portland art scene. He recalls Kenneth Callahan.