Oral history interview with Jane Piper
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Piper, Jane, 1916-1991
label: Interviewer
content: Wolanin, Barbara A. (Barbara Ann)
label: Names
content: Barnes Foundation
label: Names
content: Carles, Arthur B., 1882-1952
label: Names
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Painting, Abstract -- Expressionist
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Piper, Jane, 1916-1991
label: Interviewer
content: Wolanin, Barbara A. (Barbara Ann)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jane Piper (1916-1991) was a painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 40 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1988 Jan. 16-17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.piper88
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
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 of Jane Piper conducted 1988 Jan. 16-17, by Barbara Wolanin, for the Archives of American Art. Piper speaks of her training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, her studies with Arthur B. Carles and Hans Hofmann and of Carles' influence on her. Piper describes Carles' classes, his teaching methods, as well as Carles' stroke and his final unsuccessful attempt to exhibit at Princeton before his death. Piper speaks about her career as a teacher and as an artist, her exhibition history, her working methods and the development of her painting, particularly the importance of color and the move between abstraction and representational painting. She also recalls associations with Barnes Foundation; Earl Horter, Grace Gemberling, and Mercedes Matter.