Oral history interview with Jack Perlmutter
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 26 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Perlmutter, Jack, 1920-2006
label: Interviewer
content: Haifley, Julie
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Perlmutter, Jack, 1920-2006
label: Interviewer
content: Haifley, Julie
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jack Perlmutter (1920-2006) was a painter and printmaker from Washington, D.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 51 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979 Aug. 20-Sept. 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.perlmu79
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 Jack Perlmutter conducted 1979 Aug. 20-Sept. 11, by Julia Link Haifley, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Perlmutter speaks of his impressions of the art scene in Washington, D.C. during the 1950s and 1960s; the influence of urban life on his work; alternative ways of selling artworks; and his teaching activities at the Corcoran School of Art and elsewhere.