Oral history interview with Robert Pfannebecker
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 25 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Pfannebecker, Robert L.
label: Interviewer
content: Drutt, Helen Williams
label: Names
content: Bauer, Fred
label: Names
content: Chihuly, Dale, 1941-
label: Names
content: Higby, Wayne
label: Names
content: Warashina, Patti, 1940-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Ceramicists
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Handicraft
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
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: Pfannebecker, Robert L.
label: Interviewer
content: Drutt, Helen Williams
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Robert Pfannebecker (1933- ) is a crafts collector and attorney from Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 222 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 May 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pfanne91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Robert Pfannebecker conducted 1991 May 21, by Helen Drutt English, (formerly Helen Williams Drutt) for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Pfannebecker discusses his background; the development of his interest in crafts and collecting; his associations with students and teachers at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the 1960s; later acquisitions as a result of his association with Dale Chihuly and his students at the Rhode Island School of Design, Wayne Higby and his students at Alfred University, and Eleanor Moty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; other artists he has worked with over the years including Patti Warashina, Fred Bauer, Helen Bitar, Warren Seelig, and Gary Knodel; and exhibitions of his collection.