Oral history interview with Carol Summers
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 5 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Summers, Carol, 1925-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- California -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is 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: Summers, Carol, 1925-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Carol Summers (1925-) is a printmaker from Santa Cruz, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording: (50 min.), 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 58 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971 May 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.summer71
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
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 Carol Summers conducted 1971 May 12, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Summers speaks of Woodstock, N.Y. and travels in United States during his childhood; his parents' interest in art; Marine Corps; Bard College; first woodcuts; on teaching; analysis; communication through art; technical versus artistic aspects of printmaking; technique and procedure in making woodcuts; unusual printing methods; exhibits at Contemporaries and Associated American Artists Galleries; his work; a self-portrait; jewelry; building of his lofts and houses; pottery; Italian government grant for travel in Italy; Guggenheim; his dislike of working on commission; juries; traveling exhibition for Museum of Modern Art; his own collection of prints; and his love of working with tools.