Oral history interview with Joyce Wahl Treiman
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 3 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Treiman, Joyce
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
topic: label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- United States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Interviews
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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Treiman, Joyce
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joyce Wahl Treiman (1922-1991) was a painter from Chicago who lived and worked in Southern California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 47 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 October 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.treima81
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 Joyce Wahl Treiman conducted 1981 October 3, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Treiman speaks of her education and its influence on her life and work; growing up in Chicago; moving to California in 1961; the persistence of realism in her paintings; her feelings about photorealism and traditional realism; the inadequacy of photographs as models; teaching at UCLA; and the influence upon her of Thomas Eakins and other 19th century painters.