Oral history interview with Eleanor Dickinson
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 48 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Dickinson, Eleanor, 1931-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Graphic artists -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Video artists -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
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: Dickinson, Eleanor, 1931-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Eleanor Dickinson (1931-2017 ) was a painter, graphic, video artist and instructor in San Francisco, Calif. Teacher of life drawing at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, for many years, Dickinson was known for her figurative drawing and involvement with her students and models as individuals.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2000 October 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dickin00
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Eleanor Dickinson conducted 2000 October 25, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Dickinson's studio/home, in San Francisco, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Dickinson discusses her relationship to and use of the human figure in her art. She explains her "interest in the ecstatic"; her identification with her subjects; being completely involved with the personality of the model and the "performance" in the studio; how her finished works often look more like the artist than like the model; her 1975 show at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in which the life-class was moved into a museum gallery to share the experience with museum visitors; her view that the artist participates in the lives and actions of her subjects through empathy and the artist's role as a mirror to society, reflecting and recording who and what we are.