Oral history interview with Jimmy C. Lueders
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 1 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lueders, Jimmy C., 1927-1994
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
label: Names
content: Dubin Gallery, (Philadelphia, Pa.)
label: Names
content: Gallery 1015
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Kamihira, Ben, 1925-
label: Names
content: Potamkin, Meyer, 1909-2001
label: Names
content: Potamkin, Vivian, 1915-2002
label: Names
content: Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, Abstract -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Figurative art
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 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: Lueders, Jimmy C., 1927-1994
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jimmy C. Lueders (1927-1994) was a painter from Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 98 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990 Nov. 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lueder90
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: 35mm microfilm reel 4778 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Jimmy C. Lueders conducted 1990 Nov. 14, by Cynthia Veloric, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project. Lueders speaks about his childhood in Florida, his art studies in high school and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, instructor Franklin Watkins and fellow student Ben Kamihira; teaching at PAFA, the Cheltenham Art Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the development of his painting including the shift from figurative to abstract and back to figurative; exhibitions at the Dubin Gallery and Gallery 1015 in Philadelphia; sales; and collectors who supported him such as Meyer and Vivian Potamkin and Max Robb.