Oral history interview with Claire Falkenstein
name: label: Interviewee
content: Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Creator
content: Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Galerie Stadler
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content: University of California, San Francisco. School of Fine Arts
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content: Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Appel, Karel, 1921-
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content: Francis, Sam, 1923-1994
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content: Jackson, Martha Kellogg, 1907-1969
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content: Lusk, George, 1902-
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content: Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980
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content: Tapie, Michel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- California
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California
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content: Jewelers -- California
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content: Educators -- California
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content: Authors -- California
label: Topic
content: Women artists
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content: Women sculptors
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content: Women painters
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content: Women designers
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content: Women educators
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content: Women authors
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. Funding for this interview was provided by the Margery and Harry Kahn Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund of New York.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Creator
content: Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997) was a sculptor of Venice, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Sound cassettes (Sound recording (60 min. each), analog)
label: Extent
content: 51 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1995 Mar. 2-21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.falken95
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Sound cassettes
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Claire Falkenstein conducted 1995 Mar.2-21, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project, in Falkenstein's studio, Venice, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Falkenstein discusses the evolution of her work; the benefit of being alone to her personal and artistic growth; her "vocabulary of art" which she created while at the University of California at Berkeley; her largest commission at St. Basil's Cathedral in Los Angeles and her views on religion and art; the influence on her of George Lusk, a visiting artist and philosopher from Paris; studying the nude figure and how it taught her personal expression; her family background and introduction to art; teaching in the Bay Area at the California School of Fine Arts; her friendships with other artists there such as Clyfford Still; her reasons for leaving the Bay Area to go to Paris; and meeting Michel Tapie and the Stadler Gallery group. She recalls Karl Appel, Martha Jackson, Clyfford Still, Sam Francis, and others.