Oral history interview with Charles Garabedian
name: label: Interviewee
content: Garabedian, Charles
label: Interviewer
content: Ayres, Anne, 1936-
label: Names
content: Ceeje Gallery
label: Names
content: Brice, William, 1921-2008
label: Names
content: Carrillo, Eduardo, 1937-1997
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content: Chavez, Roberto
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content: Moses, Ed, 1926-
label: Names
content: Warshaw, Howard
topic: label: Topic
content: World War, 1939-1945
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: Garabedian, Charles
label: Interviewer
content: Ayres, Anne, 1936-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles Garabedian (1923-) is a painter from Santa Monica, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Sound cassettes (Sound recording, master (3 hrs., 50 min.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 57 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2003 Aug. 21-22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.garabe03
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
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 Charles Garabedian conducted 2003 Aug. 21 and 22, by Anne Ayres, for the Archives of American Art, in Garbedian's studio, in Santa Monica, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Garabedian discusses his early childhood in Detroit, Mich.; his Armenian roots; the Depression years in San Gabriel, Calif. and East Los Angeles; a tour of duty in the United States Army in North Africa during WWII; early college experiences; and his late start as a painter. He recalls Ed Moses, Howard Warshaw and William Brice; experiences at Ceeje Gallery and artists Ed Carrillo and Roberto Chavez, as well as the exhibition "Six Painters of the Rear Guard". Garabedian also describes his artistic style.