Oral history interview with Alberto Mijangos
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 48 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Mijangos, Alberto, 1925-
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
label: Creator
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
label: Names
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
label: Names
content: Casas, Mel, 1929-2014
label: Names
content: Gamboa, Raul
label: Names
content: Goitia, Francisco, 1882-1960
label: Names
content: Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949
label: Names
content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
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content: Sanchez, Gabriel
label: Names
content: Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 1896-1974
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content: Tamayo, Olga
label: Names
content: Tamayo, Rufino, 1899-1991
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Mexican American artists
label: Topic
content: Mexican American art
label: Topic
content: Painting -- Technique
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content: Latino and Latin American artists
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: Mijangos, Alberto, 1925-
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
label: Creator
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alberto Mijangos (1925-2007) was a Mexican born artist from San Antonio, Tex. Cary Cordova (1970- ) is an art historian from Austin, Tex.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 65 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2003 Dec. 5-12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mijang03
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Alberto Mijangos conducted 2003 Dec. 5- 12, by Cary Cordova, for the Archives of American Art, in San Antonio, Tex.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Mijangos speaks of his family background, early childhood memories and early art education at San Carlos Academy of Art; the Air Force in Mexico; Los Tres Grandes, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros; coming to the United States; painting bull fighters; leaving Texas for Chicago; favorite paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago; moving to San Antonio; suspicion of being a communist; becoming a Mexican diplomat; working with Mel Casas who led Mijangos to abstraction; Con Safo; difficulty in achieving respect from Americans; moving to Oaxaca, working there and trying to fit in; returning to San Antonio, changing his lifestyle; changing inspiration, Mark Rothko and Mijangos new use for color; tee-shirt paintings; his relationship with galleries; the artistic community of San Antonio; his use of numbers and fabric in his paintings; interest and use of photography in his artwork. Mijangos also recalls Raul Gamboa, Rufino and Olga Tamayo, Gabriel Sanchez, Francisco Goitia and others.