Oral history interview with Aaron Bohrod
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bohrod, Aaron
label: Interviewer
content: Prince, Sue Ann
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Wisconsin -- Madison
label: Topic
content: Trompe l'oeil painting
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: Bohrod, Aaron
label: Interviewer
content: Prince, Sue Ann
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Aaron Bohrod (1907-1992) was a painter and teacher from Chicago, Ill. Studied with John Sloan in New York. Worked for Life magazine during WWII painting scenes at the front, and later was artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (Sound recording: 3 sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 28 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 1 cassette.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 Aug. 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bohrod84
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Aaron Bohrod conducted 1984 Aug. 23, by Sue Ann Kendall, at the artist's home in Chicago, Ill., for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bohrod discusses his life and art, focusing on the nature of the trompe-l'oeil still lifes he has been painting since the early 1950s.