Oral history interview with Karl Benjamin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 30 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Benjamin, Karl
label: Interviewer
content: Weiss, William L.
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- California
label: Topic
content: Educators -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives' 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: Benjamin, Karl
label: Interviewer
content: Weiss, William L.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Karl Benjamin (1925- ) is a painter from Claremont, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 61 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 September 10-12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.benjam81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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 Karl Benjamin conducted 1981 September 10-12, by William Weiss, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Benjamin speaks of his background and education; the development of his work; artists and galleries he was associated with in Los Angeles; his personal philosophy of painting and teaching.