Oral history interview with Edouard Du Buron
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 16 digital wav file. Duration is 5 hr., 33 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Du Buron, Edouard, 1905-1996
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968
topic: label: Occupation
content: Dancers -- Interviews
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: Du Buron, Edouard, 1905-1996
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edouard Du Buron (1905-1996) was a dancer and later an art gallery and museum director from Brockton, Massachusetts. Du Buron died in 1996 before the completion of the interview and discussion of his work as a gallery and museum director.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (sound cassettes (5 hr., 33 min.), analog.)
label: Extent
content: 106 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 March 9-May 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.duburo93
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Edouard Du Buron conducted 1993 March 9-May 13, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Du Buron discusses his childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts in a poor family with an abusive father and his rearing in various Catholic orphanages; his loss of religion in his youth and growing up as a French-Canadian in New England; his career as a solo dancer in Boston (1925-32) and as a member of the Ruth St. Denis Troupe (1932-38); his dance career in New York City in the late 1930s and his job as a display designer at Filene's department store in Boston (1942-45).