Oral history interview with Elaine de Kooning
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 50 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: De Kooning, Elaine
label: Interviewer
content: Tuchman, Phyllis
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Club (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Subjects of the Artist (School : New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
label: Names
content: Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974
label: Names
content: Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State)
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- New York (State)
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- New York (State)
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
label: Topic
content: Women authors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.
label: Provenance
content: Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sonia Allen, Sally Avery, Ben-Zion, Ernest Briggs, Rhys Caparn, Herbert Ferber, Esther Gottlieb, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Jacob Kainen, Louis Kaufman, Jack Kufeld, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Dorothy Miller, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Rebecca Reis, Maurice Roth, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Hedda Sterne, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein. Each has been cataloged separately.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: De Kooning, Elaine
label: Interviewer
content: Tuchman, Phyllis
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Elaine De Kooning (1918-1989) lived in New York and was a painter as well as the wife of painter Willem de Kooning.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 August 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dekoon81
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 available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Elaine de Kooning conducted 1981 August 27, by Phyllis Tuchman, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: De Kooning describes Mark Rothko's involvement with Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman, and the activities of the Subjects of the Artist school and The Club. She remembers Rothko's personality and habits.