Oral history interview with Edith Wyle
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 16 digital wav files. Duration is 8 hrs., 8 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wyle, Edith R.
label: Interviewer
content: Emanuelli, Sharon K.
label: Names
content: Craft and Folk Art Museum
label: Names
content: Egg and Eye Gallery and Restaurant (Los Angeles, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Women 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. Funding for this interview was provided by the Margery and Harry Kahn Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund of New York.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Wyle, Edith R.
label: Interviewer
content: Emanuelli, Sharon K.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edith R. Wyle (1918-1999) was an arts administrator and painter from Los Angeles, California. Established Egg and the Eye Gallery and Restaurant in Los Angeles in 1964 and oversaw its transformation in 1973 into the Craft and Folk Art Museum, for which she was Director and then Program director until 1984. Wyle also is a painter, and had a close friendship with Rico Lebrun.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 153 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 March 9-September 7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wyle93
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line
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content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Edith Wyle conducted 1993 March 9-September 7, by Sharon K. Emanuelli, for the Archives of American Art, Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Wyle speaks of her family background and her early education and interests; her studies at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA; her marriage to Frank Wyle; her friendship with Rico Lebrun; the cultural scene in Los Angeles between 1940 and 1970; the founding of the Egg and the Eye restaurant and gallery; and the founding of the Craft and Folk Art Museum and its development over the years.