Oral history interview with Robert Whitman
name: label: Interviewee
content: Whitman, Robert
label: Interviewer
content: Lyon, Christopher
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: Whitman, Robert
label: Interviewer
content: Lyon, Christopher
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Robert Whitman (1935- ) is an artist in New York N.Y. He is well-known for creating Happenings. Interviewer Christopher Lyon (1949- ) is a writer in Brooklyn, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items (sound files (4 hrs., 33 min.) Audio, digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 99 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Recorded on Tascam DR-100MKII R000330
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2019 Oct. 21 and Nov.4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitma19
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 Robert Whitman conducted 2019 October 21-Nov. 4, by Christopher Lyon, for the Archives of American Art, at Whitman's home in Warwick, N.Y.