Oral history interview with Ingrid Hutton
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hutton, Ingrid
label: Interviewer
content: Long, Rose-Carol Washton
label: Names
content: Hutton-Hutschnecker Gallery
label: Names
content: Leonard Hutton Galleries
label: Names
content: Hutton, Leonard, Sir
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art, Russian -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Constructivism (Art)
label: Topic
content: Expressionism (Art)
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 Art Dealers Association.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Hutton, Ingrid
label: Interviewer
content: Long, Rose-Carol Washton
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ingrid Hutton is an art dealer and part of the Leonard Hutton Galleries in New York, N.Y. Leonard Hutton Galleries changed its name in 1969 to Hutton-Hutschnecker Gallery, and back again to Leonard Hutton Galleries in 1971.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (65 min.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 34 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 March 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hutton93
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/hutton93.htm
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ingrid Hutton conducted 1993 March 4, by Rose-Carol Washton Long for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hutton discusses her and her husband Leonard's origins in Germany and their emigrations to the United States, she in 1960 and he in 1934. She explains how her husband's career as an interior decorator led him to open the Leonard Hutton Gallery and how she became involved with it. Hutton talks of their focus on German expressionism and Russian constructivism, including a discussion of public interest in the movements and patronage trends. She mentions her plans to show contemporary Russian art in the future.