Oral history interview with Peter Grippe
odd: label: General
content: Sound quality is poor.
label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 51 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Grippe, Peter, 1912-
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
label: Names
content: Brandeis University -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Willard Gallery
topic: label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Expressionism (Art)
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- Newton -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Prints -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Newton -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Surrealism
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Grippe, Peter, 1912-
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Peter Grippe (1912-2002) was a sculptor and printmaker from Newton, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files (1 hr., 51 min.), digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 32 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968 Aug. 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.grippe68
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Peter J. Grippe conducted 1968 August 27, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Grippe speaks of abstract expressionist and surrealists artists; abstract expressionist style in the 1940s; his approach to sculpture; printmaking; collaboration between printmakers and poets in the 1950s; working with terra cotta; making pottery and selling it to make a living; teaching at Brandeis University; working with armatures; being invited to join "The Pictograph Movement;" exhibitions at the Willard Gallery; City of Desolation; the Bounty series; the "9th Street Art Exhibition;" and travelling to Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Grippe recalls Theodoros Stamos, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, André Masson, Seymour Lipton, Herbert Ferber, Arshile Gorky, Roberto Matta, Edward Alden Jewell, Barney Newman, Julio Gonzalez, Pablo Picasso, Leo Castelli, James Rosati, Matt Gorelli, Hans Hofmann, Ibram Lassaw, Robert Motherwell, Alfred Barr, Richard Lippold, Sidney Gordin, Grace Borgenicht, Theo van Doesburg, Robert Mondrian, Auguste Rodin, Jean-Baptiste Carapeaux, William Stanley Hayter, Dylan Thomas, Frank O'Hara, Esteban Vicenti, Louise Nevelson, and others.