Oral history interview with Wesley C. Wehr
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 8 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 13 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wehr, Wesley, 1929-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Kingsbury, Martha, 1941-
label: Names
content: Graves, Morris, 1910-2001
label: Names
content: Tobey, Mark
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Washington (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- Northwestern States
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Northwestern States
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Wehr, Wesley, 1929-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Kingsbury, Martha, 1941-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Wesley C. Wehr (1929-2004) is a painter and writer from Seattle, Washington.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 109 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 May 26-September 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wehr83
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
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Wesley C. Wehr conducted 1983 May 26 - September 22, by Martha Kingsbury, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project in Seattle, Washington.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Wehr speaks of meeting the artists Morris Graves and Mark Tobey, their fame, their personalities and his relationship with them; his own background and education in music, poetry, paleobotany, and painting; the Seattle art scene and changes in it during the 1960s; and important Seattle collectors.