Oral history interview with Sonia Allen
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 31 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Allen, Sonia, d. 1984 or 5
label: Interviewer
content: Cloudman, Ruth Howard, 1948-
label: Names
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
topic: label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.
label: Provenance
content: Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sally Avery, Ben-Zion, Bernard Braddon, Ernest Briggs, Rhys Caparn, Elaine de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Esther Gottlieb, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Jacob Kainen, Louis Kaufman, Jack Kufeld, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Dorothy Miller, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Rebecca Reis, Maurice Roth, Sidney Schectman, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Hedda Sterne, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Allen, Sonia, d. 1984 or 5
label: Interviewer
content: Cloudman, Ruth Howard, 1948-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sonia Allen (1890-1985) was Mark Rothko's sister and she was from Portland, Oregon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 September 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.allen84
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 available on line.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Sonia Allen conducted 1984 September 15, by Ruth Howard Cloudman, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Sonia Allen, Mark Rothko's sister, answers questions about family history, the family's life in Russia, and their move to the U.S.A. She was 94 years old at the time of the interview and didn't elaborate her answers to any great degree.