Jack Greenbaum scrapbook and interviews
name: label: Creator
content: Greenbaum, Jack
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
label: Names
content: Forst, Miles, 1923-
label: Names
content: Hendler, Raymond, 1923-
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content: Kline, Franz, 1910-1962
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content: Pearson, Henry, 1914-2006
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content: Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
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content: Segal, George, 1924-2000
label: Names
content: Somberg, Herman
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content: Weber, Hugo, 1918-1971
label: Interviewer
content: Wechter, Vivienne Thaul
label: Interviewer
content: Weltman, Hilda
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
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content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1978 by Dr. Jack Greenbaum.
creator: label: Creator
content: Greenbaum, Jack
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jack Greenbaum: collector and dentist; New York, N.Y. and an intimate friend of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Hugo Weber. He did their dental work and was given their paintings in payment.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.greejack
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Scrapbook: 35mm microfilm reel 1425 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Scrapbook compiled by Greenbaum relating to various artists; and untranscribed interviews, including two of Herman Somberg conducted by Greenbaum, ca. 1965; two of Greenbaum conducted by Vivienne Wechter, 1961 and 1978; and one of Greenbaum conducted by Hilda Weltman, 1968.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The scrapbook contains photographs of Greenbaum and artists George Segal, Miles Forst, and Willem de Kooning; photographs of works of art by Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Chryssa, Isamu Noguchi, Will Barnet, Barbara Hepworth, and Ilya Bolotowsky; sketches by Herman Somberg and Henry Pearson; a sketch of Greenbaum by Hugo Weber; a catalog, "The 30's -- Painting in New York"; clippings; and printed miscellany.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The interviews of Somberg conducted by Greenbaum include one (5 5" tapes) in which Somberg discusses Pop and Op movements; artist's motivations; realism vs. reality and tradition vs. modern art; the elements of structure, texture, composition and pigment in modern art; social commentary in painting; "pure painting"; Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Willem de Kooning; happenings; and Somberg's disdain for art history. In the second interview (1 5" tape), painter Raymond Hendler is also present; they discuss their favorite television shows, an Op exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and the meanings of the words "good," "like," "taste," and opinion" in relation to contemporary art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The interviews of Greenbaum, include: one (on 2 5" tapes), conducted by Hilda Weltman, July 13 & 20, 1968 in which Greenbaum speaks of the conflicts and opportunities of American artists and his views on Pop art, strobe lights, civil rights, religion, existentialism, the Catholic Church, Vietnam, technology, hippies, and demonstrations at Columbia University; one (on 1 7"tape) conducted by Viviene Wechter, 1961 wherein Greenbaum speaks of collecting, art and affordability, abstract art, the arrangement of paintings on walls, his collection, and artists as personalities independent of their aesthetic; and the third, conducted in 1978, also by Wechter (on 1 cassette) for a radio program entitled "Today's World" on FM radio station WFUV.