Oral history interview with Raphael Soyer
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 55 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Milton W. (Milton Wolf), 1911-1998
label: Names
content: Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948
label: Names
content: Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974
label: Names
content: Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953
label: Names
content: Pène Du Bois, Guy, 1884-1958
label: Names
content: Sloan, John, 1871-1951
label: Names
content: Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
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: Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Milton W. (Milton Wolf), 1911-1998
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) was a painter from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 May 13-June 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.soyer81
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 online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Raphael Soyer conducted 1981 May 13-1981 June 1, by Milton Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Soyer speaks of his youth in Czarist Russia; coming to the United States in 1912; his and his brothers' early interest in art; his education at the Cooper-Union School and the National Academy of Design; early exhibitions of his work; artists who influenced him; artists whose portraits he painted; his philosophies of painting; realism in painting; subject matter which interests him; and his feelings about abstract expressionism. He recalls Guy Pène du Bois, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, John Sloan and Joseph Stella.