Oral history interview with Edna Andrade
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 31 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Andrade, Edna, 1917-2008
label: Interviewer
content: Likos, Patricia
label: Names
content: Barnes Foundation
label: Names
content: Easthampton Gallery
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Andrade, C. Preston (Clarence Preston), 1912-1977
label: Names
content: Garber, Daniel, 1880-
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content: Harding, George, 1882-1959
label: Names
content: Oakley, Violet, 1874-1961
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives' 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: Andrade, Edna, 1917-2008
label: Interviewer
content: Likos, Patricia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edna W. Andrade (1917-2008) was a painter and art educator. She was born in Virginia, and lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987 April 1-29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.andrad87
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Edna Andrade conducted 1987 April 1-29, by Patricia Likos, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Andrade speaks of her upbringing in Virginia, her education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the 1930s under Daniel Garber, Henry McCarter, and George Harding; visiting the Barnes Foundation; her travels in Europe, Egypt, and India, and living and working as a teacher and a graphic designer in New Orleans, Washington, and Philadelphia. She discusses the influence of the Bauhaus and Paul Klee on her work and teaching, her marriage to C. Preston Andrade, working in the training and education division of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, the shift in her work from realism to abstraction, Optical "Op" art; her associations with the Easthampton Gallery in New York and the Marian Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, and changes in the Philadelphia art scene. She recalls Violet Oakley and the Pinto Brothers, among others.