Oral history interview with Gussie Du Jardin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 5 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Du Jardin, Gussie, 1918-2006
label: Interviewer
content: Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New Mexico -- Roswell -- Interviews
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: Du Jardin, Gussie, 1918-2006
label: Interviewer
content: Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gussie Du Jardin (1918-2006) was a painter from Roswell, New Mexico.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 16 Pages (Transcript)
label: Extent
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 October 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dujard83
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
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Gussie Du Jardin conducted 1983 October 11, by Sharyn R. Udall, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Du Jardin speaks of her lichen and hexagonal paintings; living in New Mexico with her husband, painter Elmer Schooley; growing up in Colorado, Nevada, and Hawaii; her health issues as a child; earning her master's degree at the University of Iowa; being instructed by Philip Guston; the affect World War II had on her family; being a female painter as well as being married to a male painter; her process of using microscopic images to guide and inform her painting; her meeting and acquaintance with Georgia O'Keeffe.