Oral history interview with Louis Siegriest
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 15 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Siegriest, Louis Bassi, 1899-1989
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Interviewer
content: St. John, Terry
label: Names
content: Society of Six
label: Names
content: Clapp, William Henry, 1879-1954
label: Names
content: D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968
label: Names
content: Gay, August Franc̜ois, 1890-1948
label: Names
content: Gile, Selden Connor, 1877-1947
label: Names
content: Logan, Maurice, 1886-1977
label: Names
content: Van Sloun, Frank J., 1879-1938
label: Names
content: Von Eichman, Bernard J., 1899-1970
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Oakland -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is 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: Siegriest, Louis Bassi, 1899-1989
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Interviewer
content: St. John, Terry
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Louis Siegriest (1899-1989) was a painter from Oakland, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 30 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978 June 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.siegri78
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 Louis Siegriest conducted 1978 June 21, by Terry St. John and Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Siegriest speaks of his background; studying with Frank Van Sloun at the Mark Hopkins School; the Society of Six and its members, Seldon Gile, Bernard Von Eichman, Maurice Logan, William Clapp, and August Gay; living in Milwaukee and working in commercial art; returning to San Francisco and pursuing landscape painting; working for the WPA under Rene D'Harnoncourt; doing camouflage work with the U.S. Army in World War II; a controversy about and cancellation of an exhibit of his work at the De Young Museum; collage in the 1950s; his travels; the Bay area art scene; his associations with younger artists; his recent work.