Oral history interview with Harold Tovish
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 10 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Tovish, Harold, 1921-2008
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- 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: Tovish, Harold, 1921-2008
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Harold Tovish (1921-2008) was a painter and sculptor from Brookline, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 67 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 February 7-1977 March 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tovish74
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 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: Interview of Harold Tovish, conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution on June 24, 1974 and March 17, 1977.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Tovish speaks of his first introduction to art and sculpture as a child; growing up in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum; meeting and marrying Marianna Pineda; getting a scholarship to study sculpture at Columbia; serving in the Army in World War II; studying and working in Paris after World War II; early exhibitions; getting a teaching job at Alfred University; his teaching style and attitude towards students; his conception of himself as an artist; his limited output. Tovish also recalls Ossip Zadkine, William Zorach, Germaine Richier, Oronzio Malderelli, George Grosz, and others.