Oral history interview with Henry Strater
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 37 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Strater, Henry, 1896-
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Maine
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Maine -- Ogunquit -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is 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: Strater, Henry, 1896-
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Henry Strater (1896-1987) was a painter from Ogunquit, Maine.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (sound file, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 39 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973 September 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.strate73
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 Henry Strater, conducted by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Ogunquit, ME on September 28, 1973.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Strater speaks of his body of western artworks, painted during his five years in the Verde Valley of Central Arizona; how influence functions in the art world; the influence of Cubists on his work; exhibiting at Montross, Frank Rehn, and Laurel Galleries; his influence on younger artists; some of his works, including Nubble Lighthouse November and After the Ball; his involvement with the Ogunquit Art Association; and his involvement with establishing the Museum of Art of Ogunquit. Strater also recalls Walt Kuhn, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, Charles Boni, and others.