Interviews
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Larsen, Susan C.
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content: Oral history interviews of artists conducted by Susan C. Larsen
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.larssusa, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The majority of the interviews were conducted by Susan Larsen in preparation for her dissertation, "The American Abstract Artists Group: A History and Evaluation of Its Impact Upon American Art, 1936-1974" at Northwestern University in 1975. Interviews on this topic include Rosalind Bengelsdorf Browne, Ilya Bolotowsky, George McNeil, Ruth Vollmer, Balcomb Greene, and Vaclav Vytlacil. Also included are an interview with Charles Carpenter, executor of the Charles Greene Shaw estate; an interview conducted by Sandra Kraskin, at the request of Larsen, with Willem and Elaine de Kooning regarding the Albert Eugene Gallatin Collection and its impact upon artists in the 1930s and 1940s; and an interview with Richard Diebenkorn. These interviews were not used in Larsen's dissertation. The sound quality of the Diebenkorn interview is extremely poor.