Oral history interview with Elmer Schooley
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 28 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Schooley, Elmer Wayne, 1916-
label: Interviewer
content: Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Mexico -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Educators -- New Mexico -- 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: Schooley, Elmer Wayne, 1916-
label: Interviewer
content: Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Elmer Wayne Schooley (1916-2007) was a painter and educator from Roswell, N.M.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (sound cassette (1 hr., 28 min.))
label: Extent
content: 30 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 October 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.school83
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: An interview with Elmer Schooley conducted 1983 October 11, by Sharyn R. Udall, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Schooley speaks about his painting and the process; his emotional involvement with his work; his time attending the University of Colorado, and attending the University of Iowa for his master's degree and studying with Philip Guston; growing up in Oklahoma; teaching his students at Highlands; moving from Las Vegas to New Mexico; the link between nature and his paintings; and he explains some of the processes of creating his paintings.