Oral history interview with Clark Richert
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 4 sound files. Duration is 2 hr., 55 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Richert, Clark, 1941-
label: Interviewer
content: Auther, Elissa, 1966-
label: Creator
content: Stoddard-Fleischman History of Rocky Mountain Area Artists project
label: Names
content: Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
label: Names
content: Stoddard-Fleischman History of Rocky Mountain Area Artists project
label: Names
content: University of Kansas -- Students
label: Names
content: Bernofsky, Gene
label: Names
content: Brown, Joan, 1938-1990
label: Names
content: Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008
label: Names
content: DeFeo, Jay, 1929-1989
label: Names
content: Fleming, Dean
label: Names
content: Fleming, Linda
label: Names
content: Fudge, John
label: Names
content: Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983
label: Names
content: Kallweit, Richard
label: Names
content: Kaprow, Allan
label: Names
content: McClure, Michael
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
label: Names
content: Sands, Nick
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Colorado -- Denver -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Colorado -- Denver -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- Colorado -- Denver -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art and computers
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Geodesic domes
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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Richert, Clark, 1941-
label: Interviewer
content: Auther, Elissa, 1966-
label: Creator
content: Stoddard-Fleischman History of Rocky Mountain Area Artists project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Clark Richert (1941-2021) was a painter in Denver, Colorado and is head of the painting and drawing department at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Elissa Auther (1966- ) is associate professor of contemporary art in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (Sound recording: 4 sound files (2 hr., 55 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 52 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2013 August 20-21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.richer13
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Clark Richert conducted 2013 August 20- 21, by Elissa Auther, for the Archives of American Art's, Stoddard-Fleischman Fund for the History of Rocky Mountain Area Artists, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Colorado.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Richert speaks of deciding to become an artist; his influences; studying art at the University of Kansas; the Wichita Vortex; Droppings: working with geometric art; Drop City; geodesic domes; The Ultimate Painting; Zome Toy; Criss-Cross; using computers in art; being a teacher; the Armory Group; and A.R.E.A. Richert also recalls Bruce Conner, Richard Kallweit, Joan Brown, Gene Bernofsky, Buckminster Fuller, Michael McClure, Alan Kaprow, Nick Sands, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Jay Defeo, Dean Fleming, Linda Fleming, John Fudge, and others.