Oral history interview with Stanley William Hayter
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: New School Art Center (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Tamarind Institute
label: Names
content: Tamarind Lithography Workshop
topic: label: Topic
content: Prints -- New York (State) -- New York -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 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: Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a printmaker from Paris, France.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording: (1 hour 15 min.), 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 12 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971 Mar. 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hayter71
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 4210 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Stanley William Hayter conducted 1971 Mar. 11, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hayter speaks of his trip to the U.S. in 1940, the Atelier for etching techniques at the New School for Social Research and some of the members in the group, the influence of the WPA on American art, the studios on 8th and 13th Streets and the variety of personalities and working methods among those who inhabited them. He discusses the relationship between teacher and student, the influence of the exhibition of Atelier prints at the Museum of Modern Art, life in America as compared with that in France, printmaking in Europe and America, the Tamarind Institute, the close of the Atelier in 1955, and the limitations of lithography.