Oral history interview with Esteban Vicente
name: label: Creator
content: Vicente, Esteban, 1903-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Sandler, Irving, 1925-
label: Names
content: Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
label: Names
content: Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Elaine
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
label: Names
content: Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
label: Names
content: Kline, Franz, 1910-1962
label: Names
content: Marca-Relli, Conrad, 1913-2000
label: Names
content: Mitchell, Joan, 1926-1992
label: Names
content: Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
label: Names
content: Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
label: Names
content: Resnick, Milton, 1917-2004
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
place: label: Place
content: Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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: Creator
content: Vicente, Esteban, 1903-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Sandler, Irving, 1925-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Esteban Vicente (1903-2001) was a painter in New York, New York. and Bridgehampton, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 86 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968 August 26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.vicent68
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Reproduction Note
content: Item is a transcript.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of original tape unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Esteban Vicente conducted 1968 August 26, by Irving Sandler, for the Archives of American Art. Vicente speaks of the gallery activity of the 1940s and 1950s; The Club and the exhibition on 9th Street arranged by many of those artists; remembering Mark Rothko as a casual acquaintance and the society of artists living in the Hamptons; coming to the United States, acting as vice-consul in Philadelphia for the Loyalist camp during the Spanish Civil War; and his own work and his feelings about the work of his contemporaries. He recalls Bill de Kooning, Franz Kline, John Ferrin, Marca-Relli, Milton Resnick, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Walter Pach, Elaine de Kooning, Milton Avery, Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dali, and many others.