Oral history interview with Hubert Leckie and Alexander Giampietro
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 34 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Leckie, Hubert W., 1913-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Interviewee
content: Giampietro, Alexander (1912-2010)
label: Names
content: Institute of Contemporary Arts  (Washington, D.C.)
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content: Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.)
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content: New Bauhaus (Chicago, Ill.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Training of -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago
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content: Designers -- 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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Leckie, Hubert W., 1913-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Interviewee
content: Giampietro, Alexander (1912-2010)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hubert Leckie (1913-1993) was an art instructor and designer in Washington, D.C. Leckie is a former art instructor and was the designer of the Archives of American Art Journal. Alexander Giampietro (1912-2010) was a professor of art at Catholic University.
function: label: Function
content: Art Schools -- Washington (D.C.)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 37 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992 Feb. 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.leckie92
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 is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Hubert Leckie and Alexander Giampietro conducted 1992 Feb. 13, by Liza Kirwin, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Leckie and Giampietro recall their student days at the New Bauhaus in Chicago (fall 1937- summer 1938) and the teaching methods of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Archipenko, Hin Bredendieck, Gyorgy Kepes, David Dushkin, and others there; the New Bauhaus approach to design; the closing of the school in 1938 and its reincarnation in the Institute of Design; Leckie's application of New Bauhaus principles in his teaching at American University and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in Washington, D.C.; ICA exhibitions and programs; both teaching at the ICA from 1948 to 1951; their impressions of ICA director Robert Richman; the impact of the ICA on the Washington, D.C. art scene; and the exchange between the ICA, American University, the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts, Catholic University, and other schools. Leckie also discusses his role as the designer of the Archives of American Art Journal.