Oral history interview with Hedda Sterne
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 19 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Sterne, Hedda, 1910-2011
label: Interviewer
content: Tuchman, Phyllis
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
label: Names
content: Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
label: Names
content: Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979
label: Names
content: Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970
label: Names
content: Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
label: Names
content: Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.
label: Provenance
content: Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sonia Allen, Sally Avery, Ben-Zion, Ernest Briggs, Rhys Caparn, Elaine de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Esther Gottlieb, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Jacob Kainen, Louis Kaufman, Jack Kufeld, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Dorothy Miller, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Rebecca Reis, Maurice Roth, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein. Each has been cataloged separately.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Sterne, Hedda, 1910-2011
label: Interviewer
content: Tuchman, Phyllis
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hedda Sterne (1910-2011) was a painter from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 27 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 December 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sterne81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Hedda Sterne conducted 1981 December 17, by Phyllis Tuchman, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Sterne remembers Mark Rothko's personality and relations with other artists. She recalls her involvement with a roundtable discussion in 1950, and describes seeing Rothko shortly before his death. Sterne goes on to speak about her childhood in Romania, art education in Paris and Vienna, and emigration to America in 1941. She describes the New York gallery scene of the 1940s and 1950s, the evolution of her work through the years, and her painting habits. She recalls Peggy Guggenheim, Clyfford Still, Milton Avery, Ad Reinhardt, Barney Newman, Clement Greenberg, and others.