Oral history interview with Ferol Sibley Warthen
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 40 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Warthen, Ferol Sibley, 1890-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown -- 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: Warthen, Ferol Sibley, 1890-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ferol Sibley Warthen (1890-1986) was a printmaker and painter from Provincetown, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 35 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 September 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.warthe81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ferol Sibley Warthen conducted 1981 September 3, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Warthen discusses her childhood in Columbus, Ohio; attending the Columbus Art School; studying with Alice Schille and John E. Hussey; moving to New York City in 1910 to study at the Art Students League with Kenneth Hayes Miller and William Merritt Chase; moving back to Columbus to attend university to become a teacher; teaching art and design to high school students in Columbus; moving back to New York City to work in embroidery in a millinery shop; marrying Lee Roland Warthen in 1925 and becoming a housewife while painting in her spare time; moving to Washington, DC in 1935; her landscape and watercolor paintings; influences on her work such as Blanche Lazzell, Karl Knaths, and Fukwara Jin Basuke; making her woodblock and white line prints.