Oral history interview with Avel De Knight
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 49 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: De Knight, Avel, 1921-1995
label: Interviewer
content: Ghent, Henri, 1926-
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
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: De Knight, Avel, 1921-1995
label: Interviewer
content: Ghent, Henri, 1926-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Avel C. de Knight (1921-1995) was an African American painter, educator, and art critic. His birth dates are also cited as 1923, 1925, 1931, and 1933. Born in New York to parents from Barbados and Puerto Rico, he attended Pratt Institute before serving in a segregated United States Army unit in World War II. After the war, he studied at the École de Beaux-Arts, the Grand Chaumière, and the Académie Julian in Paris under the G.I. Bill. He returned to the United States in 1956 and in 1957 began reviewing New York exhibitions for France-Amérique. He also taught at the Art Students League and later at the National Academy School of Fine Arts. De Knight was an Academician of the National Academy of Design and his works are held in collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the University of Richmond Museums.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 43 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968 July 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.deknig68
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Avel De Knight conducted 1968, by Henri Ghent, for the Archives of American Art.