Oral history interview with Robert Beverly Hale
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 7 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hale, Robert Beverly, 1901-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
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content: Columbia University -- Students
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content: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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content: Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981
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content: Bridgman, George Brant, 1864-1943
label: Names
content: Coyle, Terence
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content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
label: Names
content: Geldzahler, Henry
label: Names
content: Hirshhorn, Joseph H.
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content: Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975
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content: Klonis, Stewart, 1901-1989
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content: McNulty, William Charles, 1884-1963
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content: Peirce, Waldo, 1884-1970
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content: Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
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content: Priest, Alan Reed
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content: Rockefeller, David, 1915-
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content: Root, Edward Wales, d. 1956
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content: Rorimer, James J. (James Joseph), 1905-1966
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content: Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Drawing -- Technique
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: Hale, Robert Beverly, 1901-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Robert Beverly Hale (1901-1985) was an administrator, instructor, and art historian from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 Mar. 7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hale84
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Robert Beverly Hale conducted 1984 Mar. 7, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hale speaks of his childhood years living a bohemian life; personal and family friend Marcel Duchamp; his time as a student at the Columbia School of Architecture; being a biology student at Columbia University; studying painting in Paris at Fontainebleau; assisting Waldo Pierce as a secretary; the gold medal from the American Poetry Society; running the publicity department of the Arts Students League; connection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Art News magazine critic in 1930s; tenure in the American wing of the Met; friend Jackson Pollack and the art scene at East Hampton; discussion of drawing the planes of the human body; and writing a book on figure drawing. Hale also recalls Bertrand Russell, Julian Huxley, Henry Oliver Walker, Phil Wiley, George Bridgman, William McNulty, Stuart Klonis, Sam Lewis, Edward Root, Walter Baker, Joseph Hirshhorn, Alan Priest, Albert Gardner, Henry Geldzahler, James Rorimer; David Rockefeller, Alfred Barr, and Terrance Coyle.