Oral history interview with Ted Halkin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 3 sound files. Duration is 3 hr., 36 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Halkin, Theodore, 1924-
label: Interviewer
content: Silverman, Lanny
label: Names
content: Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource
topic: label: Topic
content: Artists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Mixed media (Art)
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: Halkin, Theodore, 1924-
label: Interviewer
content: Silverman, Lanny
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Ted Halkin (1924- ) is a multimedia artist working in Evanston, Illinois. Interviewer Lanny Silverman (1947- ) is a curator at the Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (sound files (3 hr., 36 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 114 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2015 July 29- August 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.halkin15
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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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 with Ted Halkin conducted 2015 July 29- August 17, by Lanny Silverman, for the Archives of American Art's Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project, at Halkin's home in Evanston, Illinois.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Halkin speaks of growing up during the Depression; his family members' emigration from Russia to Canada and Argentina, and eventually the U.S.; his childhood interests in art-making; serving in World War II, including at Iwo Jima; being dyslexic; attending the Art Institute of Chicago on the GI Bill; working at the Field Museum; Halkin's attitude towards cultural appropriation; early exhibitions, including in the Chicago show; painting on the Chicago Midway with George Cohen and Leon Golub; influences on his work, including Cubism, Romanesque cathedrals, and certain Renaissance art; teaching art history at the Art Institute; the impact of the internet on art and the art business; visiting the cave paintings of Lascaux; the use of the grotesque in his work; incorporating sculptural elements into his art; and the impact of the death of his wife on his painting style. Halkin also recalls Edith Altman, Leon Golub, Ray Yoshida, Cosmo Campoli, Franz Schulze, Jim Nutt, Whitney Halstead, Evelyn Statsinger, George Cohen, Phyllis Kind, and others.