Oral history interview with Peter Paone
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 56 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Paone, Peter, 1936-
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
label: Names
content: Pratt Institute
label: Names
content: Print Club (Philadelphia, Pa.)
label: Names
content: Castellón, Federico, 1914-1971
label: Names
content: Rodman, Selden, 1909-
label: Names
content: Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
label: Names
content: Spruance, Benton, 1904-1967
topic: label: Topic
content: Prints -- Technique -- United States
label: Topic
content: Prints -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Paone, Peter, 1936-
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Peter Paone (1936- ) is a printmaker from Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 202 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 Sept. 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.paone91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 4778 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Peter Paone conducted 1991 Sept. 27, by Cynthia Veloric, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Paone discusses his family and early education; art classes at the Fleisher Art Memorial and the Philadelphia College of Art; studying with Benton Spruance; exhibiting at the Print Club of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; teaching at Pratt Institute; working with Ben Shahn in the late 1950s as a studio assistant; being included in Selden Rodman's book "The Insiders"; his galleries in New York and Houston; receiving a Tiffany and Guggenheim grant to study in London; his relationship with Federico Castellon; and the development of his style, subject matter and technique.