Oral history interview with George D. Yater
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Yater, George, 1910-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Photography, Artistic -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Yater, George, 1910-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: George D. Yater (1910-1993) was a painter and photographer from Truro, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 21 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 July 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.yater74
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: Interview of George D. Yater, conducted by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Truro, Massachusetts on July 18, 1974.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Yater speaks of his childhood in Madison, Indiana; his art education at John Herron Art School and the Cape Cod School of Art; his artistic influences; his experience of Provincetown; showing in Provincetown, Boston, and New York galleries; his photographic career; and the change in his painting style after living in the Virgin Islands. Yater also recalls William Forsyth, Henry Hensche, Bruce McKain, John Pope, Ed Dickinson, Phil Malicoat, Richard Miller, Ross Moffett, Fritz Pfeiffer, Karl Knaths, John Whorf, Hans Hofmann, Morris Davidson, Carl Murchison, Don Witherstine, and others.