Oral history interview with Rebecca Reis
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hr., 20 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Reis, Rebecca G., 1896-1988
label: Interviewer
content: McNaught, William
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Baziotes, William, 1912-1963
label: Names
content: Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985
label: Names
content: Ernst, Max, 1891-1976
label: Names
content: Frankenthaler, Helen, 1928-2011
label: Names
content: Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974
label: Names
content: Grosz, George, 1893-1959
label: Names
content: Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979
label: Names
content: Guston, Philip, 1913-1980
label: Names
content: Kline, Franz, 1910-1962
label: Names
content: Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973
label: Names
content: Motherwell, Robert
label: Names
content: Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
label: Names
content: Reinhardt, Rita
label: Names
content: Reis, Bernard J.
label: Names
content: Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
topic: label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.
label: Provenance
content: Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sonia Allen, Sally Avery, Ben-Zion, Bernard Braddon, Ernest Briggs, Rhys Caparn, Elaine de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Esther Gottlieb, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Jacob Kainen, Louis Kaufman, Jack Kufeld, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Dorothy Miller, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Maurice Roth, Sidney Schectman, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Hedda Sterne, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein. Each has been cataloged separately.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Reis, Rebecca G., 1896-1988
label: Interviewer
content: McNaught, William
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rebecca Reis (1896-1988) was a collector, from New York, New York. She was married to Bernard Reis, one of the executors of Mark Rothko's will.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 123 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.reis80
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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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 Rebecca Reis conducted in 1980, by William McNaught, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reis speaks of her life in New York City. At their home in the city they entertained artists, art dealers, and other art lovers and had a great desire to provide a haven for people who loved art. Reis recalls many stories of the people they met and supported including Jacques Lipchitz, George Grosz, Jackson Pollock, Peggy Guggenheim, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, William Baziotes, Franz Kline, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko, the legal case involving Rothko's estate, and Rothko's relationship with Rita Reinhardt. They were particular friends of Peggy Guggenheim. Bernard Reis gave financial advice to many people in the art world. The latter portion of the interviews concentrates on their great friend, Mark Rothko, his suicide, and subsequent court case brought by the family.