Oral history interview with Ellen Lanyon
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lanyon, Ellen
label: Interviewer
content: Crawford, James, 1944-
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Chicago. School
label: Names
content: Ox-Bow Summer School of Painting
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content: Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977
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content: Berdich, Vera, 1915-2003
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content: Blackshear, Kathleen, 1897-1988
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content: Buehr, George Frederick, 1905-1983
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content: Carleback, Julius
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content: Ginzel, Roland, 1921-
label: Names
content: Golub, Leon, 1922-2004
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content: Grooms, Red
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content: Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981
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content: Hoff, Margo
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content: Lasansky, Mauricio, 1914-
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content: Rupprecht, Edgar A.
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content: Schniewind, Carl Oscar, 1900-1957
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content: Watson, Dudley Crafts, 1885-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women printmakers
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content: Women educators
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content: Women muralists
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content: Feminism and 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: Lanyon, Ellen
label: Interviewer
content: Crawford, James, 1944-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ellen Lanyon (1926-2013) was a painter and printmaker from Chicago, Illinois.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Sound tapes (5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 229 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975 Dec. 5-1976 Jan. 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lanyon75
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Sound tapes
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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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 Ellen Lanyon conducted 1975 December 5-1976 January 18 by James Crawford for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Lanyon speaks of family background; interests in art and music and collecting objects and antiques; her early art education; remembrances of 1933 Chicago World's Fair; Art Institute of Chicago; Momentum group; Oxbow Summer School of Painting; her work and techniques; exhibitions; Institute of Design; marriage and move to University of Iowa; Iowa art department, Iowa print group; Fulbright to England; travel in France and Italy; return to Chicago; founding of graphic workshop; Hairy Who group; The Imagists; Seven and Up exhibitions; Red Grooms in Chicago; and commissions. She recalls George Buehr, Margo Hoff, Dudley Crafts Watson, Vera Berdich, Joseph Hirsch, Carl Schneiwind, Kathleen Blackshear, Mauricio Lasansky, Gertrude Abercrombie, Julius Carleback, Roland Ginzel, and Edgar Rupprecht. She also discusses her family; changes in medium and style of her artwork; symbolism, and feminism.