Oral history interview with Michael Loew
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 16 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Loew, Michael, 1907-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- 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: Loew, Michael, 1907-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Michael Loew (1907-1985) was a painter or art teacher from New York, N.Y. and Berkeley, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound tape reels
label: Extent
content: 55 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973 Oct. 5-12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.loew73
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
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 Michael Loew, conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, at Loew's studio in New York, on October 5, 1973.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Loew speaks of his childhood; classmates and instructors at the Art Students League; mentorship at Thurn School of Art; fellowship to study art in Europe; travel to North Africa and Mexico; the social content of his early painting; his work with the WPA; serving in the Navy during World War II; the Artists' Club; teaching at Berkeley; Cubism; and the use of color in his later work. Loew also recalls Richard Lahey, Boardman Robinson; Ernest Thurn, Saidie May, Ernest Jensen, Max Schnitzler, Ted Schempp, Josef Albers, Fernand Léger, Erle Loran, Rose Fried, Eleanor Ward; and others.