Oral history interview with Russell Cowles
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 41 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Cowles, Russell, 1887-1979
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: Cumming, Charles Atherton, 1858-1932
label: Names
content: Dasburg, Andrew, 1887-1979
label: Names
content: Faulkner, Barry, 1881-1966
label: Names
content: Hatfield, Dalzell, 1893-1963
label: Names
content: Volk, Douglas , 1856-1935
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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: Cowles, Russell, 1887-1979
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Russell Cowles (1887-1979) was a painter, New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 32 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969 April 16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cowles69
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
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 Russell Cowles conducted 1969 April 16, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Cowles speaks of growing up in Iowa; Iowa landscapes; his education; working in Charles Cumming's studio; his studies at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design; working as an assistant to Barry Faulkner; his Prix De Rome fellowship, 1915-1920; his travels to China, Japan, Java and elsewhere; the Santa Fe art colony in the 1930s; dealers; his photographs; representational painting; his reaction to the Armory Show of 1913; his reading tastes; painting from memory. He recalls Kenyon Cox, Andrew Michael Dasburg, Dalzell Hatfield, and Douglas Volk.