Oral history interview with Michelle Stuart
name: label: Interviewee
content: Stuart, Michelle, 1933-
label: Interviewer
content: Leddy, Annette
label: Names
content: Alfred Schmela Galerie
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content: Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Students
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content: Fluxus
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content: Heresies Collective, Inc.
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content: New School for Social Research  (New York, N.Y.) -- Students
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content: Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990
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content: Bartoli, Joseph
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content: Cook, James, 1728-1779
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content: Lippard, Lucy R.
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content: Munro, Eleanor, 1928-
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content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Collage
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content: Environment (Art)
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women sculptors
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: Stuart, Michelle, 1933-
label: Interviewer
content: Leddy, Annette
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Michelle Stuart (1933- ) is a visual artist in New York, New York. Annette Leddy is a collector for the Archives of American Art.
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content: 7 Items (Sound recording: 7 sound files (5 hr., 9 min.), digital, wav)
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content: 154 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2015 November 3-2017 May 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.stuart15
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Michelle Stuart, conducted 2015 November 3 and 13, and 2017 May 23 by Annette Leddy, for the Archives of American Art at Stuart's studio in New York, New York.
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content: Stuart speaks of her Los Angeles childhood with a Swiss mother and Australian father; her paternal and maternal grandparents; her early interest in history, travel, and art; her schooling; her father's enlistment in the U.S. military during World War II and being raised during her teenage years by her mother; her fascination with Captain Cook; art classes at Chouinard Institute of Art; her work with Diego Rivera in Mexico City; her marriage to Spanish painter Joseph Bartoli and their home life in Paris, France; her return to the U.S. in the late 1950s and life in New York City's West Village; courses at the New School; early exhibitions of her work in New York City gallery group shows; her breakthrough Art Park piece; her relationship to the "Land" artists; Lucy Lippard; Eleanor Munro; the influence of Fluxus; Lawrence Alloway's early essay on her scroll pieces; how she was brought into Galerie Schmela; the founding of Heresies; site specific work in the American Southwest; the enduring impact of the Pacific Ocean on her imagination and art; her use of rocks and other natural materials; her transition to photographic collage; commissions in Sweden, Japan, Alaska, and New York City.