Oral history interview with Joan Brown
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content: Originally recorded on 4 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 12 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Brown, Joan, 1938-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Berman, Wallace, 1926-1976
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content: Bischoff, Elmer, 1916-1991
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content: Bothwell, Dorr
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content: Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008
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content: DeFeo, Jay, 1929-1989
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content: Hedrick, Wally, 1928-2003
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content: Herms, George, 1935-
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content: Kienholz, Edward, 1927-
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content: McClure, Michael
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content: Neri, Manuel, 1930-
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content: Staempfli, George W.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco
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content: Educators -- California -- San Francisco
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content: Figurative art
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content: Abstract expressionism
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women educators
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: Brown, Joan, 1938-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
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content: Oral history interview with Joan Brown
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joan Brown (1938-1990) was a painter and sculptor from San Francisco, California. She studied at the Calfornia School of Fine Arts under Elmer Bischoff and others.
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content: 184 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975 July 1-September 9
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.brown75
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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: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: An interview of Joan Brown conducted 1975 July 1-September 9, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
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content: Brown speaks of her family background, childhood, and Catholic education; the influence of Egyptian art, Francis Bacon, Willem De Kooning, and others; her instructors at the California School of Fine Arts including Dorr Bothwell and Elmer Nelson Bischoff; her trips to Europe; abstract expressionism, figurative painting, funk art and regionalism; San Francisco's painters, poets and musicians in the late 1950s; feminism; her teaching career; her imagery and materials. She recalls her Alcatraz swim that influenced a series of paintings; Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, George Herms, Edward Kienholz, Michael McClure, Manuel Neri, George W. Staempfli, and others.