Oral history interview with Paul Burlin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 39 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Burlin, Paul, 1886-1969
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
label: Names
content: American Artists' Congress
label: Names
content: Downtown Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: National Academy of Design (U.S.) -- Students
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Whitney Museum of American Art
label: Names
content: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
label: Names
content: Gleizes, Albert, 1881-1953
label: Names
content: Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970
label: Names
content: Huneker, James, 1857-1921
label: Names
content: Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954
label: Names
content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
place: label: Place
content: Europe -- description and travel
label: Place
content: Southwestern States -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Art -- Political aspects
label: Topic
content: Cubism
label: Topic
content: Fauvism
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Pop art
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: Burlin, Paul, 1886-1969
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Paul Burlin (1886-1969) was a painter in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (Sound recording: 5 sound files (2 hr., 39 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 65 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.burlin62
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
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: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Paul Burlin, conducted on December 5-6, 1962, by Dorothy Gees Seckler, for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Burlin speaks of his childhood education in England; working for the magazine Delineator; his education at the National Academy of Design; his travels in the American Southwest; his early exhibitions in New York; his first wife's writings on folk music; visiting Europe before the first World War; discovering Cubism and Fauvism; working on the WPA under the Whitney Museum; joining and then leaving the American Artists' Congress in protest; his thoughts on overtly political art; exhibiting at the Downtown Gallery; his image-making process; and his critique of Pop art. Burlin also recalls James Huneker, Franz Boas, Albert Gleizes, Henri Matisse, Edith Halpert, Georgia O'Keeffe, and others.