Oral history interview with Van Day Truex
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Truex, Van Day, -1979
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Designers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art -- Philosophy
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: Truex, Van Day, -1979
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Van Day Truex (1904-1979) was a painter and designer from Menerbes, France and New York, N.Y. Truex spent his youth in Wyoming and Idaho and went to New York to study art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 53 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971 November 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.truex71
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
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 Van Day Truex conducted 1971 November 15, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Discusses his youth in the midwest; art studies at New York School of Fine and Applied Arts; life in New York; studies in Paris; Parson's School of Design; his interest in interior design; his affiliation with Tiffany's; exhibitions; and his return to France to live for seven months of the year.