Oral history interview with Chuck Close
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 10 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hr., 38 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Close, Chuck, 1940-
label: Interviewer
content: Tully, Judd
label: Names
content: Bykert Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Pace Gallery
label: Names
content: Glimcher, Arnold B.
label: Names
content: Held, Al, 1928-
label: Names
content: Kertess, Klaus
label: Names
content: Serra, Richard, 1938-
place: label: Place
content: SoHo (New York, N.Y.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Close, Chuck, 1940-
label: Interviewer
content: Tully, Judd
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Chuck Close (1940- ) is a painter and photographer in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 212 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987 May 14-September 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.close87
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Chuck Close conducted 1987 May 14-September 30, by Judd Tully, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Close speaks of his childhood; his art education in the Pacific Northwest and at Yale; the art scene in SoHo in the 1960s; his work methods; his work in portraiture. He recalls Al Held, Richard Serra, Klaus Kertess, Arnold Glimcher, and his affiliations with the Bykert Gallery and the Pace Gallery.