Oral history interview with Louis Bouché
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav file. Duration is 2 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bouché, Louis, 1896-1969
label: Interviewer
content: Woolfenden, William E. (William Edward), 1918-1995
label: Names
content: Penguin Club (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art
label: Names
content: Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954
label: Names
content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
label: Names
content: Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, 1874-1927
label: Names
content: Gaylor, Wood, 1883-1957
label: Names
content: Gleizes, Albert, 1881-1953
label: Names
content: Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
label: Names
content: Pascin, Jules, 1885-1930
label: Names
content: Quinn, John, 1870-1924
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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: Bouché, Louis, 1896-1969
label: Interviewer
content: Woolfenden, William E. (William Edward), 1918-1995
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Louis Bouché (1896-1969) was a painter and teacher from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 53 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963 March 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bouch63
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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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 Louis Bouché conducted on 1963 March 13, by William E. Woolfenden, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bouché speaks of the Penguin Club, including Walt Kuhn's leadership, artists' balls, banquets and sketch classes; European artists at the Penguin Club including Jules Pascin, Albert Gleizes, and others; his association with the Daniel Gallery; his "lace curtain period"; his art education; teaching; working at Wanamaker's and the Folsom Gallery; Walter Arensberg's parties; and his father, Henri's career as a designer. Bouché recalls Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Wood Gaylor, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, John Quinn, and others.