Oral history interview with Terry Dintenfass
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav file. Duration is 2 hr., 38 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Dintenfass, Terry, 1920-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Terry Dintenfass, Inc.
label: Names
content: Alan, Charles, 1908?-1975
label: Names
content: Baron, Herman, 1892-1961
label: Names
content: Bloom, Hyman, 1913-
label: Names
content: Erpf, Armand
label: Names
content: Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973
label: Names
content: Goodman, Sidney
label: Names
content: Gwathmey, Robert, 1903-1988
label: Names
content: Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970
label: Names
content: Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
label: Names
content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
label: Names
content: Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
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: Dintenfass, Terry, 1920-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Terry Dintenfass (1920-2004) was an art dealer from New York, New York. She operated Terry Dintenfass, Inc.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 75 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 December 2-1975 January 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dinten74
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: Interview of Terry Dintenfass conducted 1974 December 2-1975 January 13, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art, in her home in New York, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Dintenfass speaks of her family; education; travel; studying with Franklin Chenault Watkins and Clayton Whitehall at the Philadelphia College of Art; working as a nurse; her galleries in Atlantic City, New Jersey; social protest painting; buying American paintings for Armand Erpf; her apprenticeship with Herman Baron; critics; discovering Sidney Goodman; women art dealers; and visiting Georgia O'Keeffe. She recalls Charles Alan, Hyman Bloom, Philip Evergood, Robert Gwathmey, Edith Halpert, Jacob Lawrence, and others.