Oral history interview with Rackstraw Downes
name: label: Interviewee
content: Downes, Rackstraw
label: Interviewer
content: McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
topic: label: Topic
content: Authors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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content: Educators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is 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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Downes, Rackstraw
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rackstraw Downes (1952- ) is an artist, author, and educator in New York. New York. James McElhinney (1952- ) is a painter and educator of New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (sound files (4 hrs., 5 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 137 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2016 April 10-11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.downes16
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
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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: An interview with Rackstraw Downes conducted 2016 April 10-11, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at Downes' studio and home in New York, New York.