Oral history interview with Oscar Collier
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 32 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Collier, Oscar, 1924-
label: Interviewer
content: Polcari, Stephen
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Students
label: Names
content: Baylor University -- Students
label: Names
content: University of Iowa -- Students
topic: label: Topic
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. Funding for this interview was provided by the Horace Goldsmith Foundation.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Collier, Oscar, 1924-
label: Interviewer
content: Polcari, Stephen
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Oscar Collier (1924- ) is a painter from New York. Associated with "Indian Space Painting," so named for its roots in Pre-Columbian American Indian art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound cassettes (Sound recordings (90 min. each), analog)
label: Extent
content: 58 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1994 June 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.collie94
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Oscar Collier conducted 1994 June 22, by Stephen Polcari, for the Archives of American Art, in Seaman, Ohio.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Collier tells about his childhood in Texas; his education at Baylor University, University of Iowa, and the Art Students League in New York; his acquaintance with other artists, among them Will Barnet, Peter Busa, Robert Barrell, Lee Krasner, and Jackson Pollock; his involvement with and perceptions of Indian Space Painting; and his eventual transition into publishing as a career.