Oral history interview with Thomas Chimes
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 27 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Chimes, Thomas, 1921-2009
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Fairmount Park Art Association
label: Names
content: Moore College of Art and Design
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content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
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content: Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, Abstract -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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content: Art -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Portrait painting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 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: Chimes, Thomas, 1921-2009
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Thomas Chimes (1921-2009) was a painter, sculptor, and educator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Sound cassettes (Sound recording)
label: Extent
content: 123 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990 June 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.chimes90
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
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Thomas Chimes conducted 1990 June 14, by Cynthia Veloric, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project. Chimes speaks about his Greek background, his childhood in Philadelphia and in several southern states, studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Art Students League, New York in the 1940's including a comparison of the two institutions and a discussion of the New York City art scene; teaching at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), and Moore College of Art in Philadelphia; the development of his painting and sculpture including the religious paintings of the 1960's, the metal boxes, and the transition to the portraits of the 1970's and 1980's based on his readings and interest in Alfred Jarry and Marcel Duchamp; and "Sleeping Woman" commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association.