Oral history interview with John Marshall
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Marshall, John, 1936-
label: Interviewer
content: Herman, Lloyd E.
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Carnegie Institute of Technology -- Students
label: Names
content: Carnegie Museum of Art -- Students
label: Names
content: Cleveland Institute of Art -- Students
label: Names
content: Grove City College -- Students
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content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Society of North American Goldsmiths
label: Names
content: Syracuse University -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Bacorn, Don
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content: Bates, Kenneth F. (Kenneth Francis), 1904-1994
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content: Clague, John, 1928-
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content: DuSell, Lee
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content: Griffin, Gary, 1945-
label: Names
content: Hauberg, Anne Gould
label: Names
content: Lannan, J. Patrick
label: Names
content: Lutz, Winifred
label: Names
content: Metcalf, Bruce, 1949-
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content: Miller, Fred, (Decorative artist)
label: Names
content: Miller, John Paul, 1918-
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content: Nordness, Lee
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content: Penington, Ruth, b. 1905
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content: Scott, Michael, 1958-
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content: Smith, Paul J., 1931-
label: Names
content: Solberg, Ramona
label: Names
content: Takaezu, Toshiko
place: label: Place
content: Europe -- description and travel
label: Place
content: Germany -- description and travel
topic: label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Jewelers -- Washington (State) -- Interviews
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content: Metal-workers -- Washington (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Religious articles
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: Marshall, John, 1936-
label: Interviewer
content: Herman, Lloyd E.
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: John Marshall (1936- ) is a jeweler and metalsmith from Edmonds, Washington. Lloyd Herman (1936- ) is the former director of the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery from Seattle, Washington.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items (Sound recording: 6 sound files (3 hrs., 2 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 45 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2001 April 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.marsha01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of John Marshall conducted 2001 April 5, by Lloyd Herman, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Edmonds, Washington.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Marshall speaks of his childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; participating in an educational program with the Carnegie Museum; his exposure to art while in grade school and throughout his education; joining the army after high school; spending time in Germany with the army and experiencing the metalwork of that area; learning to work hard from his father; his family background; attending Grove City College, then working in construction during the day and going to classes at Carnegie Tech during the night; finally attending Cleveland Institute of Art; some of his teachers at the Institute, Kenneth Bates, Toshiko Takaezu, and John Clague; his first experiences with metal, Fred Miller, and learning how to design metal pieces; getting a job as head of the metals department at Syracuse and completing his MFA there; meeting Paul Smith and Lee Nordness, and participating in Objects: USA; his travels throughout Europe; the many commissions he has done for churches, everything from baptismal bowls, chalices, and crosses; Patrick Lannan, and how instrumental he was in Marshall's career, his collection of work that Lannan bought and where it all is now located; the different types of communities in the different areas he lived; commissions and how they were important to his career; how he challenges himself with new ideas and creations; the Handy and Harman Workshop; the difference between a university trained artist and one who has learned his/her craft outside academia; his students and how much satisfaction he has received from teaching; the decline in metal working programs at the university level; the influence of other faculty members on his work, such as Lee DuSell; the critics of metalwork, Bruce Metcalf and Gary Griffin; his involvement in the Society of North American Goldsmiths; and his two sons. Marshall also recalls John Paul Miller, Winifred Lutz, Ramona Solberg, Ruth Penington, Michael Scott, Don Bacorn, Annie Hauberg, and others.