Oral history interview with Lillian Orlowsky
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 12 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Orlowsky, Lillian, 1914-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: American Artists School (New York, N.Y.) -- Students
label: Names
content: Educational Alliance Art School (New York, N.Y.) -- Students
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content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Freed, William, 1904-
label: Names
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
label: Names
content: Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984
label: Names
content: Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988
label: Names
content: Refregier, Anton, 1905-
label: Names
content: Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 1896-1974
label: Names
content: Soyer, Moses, 1899-1974
label: Names
content: Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting -- Technique
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: Orlowsky, Lillian, 1914-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lillian Orlowsky (1914- 2004) was a painter in New York, N.Y. and Provincetown, Mass. Orlowsky was a WPA artist who studied under Hans Hofmann.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound cassettes (2 hr., 30 min.))
label: Extent
content: 52 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1996 Aug. 5-26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.orlows96
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Lillian Orlowsky conducted 1996 Aug. 5 and 26, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Orlowsky's home, in Provincetown, Mass.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Orlowsky talks about her childhood in Manhattan, N.Y., including her interest in modern dance, attending art classes at the Educational Alliance in the Lower East Side where she met classmate Louise Nevelson (1932-33); her studies at the American Artists School with Raphael and Moses Soyer and Anton Refregier; creating watercolors with William Freed; her work in the mural and easel divisions of the WPA; Hans Hofmann's classes and her classmates, including Lee Krasner (1937); her return to Provincetown, Mass., in 1944, with husband William Freed; and Forum 49 in Provincetown. Orlowsky also recalls David Alfaro Siqueiros' method of painting.