Oral history interview with Larry Day
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 51 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Day, Larry, 1921-
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
label: Names
content: Gallery 1015
label: Names
content: Philadelphia College of Art
label: Names
content: Tyler School of Art
label: Names
content: Kulicke, Robert M. (Robert Moore), 1924-2007
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 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: Day, Larry, 1921-
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Larry Day (1921- ) is a painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 135 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 February 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.day91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 4777 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Larry Day conducted 1991 February 21, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Day discusses his family and childhood in Philadelphia; military service; attending Temple University's Tyler School of Art including a discussion of the faculty, classes and programs; starting a frame making business with Robert Kulicke; involvement with New York painters of the 1950's, traveling to Europe; teaching at The Philadelphia College of Art; galleries and dealers he worked with including Pearl Fox, Hank Dublin, Gallery 1015 and Gross McCleaf Gallery; the development of his painting style and the importance of Egyptian fayum portraits, Matisse and Balthus; and changing from representational to abstract art and back to representational art.