Oral history interview with Jack Kufeld
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hrs., 44 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Kufeld, Jack, 1907-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Avis
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Design Laboratory (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Gallery Secession (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
label: Names
content: Godsoe, Robert
label: Names
content: Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974
label: Names
content: Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991
label: Names
content: Harris, Louis, 1902-1970
label: Names
content: Jaffe, Vladimir
label: Names
content: Kufeld, Jack, 1907-1990
label: Names
content: Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber)
label: Names
content: Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice), 1902-1971
label: Names
content: Rothko, Edith
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
label: Names
content: Weber, Max, 1881-1961
label: Names
content: Yavno, Max
topic: label: Topic
content: Philadelphia Ten (Group of artists)
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.
label: Provenance
content: Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sonia Allen, Sally Avery, Ben-Zion, Bernard Braddon, Ernest Briggs, Rhys Caparn, Elaine de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Esther Gottlieb, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Jacob Kainen, Louis Kaufman, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Dorothy Miller, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Rebecca Reis, Maurice Roth, Sidney Schectman, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Hedda Sterne, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein. Each has been cataloged separately.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Kufeld, Jack, 1907-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Avis
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jack Kufeld (1907-1990) was a painter from New York, N.Y. Member of the painters' group The Ten which included Mark Rothko, Ilya Bolotowsky, Joseph Solman, Adolph Gottlieb and others.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 28 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 Oct. 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kufeld81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Jack Kufeld conducted 1981 Oct. 5, by Avis Berman, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Kufeld discusses his acquaintance with Mark Rothko and the artists of The Ten. He speaks briefly about Gallery Secession and its owner, Robert Godsoe, and the Gallery's role in the formation of The Ten. Kufeld and Rothko lived together for a short time after Rothko's separation from his first wife, Edith. Kufeld remembers Edith, with whom he remained friends for many years even though he stopped associating with painters when he abruptly stopped painting in the late 1930s. He talks about the Design Laboratory, where he was a teacher. Kufeld recalls Robert Godsoe, Milton Avery, Max Yavno, J.B. Neumann, Adolf Gottlieb, Lou Harris, Max Weber, I. Rice Pereira, Chaim Gross, Vladimir Jaffe, and many others.