Oral history interview with Sam Maitin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 38 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Maitin, Sam
label: Interviewer
content: Hunter, Anne S.
label: Names
content: Philadelphia Museum of Art. School of Industrial Art
label: Names
content: Print Club (Philadelphia, Pa.)
label: Names
content: Brady, Luther W., 1925-
label: Names
content: Goodman, Ronald
label: Names
content: McNulty, Kneeland
topic: label: Topic
content: Prints -- 20th century -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Prints -- 20th century -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- 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: Maitin, Sam
label: Interviewer
content: Hunter, Anne S.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Samuel C. Maitin (1928-2004) was a printmaker, painter, and sculptor) from Philadelphia, Pa.
function: label: Function
content: Art Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 238 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 July 24
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.maitin91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
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 Samuel C. Maitin conducted 1991 July 24, by Anne Schuster Hunter, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Maitin discusses his Russian Jewish family background; his early life in Philadelphia; art studies at the Philadelphia Museum school of Industrial Art and the University of Pennsylvania; exhibitions of his work at the Print Club of Philadelphia; printmaking techniques, typography, advertising work and posters he designed; his Guggenheim fellowship and working with Ronald Goodman; commissions including a mural for the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia; and the Philadelphia art scene. He recalls collector Luther Brady and print curator Kneeland (Ding) McNulty.