Interview with Sterling Strauser
name: label: Creator
content: Strauser, Sterling, 1907-
label: Interviewer
content: Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe
label: Names
content: Armstrong, Tom, 1932-
label: Names
content: Gatto, Victor Joseph, 1893-1965
label: Names
content: Grooms, Red
label: Names
content: Hemphill, Herbert Waide
label: Names
content: McCarthy, Justin, 1891-1977
label: Names
content: Pry, Lamont Alfred, 1921-1987
label: Names
content: Savitsky, Jack, 1910-1991
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania
label: Topic
content: Folk art
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Self-taught artists -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1990 by Sterling Strauser.
creator: label: Creator
content: Strauser, Sterling, 1907-
label: Interviewer
content: Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sterling Strauser (1907-1995) was a painter and art collector from Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 sound cassette + transcript (41 p.) (on partial microfilm reel)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989 Aug. 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.straster
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 4780 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Sterling Strauser conducted 1989 Aug. 10 by Lynda Hartigan. Strauser speaks of his art education, and about his folk art collecting. He discusses some of the artists with whom he has worked, including Justin McCarthy, Jack Savitsky, Old Ironside Pry and Victor Joseph Gatto. He also speaks of collectors he has been associated with, including Herbert Hemphill, Red Grooms and Tom Armstrong.