Interview with Helen Boyer and Warrington Colescott
name: label: Interviewer
content: Wright, Helena, 1946-
label: Interviewee
content: Boyer, Helen King, 1919-
label: Names
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Department of Social and Cultural History. Division of Graphic Arts
label: Interviewee
content: Boyer, Ernest W.
label: Interviewee
content: Boyer, Louise, 1890-
label: Interviewee
content: Colescott, Warrington, 1921-
topic: label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Prints -- 20th century -- Technique
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred from the National Museum of American History, Division of Graphic Arts, 1993.
creator: label: Interviewer
content: Wright, Helena, 1946-
label: Interviewee
content: Boyer, Helen King, 1919-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Curator; National Museum of American History.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Sound cassettes (Total (ca. 90 min. each))
label: Extent
content: 2 Sound cassettes (Boyer)
label: Extent
content: 2 Sound cassettes (Colescott)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 Nov. 13 - 1986 Mar. 20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wrighele
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interviews with Helen Boyer and Warrington Colescott conducted 1984 Nov. 13 through 1986 Mar. 20 by Helena E. Wright for research related to her position as curator in the division of Graphic Arts in the Department of Social and Cultural History at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. 

Colescott discusses his suite of prints "The History of Printmaking" purchased by the Division of Graphic Arts, National Museum of American History in 1985. He mentions Rembrandt states and proofs; Robert Rauschenberg; Tamarind; viscosity printing; Slade School; Anthony Gross; and printmaking at the university level.

Boyer discusses being a member of a family of printmakers in Pittsburgh PA; the background and career of her mother, printmaker Louise Boyer; her mother's involvement in the development of anodized aluminum plates for drypoint; her mother's printmaking techniques; her father, architect and printmaker Ernest W. Boyer and his printmaking techniques; her own artistic development and career; the print market; the satirical and political content of her work from the 40s, her silk paintings; exhibitions; working for a toy manufacturer; working various jobs; and working in toy design.