Oral history interview with Stuyvesant Van Veen
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 36 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Van Veen, Stuyvesant
label: Interviewer
content: Nathan, Emily
label: Names
content: Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950
label: Names
content: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
label: Names
content: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
label: Names
content: Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974
label: Names
content: Rich, Daniel Catton, 1904-1976
label: Names
content: Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976
topic: label: Topic
content: Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives' 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Van Veen, Stuyvesant
label: Interviewer
content: Nathan, Emily
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Stuyvesant Van Veen (1910-1988) was a painter from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 51 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 May 5-14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.vanvee81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Stuyvesant Van Veen conducted 1981 May 5-14, by Emily Nathan, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Van Veen speaks of his family background and parental influence; his early training, and studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; his army service; some of his experiences as a young artist; early exhibits of his work; his mural work; anthropological drawings he did under Franz Boas for Columbia University in the 1930s. He recalls Max Beckmann, Thomas Hart Benton, Leon Kroll, Daniel Catton Rich and Hudson Dean Walker.