Oral history interview with Marston Dean Hodgin
odd: label: General
content: Sound of hammering toward end of interview.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hodgin, Marston Dean, 1903-2003
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). Dept. of Art
label: Names
content: Coats, Randolph, b. 1891
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- North Truro -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art students -- 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: Hodgin, Marston Dean, 1903-2003
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marston Dean Hodgin (1903-2003) was a painter and teacher of North Truro, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording (80 min.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 26 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998 Aug. 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hodgin98
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Marston Dean Hodgin conducted 1998 Aug. 25, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Hodgin's home, North Truro, Mass. The interview covers Hodgin's background and early career up to his trip to Europe in 1931.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hodgin discusses settling in Richmond, Ind., his father's hometown; effect of his father's Quaker beliefs; great effect on him of art exhibitions staged by the Richmond Art Association at the local high school; first formal art lessons with Randolph Coats; freshman year at Indiana University; remaining college years at Earlham College; to Provincetown summer 1924 to study at a school run (for 2 years) by Indiana painters Coats and James P. Hopkins; to Miami University of Ohio in 1927 as an artist-in-residence; establishing ca. 1928 the School of Fine Arts at Miami University; marriage to childhood sweetheart, Lucy Loufborrow in 1929; summer 1931 trip to Europe to familiarize himself with leading art museums; his comprehensive definition of art as encompassing the visual arts, music and dance; and comparisons between painting and poetry.