Oral history interview with Elayne H. Varian
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 5 min.
name: label: Creator
content: Varian, Elayne H.
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Florida -- Orlando -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Florida -- Orlando
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Florida -- Orlando
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Creator
content: Varian, Elayne H.
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Elayne H. Varian (1913-1987) was an art administrator and art historian from Orlando, Florida.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound file (2 hr., 5 min), digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 53 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975 May 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.varian75
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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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: Interview of Elayne Varian, conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art, at the Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY, on May 2, 1975 and May 9, 1975.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Varian speaks of her education at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Bauhaus/IIT Institute of Design; working at Duveen's as an art dealer; teaching courses at Finch on museology; ways she found funding for the Finch College Museum of Art; and the exhibitions she organized at Finch, including Art and Process, Destruction Art, Art and Jewelry, Italian Visual Poetry, Art Nouveau, Documention, and Troubles in Ireland . Varian also recalls Edward Fowles; Brian O'Doherty; Robert Indiana; Robert Smithson; George Kuchar; Sol LeWitt; Ralph Ortiz; Walter Gutman; Les Levine, and others.