Oral history interview with Walton Ford
name: label: Interviewee
content: Ford, Walton, 1960-
label: Interviewer
content: Gillespie, Benjamin, 1988-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Watercolorists
label: Topic
content: Natural history in art
label: Topic
content: Watercolor painting
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: Ford, Walton, 1960-
label: Interviewer
content: Gillespie, Benjamin, 1988-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Walton Ford (1960- ) is a painter based in New York known for his watercolor paintings that engage with natural history, animal life, and human conceptions and misconceptions of the natural world.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ben Gillespie (1988- ) is the Arlene and Robert Kogod Secretarial Scholar for Oral History at the Archives; he is an art historian based in New York and Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (4 SD memory cards; 32 sound files; 5 hrs., 56 min., digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 79 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Tascam DR-100MKIII 18Z0355
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2022 July 21 and July 26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ford22
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
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: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Walton Ford conducted 2022 July 21 and July 26, by Benjamin Gillespie for the Archives of American Art, at Ford's studio in Tribeca, New York.­