Oral history interview with Warren Rohrer
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 7 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 13 digital wav files. Duration is 9 hr., 54 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rohrer, Warren
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
label: Names
content: Makler Gallery
label: Names
content: Marian Locks Gallery
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Philadelphia College of Art
label: Names
content: State College (Pa.)
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content: Pittman, Hobson Lafayette, 1899 or 1900-1972
label: Names
content: Speight, Francis, 1896-1989
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Educators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 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: Rohrer, Warren
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Warren Rohrer (1927-1995) was a painter and educator from Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 258 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989 March 9-June 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rohrer89
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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: 35mm microfilm reel 4779 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Warren Rohrer conducted 1989 March 9-June 1, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project. Rohrer speaks of his early life as a Mennonite and his schooling on a farm in Lancaster, Pa.; his art studies at Eastern Mennonite College, James Madison College, Pennsylvania State University with Hobson Pittman, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Francis Speight, and art history classes at the University of Pennsylvania; the development of his work, his efforts at portraiture, and the importance of landscape to his art for most of his career as a painter; his teaching in the Education Department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia College of Art; his exhibitions at the Robert Carlen Galleries, the Makler Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy's Morris Gallery, the Marian Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, as well as the Lamagna Gallery and CDS Gallery in New York City; his collectors, and critics' reactions to his work in New York and Philadelphia.