Oral history interview with C. Carl Jennings
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassette tapes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Jennings, C. Carl (Cecil Carl), 1910-2003
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Blacksmiths -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Metal-workers -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Metal-work
label: Topic
content: Blacksmithing
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
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: Jennings, C. Carl (Cecil Carl), 1910-2003
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: C. Carl Jennings (1912-2003) was a metalworker from Sonoma, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 42 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1994 Dec. 20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jennin94
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 C. Carl Jennings conducted 1994 Dec. 20, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Jennings discusses growing up in the Midwest with his blacksmith father and grandfather; moving to California and discovering his artistic talent; working for John Foster on his Temple Emanuel Commission as a welder and on various projects for the Golden Gate Int'l Exhibition (1939); studying at the California College of Arts and Crafts with Jacques Schnier and Harry Dixon; his business, El Diablo's Forge, which produced fireplace equipment, gates and lighting fixtures; building his home in Sonoma; people who have influenced him, including Sam Maloof, Harry Dixon, Dirk van Erp, Frederic and Letitia Meyer, and others; the California Blacksmith Association and the ABANA (Artist Blacksmith Association of North America); art vs. craft; and friends and colleagues Albert Paley, Hoss Haley, and Tom Joyce.