Oral history interview with Beatrice Wood
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 10 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wood, Beatrice
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Ceramicists -- California
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Women ceramicists
label: Topic
content: Ceramics
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is 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: Wood, Beatrice
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) was a ceramist from Ojai, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 53 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1976 August 26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wood76
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
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Beatrice Wood conducted 1976 August 26, by Paul Karlstrom for the Archives of American Art. Wood speaks of her early friendship with Marcel Duchamp, H. P. Roche, the Arensbergs, and others in New York; of her publication of the "Blind Man" in 1917; her subsequent move to Hollywood; and her career as a ceramicist in Southern California.