Oral history interview with Vaino Kola
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 35 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Kola, Vaino, 1937-
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Massachusetts College of Art -- Students
label: Names
content: Yale University. School of Art and Architecture -- Students
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
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content: Designers -- Massachusettes -- Interviews
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content: Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
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: Kola, Vaino, 1937-
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Vaino Kola (1937- ) is a painter, printmaker, and instructor in Deer Isle, ME.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (wav files (1 hr., 35 min.), digital)
label: Extent
content: 31 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 Sept. 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kola91
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: An interview with Vaino Kola conducted 1991 Sept. 12, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Kola's home, Norton, Mass.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Kola discusses his childhood in Finland during the war with the Soviet Union, in which his father was an important commander, and during World War II; and the necessity to leave following the war because of the pressure from the Soviet Union. He recalls growing up in Worcester, Mass; learning English; his attendance at the High School of Commerce; excelling in swimming; attending the Massachusettes College of Art (BFA, 1959) and the influence upon him of teachers Beverly Hallam, David Berger, Calvin Burnett, and Lawrence Kupferman; and his years at the Yale School of Art and Architecture (MFA, 1962) and recollections of Josef Albers and his teaching methods.