Oral history interview with Vincent Hartgen
odd: label: General
content: Cassette 4 of 5 contains sound interruptions due to technical difficulties during original recording, and is only recorded on side A.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hartgen, Vincent A. (Vincent Andrew), 1914-2002
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Maine -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- United States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Watercolor painting -- Maine
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content: Educators -- Maine -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Hartgen, Vincent A. (Vincent Andrew), 1914-2002
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Vincent A. Hartgen (1914-2002) was a painter and educator from Orono, Me.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Sound cassettes (Sound recording)
label: Extent
content: 92 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 Oct. 2-1984 Nov. 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hartge81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
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 of Vincent Hartgen conducted 1981 Oct. 2-1984 Nov. 28, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Vincent Andrew Hartgen, conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Orono, ME on October 1, 1981 and November 28, 1984.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hartgen speaks of his childhood in Reading, PA; his education at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania; his military service in the camouflage unit during World War II; his tenure at the University of Maine, 1946-1983; development of acquisitions and a traveling exhibition program there; evolution of his own work in watercolor; and his working methods from sketches in nature to abstractions from memory. Hartgen also recalls Lyla Mecline, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Arthur Halk, Waldo Peirce, Carl Sprinchorn, and others.