Oral history interview with Jason Berger
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 5 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Berger, Jason, 1924-2010
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Boston -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.)
label: Names
content: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School
label: Names
content: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School -- Faculty
label: Names
content: State University of New York at Buffalo -- Faculty
label: Names
content: United States. Army
label: Names
content: Benda, Clemens E. (Clemens Ernst), 1898-
label: Names
content: Bengtz, Ture, 1907-1973
label: Names
content: Bloom, Hyman, 1913-
label: Names
content: Fiedler, Leslie A.
label: Names
content: Levine, Jack, 1915-2010
label: Names
content: Powers, Marilyn, 1925-1976
label: Names
content: Swetzoff, Hyman Wulf, 1920-1968
label: Names
content: Zadkine, Ossip
label: Names
content: Zerbe, Karl, 1903-1972
place: label: Place
content: France -- description and travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculpture -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: World War, 1939-1945
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: Berger, Jason, 1924-2010
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jason Berger (1924-2010) is a painter and printmaker from Brookline, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files (2 hr., 5 min.), digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 47 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 1 tape reel (5 in.).
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979 January 12-1980 February 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.berger79
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Jason Berger, conducted 1979 January 12 and 1980 February 1, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Berger speaks of growing up in Massachusetts; serving in the Army during World War II; studying and teaching at the Museum School in Boston; marrying his wife, Marilyn Powers; studying sculpture in France; exhibiting at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and other galleries; the art collective Direct Vision; being fired from the Museum School; and teaching at SUNY Buffalo and the Art Institute of Boston. Berger also recalls Karl Zerbe, Ture Bengtz, Hyman Bloom, Hyman Swetzoff, Jack Levine, Leslie Fiedler, Clemens Benda, Ossip Zadkine, and others.