Oral history interview with Herman Maril
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Maril, Herman
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
label: Names
content: Cummington School of the Arts -- Faculty
label: Names
content: King-Smith Playhouse and School of Theatre Arts (Washington, D.C.) -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Maryland Institute, College of Art -- Students
label: Names
content: Philadelphia Museum of Art -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Washington Workshop Center for the Arts -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Argento, Mino, 1927-
label: Names
content: Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-
label: Names
content: Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
label: Names
content: Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
label: Names
content: Giotto, 1266?-1337
label: Names
content: Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991
label: Names
content: Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944
label: Names
content: Kline, Franz, 1910-1962
label: Names
content: Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954
label: Names
content: O'Hara, Eliot, 1890-1969
label: Names
content: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
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content: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Maryland -- Baltimore
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Maryland -- Baltimore
label: Topic
content: Depressions -- 1929
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: Maril, Herman
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Herman Maril (1908-1986) was a painter and printmaker from Baltimore, Maryland.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 39 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 September 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.maril65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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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 Herman Maril conducted 1965 September 5, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Maril speaks of growing up in Baltimore, Maryland.; attending the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts; visiting museums in the Washington, D.C. area; exhibiting his paintings in Washington, D.C. galleries and New York City galleries; working for the Treasury Art Project; surviving the Great Depression; teaching at the Cummington School of Art in Cummington, Massachusetts; serving in the Army Air Corps during WWII; painting murals with the Public Buildings Administration; teaching at the King-Smith School, the Washington Workshop of the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the University of Maryland; living in Provincetown; painting and his influences; being interviewed for books and a short film. Maril also recalls Roger Frye, Paul Cézanne, Henry Roben, Charles Walther, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Edward Rowan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chaim Gross, Henri Matisse, Piero della Francesca, Mino Argento, Olin Dows, Giotto di Bondone, Georges Henri Rouault, Wassily Kandinksy, Charles Walthrop, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Eliot O'Hara, Sheldon Cheney, Florence Watson, Jacques Lipchitz, Mason F. Lord, and others.