Oral history interview with Federico Castellon
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 16 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Castellón, Federico, 1914-1971
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Associated American Artists
label: Names
content: Columbia University -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Weyhe Gallery
label: Names
content: Ames, Elizabeth
label: Names
content: Cole, Sylvan
label: Names
content: Dintenfass, Terry, 1920-
label: Names
content: Fleischman, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur), 1925-1997
label: Names
content: Lewenthal, Reeves, 1909-1987
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content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
label: Names
content: Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-
topic: label: Topic
content: Prints -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Hispanic American artists
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: Castellón, Federico, 1914-1971
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Federico Castellon (1914-1971) was a printmaker and painter from Brooklyn, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 104 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971 April 7-14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.castel71
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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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 Federico Castellon conducted 1971 April 7-14, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Castellon speaks of his childhood; his early interest in art; contact with Diego Rivera and the Weyhe Gallery in 1933; studying in Madrid and Paris; his involvement with the Spanish military; teaching at Columbia; traveling in Italy and in the Southwestern U.S.; making his first prints; his involvement with the Associated American Artists Gallery; printmaking methods and techniques; his publications; subject matter and surrealism in his work; his working routine; one-man exhibitions; collecting prints; other printmakers; aesthetics. He recalls Diego Rivera, Carl Zigrosser, Elizabeth Ames, Reeves Lowenthal, Sylvan Cole, Terry Dintenfass, Lawrence Fleischman, the Weyhe Gallery, and the Associated American Artists Gallery.