Oral history interview with Sam Maloof
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 8 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Maloof, Sam
label: Interviewer
content: MacNaughton, Mary Davis
label: Names
content: Scripps College -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Sheets, Millard, 1907-1989
topic: label: Occupation
content: Furniture designers -- California
label: Topic
content: Furniture making
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: Maloof, Sam
label: Interviewer
content: MacNaughton, Mary Davis
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sam Maloof (1916-2009) was a furniture designer in Alto Loma, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Sound cassettes (Sound recording, master (210 min.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 59 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2002 Jan. 10-11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.maloof02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Sam Maloof conducted 2002 Jan. 10-12, by Mary MacNaughton, for the Archives of American Art, in Maloof's home/studio in Alta Loma, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Maloof describes his childhood in Chino, Calif., where he learned the craft of furniture making from his father, who had emigrated from Lebanon; his early training in graphic art; the influence of Millard Sheets (1907-1989), head of the art department at Scripps College; his first commissions in the late 1940s; his designs in the 1950s; his contacts with artists in Claremont; exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Fair; commissions with the firm Kneedler-Fauchere and his associations with other California furniture makers; and the artistic process.