Oral history interview with Anne Rorimer
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content: Originally recorded on 4 memory cards. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 36 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rorimer, Anne
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
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content: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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content: Art Institute of Chicago -- Faculty
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content: Bryn Mawr College -- Students
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content: Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
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content: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees
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content: Victoria and Albert Museum
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content: Acconci, Vito, 1940-
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content: Asher, Michael
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content: Broodthaers, Marcel
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content: Buchloh, B. H. D.
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content: Buren, Daniel
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content: Castelli, Leo
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content: D'Harnoncourt, Anne, 1943-2008
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content: Geldzahler, Henry
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content: Graham, Dan, 1942-
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content: Hale, Robert Beverly, 1901-1985
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content: Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970
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content: Kuh, Katharine
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content: LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
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content: Lippard, Lucy R.
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content: Lowry, Bates, 1923-
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content: Maxon, John, 1916-
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content: Morris, Robert, 1931-2018
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content: Nauman, Bruce, 1941-
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content: Newman, Muriel Kallis Steinberg
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content: Rorimer, James J. (James Joseph), 1905-1966
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content: Smith, Tony, 1912-1980
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content: Speyer, A. James
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content: Stamos, Theodoros, 1922-1997
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content: Tucker, Marcia
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content: Wegman, William
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content: Weiner, Lawrence
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews
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content: Authors -- Illinois -- Chicago
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content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
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content: Art, Modern -- 20th century
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content: Conceptual art
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content: Curators -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews
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content: Women art historians
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content: Women authors
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: Rorimer, Anne
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Anne Rorimer (1944-) is a curator and art historian in Chicago, Illinois. Judith Olch Richards (1947-) is a former executive director of iCI in New York, New York.
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content: 147 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2010 November 15-16
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.rorime10
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Anne Rorimer conducted 2010 November 15-16, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art's Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts project, at Rorimer's home, in Chicago, Illinois.
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content: Rorimer speaks of her family background; her early life and education in New York City; her father, James Rorimer, and his influence as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; college life at Bryn Mawr; how she became interested in modern art; her internship at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London after college; her master's degree thesis on Tony Smith; her job as a curator at the Albright-Knox Gallery and then at the Art Institute of Chicago; memorable exhibitions at the AIC throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including the annual "American Exhibition," "Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art," (1977), and "Idea and Image in Recent Art" (1974); her close relationship with Anne D'Harnoncourt; how she left the AIC in 1984 to write, "New Art in the '60s and 70s: Redefining Reality," (2001); her role in acquisitions of contemporary art at the AIC; her thoughts on art education; her work with collectors; the process of getting her book published and reactions to it; her curatorial projects in the 1980s and early 1990s that focused on conceptual art; her relationship with artists like Michael Asher and Daniel Buren; her extensive book collection; her thoughts on being a freelance curator and writer. She recalls Whitney Stoddard, Robert Beverly Hale, Theodoros Stamos, Leo Castelli, Henry Geldzahler, Anne D'Harnoncourt, Renee Marcuse, Bates Lowry, Tony Smith, Marcia Tucker, A. James Speyer, Bruce Nauman, Lawrence Weiner, Vito Acconci, William Wegman, Robert Morris, Lucy R. Lippard, Katharine Kuh, Sol Lewitt, John Maxon, Eva Hesse, Muriel Newman, Judith Kirschner, Dan Graham, Benjamin Buchloh, and Marcel Broodthaers.