Oral history interview with Ed Garman
name: label: Interviewee
content: Garman, Ed
label: Interviewer
content: Cartwright, Derrick
label: Names
content: Transcendental Painting Group (N.M.)
label: Names
content: Bisttram, Emil, 1895-1976
label: Names
content: Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982
label: Names
content: Lumpkins, William T.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Mexico -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Interviews
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: Garman, Ed
label: Interviewer
content: Cartwright, Derrick
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ed Garman (1914-2004) was a painter in New Mexico and California. Garman became one of the chief spokespersons for the Transcendental Painting Group and has written a historical art study of member Raymond Jonson's work.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Sound cassettes (Sound recording (4 hrs.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 74 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998 Mar. 25-30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.garman98
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ed Garman conducted 1998 Mar. 25-30, by Derrick Cartwright, for the Archives of American Art, at Garman's studio, Imperial Beach, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Garman recalls his early childhood; experiences in rural Pennsylvania; studying theater design at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; coming in contact with Raymond Johnson, Emil Bisttram, and William Lumpkins, they eventually inviting him to join them in the Transcendental Painting Group. A second session dealt with Garman's activity in California where he has lived since about 1946. He provides insights into the context of Southern California art activity in Post-World War II years, and his role as an independently-minded artist who has painted in a non-objective manner for more than fifty years.