Oral history interview with Claudia DeMonte
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 22 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: DeMonte, Claudia, 1947-
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Names
content: Gracie Mansion Gallery
label: Names
content: McGowin, Ed, 1938-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Mixed-media artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Maryland -- College Park
label: Occupation
content: Collagists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Feminism
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
label: Topic
content: Women educators
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: DeMonte, Claudia, 1947-
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Claudia DeMonte (1947- ) is a painter, mixed-media artist, and instructor of College Park, Maryland and New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 54 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 February 13- April 24
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.demont91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Claudia DeMonte conducted 1991 February 13-1991 April 24, by Liza Kirwin, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: DeMonte recalls her childhood and growing up in Astoria, New York; her Italian heritage and Catholic education; her early work including the "trade pieces"; the calendar she produced for the Corcoran Gallery show "Five Plus One" in 1976; her marriage to artist Ed McGowin; moving from Washington, D.C. to New York; the making and meaning of her "Claudia dolls"; exhibiting at the Gracie Mansion Gallery; the art community in the East Village in the early 1980s; the dealer Gracie Mansion; gallery representation outside of New York; critical acceptance of her art; collecting the work of Southern self-taught artists and the influence of Sister Gertrude Morgan and James Son Ford Thomas; work methods and techniques; autobiographical and feminist themes; teaching at the university of Maryland from 1972 to the present; and new directions in her art.