Oral history interview with Rhys Caparn
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 29 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Caparn, Rhys, 1909-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Wolf, Tom
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: American Abstract Artists
label: Names
content: Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
label: Names
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964
label: Names
content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Connecticut
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.
label: Provenance
content: Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sonia Allen, Sally Avery, Ben-Zion, Bernard Braddon, Ernest Briggs, Elaine de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Esther Gottlieb, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Jacob Kainen, Louis Kaufman, Jack Kufeld, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Dorothy Miller, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Rebecca Reis, Maurice Roth, Sidney Schectman, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Hedda Sterne, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein. Each has been cataloged separately.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Caparn, Rhys, 1909-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Wolf, Tom
label: Creator
content: Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rhys Caparn (1909-1997) was a sculptor from Connecticut.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 46 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 November 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.caparn83
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Rhys Caparn conducted 1983 November 23, by Tom Wolf, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Caparn describes her youth in New York and art study in France. She recalls her teacher Alexander Archipenko and the activities of the American Abstract Artists and the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors (of which she was president for a term). Caparn talks a lot about her own work. She does not recall much about Mark Rothko, who was only a distant acquaintance.