Oral history interview with Maurice Sievan
name: label: Creator
content: Sievan, Maurice
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Landscape painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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: Creator
content: Sievan, Maurice
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Maurice Sievan (1898-1981) was a painter and landscape painter from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 33 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 April 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sievan65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Maurice Sievan conducted by Dorothy Seckler for the Archives of American Art. Sievan speaks of his early life in the Ukraine; his move to Brooklyn as a young boy; Pratt Institute; his early work in commercial silk screen process; studying at National Academy; trips to France; experiences in WPA; his work; an officer of the American Federation of Painters & Sculptors; murals; and painting techniques and concepts.