Oral history interview with Louise Nevelson
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound tape reels and 1 cassette. Reels reformatted in 2010 as 11 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr. 41 min.
label: General
content: Sound quality is poor.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Sculpture -- Technique -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
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: Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 61 Pages (Partial transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 June-1965 Jan. 14 and undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nevels64
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
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archive of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Louise Nevelson, conducted by Dorothy Gees Seckler for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, June 1964 - 1966 and undated.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Nevelson speaks of how she first became interested in art; working under the WPA; The Club; the "Art News Group"; European artists' migration to New York; new concepts in art; questions of public acceptance of new art forms and changing standards; how she developed her box sculptures; her use of odd forms, spaces, and abstractions; her influences, including De Chirico; exhibiting at Nierendorf, Norlyst Martha Jackson, and Cordier galleries, among others; and her own collection of art.