Oral history interview with Paul Bodin
odd: label: General
content: Interviewee's voice is frail and hard to hear. Sound quality is poor.
label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 6 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bodin, Paul, 1910-1994
label: Interviewer
content: Polcari, Stephen
label: Creator
content: Wechsler, James
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- 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: Bodin, Paul, 1910-1994
label: Interviewer
content: Polcari, Stephen
label: Creator
content: Wechsler, James
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Paul Bodin (1910-1994) was a painter from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette ((66 min.), analog.)
label: Extent
content: 22 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 March 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bodin93
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 is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Paul Bodin and James Wechsler conducted 1993 March 11, by Stephen Polcari, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bodin recalls his career as a painter. He mentions his work as a technical illustrator as a means of support, his participation in the WPA, and his friendship with Milton Avery and Adolf Gottlieb. Examples of his work are examined with regard to a chronology of the themes and subjects that interested him. Also present during the interview was James Wechsler, a friend of Bodin.