Oral history interview with Allen Stuart Weller
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 28 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Weller, Allen S. (Allen Stuart), 1907-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Polcari, Stephen
label: Names
content: College Art Association of America
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Illinois -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Museum curators -- Illinois -- Interviews
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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Weller, Allen S. (Allen Stuart), 1907-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Polcari, Stephen
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Allen Stuart Weller (1907-1997) was an art historian, educator, and director of the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette
label: Extent
content: 24 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992 May 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.weller92
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 Allen Stuart Weller conducted 1992 May 1, by Stephen Polcari, for the Archives of American Art. Weller discusses his early training and his teaching career; traveling to Europe in the 1920s; the first American art courses offered at Princeton; working with the army to preserve monuments during WWII; teaching modern art during the 1950s; and the beginnings of the College Art Association.