Oral history interview with Sylvia Plimack Mangold
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 3 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Mangold, Sylvia Plimack, 1938-
label: Interviewer
content: Weiss, William L.
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
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. Funding for this interview was provided by the Horace Goldsmith Foundation.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Mangold, Sylvia Plimack, 1938-
label: Interviewer
content: Weiss, William L.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sylvia Plimack Mangold (1938- ) is a painter from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound files (1 hr., 3 min.), digital, wav.)
label: Extent
content: 20 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1994 July 7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mangols94
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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: Interview of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, conducted by William Weiss for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washingtonville, NY, on July 7, 1994.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Mangold speaks of her family and childhood in New York City; her early exposure to art in Queens; attending Music & Art High School, Cooper Union, and Yale University; going to contemporary art shows; her early work and decision to paint exterior and interior spaces and architecture; her use of rulers in her work; and her influences. Mangold also recalls John McLaughlin, Eva Hesse, Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz, Catherine Murphy, and others.