Oral history interview with John Ollman
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 34 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Ollman, John E., 1942-
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Names
content: Cavin Morris Gallery
label: Names
content: Janet Fleisher Gallery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
label: Names
content: Phyllis Kind Gallery
label: Names
content: Hemphill, Herbert Waide
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Folk art
label: Topic
content: Self-taught artists -- 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: Interviewee
content: Ollman, John E., 1942-
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: John E. Ollman (1942- ) is an art dealer from Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 90 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990 Mar. 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ollman90
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: 35mm microfilm reel 4778 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of John Ollman conducted 1990 Mar. 15, by Liza Kirwin for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Ollman speaks of his studies at the Philadelphia College of Art and at Indiana University before becoming director of the Janet Fleisher Gallery; the gallery's change of focus towards American Art, specifically the work of folk and self-taught artists, and visionary artists. He discusses the changes in collecting over the past twenty years; collectors, such as Bert Hemphill; trends in collecting; artists whose work he has sold; other galleries with which he has worked, including the Phyllis Kind and Cavin Morris Galleries.