Oral history interview with Elisabeth Wildenhain
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 3 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wildenhain, Elisabeth, 1919-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Wildenhain, Frans, 1905-1980
topic: label: Topic
content: Fiber artists -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
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: Wildenhain, Elisabeth, 1919-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Elisabeth Wildenhain (1919-2004) is a fiber artist and teacher from Rochester, N.Y. Elizabeth Wildenhain is the third wife of ceramist Frans Wildenhain.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (sound cassette (75 min.), analog.)
label: Extent
content: 36 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1995 August 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wilden95
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: An interview with Elisabeth (Lili) Wildenhain conducted 1995 August 22, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Wildenhain's home, Pittsford, N.Y.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Wildenhain talks about her childhood in a wealthy, cosmopolitan German-speaking family in Bohemia; her early interests and schooling; her work at the American Fine Arts and Monuments service; designing costumes and clothes in Kansas City following her first marriage; studying with Oskar Kokoschka; meeting Frans Wildenhain (who she subsequently married), travelling with him to Japan, and coming with him to Rochester, N.Y. where he taught at the School for American Craftsmen; and her problematic financial and health situation.