Oral history interview with Milton Resnick
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 46 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Resnick, Milton, 1917-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Nadelman, Cynthia
label: Names
content: Club (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Abel, Lionel
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Elaine
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
label: Names
content: Hess, Thomas B.
label: Names
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
label: Names
content: Passlof, Pat, 1928-
label: Names
content: Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Resnick, Milton, 1917-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Nadelman, Cynthia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Milton Resnick (1917-2004) is a painter from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 172 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1988 July 13-Oct. 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.resnic88
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Milton Resnick conducted 1988 July 13-Oct. 11, by Cynthia Nadelman, for the Archives of American Art. Resnick speaks of his life in Russia, New York, and Paris, his views on light and dark in painting; the development of his two paintings, NIGHT and DAY; his watercolors; his distrust of ideas; the influence of Soutine and Monet on him. He recalls Willem and Elaine de Kooning, the Club, Harold Rosenberg, Thomas B. Hess, Pat Passlof, Hans Hofmann, Lionel Abel, and others.