Oral history interview with Don Baum
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 23 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Baum, Don, 1922-
label: Interviewer
content: Prince, Sue Ann
label: Names
content: Illinois Arts Council
label: Names
content: Roosevelt University
label: Names
content: Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977
label: Names
content: Cornell, Joseph
label: Names
content: Golub, Leon, 1922-2004
label: Names
content: Ito, Miyoko, 1918-1983
label: Names
content: Leaf, June, 1929-
label: Names
content: Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
label: Names
content: Spears, Ethel, 1903-1974
topic: label: Topic
content: Psychoanalysis and art
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Assemblage (Art)
label: Topic
content: Hairy Who (Group of artists)
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: Baum, Don, 1922-
label: Interviewer
content: Prince, Sue Ann
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Don Baum (1922-2008) was a sculptor, assemblage artist, curator, and educator from Chicago, Illinois.
function: label: Function
content: Art Schools -- Illinois -- Chicago
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound cassettes (Sound recording, analog)
label: Extent
content: 108 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986 January 31-May 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.baum86
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Don Baum conducted 1986 January 31 and May 13, by Sue Ann Kendall, for the Archives of American Art, in Chicago, Illinois.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Baum speaks about his childhood in Michigan; interests during his college years at Michigan State; classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; friendship with artists such as Miyoko Ito and Ethel Spears; the Institute of Design and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; faculty and classes at the University of Chicago; jam sessions at Gertrude Abercrombie's home; teaching at Roosevelt University; the influence of travel; June Leaf; Leon Golub; psychoanalysis and its influence on his work; collage; The Hyde Park Art Center; objects with a magical aura; writing and writers; dolls; the relationship of self to art; outsider art; transformation; Joseph Cornell; the Hairy Who artists; collectors; the Museum of Contemporary Art; the Illinois Arts Council; Chicago art and artists; and travel in Indonesia.