Oral history interview with Gordon Onslow-Ford
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 54 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Onslow-Ford, Gordon
label: Interviewer
content: Lindberg, E. Theodore
label: Names
content: Breton, André, 1896-1966
label: Names
content: Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955
label: Names
content: Matta, 1912-2002
topic: label: Topic
content: Cubism
label: Topic
content: Surrealism
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- California
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Interviews
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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Onslow-Ford, Gordon
label: Interviewer
content: Lindberg, E. Theodore
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gordon Onslow-Ford (1912-2003) was a painter in Inverness, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 51 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 Mar. 26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.onslow84
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 Gordon Onslow-Ford conducted 1984 Mar. 26, by Ted Lindberg, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Onslow-Ford speaks of his family background and early years in England; his education; going to Paris and studying art there; his studies with Fernand Leger; his discovery of cubism and futurism; meeting Andre Breton; his work in surrealism; coming to New York and later to San Francisco; the development of his interest in calligraphy and black and white painting; his feelings about ecology. He recalls Roberto Matta Echuarren.