Oral history interview with Madeleine L'Engle
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 47 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: L'Engle, Madeleine, 1915-1989
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: L'Engle, Lucy, 1889-1978
label: Names
content: L'Engle, William, 1884-1957
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Massachusetts -- Truro
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: L'Engle, Madeleine, 1915-1989
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Madeleine L'Engle (1915-1989) was a painter from New York City and Truro, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of painters William and Lucy L'Engle. She is a cousin of the author of the same name.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 35 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987 Sept. 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lengle87
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 of Madeleine L'Engle conducted 1987 Sept. 2, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: L'Engle recalls the art scene in a Provincetown and Truro, Massachusetts from the 1920s-1970s; her parents as artists; and many other artists who lived and worked on Cape Cod. She discusses her time spent in France as a child; studying painting with Jerry Farsnsworth; her family's association with William and Margeurite Zorach; her time painting in Mexico on the GI Bill after serving in the Navy, and her life in Provincetown.