Oral history interview with Harold Haydon
name: label: Interviewee
content: Haydon, Harold
label: Interviewer
content: Schulze, Franz, 1927-2019
label: Names
content: Artists Equity Association
label: Names
content: Artists' Union (Chicago, Ill.)
label: Names
content: Midway Studios (Chicago, Ill.)
label: Names
content: Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art criticism -- Illinois -- Chicago
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: Haydon, Harold
label: Interviewer
content: Schulze, Franz, 1927-2019
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Harold Haydon (1909-1994) was an art critic and painter from Chicago, Ill.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound cassettes (Sound recording)
label: Extent
content: 102 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1988 Oct. 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.haydon88
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
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 Harold Haydon conducted 1988 Oct. 10, by Franz Schulze, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Haydon speaks of his education at the Art Institute of Chicago; the art scene and the gallery scene in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s; some of the important art critics in Chicago during those years; the Artists Union; the WPA; artists he was acquainted with; art criticism; his own art work, especially murals; the post-World War II art scene; Artists Equity Association; Midway Studios, which he was director of; Haydon's exhibitions and writings; influences on him. He recalls Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.