Oral history interview with Leo Castelli
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 8 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 15 digital wav files. Duration is 14 hr., 12 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Castelli, Leo
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Club (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Leo Castelli Gallery
label: Names
content: Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981
label: Names
content: Bellamy, Richard
label: Names
content: Callahan, Harry M.
label: Names
content: Drouin, René
label: Names
content: Flavin, Dan, 1933-
label: Names
content: Johns, Jasper, 1930-
label: Names
content: Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005
label: Names
content: Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012
label: Names
content: Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997
label: Names
content: List, Vera
label: Names
content: Ludwig, Peter, 1925-
label: Names
content: Nauman, Bruce, 1941-
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Scull, Robert C.
label: Names
content: Serra, Richard, 1938-
label: Names
content: Solomon, Alan R., 1920-1970
label: Names
content: Sonnabend, Ileana
label: Names
content: Tremaine, Burton
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Castelli, Leo
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Leo Castelli (1907-1999) was an art dealer from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 194 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969 May 14-1973 June 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.castel69may
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 available on the Archives of American Art website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Leo Castelli conducted 1969 May 14-1973 June 8, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Castelli speaks of his background; fleeing Europe, 1940-1941; his U.S. Army service; The Club; establishing his New York galleries; his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, and her success as an art dealer; galleries in the 1940s and 1950s; his staff; prints; commissioned works; exhibitions and sales of works by Dan Flavin, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, and others; collectors including Philip Cortelyou Johnson, Vera G. List, Peter Ludwig, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scull, and Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine. Castelli recalls Alfred H. Barr, Richard Bellamy, John Cage, René Drouin, Ivan C. Karp, and Alan Robert Solomon.