Oral history interview with Larry Aldrich
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 9 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 18 digital wav files. Duration is 17 hrs., 11 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Aldrich, Larry
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Antonakos, Stephen, 1926-2013
label: Names
content: Baker, Richard Brown
label: Names
content: Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981
label: Names
content: Castelli, Leo
label: Names
content: Hartigan, Grace
label: Names
content: Hopkins, Budd, 1931-2011
label: Names
content: Indiana, Robert, 1928-2018
label: Names
content: Johns, Jasper, 1930-
label: Names
content: Lieberman, William Slattery, 1924-
label: Names
content: Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003
label: Names
content: Myers, John Bernard
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Smithson, Robert
label: Names
content: Stella, Frank
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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: Aldrich, Larry
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Larry Aldrich (1906-2001) was an art collector from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 385 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972 April 25-June 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.aldric72
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
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: Interview of Larry Aldrich conducted 1972 April 25-June 10, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Aldrich speaks of his acquisitions and his program for selling art at Christmas and praises William S. Lieberman as "the curator of collectors". He discusses funds given to museums by the Larry Aldrich Foundation; visits to artists' studios; exhibiting a portion of his collection for the first time at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Robert Indiana's "Love Series"; and modern movements including "Lyrical Abstraction" and "Cool Art." He recalls Stephen Antonakos, Richard Brown Baker, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Leo Castelli, Grace Hartigan, Budd Hopkins, Jasper Johns, John Myers, Dorothy Miller, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Robert Smithson, and others.