Oral history interview with Morris Broderson
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 8 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Broderson, Morris, 1928-2011
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Ankrum Gallery
label: Names
content: Ankrum, Joan
label: Names
content: Ankrum, Morris, d. 1964
label: Names
content: De Erdely, Francis, 1904-1959
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- California
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content: Deaf artists
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content: Hearing impaired
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content: Gay artists
label: Topic
content: Deafness
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content: Artists (LGBTQ)
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: Broderson, Morris, 1928-2011
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Morris Gaylord Broderson (1928-2011) was a painter from Los Angeles, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 66 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998 March 11 and 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.broder98
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Morris Broderson conducted 1998 March 11 and 13, by Paul J. Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at Broderson's home, in Los Angeles, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Broderson discusses his childhood and family background and the way in which he saw the world as a congenitally hearing impaired person; his first meeting with Joan Ankrum, who was married at the time to Broderson's uncle, Morris Ankrum; Ankrum's special interest in him, recognizing a talent for drawing, encouraging his learning to speak, and arranging art lessons at an early age; his recognition of Ankrum's marital unhappiness and encouragement for her to leave her husband; his art education through private lessons with Francis De Erdely; enrollment at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; his perspective on events in his relationship with Ankrum that led her to abandon her career as an actress and become an art dealer in order to show Broderson's work; exhibitions at the Ankrum Gallery; his favorite themes and subjects in his work and why he used them; his homosexuality and its possible reflection in his art; credit to Ankrum for her key role in his development as an artist; the role of his deafness in his interaction with the world and to a lesser extent, his artistic expression, but rejecting the idea that it was a determining factor; and his current series of paintings and hopes for the future.