Oral history interview with Charles Rand Penney
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 17 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Penney, Charles Rand
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967
label: Names
content: Ganso, Emil, 1895-1941
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- 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: Penney, Charles Rand
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles R. Penney (1923-2010) was an art collector from Lockport, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 73 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 Aug. 14-16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.penneyc81
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 Charles Rand Penney conducted 1981 Aug. 14-16, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Penney speaks of his childhood in Buffalo, N.Y.; his education at Yale; his early interest in prints, especially Emil Ganso's work; his acquaintance with and patronage of Charles Burchfield; the expansion of his collection during the 1960s; the establishment of an educational foundation; and his patronage of artists in western New York.