Oral history interview with Neil Welliver
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 8 min.
name: label: Creator
content: Welliver, Neil
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Fischbach Gallery
label: Names
content: Marlborough Gallery
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Philadelphia Museum College of Art -- Students
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content: Stable Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: University of Pennsylvania. Graduate School of Fine Arts -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Yale University. School of Art -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Yale University. School of Art -- Students
label: Names
content: Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
label: Names
content: Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
label: Names
content: Kramer, Hilton
label: Names
content: Marburger, Aladar
label: Names
content: Porter, Fairfield
label: Names
content: Ward, Eleanor, 1912-1984
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Maine -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Maine -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Art dealers
label: Topic
content: Artists as teachers
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching
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: Creator
content: Welliver, Neil
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Neil Welliver (1929-2005) was a painter and teacher in Lincolnville, Maine.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound cassettes (Sound recording (2 hr., 8 min.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 45 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1996 November 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.welliv96
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archive of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Neil Welliver conducted 1996 November 14, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Welliver's home in Lincolnville, Maine.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Welliver talks about his childhood in Pennsylvania; his self-education; his marriage to a fashion illustrator; attending the Philadelphia Museum College of Art (now University of the Arts), receiving a BFA in 1953; teaching art in a public school; attending the Yale School of Art (MFA 1955) and teachers there; going to Maine; teaching at Yale (1955-1965); teaching at the University of Pennsylvania (1966-1989) at the graduate level. He recalls architect Louis Kahn at Yale and then at Pennsylvania; his various New York dealers from the 1960s, including Eleanor Ward at Stable Gallery, Aladar Marburger at Fischbach Gallery, and Pierre Lefraie at Marlborough Gallery; various art world friends, including Hilton Kramer, Clement Greenberg, and Fairfield Porter; and receiving an honorary doctorate of fine arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1996.