Oral history interview with Robert S. Neuman
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hrs., 41 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Neuman, Robert S.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painting, Abstract -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- 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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Neuman, Robert S.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Robert S. Neuman (1926- ) is an abstract painter and art instructor from San Francisco, Germany, Spain, and Boston.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 106 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 May 1-June 19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.neuman91
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 online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Robert S. Neuman conducted 1991 May 1-1991 June 19, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Neuman discusses his childhood in Idaho; art training in Idaho and San Francisco; California artists Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, Hassel Smith, and Nathan Oliveira; WWII service; the School of the Pacific vs. Euro-centric New York; studying in Germany on a Fulbright scholarship; the influence of work by Willi Baumeister and Wolfgang Wols; moving to Boston and the art community there in the 1950s and 1960s; studying in Barcelona on a Guggenheim fellowship; the evolution of his painting in overlapping phases; and his preference for being outside the mainstream art world.