Oral history interview with Betty Tompkins
name: label: Interviewee
content: Tompkins, Betty (Betty Beitscher) (1945)
label: Interviewer
content: Zimmerman, Lucy I.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women painters
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: Tompkins, Betty (Betty Beitscher) (1945)
label: Interviewer
content: Zimmerman, Lucy I.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Betty Tompkins (1945-) is a painter who creates hyperrealist works centered on human intimacy, and she is especially known for her trailblazing Fuck paintings, a series she worked on from 1969-1974 and took up again in 2003. She is based in New York, NY and Pleasant Mount, PA.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewer Lucy I. Zimmerman (1986-) is an independent curator and art historian based in Columbus, Ohio.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (audiovisual files (5 hrs., 25 min.), digital, mp4)
label: Extent
content: 106 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2024 April 16-17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tompki24
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Video recordings
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: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Betty Tompkins conducted 2024 April 16-17, by Lucy Zimmerman for the Archives of American Art, at Tompkins' studio in Pleasant Mount, Pennsylvania.­