Oral history interview with Chuck and Jan Rosenak
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 51 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rosenak, Chuck
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Interviewee
content: Rosenak, Jan
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content: Museum of American Folk Art
topic: label: Occupation
content: Folk artists -- United States
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content: Folk art -- Collectors and collecting -- Interviews
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content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Interviews
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content: Navajo Indians -- Art
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content: Folk art
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content: Navajo Indians -- Social life and customs
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content: Santeros
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: Rosenak, Chuck
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Interviewee
content: Rosenak, Jan
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Chuck Rosenak (1927- ) is a collector and author from Tesuque, N.M.
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content: 55 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998 December 10
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.rosena98
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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
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content: Interviews
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content: Transcript available on line.
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Oral history interview of Chuck and Jan Rosenak conducted 1998 December 10, by Liza Kirwin, for the Archives of American Art.
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content: Kirwin conducted the interview in preparation for an exhibit in AAA's New York Regional Center, "In Sight: Portraits of Folk Artists," by Chuck Rosenak, January 22- April 30, 1999. The interview was conducted in Tesuque, N.M. The Rosenaks speak about their involvement with the American folk art world; their collecting interests; their relationship with Robert Bishop, Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., Michael Hall, Jeffrey Camp, Lee Kogan, and others; and their books, including the Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of American Folk Art and Artists (1990), Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector's Guide (1996), The People Speak: Navajo Folk Art (1994), and The Saint Makers: Contemporary Santeras Y Santeros (1998).
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content: Chuck Rosenak also discusses his photographs of folk artists with emphasis on his images of Leroy Archuleta, Loy A. Boslin (The Rhinestone Cowboy), Raymond Coins, Rowell Darmafall ("Glassman"), Gerald "Creative") DePrie, Mamie Deschillie, Bertha Halozon, Bessie Harvey, Bruce Hathale, Nicholas Herrera, Rev. John "J.L." Hunter, Elizabeth Willeto Ignacio, Clyde Jones, Mark Casey Milestone, Louise Nez, Florence Riggs, Rodney Rosebrrok, Herbert Singleton, Q.J. Stevenson, David Strickland, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Horacio Valdez, and Rose Williams.