Oral history interview with Lorenzo Homar
name: label: Interviewee
content: Homar, Lorenzo
label: Interviewer
content: Cancel, Luis R.
label: Names
content: Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño. Puerto Rican Arts Center
label: Names
content: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
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content: Puerto Rican Artists Video Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Printmakers
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Puerto Rico
label: Occupation
content: Calligraphers
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Puerto Rico
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Puerto Rico -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans
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content: Veterans
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: Homar, Lorenzo
label: Interviewer
content: Cancel, Luis R.
culture: label: Culture
content: Puerto Rican artists
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lorenzo Homar (1913-2004) was a Puerto Rican artist and professor who specialized in printmaking, painting, and calligraphy. During World War II, he served in the United States Army. In 1950, he co-founded the Puerto Rican Arts Center. The Puerto Rican Institute of Culture awarded Homar the National Medal of Honor in 2003.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Luis R. Cancel (1952- ) is a Puerto Rican arts administrator and artist from New York City, N.Y. Cancel is the President of Esperanto Internet Services, LLC. He is the former director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a scholar on 20th century Latin American and Puerto Rican art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Items (8 video recordings (Betacam))
label: Extent
content: 4 Items (video files (3 hrs., 54 min.), digital, mov)
label: Extent
content: 8 Items (8 video files (3 hrs., 55 min.), digital, mov)
label: Extent
content: 55 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997 October 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.homar97
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Video recordings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This interview was audited and edited by Benji de la Piedra in 2024.
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
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content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Lorenzo Homar conducted by Luis R. Cancel, 1997 October 27, for the Archives of American Art's Puerto Rican Artists Video Project.