Oral history interview with Art Green
name: label: Interviewee
content: Green, Art, 1941-
label: Interviewer
content: Silverman, Lanny
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content: Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project
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content: Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource
topic: label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Canada
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Canada
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content: Art -- Illinois -- Chicago
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content: Hairy Who (Group of artists)
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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: Green, Art, 1941-
label: Interviewer
content: Silverman, Lanny
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Art Green (1941-2025) was a painter and educator in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. He was part of the Hairy Who collective in Chicago, IL.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewer Lanny Silverman (1947-2025) was a curator at the Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois.
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content: 4 Items (sound files (3 hrs., 36 min.), digital, wav)
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content: 102 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2015 September 17 and 18
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.green15
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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 is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: An interview with Art Green conducted 2015 September 17 and 18, by Lanny Silverman, for the Archives of American Art's Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project at Green's home in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Green speaks of growing up in Frankfurt, Indiana; his parents; quilt making and engineering; Necker cubes; early art pursuits; early art education; Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Chicago; Found Titles; Hairy Who; drawing and painting courses; Art Institute of Chicago; silk screening; art school and interests; Chicago imagists; Surrealism; Don Baum; Animal, Vegetable, Mineral; transfers and technique; response to art work; deciding to be an artist; New York; Art Forum; Pop Art; first shows; early influences; abstraction; looking at art; ideal viewer; Nova Scotia; teaching; Canada; signs and ice cream cones; inspiration; painting process; engineering; bridges; politics; Secretary McNamara; color; flames; inspiration; books and magazines; Ray Johnson; puzzles and discovery; Art Expo; the art world; use of technology; patterns; knots; making a living as an artist; self-portraits; and new work. Green also recalls Douglas Craft, Elizabeth Ruprecht, Whitney Halstead, Ray Yoshida, Carolyn Hoyle, George Cohen, Ted Halkin, June Leaf, Robert Frank, Bill Grams, Karl Wirsum, Jim Nutt, Murray Simon, Cynthia Carlson, Bill Schwedler, Marjorie Dell, Roger Brown, Vera Berdich, Thomas Kapsalis, Mogen David, Bill Conger, Evelyn Statsinger, Gary Kennedy, Paul Weighardt, Jim Falconer, Matthew Marks, Phyllis Kind, and Allen Frumkin Gallery.