Oral history interview with Leo Rabkin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 14 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rabkin, Leo
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: American Abstract Artists
label: Names
content: Baziotes, William, 1912-1963
label: Names
content: Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967
topic: label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- United States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Rabkin, Leo
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Leo Rabkin (1919-2015) was a painter and sculptor from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 97 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968 Dec. 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rabkin68
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Leo Rabkin conducted 1968 Dec. 4, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Rabkin speaks of his youth in Cincinnati in a Russian-Jewish family; his early study of music; teaching; his watercolor techniques; prints on plastic; the importance of the box in his life; his concern with light; his collections of wood furniture and folk art. He recalls William Baziotes, and Ad Reinhardt, and discusses his involvement with the American Abstract Artists group.