Oral history interview with Red Grooms
name: label: Interviewee
content: Grooms, Red
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Prestopino, Gregorio
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Grooms, Red
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Red Grooms (1937-) is a painter from New York, N.Y. Born Charles Grooms.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 92 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 Mar. 4-18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.grooms74
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3949 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Red Grooms conducted 1974 Mar. 4-18, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Grooms speaks of his family background and growing up in Nashville; the development of his artistic ability; going briefly to the Chicago Art Institute; his New York period; the development of his artistic philosophy of rebelliousness; his Provincetown period; inspirations for some of his work; his European experiences; his hobbies and interests; filmmaking projects; the relationship between politics and art; art as communication, and responses to his work; dealers he has worked with; and future developments in his work. He recalls the painter Gregorio Prestopino.