Oral history interview with Rudy Burckhardt
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 23 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Burckhardt, Rudy, 1914-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Sawin, Martica
label: Names
content: Cornell, Joseph
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
label: Names
content: Denby, Edwin Hooper, 1873-
label: Names
content: Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948
label: Names
content: Grooms, Red
label: Names
content: Kline, Franz, 1910-1962
label: Names
content: Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002
topic: label: Topic
content: Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Filmmakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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. Funding for this interview provided by John W. Payson.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Burckhardt, Rudy, 1914-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Sawin, Martica
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999) was a photographer and filmmaker from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 25 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 January 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.burckh93
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Rudy Burckhardt conducted 1993 January 14, by Martica Sawin, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Burckhardt speaks about life in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, especially of his friendship with Willem De Kooning and Edwin Denby. He talks briefly about his own films, including collaborations with Joseph Cornell and Red Grooms. He also remembers the artists Larry Rivers, Arshile Gorky, and Franz Kline.