Oral history interview with Lita Albuquerque
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 8 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Albuquerque, Lita
label: Interviewer
content: Clearwater, Bonnie, 1957-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Installation artists -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Environmental artists -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
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: Albuquerque, Lita
label: Interviewer
content: Clearwater, Bonnie, 1957-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lita Albuquerque (1946- ) is a painter from California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 156 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990 July 9-19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.albuqu90
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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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 Lita Albuquerque conducted 1990 July 9-19, by Bonnie Clearwater, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Albuquerque tells of her Sephardic, Turkish, and Spanish heritage; growing up in Carthage, Tunisia; arrival in the U.S. in 1957; art history studies at UCLA in the 1960s; early influence on her work of James Turrell, Eric Orr, Guy Dill, Larry Bell, and the Los Angeles Woman's Building; later influence of Zen meditation; travel in India; use of figures and abstract symbols in public commissions; second marriage to Carey Peck; teaching at the Art Center College of Design.