Oral history interview with Gerald Williams
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 23 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Williams, Gerald, 1926-2014
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Scheier, Edwin A., 1910-
label: Names
content: Scheier, Mary, 1908-
topic: label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- New Hampshire -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Ceramics
label: Topic
content: Ceramicists -- New Hampshire -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
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: Williams, Gerald, 1926-2014
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gerald Williams (1926-2014) was a sculptor, potter, and editor from Goffstown, N.H.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (sound tape reels, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 72 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978 February 22-1979 April 19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.willia78
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 is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Gerald Williams conducted 1978 February 22-1979 April 19, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Williams speaks of his boyhood in India; his travails as a pacifist during World War II; his decision to become a potter; his early work; his apprenticeship to John Butler in 1951; the influence upon him of Edwin and Mary Scheier; and the development of the cone firing process and stoneware forms during the 1950s and 1960s.