Oral history interview with Gabor Peterdi
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 15 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Peterdi, Gabor
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Brooklyn Museum
label: Names
content: International Graphic Arts Society
label: Names
content: Bucher, Jeanne, 1872-1946
label: Names
content: Hayter, Stanley William, 1901-1988
label: Names
content: Levy, Julien
label: Names
content: Putzel, Howard, 1898-1945
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Prints -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Prints -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Surrealism
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- 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: Peterdi, Gabor
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gabor Peterdi (1915-2001) was a printmaker from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 79 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971 Apr. 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.peterd71
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 Gabor Peterdi conducted 1971 Apr. 29, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Peterdi speaks of his youth in Hungary and his early desire to be a painter, Paris and his first encounter with surrealism, studying printmaking with Stanley William Hayter and the Paris art scene in the 1930s. He comments on coming to the U.S. in 1939, his involvement with the Julien Levy, Norlyst, Laurel and Borgenicht Galleries and his service in the U.S. Army. He discusses Hayter's New York studio, the International Graphic Arts Society, teaching at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and starting its graphics workshop, the interaction of prints and paintings, symbolism, teaching, various print techniques and printmaking as a creative art form. He recalls Jeanne Bucher, Bill Hayter, Howard Putzel and Julien Levy.