Oral history interview with Theodore Roszak
name: label: Creator
content: Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Names
content: Bellows, George, 1882-1925
label: Names
content: Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930
label: Names
content: Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933
topic: label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- 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 others.
creator: label: Creator
content: Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Theodore Roszak (1907-1981) was a painter and sculptor from Chicago, Illinois, and New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 508 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.roszak63
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3198-3199 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of original tape unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Theodore Roszak conducted in 1963, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Roszak speaks of his childhood in Chicago as the son of Polish immigrants; factors that influenced his development; his early interest in art; his education at the Art Institute of Chicago; studying under Charles W. Hawthorne; meeting George Bellows and George Luks; going to Europe on a fellowship; his experiences in Czechoslovakia; social realism in painting; government support of the arts during the Depression; the influence of politics upon art; commercialism and art; the development of his interest in sculpture; the U.S. State Department's Cultural Exchange Program; and the American Exhibition in Moscow.