Oral history interview with Erle Loran
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 10 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 14 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Loran, Erle, 1905-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Chipp, Herschel Browning
label: Names
content: Minneapolis School of Art
label: Names
content: Booth, Cameron, 1892-1980
label: Names
content: Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906
label: Names
content: Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943
label: Names
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Surrealism
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Minnesota
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- 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: Loran, Erle, 1905-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Chipp, Herschel Browning
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Erle Loran (1905-1999) was a painter and art historian of Minneapolis, Minn. and Berkeley, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 119 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 June 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.loran81
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: 35mm microfilm reel 3198 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Erle Loran conducted 1981 June 18, by Herschel Chipp, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Loran speaks of his education, his studies with Cameron Booth and Hans Hofmann, life in Europe on a grant, his study of Cezanne, including his book, "Cezanne's Composition," and his return to New York. He discusses teaching at the Minneapolis School of Art, the WPA Art School, in Minneapolis, and the University of California, at Berkeley. He comments on meeting Marsden Hartley, American midwestern painters, ghost towns as subject matter for paintings, American politics in the 1930s, and surrealism in America.