Oral history interview with Ralph Rosenthal
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 27 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rosenthal, Ralph, 1912-2003
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Alfred University -- Students
label: Names
content: Boston University -- Students
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content: Harvard University -- Students
label: Names
content: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School
label: Names
content: Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Art students -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Ceramicists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
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: Rosenthal, Ralph, 1912-2003
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ralph Rosenthal (1912-2003) was a sculptor from Boston, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 65 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997 February 10-April 7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rosent97
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
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ralph Rosenthal conducted 1997 February 10-April 7, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, at Rosenthal's home, in Brookline, Mass.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Rosenthal discusses his childhood in the South End of Boston; first art training at age of 10 under Bill Tate, Dudley Pratt, and Anthony DiBona; attending the Boston public schools' Saturday art classes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, headed by Alma LeBrecht, Blanche Brink, and Alice Morse, 1924-29; his years at the School of the MFA (1929-35) and the dominant influence there of Philip Hale; his further training in education at Boston University (Ed.M., 1936); his early teaching career; receiving a Carnegie Fellowship in 1938 to study at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University; studying ceramics at Alfred University in 1940; and his founding with Herbert Kahn in 1941 of ROKA, a ceramics supply company.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Teaching in the Boston public schools, 1936-1976, rising from teacher of sculpture to supervisor of art for the entire system in 1966; his work in sculpture, painting, drawing, and ceramics; and former students at the various places he has taught.