Oral history interview with James Arthur Herbert
name: label: Interviewee
content: Herbert, James Arthur, 1938-
label: Interviewer
content: Pennington, Estill Curtis
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Georgia -- Athens -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Filmmakers -- Georgia -- Athens -- 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: Interviewee
content: Herbert, James Arthur, 1938-
label: Interviewer
content: Pennington, Estill Curtis
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: James A. Herbert (1938- ) is a painter and filmmaker from Athens, Ga.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (sound file Sound recording, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 16 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 1 cassette.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 Oct. 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.herber81
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 with James Arthur Herbert conducted 1981 Oct. 1, by Estill Curtis Pennington, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Herbert speaks of making art as a child; attending classes as an adolescent at Rhode Island School of Design; attending college at Dartmouth and working with Paul Sample while there; attending graduate school at the University of Colorado, Boulder and working with Clyfford Still; his thoughts on learning to paint and methods; his approach to figurative painting; preparing to enter the Peace Corps in Peru, but the assignment is cancelled due to uprising; accepting a position at the Unveristiy of Georgia; the balance of pedagogy and his own painting; creating films such as Night Horses; his thoughts and philosophies on being a painter.