Oral history interview with Diane Waldman
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 memory cards. Duration is 5 hr., 57 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Waldman, Diane
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
label: Names
content: Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
label: Names
content: Guggenheim International Exhibition
label: Names
content: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
label: Names
content: Cornell, Joseph
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content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
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content: Ernst, Max, 1891-1976
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content: Fry, Edward F.
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content: Hess, Thomas B.
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content: Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-
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content: Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997
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content: Messer, Thomas M.
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content: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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content: Authors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art -- History -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Women art historians
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: Waldman, Diane
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Diane Waldman (1936- ) is an independent art history scholar in New York, N.Y. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is a former director of iCI in New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 106 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2010 June 8-9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.waldma10
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Diane Waldman conducted 2010 June 8-9, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art's Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts project, at Waldman's home, in New York, N.Y.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Waldman speaks of her background; education and early career; her curatorial work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; relationships with artists; her exhibitions of works by Joseph Cornell, Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Max Ernst, and others; her travels to India; her life after resigning from the Guggenheim Museum; Frank Lloyd Wright's building; the Guggenheim International; the museum profession dominated by men; writing detective stories; and other topics. She recalls Ed Fry, Thomas Hess, Thomas Kress, Thomas Messer, and others.