Oral history interview with Alexander Stoller
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Stoller, Alexander, 1902-1994
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, American -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Stoller, Alexander, 1902-1994
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alexander Stoller (1902-1994) was a sculptor from Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 26 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1976 December 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.stolle76
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: Interview of Alexander Stoller, conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1976.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Stoller speaks of first becoming interested in sculpture as a child; leaving school in order to work for Metro Pictures and J. Walter Thompson; taking night classes in art as well as classes at the Art Students League; traveling to Italy to study sculpture; exhibiting in Paris and New York; his sense of the architectural quality of sculpture; and the change in the climate of American art in the 1940s. Stoller also recalls George Bridgman, Maurice Sterne, Kimon Nicolaides, Thomas Hart Benton, John Carroll, Max Weber, Leo Lentelli, Reuben Nakian, Gaston Lachaise, Paul Manship, Charles Despiau, Curt Valentin, and others.