Oral history interview wih Clara Diament Sujo
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 compact disc. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 10 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Diament Sujo, Clara
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Avis
label: Creator
content: Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
label: Names
content: Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
label: Names
content: Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981
label: Names
content: Córdova, Arturo de, 1908-1973
label: Names
content: D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968
label: Names
content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
label: Names
content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
label: Names
content: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
label: Names
content: Johns, Jasper, 1930-
label: Names
content: Kuh, Katharine
label: Names
content: Lam, Wifredo
label: Names
content: Marisol, 1930-2016
label: Names
content: Messer, Thomas M.
label: Names
content: Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003
label: Names
content: Otero Rodríguez, Alejandro
label: Names
content: Perón, Juan Domingo, 1895-1974
label: Names
content: Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Reverón, Armando, 1889-1954
label: Names
content: Romero Brest, Jorge
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content: Soto, Jesús Rafael, 1923-2005
label: Names
content: Sterne, Hedda, 1910-2011
label: Names
content: Valera, Víctor, 1927-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Gallery owners -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Gallery directors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Collectors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
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: Diament Sujo, Clara
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Avis
label: Creator
content: Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Clara Diament Sujo (1921-) is an Argentinian born owner and director of CDS Gallery in New York, New York. Avis Berman (1949-) is a scholar in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 98 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2010 June 8-16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.diamen10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Clara Diament Sujo conducted 2010 June 8-16, by Avis Berman, for the Archives of American Art's Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts project, at Sujo's home, in New York, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Diament speaks of her childhood in Argentina; her father's early influence; working with Abbott Industries; her travels with her father as a child to Punta del Este in Urguay, and Mar del Plata; her experiences in the United States; life under Juan Perón and how political events helped shape her education; teaching in Venezuela; collecting art for the Venezuelan science museum; her views on art; the artists that she has worked with and represented; the opening of her first gallery in Venezuela; her gallery in New York City; the influence of Jorge Romero Brest; and her work with the museum network to represent Latin American artists. She recalls Katharine Kuh, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Jesus Rafael Soto, Arturo de Cordova, Alejandro Otero, Victor Valera, Armando Reverón, Mercedes Pardo, Wilfredo Lam, Alfred Barr, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Dorothy Miller, Thomas Messer, Marcel Duchamp, Hedda Sterne, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Marisol Escobar, and others.