Oral history interview with Elizabeth Osborne
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 58 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Osborne, Elizabeth, 1936-
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
label: Names
content: Fischbach Gallery
label: Names
content: Marian Locks Gallery
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Pittman, Hobson Lafayette, 1899 or 1900-1972
label: Names
content: Stuempfig, Walter, 1914-1970
label: Names
content: Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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: Osborne, Elizabeth, 1936-
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Elizabeth Osborne (1936- ) is a painter and printmaker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 87 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 May 24-31
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.osborn91
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 of Elizabeth Osborne conducted 1991 May 24-31, by Cynthia Veloric, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Osborne discusses her family and early life; studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts including her teachers Franklin Watkins and Hobson Pittman; going to France on a Fulbright in 1963; teaching at the Academy and changes over the years; exhibiting at the Perakis, Makler, Marian Locks, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, and Fischbach galleries, and a general discussion of the Philadelphia gallery scene, sales and collectors; the various media she works in including watercolor, acrylic, oil, and prints; her process; changes in subject matter including the Nava series, landscapes and still lifes; the California Bay Area Figurative School as an influence; frequent travels to New Mexico.