Modern Art in Los Angeles Harry Drinkwater oral history interview, 2010.

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Modern Art in Los Angeles Harry Drinkwater oral history interview, 2010.

2010

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Material comprises video recordings of an oral history interview with Harry Drinkwater conducted by Yael Lipschutz and Marissa Kucheck in Santa Monica, California on June 28, 2010. The Getty Research Institute (GRI) hosted events and conducted oral histories inspired by the "Modern Art in Los Angeles" theme beginning in 2003. Beginning in 2012 much of the research and product generated by the GRI's Modern Art in Los Angeles activities became intertwined with the Getty's initiative, "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.," which focused on postwar art (1945-1980) in Los Angeles.

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Drinkwater, Harry, 1919-2014

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Harry W. Drinkwater was born in Bakersfield, California on March 28, 1919 and grew up in Yountville, in one of the area's only Black families. At around age 13 he left his family and headed south to San Diego, Los Angeles, and Venice, but returned to Yountville in 1938 to finish high school. He joined the service in 1942 and was stationed in Weymouth, England as part an all-Black unit of the communication corps. At the very end of his tour of duty a turn at the camera during the shooting of his ...