Woodstock artists oral history collection, 1962-1975.

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Woodstock artists oral history collection, 1962-1975.

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Taped interviews with thirty-seven Woodstock artists, originally done by Karl Fortess for the School of Fine and Applied Arts at Boston University, 1966-1975, and covering the topics of background and training, identification with society, work patterns, interests, teachers and/or influences, attitudes toward teaching, and opinions of contemporary trends. Artists include Arnold and Lucile Blanc, Alexander Brook, Adolf Dehn, Philip Guston, Doris Lee, Henry Mattson, William Pachner, Bernard Steffen, and Dorothy Varian. Interview with Alf Evers on the founding of the art colony at Woodstock, including the Byrdcliffe and Maverick colonies, 1972. Interview of Konrad and Florence Cramer by Sam Eskin concerning their lives in relation to Woodstock, 1962.

ca. .5 cubic ft.

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Boston University. School of Fine and Applied Arts.

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Blanch, Arnold, 1896-1968

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Painter, lithographer, etcher, illustrator, writer, teacher, and lecturer. From the description of Arnold Blanch papers, 1928-1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647922 Painter, mural painter; Woodstock, N.Y. From the description of Arnold Blanch interview, 1963 June 13-Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220194764 From the description of Arnold Blanch interview, 1964 Nov. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220192081 From the description o...

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980

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xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4">Painter. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip Guston, 1965 Jan. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78587878 Philip Guston, born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo...

Brook, Alexander B. (Alexander Bacon), 1922-

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Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968

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Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. From the description of Adolf Dehn letters, [ca. 1932-1987]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355167 Painter, lithographer (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Adolf Dehn interviews, 1963 Jan. 23-1964 Feb. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220179288 Artist; was a concientious objector in World War I, performed alternative service at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S.C., the bulk of this correspondence was written d...

Fortess, Karl.

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Maverick (Art colony)

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Evers, Alf.

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Steffen, Bernard Joseph (American painter, 1907-1980)

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Pachner, William, 1915-

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Cramer, Konrad, 1888-1963

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Painters; Woodstock, N.Y. From the description of Konrad and Florence Ballin Cramer papers, 1897-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77739413 Photographer. Cramer was born in Germany and arrived in Woodstock in 1911. He helped to found the Woodstock School of Art (1933) and the Bard College Photography Program (1937). From the description of Photographs, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155500275 ...

Varian, Dorothy, 1907-

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Lee, Doris (Romance novelist)

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Byrdcliffe (Art colony)

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Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead established the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony in Woodstock, N.Y. in 1901, having been influenced by the teachings of John Ruskin from the time he attended college at Oxford. The construction of workshops, studios, and residences began in the winter of 1902 and by the summer of 1903 Byrdcliffe had a fully equipped metalworking shop, a pottery, a woodworking shop, a large studio for art classes taught by Bolton Brown, a dairy, a library, a guest house, and the Whitehe...

Cramer, Florence Ballin, 1884-1962

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Mattson, Henry E. (Henry Elis), 1887-1971

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Henry Mattson (1887-1971) was a painter from Woodstock, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Henry Mattson, 1964 Nov. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657040385 From the description of Oral history interview with Henry Mattson, 1963 Aug. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657040861 Henry Mattson, b. 1887; d. 1971, Painter of Woodstock, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Henry Mattson, 1963 Aug. 2. (Unknown). Worl...

Blanch, Lucile, 1895-1981

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Painter and lithographer; Woodstock, N.Y. From the description of Lucile Blanch papers, 1924-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552713 ...