Tape-recorded interview with Michele Russo : at Russo's studio in Portland, Oregon, August 29, 1983 / Jane Van Cleve, interviewer.

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Tape-recorded interview with Michele Russo : at Russo's studio in Portland, Oregon, August 29, 1983 / Jane Van Cleve, interviewer.

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Russo discusses his family background, education, early professional life, participation in social activism, artistic themes, years as a faculty member at the art school of the Portland Art Museum (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art), Portland's gallery system, involvement in the establishment of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts, membership on the Portland Art Commission, the private versus public artist, and Northwest art styles.

ii, 49 leaves.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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From its founding to 1954 the Archives was headquartered at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1960 the Archives moved its headquarters to New York but a branch office remained in Detroit. In 1963 an office was opened in Rome to collect the records of American artists' work in Italy. In 1970 the Archives became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution and moved to Washington, D.C. Directors have included Edgar Preston Richardson, 1954-1964; William E. Woolfenden, 1964-1983; Richard N. Murray, 1983...

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Michele Russo (1909- ) was a painter from Portland, Or. From the description of Oral history interview with Michele Russo, 1983 Aug. 29 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80914911 Painter (Portland, Or.). From the description of Michele Russo interview, 1984 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220180577 American artist. From the description of Tape-recorded interview with Michele Russo : at Russo's studio in Portland, Orego...

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