Oral history interview with George McNeil

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The main building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a new art reference library, named the Thomas J. Watson Library, was designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford and Forbes in consultation with the Museum. Severud-Elstad-Krueger were the structural engineers; Krey and Hunt were the mechanical engineers. The Library formally opened Jan. 26, 1965. It occupies three floors: the two lower floors comprise s...

Vytlacil, Vaclav, 1892-1984

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Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) was a painter and educator in Sparkill, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Vaclav Vytlacil, 1966 Mar. 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81258965 Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) was an abstract painter and art instructor who worked primarily in the New York city area. Born in New York, N.Y. Studied under Hans Hofmann in Munich. Taught at the Art Students League and the Florence Cane Schol...

Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-

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Hopper, Jo N. (Josephine Nivison), ca. 1883-1968.

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Dehner, Dorothy, 1901-1994

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Married to David Smith. From the description of Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1969-1970. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 212070485 Sculptor, painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. Dehner was married to sculptor David Smith. [Dehner died in 1994.]. From the description of Oral history interviews with Dorothy Dehner, 1965 Oct.-1966 Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185543 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Dehn...

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956

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Jackson Pollock was born in 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons. His family moved several times during his childhood, finally settling in Los Angeles. In 1930 he joined his older brother, Charles, in New York City, and studied with Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York. Pollock worked during the 1930s for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. During 1936 he worked in artist David Alfaro Siqueiros's Experimental Workshop. In...

Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948

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Pereira, I. Rice (Irene Rice), 1902-1971

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Abstract painter, poet, and philosopher, Pereira was a major figure in the art world from 1930. She worked with the WPA Federal Art Project in New York, 1935-1939; in the 1940s she experimented with new media (glass, plexiglass, and plastic) of the constructivist school; and in the 1950s she returned to paint and canvas. She published numerous books on aesthetics and the philosophy of art. For further biographical information, see Notable American Women: The Modern Period (1980). Fro...

Matulka, Jan, 1890-1972

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Painter, New York, N.Y. Born in Czechoslovakia. Came to U.S. in 1907. Taught at Art Students League. From the description of Jan Matulka papers, 1923-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502681 ...

Manso, Leonor, 1948-....

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Leo Manso (1914-1993) was a painter and educator from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Leo Manso, 1965 Sept. 7 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458412489 Painter, educator; New York, N.Y. From the description of Leo Manso interview, 1965 Sept. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220198733 Painter, collagist, and graphic artist; New York, N.Y. Born in 1914 in New York City. He studi...

Diller, Burgoyne, 1906-1965

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Painter. From the description of Oral history interview with Burgoyne Diller, 1964 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220193121 Burgoyne Diller (1906-1965) wad a painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Burgoyne Diller, 1964 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394246 Painter; New York, N.Y. Associated with abstract painting, particularly Neoplasticism. From the descript...

Cavallon, Giorgio, 1904-1989

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Giorgio Cavallon (1904-1989) was a painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Giorgio Cavallon, 1974 Feb. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 245522762 Painter; New York, N.Y.; d. December 22, 1989. From the description of Giorgio Cavallon papers, 1910-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80756345 Painter; New York, N.Y. Died 1989. From the description of Oral history interview with Giorgio Cavallon, 1974 F...

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)

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Art school. Organized in 1875 by students as a revolt against the National Academy of Design school. From the description of Art Students League records, 1875-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565877 ...

United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

McNeil, George, 1908-1995

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George McNeil (1908-1995) was a painter and printmaker from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with George McNeil, 1968 Jan. 9-1968 May 21 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007040 Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. Died 1995. From the description of George McNeil interviews, 1968 Jan. 9-1968 May 21 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220244497 George McNeil (1908-1995) was a painter and a print...

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967

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An abstract painter considered influential in the development of Minimalism. Though a contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists, he rejected biomorphism and developed paintings based on geometry, specifically grids, often using a single color in gradations. His last works were a series of all-black canvases. From the Getty's Union List of Artist Names record...

Levy, Edgar.

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Painters; New York, N.Y. Lucille Corcos, an illustrator also, died in 1973. Edgar Levy was born in 1907; death date not found. From the description of Edgar Levy and Lucille Corcos papers, 1928-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122545768 ...

Pratt Institute. Art School

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Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966

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Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a painter and teacher in Provincetown, Mass. From the description of Hans Hofmann papers, [ca. 1904]-1978 (bulk 1945-1965). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82551474 Painter, teacher. From the description of Hans Hofmann letter to Mrs. Spingarn, 1938 Dec. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122389762 Biography Hans Hofmann created a distinctive primordial world of color and l...

Smith, David, 1906-1965

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Sculptor; Bolton Landing, N.Y. From the description of David Smith interview, 1964 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80437636 Sculptor. Studied painting at the Art Students League in New York City between 1927 and 1932. Smith began working with sculpture around the time of leaving the League. In 1940 he moved to upstate New York where he remained until his death in 1965. Retrospective exhibitions of Smith's work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957, and at the Fogg Art ...

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970

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Russian-born American artist, Mark Rothko, is noted as one of the primary artists of Abstract Expressionism and color field painting. From the description of Mark Rothko manuscripts and sketchbook, circa 1935-1943. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81257215 Mark Rothko was an American painter and draughtsman of Russian birth. Born Sept. 25, 1903, Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia). Died Feb. 25, 1970, New York. From the description of The artis...

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962

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Franz Kline created bold, vigorous, large-scale calligraphic abstract paintings in black and white. His first solo exhibition at the Egan Gallery, New York, in 1950 established him as one of the leading Abstract Expressionists. In the late 1950s he integrated strong colors into some of his works. From the description of Franz Kline papers, 1930-1967. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 518305942 ...

American Abstract Artists

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Art association; New York, N.Y. From the description of Abstract art around the world today : transcript, 1954 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557525 From the description of Abstract art around the world today, 1954 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477568 Organized in 1936 by a group of artists interested in abstract painting and sculpture. Its chief function is the holding of exhibitions. Former presidents include Alice Trumbull Mason, Leo Rabk...

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997

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Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was an abstract artist from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Willem De Kooning and others, 1979 Sept. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art). WorldCat record id: 688855147 Abstract artist; New York. 1904-1997. From the description of Oral history interview with Willem DeKooning and others, 1979 September [sound recording]. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art). WorldCat record id: 123944643 ...

Tworkov, Jack

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Jack Tworkov was a painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1900; d. 1982. Bramberger and Tworkov were friends. From the description of Jack Tworkov letters to Troy-Jjohn Bramberger, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81952814 Jack Tworkov, 1900-1982, painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack Tworkov, 1981 May 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007167 Painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1900; d. 1982. From the descrip...