Oral history interview with Richard E. Filipowski

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Oral history interview with Richard E. Filipowski

1989 Sept. 25-1990 Mar. 14

An interview of Richard E. Filipowski conducted 1989 Sept. 25-1990 Mar. 14, by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art. Filipowski discusses his early childhood in Poland; immigration and childhood in Ontario, Canada; attending the Chicago School of Design (formerly New Bauhaus) under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; freelance work in Chicago; teaching at the School of Design, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and at MIT; his sculpture; and associations with Walter Gropius, Joseph Hudnut, Robert Preusser, Lawrence Anderson, Gyorgy Kepes, and Pietro Belluschi.

Sound recording: 6 sound cassettes (7 hrs. 45 min) : analog.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7917133

Archives of American Art

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