Oral history interview with Mischa Richter

Steig, William, 1907-2003

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American cartoonist, author and illustrator of children's books; winner of the Caldecott Award (1970) for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. From the description of Roland the minstrel pig : production material, 1967-1968. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62452334 From the description of The bad island : production material, 1969. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62444911 From the description of C D B! : production ...

Bloom, Hyman, 1913-2009

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Painter; Cambridge, Mass. Born near Riga, Latvia in April 1913. Immigrated to Boston in 1920 and began painting and drawing classes, taught by Harold Zimmerman at a settlement house. Worked for the WPA in the early 1930s. From the description of Hyman Bloom drawings, 1927-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84557404 Painter; Cambridge, Mass. Born near Riga, Latvia in April 1913. Immigrated to Boston in 1920 and began paintin...

Richter, Mischa, 1910-2001

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Cartoonist, painter; New York, N.Y. and Provincetown, Mass. Richter was born in the Ukraine. He came to the United States in 1922, attending special art classes for gifted students at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and subsequently graduating from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1934. After working on the WPA art project as a mural painter in New York, he turned to cartooning, doing editorial and humorous cartoons for the daily newspaper, PM, and then becoming art edit...

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...

Zimmerman, Harold K., 1905-1941.

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Painter, art instructor; Cambridge, Mass. Zimmerman developed an experimental method of teaching drawing from memory or the "visual imagination." He was the first drawing teacher of Boston Expressionists Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine in ca. 1928-1929. Denman Ross, an influential educator, art collector and painter, became the instructor and patron of Bloom and Levine shortly after he wrote his essay on Zimmerman's experiment in art teaching. From the descriptio...

Levine, Jack, 1915-2010

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Jack Levine interview, 1968 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220187653 Artist. From the description of Reminiscences of Jack Levine : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309738074 Painter; Boston, Mass. and New York, N.Y. Exponent of Social Realism during the 1930s. He resided in Boston until 1942. Married to painter Ruth Gik...

Brown, Robert F.

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Archives of American Art Regional Director of the New England office. From the description of Robert Brown interview, 1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83873055 ...

Barnet, Will, 1911-2012

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Will Barnet (1911- ) is a painter and printmaker from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Will Barnet, 1964 Jan. 20-1964 Feb. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864603 Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Will Barnet, 1964 Jan. 20-Feb. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122600031 From the description of Oral History Interview with Will Barnet, 1993 Apr. 9. (Unknown). Wor...

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School

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Art school. From 1877-1901 was called the School of Drawing and Painting of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Managing body from its founding until 1902 was the Permanent Committee, followed by the Council of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts into the 1950s, with the chairman serving as the head of the School and a Manager in charge of day-to-day management. In the 1950s, a member of the faculty was made the first Head of the School. The School functioned until 1909 in the first Museum buildi...

Yale University. School of Fine Arts

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